This has never happened before. After reading the tentative ruling from Judge Hammock that eviscerated Miscavige for playing games with the system, his lawyers agreed to accept service on his behalf, thus making the scheduled hearing moot and preventing the judge from entering a final order. Had Judge Hammock stuck with his tentative ruling and signed it, his order would have been catastrophic in other cases. Even without his final order, the fact that Miscavige was adjudicated to have been served in the Baxter/Paris case and has now accepted service in Leah’s case is going to make it very d … [Read more...]
Indoctrination Podcast
Tune in to the newest episode of the Indoctrination Podcast with Rachel Bernstein. … [Read more...]
A Billion Years Trade Paperback Available Now
Available today in bookstores, at Simon & Schuster, Amazon or anywhere you get your books. The audiobook also now includes the new Afterword. … [Read more...]
Link to Every Episode of Leah Remini: Scientology and The Aftermath
Many people, myself included, have wondered how to access episodes of Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath. A reader provided a link to an archive which contains all the episodes: https://archive.org/details/leahreminiscientologyandtheaftermath/Leah+Remini+-+Scientology+and+the+Aftermath/S01E01+-+Disconnection+(1080p).mkv I am posting this here so everyone can find these. … [Read more...]
It’s Never a Bad Day for a Good Smear
I want to address an important matter circulating in the former scientologist community for the last few weeks concerning a criminal investigation into child sexual abuse allegations against the father of Mirriam Francis. I will lay out the timeline and associated evidence in this blog post. First, I want to be clear: I don't want anyone attacking Mirriam or anyone else on my behalf. What Mirriam has been through in her life, mainly due to scientology, is something no person should ever have to face. For those seeking the actual facts, this blog post contains … [Read more...]
I Think He Might Be Serious!
I think this is a serious post on Facebook, but I am not 100% certain. The reason I think Iann Jones is serious is Scientologists are not known for their sense of humor, but are known for latching onto even the most insane thoughts if it forwards the “greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics.” (See some earlier posts: Conspiracy Theories, A Scientologist Conspiracy Theory, STAAD Scientology Conspiracy Theories) Obviously, this is not a real photo, it's AI generated. But Mr. Jones makes no note of that while spreading it on social media. We know many scientologists got thems … [Read more...]
Cults and Social Media
I came across this article and am republishing it here because it contains a wealth of useful information, quoting 3 people in particular who I know personally understand the world of cults better than almost anyone: Prof. Stephen Kent, Dr. Steve Hassan and Dr. Janja Lalich. Their observations on cults, but also the insight into how the internet is now being employed, is important. Social media is a dangerous cesspool of lies and those of dubious motivations. Minnah Arshad and Jeanine Santucci In an era when almost anyone can reach millions on the internet, where is the line … [Read more...]
It’s Opening in February!!!! Maybe…
Yeah, but.... We forgot about the files for the last 10 years … Now we are in panic mode, urgent, urgent, urgent we have to get it done in a week and it’s just 3 old people working on it. Today is the first day of February. 28 days to go. Will it happen this time? The promises about opening “soon” have been going in for years. Ladies and gentlemen, place your bets … [Read more...]
Columbus Expanded “Manifold” Times
Another example of scientology shooting itself in the foot with their own statistics. This org Org is manned primarily with Sea Org members— Kathleen Olsen was one of those shipped off to this org that the Aftermath Foundation helped to escape. Columbus became “ideal” 4 years ago. Apparently what they are most proud of (perhaps more accurately, the least embarrassing thing they can point to) is selling 11,000 books and getting “over 700” people onto their first service. Not a word about the real stats that are supposed to measure the success of an org: how many Clears and Class V audi … [Read more...]
Conspiracy Theories
Scientologists are very susceptible to conspiracy theories. It doesn’t matter much WHAT it is, many Scientologists readily buy into amu idea that there are a group of evil people determined to enslave/destroy/poison/control people. Here we have, according to Brian Gardner, “the most evil individuals of our time” (scientists?) trying to foist off the big lie… Brian is a hardcore scientologist -- you only need know he was the "PR" for SFO Org and read his last sentence to dispel any possible doubts about that. Why is this willingness to latch on to these theories so prevalent in sciento … [Read more...]