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Reforming Scientology?

March 25, 2021 By Mike Rinder 39 Comments

Leah recently reminded me of this wonderful website, and in particular, this article by my old friend Jeff Hawkins. Jeff is one of the kindest, smartest and most decent people I know. When Miscavige blew him off, he lost one of the only real marketing geniuses in scientology. Jeff was responsible for the single successful marketing campaign in scientology -- returning Dianetics to the top of the NY Times bestseller list in the 80's. He is a wonderful writer -- I highly recommend his book Counterfeit Dreams -- and a thoughtful analyst of the world of scientology. I am taking the liberty … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Special Feature Tagged With: confessional, confidential, counterintention, David Miscavige, dehumanization, enemies, government, jeff hawkins, media, OSA, press, psychiatry, psychs, public relations, Scientology, scientology 101, sec check, secrecy, SP, statistics, wog

Scientology Violates Priest-Penitent Confidences — When It Suits Them

February 26, 2019 By Mike Rinder 101 Comments

  This comes from another of the entirely inappropriately titled scientology internet fronts, the "Truth Newsroom". This thing, with no names or identities associated, not even the word scientology - is clearly an OSA operation. They send out a constant stream of material taken from former Sea Org members' files. They put one out from one of my confessions that I felt bad about lying as if this was some sort of proof that I was lying today -- it made no sense as I said this when I was still the International Spokesperson for scientology and I continued to be that. But the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Public Relations, Scientology Tagged With: jeff hawkins, L. Ron Hubbard, Laura DeCrescenzo, Mike Rinder, OSA, pc folders, Priest-penitent, public relations, Truth Newsroom

Scientology — The Art of Cognitive Dissonance

November 21, 2013 By Mike Rinder 93 Comments

Somewhat random thoughts after returning from an out-of-town trip. Cognitive dissonance has reached an art form within the walls of the RCS bubble.  Cognitive dissonance is described this way: Mental conflict that occurs when beliefs or assumptions are contradicted by new information. The concept was introduced by the psychologist Leon Festinger (1919–89) in the late 1950s. He and later researchers showed that, when confronted with challenging new information, most people seek to preserve their current understanding of the world by rejecting, explaining away, or avoiding the new information … [Read more...]

Filed Under: David Miscavige, L Ron Hubbard Tagged With: Church of Scientology, Corporate Scientology, David Miscagive, Disconnection, ED Int, fundraising, golden age of tech II, Heber Jentzsch, Ideal Orgs, jeff hawkins, Senior CS Int, shelly miscavige, Tony Ortega

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Troublemaker - Leah Remini
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Going Clear - Lawrence Wright
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Counterfeit Dreams - Jeff Hawkins
Blown For Good - Marc Headley
Abuse at the Top - Amy Scobee
Unbreakable Miss Lovely - Tony Ortega
The Church of Fear - John Sweeney
Fair Game - Steve Cannane
Inside Scientology - Janet Reitman
A Piece of Blue Sky - Jon Atack
Beyond Belief - Jenna Miscavige
My Billion Year Contract
Escaping Scientology - Karen Schless
Commodore's Messenger - Janis Grady
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Thank you so much @azhlynne for your continued efforts to expose the lies told by the #psychoterrorcult that is #scientology. My daughter is being used as a tool of Fair Game -- which is the real violation of human rights. A brainwashed slave putting out Korean POW style videos.

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1. Longtime Scientologist Nancy Cartwright (voice of Bart Simpson) slamming "Going Clear," gives you some insight into Scientology talking points and how people like her remain trapped in Scientology.

Cartwright has donated over 20 million dollars to Scientology.

Yes, twenty.

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