This is what "honors" looks like? Wonder how failure looks? Related to Lord Xenu? An extra from Clockwork Orange? Doesn't shout "happiness" to me.... What's with the teddy bears? Now they have them "listening" to lectures? Motley Crew They are proud of 3 Clears? What happened to 10X expansion? Caek Apparently they had a cake but nobody showed up for their demo? Internet Strategist She should be helping scientology solve their internet problem... The only thing they have … [Read more...]
Aaron Smith-Levin on Child Abuse
This is a new video from my good friend and Season 1 contributor Aaron Smith-Levin. Here is how he describes it: I discuss unreported physical child abuse within the Scientology organization, illustrated by a personal experience I recently remembered. When I was 15 years old (1996), while I was a full-time staff member at the Philadelphia Org, an adult public Scientologist knocked me unconscious with a punch to the head in the reception area of the org. Authorities never contacted. Charges never pressed. Details discussed. … [Read more...]
Season 2 Aftermath Special: Aftermath
As I did after each program in the first season, I am putting this here as a place for people to make comments about the show that has just aired. The outpouring of support has been amazing already, just as it was in Season 1. As always, I am interested in your views - including criticisms and things you think might be better explained or covered. For new readers here I thought you might find it instructive to be directed to some earlier postings that may help explain some things. You may have seen some of the over-the-top statements about Leah, me or anyone who has a differing opinion … [Read more...]
Aftermath Special Tonight
I am taking the day off. I will be watching the show and tweeting tonite. Tony Ortega never takes a day off and has written a piece about the show this morning. Watch tonight. … [Read more...]
Dianetics Survey
Bridge Publications is doing their best to encourage people to share their honest opinions about Dianetics on Amazon. Of course, this is a stacked deck. They ONLY send this out to scientologists. It appears they are doing a pretty good job. For Dianetics to have a 71% 5 star rating, it means that 71% of the reviews have been done by scientologists. Because regardless of whether you agree or disagree with the fundamental principles of Dianetics, there can be no doubt that it is NOT clearly written and is a tough read (assigning the difficulty in reading the book to "misunderstoods" is … [Read more...]
More on Similarities, Differences, and Identities
Saturday, it must be Terra Cognita! More on Similarities, Differences, and Identities If we’re all free-willed spiritual beings—L. Ron Hubbard called us, “thetans”—with god-like powers, including cause over matter, energy, space, and time, then why are we all so similar? Relative to the immense size of the universe and the diversity that must exist, everyone here on Earth is practically identical. And not just physically. Wouldn’t you think there’d be more variety amongst the sentient beings on this planet after trillions of years? Or did we all simply “decide” to play the “being human” ga … [Read more...]
Regraded Being
Thursday Funnies
Tales from the crypt Someone dug up Jan Eastgate?? Applied Scholastics is going "big time" They are opening ONE center. Wow. Remember when Miscavige said every ideal org would generate new missions and groups all around it? DC has been an "ideal org" for decades Elder Rights? Like the right for elderly SO members to be abandoned as dead-weight? It's perfect for auditing your teddy bear 100000 times more accurate. And you can look cool too. Construction launch tour? We will be touring you through a construction site … [Read more...]
What If?
Another provocative article from Brian Lambert What If? Questions that reasonable and open-minded evil SPs ask WHAT IF Ron's label of Scientology criticism as evil was a conscious and deliberate strategy to dead agent ANY investigation into the truth of his life or his claims? WHAT IF Ron created the doctrine that it's our 'overts and evil intentions' behind any criticism of Ron or Scientology in order to suppress our own thinking and looking so that his false claims would not be scrutinized? If this is the case then Ron would prefer us, the Scientologist, lost in a soul destroying … [Read more...]
Valley OTC Minutes
We havent heard from the Valley OTC since last December. Of course, they have opened their most important, largest ideal org on earth since then. Now they have resurfaced with some interesting minutes. Full disclosure, I happen to be close to the new org and drive by it once a week at least just out of curiosity. There has been NO SIGN OF LIFE whatsoever any of the times I have driven past. It is certainly a LARGE building. On a busy street. Though not a lot of body traffic (few locations in LA have many people walking anywhere). The picture above from the scientology website illustrates it … [Read more...]
Deadline Earth
There are two the things needed to keep the believers believing - convincing them it's an "us against them" world and that there is urgency to the good fight - "the end of the world is nigh." This is pretty common in any fundamentalist organization. LRH was no exception. This is one of his ramblings from 1965. He published it in The Auditor. It was meant for all scientologists to read. He explains, with absolute certainty, that scientology will determine whether your "kid will ever see sixteen." Scientology certainly didn't change the world in the ensuing 16 years, and by 1981 … [Read more...]
Apollo Tales
My friend Gary Reisdorf sent me this article from is early days (around the time I first met him). His wife, Lois, provided us all with a wonderful series of posts about her history in the Sea Org with L. Ron Hubbard and David Miscavige. Tales From The Apollo One of the hardest things to do while on the ship was getting approval to purchase items you needed to do your job. In most companies, if you were running out of copy paper or pens, you would merely send an email to the appropriate person in the company and let them know. The next day or 2 we would have a delivery … [Read more...]
Being “On Course” in Scientology
Our Saturday dose of Terra Cognita's thought-provoking views on scientology A Few Words about Being “On Course” in Scientology Most all Scientologists have a longstanding love/hate relationship with studying Scientology. In the beginning, members are excited to learn all about L. Ron Hubbard’s revolutionary mind/spirit technology. All too soon, they hate having to “put in the time.” Which in the world of Scientology is no small commitment. LRH famously wrote, “A cleared cannibal is a cleared cannibal.” Which means you can “clear” a man of all those past traumas adversely affecting him, but … [Read more...]
Friday Thursday Funnies
Rear of Ft Harrison Auditorium That is pretty special! Game Changing Developments... Perhaps the development is that the game is over. You lost. A New Civilization for Texas... Riiiight. They cannot create a new civilization for Dallas. Or even the remote suburb they are in. Or their street. It's Epic!! You need to give us more money... That is all. It's simply what the word means in scientologyspeak. The Final Component A potluck BBQ. Wow if only we had known. Will be sure to let all the other empty, failing ideal orgs know … [Read more...]
Regraded Being
Due to time constraints, I have not been able to put together Thursday Funnies yet. But Regraded Being, always one step ahead of the game, has this week's cartoon ready. I am sure nobody will mind it being a day early. I will try to get Thursday Funnies done by tomorrow. … [Read more...]