This promo piece prompted me to re-emphasize something I have said many times in the past.
The idea that scientology is “clearing the planet” is a farce. The two most populous nations on earth — India and China — do not have a SINGLE scientology org between them. They are not making ANY Clears, and don’t even have the ability to do so.
Recently, India with 1.417 billion inhabitants, overtook China (1.412 billion) — between them they account for 35% of the earth’s 7.95 billion people. If you add Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Russia, Bangladesh, Nigeria and Egypt — all countries with no scientology org — that’s another 1.4 billion not being Cleared, bringing the unrepresented countries to over 50%.
But India is a step ahead of China — they have one mission consisting of 5 staff members. As insignificant as that is, I was curious about this mission and found this article from 20 YEARS ago about “expansion into India”
They have gone absolutely nowhere in 20 years.
If David Miscavige was serious about “clearing the planet” he would not be spending $10 million on an “ideal org” in Battle Creek Michigan or Adelaide Australia. He would open 10 ORGS in India with the same money and even pay people to join staff there. He could have opened 100 orgs for the money spent on foolish ideal org extravaganzas in the last few years — IF “Clearing the Planet” wasn’t simply a catch phrase.
If, as they always claim, people are “clamoring” for LRH “like never before” this would be a guaranteed success that would generate enormous amounts of revenue.
Of course, nobody wants LRH tech, so he has to try and maintain the facade that fancy buildings is a measure of success.
Briget says
David Miscavige isn’t serious about anything except feathering his nest (I suppose he thinks he CAN take it with him, or at least store it where he can find it again next time) and dominating other people – by any means necessary. So why the fark would he care about India??
Arnold Erickson says
Miscavige and Tom Cruise should personally lead the expansion of Scientology into North Korea. The trivialities of visas and other problems could not defeat their combined power and the Great Comrade would soon learn from the NOI example and realize how Scientology complements the juche principle.
Once they break ground on the Pyongyang org, North Korea would automatically be the first ideal nation — or if they failed it would give Miscavige a chance to experience what a real rpf can do while Tom works on another Mission Impossible. Either way it’s a win.
Glenn says
TOTALLY spot on Mike. Totally!
Wish all the whales in Scamtology would read this, confront the truth and cease giving to it. The cult is a worthless pile of shit that is not doing anything good anywhere and is only living on because their members are so thoroughly duped.
Stay the course my friend. Success is on the horizon.
mwesten says
IHELP UK has been begging for help/cash in getting groups up and running in India (and Pakistan, Bangladesh) for years. Former hereditary “Lord” Duncan McNair headed up a “pioneer project” back in the early 2010s, iirc. Assam did okay with lectures/attendees (probably because they were free) but never any wdah. Mysore averaged 3-4 wdah a week and the occasional referral to the mission in Delhi. There was also a group in Pakistan doing about 100 book one hrs a week. Other than that, zip.
Ms. B. Haven says
When scientology and India are mentioned in the same article, I immediately think of Hubbard’s ego inflating tome, ‘Hymn of Asia’. I think it’s one of his more obscure books, but one of his most telling, where he claims to be the incarnation of the historical Buddha. Elsewhere, in his usual contradictory style, he claims that the Buddha achieved a state of being that was a mere shadow of the state of ‘clear’. If that were true, we are surrounded by thousands of super buddhas with ‘clear’ certificates and ‘clear’ bracelets. Following this logic, the historical Buddha must have been a complete sham because the few folks I have been around that claim to have attained the state of ‘clear’ aren’t at all impressive. They seem to be just like any other human walking around except that they have lighter wallets and purses than they did before they got ensnared in the cult. I have also seen some folks who claim to be followers of the Buddha that range from I would describe as asshole to enlightened. Just my opinion though…
Mike Rinder says
Funny I just finished up a post on this very topic which I will publish in the next few days…
Alcoboy says
Boy, oh boy! Wait until we get an Advanced Organization in India and start delivering the OT levels! It will be so cool when India audits OT III and learns that Buddha and Lord Krishna are nothing but implants! They will come out so enlightened!
Then again, it might piss them off so bad that they could riot and burn down the AO.
The Merkabian says
Might end up becoming the first IO bulldozed or otherwise demolished by the local populace.
LoosingMyReligion says
“Then again, it might piss them off so bad that they could riot and burn down the AO.”
Quite possible. Laughing loud.