Maybe you should offer your services to the FBI.

Right. There you go. These figures probably include cf files of people who bought DMSMH in 1985, thought it wad a bunch of crap, and tossed it in the trash. I remember our cf was full of these.

There’s no way Joburg North has 333 members. They’re lucky if 10 people pitch up on course and one person gets auditing at a time. They’re smaller than a mission.

I believe I can safely say that it’s the same for all the others. I doubt that even Joburg org has that many members. It’s course room has a handful of people in it at any one time.

There may be members not on services but who attend the events but that’s it. They’re not on services because they can’t afford to be, so they stay on the edges, that is, they hang around.

Thank you very much for your comment. I think you are right. Here in France even the critic’s movement is shrinking, because Scientology has gone with the wind and people have other fish to fry. But people who went down the rabbit hole for answers will be for ever indebted to Mike, Karen, Marty and also all of those who have written their experiences, like Jefferson Hawkings, Marc Headly, Amie Scobby, Jennna Miscavige, Tony Ortega, John Sweeny, etc. As Hubbard said, you cannot stop the truth even with 17 inch armour.

There are many stories about thriving orgs and missions. Scn was always expensive relative to current wages. For every one person on lines there could have been 5 or even 10 more working to pay for their next action. Nationwide the numbers would be significant.

Bravo! Oracle

Up to 1980 my org was full full full… People were young, not sibling of scientologists, newly interested. Every day they were new faces.
Whatever we may think of the validity of scientology prior to Miscavige the stat were up ! I think scientology died when it became actionnable to reveal an overt in session. That was the end of scientology. It just took more than thirty years that the agony went to the terminal step.
For scientology to survive the church should reform. And the first step would be to dismis Miscavige.
Jews used to say say “next year in Jerusalem” scientologists should say “next year without Miscavige”.
In the future when truth would have won “COB” will stay in the books as the suppressive who destroyed scientology. Most accurate definition of David Miscavige.

One more thing and then end of off-topic interruption. If I include all those on or intending to “move up the bridge”, then at one time there might have been hundreds of thousands. Also, I don’t have the computer skills to do it, but I would like to see a chronological history book type of list of significant events in scio history. I’m fuzzy about what happened and when.

Oracle, great comment.

Yes, I did not figure in utr members. There is no organization I know that has so many.