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This is the Freewinds — It’s Always About the Money

July 15, 2020 By Mike Rinder 42 Comments

What the Freewinds has been reduced to... Hawking virtual seminars with AMAZING (all caps) "new speakers". Though there is not a single new speaker among them? And of course, they are all offering "business" expansion seminars -- they disguise their "learn how to make money" pitches as "expansion." Some talk about "prosperity" and one even explains that you can become the "Master of All Universes." Everything these guys is selling is designed to make it possible for you to pay for scientology. It's expensive. Especially when you get to the highest levels. People need hundreds of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Freewinds Tagged With: Emmet Osborn, Freewinds, Greg Winteregg, Michael Boyd, Ollie Rodriguez, Patrick Valtin, Rafferty Pendery

Let’s Go Virtual OT!

July 6, 2020 By Mike Rinder 47 Comments

The question you have to ask after reading this breathless promo -- why would anyone pay to go to the Freewinds when you can apparently "Go OT" virtually? The second question -- is there any difference between an OT and a virtual OT? Aren't all OT's "virtual" anyway as the state is entirely subjective -- nobody has ever objectively proven that an OT exists. Hubbard's explanation for that was "we don't do parlor tricks." The only time anyone supposedly set out to verify any OT abilities was Ingo Swann and Hal Puthoff trying to turn it into an intelligence tool for the CIA. Nothing ever came … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Freewinds Tagged With: Andrea D'Agostini, Barbara Russell, Bernard Bonner, Emmett Osborn, Freewinds, Hana-li Pendery, Manuela Suarez, Ollie Rodriguez, Rafferty Pendery, virtual OT

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