I cannot believe they have the cheek to ask an admission fee for an event that is all about getting money out of the field with no services delivered!

Is there end to the greed and shame of these people?

How dare they call themselves Scientologists. Does this nonsense ever get reported in the main stream media?

If the general public could be informed as to how the system works in the world of Scientology would this not save a few people from bankruptcy?

Visitor, if you mean by “active”; “in session or on course”, then the WUS can’t have 1k active scn’ers. I seriously doubt that in any given week there are 1,000 unique individuals on course or in session in the entire WUS mission/org network. AOLA & ASHO maybe have only a couple score.

Roy, you are cracking me up! That’s hysterical!

Yes, KFrancis: exchange is such 60’s old-school… and by next Thursday you are hounded for your next increase in status. What is that? Not next training or auditing level? How do the “ins” stay in? Hard to imagine except if your only child is drunk on Koolaid.

There are so many “under the radar fliers” today that they are regularly bumping into each other and are sharing their views with each other. I think 2014 is the tipping point for Miscavige’s Ponzi scheme.

Scurrying away and hiding does not exactly give the impression that you seem to be shooting for of that “Mighty Scientology Empire.” On the contrary, it gives the impression of twelve year old boys caught with their Daddy’s Playboys.

How absolutely pathetic and embarrassing. But I guess ‘management’ has no shame left – charging an admission fee to a fundraiser? Bizarro World.

So true Morris! Today – you get absolutely nothing in exchange from Scientology and in reality – they have been selling flawed tek for 64 years!! Criminal Out-Exchange Organization!

And yeah, Kevin has it right: the Internet has ended the con. No amount of PR (or money, or anything else) can put the cult’s dirty laundry back in the bag, especially among the highly wired younger generations. The truth is out there, and it ain’t going away.

With the recent posts showing almost zero activity in the various orgs, I wonder if it is time to revisit the question: how many *active* scientologists are there, in the world?

My guesses, from recent posts: Western US: 2K sea org, 1K staff, 1K active members; Eastern US: about the same, for a max. total of 10K. Foreign countries are hard to assess, but probably less than the Western US so let’s guess 2.5K.

So my guess is 12.5 K max, active scientologists in the world, and many of those are “on the fence”. That’s “straight down and vertical” movement, thanks to the great leadership of DM.

Your thoughts?

There is a floor below street level and two floors from the ground up. That makes three levels as it is now.