A-M-A-Z-I-N-G fail. This email was recently sent out from the executive in charge of getting new people onto the Bridge in London's "ideal" org. And of course this is the ONLY org for a city with 10 million resident - imagine if there was ONE laundromat in all of London and the owners were announcing "we are cleaning London's clothes" and actually stated their goal for the last 25 years was to do the laundry of every person in London, but they still only had one small laundromat that nobody even used because their prices were too high. He is so very proud of the fact that one person a … [Read more...]
The Path
I posted about this on Facebook, but think it is important enough to reiterate here. I just finished watching the last episode of season one of The Path on Hulu. This is a very well scripted, acted, shot, edited and scored series. But more importantly, it is the best portrayal I have ever seen of the prison of the mind that entraps those in cults. It is extremely difficult to understand why people remain in a cult for anyone who has not experienced it themselves. This show portrays it accurately - the torment and anguish that those with doubts go through, the threat of losing loved ones, … [Read more...]
Regraded Being
Thursday Funnies
New Bright Idea It seems they are trying to match the success of the "Extension" courses the church offers. They apparently don't realize the Extension Courses have become the preferred method of avoiding regges and Call In people -- "I am doing my Basics Book Extension Course so leave me alone..." What Do You Get? Not this, that's for sure. One thing EVERY ideal org FART Div 6 has is common. They are completely empty. Plan to do it at a later date? It's getting more bizarre. They are not just asking "would you attend if we put it on at a later date?" Now they … [Read more...]
Old St Hill On Life Support
Things are not too rosy at old St Hill. Their new Auditor mag clearly demonstrates how pathetic St Hill is -- and this is what ALL ORGS are striving to be like! Of course, they no longer have a Briefing Course to deliver - the original PURPOSE of the organization. But without having to devote resources to delivering the BC, one would imagine they would be doing a bang-up job of making up for that with everything else... Not so much. No wonder a new "Command Team" of Flag trained nobodies was sent to replace John Danilovich. This place is disappearing faster than a snowball in the … [Read more...]
Philly “Ideal” Org
This is a report about the "ideal org" in David Miscavige's hometown of Philadelphia. A Special Correspondent took some photos of the "new" building and also visited the existing org. He reports a sad scene. These shots are of the "ideal org." It was bought a decade or so ago and sits empty and graffiti covered. What a complete waste. What an utter failure this program is -- for everything except Miscavige's "PR." There are buildings like this in Detroit, Chicago, New Haven, Kansas City, St Louis, Albuquerque, Salt Lake City, Bulawayo, Cape Town, Birmingham, Sunderland, Plymouth, … [Read more...]
The Survival Rundown – The Latest Scam
Another in the continuing series of thought provoking posts from Terra Cognita. TC's previous posts: Communication in Scientology... Or Not, Am I Still A Thetan?, To Be Or Not To Be, An Evaluation of Scientology, Fear: That Which Drives Scientology and Justification and Rationalization. The Survival Rundown – David Miscavige’s Latest Scam I’m embarrassed to say that I actually spent many hours on this rundown. I’m proud to say I finally woke up and queried what the fuck I was doing. That said, I’m not here to defend or condemn LRH or objective processing, but to explain this … [Read more...]
The Young Turks
The Young Turks is a VERY popular source of news for millennials (and others) on YouTube. This is their take on SuMP -- and while they still repeated some of the falsehoods that appeared in the Mail Online story, their take on scientology in general is a pretty good reflection of how it is viewed in the world. You will see they recommend everyone view Going Clear. Miscavige's Latest Ribbon Yanking Though the Underground Bunker covered the ribbon yanking in Clearwater this morning, I had a couple of points to note. I happened to drive by Flag yesterday on my way home and was … [Read more...]
Cause Over Life Demonstration
Here is a perfect example of scientologist cause and confront from a posterchild for OTishness, our old friend Barbara Dews. A Special Correspondent sent me this email exchange and if you read down the thread (earliest at the top) you will see BD going from a shark smelling fresh blood, to a somewhat concerned deer caught in the headlights to a rabbit that scurried down her hole in abject terror. This is cause over life. This is how to confront and shatter suppression. This is how to be OT so you can go OT. Barbara epitomizes fundamentalist scientology. So dead certain that she knows … [Read more...]
Regraded Being
Thursday Funnies
Join Staff Or not. I guess I am the wrong public. There is no way this would interest me in joining staff in Birmingham... It has the opposite effect. If this represents the homo novis world of scientology then it's a sorry future indeed. Valley STILL not done And it's a looooong way to go. SO now CC is doing it for them? And some ringers from Flag (how did the LRH Hall let Tom Cummins give money to Valley instead of the most vital dissemination program in history?) WTF I thought the Scots had a bit more class than this.... You DO NOT want to … [Read more...]
Basics vs. OT, Tin Lizzie and Macintosh
Somehow an OT VIII, Super Power and L's completion had "all sorts of problems, ridges and inabilities"... Not much of a recommendation for the results of hundreds of thousands of dollars and years of slog. She then goes on to explain that all you really need to go OT is The Basics, Congresses and ACC's... Scientologists seem to habitually brain fart when they get near a success story form. Consider this: the last of the Basics, Congresses and ACCs was in the 60's. Even L. Ron Hubbard didn't think he had found the answers to OT. Everything on the OT Levels, the L's, Super Power etc … [Read more...]
Pasadena Is Going To Do It This Time. Really.
After years of promises, now we know: in 6 weeks Pasadena IS going to be "SH Size". Remember when they had the Sea Org Mission "making them SH Size"? It was about 6 months ago. Fizzled. Remember when they opened the "Ideal Org" in 2010. Nothing. Even with their "ideal org" 6 years later they are still not SH Size. How can that be? L.Ron Hubbard said in the original birthday game that announced "SH Size" as a target that it only took a matter of weeks to accomplish. That they just wanted a big booming org and they got one. In 2003 Miscavige said the "why" for orgs not making it to SH … [Read more...]
Andy Porter on Disconnection
This was sent to me by my friend Andy Porter. It is a "disconnection" letter and his "Open Letter" in response. Andy is a very accomplished professional photographer -- I included one of his shots above and two more at the end of this post. You will find many more at his website: www.AndyPorterImages.com I received this letter last week from someone I have known through Scientology for 25 years. “I am sending this letter as an official disconnection letter. I am remaining a member of the Church of Scientology. It is my intention to have no form of connection with you including any form of … [Read more...]
Good News from Flag
I usually publish these after I have accumulated a few and add some points to the long term graph. But it has been more than a month now, and no word from either Jeff Mintz or Sandy Dodwell about ANY "good news" at Flag. It's a pretty good indicator that things are not going too well at the top of the Bridge. They ONLY put out these things when they have something THEY think is "good news." Remember back when they first put these out they included all of the following completions? Purif, Objectives, Running Pgm, Super Power, Clears, L's, OT's, OT VII's. They long since dropped me … [Read more...]