Saturday, time for Terra Cognita! Everything Takes Longer in Scientology Scientologists may be cause over Matter, Energy, and Space. But “Time?” I think that ability must be addressed on OT 11. I would be generous in stating that all targets set by the church take twice as long as they say they will. If management sets a target of ten hours...double, triple, or quadruple this number. If the Director of Processing or Director of Training says an auditing or training action will take eight weeks...change the word “weeks” to “months.” If church leader, David Miscavige—master of prevarication … [Read more...]
STAAD Scientology Conspiracy Theories
This is another piece that appears on the STAAD site. They got me to go check it out this site with their silly boycott business.... Otherwise I probably would never have seen it. While nosing around I came across this amazing piece of work. According to this genius The Aftermath is a plot by.... BIG PHARMA! I wish I knew about this... I have put her full article below along with some of my editorial comments in red.... Scientology and Conspiracy: The Real Story Perhaps you’ve come across “the real story” about Scientology on your Facebook feed, television screen or on some tab … [Read more...]
The STAAD League Boycott
The Scientologists Taking Action Against Discrimination (STAAD) League has been playing the victim card for a while now and have come up with a new tactic of orchestrating a letter writing campaign to advertisers on The Aftermath. You may recall their earlier "victory" of claiming to get copies of People magazine removed from the shelves of a Target store because Leah Remini was on the cover. It was a "huge blow for religious freedom" -- even though it almost certainly didn't happen -- but didnt do much for the concept of freedom of speech that scientology spouts as one of their … [Read more...]
Being Declared in Scientology… Kind Of
It's Saturday, time for some Terra Cognita... Being Declared in Scientology…Kind of “Being declared” in Scientology—short for “being declared a suppressive person,”—lets one know he or she is an evil, despicable, and degraded being, and that everyone associated with this person should disconnect from him or her immediately. LRH said an SP is someone who, many lifetimes ago, got squashed so severely that he or she took on the valence of his suppressor. He listed the characteristics of these people in HCOPL 7 August 1965, Suppressive Persons, Main Characteristics. “Nobody puts bab … [Read more...]
The Scientology Committee of Evidence
It's Saturday. Yay for Terra Cognita! The Scientology Committee of Evidence The Committee of Evidence—Comm Ev for short—is one of the chief instruments the Church of Scientology uses to administer justice. Over the years, this court-martial-like hearing has changed from a method of gathering facts and evidence to something more sinister. Nine times out of time, the outcome is a foregone conclusion, played out for show rather than in the interest of fairness and justice. For many church members, there is little more frightening than being called before a Committee of Evidence. As every Sci … [Read more...]
The Blame Game
Scientology plays an interesting game of taking credit for anything good AND bad in a person's life. For anything good, it's BECAUSE the person is a good scientologist "applying the tech" and for anything bad it's because the person is NOT a good scientologist and is not applying the tech and thus they are suffering their "just rewards." This "win/win" takes many forms and is a practiced art of the scientologist. If you are doing well in life and have plenty of money you are not only lauded for your "humanitarian contributions", you are expected to make sure that everyone knows it is … [Read more...]
OT VIII Success
When this is the best you have, scraping the barrel doesn't really describe it. After half a million dollars and years and years of sacrifice, the accomplishment seems to be more "I finally made it over the finish line" than anything tangible. It's all vague "I could say this, but it's not really that" and I am "naturally happy" or "I am OT"... blah blah All in all, a VERY unimpressive mandatory "success story" provided in order to be allowed to get off the Freewinds. But this is the one they chose to send out as broad promotion? Maybe they don't HAVE any others? Either way, an … [Read more...]
What Attracted Me to Scientology
Saturday is Terra Cognita day! If religion was the opiate of the people as Marx and my parents used to tell me, how in the hell did the latter’s offspring get involved in Scientology? Religion...Or Not I didn’t know Scientology was a religion until well into my HQS course (Hubbard Qualified Scientologist course). And even then, I didn’t accept that it was a bona fide religious entity but more of a new-age, self-help type of outfit. Werner Erhard and EST had set up shop locally, Moonies and Buddhists were common sights at airports, and yes, the field of psychology had become the lif … [Read more...]
Grief and Leaving Scientology
It's Saturday -- Terra Cognita is in the house! Grief and Leaving Scientology In 1969, Swiss psychiatrist, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross introduced her famous five stages of grief. Later, she expanded the model to include trauma such as the death of a loved one, major rejection, and the onset of disease. Over the years, others have modified her model. Her original five stages are: Denial Anger Bargaining Depression Acceptance Many Scientologists go through similar stages when leaving the church. Others pass through these stages once they’ve left. Denial Most e … [Read more...]
The Boycott is Working!
Sometimes you really have to wonder at the intelligence of some of these bubble-dwellers. And their delusions of grandeur. Look at the crazy here. Just to be sure what she is taking credit for: Set aside her not too well thought through conclusions about deriding Trump -- this woman is on a rant about Leah winning an Emmy and THIS is why the ratings are down. Still, 11.4 million viewers is a BIG audience -- the same as last year before Trump was elected. If you wonder about the audience of NW TV these days obviously you didn't watch the show and see how many awards Hulu and … [Read more...]