God, those people are awful to perpetuate these practices. The families and relationships they’ve hurt.

Plus, they’re kinda nuts.

Faith and religion is free. Cults are not. They may give you something to believe in, but the motivation for those on the inside is money. Manipulation and lies is not a good way to live. It’s not for a good cause.

The truth is that everyone is “religious” in the basic sense of the word. Yes, even the Atheist! Even more so.

Another way to put it is that everyone has a worldview, yet not all worldviews are true.
There are worldviews where “truth” is subjective/relative, but if you know basic logic, “truth” would not exist in that reality, as truth is objective/absolute.

That’s where cults and false religions get their power. They can claim all sorts of things, yet don’t have to show, nor prove, their basis for such claims. When pressured, they hide or attack because they have no foundation in truth.

You can claim to be an agnostic, which I may have considered myself as being for a time, but that doesn’t strip you of having a worldview, a religion or perception of reality; a belief system.

This begs the question… since truth happens to be of vital importance, what is it?
The answer is not found in Scientology, obviously. It’s not found in psychology nor philosophy either. That is why there are so many faiths/religions/worldviews of which most, if not all, claiming to be true, yet typically are not.

Without writing a book… not selling any, there is only one truth and it can be known for free. It’s also the “way” to confront and destroy Scientology or any cult. He goes by many names and is the very essence of love. Perhaps you have heard of the only one to rightly claim to be “the way, the truth, and the life”.

I hope all can seek and find truth as I have.
No paid membership required.

I have observed that Hubbard and those following him have adopted techniques like that of accusing your opponent or “enemy” of the thing(s) in which they are actually guilty of.

With actress Jenna, can she ever really forget how she was treated BEFORE she got famous?

One time in NY, I was at a “briefing” with an ASHO registrar. What a light-hearted buoyant fella he was. He regaled us with an uplifting tale of him pushing so hard, ultimately completely dominating and overwhelming a then unknown Jenna Elfman to pay him for her Saint Hill Special Briefing Course.

Completing the arrangement, he was in L.A. and she was somewhere else. This was before cell phones. He breezily spoke of how he engaged in pushing her SO HARD into card debt that SHE COULD NOT AFFORD, she was on a payphone reading out her card numbers, simultaneously sobbing and crying her eyes out.

Oh that warms your heart, a fine example of a good time had by all. For this ASHO registrar, this was a memory for him of sheer delight. (Gasp)

I thought it was AWFUL. And—since I was paying attention to who was doing what and which stories were reported in “Celebrity” magazine—I found it curious that it did not appear Jenna Elfman ever did the SHSBC. Like, never.

This exposure to registration (on the flow “Others to Others”) foretold where I would one day end up in my understanding. I could see it then: the registrar cared not at all for Jenna Elfman, or her career or certainly her finances or even if she would do the Briefing Course. He cared for pushing his stat by Thursday at 2:00, realities of a struggling broke actress be damned.

Many of us know how rough it is, this process of piercing your own veil, the one you have been supervised and taught, thread by individual thread, to construct.

Also, please tell Leah that some random Midwestern woman named Gina says, “hi!” I didn’t really know what Scientology was until I read her book. Also, hi Mike! I’m glad you found your freedom, and I’m inspired by the work you do.

I urge you to continue to fight, and know we – average, agnostic, non-religious people everywhere – are with you. You ARE winning and you will achieve your goal.

The truth and a free press are unassailable weapons.

That to me is the underlying scandal of what is really partly a pyramid scheme, that all those who FSM including those minor “celebrities” who don’t label themselves as such but still rely on the commissions, keep the financial scam going as their means of existence.

And those celebs really should be identified as commissioned salespersons when interviewed about Scientology, because that’s actually how they function.

I have noticed a lot of D level, if that, celebrities, being smiley friendly to the more upstat members at FLAG. I’m sure they are making more money on their six month checks, ‘befriending’ and ‘helping’ fellow scientologists, than they are spending.
Seeing their bright white choppers approaching from across the Hibiscus Lounge, should be a warning to he unwary.
If the sailors say, red sky at morning, sailor take warning, then I offer, Celeb’s teeth coming over, white as snow, Grab your wallet and your soul, it’s time to Blow.