I have just finished reading Australian national journalist Steve Cannane's book Fair Game. I highly recommend it as a very well written and researched account of scientology's history and a revealing expose of newly disclosed and little known information. Steve had earlier commented that I had prompted him to embark on this exercise when I had mentioned the important role Australia had played in the history of scientology -- from the first government inquiry and ban to the Australian High Court decision defining religion and the precedent setting role of Australian media unintimidated by … [Read more...]
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Ideal Org Fail – More
Anniversaries of ideal org ribbon yankings are being celebrated routinely these days. Yet, in fact, there is little (or nothing) to celebrate. San Francisco is one of the first 4 "ideal" orgs -- way back in November 2003. That is 13 years ago. In all that time, they have NOT even achieved St Hill Size. This was the level of operation L. Ron Hubbard said was a "viable organization" -- that is above the "make-break" point. Thus, by Hubbard's reckoning any org that is NOT SH size is not viable and cannot make it in the world. He also said this: So, what is wrong with these … [Read more...]
Fleecing The Sheeple
This article is written by Lois (Jory) Reisdorf. She was one of the original Commodore's Messengers aboard the Apollo, and I have known her and her husband Gary since being shipmates together back in the 70's. They left the Sea Org in the 80's, raised 3 boys and were off anyone's radar screen. Scientology managed, as it so often does, to poke the sleeping lioness and steal one of her cubs. More on that story will be forthcoming, along with some fascinating insights into the early days of the Sea Org and L. Ron Hubbard and on up through the rise of David Miscavige. For now, this will serve as … [Read more...]
An Epic Bust: Scientology Ireland
Got a new email from an old fake friend who usually circulates the latest slime about Ron Miscavige. This time he/she was announcing the wonders of the new "Dublin Office." Prompting me to instant action, I dutifully followed the link to the scientology site to see what they had to say about this monumental accomplishment that had attendees at the IAS Event gushing about the miracle of being able to set up a whole "ideal org" without anyone even knowing! (As usual, their heads are firmly planted in the sand - it has been the topic of a lot of media and social media coverage over the … [Read more...]
Freewinds Fail
Every week in the Thursday Funnies we see promotional pieces for the latest Freewinds "seminar" about making money. I usually make some snarky comment about them. Frankly, they have become pretty tiresome. But there is a more important point to be made than pointing out that the Moneywinds is consumed with trying to suck money out of people to the point where they are pretty much full time running seminars designed to teach people how to make money -- so they can then get it from them as most people have run dry and do not have enough money to make it up the bridge. The larger point i … [Read more...]
Jeff Mintz – Back from the Dead?
Remember Jeff Mintz? He used to send around those "Good News" briefings giving the stats of Flag. I kept a running tally of them and graphed the weeks he reported (on weeks where the stats were not so good - in his view - there was no "good News Briefing" which was about 60% of the time). We haven't seen any "Good News" now since June. I guess one of two things happened. Or maybe both. The stats have been atrocious for 4 months -- they ran out of suckers to redo the Purif and Objectives, they got all the high rollers to do Super Power and nobody else can afford it or has any … [Read more...]
Shermanspeak Contest Winner
A little light-hearted entertainment for the weekend. As earlier mentioned in a comment -- a contest was launched to commemorate the annual IAS event to see who could produce the best Shermanspeak on the topic of scientology and the world today. Our winning entry is below. Dan should be proud. Throughout history, great writers have had an identifiable style -- from Shakespeare to Ernest Hemingway. Speechmakers too -- Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill come to mind. But it seems that though Sherman has developed a unique style, he follows in the tradition of another famous orator, … [Read more...]
Igniting the Golden Age of Dissemination
Apparently, this is the latest thing to "ignite" in scientology (their pants have been on fire for a LONG time). How is it that now, months AFTER the SuMP was launched, there is something else that is needed to make the Golden Age of Dissemination a reality? They told everyone that the SuMP was IT. All by itself the SuMP would reach the billions on every airwave and launch a new era of massive, epic, watershed growth as the Golden Age of Dissemination was heading straight up and vertical blah blah blah But now it seems that was yesterday's news. The REAL "ignition" is the sale of "The … [Read more...]
Two New Conditions!
The next Terra Cognita essay that follows closely the last 2: The Condition of Liabilitiness and Condition of Doubtfulness -- Terra is injecting a little more humor into this one. Though of course, satire is often mistaken for fact when it comes to the bubble of scientology. See earlier Terra Cognita: The Mind, The Way To Happiness: Really? A Story, Auditing: a PC's Quest for the Holy Grail, The Knowledge Report, Integrity, The Almighty Stat, The Reg, The Horrors of Wordclearing, Why Scientologists Don't FSM, Respect, The Survival Rundown - The Latest Scam, Communication in Scientology... … [Read more...]
Training For The Future
Following the recent post Scientology and “The Mechanism of Death” comes this, the Hubbard/scientology idea that training is "for eternity." As an added point of interest, Jessica Pantermuehl is one of Jenna Miscavige's cousins, who has of course long since disconnected from her and her mother Bitty -- Jessica's aunt. And though she no doubt knows how to confront and shatter suppressives she has not taken the opportunity to pop down to San Diego to visit her cousin and aunt (see Ron Miscavige post from yesterday). L. Ron Hubbard made the "training is for eternity" pitch many times. In fa … [Read more...]