This might seem like a foolish question — but not when it come to L. Ron Hubbard. He apparently needs a whole lot of homes and even more offices…
It is one of the lesser-known bizarre facts about scientology and the worship of L. Ron Hubbard that subsequent to his death (or in the words of David Miscavige he “discarded the body… he had used to facilitate his existence in this MEST universe,” because it “had ceased to be useful and in fact had become an impediment to the work he now must do outside of its confines”), many fully furnished mansions and lavish homes were constructed for his use alone. This is all subsidized of course by the US taxpayer… Think about that as you peruse these facilities.
Let’s begin with one of the better known ones: “Bonnie View” at Golden Era Productions, Gilman Hot Springs, California.
It’s an opulent mansion with a guest house, indoor pool, shooting range, tennis court, fully functioning kitchen and even 4 “seasons” of furnishings that are changed to reflect the mood every quarter. The drapes, fabric, artwork and decorations are cycled through every three months. Hubbard’s clothes are in the closets and are laid out for him each day — his jewelry and watches, hats, boots, belts and ties along with shirts and pants and jackets.
The garage houses his vehicles — all kept in fully operational state, gassed and ready to go: the 40 foot Bluebird motor home where he spent his last days, the tan 64 International Scout 4×4, his 72 Dodge Dart Swinger, his white ’68 Cadillac Fleetwood Limo and his blue Yamaha 125cc motorcycle from the Apollo.
This mansion began construction after his ashes had long since been spread at sea.
Then there is the Whispering Winds ranch near Paso Robles, north of Santa Barbara. For those who know the history of Hubbard, you will be aware that he shuffled off his mortal coil in a motorhome parked in the stables at this property. That is because the house was being renovated so it would be suitable for him to live in. That renovation was completed AFTER he “discarded his body” even though nobody else would ever be allowed to live there and the property is kept strictly off-limits to scientologists and wogs alike.
There are several other properties that fall under the care of the Church of Spiritual Technology.
CST is the organization created as the repository for the bulk of Hubbard’s estate — no money could be transferred to it until it had obtained tax exempt status. That ultimately came about with the blanket scientology exemption in 1993. CST then went into the business of etching Hubbard’s words onto stainless steel plates and recorded lectures onto nickel LP’s and storing them in various purpose-built nuclear-proof underground vaults. At each of these sites, they also constructed homes for Hubbard.
Twin Peaks, San Bernardino Mountains
The main CST location. There are numerous buildings on this property, this is the Hubbard home.
Trementina, New Mexico — literally a mansion built in the middle of nowhere.
Tuolomne Central California near Yosemite. The Hubbard home is on the left.
Petrolia Northern California coast. This is the Hubbard home on the property.
Hollywood Guaranty Building — bought in 1988.
It’s a little known fact — even to the Sea Org members that work in the building, that there is a suite for Hubbard on the 11th floor of this building. This suite and RTC are the only occupants of the 11th floor and nobody other than RTC staff have access to it. There is an elevator that goes only to this suite — it is walled off from the other elevators that give access to the 11th floor.
St Hill, England. The property Hubbard purchased as the international headquarters for scientology — he eventually had to abandon it and went to sea after the British government refused to renew his visa. It has been fully restored.
Then there are those buildings that have been purchased because they are “historical” — each carefully restored with only the most expensive materials and furnishings (you can find these on the scientology and Hubbard websites including interior shots):
Bay Head, New Jersey where Hubbard wrote Dianetics
Camelback Mountain, Phoenix, where he began scientology:
Linksfield Ridge, Johannesburg, South Africa where he worked hard to inveigle himself into the apartheid government:
And his offices in various cities:
Fitzroy St, London
Merrion Square, Dublin
1812 19th Street NW, Washington DC the “Founding Church” of scientology.
And finally, there are his offices in every scientology organization. This is a requirement. The nicest, most well-appointed space in any scientology org or mission is the Hubbard Office.
They even recreated his office from the Apollo in the Super Power building in Clearwater.
This is the last new scientology building to open, in Ventura California, and it is an example of the Hubbard offices that are built everywhere.
Do scientologists believe Hubbard is coming back? The story given to the rank and file was that he had gone off to “Target 2” to continue his research and forward the aims of clearing the Universe (like he had accomplished Clearing Earth??), but at the top echelons of scientology, they fully believed Hubbard was going to fulfill the motto of the Sea Org “We Come Back” and took real (and expensive) steps to demonstrate that in the “physical universe.”
Hubbard is of course overdue on his 21 year leave of absence.
This may not be the most outrageous thing about scientology’s tax-exempt status — their constant violations of public policy and fraud are more likely to result in the revocation of their exemption — but it is yet another straw that is loading onto that camel’s back.
See my new YouTube video on this now posted:
OK so if I understand the tax exempt status laws in the USA, ALL of these properties in the USA do not pay ANY tax?? Are you kidding me? Virtually uninhabited, empty real estate worth likely tens of millions of $s in just the USA alone that could be garnering funds for the county / state worth – well who knows but I am guessing a sizeable chunk of change. Ridiculous, absolutely f***ng ridiculous and no one has the guts to call this shame to task regardless of how much evidence is presented. In the meantime, the average owner of a home or business is struggling to pay their taxes and feed their families while these bastards continue to skate the system.
That’s why DM’s celebration of the religious designation is not misplaced…it allows the CoS to get away with virtually anything, commit virtually any crime, and do it at the taxpayer’s expense,
Yep, it’s a special kind of insanity Scientology. It’s an out of control group activity of the mind that makes no sense and contradicts itself at every turn. Yet, what they do is the only thing that keeps them congealed within the bubble of their own manufacture. The acquisition of money & mesty things is their God while they preach an opposing false Freedom, and, all the while the other hand behind their back holds a very sharp dagger with Hubbard’s name engraved on the blade.
Ha, the hell on earth, of which there are many, couldn’t have a better demon residence than all those empty buildings of Scientology.
Think I’ll go water the garden now. Something I know will assist in a better life for all.
It seems to me they serve as sort of shrines – not unlike traditional ones for gurus, saviours and gods. Hubbard ended up creating, what he liked to deride and hate – the traditional constructs are what work, to build followings, and accumulatie power and wealth, and in the end he could do no better.
Wanker cult has wild wanker practices and policies, including the building and maintenance of wanker palaces and wanker offices for a very dead, “hole track”(*wink, wink*)wanker who wanked prodigiously…until he didn’t…
In praise of the upkeep of an INTERGALACTIC legacy of ceaseless wanking: All hail the Yoke, the Choke, and the Stroke, Ramen!
Yay! I am a happy little vegemite, finally got the pile of goodies out of layby from my favourite bookshop Petrarch’s Books in Launceston on Tuesday and have started reading A Billion Years.
If they make a film I want Tommy Wiseau, considered the world’s worst actor, to play Doofendwunken Macabremonster.
When we were recently in Pasadena we had to visit the site where Hubbard and Jack Parsons tried to perform magic. I think it is the most likely place for him to return, but of course the house was unfortunately torn down. Scientology should buy it and restore the property to what it was like in Ron’s day. It is the missing piece.
“Hubbard’s clothes are in the closets and are laid out for him each day – his jewelry and watches, hats, boots, belts and ties along with his shirts, pants and jackets.”
Is this creepy or what?
Shades of Mrs. Danvers in “Rebecca”.
Showing the magnificent bedroom of the first, supposedly deceased Mrs. DeWinter (but was she dead, really?) by Mrs. Danvers, the spooky housekeeper, to the 2nd Mrs. DeWinter.
Rebecca’s gowns, her fabulous evening cloaks and furs kept in the closets; her dressing table with its bottles of French scent and silver brushes, the priceless, carved bedstead with its bedclothes turned down for the night and a silken night dress laid out ready for Rebecca to slip into when she returned that evening – only she didn’t return that night, she died, supposedly …All of Rebecca’s things kept by Mrs. Danvers JUST as they were the night Rebecca died…fabulous book by the way but what’s amazing is life imitating fiction – LRH’s things all kept for him in readiness for his return…Its also kind of Ancient Egyptian too, if you think about it.
Allah help them if one of those CMO messengers damaged a piece of his underwear. Per CMO order #1, a messenger on duty is an emesary ( probably spelled wrong) but I imagine that a voice would come down ordering that 12 year old messenger ( like Janice ( Gillham) Grady run around a pole to EP. What is the EP?
DEATH. Then she can join me on Target 2.
What CMO messenger would not give everything to be with LRH?
I would have done so myself and I was no messenger.
Anyone who knows me may already know that I have this opinion on the matter that I am about to state.
In my opinion Ronald Hubbard wanted Scientology to expand to the point at which ALL governments at every level would be run by Scientology techniques and they would obey the rules set forth by Hubbard or possibly his successor and that no groups would be excluded from this practice at some future date.
He had the ambition to have his name smashed into history as he described in the Skipper letter to his wife at the time.
The best way for this to happen would be for every single government to submit to Scientology and adopt Scientology.
Hubbard was not shy about getting positive attention and credit.
He certainly would have liked to have his statue in every single city and his portrait and bust in every single school and library.
The answer to the question is that Hubbard simply wants it all! And for the billions of slaves er Sea Org members he would want humanity to become?
He would have the generosity to give them the scraps from his plate! And a few minutes to shower and the working conditions and schedule of the worst Sea Org members in history! This would be the “paradise” he would leave humanity!
Imagine an RPF the size of a nation! And a hole that has millions doing the Truth Rundown for reeducation!
It would be interesting to see an accounting of how much it costs to maintain and provide security for all of these properties.
In volume 2 of the green volumes there is an LRH issue entitled “What Your Donations Buy”.
In it LRH says “the biggest part of your donation stays right in your area. It is used to make training and processing and data available…”
No wonder DM is hell bent on rewriting all of the
LRH issues.
But wait! What has obviously happened here is that xenu has escaped from his electronic prison, reincarnated as David Miscavage, and has come back to wreak havoc on all of the good things in Scientology.
– Is this true that DM is Xenu??
– Or is DM merely a greedy,
materialistic psychopath??
– Was LRH lying??
– Is LRH off to target 2?
– Is LRH coming back to take up
residence in all of his
properties??
– All of the above??
There are a lot of choices here for Believers.
Believing with a capital “B” is an affliction of the ignorant.
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“No wonder DM is hell bent on rewriting all of the LRH issues.”
Think of the paranoia – the ongoing paranoia that is David Miscavige’s underlying, fundamental motivation for all the rewrites and mandatory redos, and indeed, for everything he does, says, orders, etc.
No doubt he believes he’ll never be able to rest easy until everything that LRH wrote has either been edited in some way, rewritten and/or otherwise modified in one fashion or another to reflect his own personal imprimatur so that his obedient sheeple can be persuaded that he has uncovered “true, actual Source as LRH always intended.”
You forgot the porter they have to pay to follow him around and carry his body.
When he dropped his body, surely you didn’t expect him to just allow it to lie in the road and get run dover and mashed into an ugly pancake.
NoSireee! They hired a guy to carry the body around so that it would never get decrepit. At least no more decrepit than it was in real life.
They have been planning to use that body as a flag on the outside of the building they will erect as the IDEAL CLEAR BUILDING.
There will be a great big ceremony when they erect that building.
Obviously, you are not invited! But Claire Headley is invited. She is always invited to all these functions. In case you did not know …. LRH always had a real big THING for Claire. Seems to me that most men would have one of those for Claire.
You think?
How many Houses and office’s does a dead guy need? Apparently a LOT!
Jeepers crimany, is this getting ANYONE up the Bridge?
Worse than the government, 1 dollar for what you (think) you are helping.(maybe), and 1 dollar for a dead guy, and a midget that needs expensive shoes.
If it weren’t for the fact that as a Scientologist I was clueless to these things, I would be pissed off my hard earned money went for that, as well as embarrassed I was a part of it.
Ruth, isn’t some of the worst, how staff were virtually unpaid for sweatshop hours – and not even given adequate amenities like toilet paper? Was that at all obvious to members?
Most Public knew that Staff did not get paid a lot. Some that owned businesses either rented rooms out, or had staff as staff in off hours.
But a lot of (unrich everyman) Scientologists did not have a lot of money either. Most were Bridge broke, IAS broke. I guess it was kind of looked at like, well, they made the commitment, and we were talked into the notion that we needed to suck it up and help the planet. As you see, the mental damage that mindset can create make a lot of people blow. Total commitment with little in return for decades. It wears on a person. Long answer sorry, it’s not a simple yes or no. It’s a tangled web.
I recall asking my auditor his opinion on whether Hubbard had returned or not, this would have been about 3 years after he passed away. He said he was sure that they (without defining who “they” were) knew where he was at.
He also talked about it getting a passport from an OT 8 that would assure he got into Scientology in his next lifetime in case he didn’t make it all the way to the top of the bridge during this lifetime.
Doug,: A friend of mine asked Dr Denk who was LRH’s last doctor what he thought about the official story about LRH.
He said that Denk,s eyes rolled back and Denk said” He had a stroke. He died. End of story.,”
Very interesting thanks for sharing that. I guess I also wanted to believe that he was super human too. But obviously he was very normal just like the rest of us.
UseI am afraid so Doug. The odds of myself living to be older than 74 which was when LRH died is pretty slim. But I seriously doubt that LRH had full-blown AIDS when he died, he had no blood transfusions as I did and probably had not fucked anyone for years, just as I have not. My 2 previous 2Ds, the first one being Sharron
Elizabeth
Peterson Corbell
Maxwell wrong name.
This bitch was so horney that when we went to the Justice of the Peace in Barbados to get a marriage license she brought her former husband with us.
The justice of the Peace freaked out after seeing her divorce papers which were identical to the last persons papers he had just seen
Re: CST purchased Ron’s home in Bay Head, NJ, where he wrote DMSMH.
Two hundred years ago, The Lancet began as a weekly, international medical journal. In its Oct. 25, 2003 issue, at the death of Louis Lasagna, The Lancet summed up his life’s work: “Clinical pharmacologist, investigator of the placebo effect, proponent of stricter rules for drug approvals.”
Lasagna — drug researcher, professor and director — also had time in his busy schedule to testify, in 1962, before Congress, the same year of the publication of his book, “The Doctors’ Dilemma.” In it, readers discovered his humorous side, especially when it came to the subject of Dianetics.
He called DMSMH a “do-it-yourself-home-psychotherapy” which quickly devolved from considerable popularity in America to disfavor. “For any who wish to recapture the flavor of this eccentric psychiatric cult,” he wrote, “there are two recommended references, each almost certain to guarantee high spirits.” One of those books is DMSMH. “The other,” he continued “is a satire by Ira Wallach in ‘Hopalong-Freud’ entitled ‘Diapetics’.” “It is best,” he concluded, “not to read both, lest one become confused as to which is travesty and which straight exposition.”
In 2010, Heritage Properties International, representing scientology, purchased Hubbard’s Bay Head home for $3 million dollars. The house isn’t even open for tours.
Thank you Fred for these educational tidbits. It is important even small things such as these see print so that UTR’s and future SP’s can know what corporate Sci conveniently left out.
Linear13,
My pleasure. I hereby dedicate that educational tidbit to UTR scientologists and future SPs.
Thank you, Mike. Fascinating. I’ve not seen a list like this anywhere else and had no idea there were so many beautiful properties waiting for LRH’s return. Is Dear Leader the only person who is allowed to drop in and enjoy these properties at will or do other high ranking execs have access to them? My guess is most of the people who report directly to DM are in The Hole now, but in your day, were execs like you and Marty Rathbun allowed to travel to these places to conduct business or to party down when the boss was away?
Bunch of expensive real estate that will be available one day.
The sooner, the better.
And yet, in the next to the last picture/video it says they keep it in “honor of the religion’s Founder (capital F) and symbolizes that this Church (again, capital letter) is true to his writings and ideals”. Sheesh! These people can’t be honest for even one second (or sentence)!
What I know of CST may amuse a few of you. In 1991 I was the Repair Chief Freewinds when someone came down to the Engine Room Control room with a plaque to DM.
It was from the President of CST to our lord and savior David .MF Miscaviage on his 25 years in the S.O. He had joined the S.O. in 1976. It had gotten scuffed in transit and this messenger wanted to know if we could polish it up.
One of my juniors Josef Lamb took it up to the Machine shop. I walked in just as he was putting it in the lathe. He set the lathe to maximum RPM and turned it on. It slowly buil up to maximum speed and suddenly flew out of the lathe. Stil spinning at 600 RPM when it hit the steel deck it raced across the room and hit the steel wall. He had, no doubt clamped it lightly because he did not want to bend or warp it.
He calmly picked it up and I saw that it had numerous dents in it and looked like a piece of junk. He put it back in the lathe and took a few cuts on it to eliminate the damage. The plaque said that it was being given by the President of the Church of Spiritual Technology. He polished it up and gave it back. I heard no more about it.
I wonder if there even is a ‘President of CST’ anymore? Anyone know?
Dear Dead Man Talking Bill Mutherfucking Straass,
I love the name!
Great story; thanks for sharing it.
Dear Fred. What else could I do. This actually happened word for word as I wrote it.
It may be that others need to embellish their comments to make them interesting. I do not happen to have that problem.
And I would like to warn you that if you were to answer my comm or even read it you will be declared suppressive as I was. You will probably not see the FCO Flag Conditions Order certainly I never saw mine. They must have known that if they were stupid enough to send me a copy it would have been posted online.
Well, they surely got that right though they had an overwhelming narrative to consider me suppressive, i.e. but I have never seen my declare order. If they had they would be violating everything LRH said about Ethics Orders. Of course by then, they did not give a flying fuck what LRH said.
I imagine that you have already been declared anyway.
My main overt against the S.O. was that I failed to die as the Captain Freewinds told my then wife in his office
Fred., Your stories are worth everything I could type. I imagine that unless you are ninety years old that you will out-live me. This does not bother me in the slightest.
Glad to amuse you
Dear Dead Men Tell No Tales Bill Straass:
I have no problem answering your comm, as I’ve already been Declared a Suppressive, per Odo, a PAC Base Security Guard.
Here’s an anecdote regarding the six weeks I spent on The Freewinds in 1989:
I flew from Los Angeles twice to the ABC Islands. The first time, ship security would not let me on board. Why? Because I had not yet purchased an IAS membership. Since I couldn’t afford it at that moment, Mary Beth paid for it. Then, and only then, did security allow me to board.
Mary Beth had been my boss and the In Charge of the Los Angeles OSA US Audits Project in 1986. In 1989, I had been working at Sterling Management Systems for about two years when one day, my office telephone rang. From out of the blue, I heard Mary Beth’s voice, complete with that sweet, familiar Southern twang. She told me that she had been working on the Ship’s Audits Project, and she also had arrived at the Ship very pregnant. She hoped that I would become her replacement so that she could go ashore where a ship’s rocking wouldn’t nauseate her.
There! I wrote that and don’t feel any different: I don’t feel any less Suppressive and I don’t feel any more Suppressive.
(My thanks to Mike Rinder for supplying us this space, a place where we can meet people and stay in touch.)