Yes, the never ending, “waking up,” from Scientology.
I am well and truly in my twilight years now and if I had to sum up the aging process in one word, it would be “messy.” It simply messes with you and those close to you. However, I believe what becomes more and relevant & sort after as we progress through life is compassion and trust. And that is where the association with Scientology really unravels. The desire to trust shines out like a beacon in Mark’s words above, yet no matter how truthful and open he tries to reconcile his bewilderment at his treatment by Scientology the more and more the organisation despises him and anyone that calls him a friend or a loved one. That is the well engineered path for all Scientologists to walk.
There is no compassion in Scientology, and that definitely began with Hubbard. For all its promises of saving & salvaging mankind from itself, Scientology as an organisation doesn’t trust its members, not a single one of them. The organisation itself is dead, it always has been the closer you begin to really look at it – that’s why you can’t communicate with it!

Mary, you speak the sooth. I worked in Scientology for 35 years and was a highly successful “tech guy.” I had no intention or even a passing thought of leaving, until the completely brutal actions of an ethics cycle by SO personnel made me ” see the light” and I walked out of ASHO as a BC student one Thursday at noon and was no longer a Scientologist. (officially declared an “SP” for posting on Marty’s blog)

Spot on! As I was reading this, I thought about how desperate registrars must be that t hey resort to concocting BS in order to get their stats up…and at the same time probably feel righteous about doing so because it’s ‘for the greater good’ AND at the same time, keep their asses out of Ethics. It’s an altered state of being,,,which is what Scientology actually is.

Scientology has always operated on using ethics and group pressure as tools to control…as did Hitler and Mao and every other tyrannical dictator.

Loved your last line…’There is a lot more truth to discover about Scientology and the Hubbard experience as the spell wares (wears) off’. 40 plus years after blowing, am still at it.

Thanks!

One of the worst registrars I knew was Jim Hamre in Ventura, CA. I was reg’d by him, Cathy Steiner (who was the wife of the mission holder Tom Steiner), the ethics officer and I think one of the auditors. I was held in his office with the door blocked and forced to give up my only small credit card and max it out for a life repair or purif re-tread or some nonsense. I was 18 years old working at Sears. I was broke as sh*t and forced into debt. Screw Jim Hamre and his cold dead heart.

Nicely said, Nancy.

otherles opined:
“Real science can be done by anyone.”

NOT, evidently, by LRH. He was apparently “above all that”.

otherles,
“Squirrel” just means not giving all your money to the central organization.🤩 In the current scene, folks called “squirrel” are likely MORE aligned with KSW than those in the corporate fold, who aren’t protesting vehemently or violently against Dwarfenführer’s blatant, continuous, and catastrophic alterations.

Anything to keep the money where they think it belongs: under lock and key where only Davey-boy can get to it.
It’s for the use of the “most ethical” organization on the planet, right?
And if you believe ANY of that, they’ve got this bridge you can buy, ‘cheap’ at any cost, including your immortal soul.
“Faustian” is just the start.