THIS IS IMPORTANT Leah Remini: Scientology and The Aftermath is reaching far and wide. As a result, there are a lot of people coming forward with their own stories of abuse in the church. We set up an email for people to report things ([email protected]) and soon hope to have a website (if I can find the time to put it together). But there is one thing that has come up repeatedly that I wanted to comment on publicly. The supposed "confidentiality agreements" many have signed. Though this mostly applies to those signed by Sea Org members, most staff and many public have also … [Read more...]
Lois Reisdorf Part 6 – Rise of David Miscavige
Rise of David Miscavige I made an appearance on ABC's 20/20 on April 29th of this year for their program about Ron Miscavige. Doing this TV show was the first time I was speaking out after almost 35 years – it was hard for me to do. My appearance (in the first 10 minutes) was due to the fact that I had a missing link not covered in Ron Miscavige Sr. book RUTHLESS: how did the rise of David Miscavige happen? ABC filmed about 20 minutes of me telling this story, but only 2 minutes was used on the show. The “church’s” response to my appearance was something on the order of –“Lois w … [Read more...]
Starting SuMP Operations?
The never ending promise of "how we are going to Clear the Planet." "Find out exactly what needs to happen to start operations at SuMP" Seriously? Dear Leader yanked a ribbon on a facility that was not ready to start operations? But he told everyone this was now rolling? That was not true? How could that be? The most ethical man in the universe is not being ethical? Just when IS this SuMP going to start broadcasting? And what is holding them up? Hell, they have a $100 million (at least) studio decked out with more state-of-the-art equipment than Diseny Studios. And they have the … [Read more...]
Scientology’s Only Hope…maybe
See earlier Terra Cognita: We Deliver What We Promise, Getting Emotional, Intention, Clear Schmear, Do Not Evaluate for the Preclear, The E-Meter, The Is-Ness of Is-Ness, Cause Over Life -- Really?, BT's in the Belfry, Two New Conditions!, The Condition of Liabilitiness, Condition of Doubtfulness 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... Or Not, … [Read more...]
Scn Aftermath Episode 2: Scientology Sort Of Responds
Hurricane Leah continues to roll, blowing aside the scientology house of cards in its path. Their denials and ridiculous responses are becoming lamer and less believable by the day. Their latest effort now takes issue with the fact they harass people. Everything they do is dictated by the L. Ron Hubbard Playbook for dealing with critics. But interestingly, more and more media are following Leah's lead of treating the scientology responses with tongue-in-cheek mockery. Here is a short excerpt from E!News: In Tuesday night's all-new Leah Remini: Scientology and the … [Read more...]
Scientology Aftermath Episode 2 Aftermath
The show has aired, my laundry has been hung out for all to see, and now it's on to Episode 3. As always, I am interested in your views - including criticisms and things you think might be better explained or covered (and I will try not to respond to everything with "it's in a later episode.") I also suspect there are quite a number of new people who are coming to this blog for the first time. To all of you, welcome. I thought you might find it instructive to be directed to some earlier postings I have done that may help explain some things if you just watched the show … [Read more...]
Scientology The Aftermath Episode 2
Tonight's show focuses on me and addresses the subject of Fair Game. There is a short teaser for the show on the A&E Facebook page. Tony Ortega has a review of the episode on his blog today. Obviously there is a huge amount of territory to cover and it's SO difficult trying to figure out what to include and what to explain and how. You don't really understand this until you try to do it. And it is especially difficult to have perspective on a program that focuses on you. Obviously there are many things I have spoken about during the filming of this series that won't ever see airtime. … [Read more...]
Lois Reisdorf – Part 5 (1978)
1978 was a crazy year, very tumultuous. LRH arrived back to La Quinta in January of 1978 after Mary Sue had moved to LA to handle her criminal case from the Snow White FBI Investigation. While he was gone, during the last half of 1977, the messengers and most of the crew on base were preparing for the making of the tech movies. During 78 and 79 we called this the Cine Org; it was not named Gold until later years. Recruitment had been done to get more people for this unit and we messengers had typed the scripts LRH had sent us via mail. So when he arrived back to La Quinta he got … [Read more...]
Scientology The Aftermath
The first show has aired. Phew. 7 more to come. I am interested to hear what you thought -- including criticisms or things you felt could or should have been explained more/better or treated differently. The perspective of others is valuable feedback. I am genuinely curious, not just looking for ego stroking. … [Read more...]
Miscavige Musings & Mutterings
This drivel is a full page in the latest edition of Impact magazine - the IAS propaganda organ. You sort of get the idea what he is trying to say. The strange metaphors that are Shermanspeak specialties make it difficult to fathom, sort of like the front porch of eternity or whatever that idiocy was. The great Mr. David Miscavige is trying very hard to portray himself as some sort of humanitarian. Such hypocrisy. Not only does he personally infringe on people's rights with reckless abandon, he oversees an organization that abides by articles of faith to: Destroy its enemies by any means … [Read more...]