It's Saturday, time for some Terra Cognita... Being Declared in Scientology…Kind of “Being declared” in Scientology—short for “being declared a suppressive person,”—lets one know he or she is an evil, despicable, and degraded being, and that everyone associated with this person should disconnect from him or her immediately. LRH said an SP is someone who, many lifetimes ago, got squashed so severely that he or she took on the valence of his suppressor. He listed the characteristics of these people in HCOPL 7 August 1965, Suppressive Persons, Main Characteristics. “Nobody puts bab … [Read more...]
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The Blame Game
Scientology plays an interesting game of taking credit for anything good AND bad in a person's life. For anything good, it's BECAUSE the person is a good scientologist "applying the tech" and for anything bad it's because the person is NOT a good scientologist and is not applying the tech and thus they are suffering their "just rewards." This "win/win" takes many forms and is a practiced art of the scientologist. If you are doing well in life and have plenty of money you are not only lauded for your "humanitarian contributions", you are expected to make sure that everyone knows it is … [Read more...]
Janis Gillham Grady Making Waves
Grief and Leaving Scientology
It's Saturday -- Terra Cognita is in the house! Grief and Leaving Scientology In 1969, Swiss psychiatrist, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross introduced her famous five stages of grief. Later, she expanded the model to include trauma such as the death of a loved one, major rejection, and the onset of disease. Over the years, others have modified her model. Her original five stages are: Denial Anger Bargaining Depression Acceptance Many Scientologists go through similar stages when leaving the church. Others pass through these stages once they’ve left. Denial Most e … [Read more...]
Scientology’s Response to Episode 6
Here is my customary response to the weekly scientology insanity that appears on their website during the airing of each episode of The Aftermath. Anyone who sees the vile invective spewed by scientology about EVERYONE who ever says anything they don't like reaches the same conclusion: scientology's reaction is evidence of the truth of the experiences each of these people recounts. This organization is hateful, vindictive and insane. No story is too incredible to be believed. There is no reason NOT to believe everything that is said by the victims. So, let's take a look at this week's … [Read more...]
Scientology The Aftermath S2 Ep 6: the Aftermath
Tonight's episode addressed another subject we get a LOT of questions about. Celebrities and scientology. And of course with the controversy over Elisabeth Moss's Emmy win for her portrayal of the victim of an oppressive system that controls every aspect of people's lives when she is a scientologist, and then Nicole Kidman's acknowledgement of the unconditional love from her 2 daughters with Keith Urban, while not mentioning the two children she adopted with Tom Cruise, there is heightened interest in the subject. I must say, because I do not feel we were really able to communicate this … [Read more...]
Scientology’s Response to Episode 5
Time to take a look at the weekly "response" from scientology to The Aftermath's latest episode. It is of course as pathetic as all their previous efforts because they cannot address the FACTS, so they exclusively deal in ad hominem attacks pursuant to scientology policy. I will endeavor to bring some semblance of truth to the stream of lies they put forth about JB and Jackson. Scientology is wearing a trail into the carpet -- everyone is a bad person, they are all "low-level" nobodies, they all have "confessions" that "prove" they are liars, cheats and thieves and not a single person … [Read more...]
Scientology The Aftermath S2 Ep 5: the Aftermath
Tonight's episode scratched the surface of a subject that many wonder about. What is David Miscavige like and how did he get where he is? Understand, he was NOT anointed by L. Ron Hubbard. Though he likes to show a declaration that HIS lawyers drafted for L. Ron Hubbard to sign in the Ron De Wolf probate case and takes a statement Hubbard made about "good scientologists" in Portland and claims it is about him -- Hubbard did not choose him. In fact there is NO written or recorded statement of what Hubbard wanted in his succession other than his will. But his will does not anoint David … [Read more...]
Scientology’s Response to S2 Special Episode 1
As has become usual now, BEFORE the show finished airing scientology had a new webpage up attacking the contributors, and deployed their twitter and Facebook bots to announce to the world that the people who appeared on the show were some very bad hombres. Of course, nothing to respond to the CONTENTS of the show. That would not be scientology. Strictly ad hominem. And some of their ad hom is REALLY low, even for scientology. I had wondered whether they would focus on me and Leah due to the nature of the show. But they just couldn't resist going after Bruce Hines -- proclaiming him … [Read more...]
Scientology’s Response to Episode 3
True to form, within minutes of the show airing, scientology put up a new smear site, with videos from Liz Gale's mother and an unidentified "family friend." To call these videos lame is to give them way too much credence. Marie Gale spends most of her time talking about me -- that I have somehow twisted Liz's mind to get her to tell her life story and that I knew all about it 20 years ago, so no news here. She also talks about Philip being accepted to MIT. Not a SINGLE RESPONSE to the destruction of the family, abandoning Liz, selling the ranch or anything else in the episode. The … [Read more...]