Thanks Cindy.

Sad to hear your story but it is great to know there’s someone else out there like me.

And I am glad we both escaped before more harm was suffered.

Maybe this is why the cult’s membership is dwindling. A lot of folks waking up and walking out due to its despicable lust for money.

Hmmm. Membership and income dropping is the result of the cult’s despicable practices. And this spurs it to increase the very practices that are causing the outflow of folks. Can’t they see this is just the motivator from their overt?

But of course what might we expect from a “leader” who couldn’t finish high school and flunked class 4 auditor training. Duh!

Totally true.

The “exchange” demand for Scientology content, sadly official Scientology is shackled with this.

The “pilot” to make it all free, ex’s are the only ones who throw the orthodox “exchange” rules out the window. Some splinter Scientologists charge less.

Scientology content ought just be all free on the internet, like other religions. Find your own “teachers” of Scientology untethered to orthodox Scientology’s money grubbing business model (which is Hubbard’s fault).

Squirrel/splinter Scientologists, and freebie Scientologists are the way to go. Or just skip all of Scientology and do another freer religion/subject.

Glenn, Oh yes, they do this regularly. If you fess up to having lied about having money, the reg will be waiting for you outside the examiner’s after the session. They call right away. And to take it one more step further, everyone and their dog know about your ruin, your pecadillos, your everything from session. The same sessions that are supposed to be “Priest Penitent.” I had registrars come to my house (cuz I wouldn’t call them back), and they said, “I have another pre-ot who found a 2D after she got this auditing.” She said that cuz at that time my ruin was I wanted to find a good 2D. I knew in that moment, that the registrars and IAS were reading our pc folders, or reading reports from session about this.

Trev, that adds up to 4517, so they may well be up to 8303 now. The unknown variables are how many have repeated it and how the church counts it when they do, and how many were missed in 2014-18 publications because they weren’t listed for some reason – celebrities and the wealthy seem to be allowed to chose not to have their names publicized, for example.

Clear numbers also seem to be going up by around a thousand a year, which I find a bit hard to account for as that would be 10 thousand a decade, which I think is approaching reasonable estimates of the CofS total active membership. I can’t figure out if they’re somehow padding one number that is supposed to be an almost sacred registry going back to Hubbard’s days (old reports of them distributing blocks of numbers to orgs, are a factor that should more or less even out over time) or if they have more people to churn through than we might think, maybe particularly born-in members whose families may pay for them to do some courses when young but who don’t stay active as they get older.

Thanks Aqua.

Your mention of off loading her made me think of the SO practice of Overboarding. I think I’d have had more fun getting rid of her that way! 🙂

Holy Moly Cindy!!!
Thanks very much for that story. I know that the cult’s registrars are blood suckers par excellence but had no idea they passed their infection to members. I stopped “drinking the kool aid” well before reaching the “upper levels” so luckily escaped the practices you described. OMG!
Ever hear of the “look in system”? Cameras record auditing sessions at Flag (and likely everywhere else). An Examiner once showed me this. A year or so later I went for a break after “confessing” to my auditor that I had lied to my registrar saying I had no money in the bank (when I really did). While on that break some young lady who worked as a registrar for the IAS came hitting on me. I told her I had no money in the bank and she stared me straight in the eye and said, “oh come on Glenn, I know if you look hard enough you’ll find it”. I had heard stories of session info being shared and now I knew it was true. Despicable, money grubbing cult. Every staff have their eyes on your wallet. Each and every one of them. Puke!

Good point. But the joke is on the whales cuz the church actually does only like them for their money. They are just good at acting their part in all the love bombing they do.

When I knew him, from ’79 to ’95 or so he was Ron’s Meter Repair or RMR. In charge of quality control for e-meter manufacturing, I did a mission with him to find and handle meter frailties (that is what Hubbard called it, basically manufacturing flaws). We were both personally thanked in a dispatch supposedly from Ron, but it could have been really from someone in the CMO.

We all called him “muff diver” because of his mustache, or his initials, though it is possible it was a salacious reference that we won’t explore on this family-oriented website. Donna would know.

Even in the SO he drove a classic car, some kind of 40s Chevy I think. There was a really intense period of all-nighters in Hubbard E-Meter Manufacturing when the Quantum upgrade to the MK VII came out. Golden Age of Tech I. They kept Marc up mercilessly as he was placed at the end of the production line, doing the final quality check they call the “Floating Needle/ Instant Read Check”. What in the real world we would call Final Quality Assurance Inspection.

The musicians put a big Chinese gong outside the door of the FN/IR check room so we could bang it to general applause whenever a meter was completed. Seems like we had twenty to thirty Sea Org up there in HEM burning both midnight and daylight oil to do the Quantums and the Drills Simulators.

The CD player had Alanis Morisette (Isn’t It Ironic?) and the Beasty Boys (You’ve got to Fight for your Right to Paaaaaarty!). And, of course, the ever-present Queen Highlander soundtrack. “It’s a kind of Magic!” Eminem “Cleaning out the Closet”.

Finally one night he just drove his classic car out of there and never came back. I distinctly remember that Dave said not to do the blow drill, just let him go. No idea why.

But a few weeks later I saw him walking with his distinctive strutting sort of walk at the Flag Land Base. So I guess he “came back to route out properly” or some such and ended up as a public Scientologist.

If you walk into a Christian Church (regardless of denomination) they’ll tell you about Jesus Christ for free. If you walk into a Synagogue they’ll tell you about God, Moses, and David for free. If you walk into a Mosque they’ll tell about Allah and Mohammad for free. If you walk into an Org they’ll charge you about information about Scientology.