I Leah and I welcomed Dr. Brian Sheen onto the Fair Game Podcast this week. I have known Brian since the days of the Apollo, when he was training to be the senior Case Supervisor for the Advanced Org in the UK. He led an interesting life in the scientology world outside the Sea Org, including in a mission and as a WISE business consultant. He had an experience with Flag that ended his involvement in scientology and went on to get a PhD, but because his former wife and daughter were still in scientology, never spoke out about Scientology. The story of how he came to be declared and his daughter disconnecting from him (she married into scientology's wealthy elite, the son of the Atkinson-Bakers) is typically tragic but … [Read More...]
Hubbard’s Gauge of Scientology’s Success (Failure)
I came across this issue from 1982 the other day. It contains an interesting paragraph: All you have to do is look at where Scientology was in terms of numbers of orgs and missions even a few years back and where it is now to know. All you have to do is count the additional countries using it year by year. All you have to do is count the memberships of the Churches. And you know conclusively that while the enemy goes down, whatever the bombast, Scientology is going UP. "Ron" clearly offers 3 ways of measuring the success of scientology. The number of orgs and missions. The number of "additional countries" using scientology. And the membership of the churches. So, how is scientology doing in 2021, nearly 40 years after this was … [Read More...]
RAW Meat: It’s a Real Homor
More weirdness from inside the bubble. The language of scientology often reveals so much. "Raw books"? She means books sold to "raw" public. Hubbard called the "wogs" (non-scientologists), "raw meat." Not being educated in scientology qualifies them as "raw," like untouched, as in raw materials. And they are "meat" like "flesh" because they are not yet aware of being a thetan. It is a derisive term, though less so than "wog" -- but whether more or less derisive, the real point is what it reveals about how scientologists view the world. There are scientologists, and then there are the uninformed, unenlightened, pitiable rest who so desperately need scientology in order to accomplish any measure of happiness or success in life. … [Read More...]
