Good idea, indeed.

Thanks. I agree that there must have been a big change in the financial system.
If Mike doesn’t mind I’ll post a call for whistleblowers now and then – perhaps add some detailed requests for numbers of public/staff, Financial Planning, photos, etc.

I think this is also a great point. These are things I’ve wondered about myself. During the COVID lockdown, organizations and the field almost stopped sending fees and supporting the various levels of the Sea Organization.
Through a cousin (Clocstaff) of a friend, I had heard that pay had even increased and they had no problems. How strange. Now, if it were true (I repeate: were), then it means they have drastically changed the financial system.
And that would also make sense. The financial system, at least up until less than 20 years ago, was based on flows from the bottom up as established by hubbard in his concept of expansion.
DM with the IAS and Ideal Orgs has transformed the field of all orgs into devastating open-pit mines whose sole function was to collect money for the Sea Org reserves, letting 4 peanuts to the orgs.
The concept of expansion as we understood it has been eliminated. So it’s possible to assume that the CLO and mid-level management supporting this new strategy receive commissions or bonuses from the money collected or something similar like being part of a whole a FP (financial planning) supported by above. Twenty years ago, it was already a miracle to have a weekly pay of 50 dkr and pay basics, imagine now.

Yes a whisterblower with some update about it, it’s needed.

https://apnews.com/hub/homelessness The number of homeless people has reached record figures, perhaps not even in India is there such degradation. If you look at California and Los Angeles County which are among the richest regions and provinces on the globe… you have to wonder a lot.Not to mention the rest, public debt, or inflation, consider that for example at the stadium in New York a hamburger costs 30 dollars.The homeland of Scientology… what example can it give to the world?

Just today “International Management” (Carol Nolan) put on a fundraiser in Sunderland, UK. That “org” has 3 part time staffmembers and a field of perhaps 30 of which 7 actually showed up for the event. (Alex and Daniele covered this with a live stream). It’s crazy!

What I can’t get into my head is how these posh buildings are being maintained? It costs money to pay just the basics like electricity, water etc. Malmo never had a flourishing field. Even if they still have 30 staff now these people need to live, eat and sleep somewhere which costs money. So they will have to take another paying job as the org simply does not make enough income. And as soon as their staff contract is up they will quit for good. And perhaps there is one or the other mini-whale amongst their public who they can turn to when it comes to having to pay the monthly electricity bill.

Let’s take the Sea Org in Copenhagen. There is the AOSHEU building and I believe they recently renovated the berthing place for their staff which is within walking distance.
Then there is the CLOEU. They are now outside of Copenhagen and they too have a new berthing also outside the city – and they have their own bus to and from work. Then there’s New Era also outside the city. Probably they share the berthing with CLO staff. Looking at the pictures of New Era shows a huge manufacturing site. But who finances that operation? Yes, books, CDs, EMeters and videos are being sold but certainly not in any way shape or form of a volume necessary to make enough income to cover building maintenance, uniforms, staff food, staff pay. So what is paying for all this each month?

Add to that also the fact that Hubbard’s admin technology has proven to never have worked.

I guess what I am trying to say is that if one or the other reader of this blog is currently in and has access to this kind of information, please consider becoming a whistleblower. Download the Tor browser. Then go to http://mail2tor.com/ and create an anonymous email account.

This is an interesting point and it’s spot on. What you’re saying was true as I was there at the CLO EU. It’s like they were “rewarding low statistics.” Malmo, if it currently has maybe almost 30 staff (but I don’t think so), it’s a miracle. Basel was a media org. While Zurich and Munich are larger and much more productive. Just think of the nonsense of combining DKDay and Foundation and Cop org and making an “ideal org” before other European orgs with more staff and production. The purpose is therefore another one, certainly not expansion.
Expansion by now is an old fairy tale.

It’s a horrendously difficult sales job selling Scientology today.

From 1975 til now, my 27 years in Scientology were 75 to 2003, and then being on the chat sites, listening to all the holes in history others have lived and told, the whole Scientology experience only really expanded in my mind, after leaving and learning all the travails others were living.

It’s an immense amount of history, all tumbling all over the place, due to who lived what, and what they say about it.

Scientology means such an immense amount of details to everyone caught up with it all the variety of ways they have been.

Biggest stumbling blocks, to me, my latest hindsights:

a) Hubbard didn’t and long term failed, to provide a short concise descriptive/explanative definition of Scientology, and ensure the followers referred constantly to that short concise descriptive/explanative definition of the core of what Scientology practices are.

(ANSWER to me, the first Hubbard negligent flaw he caused and which persists to this day, is to say simply Scientology is training and practicing the Hubbard “auditing” to alleviate our soul memories “case(s)” which when we alleviate our “cases” we improve in life.)

Scientology simply is “auditing” which one has to rise up to being able to “audit” oneself (and “audit” or exorcise/soul-free one’s body-thetans which infest each of us).

b) Every other detail of Scientology is a stumbling block: 1) the whole paper-pushing administrative multi-echelon role playing jobs “keeping the show on the road” are just massive dodges off “What Is Scientology” and have become to the public’s mind the false idea answer of the question What Is Scientology?” (But Scientology still really is the Hubbard “auditing” and the exorcism/soul-freeing, which is forever to this day, not emphasized.).

c) Jeff Hawkins’ book lists out methodically the Scientology staff member series of stumbling blocks, but none are the obvious stumbling block of Scientologists not becoming “auditors” who really can do the Hubbard “auditing” and exorcism/soul-freeing (becoming a Class 9 “auditor” to do the exorcism/soul-freeing on another person).

d) I concluded this is Hubbard’s fault, he was supposed to emphasize the “what is Scientology” core of Scientology, and not have everyone caught up in the secondary Hubbardisms administrative and “life” teachings which are all like “introductory” teachings (which have been forever proven to been other people’s ideas Hubbard repackaged and issued as Scientology teachings).

e) Hubbard made Scientology the mess it is, and all problems and stumbling blocks trace to him. He’s source of his own subject’s deepest flaws, period.

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If Hubbard wished to alleviate people’s “cases” then he’d not have built official Scientology into the empire it is.

He’d have simplified things. “Auditors Day” ought to be the biggest event in the movement’s calendar of events.

How else can a subject which professes to alleviate humanity’s travails using “auditing” and the Hubbard exorcism/soul-freeing, how can this subject fix earth unless by the core practice?

That’s the biggest ‘why’ (reason to address and fix this reason for the problems of the movement).

Hubbard’s own failures are the albatross on any Scientology “managers” shoulders, which can never be overcome.

The only option is to become a “squirrel” and become a solitary “field auditor” who just studies and practices on their own, and maybe interacts with other “field auditors” doing the same.

Because past lives, and because bodiless invisible souls, both aren’t common beliefs taken scientifically seriously, much of the Hubbard “auditing” cannot be taken seriously scientifically.

Ultimately, to me, the biggest stumbling block to Scientology are the beliefs in past lives and the beliefs in the existence of the invisible souls which supposedly infest our human bodies unbeknownst to us which using the Hubbard exorcism procedures of OT 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, we are supposedly to discover and free these invisible souls to our betterment.

The soul theories and beliefs of Scientology undermine the core practice of Scientology, the “auditing” practices are squarely based on us supposedly having past lives trauma to dig into and find and alleviate; plus then on upper Scientology we are to discover our own personal infestations of invisible souls and use the Hubbard exorcism procedures to free these souls off our human body, to our betterment.

That’s the biggest final stumbling block of Scientology, the Hubbard soul beliefs and theories.