Scientology is making headlines in a new article the New Have Independent. They have owned the "new" ideal org for 20 years -- yes TWENTY and have done NOTHING with it. It was one of the early announcement that Miscavige made, touting his "ideal org" program, and even had a "fly-through" CGI video showing what the renovated building would "soon" look like. This and the Battle Creek Michigan "ideal" building are probably the two oldest unrenovated ideal orgs (unless you count Toronto which has been there since before the ideal org kick even started). The locals are not impressed. Here … [Read more...]
The Death of Shermanspeak
The passing of Dan Sherman shortly before we left for vacation marked the end of an era in scientology. Dan Sherman was an interesting character. He fancied himself a spy novelist, and took on the role of real life "agent" to establish a line with Gerry Armstrong when he was engaged in litigation with scientology. Sherman convinced Armstrong that he was in contact with "loyalists" who disagreed with the "new regime" of Miscavige and were working inside to overthrow Miscavige and the "new breed of management." Sherman was known as "Sheepskin" and he set up the meeting with Armstrong for me … [Read more...]
March 13th — Save the Dates (sic)
Word on the street is that there is going to be an "amazing" event for March 13th... Supposedly the "first international event" since Covid. But this amazing event doesn't have a date yet -- which seems a bit odd. No doubt, Miscavige is going to do deliver a Shermanspeak hype-fest in the Flag Auditorium like he did at New Years and this will then be sent out to scientology orgs around the world to replay. The March 13th event used to be held at Ruth Eckerd Hall every year. But it's not going to be this year. Why not? Two reasons: First, Miscavige, as I predicted, … [Read more...]
Captain David Miscavige Is Served
Everyone with an interest in this is probably already aware of the fact of the court order issued yesterday in the Baxter/Paris human trafficking lawsuit in Tampa. You can read the full order from Magistrate Judge Julie S. Sneed here: Order declaring Miscavige served I wanted to have this document recorded here at my blog even though this is not new news and Aaron Smith-Levin put it on his YouTube channel and Tony Ortega put it up on his substack yesterday. I have a few comments about this and some excerpts from the ruling that I feel are worthy of note. First, this was a fairly … [Read more...]
San Francisco Ideal Org Failing – What a Shock!
A recent promotional item from San Francisco tells the real story of this, one of the first "ideal orgs." They are oddly proud of the fact that "just since reopening these services in September" they have completed "40 students and preclears on their next Bridge steps." They are celebrating this as an "outstanding year of Bridge progress." That is 40 completions in 5 MONTHS. 20 WEEKS. That translates into 2 courses or auditing steps a week. TWO. This is not even the level of production expected of a part-time mission. Let alone an org. Let alone an “ideal” org that should have … [Read more...]
The David Miscavige Film Festival
Oh, what could be more fun than a David Miscavige Film Festival? Sitting for hours (punctuated by the obligatory standing ovations to prevent dozing off) watching Mr. Mickiewicz spout Shermanspeak proclaiming the great accomplishments of scientology taking over the world. I can imagine those who show up (perhaps because they are doing lower conditions?) feel this vibe: Back in the "good old days" of scientology this would have been "L. Ron Hubbard tape plays" or perhaps showings of the Hitchman Interview and Clearing Congress Films. These are the only visual presentations … [Read more...]
Chicago Ideal Org Grand Opening on Feb 11?
We have seen in the Thursday Funnies a lot of mentions of Chicago's "Don't Miss" event on 11 February. Someone just sent me this video, obviously produced by SuMP. Methinks this is an awful lot of effort for a "local" event. Add to that the fact that they are not announcing WHERE this event is going to be held... "Venue TBD" These things would indicate Mr. Mickiewicz is planning on yanking his ribbon in Chicago on Feb 11. They are promoting it like crazy, but cannot say it is "the Grand Opening" because he doesn't want the outside world to know. Like the New Year's Event … [Read more...]
More Scientology Desperate “PR”
The desperation is oozing out of the bubble as scientology becomes more frantic trying to salvage their dismal PR in the eyes of the world. Because they don't actually DO anything good that is newsworthy, they resort to sending out paid press releases to try to get some coverage. Within the bubble, they blame the lack of media coverage on the "Chaos Merchants" run by SPs -- of course they are not going to cover the good works of scientology! They are blind to two obvious contradictions -- you can find plenty of stories by those same chaos merchants about the Red Cross or Salvation Army or … [Read more...]
The Scientology Celebrity Centre “Network” is Rapidly Disappearing
Aaron Smith-Levin did a video about the recent closure of the "Celebrity Centre Munich" and the abandoned St. Pete "Life Improvement Center" opened by the Tampa "Ideal Org." As every good scientologist knows, it is a High Crime in scientology to close or combine orgs. Since David Miscavige has taken over scientology, there have been many other closures and "combinings" -- including St Hill Foundation, specifically started by Ron himself with a lot of policy written by him about why "Foundation" (night and weekend) orgs were needed. Because Aaron … [Read more...]
Mr. Mickiewicz
I asked on our Three Amigos livestream last Monday for a shoop of Mr. M with a Mickey Mouse ears hat. If you haven't tuned in yet, Aaron Smith-Levin, Marc Headley and I do a live show on Monday's at 7pm starting on Aaron's "Growing Up in Scientology" YouTube channel and then moving over to Marc's "Blown For Good" channel where we riff on whatever topic has our interest and also answer viewer questions they send in live. Unfortunately, we will not be doing one this Monday as we are celebrating Christie's birthday, might do it on Tuesday... stay tuned for announ Here are some of the … [Read more...]