They are really getting desperate for people to show up at events. Now they are using something Hubbard said in 1957 about Congresses as if it is somehow speaking about "Int Events." Two things: 1. Int events are NOT Congresses. Nothing like a Congress in fact. 2. I guess whoever sent out this promotional piece is unaware that Hubbard CANCELLED Congresses, stating they "crashed stats" as everyone went off into preparing for, calling in and attending the Congresses and they forgot about training and auditing. As Hubbard would say, they were canceled with an atomic branding … [Read more...]
The Shrinking World of Scientology
It is hard to imagine 10 or 20 years ago that the March 13th event in LA would NOT be held in the Shrine Auditorium. It was one of the BIG events that was always held in a big venue. Back in the day, there were also big events for Auditor's Day and May 9th held at the Shrine Auditorium. The Auditor's Day event was first to go. It was too close to the IAS event and too soon after the Maiden Voyage -- AND it was not a big money-maker and celebrating auditors was not high on Miscavige's priority list. First Dear Leader stopped attending, then it became a "local" event (ie no central … [Read more...]
Bubbles’ Durban Disaster
Here is the other promo featuring Kaye "Bubbles" Champagne doing her bit for the Durban org. The crowd size speaks volumes -- they managed to scrape together 12 staff and public to attend the special seminar from the head of the FLAG OT Committee. They haven't seen anyone this important in Durban org since never. And they had 12 people to show her Durban Determinism to Clear the Planet. Yet they are so proud of this turnout they put out a promo piece documenting it. Straight up and vertical expansion at a level never before seen. And it is all happening because of the brilliant guidance of … [Read more...]
March 13th and International Scientology No News
Had a chance to look through the latest International Scientology News -- the propaganda piece sent out after each international event to re-hype the event hype. Based on this magazine alone, things are going to hell in a hand-basket in the shrinking bubble of scientology. What is fascinating about it is what is does NOT contain. It is virtually "expansion news free." Nothing that reflects the "massive international expansion" Miscavige is constantly mentioning. And all I did was flick through the pages and look at the pictures, I could not bring myself to read any of the drivel. Here … [Read more...]
The Birthday Event
Things seem to be falling apart at the seams in LA. Traditionally, there was a single March 13th event for all of the LA area -- including Orange County and the Valley. It used to be held at the Shrine Auditorium, but that became embarrassing as they couldn't even fill the lower level, let alone the upper. So, they moved it to the Dolby Theater. Capacity 3400. Now they have shifted it to the "Ray Dolby Ballroom." Capacity 2000. But it seems they are having inordinate difficulty filling even that venue (this is not much bigger than the Flag auditorium...) in the home of the … [Read more...]
Scientology New Year’s Hype
On New Year's Day I posted a comment to my Facebook page welcoming in the new year with some humor from David Miscavige's address to the faithful sheeple at the event in Los Angeles. A few other observations beyond noting the utter gibberish he spouted about compressed time and warp speed, a year equivalent to "a thousand years of triumph" and "arriving on the porch of eternity." I am ignoring the horrendous (from his perspective) events of the year that he also ignored. They need not be recounted, it suffices merely to say the words "Going Clear" passed the lips of orders of magnitude more … [Read more...]
Best Wise Convention Ever
Try to ignore the typos, spellos and grammatical hash in this email if you can. The milestone news is that they are going to hold the biggest and "most impacting" [sic] WISE convention ever (of course). They are going to have 1000 people there (not an ice cream's chance in hell of that happening). But here is the REALLY big news. Because demand is so high, they are "reducing the prices". Now that makes sense. So much demand we are reducing prices. Really, they are using "scientology math" or "scientology speak" where reducing the prices actually means, as explained in the next … [Read more...]
It’s Dianetics Day – Fundraising’s Up
The latest promotional item from the First Bankrupted Continent has dispensed with any pretense about the purpose of the May 9th event. It used to be a celebration of the anniversary of Dianetics. At one point it was even an "International Event" though as time went on "COB" found it too much of a strain to attend the March 13th event and then prepare for Maiden Voyage in June AND have to do a May 9th event in between. So, he sent the "B Team." Nowadays, there isn't even a pretense of that. The event is a "non-event" with "local speakers" and little or nothing of note. They don't even … [Read more...]
Flag “Expansion” — More Lies
The wheels have come off the Miscavige Bandwagon. Here are the latest "Good News" reports from Flag, courtesy of Jeff Mintz and his Silicon Valley alter ego Sandy Dodwell. As always, at the bottom I have added these stats to the earlier reports that have been tracked since fairly soon after GAG II was released in November 2013. This forms perhaps the most accurate and complete record of the ACTUAL production of Flag over the last year and a half. One can easily see there is NO expansion. They deliver Super Power and the Running Program now, but those volumes have stayed level … [Read more...]
March 13 Hype-O-Rama
Just getting around to this -- things have been pretty hectic in the last few weeks and this one took a bit more work. A Special Correspondent attended the March 13th event in LA and reported some entertaining first-hand observations which serve as an introduction to some key points from the International Scientology News March 13 "Birthday Game" edition. First, the on-the-ground report from the Dolby Theater in LA. A grey, barely marked, Church of Scientology mini-bus pulled up to the curb and discharged 4 or 5 people into the crowd that makes Hollywood & Highland a nightly … [Read more...]