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First Ideal School?? WTF?

September 14, 2022 By Mike Rinder 11 Comments

 

First it was orgs, and Miscavige reinterpreted the Hubbard PL on “Ideal Orgs” to be a large, renovated building. Of course, there is nothing about this in the policy letter.

Then it was Missions who were supposed to be “ideal.” That Mission in San Francisco that Jenna Elfman opened was the first one I think. Or maybe it was the one Lisa Marie and Isaac Hayes did in Memphis? Or Kirstie’s in Wichita? All of these are empty shells today. There have been a few others since then, but generally the Mission network of scientology has continued to shrink despite Miscavige’s infamous “Arrows” graphic that showed these ideal orgs sprouting missions and other organizations around them — which has not happened in ONE “ideal org.”:

 

Then the disease spread to Narconons. I think only one has actually made it to opening — the “celebrity” NN in Ojai. The Narconon Network has also been shrinking in the “ideal orgs era.”

But now, there are going to be “ideal” schools? These schools are supposed to be secular and have nothing to do with the “religion”, especially in the US.

Let’s remember what the ACTUAL “Ideal Org” policy letter from Hubbard says…

Imagine one of these schools with “auditors auditing in Div IV HGC” and “pcs getting full grades” and “students graduating all on fire to audit.”

This is damning evidence that scientology today is “off-Source.” And that it is a cult of personality — Miscavige has replaced Hubbard in this regard. He says make “ideal orgs” by buying buildings and everyone just accepts it as gospel. His utterances become the catch-phrase of scientologists around the world. He has single-handedly made “ideal” a “thing” in scientology.

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Filed Under: Fundraising, Ideal Orgs Tagged With: David Miscavige, Delphi, fundraising, Ideal Orgs

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  1. DOC Boucher says

    December 8, 2022 at 12:15 pm

    Do you think “Dave” has something set up once he “leaves’ “flesh body” to Join LRH in “research” or will he just leave the cherch to their own devises as he has no children to take over?

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  2. PeaceMaker says

    September 16, 2022 at 11:03 am

    “Ideal” in the CofS seems to mean massive, lavishly outfitted outfitted buildings, nonetheless. From what I’ve seen, the old orgs in aging buildings did need some upgrades to be attractive to 21st century clientele – but the essentials could have been accomplished in just a couple of years, at minimal cost.

    I checked for photos online, and Delphi Academy has what appears to be a well kept modern building, though it is on a street corner and looks like it might be a converted office structure. I’m guessing that they want something that looks more like a posh private school campus, but as with the “ideal” org buildings it seems unlikely to attract new business from outside Scientology. It’s possible they could grow a bit in the current push to get members to settle and concentrate in the Tampa Bay area, but I wonder if the sort of families who are resettling there are ones with school age children, or more old loyalists and retirees.

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  3. ExScnStaff says

    September 15, 2022 at 6:26 pm

    As staff, it was easy to imagine it being this progressive growth – more staff trained as auditors, supes, etc, more public being provided with training or auditing, working hard now to achieve it, but eventually reaching that mystical ‘make/break’ point where everything just rolled along like a greased wheel.

    Except nobody, ever, in decades of Dn and Scn had ever achieved that. It was a Sisyphean task keeping us from having time to rest and realize it wasn’t achievable as described.

    All that before Little Miscavige turned “Ideal Org” into the antithesis of “The Ideal Org”. It’s a weird feeling reading “The Ideal Org” because somehow knowing how absolutely wrong Davey’s altered version is, there’s a desire to think the policy version is therefore right.

    ***

    Beyond all that, I am curious if any DM-styled “Ideal Org” or any Advanced Org actually complies with the requirement of a full org board on display for staff and public. One question of great curiosity to me has been … how many trained auditors do each of these orgs have on staff.

    The struggling Class V I worked at had two while I was there and, per a chaplain call to me a couple years later, one of those was declared. But that was 20 years ago. I’d love to ‘visit’ if the org board was available to be seen and find the numbers, but somehow I get the impression those boards aren’t easily found and specifically asking to see one would get their hackles up.

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  4. GL says

    September 14, 2022 at 11:56 pm

    Shows just how pathetic and desperate $camaloss and Dinky Despot Demento Midgetorious the 1st is becoming.

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  5. jim rowles says

    September 14, 2022 at 6:10 pm

    I suspect it will produce disasterous results similar to the old Apple school in LA. My ex got to pay 1.5 tears tutoring of my daughter before she passed her GED. And she thought public schools were bad!

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  6. AZ says

    September 14, 2022 at 2:31 pm

    Hi Mike, I love all you and Leah do, exposing the lies and abuses of Scientology. I saw the 2.0 announcement for the Fair Game podcast back in August and was excited, anticipating that it would be back by the end of the month. Is it still coming? I hope all is well on that end of things!! Please update your fans if there is any news! Much thanks!

    Reply
    • Ragner says

      September 14, 2022 at 3:58 pm

      Agree, following from Denmark and would love to know when the podcast is back.
      An update regarding Scientology in Europe and Denmark would also be an interesting topic for the podcast!
      Thanks for all your effort!

      Reply
  7. I Yawnalot says

    September 14, 2022 at 1:06 pm

    Miscavige has attained the ideal disconnection. So thoroughly disconnected in fact that he has had to install himself as the source of Scientology and dream come up new ways to achieve his own personal ‘have to have’ objectives, not Hubbard’s. His parallel with Hubbard follows along on one major aspect though, as one thing fails, falls out of interest or the stats never go up or crash, the next answer that will solve everything is dreamed up that will lead to victory and is then heavily promoted with bigger donation drives. Like a bad general fighting a losing war, propaganda & lies quickly becomes the only go to tactic.
    I’ve never understood why squirrels get such a bad definition in Scientology. I reckon they are great little creatures.
    Must be some perverted truth to, “you become what you resist.”

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  8. Peridot says

    September 14, 2022 at 12:48 pm

    An ideal org, as verbally described and promised*, was to be one that was genuniely welcoming and not, every visit or encounter with a staff member, a big rege cycle.

    This promise was not fulfilled. There is nothing that I saw in a decade following our “ideal org opening” that was not about rege-ing, rege-ing, and more rege-ing. All the time. 7 days a week. Being hounded and hounded by the IAS, by other emerging ideal orgs in the region, demands to join staff, library campaigns, etc.

    *which got many of us to donate — a “correct indication,” what we always imagined, that an org would be a pleasant place, an “oasis” of sanity and theta, rather than just one big, dark demand for time, dollars, blood, and other forms of human energy

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  9. otherles says

    September 14, 2022 at 9:57 am

    What is the ideal? Was it to create an extension of LRH or DM?

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  10. Geoff Levin says

    September 14, 2022 at 9:39 am

    I remember when Miscavige coined the phrase “straight up and vertical”. The experienced Scientologists thought that was BS. Most of them came into line eventually as statistics were rising at that time. Of course it was destined to crash because it was fake. Now it’s “straight down and horizontal”. That’s the mantra of ideal orgs.

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