Things are grim out there off the crossroads of the world -- sitting alongside the dock in Curacao. Not only are they bringing in "WISE guys," they are offering massive discounts to try and get anyone to bother making a trip. The last Freewinds price list that I could easily find was from 2011. The cheapest week of shared B deck cabin was $1500 and the "Convention Fee" was $1500. They didn't have a single Basics or Congress Course on their price list, but there is NO service, no matter how small that was ever priced below $1000. And yet again, ANOTHER seminar on how to "generate … [Read more...]
Thursday Funnies On Friday
Suppression is everywhere From: Daphna Hernandez <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 9:55 PM Subject: Your Armor Against Suppression: Back by popular demand - Sat. 3 Jan. at AOLA To: Daphna Hernandez <[email protected]> Happy New Year!I've been asked to deliver this seminar again... Start your New Year armed against suppression! Details below.Love, Daphna [Sorry -- I lost her promo piece somehow, its the same old one, so I just attribute it to a space saving measure. Always gotta be right. I am Australian....] Could be fun... I … [Read more...]
2015
A Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year to everyone who gathers around this internet water cooler. Tony Ortega has been summarizing the events of 2014 over the past 10 days or so on his blog. It has been a seismic year in the scientology world. But I believe it is just a warm up for what is to come in 2015. I think it is safe to say that the church of scientology confronts an uncertain and stressful future. And it is not due to the great forces of evil that are lined up against it, ready to persecute the poor saviors of this sector of the universe. It is because they have … [Read more...]
It’s New Year’s Eve — So Give Us Your Money
Of course, it's time to reflect on the year that was and look forward to the new year. And this that follows is the message from the church of scientology. Does anyone actually read the drivel they send out? It literally says: "Only until midnight December 31st. Secure your Eternity." It doesn't strike them as just the slightest bit odd that one can "secure your eternity" by buying it at any time? But even more bizarre that the sale on your eternity only lasts until midnight on 31 December? Buy Now. Eternity Expires at midnight. And what is even funnier -- the first thing … [Read more...]
Valley OTC Minutes
I have been accumulating copies of the Valley OTC Minutes. They never seemed that important, but they are of value in documenting what really happens in these orgs, and what their attention is on. Frankly, they more resemble an old women's knitting circle than the leading lights of the greatest civilizing force on earth.... It's also interesting to note how many ex-SO there are in the tiny number of people that compose these committees. And also curious how in the midst of the "largest concentration of scientologists on earth" that their activities are so insignificant that the real … [Read more...]
More Massive International Contraction
This is a report sent in by Peter Bonyai. He wrote a book I highly recommend about his years in Scientology and the Sea Org in Hungary that I covered in a blog post entitled Money, Power, Servitude. Peter keeps tabs on the goings on with scientology in Hungary and has some news on that front that indicates all is not so rosy in the straight up and vertical, 47X expansion world of scientology. OTL Central Europe (also known as OTL Hungary), the local Sea Org unit in Budapest, will be dissolved in the next few weeks. They have already vacated the building they rented (I am sure … [Read more...]
Kirk Radandt
It is with a very heavy heart that I report the passing of our dear friend Kirk Radandt yesterday afternoon. To say this was untimely, unexpected and horribly premature would be to understate the sadness of it by a country mile. I have met few people on this earth who were as happy, friendly and just fun to spend time with as Kirk. His sense of humor was sharp and displayed itself often. His love of children made him a favorite of our sons and the 3 adorable daughters of his beloved Gayle's son Aaron (Tony Ortega covered Gayle and Aaron's story on his blog). I have long held a measuring … [Read more...]
Thursday Funnies On Friday
New Book Now available on Amazon... Apparently nobody is scared of the church of scientology any longer. Even soft core porn novelists. Publication Date: December 9, 2014 Marissa is bored at home while her husband is gone on a business trip. But then one afternoon the doorbell rings...It's Bryce and Neil, two very handsome young men representing the Church of Scientology. They've come to perform an audit on her to determine if she can benefit from the teachings of the church. Marissa has been lonely for over a week though, and has a different plan in mind. She decides to give … [Read more...]
Happy Holidays
Status Fixation Reaches New Lows
A message to the Flag OTC from their ex-SO "Dissem Sec." She is obviously well acquainted with the tried and true methods of "raising stats" through manipulating numbers, coming up with new means of "padding" and in this day and age, offering the prize every fundamentalist scientologists covets above all else: STATUS (bought). This is quite an amazing message. Hi to all OTC members, This is Maria Robb, Dissemination Sec, Flag OTC and I wanted to tell you about what we are doing in Division 2 here and ask for your help. One of my responsibilities includes the creation … [Read more...]
How To Sell Dianetics
Someone recently sent me this write up giving the details on how to try to sell Dianetics on the street. It including reference to the "No answer" drill from STCC (Success Through Communication Course). Of course, there is little in scientology that is straightforward when it comes to trying to interest new people. In today's Google world, it's virtually impossible. But this is all taken from references that predate the birth of the internet, it has always been this way in "disseminating." As this drill is something that has been discussed quite a lot (it being the "acceptable" version … [Read more...]
Panic in Pasadena
Various reports have come in about the scene in Pasadena Org. Apparently, they have been being "shamed" by the "production" at LA Org with their massive bodyrouting effort fail (I guess they didnt read the recent post about this). But this is not a new "management" tactic in scientology. In fact, it is pretty much par for the course. Make every org believe that others orgs are doing well and they are the only ones failing. According to the reports there are about 25 Sea Org members hovering around the Pasadena org to "inspire" staff to get things going. They are passionate to get "the … [Read more...]
Disconnection Redux — Who Qualifies To Be Declared
Another in the ongoing Sunday "Redux Series" reissuing earlier postings that still seem relevant. This one from 1 June 2013. The descent into madness has continued unabated since... It's crazier today than it was 18 months ago, and there are more and more people speaking out as a result. This is the second in a series of postings examining the subject of Scientology disconnection practices. See Disconnection -- Scientology's Nasty Secret. Who qualifies for disconnection? The simple answer is “anyone deemed an undesirable.” It used to be true that one disconnected from … [Read more...]
Lights Out At Jobur Org
Here is another chapter in the sad tale of the demise of Jobur Ideal Org. To begin, let me remind you that this is the second "ideal org." Dear Leader himself made the long trip to bless the "new org" and in finest shermanspeak, pronounced this the beginning of the new age in Africa and THE thing that would make S. Africa the first cleared country. And the goodness would spread from there and overtake the entire continent. Of course, no such thing happened and Jobur has struggled since. So much so that a Sea Org "Command Team" was dispatched to get things back "under control." They rolled i … [Read more...]
Disconnection — The Play
2015 is kicking off in grand style. Allen Barton's new play opens on 24 January, the evening before the premiere of Alex Gibney's documentary at Sundance. Anyone who does not know Allen, he is a highly acclaimed playwright (I include at the end of this posting some of the many kudos for his last play). You may recognize his name from this story on Tony Ortega's blog about Mario Fenninger. Allen has translated his experience into a new play which promises to be a tour de force. This is what Allen has to say about it: DISCONNECTION was inspired directly by my experience w … [Read more...]