It’s Saturday. Yay Terra Cognita
Scientology Can’t Promote Scientology Using Scientology Anymore
Besides the obvious, what do all these groups have in common?
The Foundation for a Drug-Free World.
The Way to Happiness Foundation.
Applied Scholastics.
Narconon.
Criminon.
WISE.
The answer: they’re all businesses under the auspices of Scientology with the goal of driving new people into their orgs and missions. Sure they have other, lesser purposes, but their ultimate objective is to create new Scientologists, who in turn, theoretically add to the coffers of the mother church.
The Tech Just Ain’t Workin’
Using L. Ron Hubbard technology to promote Scientology hasn’t worked for the last three or four decades. And thus, senior management has resorted to luring in new conscripts through the back door via these ancillary organizations.
Long ago, management realized that most people weren’t buying what Scientology was selling based on LRH tech. Unfortunately for them, this Plan B of creating quasi-Scientology offshoots hasn’t worked, either.
Maybe people are brushing their teeth more regularly after reading The Way to Happiness but they aren’t rushing into missions and they rinse and spit.
Dentists aren’t lining up for org services after having applied Scientology conditions to their practices.
Sober Narconon graduates aren’t flooding orgs to do the Comm Course. Reformed Criminon graduates aren’t lining up for auditing.
Kids aren’t dropping out of school and enrolling on The Student Hat after having learned how to properly clear their words and “get more mass” on subjects.
And last but least, the psychiatric industry hasn’t tossed out their text books in favor of Scientology therapy.
More Plans!
Don’t worry! DM has come up with a Plan C: blanket the planet with “ideal” orgs! And if that doesn’t work, he has a Plan D: flood the late-night airwaves with Scientology via his new multi-million dollar, renovated Hollywood news studio.
For decades, Church leader David Miscavige has promised to pound radio and TV with mainstream Scientology advertising. There always seems to be one more goal that must be met, though, before this can happen. If it’s not the release of the next Golden Age of This or That, and all parishioners having to finish their Basics, it’s the requirement that all orgs must go ideal and reach size the size of Old Saint Hill. Or some arbitrary number of OTs must reach level 7 or 8 before DM finally pulls out all the stops. It’s always something.
No doubt, Plan E has to do with the release of OT 9 and 10. (David Mayo is diligently working on it. Just another month or two!)
But People Just Wouldn’t Understand
There are many of reasons why the church can’t use its tech to promote Scientology:
Scientology must be studied on a gradient. Most of the tech is out-gradient for people.
People couldn’t “have it.” (Especially the prices, The Wall of Fire, and body thetan theory.)
People wouldn’t understand.
The literacy rate is too low. People don’t read anymore. LRH wrote for a more educated populace.
People are more degraded today; PTS to the middle class; open minded; third-partied; under the influence of psychiatry.
Everyone’s on drugs.
And of course, much of the tech just doesn’t work.
Scientology has lots excuses—I mean reasons—for man’s sorry state of affairs:
Psychiatry, bent on destroying the planet, has permeated all aspects of society.
Big Pharma has been addicting people for decades now.
The IRS has been sucking people dry.
All government is evil; its sole purpose is to keep man down.
A cabal of international bankers has been working for decades to control and bankrupt the world.
All these groups are joined at the hip and actively working to destroy Planet Earth. Their number one enemy—and the only one who can stop them—is the Church of Scientology.
Careful, Now
Scientology has to be very cautious in how they promote. The mere mention of the words Scientology, Dianetics, or L. Ron Hubbard, all too often drive people away. OT levels, Xenu, DC8s, and BT’s—the really good stuff—are all confidential. The church rarely talks about spirituality.
Orgs and missions must be circumspect with what they display in their front windows. On one hand, they want to show off their products. On the other, they’re reticent to reveal too much and cause too much attention to themselves. The fear of someone tossing a brick through the plate glass is very real.
Instead, Scientology has resorted to these auxiliary organizations to get people hooked on their tech. WISE uses LRH organizational policies to captivate doctors and dentists. The Way to Happiness Foundation uses LRH’s “common sense” precepts to entice people in the front door. The logic is that these basic guidelines make so much sense and are so easy to understand, that everything else about Scientology must be as straightforward and wonderful.
Dissemination 101
I’m not sure whether individuals are following the lead of church management or it’s the other way around. One thing is clear, though, members and management alike are afraid to mention Scientology or L. Ron Hubbard when promoting to the public.
I could not find the word “Scientology” mentioned anywhere on Narconon’s official website. I discovered one instance of the name, L. Ron Hubbard, in small type, at the very bottom of their home page.
Little to no FSMing occurs anymore as evidenced by empty orgs—many of which have been upgraded to “ideal” (FSM: Field Staff Member; all Scientologists are automatically entrusted with the responsibility of bringing all their family and friends into the fold).
The problem is individuals are embarrassed to tell their friends and co-workers they’re involved with Scientology. Deep down, they recognize the tech works sporadically at best, senior management is corrupt, prices for services are unreal, and the organization reflects many of the same characteristics attributable to classic cults. They inherently understand—subconsciously or not—that involving family and friends would actually be an overt (a misdeed, transgression, sin, or crime).
Last Words
I would be wary of getting involved with any organization that was afraid to use their name to promote their products. That was afraid of mentioning the man who “discovered” and formulated their technology—half of which was off limits and hidden under a guise of “confidentiality.” And that was afraid to open up their financial books.
Still not Declared,
Terra Cognita
They can flood the airwaves all they want and the only people they will get is someone who doesn’t know how to google scientology and probably will ask them for money. Give it up Scilons, in the age of Google it takes thirty seconds to find out Scientology is an idiotic con for money based on a silly Xenu comic bool
I want to say my favorite thing about the Terra write up here is how Terra points out that Scn is teaching FSMs not to mention Scn by example. I like where this is going.
Here’s my FSM story. When I was newly in, I did say to people that I was in Scientology and that it was great. One guy I was visiting, I didn’t know very well, worked at an auto parts store and he seemed pretty into me, and I had a boyfriend, so I just told him that there were a lot of cute girls down at Scientology.
I went off on a vacation with my boyfriend and when I came back Auto Parts guy was on course. He did a bunch of courses and then they regged him up to join staff. I would go visit him in his office on staff and say hi see how he was doing. I didn’t really see that he was doing all that great. I figured that he’d really gotten into Scientology because he was hoping to get a girlfriend. I didn’t see that happening.
Years went by and one day he was just gone. He wasn’t in the courseroom, he wasn’t at his post,he was gone. I stopped by the auto parts store and he wasn’t there anymore. So I started asking people where had he’d gone and evidently asking about someone who’s left, blown, or whatever is not okay and I was a newbie enough not to know that.
But I felt like without anybody actually telling me there was something wrong with me asking. Luckily someone told me that he had gotten a girlfriend she wasn’t in Scientology she didn’t dig it and so he left. And this person was mighty pissed off because I guess he hadn’t finished his whole underpaid staff contract.
Then somehow because I’ve been asking about him a few years later somebody gave me his address. He lived in a different town. I was going to be in that town on my next vacation so impulsively when we were on vacation I went to the address and rang the bell and he and his wife were there and they invited us in.
It was super tense. I just wanted to know how he was doing and I wanted to see who is wife was and I wanted to know that he was happy, but he seemed really uncomfortable. And after I left I realize he probably thought I was trying to recover him, which which I wasn’t.
What I got out of that was that I had done him no favors by disseminating Scientology to him. He didn’t seem any easier at communicating and he sure was uncomfortable having me around. I accidentally disseminated a bit more over the years and really was not proud of myself when people would get in because of me.
There were definitely people who considered that I was a good FSM because I did get people in. I regret every time I ever got somebody in. And the dirtiest I ever felt was when I would open the mail and there would be a $10 check or a $17 check and it would thank me for bringing in this selectee. And what a weird word. Selectee. Not new person or some other verbage. But selectee. In retrospect it sounds like something an alien would call the captured human right before they dined on him or her.That always felt like dirty money. And I sure never wanted to be a professional FSM. Just for giggles some of the people that I got in did buy auditing eventually. But interestingly enough I had dropped off as their FSM before they spent any big bucks. Not that I care.
That’s my tentative FSMing Slimeatology story and yes I feel slightly yucky poking it. But I hear confession is good for the soul.
Terra,
“No doubt, Plan E has to do with the release of OT 9 and 10. (David Mayo is diligently working on it. Just another month or two!) ”
DAVID MAYO ?
David Mayo was an old senior CS who was rumoured to have authored some of the current OT levels.
This is a better photo of the IAS car, International Association of Sc……..?
http://tonyortega.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/FB_IMG_1499336337119.jpg
Even the pretty little Fiat they bought and had custom painted to promote the IAS, has the word scientologists positioned so it disappears into the wheel well.
So you can see it’s an international association of… something, nobody knows what.
Truly ridiculous looking.
http://tonyortega.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/FB_IMG_1499336337119.jpg
Man, what a sorry assed state of affairs.
Actually the paint job on the car said “Iternational Association of” – pretty embarrassing all around.
Good points, Terra Cognita, but the real reason for the “sectors of Scientology” scam is the IRS agreements from 1993. To be registered as a non-profit you have to show that you are not organized to profit one person or a small group. Of course, Scientology at that time was organized to profit David Miscavige and his small group of sycophants, who live in well heeled luxury to this day. But they had to fool the IRS, so they invented all kinds of corporate structures, financial structures and various shadow groups.
Part of that convoluted fake corporate structure is called the “Sectors of Scientology”. This includes the “Churches” and “Missions” but also WISE, Narconon etc. These exist today mostly so Dave can say he is not simply raking in money for nothing. If the matter comes up in court, he can give lengthy bogus presentations about how Scientology is “handling drug abuse, helping criminals, exposing the criminality of psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry, educating children”. All lies in jest, but with the fancy web sites and the boutique Narconon facilities they can put on a good show in court.
This is also the reason for the Ideal Orgs – Dave has to be able to show he is spending all that cash on something besides his John Lobb shoes and private jet jaunts to the Caribbean for scuba diving. There is a lot more about this at Jeffrey Augustine’s site, https://scientologymoneyproject.com/
I have to say, this is Dave’s show now but Hubbard started it. The IRS revoked Scientology’s tax exempt status in the 70s because it was obvious that Hubbard was benefitting personally from the scam. Hubbard had to go into hiding and became obsessed with cash. Possibly understandable because of the huge judgements against him, but if he really thought he was doing a humanitarian crusade there are lots of ways he could have reformed. He chose to continue the scam and rake in as much cash as possible.
For those who yearn for the “good old days” when Scientology was there to help people, realize that it was always a scam for Hubbard. From Dianetics to the fake religious Scientology to his dying day he was in it for the money. The good old days that you remember were created by the staff and followers, who were taken in by the high flown rhetoric Hubbard used to fool them. All through the history of Scientology there were followers who believed, and who converted Hubbard’s ambiguous ramblings into something they could use to help people. Then Hubbard would take all the credit and twist their work to his ends.
But there was never a real “Bridge to total freedom”. That is and was a lie Hubbard got from Aleister Crowley. So the very best you can say about Scientology is that sometimes it makes you feel better, when it is done by someone who cares about what happens to you and is not just following a formula. But that is just an unintended byproduct for Hubbard, he was in it for the dough.
Bruce, those “sectors” and the scamming mentioned were established in the early 80’s. Before DM took over and a decade before the ’93 IRS agreement.
I’ve been wanting to comment every time someone mentions Aleister Crowley in connection with Hubbard and Scientology and today happens to be the day I do that. Bruce, this is not directed at you personally. I would just like to try and dispel some of the myth that has grown around Aleister Crowley, L. Ron Hubbard, and the CoS.
I’ve been a student of Crowley and a member of the Ordo Templi Orientis or O.T.O. for over 10 years. I have also been interested in and studying Scientology for the last 8 or so (from the outside). I was curious about how the system was structured and how it worked compared to other systems of initiation. I consider myself an amateur theologian so take this for what you will. I claim no other authority than my own.
I agree that some of Hubbard’s early ideas were influenced by his time with Jack Parsons and the O.T.O. Hubbard never met or directly corresponded with Crowley himself. By the time Hubbard had codified Dianetics and Scientology, any trace of influence from Thelema and/or Crowley was absent or grossly misunderstood and perverted to Hubbard’s own ends. There are examples of Hubbard stealing other’s ideas and claiming them as his own as well as inventing things himself that he attributed to others.
The very ideals of Scientology are the antithesis of Thelema. Hubbard’s “Tech” and the Church of Scientology have absolutely nothing in common with Crowley’s Thelema or the O.T.O. I’m not here to defend Crowley, I’m am here to defend Crowley’s philosophy and ideas that have helped many people find their own route through life. Crowley was who he was and you’re welcome to take him or leave him. He never claimed to be the be-all end-all of anything and was not a man who wished to be imitated by his followers. Crowley blazed a trail and said this is my way, find your own way or not, it’s your choice. Hubbard blazed a trail and said this is the only way, follow it or lose your eternity.
To say “…there was never a real “Bridge to total freedom”. That is and was a lie Hubbard got from Aleister Crowley.” is comparing apples to oranges. One could as easily say he got the idea from the Buddhist concept of Nirvana, a state that frees one from being forced to reincarnate into matter after death. According to Hubbard, The Bridge to Total Freedom culminated with the unleashing of the full power of the Thetan. Giving it full conscious control over MEST, complete whole track memory, and the ability to exist any where in any time, freeing it from being forced or tricked (programmed?) into taking on a “meat” body.
Crowley did teach methods of self-actualization as a process of liberation that occurs within the individual in present time. It doesn’t require a belief in reincarnation, or past lives, to remain a valid and workable system. Crowley never claimed that this granted any sort of objective powers to directly influence reality. It doesn’t make one a super human, it helps one to become a better human. Nothing in the core beliefs of the CoS, Hubbard’s OT levels, resembles anything in, or shows any influence from, the ideas of Crowley, Thelema, or the O.T.O.
In the end I would like everyone to ask themselves, do the systems they left behind work? Are they beneficial or harmful? Are you free to “do what thou wilt” or are you forced into someone else’s rigid hierarchy? Are you expected to abandon your morals and values for the good of the group or mankind? Are you encouraged or even allowed to have your own thoughts, beliefs, and opinions? To explore and decide for yourself what is right for YOU as an individual? Let the systems stand on their own and then decide. Debating about the personal lives of Hubbard or Crowley misses the point. Focus on the ideas, not on the men that had them and always keep in mind, any man’s ideas can be twisted to suit the ends of another.
“A Student” – I like this. It’s clearly and well stated. Hubbard picked and chose and plagiarized from numerous occult sources including Blavatsky, Besant, etc. etc. to fit his own purposes and reality.
A long time scn blogger has done extensive research on Hubbard’s occult usages and says he will publish his research soon.
There is a commenter under the name of George White, whose area of specialty this is. I believe that in addition to interesting comments on various forums, there is at least one article to be found on Tony Ortega’s website. George also wrote a book, Lucifer’s Bridge: Scientology’s Lost Paradise, under another name, that can be found on Amazon.
If you haven’t see it already, the interview Hubbard’s son “Nibs” (who changed his last name to Dewolf) did with Penthouse magazine back in the 1980s is interesting. Some of what he says, in general, sounds dubious, though I suspect that may be because he is repeating tall tales that his father told him about Soviet spies and such. But I think what he says about how Crowley’s work continued to be an influence behind the scenes, gets at the truth.
I have mentioned before, I think that Scientology is more of a sort of initiatory esoteric order than most people realize – and that the people at the very top, or perhaps particularly Miscavige, may have very different practices and beliefs that are kept secret, quite likely as Hubbard himself did, and significantly rooted in his take on Crowley.
And I agree that ideas are important, but in the case of Scientology, it hangs so much on the claims and personality of Hubbard, and particularly his reputation for inquiry and honesty – or lack thereof – that it is legitimate to point out that his personal history makes it extraordinarily unlikely that he achieved the sort of things he said he did, without going into the details of trying to debunk his pseudoscience and dysfunctional organization.
I’d agree with you in general about the philosophical points. But Scientology is committing significant abuses, and doing substantial harm to people. Unless you subscribe to the darkest take on Crowley’s sort of proto-satanic utilitarianism, it’s not alright to ignore other people’s suffering.
PM and Student – This is from memory of conversations on Marty’s blog over the last year and a half. George M. White had been working with a Buddhist monk translating some Buddhist writings from Pali and had posted some fascinating details about the life and times of the Buddha. The monk got transferred so that got put on hold.
Someone posted some videos by a rock and roll group called “Ghost” which has a “Satanic” stage act. One of the videos piqued George’s interest and he went onto a two month toot (lol) of investigating Hubbardism/Occultism. He posted several verbatim plagiarisms from Blavatsky and others.
“Student” may or may not return. He/she does not want his/her practice of O.T.O. aligned with scn. Incidentally, wiki states that in a 2002 BBC poll Crowley was listed as 73rd on a list of “Greatest Britons.”
Here’s the animated video which got George’s interest. From a caption in the video “What if man could harness the power of a god? In a sense, he would need god no longer, yes?” Have fun.
“From the Pinnacle to the Pit” by Ghost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A-IoOEPbUs
Bruce: Good analysis.
SWIM (someone who is not me) wants to know when their TV station will light up?
DC8s… Ha Ha Ha…
LRH and Scientology are the biggest laughing stocks of the last century.
I listened to his drivel about this sun of ours being star 12 and three or four galaxies away some thetan invented evolution as a lark… (galaxies, pronounced GAL-UH-XIES by the grotesque man that sucked greedily at the saliva that soaked his poisoned words… seriously, listen to the recordings of that misfit LRH, you might want to take a shower after listening to him).
LRH was the biggest buffoon that has ever sprouted out of the earth, in my opinion, in the last few centuries. I cringe when I hear people describe him as some sort of genius. The smartest fool is still a fool.
Another fine essay Terra. Even so, I’m going to pick a small nit with the following (at least as it applies to Narconon):
“…they’re all businesses under the auspices of Scientology with the goal of driving new people into their orgs and missions. Sure they have other, lesser purposes, but their ultimate objective is to create new Scientologists, who in turn, theoretically add to the coffers of the mother church.”
I used to think that this was the case too. Especially when I was on staff. But with Narconon, the customer base for the most part couldn’t even come close to paying for the cost of the program. Most people that I know that have/had drug abuse problems couldn’t hold a job, and if they could, their top priority in life was maintaining a supply of their substance of choice, legal or illegal. Saving the money for an expensive drug rehab program just isn’t in the cards for these folks. BUT, there are plenty of people who have drug abuse problems that are signing up for drug rehab programs. They pull it off because concerned friends and families cough up the dough for them. The cult knows these people are desperate to help their loved ones and there is the ready source of cash. NOW. Concerned loved ones are the ones being ‘regged’. Sure, from the cult’s point of view, it would be great if a rehabbed patient got hooked on the ‘tech’, but the they have no ability to see beyond this week’s stats and if there is cash in the kiddy by Thursday at 2:00 that’s all that really counts. With the current opioid epidemic in the USofA, Narconon should be busting at the seams and their coffers should be overflowing. With the success rates that they claim, you would think that their main problem would be maintaining some sort of order amongst the addicted masses trying to break the doors down to have a taste of the ‘only workable tech’ on the planet. Thanks to the public’s ability to GTS (google that shit), Narconon just isn’t doing so well these days. That is if you believe what you hear out on the far flung fringes of the internet.
Also, with the all powerful IAS and OSA doing their jobs so well, you would think that they would be conducting very effective campaigns against the legalization of marijuana. Well the last time I checked legalization is most definitely on the rise (despite the horses asses in the current USofA administration). In fact I recently strolled into a newly opened pot shop in my hometown and I can GUARANTEE you that they are getting more people in the door on any given day than ANY Ideal Org on the planet. The shop is only 160 sq ft and they don’t/can’t even advertise. No body routers or reg on staff and there sure as fuck is no ethics officer either. Just a friendly staff selling people what they want. Though no one I saw was writing a success story, there were GIs and VGIs all around. Personally, I found the Gold Creek Kush to be just as advertised. Unlike scientology.
They often bill the insurance companies as well. And some times double bill the client or their parents and the insurance co. They were once doing well enough to pay the execs high salaries, a rarity in Scientology land. It is just a business, much like the cigarette industry, that doesn’t care about the health of their buying public.
Mimsey
Ms. B: Excellent points.
If I ever were to write a book on the subject, I would call it: Scientology, A New Slant On Hype.
Yes and Caesar … I mean Miscavige just can’t admit that he is a total failure. OSA is there to hide that fact. And they fail. Even the sheepologists know they are failing, that’s why they can no longer mention their own “religion”. It has such a negative AND laughable position to most people in society today that I doubt it will ever recover. Certainly not with that sociopath at the helm.
Great essay, TC!
$cn appears to have slipped down its own bogus tone scale, from “Punishing bodies” to “Hiding from bodies,” which makes it really hard for any of its members to engage with normal people in a regular way.
They just come across as robotic or creepy and predatory, neither of which makes you want to follow them anywhere due to some instinctive fear of getting your soul sucked out of you or the like 😉
The cherch’s negative brand equity has reached near full saturation in the U.S. after the first season of Leah and Mike Cult Dismantlers series. By the end of season two, it will be close to world-wide!
Tommy Davis, please come back. Handle that black propaganda like nobody’s business. ?
I miss him!! CO$ ragerperson.
Darkly Maniacal has turned $camology into a twisted form of Snakes and Ladders. People start at square one (and pay for each square no matter what) and work their way to a ladder which may take them one or two levels up only to land on a snake which drops them right back to square one. Rinse and repeat ad nauseam. Money, however, is a different matter. The whole game board is an almost invisible ladder which shunts the cash straight to a small square called CoB.
Sounds like the cult is collapsing – GOOD!
I beg to differ. I know of a Idle Morgue that has 3 people on course! Three! That’s practically half a course room! Don’t tell me they’re expanding!
3 people on course??? Even Ripley would have a hard time believing that.
$camology is giving Sisyphus a bad name.
Last sentence of Camus’ essay: “We must conclude (that) Sisyphus happy” (don’t ask me how I pulled that out of my brain). Miscavige is a lot of things, but happy? With all that bad karma? I doubt it.
left out ‘is’ before happy; sorry.
Georgia businessman, John Nesbit, Thecustomerfactory.net suggests it’s an advertising agency. (Facebook)
I think it’s Scientology.
It’s located on the Northside of Atlanta suburbs. It’s on Facebook to help chiropractors and dentist. Thoughts?
Is that Nesbit the same as the one mentioned here?
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/scientology-fundraising-the-reality/
Yes!
$cientology always was a moving target type of scam. No matter what happens, when enough people reach the previous target, or that target is invalidated, a new target must be brought forth.
If the Clampire got to the moon, salvation would not occur until it got to Mars….etc, etc….etc and so on and so forth…
No matter what the target, in $cientology, it will never be reached. Now, where is my favorite parking space at the mall?
It scares me every time I hear of a Scn front group trying to weezel their way into schools or after school programs. Trying to trick little kids who don’t know better & don’t yet have the critical thinking skills to question what their being told. I just hope all parents out there are educating their kids about this scam.
Yes, very scary. They’ve even weaseled their way into Christian schools, of all places. There’s a huge problem of opiate abuse and drug overdoses in my neck of the woods. I worry that law enforcement, alway under pressure to “do something” about the drug problem, is vulnerable to their enticements.
Christian schools?
How’d they pull that one off?
The Church of It’s Always Something. You can’t win for trying. It’s all rigged.
Kind of a double edge sword……CO$ doesn’t want “their people” to use the internet….yet in our world today nearly EVERYTHING is ON the internet.
You can practically order your heart’s desire in clothes, household goods, baby products, food, stuff for your car, pet food & treats, review apartments/homes for rent or sale….find a qualified contractor, plumber, mechanic, dentist/doctor/therapist…….
OR Read the TRUTH about Scientology…..that’s why the internet is a NO NO..
or… buy a $cios book … and read it online!
You mean download for free?
Buying a scilon book is so outdated. 😛
I have some article requests here,
1)I would like a heat map of the least Scientology places in the country, and in the world at large for my contemplation- that would be a cool article
2)I would also like your opinion: is it better to live in a community familiar enough with Scientology and having lots of ex scientologists in order for people to understand where you’re coming from? Or simply better to go to a non scio zone?
3)I also would love to see more reporting on annual fundraising and see how it compares to the previous year’s. This would give me a little comfort that perhaps one day I won’t be stalked and “psyched out” by weird people apparently following me around and doing odd things.
Thanks!
I will tell you that Wis is pretty devoid of sickentology.
There is a supposed mission in Racine. I have seen others google it. It is in a dead strip mall.
However there is an Idle Morgue in the MInnesota and there is an abandoned building slated to be an Idle Morgue in Chicago.
Don’t know how parts of the country are dealt with
I just checked. There are only three $cion orgs or missions in all of New England: the Boston Org is actually in Quincy, MA. I can’t imagine it’s doing much body routing. One org in New Haven, denied a building permit by the city and apparently going nowhere fast. The “Hartford” CT mission (note the quotation marks) is actually in Rocky Neck and appears to be a residential building. No evidence of the plague here in VT.
Up north: orgs in Quebec and Montreal (large cites, of course), but Narconon got booted out of Quebec. There you have it
Its true, most people are afraid to show what scientology is
Narconon was a front group but handled by enthusiastic people, not scientologists and most of them graduates
Narconon started in a jail thanks to William Benitez with support but not so excesive control from the church.
Now Narconon Arrowhead, who used and supposed to be the bigger and best Narconon is just having 20 people instead of 160 to 180 ten years ago, centers arround the country closed and no longer deliver as those in Northern California, SoCal centers are dealing with legal matters, Stone Hawk used to have more than 100 people and now less than 20, Europeans are contracted, italians used to be the best guys but now are just a few with an average 10 students inside, by the way Narconon used to have arround 1000 sudents on program and now are just less than 200 worldwide.
COB changed the program and open new NN facilities even for Celebrities but once the SO took the management and stats down 5 times, the SO doesnt know anything about management, zero about how to handling addictions of families but they show up as the group that will make expansion, with new fancy facilities, visuals, signs and uniforms, same as the church.
Just Bullshit
Well done T.C.
If the tek werked none of us would be here. If a company advertises a tool that gives one the names & contact information of sales prospects but after purchase you learn it is just a large book of first names with NO OTHER DATA. Even though you could thereafter use it as a paperweight or doorstop, that does NOT mean that the product worked.
Most apologists are of that mind. They will admit that it does NONE of the major things advertised BUT, it does work because they can use it as a “paperweight” and THEY only got into scamology because they needed a “paperweight” and NOT for what was being advertised. R-I-G-H-T
This times 10.
Scientology: the religion that dare not speak its name.
How true. I remember working a book booth with an SO member. A woman approached the booth, picked up a copy of DMSMH, saw LRH’s name, and asked the SO member if the book was Scientology. The SO member told her no and that the booth was not connected to Scientology. This is laughable as it says in the book that the Hubbard Dianetics Seminar is available at any Church of Scientology. I agree, TC. The cult will go to any length to cover up its Scientology roots.
Very good Terra. You’ve stated the obvious on a not so easy subject to convey with its important attributes covered. It’s sure easier to say it’s ALL bullshit and leave it at that. NO ONE is more responsible for the condition of Scientology than Scientologists themselves. It’s the best demonstration of marketing gone organizationally insane I’ve ever seen and I was in it once, doing and adding to that insanity for awhile before the lies just became too much to live with. I did however, see and experience the wiping out and getting rid of anyone who could get any type of result with the tech of auditing. I still remember to this day being bewildered by having my CSs rejected and overridden. Sec checks were routinely ordered and PCs were put on a merry-go-round of never ending reviews and ‘technical make wrong’ become the norm. A franticness developed on technical lines, which at the time I just couldn’t understand the craziness behind it, until I was attacked and forced out of the organisation by its spreading but heavily enforced and justified insanity.
As both an auditor & supervisor I became a target for executive assholes who began blaming me for the massive stat and income drops, while at the same time they promoted and enforced change into everything. So many capable people just walked away in disgust or were thrown out. I really don’t care anymore but for whatever this statement is worth, it takes a heck of a lot of hard work and honest dedication to become an auditor.
Explained well, without the attack mode in full swing within this blog, is an evolution of evidence by SO members very closely associated with Hubbard that directly and indirectly exposes the insanity starting and developing with Hubbard himself and spreading like a wildfire through the minds of those that believe they are Scientologists. Not all Hubbard did and said was insane but everything about organizing Scientology led to insane interpretations of it by crazies calling themselves Scientologists. Hubbard himself demanded elitism – signing a contract and putting on a uniform doesn’t make you suddenly superior to the human race! Some of the ‘tech’ is actually quite therapeutic but that sort of application cannot be administered or tolerated in an insane organisation.
Scientology killed Scientology! Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying there is validity that the Bridge will set you free like Hubbard said, it’s just that I now think his lies and exaggerations eventually caught up with him and forced him to retaliate against his own conscience by writing the KSW series and introducing space cootie tech which puts the blame solely and always on “others,” staff members also fall into that category too. Hubbard died while still trying to discover a way of auditing his way out of his own mental dilemmas with the goal of never having to take responsibility for his own greedy and ill thought out actions. The tech he wrote in his own private, iron walled clad ivory tower, surrounded by and catered to by naive teenagers explains him rather well. Pity he never applied it to himself! Hubbard never spotted the fact he was his own worst adversary.
“Hubbard himself demanded elitism” “Scientology killed Scientology” … excellent analysis.
I Yawnalot – I blew scn in 1983 because of the price increases. I had spent some time as a mission staff auditor but was public at the time I blew and wasn’t aware of the KSW hardliners.
Becoming a Dianetic and Class IV (scn grades) auditor could be accomplished in about the same time as doing a semester in college which gave rise to the hope that scn could produce a widespread impact. Becoming a Case Supervisor as you did would require a lot more work.
Just for conversation, a couple of years ago I was playing with a Walter Mitty fantasy. It was fun so I let it ride. Two days later it was taking on a life of its own and I yanked myself out of it by telling myself “Go do some MEST (physical) work!” which I did. – Laughter – Imagination gone wild. Hubbard might have played with “What would it be like to be the Buddha.”
TC, interesting thoughts – as always.
Just yesterday, I was pondering what sort of programming and advertising Scientology could actually create and broadcast (or webcast) using SuMP. I think management doesn’t even quite know – and maybe had some “postulates” (pipe dreams) such as creating significant synergy with other religious groups, that were dashed when it turned out that organizations willing to send representatives to the occasional event, don’t want to be identified with Scientology too publicly. And I suspect that the Scientology history productions for which they were putting out casting calls, and for which they probably also had high hopes, are mired in something like the sort of process that resulted in the Battlefield Earth movie. That’s why at the point even well after the facility’s opening, when they had promised the start of broadcasting, they’re still casting about as if the problem is finding enough money to produce content.
Most importantly, even if SuMP somehow did manage to drive thousands of people into the orgs, as some true believers in management may think, and the membership has apparently been lead to believe, they really don’t have a lot of Scientology to offer. The orgs have so long been focused on fundraising, status, and getting diehard members to do and re-do mundane “basics” courses, that actual delivery of auditing has withered. That dilemma has also been reinforced at the supply end, because their current approach tends to produce rote, robotic auditors rather than the ones who used to bring the humanity and compassion that made an inherently ineffective process into a more engaging experience; and that terrible (or non-existent) pay and abusive working conditions make it hard to attract and retain anyone, much less good people, regardless of the occasional pushes to train new auditors in multiple languages.
Scientology can’t even deliver Scientology anymore, even if they could manage to promote it in a way that generated new interest in their dated and ineffectual practices and materials.
Okay, here’s the SuMP lineup:
9am: Good Morning Wog World!
10am: Live with David Miscavige.
11am: Soap Opera-As The Org Turns.
12pm: SMP news hour.
1pm: Soap Opera-The Edge Of Clear.
2pm: Game Show-Donate Till You Drop!
3pm:Cartoons- Smarty the Squirell and Auditor Boy.
That’s just for starters.
I worked at a WISE Co in Clearwater and the Owners allowed IAS Fundraisers and the CO WISE EUS to virutally set up shop there to solicit funds from their clients and staff. The CO WISE was even allowed to partake in staff meetings, where many of the staff weren’t Scientologists. I’ll never forget the day he announced to us that the reason for our existence was to create and support Ideal Orgs for Scientology!
Note: I’m including this in my book soon to be published. “Under Pressure- Memoirs of a Scientology Fundraiser”.
Please let me know when the book is pubished!
my name then @live.com
Hi Kay Marie,
A book with a WISE background is a great idea.
Wise is a scam and a cancer all of its own .
If I count from my own experience and leave out dentists and chiros which classify as professions,not businesses based on 75 examples,about 60% of business that get into WISE go bankrupt or shrink at least 50% in 5 years.
Apart from employing Scientologist as telemarketers in Clearwater or David Morse employing Scientologists as ethics officers cannot think of many businesses that were successful. on the long term.Can you?
Example of what happens when WISE gets into a company: Smart software engineer,Greg Jensen.Did OEC-FEBC 3 l’s OT 8 and everything else. http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/c/craig-jensen.html
Result:
http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Condusiv-Technologies-Reviews-E8547.htm
Me too! This I must read.
Looking forward to your book, Kay.
Hi Kay Marie Rowe,
I realize it is possible to separate a Fundraiser, a Registrar and an FSM and hope for your readers you will explain the difference or the possible conflation.
I also know there is there is a great deal of connection or relationship to the pressure that the ‘selectee’ as well as the Fundraiser could be undergoing. I would hope that you have some mention of the result of this often tremendous financial pressure which precipitates all kinds of other pressures upon the donor such as bankruptcies, job or career changes, family life as well as the foregoing of better investments possible with the funds.
Of course there are the suicides such as Greg Bashaw and murder by Rex Fowler.
I hope these are addressed because someone needs to make it well known, in book format this huge and ubiquitous and if I may say so heinous activity.
I honestly don’t understand why state attorney’s or even the Fed trade or commerce departments don’t go legal on this activity which should be rather easy to get so much evidence for charges.
Regardless if you have addressed these areas I look forward to reading your book and thank you for even writing it.
Great comment, Kay, and let me tell you my story. When I was on staff, we had a WISE seminar at the org. There were several tables set up and on one of them was a booklet that was only about twenty pages long. I asked the WISEguy in charge if I could have it and he angrily told me that the booklet was fifteen dollars.
WTF?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fifteen dollars for a slender booklet that most churches and groups give away? The damn thing was only about twenty pages long! And the WISEguy was hawking this for fifteen dollars??????!!!!!!
This is the kind of shit that Mike and Leah and all of us are raising hell about!
Thanks for sharing your story too. Amazing what the whole picture looks like when we put all the pieces together.
Kay: Looking forward to your book.
The question is : We all see the problems with Scientology, but what is the solution? In fact, is there any solution? Is it still possible to save the good part of the tech, or is it too late and the whole thing – including the good things- has to be erased and forgot totally ?
And that my friend is a question that can only be answered individually, if indeed self-determinism is a goal worth pursuing. Having someone else answer it for you isn’t such a good idea as Scientology or any other cult has clearly demonstrated. Whatever was good with Scientology has already blended into a soup with a lot of other stuff. Some are working to keep it from blending further.
The possibility of a group of self determined individuals forming and working towards a solution for the greatest good for all mankind? mmm… no comment.
The concept of self-determinism, to be achieved through observing strict dictates, hero worship. I have a comment or four. Dichotomy. Polar opposites. Cuckoogoogoo. Crazymaking.
Gui, do what ever you like. If you feel there is enough good there to use, use it.
My question to you is, what problem are you trying to solve?
The ‘whole thing’ (ie Dn and Scn) was set us as a way to entrap people and make money for the Founder. Any part of it that ‘works’ was included just to hook people in, and can be found in many other philosophies and teachings – for free!
Having been born into Scn, and getting out 35 years later, I can say with absolute certainty that there is nothing about Scn worth saving. It should be brought down, fully and completely exposed and destroyed for the destructive force it has been and continues to be in so many people’s lives. The injustices and abuse commited in the name of Scn is heinous – no organization that carries out and covers up so much abuse in the name of ‘religion’ should be allowed to continue if there is ANY justice in this world.
“can be found in many other philosophies and teachings – for free!” Amen to that I totally agree, I just recently found Alan Watts and Esther Hicks, and just that has satisfied the search I had in Scientology, thanks to the internet that makes this available for free.
“The question is : We all see the problems with Scientology, but what is the solution? In fact, is there any solution? Is it still possible to save the good part of the tech, or is it too late and the whole thing – including the good things- has to be erased and forgot totally ?”
Gui, as Wynski told you, it is an individual choice. But let me ask you something that can be used as an analogy; You are a student of science – of physics for example – and in your studies of many authors you discover one who was found to have lied many times in his alleged “discoveries” and “research”. You as a science lover always seek truth and real answers to the physical phenomena of life. Let’s also assume for the sake of discussion, that this author – besides his lies and faked research – has actually found a few answers here and there but nothing that hasn’t been discovered before. Perhaps just better ways to describe those answers, and some minor original additions but nothing that produces better results than what had ALREADY been discovered by others. Now I ask you this Gui, would you be willing to walk down the path that this author walked on, having to filter the fake and unreal from the “good”, or would you rather totally dismiss this author and decide instead to keep your mind and efforts on the ones that have been proved to be serious and honest about their researces? What would you do in that particular situation?
Your answer to that question would also be your answer to the question you posed in your post.
Well posited Thetaclear.
Gui, I spent 40 years believing in LRH and after 3 years I’m left with – a broken 24yr. marriage to one I loved, 2 children who won’t speak to me and the contact assist that works pretty good. Its different for each or YMMV (your milage may vary). I’m not sorry or regretting – that’s just the facts. I’m better off for it all ~ I know what shit piles look like now 🙂
Another great article. I wonder what Terra Cognita thinks of the Marty Rathbun videos?
Song of the kool-aid drinker:
BTs and clusters
And service facsimiles
Shattering SPs
From here to eternity
David Miscavige
His praises we sing
These are a few of my favorite things
Set to a backdrop of a concentration camp in Austria.
Brilliant Oliver
I was forced to endure two cycles of the three weekend courses at MGE for my my dental position over a period of 4-5 years. Luckily we only live on the other side of Florida, but dentists were flying entire staff’s in from Calif and Oregon! Some of these guys were just trying to make their practices solvent and yet they had been hooked by this “get rich quick” by paying us a huge amount of money scam. Luckily my boss finally saw the light and stopped dragging us over there. The only good part was that I got a lot CE credits for my license.
Get on the road to freedom
Help me fleece all mankind
The pain and all the sorrow
Are yours my friend not mine
L. Ron Hubbard
Nuclear Physicist (wink)
You mean to tell me there’s a Nuclear Wink? I’ll never Wink again. I promise…
Only if wearing Nuclear Boots. Sorry. I think in song….
These Nuke Boots are made for walking, and just what they’ll do, one of these days those are going to explode all over you.
I think in song too…
When you’re a sheep, you’re a sheep all the way
From your first touch assist to your last OCA.
When you’re a sheep, let ’em do what they can
You got Ron in your head,
You’re a Miscavige man!
You’re never alone, you’re never rejected!
You’re home with your own
When family’s disconnected,
You’re well protected!
Then you are set with a capital S
Which you’ll never forget till your last dyin’ breath.
When you’re a sheep, you stay a sheep!
Oliver: Brilliant! I could hear the accompanying music in my head.
I think Nuclear Wink is some sort of eye drop.
It is, but, it packs a wallop! It’ll light you up,
As written by LRH and sung by the oh so illustrious John Travolta!
People today don’t have the attention span or time to devote to reading Scn books..tech as they call it
What is this thing you call ‘reading.’ Is it some sort of rundown?
You said it – the Church of Fear and Paranoia that governs its parishioners with deceit, lies and censorship.
Nice religion.
Don’t forget forced abortions.
Nor credit card increases.
Yes, I love these blogs, Thanks Mike for keeping up with it, does anyone know when Aftermath 2nd season is starting,?
I’ve been paying attention to alot of these comments and so many people point out the what ifs,D.M.has brought down the Cult of Scientology on his head, but he’ll never own it!!!