We continue with our deep dive into the life and lies of Hubbard with Jon Atack.
Once again, we have quite a lot of documents to include — but always at the top of the list are Jon’s Let’s Sell These People A Piece of Blue Sky and Barefaced Messiah by Russell Miller.
I should also note that though we didnt mention it, for those of you interested in what Hubbard did or didnt do in the war, Chris Owen’s excellent and thoroughly researched Ron The War Hero: The True Story of L Ron Hubbard’s Calamitous Military Career is essential reading. Hubbard told so many lies about his naval history (much of which forms the foundation for his “discoveries” in Dianetics that it required an entire book to debunk.
We touch upon the calamitous story of Sonya Bianca again: 
We mention Jon’s piece: Possible Origins of Dianetics and Scientology
He also made a video on this in 2 parts:
Video Part 2:
A Doctor’s Report on Dianetics
The 270 cases Hubbard boasts about in Dianetics”
Hubbard’s daughter, Alexis Hollister (Hubbard) — in her early life he kidnapped her, flew her to Cuba and dedicated his second book to her. When her mother divorced him (after he had bigamously married her) he claimed she was a Russian spy, that he was not Alexis’ father and disowned her completely. Of all his children, she bears perhaps the most striking resemblance to him:
Hubbard letter of 10 April 1953 to Helen O’Brien concerning the “religion angle” and how it could not result in “worse public opinion” or “less customers.”
Jon mentions Wilhelm Reich legal problems
And this is such interesting reading, not only with respect to scientology, Leon Festinger’s work on Cognitive Dissonance Festiger
And his book When Prophecy Fails
This is the cover of the 1968 edition of Scientology 0-8
And here are the “States Attained” in this edition — the last time they appeared in print:
A tribute to Ron Miscavige – we say farewell to our friend Ron at the end of this episode and play his last song:
It is possible there is a truism from the original Student Hat course concerning “the amount of times over equals certainty and results.” This Fair Game podcast I could really hear and absorb the content. I could truly take in and comprehend all that Leah, Mike, and Jon discussed. It affected me greatly as a Former-In and someone now out. I appreciate this podcast edition. It’s been genius to bring on Jon Atack. I don’t know if many of us give sufficient credit to the enormous research, consideration, and thought leadership of Atack, so THANK YOU, Mike and Leah. And, though as a Former-In it is hard to hear, thank you so very much, Mr. Jon Atack.
RIP Ron Miscavige
Im saddened to hear of Ron’s death, the kind of person you automatically warm to instantaneously even without meeting him. The kind of person that you feel you know and can trust, came accross as a trustworthy and nice guy.
It will be interesting to see if David has enough compassion left in him to acknowledge his fathers passing, if not then he is a very sad, dark hearted and miserable individual one that doesnt practice his organizations teachings.
O/T. Scientology Youth For Human Rights Award Winner Nation of Islam Brother Rizza argues that “Jewish people” own BET who can use it to “INDOCTRINATE us.”
https://www.instagram.com/p/CQqqEben4q4/
Memorialized with a screenshot on ESMBR and Instagram at:
https://exscn2.net/threads/scientology-youth-for-human-rights-award-winner-nation-of-islam-brother-rizza-argues-that-jewish-people-own-bet-who-can-use-it-to-indoctrinate-us.3478/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CQtVHTnJTRI/
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My OP above is obviously about Scientology Youth For Human Rights Award Winner Nation of Islam Brother Rizza Islam.
I really have to slow down and proof- read better. I tend to be in a rush when I check the news in the morning.
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Very sad news about Ron Miscavage. I never met him but was more than happy to donate to the GoFundMe set up for him. My heart goes out to Becky and his family. Rest easy, Ron. So glad you were able to free yourself from $cientology and be with those you loved, and who loved you. 💜
It is a wonderful thing to see the donations pour in for Becky and to honor Ron Miscavige, Sr. I also donated. It occurs to me it is possible for Ron Sr.’s book “Ruthless” to gain renewed interest around the world. I hope and imagine his widow, Becky Bigelow, retains a stake in the book and its sales, along with co-author Dan Koon, who is a member of this blog community.
I should mention, too, that I watched every “Life After Scientology” webcast of Ron’s and got so much out of these. The content is excellent and revealing—extremely helpful for someone de-programming themselves out from this group. His style and demeanor were so respectful, curious, and courteous, I do not see how ANY attempts by ANYONE to malign Ron, Sr.’s character could be successful. His warm tales and stories; emphasis on family; affection for his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren is (was) indelible, profound, and unabashedly sincere. He set an honest example, including by owning any flaws or shortcomings. He was a proud former US Marine. Semper Fi, Ron: Always Faithful.
So sad to read of Ron Miscavige’s passing. May he rest in peace and rise in glory.
Everyone dies, unfortunately not everyone lives. Goodbye Ron.
Christian Scientologist Joy Villa hosts event by Scientology front-group Drug Free World in Johannesburg, South Africa.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CQqFW14Aw9_/
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HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE Feeding and educating the kids in Johannesburg gives me so much good feels! I hosted and organized an incredible Drug Free seminar for the Men and Boys Foundation of SA, “Boys Day” featuring Drug Free World @drugfreeworld educating over 30 boys ages 9-19 on the dangers of drugs and alcohol abuse, also pairing groups of kids with amazing male leaders to mentor them and hear their sometimes heartbreaking stories of life at home.
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We must protect and help our boys so they can grow into strong and healthy men. want to help get involved? Please email me (link above) and we can help in difficult times, together!
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REMINDER: This is after Christian Scientologist Joy Villa recently promoted Scientology front-group The Way To Happiness.
https://twitter.com/Joy_Villa/status/1406511738611068930
Memorialized with two screenshots on ESMBR at:
https://exscn2.net/threads/christian-scientologist-joy-villa-hosts-event-by-scientology-front-group-drug-free-world-in-johannesburg-south-africa.3473/
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O/T. Northeastern University 2021-2022 course Philosophy 2390 “Cults and Sects” covers Scientology and is partner the Nation of Islam.
http://catalog.northeastern.edu/course-descriptions/phil/
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Examines radical religious innovation in the United States from historical, legal, and cultural analytic perspectives. Focuses on minoritized groups such as the Shakers, Peoples Temple, the Nation of Islam, and the Church of Scientology. Offers students an opportunity to acquire critical investigative tools with which to better understand the complexities of lived religion.
Attribute(s): NUpath Difference/Diversity, NUpath Interpreting Culture
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“Hubbard’s daughter, Alexis Hollister (Hubbard) — in her early life he kidnapped her, flew her to Cuba and dedicated his second book to her.”
And according to Sara, Hubbard’s second wife, Hubbard called her and told her he had cut Alexis to pieces and then threw the pieces in a river. Alexis was Sara’s first and only child.
Before I got involved in Scientology with Hubbard, I was noted as a genius during High School and through College. This was proven by the numerous awards that I received during both cycles. After the war in Nam , I much lost all of my genius activity. The more I got involved in Scientology the less of a genius I was. This is proven by the fact that I received no awards as before. The deeper I got into Scientology, the more stupid I became. This is proven by my horrible jobs record after about ten years in Scientology. Even my successful Alcoholic recovery did not return me to prosperity with Scientology dragging me. After about thirty five years of recovering from Scientology, I finally did get some of my genius status back. As a freelance professional computer programmer, I solved a problem with a few lines of code. My clients were astonished by my genius activity. There is a silver lining;; it sometimes takes eliminating Hubbard to the core.
George ,good to know that you got yourself out from their influence and regained sanity.
As per my study ,there are three main stages for Cults to trap Innocent public.
1: be empathetic with public and let them feel valuable and agree to their justification of failure in their life.
2. Cults always let you know advance about their enemies :
* University professors of social sciences.
* Medical doctors , specially mental health professionals
* Judges and lawyers
* Federal police like FBI
So every failure in Cults and their followers life is by their involvement.
3, if you do not achieve success or happines by being with them ,it’s ” your fault ” , doing some thing wrong , making you Guilty conscious
This Guilty Conscious attitude is clearly evident from Cult followers every day life .
Always afraid of making mistake and getting held responsible for failures..
Imagine a person living in such condition for few years , lose his free will in all areas of his life .
That’s the product Cults are looking for : The Blind Followers
Excellent summary. Simple to follow logic about cults
Some high school yearbooks include a line or two from the high school editors under the pictures of the graduating seniors giving a brief and pleasant “description” of the senior. Mine included “tall, athletic, a thinker”. What!? Huh!? I never considered myself “a thinker”. Some years later I was finding everyday life somewhat repetitious and uneventful. I hadn’t read a book in two years and was looking for something interesting to study and do and scn kept me “thinking” for six or seven years. haha
The supposed States of Awareness were listed on the 1970’s Grade Chart and seemed reasonable and attainable without buying into a lot of woo. Regarding the OT levels, “Who knows. Maybe. I’ll find out when I get there.” Luckily for me I quit before delving into the OT levels.
“. . . reasonable and attainable on the lower levels . . .” I meant to say
Nobody ever called me a genius but somebody calling me a “thinker” ain’t too bad. I’ll take it!
Richard, you put me into the Occult and that is not bad at all.
That requires a bit of an explanation – lol
A few years ago I was enjoying some rock and roll music from a mock Satanic musical group called “Ghost”. By looking up a lot of the words and terms in their lyrics I was getting a bit of an overview of the Occult. I posted a couple of their music videos which piqued George’s interest and he went down the rabbit hole of doing a full scale investigation of the Occult as it relates to scn. I’m not an Occultist – lol
BTW Occultism is not necessarily Satanic which is a misunderstanding I once had. It’s just part of the human interest in the mystical and the supernatural.
from http://www.dictionary.com
occult
[ uh-kuhlt, ok-uhlt ]
See synonyms for: occult / occulted / occulting / occults on Thesaurus.com
adjective
of or relating to magic, astrology, or any system claiming use or knowledge of secret or supernatural powers or agencies.
beyond the range of ordinary knowledge or understanding; mysterious.
secret; disclosed or communicated only to the initiated.
hidden from view; concealed.
(in early science)
not apparent on mere inspection but discoverable by experimentation.
of a nature not understood, as physical qualities.
dealing with such qualities; experimental:
occult science.
Medicine/Medical. present in amounts too small to be visible:
a chemical test to detect occult blood in the stool.
noun
Usually the occult .
the supernatural or supernatural agencies and affairs considered as a whole.
occult studies or sciences.
verb (used with object)
to block or shut off (an object) from view; hide.
Here’s a fun music video from Ghost.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oa_nbgE8M8
George ,good to know that you got your self out from their influence and regained sanity.
As per my study ,there are three main stages for Cults to trap Innocent public.
1: be empathetic with public and let them feel valuable and agree to their justification of failure in life.
2. Cults always let you know advance about their enemies :
* University professors of social sciences.
* Medical doctors , specially mental health professionals
* Judges and lawyers
* Federal police like FBI
So every failure in Cults and their followers life is by their involvement. So the followers got brainwashed and got aligned their views with cult
3, if you hav’nt achieved success or happines being with Cult ,then, it’s ” your fault ” ,you are doing some thing wrong – making you Guilty conscious
This Guilty Conscious attitude is clearly evident from Cult followers every day life .
Always afraid of making mistake and being held responsible for failures..
Imagine a person living in such condition for few years , loses his free will in all areas of his life .
That’s the phenomenon , Cults are looking for.
George, maybe scientology does the same thing to critical thinking skills that it does to acting skills – I think there’s something to the theory I’ve seen that auditing and processing puts actors through so much emotional catharsis in an attempt to ‘flatten their buttons’ that their ability to draw on emotions gets dulled. I also suspect it may dull their and other artists’ creativity by promoting a very formulaic view towards life and the world.
It’s an interesting theory that intellectual skills might be similarly compromised. Certainly, critical thinking is discouraged when it comes to Hubbard’s teachings and Scientology, and perhaps that carries over into other areas of life as well. That formulaic approach, and the attempt to continuously shoehorn everything into Hubbard doctrines from tone scales to org boards, may be a factor as well.
Hubbard based his management approach on early 20th century principles, adopted by the military, that did well for early assembly-line industry and large-scale warfare, but then faltered in the second half of the century as agility and quality become more important, most infamous epitomized in the Detroit auto industry’s failure to keep up with the Japanese and, I’d argue, in Vietnam as well (orchestrated in good part by former Ford executive MacNamara, with such infamous aspects as a focus on enemy body counts that were often as inflated, and irrelevant, as scientology “stats”).
I’ve also noticed scientologists talking about just doing, without stopping to think. That may work for some things, but is a bad approach to others.
Great comments. It took me thirty five years to get to the point of understanding Hubbard’s damage. Scientology sort of put my thinking into its own logic. I mean when I thought there was always the heavy burden of the theory. In reality, I never had any creative thoughts in Scientology despite doing creative processing. In fact, Creative processing is very dangerous because one only goes into creations which are temporary. I thought about the real damage that Hubbard did to me and realized it was 75% of an entire lifetime. Before Scientology I regarded thinking, action and doing as very easy. Scientology added an unnecessary layer of applying Hubbard. When I wrote the effective code recently, I noticed that I approached the problem with a new perspective. I was truly back out of the box. I never could have written the effective new code with Scientology
The Hubster was always a money grubbing a-hole who ran rough shod over anyone who didn’t worship him.
The dwindling spiral of Scientology end at – 273 degrees C.
How high is the expanding spiral?
We beleieve us moving in circles which in the reality is spirales we are moving inside.
More belief in the the outside world higher the heat of the cult of Scientology.
Some years after I left scn a random transcendental or satori type of experience came upon me and I decided to test it in a couple of ways. I attempted to see how far back into the past I could look and what appeared to me was a foggy spiral mist receding into the distance and I left it at that. I guess I wasn’t destined to discover any secrets of the universe at that time. lol
Hubbard/Scn obsessed with the past. Maybe he was hoping to discover The Equation Of Everything in metaphysical rather than scientific terms. In the 1960’s and 1970’s when widespread experimentation with LSD was going on there was a song with the lyric “Come along with me and take a journey to the center of the mind.” I doubt anybody got there (and stayed there) with scn or LSD. lol
We can try to believe in the words of Hubbard. Failures exist everywhere.
A book review or the book Cultish, which covers Scientology.
New Republic: How to Spot a Cult
According to Amanda Montell’s new book, “Cultish,” the jargon and technical language of fanaticism is surprisingly common.
Jennifer Wilson
June 28, 2021
https://newrepublic.com/article/162856/spot-cult-cultish-language-fanaticism-review
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Among L. Ron Hubbard’s most pressing concerns was a singular problem: how to get his followers to turn their nouns into verbs and verbs into nouns. Like a Californian Hamlet, the founder of Scientology pondered the dilemma of “to be or not to be” and settled on beingness. There was no real basis for Hubbard’s morphological experiments, as linguist Amanda Montell explains in her new book, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism; he simply “liked the sound of technical jargon.” So much so, in fact, that he published two extensive Scientology dictionaries filled with thousands of terms, many of which were borrowed (and subsequently mangled) from fields like psychology and software engineering “to create the impression that Scientology’s belief system was rooted in real science.”
Hubbard also wanted to establish, through language, a clear way of demarcating believers from nonbelievers (or, sorry—“suppressive persons”). A nonbeliever, for instance, would very likely struggle to parse the following exchange without the aid of Montell’s annotations:
“How are you doing?”
“I’ve been a bit out ruds [rudiments: tired, hungry, or upset] because of a PTP [present time problem] with my second dynamic [romantic partner] because of some bypassed charge [old negative energy that’s resurfaced] having to do with my MEST [Matter, Energy, Space, and Time, something in the physical universe] at her apartment.”
While this all comes across as profoundly idiosyncratic, Montell says there is in fact nothing unique or special about Scientology’s fascination with language. “The most compelling techniques” espoused by cults have had “little to do with drugs, sex, shaved heads, remote communes, drapey kaftans, or ‘Kool-Aid,’” says Montell. As she breaks down the glossary of terms espoused by members of QAnon, Heaven’s Gate, Jonestown, and even Crossfit, Montell says it is language that can best clue us in as to whether an organization we have joined is a cult or is at least engaging in cultlike behavior to extract resources out of its members. She develops a taxonomy of “cultish” linguistic tendencies from “the crafty redefinition of existing words” (i.e., calling a gym a “box” for no real reason), thought-terminating clichés (labeling good-faith doubts and concerns as “limiting beliefs”), and monikers that establish an us-versus-them binary (the “truth seekers” versus “sheeple” of QAnon).
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That’s a good and descriptive example of “cult speak” for anyone who never engaged in a cult. Translating cult lingo back into King’s English and not using it in one’s thinking is a big part of deprogramming oneself.