The Flag Building, also known as the Super Powers building, is a massive seven-story, 377,000-square-foot complex which was the tallest building in Clearwater when it opened in November 2013.

Now new pictures have emerged which give an insight into the notoriously secretive organization and their headquarters which is regularly frequented by Scientologist celebrities such as Tom Cruise and John Travolta.

The jewel in the crown of the property is the fifth floor Super Powers program where church followers are charged thousands of dollars for courses which they believe will give them special abilities. 

'Super Power is a series of spiritual counseling processes designed to give a person back his own viewpoint, increase his perception, exercise his power of choice, and greatly enhance other spiritual abilities,' church spokesman Ben Shaw said in 2013.

Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard went further in his description of the program saying: 'Super Power is the answer to a sick, a dying and dead society...With it we literally revive the dead.'

As part of that therapy, members will be spun on an anti-gravity simulator blindfolded to improve their 'perceptics' - Hubbard's 57 senses which include sight, smell, taste, blood circulation, and awareness of awareness. Such as the 'wall of smells' which is said to feature random scents from Lily of the Valley to spaghetti bolognese, is used to train the sense of smell. 

Cruise has spent months at a time at Clearwater - and was spotted twice there last year. Scientology celebrities have even had homes built close to HQ, including Kirsty Alley and John Travolta.

He also attended the dedication ceremony of the building when it opened in 2013 with Travolta and Kelly Preston. 

Built in Mediterranean Revival-style, with Italian limestone and arched interiors, it is intended to ape great cathedrals in Europe. The new Flag Building is part of a larger complex of buildings that serve as a spiritual retreat and learning center for Scientologists.

A staircase leads from the atrium to a bookstore every singe one of L. Ron Hubbard's books and lectures.

The second and third floors are home to offices and classrooms with the capacity to train a thousand students at a time. Believers study to become 'auditors' -  the Scientology equivalent of ministers or counselors.

Around 250 hundred small rooms for 'auditing' can be found on the buildings upper floors. Auditing is the religions form of counseling and a session can cost $1,000.

A Sea Organization Museum - dedicated to the Church’s hardcore Sea Org wing - and a Grand Chapel which is used both for Scientology Services, as well as wedding and naming ceremonies for followers.

While the 'Purification Program' purports to 'help Scientologists free themselves from the mental and spiritual damage caused by drugs and toxins.' 

Another odd feature of the building is a giant circular running track located on floor six - used by members to run until they achieve a moment of enlightenment, while the basement houses a huge kitchen and dining areas.

Fancy upper floors of the southwest tower are reserved for Scientology's biggest backers, those who have made the largest donations over the years.

Emmy-award winning film director Mark Bunker, a Scientology critic for the last fifteen years, said the Flag's main attraction for followers was its super powers program, which they believe would really give them special powers.

'The Super Powers building is this center for people who do the Super Power Rundowns, these are a series of routines which are meant to give you super human powers,' he told Daily Mail Online.

'There are things like the wall of smells, which has 47 different smells, where you can open up a scent jar and perceive one scent from another. There's a thing called the oiliness table.

'They also have some sort of gyroscope device that you get spun around everywhere and still be able to orientate yourself. 

They have an entire floor made up of a running track with a pole in the middle of it, where you pay for the right to run in a circle for hours until you have a certain cognition or realization of what you've done wrong.

'It's astonishing the things they do, which people have to pay for.' 

Work first began on the Flag in 1998 but halted after finishing the shell. For three years, the group ceased construction on the project until the city started imposing $250-a-day fines for code violations.

Scientology defectors claim that the building's slow construction is due to church leader's who have used the project as a fundraising cash cow.

(dailymail.co.uk)