I'm flying to Philadelphia today to join Prof. Marci Hamilton to discuss A Billion Years at the University of Pennsylvania. I hope if you are in the area you will join us. The event is free. I will be signing books. And talking with Marci about the book and other things that are important to us. You can register for the event here. … [Read more...]
A Billion Years Event: Scientology is Losing Its Mind
On Wednesday November 30th I am doing an event at the University of Pennsylvania with Professor Marci Hamilton. This is causing great consternation in the hallways of OSA/Stand League. They tweeted about it using my daughter's account and even created a new video where she whines how she just got a "copy and paste" reply to her form-letter complaint to UPenn. Seriously, only scientology could come up with something like this -- a whineTweet for Thanksgiving. I thought Thanksgiving was supposed to be a day when you remember what you are thankful for, not an excuse to circulate the … [Read more...]
The Yingling Factor
As everyone who reads this blog is probably aware, CBS Mornings featured a piece on A Billion Years yesterday morning. If you haven't seen it, you can watch it here. The piece was delayed for some time as scientology went into a full court press to prevent it from airing. They sent Monique Yingling to New York, with a delegation of scientologists and another lawyer to dissuade CBS airing it using the usual threats and false claims. In the end, when they realized they were not going to succeed in spiking the story altogether, Yingling was put forth as the scientology … [Read more...]
Scientology in Panic Mode
My book will be available in less than a month (you can pre-order it here as a hardback or audiobook) and this is obviously causing waves inside the bubble. They are scrambling to try to "do something effective" in response to the rants from Miscavige about how this book is coming and "nobody is defending him." You can always tell what has impact in the bubble by what consumes the OSA bots in their online activities. They mostly concentrate on Leah, but over the last week have ramped up their squawks focused on me. And most of them feature my family members -- brother, children and … [Read more...]
Fair Game Podcast Is Back!
This piece appeared recently, and though not widely picked up, I thought it worthy of noting: In fact, we just recorded a short trailer. Stay tuned, regular Fair Game podcasts will resume later this month, now twice weekly.... … [Read more...]
World Out of Comm/Key to Life
Remember I said in the posting Where Did Super Power Come From? that the plans for the "Humongous Rundown" were replaced by subsequent "next big things," one of which was Key to Life? This is another of the Christi Gordon documents: The World Out of Comm evaluation by Hubbard was issued without a "handling." The "handling" was the Key to Life Course. As you can see from this eval, this was again a solution to STAFF incompetence. If you read the data trail of this eval, you will see what a low regard Hubbard had for people in general and scientology staff members in … [Read more...]
A Billion Years — Day One
Thank you so much for all your kind comments and words of encouragement here and on social media. Many people have asked if there will be an audiobook. I am recording it this week and next and it will be available on 27 Sept too. You can pre-order the Kindle version on Amazon now. And special thanks to everyone who pre-ordered the book yesterday. Before the end of the day it was listed as "#1 Bestseller in Scientology" which is amazing. It's in the same category as Dianetics and Fundamentals of Thought and all the other Hubbard books. The publishers collected … [Read more...]
A Billion Years: My Escape from a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology
I have finally written a book. It was announced in a press release today -- it will be available on 27 September. You can find it at the Simon and Schuster website where there are links to all major retailers to pre-order if you are so inclined. There is also a description of the book and some initial reviews from Leah, Alex Gibney, Lawrence Wright and John Sweeney. It's taken a long time to put together. I hope it doesn't disappoint any of you who have been asking me to write a book. I am about to begin recording the audiobook. The press … [Read more...]
Fair Game Podcast
Leah and I are taking a break from our Fair Game podcast for a very brief time. Until then, there are 80 episodes we recorded so far (FairGamePodcast.com) and all episodes of Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath are available on Netflix if you are yet to see it. We thank you for your continued support and look forward to getting back to you in a few weeks. … [Read more...]
Fair Game Podcast
We are taking off for Spring Break, so no new episode. I am taking the family to New York City for the week. Re-listen to any episodes you may have missed. Or re-listen to those you especially enjoyed. I guarantee you will get more out of them the second time through, there is always information that slides by because there is SO MUCH to learn. I also recommend Jon Atack's podcast (Jon Atack, family and friends) on YouTube. I have some postings pre-prepared, and there will be the usual Thursday Funnies and Regraded Being. … [Read more...]