After years of promises, now we know: in 6 weeks Pasadena IS going to be "SH Size". Remember when they had the Sea Org Mission "making them SH Size"? It was about 6 months ago. Fizzled. Remember when they opened the "Ideal Org" in 2010. Nothing. Even with their "ideal org" 6 years later they are still not SH Size. How can that be? L.Ron Hubbard said in the original birthday game that announced "SH Size" as a target that it only took a matter of weeks to accomplish. That they just wanted a big booming org and they got one. In 2003 Miscavige said the "why" for orgs not making it to SH … [Read more...]
A New Civilization Built of Empty Buildings
Really? This is the best they have? OT Ambassadors from "61 org fields" did not even fill the ballroom of the Ft Harrison. 61 org fields is more than half all the orgs on earth. And this is THE big deal in scientology, more important than anything else with more time and effort and force devoted to it than any program in the history of scientology. I would estimate there are about 125 people in this photo -- they either didn't have 250 people there or they couldn't persuade them to be in a photoshoot. More likely the former as they routinely exaggerate everything even when there is a … [Read more...]
Height of Hypocrisy?
Wonder how Lori Hodgson, Cindy Plahuta, Mary Kahn, Sara Goldberg, Lois Reisdorf and so many others feel about how scientology "honors" mothers. Scientology presents itself as champions of the family. Masters of communication and relationships. They proclaim communication is the "universal solvent." Yet there are repeated examples of scientology tearing families apart. Forbidding communication. And destroying relationships and lives. The control mechanism of disconnection can no longer be brushed under the carpet as the church has tried to do for decades. Pretending it is an "individual … [Read more...]
COB Has Spoke: Pasadena Is Bestest
Dear Leader has, according to the Pasadena OT Committee, deemed Pasadena: "has the most upstat staff, the most upstat OTC members, the most upstat public, in the most upstat area on the planet" I suspect no other orgs have been informed of this. If this is to "show it can be done for the rest of the world!" you would imagine that a more typical org would be chosen... Not the richest (and most arrogant). He has already proven how it can(not) be done in LA Org. Why another one so close? Why not Denver? Or Malmo? Or even London or Rome? But he has a little secret Kevin -- … [Read more...]
The Biggest News Since The Last News
Pasadena and Inglewood have been avoiding the heat. All the attention and effort has been on LA Org and Valley (apparently Orange County doesn't qualify for anything....) So it's being turned up. Suddenly, out of the blue, they are going to be "St Hill Size." Anyone want to bet that the plan is to send Sea Org teams into these orgs? I don't have the report from the briefings over the weekend yet, but this is the "pilot" that was done in LA Org. I can imagine Miscavige railing about the "useless, unutilized Sea Org members" at Int and at the HGB and in CLO WUS and so they are going to be … [Read more...]
Panic in Pasadena
Various reports have come in about the scene in Pasadena Org. Apparently, they have been being "shamed" by the "production" at LA Org with their massive bodyrouting effort fail (I guess they didnt read the recent post about this). But this is not a new "management" tactic in scientology. In fact, it is pretty much par for the course. Make every org believe that others orgs are doing well and they are the only ones failing. According to the reports there are about 25 Sea Org members hovering around the Pasadena org to "inspire" staff to get things going. They are passionate to get "the … [Read more...]
Scientology Fundraising Techniques Part 3
More of the church documents that describe how they go about parting the pocketbooks from their parishioners. (Part 1 here, Part 2 here) This one is from Craig Jensen and it describes in detail the lengths to which these events go to squeeze every last dollar they can out of the attendees.... Nothing really new here, but Jensen manipulating the crowd by doling out his $100,000 ("strategically") at various times to goad others into giving money is a "shame game" that is pretty repulsive. Reading this is like reading a write up produced by Reed Slatkin or some scam artist that sells … [Read more...]
Some OTC Minutes
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. Carl Sagan This seems to be an appropriate quote to sum up the state of these "OT Ambassadors." While many OT Committees now send out their "minutes" hard copy to try and avoid them falling into the hands of the … [Read more...]
Pasadena Panic Stations
Rona has her knickers in a twist because the NUMBER ONE ORG IN THE WORLD HAD 2 PURIF/SRD STARTS IN ONE DAY, and they, the mighty ideal org of Pasadena had zero. The astonishing fact that TWO STARTS in a day puts you on top of the world of Scientology seems completely lost on Rona (or anyone else inside the bubble for that matter). To justify these ridiculous buildings they are in they should have 10 starts every day. at that order of magnitude they MIGHT make 50 Clears a week if they did EVERYTHING right. Even then its only 2500 Clears a year.... And that would possibly make them viable. … [Read more...]
The OTC Security Hammer Is Dropping
Apparently hushmail didnt solve the problem, so now they have a new message right at the top of the OTC minutes: Note: The minutes are for the sole use of Valley OTC members. All members receive a copy. Please do not forward the minutes to anyone else for any reason. Apparently there are all sorts of measures being taken to try to stem the flow of information outside the bubble. One might ask why that is of such concern. Of course it is merely information they WANT to impart to the "OTC members" -- if it is true, how could it be so damaging? But that is like asking why if you are opening a … [Read more...]