Enjoying a wonderful New Year with friends… I hope you are too.
I believe 2022 is going to be a watershed year in the world of scientology for two main reasons.
The pandemic has taken its toll on an organization that relies on keeping people inside an information bubble that needs personal contact and briefings. Emerging from the pandemic, assuming this happens in 2022, when so many have been distanced from the controlling influences of the organization is going to be revelatory. It will expose the truth about the real state of scientology — which is a shell of its former self.
Danny Masterson. It is very likely there will be a criminal trial in 2022 and it will reveal many very ugly truths about scientology. With a high profile case that garners a lot of media coverage, the glare of bright light on the dark beliefs and practices of scientology will be shocking and devastating. The damage inflicted will be lasting and deep.
There is much more on the horizon, but these two factors alone will make for an interesting year of pain in the world of Miscavige.
Meanwhile, in the real world. may you enjoy great happiness and success. Flourish and prosper!
I just started listening to your podcast and have a ton to catch up on. What really shocked me was the interview with your wife when she said she went to her parents house and was knocking on the door. I was like who does that? I’ve never knocked. I walk in. I have keys. I have security codes. My heart heart breaks for all of you that have been disconnected from your families. Keep doing what you’re doing. I hope you have a wonderful New Year with many blessings.
Happy New Year! I do hope you are correct!
I agree that the pandemic’s continued effect on Scientology public will pull many people out of the information bubble and they’ll fade away. I also agree that the impact of the Danny Masterson trial will be significant in the minds of non-Scientologists, as Miscavige’s attempts to obstruct justice in order to protect the cult’s name while still keeping the Masterson family as donors come to light.
But as I (and many others) have said for a long time, I think the key thing Miscavige is trying to preserve in Scientology is the Sea Org. Miscavige doesn’t like to spend time with the members, even the biggest whales giving significant amounts of money. He doesn’t hang out with Bob or Trish Duggan, the biggest whales by far. And he certainly doesn’t seem to care what the hundreds of millions of non-Scientologists thinks, so ultimately the effect of the Danny Masterson trial won’t be that much on the already dismal recruitment picture.
Miscavige does, however, get a big emotional thrill out of terrorizing staff members, either directly by yelling, hitting, etc., or knowing that he’s creating all these emergencies that are all “Hill 10” fires that have to be put out. So he’s fine with an ever-shrinking pool of regular public and a couple hundred whales that more or less pay the bills, as long as he has a staff about the size of the current staff base today (4,000+ miserable drones).
With that in mind, I would suggest that the “Golden Age of Administration” that may be unveiled this year (according to the source in Tony Ortega’s blog last week) could be at least as damaging to the organization in 2022, even if it’s less visible to the outside. It will demoralize longtime older staff who have been around for decades, and who know LRH “Admin Tech” far better than Miscavige does. They’ll go off the rails if some procedure they’ve built their lives around is now forbidden. Erasing it from earlier editions of the Green Volumes won’t help because they have memorized the old version over the decades.
Miscavige will pull all the staff out of the field, chain them up in Flag (with lots of quarantines every time a COVID wave rolls through Florida), and they will go out of their minds. In other words, the “Golden Age of Administration” will take an already creaking and fragile organization and potentially give it a fatal push. At that point, there will be no ability to pretend there’s anything to Scientology other than Flag. We may even see Saint Hill, all the LA facilities, and Gold Base being abandoned and left with security staffs and a handful of people desperately trying to pretend that the place is viable.
Of course, we know that it’s dangerous to predict the iminent demise of Scientology. It was an easy conclusion to reach after everyone but Hubbard went to jail for Operation Snow White in 1977. But Scientology actually continued to grow after the management structure was decapitated. It’s a truism that you may know that an organization is doomed, but it’s impossible to predict exactly what will cause it to implode, and when it will happen (this is sort of the Heisenberg principle of physics, applied to organizations). So I’m stopping short of predicting that this year will finally be THE year, but I agree with Mike’s conclusion that 2022 will be far more painful for David Miscavige than the past few years, which have been relatively calm periods in the death spiral.
Happy ‘eww year!
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Happy New Year to Mike, Christie and family. I add my thanks to kind words here: This blog is a lifeline, an excellent deprogrammer, and educator for many. Peace and Joy in the New Year!
Mike, Happy New Year to you and your family. Thank you for all you have done to expose the cults continued destructive and fraudulent activity’s.
Happy New Year to you Mike, and your family, and all the wonderful ex scientologists speaking out against the church.
Mike I want to thank you for the years of daily blogs that I always start my day with. The ongoing catalog of footbullets, head up the ass actions, false volunteering photo ups accompanied by hyperbolic statements of massive help, and tilting at at SPs who are lovely people, has illuminated the current state of the staggering, empty, Frankenstein paper mache Cos Play edifice of David Miscavage.
May the New Year bring in new, amusing, and heartening nails in the coffin of the cult.
Happy New Year to you Mike to everyone you love, and to all the ladies and gentlemen who visit this great blog.
I agree that scn is at a point where it no longer has anything to bet on in order to stay afloat.
The die is cast.
Happy New Year 2022 to all!
We are not sure what will happen to $cientology in 2022, but what is certain is that each passing year brings us a little closer to the end of this sinister cult.
Happy New Year to you and Leah as well.
Happy New Year to you and your family Mike, and thank you for all that you do!
In the cleb world, Danny Masterson is at best a D list cleb. But his criminal charges and the $cientology connection guarantee him a lot of tabloid front page mention. I will actually enjoy reading about him while checking out at the grocery store.
It will be so much fun to see how many Clams are left in the UK and elsewhere when their census comes out. And it will be so much fun to see how ‘busy’ the mOrgs are when they start up again.
Australian census results to be released this year. Last figures were 1684 down from 2163 the previous census done in 2011. They are done in Aus in 5 year intervals. Far from the millions that i was quoted by a young Australian Scientologist.
That’s how Cults starts gradually extinct, organically.
It’s a product which has on average 50 years life cycle.
In some cases like James Jonestone or Heavens Gate it’s much less whereas a Montreal based Canadian UFO Cult ended almost after 50 years .
It’s all about evolution in geo political ideologies: all the Cold War era Cults are on vantilator and there is no chance that Chinese or Russians pose threat to Capitalist/ Market economy as they themselves are now the prime beneficiaries.
At the end of every year I wonder how it can get any worse for Scientology in the next and yet it does. For 2022, I can’t imagine anything but a continued free fall for Scientology. Yep, for the thousands and thousands of people who have escaped from the lies and abuses of Scientology – we are going UP while Scientology is going DOWN! My wish for 2022 is that all those still stuck in the bubble can somehow find their way back to their lost family and loved ones.
Hear Hear
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Amen! Including my sisters and their children and grandchildren!
If any robots from OSA(Office of Special Affairs) read this blog…I wish you a swift and safe exit from the madness and abuse of the church and its leader, COB( Cunt of the Borg). Bring documents and photos if you can, and look forward to good sleep, real meals,basic human kindness, and, potentially, a fresh start…as a real human being, cleared of cult-installed toxic delusions, misinformation, and self-hatred…
Happy New Year!
Carpe diem!😎👍🏽
Mark, you know that this blog is being constantly monitored by our dedicated OSA friends. What a depressing job that has to be. Also, the occasional scientologist doing yet another set of ‘lowers’ and dealing an effective blow to the enemy in the guise of a troll will stop by. They are always lots of fun.
I would like to offer up what I call the “OSA Song” by the Who. It describes these folks perfectly. And I’m with you in hoping that they will make their way to the exits sooner rather than later. No on wants to be the fool who is last to leave and having to turn the lights off…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMrImMedYRo
Happy New Year to all!
So with the pandemic doing a number on the staff does that mean I am going to have to work harder to get my own smear site?
I’ve been chomping at a few heels in the SO in Canada and LA and anyone I can get my teeth into, I guess I need to step it up. It would be nice to be paid attention to me. No fun at all.
Is the case gong to be public in some sense? I’d like to know what happens, or will we be getting updates on the podcast. I do love seeing this thing get dismantled bit by bit.
On a really good note, Here is what Dianetics should have been: Total Recall: How To Boost Your Memory Power by Joan Minninger, Ph.D. If Hubbo just had this we wouldn’t be in this.
This breaks down what people naturally do when they get out of Scientology or at least what I have been doing for the last few months as best as I could, it deals with emotional blocks, emotional conflicts, and organic memory problems. So far I’ve gotten up to emotional conflicts which it describes as mechanical blocks due to the content and about choosing to feel otherwise about thing consciously.
Hello KMK,
Consider checking out:
various types of cognitive behavioral therapy
EMDR https://www.emdr.com/what-is-emdr/
books and websites about undue influence, malignant narcissists,
sociopaths, psychopaths, etc.
As a reminder and synopsis of the scientology experience,bookmark Robert Jay Lifton’s 8 Criteria For Thought Reform
There are also some interesting independent studies being conducted about the controlled use of ayahuasca, psylocibin mushrooms, and other psychotropic plants to address PTSD…
Wishing you all of the best on your cult detox journey!
I’m going through a bunch of terms that are new to me. My family is all narcissists, not sure if I am but I certainly exhibit the behavior like they do. They grew up behind the Berlin Wall under Soviet rule but their behavior seems like a willful ignorance intended to annoy over decades and kill someone slowly. Death in the family at Christmas really brings out the backstabbing and invalidation, my entire family always gave me the silent angry treatment and never told me anything was wrong, I just thought that was normal, I new now nothing else and now it’s the same crap at moms funeral. I guess that is why I was blind to Scientology crap? Blind to narcissism and so I became one as I didn’t know my own behavior.
I’d like to think it’s the death of mom and stress but you can tell when tears are fake and anger lurks underneath. I never really saw them as POS until I applied the narcissistic label to all of them. It did not make sense to me just to apply it to one member, things did not make sense till we all were classified and the behavior could be seen clearly in the context.
I have tried mushrooms and smoke week mostly. The mushrooms I don’t know what they do. They are fun and can really restore some vitality and make you happy but it’s not like I go out of my way to do them or even want to. The thinking isn’t much clearer than when I’m sober. I ended up on the floor pretending to be a mole and had to spit in my hands and lube my face. Then I thought the lines on the floor were really zen and that the underside of my computer chair is really vast and spacious. Maybe in the context of therapy it may be different but I can assure you the trip is what the trip is, You don’t get much input with the result even in good surroundings. And the hangover is really weird too which kind of makes me not want to do them.
On a funnier side of the coin.
I made a comic about Scientology In Space, it’s pretty clean but I think it hits right where it hurts.
https://twitter.com/KMKVids/status/1477663102594433029
KMK,
Thanks for that answer!
I understand about the mushrooms…Their use may or may not prove to be more therapeutic in conjunction with therapy. Finding a good therapist who is familiar with cult-related PTSD and the general psychological damage that happens as a result of long term cult participation can be challenging…but is well worth the effort.
Regarding the new concepts and nomenclature, I’d humbly suggest digging into the subject matter slowly and deeply, with extra caution applied to labelling/diagnosing people around you.
Remember that scientology “study tech” is not scientific, nor is it about study; it’s a “technology” of INDOCTRINATION. The so-called “4 barriers to study” are bullshit, but…don’t take my word for it, check out a course entitled LEARNING HOW TO LEARN on the website COURSERA, that’s based on the latest scientific data about how we learn, process, and remember information/new skills. It’s a FABULOUS intellectual detox tool for ex-scientologists!
I wish you peace and joy and relief as you untwist and heal from the Hubbardian mind-fuck and scientological spirit rape!
Carpe diem!😎✌🏾
Diabetics *should* have been a bunch of things; like EFFECTIVE, for one; There has never been anything resembling a “Book 1 Clear” created or discovered by the international organization. Never will be, either, since it was all Tubby’s delusions and/or drug-addled dreams. Had there been a kernel of truth in the scam, we wouldn’t be out here watching it slowly decay from within. Miscavige has been doing a WONDERFUL job as scientology’s most effective squirrel and SP. In just a few short decades, he’s dismantled the “farm team” which provided most of the afflicted, then changed all the courses so fewer/none would experience the (scant) positive “wins” which glued people into their places, and had them exclaiming afterwards:”B-b-b-but it works!”
Happy New Year Mike and to your beautiful family and to all who care for and back you!
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Happy New Year to the Rinders and Headlys! True friendship is better than ice cream! ❤️
Better than ICE CREAM!? HOW could that be possible?
(sorry, my inner child, or one of them, escaped for a second.)