Many people, myself included, have wondered how to access episodes of Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath. A reader provided a link to an archive which contains all the episodes: https://archive.org/details/leahreminiscientologyandtheaftermath/Leah+Remini+-+Scientology+and+the+Aftermath/S01E01+-+Disconnection+(1080p).mkv I am posting this here so everyone can find these. … [Read more...]
Columbus Expanded “Manifold” Times
Another example of scientology shooting itself in the foot with their own statistics. This org Org is manned primarily with Sea Org members— Kathleen Olsen was one of those shipped off to this org that the Aftermath Foundation helped to escape. Columbus became “ideal” 4 years ago. Apparently what they are most proud of (perhaps more accurately, the least embarrassing thing they can point to) is selling 11,000 books and getting “over 700” people onto their first service. Not a word about the real stats that are supposed to measure the success of an org: how many Clears and Class V audi … [Read more...]
Some Scientology Stats from Inside the Bubble
Some information recently leaked from inside the bubble about what the clubbed seals are telling themselves to feel good. They are now adding up the CUMULATIVE statistics of all "ideal orgs" in the US "since they became ideal." I am not going to go through the exercise of trying to add up how many weeks of cumulative statistics this is -- just Buffalo, NY and SFO between them are 20 years x 52 weeks x 3 orgs = 312o weeks. There are, according to the scientology.org website 33 "ideal orgs" in the US, the last of which (Ventura) opened in Feb 2020. So, all of them have been opened between … [Read more...]
The Scientology Way: Overpromise and Underdeliver
Hubbard wrote about the "Conditions of Exchange" and scientology uses this as their bible, operating at "Condition 1" -- "A group which takes in money but does not deliver anything in exchange. This is called rip-off. It is the exchange condition of robbers, tax men, governments and other criminal elements." This is today the hallmark of scientology. Taking money and delivering nothing. The latest promises concern the "National Church of Scientology for Australia." Canberra is a small city. Nobody ever goes there unless they have government business. Everything that happens in … [Read more...]
More Ideal Org Fail
This promotional item reminded me of something about the promise of the "ideal org" program... Miscavige heavily promoted that these orgs would generate new Missions, Narconons, WISE and Dianetics Groups, WTH chapters etc etc in their zones and that this would result in massive international expansion as those mission would then turn into orgs and the pattern would be repeated. He even had a graphic made to illustrate this, with a caption that reads: "The answer to planetary clearing is to make each one of our orgs a Central Organization, responsible for every sector … [Read more...]
Salt Lake City Ideal Org is Dead — Just Like The Rest of Them
A couple of contributors took a trip to Salt Lake City and decided to swing by the ideal morgue there. Here is their report: It's a nice large building with reasonable landscaping. Compared to San Francisco, Portland, Sacramento, and Seattle, which all look empty, this one hides its emptiness nicely with solid brick walls. As far as location, in a town with monolithic Mormon temples of worship and large Lutheran cathedrals, this looks like a dental complex, or some non-religious building. But it does look good. There were a few cars in the lot during a prime time for s … [Read more...]
“OT IX and X are closer than you think” – David Miscavige April 1993
Captain Miscavige made this announcement more than 30 years ago. Had you surveyed anyone who attended this monumental/epic/watershed event, what does "closer than you think" mean, I guarantee not one of them would have said anything beyond 5 years. Most would have responded with 1 or 2 years at most. This once fresh, then moldy and now petrified carrot continues to be dangled in front of the faithful donkeys -- though talk of it has been replaced in the main with self-congratulatory hype about "ideal orgs." According to this promotional piece, Captain Miscavige (this was back when he … [Read more...]
What Do Your Ideal Org Donations Buy?
The obvious answer of course is "empty buildings," but I found the background of this shot interesting. These days, buying statuses in the IAS and "Ideal Org Program" has become the new "thing" - status in scientology used to be measured by OT level gained and before that by auditor training level. There has always been a heavy emphasis on attaining perceived superiority since the first days of Dianetics. These days status in scientology is attained through money, not training and auditing. The goofiness of stuff that passes for status in scientology is sometimes hard to fathom -- the … [Read more...]
Stratospheric Expansion
This letter was recently received by one of our readers in Australia. They have entered the stratosphere and are building a whole new world of stability and command over the environment using the most powerful tech in the Universe. No hype here at all... Apparently they have "come up through" the Golden Age of Knowledge, the Golden Age of Tech II and the Ideal Org Strategy? Those things didnt "do it" but it is going to happen now. Not sure how they came "through" the Ideal Org Strategy when there are still 3 orgs that are NOT ideal and Sydney, Melbourne and Perth are ideal … [Read more...]
Orange County “Ideal” Org
I recently mentioned the Orange County "ideal" Org on one of the live Q$A's. I erroneously said it was in downtown Anaheim, it is in fact in downtown Santa Ana. A viewer reached out to provide some information about the current state of this org and what happened subsequent to the great ribbon yanking that occurred 10+ years ago (with all sorts of promises as to how this new building was going to usher in a "new era" for scientology in the area and the dawn of a new civilization in Orange County. Here is the report: As of 2 years ago, I heard that they were down to about 25 staff total … [Read more...]