Robert Springall still going…
I did the EPF with Robert in the UK in 1973! A very nice guy. Say to see he is still there.
May be one of the only true ads — he has been around for almost the entire history of the OT levels!
They’re busing them in from Sydney…
That is a 3.5 hour bus trip one way.
Still railing against the devil’s weed
Amy Ronshausen and her organization don’t appear to be scientology connected. Someone should show her what Hubbard said about marijuana being less dangerous than alcohol in DMSMH
Flag is all in on Paris…
Balloon man. Face painting. Fruit display?
So weird.
Revolutionary storage…
What an invention!
Complete Certainty
The mantra of Hubbard — scientology gives you certainty. Even when you are wrong, you are certain you are right.
This is what the Freewinds is reduced to. Teaching people how to do testing — the hook used to get people in off the street.
Sunday Service…
Despite what they told the IRS, this is NOT open to everyone. No person who is not pre-authorized to enter the “Flag building” can attend.
You can bet this is just rehashing “Ron Mag” bs
Awards Night
How is this ideal org has so few graduates they have to try to puff up their “graduation” with awards for FSMs, booksellers and “OT’s”?
Sam sold a book!
Wow, this is BIG news.
CCHR is protecting the children!
Always makes everyone feel good.
Well, not all the children…
This one wasn’t given “drugs” — but was forced to consume niacin, oil and a bag of vitamins a day while being forced to sit in a sauna for 5 hours to “get all the toxins out of her body” — she is 8 or 9 maybe?
Auckland Ideal Org on a roll
Not a single major course or auditing level success. Just introductory courses.
But they do watch TV on Tuesday nights.
And they apparently have one staff member they like to promote…
30 years of waste
Why?
Is this supposed to attract new people to come in to be regged?
Old public to come in to be regged?
I thought it was supposed to be scientology that raises your spirits?
We’re just not ready to use them yet…
Huh?
Jesus, $6900 is nearly half off!
Malmo is also all in for Paris
Dressing up is one of the things that makes scientology fun apparently
But they also have Super Sunday
Sports. Crafting. Films. Chocolate fountain.
Lots of not-scientology.
And how did Super Sunday #1 turn out?
Well, we are lucky to have a bunch of photos.
Frankly, apart from the less than overwhelming number of attendees, its seems they enjoyed the not-scientology of it all
This is a HUGE success
They sold 76 books to 300,000 people
Didnt hear a single thing about the Canberra protest in Australia, mustnt of had a big impact.
Regarding the Melbourne man selling dianetics (a whole two of them) i can tell from the picture he was set up only a few hundred metres where the Jahovas Witness try and recruit – how ironic they are so near by – should be called cult corner. That area has a heap of passing foot traffic, a lot who are wealthy and affluent, to only sell two books in that environment should be considered a major failure.
Jan Eastgate crapping on about “Save The Children” – what about how you “saved” Carmen Rainer from her pedo step-dad. Oh that’s right – you got her and her mum to lie to Dept Community Services about his disgusting activities so he didn’t get put in jail but somehow stayed in good standing.
That the girls later got a civil case through on him showed the truth does come out eventually. And then Jan dodged a bullet on a legal technicality for her part in whole sorry saga.
Sometimes the bs is plain sickening.
And going to Canberra for a protest? I remember doing that over 40 years ago with a handful of people to chant anti-psych crap at Parliament House for a brief while then we had to get back on post that night. Sure made a lot of difference. Not!
Evil kult is evil. And relentlessly brain-dead. So glad I got out.
Ah, yes, Jan Eastgate. Who better to push for the rights of children than the woman who pressured a girl into saying she wasn’t sexually abused by her Scientologist stepfather? Surely nobody cares more about the rights of children than she!
If you haven’t heard the story, Google “Jan Eastgate” “sexual abuse.”
The whole bogus idea about selling books is a holdover from the early days of dianetics as far as I can tell. Back then, dmsmh actually was a top seller. Then after the public found out it didn’t really work as advertised, not so much.
When I was an eager noob back in the mid-70s, I wanted to read dmsmh to find out about this ‘clear’ stuff. I was actually discouraged from reading it by the mission staff because they said it was “too hard to understand”. I was steered towards ‘New Slant on Life’ which I found to be a nebulous attempt by Hubbard to be philosophical.
There was a ‘Book 1’ (dmsmh) revival of sorts in the early 80s and people were encouraged to audit their ‘wog’ friends using the methods outlined in dmsmh. That went nowhere. I remember a fellow named John Galusha (an early 50s auditor) touring orgs and missions promoting this ‘Book 1’ revival. When he mentioned in his presentation that smoking was an addiction. there was an uncomfortable silence in the room. Most of the staff smoked and everyone knew Hubbard’s views on tobacco use and his chain smoking habit. Galusha wasn’t heard from in the cult after that. I believe that he started his own ‘squirrel’ group shortly after that with Mike Goldstein. Diana Hubbard was supposedly backing them. Shortly after that, Kingsly Wimbush emerged with his de-dinging stuff, the Finance Police swarmed the missions after the infamous mission holders massacre and the rest is history. Good times in the cult for sure. Bottom line: dmsmh went nowhere then and is going even more nowhere now.
Actually, selling a DN book on the street to a raw public is kind of impressive. I’m amazed there’s still people out there willing to part with a few bucks for such worthless drek.
When I first got in, around the mid-80s, Dianetic was $3,50 in paperback. I was taking a long bus ride, and I just needed something to read. I bought it and read it because I’ll read pretty much anything.
When I left which was 11 years ago, Dianetics was now part of the Basics package, in hardcover only and cost $25.
I always wondered why, if DMSMH was so vital to be read by everyone on the planet they didn’t keep selling it inexpensively in paperback.
There are still al lot of people who will read something, just because its there. Magazines cost $5 or more and they’re mostly fluff and people read them all the time.
I never understood back then, taking away the inexpensive paperback option and making it an expensive book to buy.
Yeah, back in the day, we sold them on the street when it was only 2 bucks. Once while on the bus, I sold one to the driver. It didn’t seem that hard.
Right! Anyone will pay a few dollars for a paperback, without giving it too much thought. Any more than one would give a lot of thought to buying a magazine. So (I told them back then – I was very naive and earnest about this issue back then) so just sell it cheap in paperback and get millions to buy it without thinking about it too much – just something to read, you know? It will click with some people, and others not, but selling DMSMH will be easy and fast and produce results this way…And the response was…nothing. No, we had to lug thes heavy hardcovers and set up tables and e-meters and sweat and find their ruin, and get ecstatic if we sold even one book…for $25…God how I resented wasting my free time like this…such a waste of time, such a total waste of time and mostly no product when it could have been so very easy; make the books cheap and sell them, lots of them, cheap, without this whole fucking prior procedure added to what could have been hundreds, possibly thousands of simple, fast book sales. I wonder whose stupid idea the stress test was and why am I even asking such a stupid question? Any procedure that doesn’t work and wastes time and effort would have to be the Dwarf’s idea, right? I’m ranting again but I’ll tell you, far more than any money I threw down the rathole for this cult, far more do I resent the wasted time of 1) Events, and 2) Book Selling.
Funny, all those promo pieces look just like all the ones that flood into my mailbox every day or two. The policy claiming that the number of particles out equal the number of dollars returned sure ain’t working with me. They only result in filling up my garbage bin.
Glenn, I think approaches like worked in the early days – but then had diminishing returns as time went on and things changed. That was the era of door-to-door sales too – and even the Jehovah’s Witnesses are now deemphasizing door-to-door proselytizing. The CofS seems unable to change, though the costs of mailings must now be a big burden on struggling orgs.
76 books to 300,000 people. So im assuming the book were givein to 76 people since 76 where sold.I looked it up and it equals 0.03% so a pretty pathetic accomplishment in my opinion. Even if it was Scientologists who bought the books it’s hardly anyone.
Right? It doesn’t add up they say they are the fastest growing and most successful and humanitarian yet they can’t sell many if their books to anyone. I’m pretty sure the people who are buying the books are Scientologists anyways. So like you said it’s not an accomplishment.
“books and materials were sold” – could that mean more pamphlets than books, and maybe the latter mostly given away rather than even sold? Scientologese is so convoluted and deceptive that I wouldn’t count on “sold” actually meaning what it appears to the uninitiated to imply.
Also, what was the cost of that “very prominent stand” (not to mention setup and staffing) compared to what was actually take in, in sales? It looks like the minimum cost for a booth there is 1,000 Swiss francs (approximately the same in dollars), so with other costs like shipping materials and transporting staff on top of it, they must have lost money and maybe a lot of it.
PeaceMaker, as far as I remember, all the stands set up at book fairs, whether by New Era or the orgs, have NEVER covered the organizational costs. It has always been for PR or in the hope of catching a big books distributor. It might have worked in the ’80s, but not anymore. In the end it’s the usual propitiation attitude begging for some approval that we see everywhere now.
I want to know how many people are graduating from that org. I am assuming not many. But also the fact that they are going to show scientologys latest “wins”
to take up more time it seems. By the way what are the wins because i haven’t seen any.