Not had a lot of time to do anything with the blog in the last few days, so this one is a bit of nostalgia for the scientology history buffs.
Someone forwarded me a copy of this issue, written in 2001 by Captain David Miscavige.
Oh, what drama. The hype in this issue is something to behold.
“literally about the destruction of the Church as a whole,”
“horrifying suppression”
“machine gun-toting police”
“imprisonment of many Scientologists in dungeons,”
For the record, Spanish police raided an IAS event in 1988 where Heber Jentzsch was speaking (back then, big names in scientology would attend local IAS fundraisers — Heber often one of them as the IAS funded some of the legal bills in areas outside the US) and arrested him and a number of others. They were taken to prison. The prosecutors were accusing them of various crimes, according to Clambake it included illicit association, threats, coercion, tax fraud, false imprisonment, crimes against the public health, slander, crimes against freedom and a bunch of others. They were really going after scientology in Spain.
This was a huge deal in the OSA/Miscavige world. The Church of Scientology International President was arrested and charged. And that had significant repercussions with the IRS. The US Govt would not grant tax exempt status if the supposed head of the church was convicted in another Western country and sent to prison…
Heber in handcuffs in Spain (in the dungeon?)
A number of people in OSA spent many sleepless nights getting Heber and the rest out of prison (that was accomplished relatively quickly) and then in the subsequent years fighting the legal battle to get rid of the case.
A little bit of history — and a reminder that Captain Miscavige is and always has been the big cheese, involved in any and all things significant in scientology, despite his lawyers claiming he does and knows nothing and that it is deliberately insulting to refer to him as Captain Miscavige.
Can anyone comment on whether any of those individuals that appear at the end of the OSA ethics order by COB have since been declared? The list that COB so effusively praises, whom he has bestowed as “Highly Commended”
If any have been declared as SP’s, how does Tiny Boots explain that dichotomy to the sheeple?
In passing Mike re: your book. I had never listened to Audible so i registered and the first book was free so I listened to yours. I hope you still get some money. I wish you every success and joy.
When I was interning at FSO I had to sec-check one of the OSAspawn that got arrested and jailed with Heber. Usual stuff of looking why he “pulled it in.” I was bonded etc. so I could never talk about what came up but the PC was desperate for relief and more than willing to confess. Finished it. Pc and C/S happy, I got something on my internship signed off.
Several years later I got a High Crime report written on me for missing a withhold on this PC. Hilarious thing was that I had at the time suspected this and did “Standard Procedure” immediately and pulled the exact same withhold that I was accused now of missing. Obviously the PC was still looking for “why.” And so were Management because before I had started on him, he’d pretty much only had sec-checks for years and obviously was still being given them.
The guy was supposedly an arsehole per people I’d spoke to then and since. I just saw him as an example of “executive C/Sing” and pitied the poor bastard. He’s probably still in and “in trouble “ with his bosses still.
I’ve given a lot of thought to the Hubbard “High Crimes” and missing a withhold, being pulled as a Sec Checker from doing Sec Checking, if you “miss a withhold”, and having to retread, retrain, that is a huge huge issue.
a) It sabotages interrogating. It shortens the list of available interrogators. (Hubbard himself, would even fail at at “not missing a withhold” on someone. )
b) It’s Hubbard violating his own High Crime penalty, “Creating a Solution that becomes a Problem.”
Always, when you back up the chain of command, up the ranks, all those failing executives who did horrible things, it goes back to Hubbard.
Hubbard left them horrible nasty false choices as their choices.
Scientology is quackery institutionalized mainly to blame staffs and followers who inevitably fail at the Hubbard quackery.
The quackery is on Hubbard, and the institutionalized methodical blaming game of staff/followers is also on Hubbard.
It’s all on Hubbard.
Xenu’s on Hubbard. Xenu’s “body-thetans” are on Hubbard. Blaming Sec Checkers who fail to get staff/followers to fess up is on Hubbard.
Hubbard only extremely half assed admitted failure at the end of his life, and one reading the final pages of Lawrence Wright’s “Going Clear..” get that briefest admission of failure, out of Hubbard.
I say let Xenu/”body-thetans” be what all is left in the public’s mind about how crappy bad L. Ron Hubbard’s legacy to humanity was.
I hope Xenu upstages in the public’s mind, L. Ron Hubbard’s crap in total.
Scientology is Xenu/”body-thetans”.
Knowing and talking Xenu and “body-thetans” with Scientologists keeps you safely at arms length from them.
Well, I *am* being deliberately insulting when I refer to him as Captain Miscavige.
Hahahaha me too
Why is Heber not on the list? He was an Int Management terminal who people actually liked. Was he considered suppressive for getting locked up?
It more than gauled me that our “leaders” like Heber, would never, ever, and it’s Hubbard’s fault, but someday, the job still has to be done, by some future PR person/spokesperson, because the outside world is passing Scientology by , on the following problem.
Scientologists fail to define Scientology adequately.
Heber, as endearing as he was, and charming, crowd pleasing speaker, with the old GO “wins” against the SPs which he’d embellish, in his distinctive style, once he was gone, Mike, truly, you weren’t a match for Heber, but Heber couldn’t do what any PR for Scientology still to this day, hasn’t done.
It’s to define Scientology’s core practices:
a) warm up talk therapy aimed at this lifetime trying moments and trauma
b) past lives trauma and other stufff, “implanting”, “evil purposes”, from one’s past lives, that one drags along into this life, and the , mid level to “Clear” supposedly uses the Hubbard pseudo-therapy to “clear” all that trauma and stuff from one’s mind.
c) exorcism of surplus invisible souls that leak their trauma onto one, and once exorcised, then a person is supposed to be spiritually all cleaned up.
Pseudo-therapy and exorcism, is Scientology, and LRH never allowed the subject leaders and followers the word skills to simplify and say this.
That’s just a huge continuing problem, and no amount of dodging and all the totalitarian rules censoring everyone in Scientology is ever going to work.
Just telling Scientology for what it is: pseudo-therapy and exorcism, and sticking with that, and just add that Scientology is a “case” elimination subject, eliminating a person’s “case” from this lifetime misemotion and trauma, and eliminating a person’s past lives trauma and other “case, and then exorcism of the surplus souls that infest a human, so their messed up surplus souls don’t leak their case anymore onto one.
Scientology is a very alternative soul “case” handling subject, supposedly.
If Scientology just switched to telling the simpler description of their practices first.
And then dispense with all the Hubbard penalty regulations that are totalitarian censorship and unnecessary punishment to the followers.
The followers never get to learn what their subject is, they quit before they learn it, and they never are allowed to simply tell what their subject is, like I just did.
Scientology is a pseudo-therapy and exorcism alternative “case” addressing subject.
No one simplifies and tells this overall definition of Scientology, and Scientologists are incapable of just plain violating Hubbard’s rules and describing themselves like this, so the world understands what Scientology is, and can judge is the past lives pseudo-therapy and the exorcism sound like something they want to do.
This is one of 2 posts on this topic.
Mike Rinder book A Billion Years Page 194
“Those are perfect Martin” said Miscavige (of the 1″ diameter copper wiring ) “Now go outside and bury them in the garden in front of my
conference room. Put them 2′ apart and 2′ deep. Right there where I can see them through the window..once the “grounding rods” were in place, Miscavige ordered me to go outside and hold on to them until he told me I could let go. Everyone including myself were mystified.
Miscavige then told those who were not OT 3 and above to leave the room, and he then explained that my body thetans were jumping off me and landing on him which was causing him great upset and by “grounding” me he could stop the flow.
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So incredible and important.
Miscavige thus does seem hypnotized by this “body-thetans” theory of Hubbard’s if he thought Mike’s “body-thetans” would leap off Mike and land on Miscavige.
It’s a great great Achilles Heel piece of info to know.
People every time they see Miscavige in person, can talk up “body-thetans” talk and give Miscavige a scare (based on Miscavige’s delusional beliefs that “body-thetans” supposedly have on Miscavige).
Body-thetans on Miscavige, 24/7!
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Imagine a crowd of “SPs” waving and pointing at Miscavige, showering great imaginary showers of body-thetans onto Miscavige.
Great gags could come of this info.
Bad people will often see themselves as good people surrounded by armed bad people
Funny so do sociopaths and usually future leaders of mass genocide…….
I remember how this disruptive occurrence in Spain was used to VIGOROUSLY fundraise by the International Association of Scientologists. If Scientology is “winning” you are enthused to stay the course. If Scientology is “losing” boy howdy, now [as you are commanded] it is time to really get down to business and “produce” (more auditing hours or student points) or donate.
Listening to Mike’s book and replaying several chapters to comprehend and digest all, it occurs to me what cleverness exists in the design from Hubbard to put and keep a person in Scientology. In some taped lectures (e.g., “The Basics”), LRH does some effective bashing of his contemporaries. He has a way of convincingly putting down the ideas and innovations of others (engineers, philosophers) and, in this way, steadily asserts he is The [Only] One.
One such person Ron puts down is Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), the American architect, systems theorist, designer, inventor, and futurist. Some of you may recall Fuller formulated something he called “dymaxion geometry.” Many know him for his “geodesic dome.” He conceived of a design principle where each element relies for its sturdiness and stability on the relationships and placement of other elements in that same structure.
Part of the tract laid down in a Scientologist by Hubbard is to have the person’s adherence to Scientology greatly strengthened each time Scientology is attacked (like Heber jailed in Spain). In your book, Mike, you reference the Hubbard-ism about, “You really know how well an org is doing when the squirrels [dissenters] howl.” Which is crazy, I see that now. How about: People NOT in Scientology are “howling” to tell you to re-examine your faith and participation because something very dark is at work within.
To me, this clever (mental) structuring is dymaxion geometry all the way. As a dedicated Scientologist, when you have a win in Scientology, your resolve to adhere to Scientology is strengthened. When someone attacks Scientology, your resolve to adhere to Scientology is strengthened. There are so many features like this. I can better see now it all adds up to: No matter what besets you inside or outside the group of Scientology, there is a piece of LRH wisdom to instantly point out how this occurrence demonstrates the urgent need to keep doing Scientology (and donate more money and straighten out your “dynamics” etc.).
I know I may be oversimplifying, but basically, while in Scientology, the house that you construct just keeps getting more stable and sturdier at EVERY juncture, and it is BIZARRE and so very clever.
I have such a soaring sense of triumph for all Former-Ins who are part of this blog community. I offer to all of us in that category: Don’t spend a moment feeling bad about remaining in. Celebrate you unraveled this quite clever and very sturdy structure to GET OUT.
Mike, with your book, you contribute further light, honor, and truth to the difficult journey out. I am additionally grateful for Jefferson Hawkins’ book “Counterfeit Dreams”; Nancy Many’s book “My Billion Year Contract”; the late Ron Miscavige, Sr. YouTube program “Life After Scientology”; and all the people who contributed and have made such a stunning success of “Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath.” I have watched the series four times!
Very well-placed comments, Peridot! I could not agree more. As I type this, I’m binge-watching the Aftermath Series before it goes away 10-31, and just as a refresher. I have only watched it once before.
I listened to Mike’s book, A Billion Years, 3 times and still it’s so much there that it’s hard to take in (I am a “never-in”). I feel for everyone who has been harmed by the human rights abuses practiced in this organization, and especially for people who were indoctrinated in it from so very young childhood on. What choice did they have, or what agency did they have until they got much older?
Keep the light on these practices. The organization’s marketing ploys vilifying all critics and deifying Miscavige is portrayed so black and white that standing alone it seems incredible. LIke the deodorant commercial that promises you an active social life. We all know this isn’t true, but we can chuckle. These videos are dark and destructive.
Going into the stories (as I am doing binge-watching) reminds me of being very young and going into the old-time traveling carnival funhouse where you follow your friends in, lose sight of them, see yourself in the distorted mirrors, flashing lights and sometimes darkness .
You don’t know where you are at or where your friends are, either. And then you try to walk upright through the rolling barrel with the strobe lights, and at last, when you emerge back into the daylight and see you are back on the fairgrounds with your friends, you are hugely relieved. Only the “funhouse tour” lasted nearly a lifetime for many Scientologists and the emergence from it is a mixture of relief and confusion and much time is needed to re-orient.
This criminal organization with its gross human rights violations needs to be shut down.
You know things are as they should be in scientology when an official document is sent and Karin Pouw’s name features despite it being authored by Captain Miscavige…