14 DAY TRIAL // Earlier this week, as rumors were beginning to spread in the media that Kelly Preston and John Travolta might be expecting their third child, the power couple issued a statement confirming that, indeed, Preston was pregnant. This has contributed to their belief that, as the Church of Scientology teaches, every time someone dies, their soul moves to another body, PageSix says.
A little over a year ago, the Travoltas lost their 16-year-old son Jett, who suffered from autism. Jett had a seizure in the family’s bathroom and, by the time his parents got to him and the ambulance arrived, he passed. Since then, the two have lived with the conviction that having another baby would bring Jett back, or at least his soul, reports claim. That’s what Scientology teaches them, it is further being said.
“John Travolta and Kelly Preston hoped for another baby so their tragic son, Jett, would live on, at least one prominent former Scientologist believes. Travolta, 56, and Preston, 47, announced she’s pregnant with another child due in November. The couple, who are staunch Scientologists, received massive support from the church after Jett, who was autistic, died at age 16 in January last year from a seizure. The church teaches that a follower’s spirit has lived before and will live again after death in another body,” PageSix says.
Michael Pattinson, who’s familiar with Scientology since he too was once a follower, confirms this, saying he knows first-hand that “We Come Back” is the Church’s motto. “The whole ethos of Scientology is that we come back. With Sea Org [the sect’s upper echelon], they ask members to sign billion-year contracts. Their motto is ‘We Come Back.’ It makes sense that the Travoltas would have another baby after losing Jett,” Pattinson says for the same tab.
A spokesperson for Scientology, contacted for comment, doesn’t deny that they actually do believe that souls travel from body to body when one dies. However, this happens instantly, therefore making any kind of connection between the death of Jett and a new Travolta baby being conceived is a bit far-fetched, to put it mildly, the rep insists.