A couple of days ago, Tony put this message from Geoff Levin on his blog. I am republishing here in the event that any reader here may not have seen it at Tony’s.
Geoff has been a staunch supporter of this blog and me generally. I am proud to be included in his movie — I met his brother, Robbie, when I was at Sundance for the premiere of Going Clear. Two talented and extremely nice men who have an incredible horror story to tell. Fortunately, this one has a relatively happy ending, though Geoff’s children remain disconnected.
This is Geoff’s message:
It’s been a long journey getting out and speaking out and Tony’s been there from the very beginning of my deprogramming in September 2011, when I read my first article in the Village Voice.
What a journey.
We released our PEOPLE! album after 50 years of disconnection, and we had the world premiere screening of Brothers Broken at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose on August 20th. There was great press coverage and interviews with TV stations and radio. We had one more screening for the festival on August 26th at the Icon Theatre and Kitchen.
Now, our Los Angeles premiere is on Sunday at 7:30 pm at the Laemmle NoHo7 in North Hollywood.
Our documentary is about Scientology’s toxic disconnection policy but it is also about reconnecting. I have restored so many friendships and met so many wonderful new artists, musicians and filmmakers.
The world outside Scientology has so much to offer. Yes it’s crazy right now and there are amazing, effective people who are genuinely helping and creating positive effects. We all have the potential to do that. I went from victim mode to “Something Can Be Done About It” — my other go to guy Mike Rinder’s blog was my second source of deprogramming after Tony.
I look at where we stand now as Scientology and David Miscavige are exposed every day now.
The billions the church has cannot help them now. The echoes from all our voices started the avalanche that will bury the Scientology organization so it can no longer spread its lies, fraud, and human rights abuses. Thank you, Tony, and all the other whistleblowers. You all have been my guides to a life free of Hubbard’s toxic beliefs.
— Geoff Levin
Here is the trailer for the movie. I encourage everyone in the LA area to attend the LA premiere tomorrow (Sunday) at 7:30 pm at the Laemmle NoHo7 in North Hollywood.
Great Geoff! Looking forward to seeing it. Glad you are out there expressing your experiences with art. I’m sure it will help many!
I saw this on a special pre-release streaming service. It’s a powerful story.
When will I be able to see this in Michigan?
Whew. That trailer. Heartbreaking.
Thank you again to Geoff for getting this films made and to you Mike and Tony.
How will the rest of us who do not live in LA, get to see it?
When and where can one see this film in Virginia Mike? Or close to Virginia?
Amazing people come out of Scientology, helped by amazing people like Tony and Mike. What precious gifts your work bestows!
I always blame Hubbard. He built this devastating framework to pit followers against each other, and the regulations for staffs to force on the followers, and the movement churns out tragedies.
Hubbard was a deeply foul horrible unwittingly bad human being. Hubbard’s admission of failure, briefly, told via Sarge in the “Going Clear….” documentary movie, is small and really ineffective consolation to this Scientology cult tragedy.
It is just devastating what Scientology does, and Scientology is core level worthy of the hatred reputation its earned.
I blame Hubbard, he’s the fiend at the bottom, and all should blame him first and foremost. Hubbard authored Scientology’s disconnection and fair gaming inhumane nastiness forced upon Scientology followers still to this day.
The staffs of Scientology organizations who follow the straitjacket unreformable and unchallengeable Hubbard regulations have caused continuing woe to the world. (Quitting Scientology fast is the best option, if one has joined. It’s best never to join Scientology.)
Thankyou Geoff Levin and brother Robbie, for this movie.
PS: I think teaching the public simply the Xenu theory, Wall of Fire story, 4th Dynamic Engram with the Xenu R6 implants, and explain how OT 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 are the exorcism levels of Scientology to supposedly exorcise the Xenu engram/implanting of the body-thetans, is a public service that does double duty. Because Hubbard’s regulations tell Scientology to NOT accept new persons into Scientology who come into Scientology talking about Xenu, body-thetans, and specifically that OT 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 are exorcism to remove Xenu’s dumped and R6 implanted body-thetans off their human bodies. Just telling Scientologists the Xenu/body-thetans theory, causes the Scientologists to reject and not let join those who speak Xenu material to them. Thus, explaining Xenu theory always is the best antidote to Scientology’s dissemination, it causes Scientology to reject those who persist talking Xenu theory to them. It’s a public service to explain Xenu, R6 implanting, the OT 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 exorcism steps, because it fundamentally helps define “What Is Scientology?”
Beautifully said, Mr. Beatty.
Nicely said, Mr Beatty, but Xenu is a story, a tall tale, not a theory, no matter what Hubbard thought about it.
Hi Jere,
Yes, outsiders and never in’s immediately have that same opinion, this is clearly fiction dreamed up by Hubbard.
From the theortetical spiritual side of things, though, I think from a “believer’s” viewpoint, that it does “make sense” and it at least “hold together” as a “leg to stand on” as far as Scientology being a supernatural believing practice, namely the massive amount of exorcism steps of OT 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7.
The Xenu story explains the back story to the massive quantities of these surplus souls supposedly roaming earth, infesting human bodies on top of the soul that we each are.
We supposedly have these massive quantities of surplus souls co-habiting our bodies, thus the Xenu story just gives the slightly impossible explanation for why earth has these vast quantities of quarantined bodiless souls infesting all humans today, needing Scientology’s secret OT levels 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 exorcism to remove these souls off our human bodies and from the orbit around us.
And for sure, just because Hubbard dreamed up this explanation for why he felt he himself still had body-thetans, as he said he did have, at the end of his life, still orbiting around him and bugging him (told by Sarge the friend, staffer, ranch hand at the end of Hubbard’s life at Creston ranch), Hubbard like you said believed his own explanations and also believed in body-thetans being really real and affecting him.
But, I think it important to break down the secretive barrier of non discussion of the Xenu theory story, so the whole big Hubbard Scientology operation is fully minimally answered when answering the “What Is Scientology” question.
Scientology’s five exorcism OT 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 steps of getting rid of supposedly Xenu’s murdered, mass implanted and dumped body-thetans (souls without bodies which infest all humans like hitchhikers today) is a huge missing and important part to add to the simplest definition of Scientology.
Scientology is their pseudo-therapy and their exorcism practices. Xenu story just gives backing to why Scientologists do so much “secret” (no longer) exorcism.
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If a non beiiever at least knows that these surplus souls are believed to be ‘real’ enough by Scientologists to do their exorcism to rid themselves of these body-thetans “surplus souls”, then that’s the part I feel to the public at least kind of “makes sense.”