The Hubbard Electrometer, better known as the E-meter, is the device Scientology calls a religious artifact for measuring a person's spiritual and moral condition. VICE editor-in-chief Rocco Castoro takes one to Union Square and offers readings to strangers on camera, walking through how the machine actually works: a small electrical current runs through the subject via handheld cans, and a Wheatstone Bridge circuit reads their galvanic skin response, the same principle behind a polygraph. Auditors ask questions and interpret the needle's movement as evidence of spiritual purity or hidden trauma, a claim the film treats with open skepticism rather than neutrality. Castoro's subjects react across the spectrum, some curious, some dismissive, a few visibly unsettled by the process. The piece was produced around the release of Paul Thomas Anderson's film The Master, which drew renewed attention to Hubbard and Scientology's early machinery. What's on screen is less an investigation of belief than a demonstration: watching an ordinary circuit get dressed up as a spiritual instrument, and watching people decide in real time whether to buy it.