Francis,
Thanks for the kind words. I can relate to finding the
comments of others to be cathartic. There are many
commenters on this blog, as well as the host himself, who make me laugh and/or move me to tears…
I briefly posted a blog online, then scrapped it.
Being on staff was the final straw in my cult experience…

Mark, I find your comments freaking hilarious and cathartic. If think I saw your exit story online some time ago. Is it still out there somewhere?

I agree 100% with Anonymous. So glad for you and your family, Natalie!

Natalie —

Your story is heartbreaking yet has such a wonderful ending. I’m so very happy you were able to save your family when you left.

I was never in $cientology but after reading/researching online and reading Mike’s blog & Tony Ortega’s blog for the last several years, I’m still so moved when people tell their stories about what they went through.

I do my best to make people aware of what a vile organization $cientology is — i.e friends and family. I’ve written letters to heads of local and state government, the FBI, the IRS, etc.

I’ll continue to do these things because $cientology must come to an end so people can reconnect with their family and friends. And if Miscavage ends up in prison, that will be the ultimate bonus.

Again, thanks for telling your story. Sending hugs your way.

I”ll try to describe her. She is public and a trained auditor and was auditing on OT VII when I last saw her. I’m not completely sure but she may have done an auditor internship. We met at ASHO originally and then again at Flag. She was nice looking, had dark hair maybe in a pageboy, was slender, not fat and was active in twin cities. She got a divorce back i 2000’s and is probably remarried now. Seemed to be big on the OT Committee there.

That is very sweet of you Cindy. I’m blogging at the moment, who knows what that might turn into. 😁

It did get some press, but Scientology was on top of doing their thing to manage the flap. Apparently all involved parties were interviewed and released. No one should have been robbing anyone, but no weapon found and the man is found by police unresponsive and not breathing?

I think it was a staff member that was being robbed. Not sure if they were Sea Org or not.

Cindy describe the girl you knew from the Twin Cities. I bet I can figure it out. 😁

Yes indeed! They raised my sister and I. I guess the plus side to having our mom marry twice into the same family, is we didn’t have to break in a whole new set of relatives. 😂

My cousin was forced to disconnect from me a few times. If she didn’t, her ex-husband who is a very active Scientologist in Orange County, threatened to not pay for their daughter’s college.

Can you imagine a father threatening to take away support from his child, solely to control who his ex-wife speaks to? Bizarre to say the least. Also, one of the many reasons why Scientology is called a cult.

My cousin wasn’t and isn’t active in Scientology. Hasn’t been for years. Yet, she was still forced to disconnect, or her daughter lost the financial support of her Scientologist father.

My sister Lana went back to Hawaii for Brian’s funeral. He was our first stepdad, who got our mom into Scientology, What little stability we had as kids, was because of Brian.

It had been years since he had anything to do with Scientology. We would see him often when we returned home to Hawaii, over the years. It was quite the loss when he passed. He was an incredible artist and one of the funniest people I’ve known.

For my sister Lana, he was the only father she knew.

Lana was NOT allowed to attend his service at the Hawaii Org. She had to wait in the parking lot, while our aunts (Brian’s sisters) went in and attended the service. His family’s connection to Scientology was the only reason he had a service there. He had told my sister before he passed that they weren’t his group.

Lana quietly left Scientology in the early 90s. But, because she is my sister, she was denied access to the funeral of the man she loved as her dad.

I didn’t go back for his funeral, because I knew what a shit show it would be if I did. Even I didn’t think they would keep Lana out of the building, especially given her very close relationship with Brian, but they did.

It’s difficult for me to identify as strong. For me, it feels more like I’ve come to realize I’m carrying around secrets that shouldn’t be secrets, and that is exhausting. I’m done doing that. I’m unpacking my heavy backpack of bricks, one secret at a time.

I’m blogging about, which is helping me work through the emotions I didn’t left myself feel

Thanks, Aqua!

Thanks Natalie. My core intentions before I joined the cult are still there. Now I’m free to follow through on them. You can hear it in some of the lyrics on my bands new album.

Apple tunes-
The Return of People! by PEOPLE
https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-return-of-people/1599937860

Spotify-
https://open.spotify.com/album/7AhugLBndua0IDal9uJJhq?si=aulj3_LQTLK7PuamI8xclw