Last week I posed a question -- why doesn't scientology use some of its billions to incentivize becoming an auditor in pursuit of clearing the planet . One of our eagle-eyed readers was prompted to pose the question -- how about making the books and lectures cheaper and more accessible? Hubbard tells his followers that for every 35 books in the hands of the public it will make one scientologist. In today's world -- ALL his books and all the lectures could be put on digital media for a few dollars. They are willing to do it with Hubbards fiction as you can see below. The technology … [Read more...]
How To Sell Dianetics
Someone recently sent me this write up giving the details on how to try to sell Dianetics on the street. It including reference to the "No answer" drill from STCC (Success Through Communication Course). Of course, there is little in scientology that is straightforward when it comes to trying to interest new people. In today's Google world, it's virtually impossible. But this is all taken from references that predate the birth of the internet, it has always been this way in "disseminating." As this drill is something that has been discussed quite a lot (it being the "acceptable" version … [Read more...]
How Many Scientology Missions Are There?
We have some interesting information from the Pubs Sector about Mission booksales, and by extrapolation about the Mission network itself. More substantiation of the non-existent "massive international boom." Sorry about the formatting, they sent this out as a password encoded document and I could not figure out how to get it copied over in its original format, so this is a just the text. There are two columns, all the way down the left is "Materials Sales" (Gross Booksales in dollars) and the right column is "Raw booksales." Many missions appear here more than once, someone with more … [Read more...]