I was recently in New York, literally across the street from St Patrick's Cathedral. With 15 minutes to spare, I stopped in for a quick visit in the middle of a weekday afternoon. Literally hundreds of people were sitting on the front steps enjoying the sunshine and doing who knows what. Inside there were probably 500 - 1000 people either sitting in the pews or walking around looking at the architecture, taking photos and shooting videos. They did a cursory purse inspection for women with bags (or men with backpacks) at the door, otherwise access was unfettered and uninhibited. Nobody … [Read more...]
The Way To Happiness — Really?
Next in the ongoing series of essays by Terra Cognita. See earlier posts here: A Story, Auditing: a PC's Quest for the Holy Grail, The Knowledge Report, Integrity, The Almighty Stat, The Reg, The Horrors of Wordclearing, Why Scientologists Don't FSM, Respect, The Survival Rundown - The Latest Scam, Communication in Scientology... Or Not, Am I Still A Thetan?, To Be Or Not To Be, An Evaluation of Scientology, Fear: That Which Drives Scientology and Justification and Rationalization. The Way to Happiness – Really? Ron Hubbard compiled twenty-one precepts into a book called The Way to Happ … [Read more...]
Dealing With SP’s
Every scientologist has done the PTS/SP Course. Most good scientologists have done the course more than once and have been sent to retread it when they are deemed to have become "PTS" again -- in itself pretty good evidence the course does not work. But then again, this is one of the most often used explanations as to why the "tech didn't work" -- "you cannot make/lose your gains if you are PTS." And even though the graduate of this course has "mastered the tech" of how to handle suppression and SPs, they do not then get to choose who they may or may not be connected to -- they are told by … [Read more...]
More Ideal Fail: Phoenix…
This is the state of the Phoenix "ideal" org. The have put out a "Big announcement." Might even be epic. Milestone. Unprecedented. TWO people "graduated" something this week. Likely they finished reading a book. Yes, TWO. And it is such big news they sent out a promotional piece for it. Now THAT'S massive international, straight up and vertical, 63X expansion. ...and Twin Cities Just in case anyone still had doubts that perhaps Phoenix was just out of step with the rest of the straight up and vertical ideal org expansion, there is this from Twin … [Read more...]
A Story
Next in the ongoing series of essays by Terra Cognita. See earlier posts here: Auditing: a PC's Quest for the Holy Grail, The Knowledge Report, Integrity, The Almighty Stat, The Reg, The Horrors of Wordclearing, Why Scientologists Don't FSM, Respect, The Survival Rundown - The Latest Scam, Communication in Scientology... Or Not, Am I Still A Thetan?, To Be Or Not To Be, An Evaluation of Scientology, Fear: That Which Drives Scientology and Justification and Rationalization. Once Upon a Time Once upon a time there was a Treasury Secretary in a Class 5 Org located somewhere in the United S … [Read more...]
AOSHANZO
Big news. AOSHANZO opens tomorrow. There will be A "Special guest speaker" - why they are afraid to say his name is anyone's guess. Nobody is supposed to know he is there? Any enterprising media in Australia will know Miscavige is in town and even what hotel he is staying at. And there ARE some enterprising media in Australia who would love to ask Mr. Miscavige a few questions. But the best news of all is that this will be an opening "unlike any other!" Hah. And if you believe that I have a bridge I would like to sell you that spans Sydney Harbor. This event will be EXACTLY like all the … [Read more...]
Thursday Funnies
It's not a Freewinds event - so there is no $30 fee OMG... Battlefield Earth NOT a NY Times bestseller again... Remember when they announced it? But it has NOT appeared on any bestseller list this year. A Verbal Tech Party? Back in the day, nobody would have DARED write something like this. Labor for Valley Just a few more years of blood, sweat and tears to go before they have a larger, emptier building like all the others... Survey Data Someone filled this in... Honestly. The International OT Boom Between AOSHUK … [Read more...]
Scientology Fail: More Proof
Another of our Special Correspondents was inspired to send in a report about the state of St Louis org. This is of course home of the mighty "101st Airborne" fundraisers (cringe) and part of the first "ideal continent" (because the main part of the city is West of the Mississippi and so arbitrarily is part of the "WUS continent" of the scientology world). This article appeared almost exactly 6 years ago. And that was already 6 years in to the "ideal org" ponzi scheme as the single most important thing all scientologists were supposed to be working on. You can see a shot of the article … [Read more...]
Thursday Funnies
Has Jeanie lost her mind? She is going to deliver the Class 8 course in Cincinnati? Never mind the fact there is no Class VI course which is a prerequisite to Class VIII. Confirm your attendance in the UK We are not telling you the date, but confirm anyway. It's vital. And this will be EPIC. My thoughts exactly Josie Morgan... Good News We need more money from you. Half Humanitarianships... Should appeal to the Scots. But these numbers make absolutely NO sense. Are … [Read more...]
Scientology and North Korea
On a number of previous occasions I have commented on the parallels between the scientology world and North Korea. From empty showcase buildings to the unwarranted adulation of their current leader Kim Jong-un to the bizarre stories of the life and accomplishments of the Godlike founder of the DPRK, Kim Il-sung. But this BBC News story came across my newsfeed and once again the similarities were eery. A prominent North Korean diplomat defected. The response reads like the things scientology puts out about me and anyone else who has escaped from its bubble. He was of co … [Read more...]