This is a current special edition of National Geographic about Secret Societies and Cults.
It’s broken into 3 parts. The “Modern Era” (part 3) includes:
The Italian Mafia
Skull and Bones
The Chinese Triads
Opus Dei
The Priory of Sion
The Red Brigades & Red Army Faction
Scientology
The Knights of Malta
There is a 4 page spread on scientology — two are full page photos.
It mentions The Aftermath — I have highlighted it. They have some minor things wrong, but generally it is very negative and indicates what terrible PR scientology has these days…
Things mentioned in the YouTube video:
Confront and Shatter blog with analysis of the Miscavige New Year’s event.
The audio of the New Year’s Miscavige event on Alex Barnes-Ross’ YouTube channel:
The Confront and Shatter analysis, particularly the Portland bits of the speech, had me laughing out loud. Imagine all that calming coming from the most hysterical person in the world. Amazing that I used to believe this stuff. And that people still do. And I always enjoy Hubbard’s quackery pseudo-therapy/exorcism paperpusher ex staffer 75 posts too.
I had to google the Hibberds, never heard of them till now. They sound just like your average builder building your average house in your average small towns. If I’m ever in Dubbo, Parkes, Ballina or Woop Woop, I’ll be sure to look them up.
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Now I have to go buy a copy and share it with many others!
The National Geographic reporter spent a year on and off visiting with me.
She arranged all the magazines I had.
These were stored in boxes all mingled haphazardly.
She was an orderly person.
She slowly, arranged all in category, in chronological sequence ~~
IMPACT, Advance, Celebrity, Source, Freewinds, International Scn News etc etc.
She kept coming back and I always let her pour over the magazines and take images etc.
Then 2 years went by and I heard nothing.
I guessed NatGeo had dropped whatever they were looking into.
Not SO !
What a pleasure to read the final outcome.
2 years is a long time.
I guess they checked out with their legal division thoroughly !
The WHO for this essay on the magazine lies way within the insides of National Geographic
When the cult sends a damage control fluff and froth piece to NatGeo on all their GOOD works, it will be met with a yawn
They already GOT IT.
On a side note: I was having a look at Tony Ortega’s latest piece, about the wankers…er, whales, and noticed something odd very quickly that all the photos which included Diminutive Midgettus:
https://tonyortega.substack.com/p/here-they-are-the-wealthy-whales
He’s either been very badly photoshopped in or it’s a cardboard cutout because the pose never changes in the slightest, they just seem to have moved him around a bit to make it appear that he was really there. I expect that he had pissed off by then, no doubt faeces frightened that someone might try and get at him to serve court notices.
Wow–you know you’ve got a PR problem when *National Geographic* goes after you.
Have you notified National Geographic to ship extra pallets of that magazine to LA and Tampa? I already see a certain kind of church on a buyout spree.
Pretty sad state of affairs.
But pretty much deserved.
With a name like “Scientology” (drips with pretentiousness of “scientific” solid ground) but the “ology” ending just makes it sound always to me, hokey, slimy, scammy.
“Scientology” was a poor name choice.
“Soul Memories Alleviation Pseudo-Therapy/Exorcism” would be more correct and honest.
Hubbard really ought to have let Scientology been freely accepted or rejected on the soul pseudo-therapy/exorcism practices, period.
All the Hubbard claims have always been false about the benefits of the Hubbard quackery.
Someday, someone will crack open the Subject Volumes 3, 4 and the OT Volume, and just lay out the Hubbard “commands” used to do the Hubbard quackery pseudo-therapy and exorcism.
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I remember decades ago, when my now deceased father and his now deceased sister, asked me bluntly to do some “Standard Dianetics” on them, and I put them both in some this lifetime “engram” traumas of their lives. That was the only time I employed Scientology on my family, ever.
Scientology truly is like the 1950s psychologist Rollo May cautioned, it’s not something the average public should be doing to each other, the potential for harm of the Hubbard simplistic techniques to be done on one another isn’t something average non professional therapists ought be willy nilly doing like Scientologists do to one another, even with the rigid extensive Hubbard pseudo-therapy/exorcism techniques training.
It’s still bogus quackery to let the public do on one another.
But that Hubbard quackery is out of the bag, and Subject Volumes 3, 4 and the OT Volume is the very quackery “commands” of this Hubbard bogus subject.
Awesome article. I love National Geographic!