Tales from the crypt
Someone dug up Jan Eastgate??
Applied Scholastics is going “big time”
They are opening ONE center. Wow. Remember when Miscavige said every ideal org would generate new missions and groups all around it? DC has been an “ideal org” for decades
Elder Rights?
Like the right for elderly SO members to be abandoned as dead-weight?
It’s perfect for auditing your teddy bear
100000 times more accurate. And you can look cool too.
Construction launch tour?
We will be touring you through a construction site to shake more money out of you… Sounds like a day of fun
This is really rich…
They actually think they are preventing a modern day holocaust. BTW, that’s reign of hate.
ChanMan 2
Not prosperous enough? I’ll take your money for you.
Maiden Voyage Hype
It’s already begun
Completing the “Construction Budget”
Wow what an accomplishment after 13 years. And some nice photoshop…
Guarantee you make it up the Bridge?
One thing will do that – a fat bank account.
Talking about scientology…
I do it all the time. It’s easy.
Get ’em while they’re young
Alfraudie
Wonder when his chickens will come home to roost?
William Blake is at it again
Still promoting this bs…
Even in the face of the empty Valley Org
Denice Duff
Seriously?
NASA and Time Warner?
I am sure they would love to know they are being used to sell scientology
Joining us via Skype?
Bet this is going to be super epic. I wonder if even a single person will show?
Keep Calm…
…and keep paying
Ex-SO
They escaped the Int base. Wonder if they paid their freeloader bill?
They are going to start Clearing soon…
Why don’t the 3 ideal orgs that are already there get on with it?
What’s happening in Clearwater…
The population is turning against them
Nashville ideal org
A Student Hat and a PTS/SP course (they don’t deliver Cause Resurgence in Nashville — running around a pole is only done at Flag) that is some epic scientology delivery
Guarantee your infinity of future
Do objectives at ASHO? Sandy Wilhere Class XII is doing ASHO Call-in?
I noticed the one poster re: Perth, said “We’re going for completing the CONSTRUCTION budget”…it sounds like the big win is completing the budget…not actual construction.
Also the one youngster at Tampa org looks like a really young Gene Wilder. Wonder if he’s as funny.
Finally, that poem…?It’s very telling in admitting they show up 5min prior to closing time to buy party favorites…no planning? And, the funniest is also admitting ppl hang up on them during phone solicitations….haha…terrible poem.
Denice Duff’s picture looks like it was from 15-20 years ago. Also, she never really made it big in the movie business. She did a few low-budget vampire flicks in the early nineties. And she had a small part on a soap opera for a few years. She now works as a photographer. I guess Tom Cruise and John Travolta were unavailable.
When the lad from Tampa Org that says that the org has all the training and gives him a driving desire to do it, I can’t help but think this high school dropout is subconsciously thinking about the driving he’ll never get to do, stuck making Scientology money.
Intolerance, Human Rights & the Holocaust…
United for human rights…
Bringing human rights to life…
“the reign of hate & intolerance towards humanity must never be repeated”…
Perhaps they should look in the mirror and start there.
On a side note: I walked past the Launceston “Life Improvement Centre” here’s the facebook link to them – https://www.facebook.com/pages/Launceston-Life-Improvement-Centre1390162521200740?_fb_noscript=1) this morning and had to backtrack because I thought I was seeing things.
The supposed renovations included moving the desk to within a metre of the door, so you can’t avoid the aging sheeple sitting there. A crappy two seat lounge along the left wall, a table with three chairs along with three clipboards and biros followed by a lot of empty space and two small bookcases with the same, now blue from sun fading, books and tapes against the back wall. What seemed out of place was the appearance of an archway with a flight of stairs behind it going up to another floor. What’s up there I have no idea? Sadly the joint never seems to be open so I guess I’ll never know. Upstairs dungeon perhaps?
I’m guessing that there are lot more bank accounts and credit cards in Melbourne than there are in Perth to bleed dry.
I just did a quick look for Rafferty Pendery (if he’s so famous internationally then why haven’t I heard of him outside of $camology) and was not surprised in the least to discover that Prosperity Magazine/.net is part of $camology under the WISE banner.
“The Islands Become the Sea.” and “Guarantee Your Infinity of Future Event.” What the hell do those brain ache inducing words mean?
Poetic license. You get to choose. 🙂
“The Islands become The Sea” doesn’t really make sense.
Did the islands sink into the waters? Atlantis?
🙂
How many pairs of soiled OT uniform pants would their be in Clearwater if all the former members decided to show up for this meeting!
Scientology fails geography yet again. In case you’re unaware of the sheer size of the Land Down Under and you think that nothing’s weird about Melbourne having a fundraiser/hoover session for Perth, think of this: the distance between Melbourne and Perth is approximately 1700 miles (2700 km). Think about that fact this way: imagine the chicken-suited dynamic individuals of Cambridge Idle Morgue having a fundraiser for the Calgary Mission. Same distance, give or take a couple of moose. Think about New York having a fundraiser for Denver (ignoring that they’re on separate “continents”). Same distance.
Does this make sense in any way, shape, or form? Maybe it’s the fact that AUS is pretty barren in between Melbourne and Perth, but even so, if I’m walking in Chicago and someone came up to me and asked me to donate money for some local “worthy cause” in Los Angeles (2800 km), I’d tell him where to shove his money.
Espi, you’re right! I actually got a call from a Texas number today asking me to sponsor ads on tote bags for our local high school. You’re right. Once I stopped laughing, I told them I happily supported the students who walked into our office but wouldn’t even consider supporting a long distance fundraiser.
I’d love to know how many people made it to the “Psychbuster” rally after the promise of multiple buses full of people. One commenter here the other day said they were at the convention center at noon on Saturday and nobody had seen any Scientology protesters. If true, that would be an epic fail that would be hard to contain, especially when they were prepping a show with “Chill E. B.” and with speakers and all.
I’m also stunned that the Applied Scholastics people are actually still in business. We haven’t heard from them in a while, not since Alfrauddie Johnson and Hanan Islam made such a mess of “Life Force Academy,” that charter school just a couple miles from Flag. In just two years, Hubbard’s bogus “study tech” took the reading scores of the school from somewhere above average in Pinellas County to the worst in the county except for one special ed school catering to severely disabled kids. “Study tech” is more toxic in the educational community at this point than ebola-coated kiddie porn.
Ebola coated kiddy porn!!
Best line I’ve heard in a long time’
Just curious, how is Study Tech toxic? Thanks.
Spike – jumping in and not speaking for JPC. I mentioned on an earlier topic that I found “study tech” as pointing out some useful tools to use in the subject of study. My own error was that for years after leaving scn I carried forward the idea that it was the “only” way and promoted it that way to a couple of other people. (They were probably thinking “Here comes Richard with more Scientology.” laughter)
Hi Richard, thanks for that. As someone who has been an adult trainer for almost 30 years (post-Scn), I find some of the study tech has been very useful over the years with my groups. Especially avoiding special terms, acronyms etc. when training someone on a new subject. These would become ‘misunderstood words’ and you promptly lose the person. Not skipping gradients – also very key. Having the mass – hands on training is very important, e.g.doing an exercise on the computer instead of listening to a lecture on how to do it.
What I would never do is come at someone with a rote ‘what do your materials state?’.
Lots of other useful study techniques are out there which blend with the above points.
Spike, the basic principles you talk about there, are fundamentals that I’ve seen in military training approaches – I don’t know the history of that, but it probably goes back to Hubbard’s era of Navy service, especially the hands-on part.
Alan Walter said that Hubbard got most of the study tech from a pair of teachers, whose work went back to the 1920s. I would guess it’s all based on principles from early 20th century industrial training, and adaptations by the military – but academia has never liked such practical and vocational approaches, and so it would be easy to go through school without realizing that such teaching and training techniques have actually long been out there.
Yes, Peacemaker, very interesting.
“IAS Rapper and Humanitarian.”
LOL
Regarding the San Diego march and rally. Gary and I went down to the convention center last Saturday and were there by Noon and no CCHR march and no scientologists. Lots of people attending the psychiatry convention. We hung around for almost an hour and nothing happened. Gary actually went into the convention and asked an official and the official said they knew that the scientologists were going to protest at Noon but they had not shown up. Not sure if they came by later but not between 12 and 1PM. I got a lot of beautiful photos of the San Diego Bay though……
Regarding the Joburg North new building in South Africa – I used to live in this suburb of Ferndale in Randburg – it is a very residential area with some shops and businesses. Very few scientologists live in this area and they have had their org nearby anyway and it never really expanded. This is the org my parents started back in 1979/80, but they had their org in a better area called Norwood which had a lot of foot traffic, not this new area………….
What is Sandy Wilhere’s relationship to longterm DM henchman Greg Wilhere? Greg Wilhere was the one who told that young Iranian-American Scio girl that CoS had a secret mission for her. The secret mission, the girl later found out, turned out to be having a relationship with Tom Cruise. He bought her tens of thousands of dollars worth of clothes. Removed her braces. Your IAS donations at work. Took glamour shots of her. Gotta clear that second dynamic, people!
Unlike most CoS honchos, Greg Wilhere to my knowledge was never in the Hole. He must be slavishly loyal to DM.
“Elder Rights? Like the right for elderly SO members to be abandoned as dead-weight?”
Mike, you nailed the scientology perception of the elderly in this comment. Members are only valuable if they can donate. Anything else is dead weight. And after all their money has been sucked out of them, what is a senior to do other than rely on the state to help them.
This is just one more arrow in the quiver of reasons why scientology MUST have its tax exempt staus removed immediately.
Scientology is a net drain on society, and the sooner it is taxed (or dissolved completely), the better society will be!.
Yes how hypocritical for them to “stand up for elder rights”. I witnessed firsthand what the SO does to aging staffers when they start to become sick and unable to be “productive” any longer. They get offloaded with no financial help. Certainly no pension. This one lady was sent halfway across the country from FLAG to live in Texas and work for a Scientologist business owner. The offloaded SO lady was not really that old. I think she was in her very early 60s, but she had some health problems including severe allergies. The Scilon business owner here in Texas treated her just as badly as I imagine she was treated in the SO. Yelled at. Belittled. After a few years of this she just dropped dead in her little apartment one day. I don’t even know if a funeral was performed for her. What an ending to a lifetime of service to Scientology.
Oh well….I guess she just didn’t take responsibility for her case. You know those assholes think this.
Lone Star, that is such a sad story, yet it captures the essence of scientology. Imagine a world where scientology runs everything? I shudder to think about what a cruel and brutal place that would be… with everyone writing KR’s on each other, and with rude little teenagers barking orders at sixty year old men and women.
LRH can take his lunatic writings with him into the grave, as far as I am concerned. The world would have been a better place if scientology had never been hatched from his narcissistic little brain.
I think so too Lone Star, that’s such a sad story, and I am afraid it’s very common, when an elderly person who has given their life to service for Scientology and has no close family members to rely on, no care is given to them in their old age. It’s so distressing,
I wish one of the large donors who give millions would instead put their donation into creating a fund to help these elderly people. It’s just not right how the elderly and disabled are treated.
But what can anyone do when the head of the Church of Scientology said about his own elderly father: “don’t help him, if he dies, he dies”.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3147308/Father-Church-Scientology-leade.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3562303/David-Miscavige-named-police-SUSPECT-investigation-private-detective-caught-spying-Scientology-leader-s-father-Ron-vast-arsenal-weapons-including-9mm-Glock-laser-site-two-rifles-stun-gun.html
“Do you want to do more on the 3rd and 4th Dynamics, but don’t know how or when?”
How: Move as high up in IAS status as possible (fork over as much money as you have or are able to acquire through loans and credit…..you can easily make more in the next lifetime).
When: It’s never too soon to participate in these broader spectrums that will enhance your life and do your part for planetary clearing (well….what the hell are you waiting for you degraded PTS?).
Not sure you really need an OT VIII, Power FSM John Chan to tell you that……
I wonder if John Chan is any relation of Michael Chan? Two peas in a pod they are.
I saw that there is an open house / tour of the Fort Harrison Hotel this Saturday afternoon.
I’m confused. Was Casey Kasem a Scientologist? And was that the reason Jean was trying to keep them separate? And I didn’t think an E-Meter was for personal use. I thought you were only audited by the Church. Also about how much do they cost and where are they made?
Casey was not. Kerri is, unfortunately, and has been for maybe 10 years or longer. Whether that was why Jean was trying to keep them separate, I don’t know, but I do know that Kerri had a good relationship with her Dad regardless of Scientology.
For Casey, Scientology never entered his Top 40. It was only the one daughter who got hooked and who tried to get her hooks on his estate. Then again, I’m on Jean’s side in the whole estate kerfuffle.
As for e-meters, you need not one, but two, for your own auditing. Not all auditing takes place at an org. Once you hit Clear, most of the auditing past that is what’s called Solo Auditing. You have to take two courses to learn how to properly solo audit. You solo audit OTIII and OTVII, just to name the two most important ones. They cost a cool five thousand dollars each. And, as said, you need to have two, just in case one breaks down. As for where they are made, there are people who are out who know that. However, the Mark VIII (aka the Warehouse Eight, aka the Easy-Bake Eight) is literally fifteen years old. They were stuck in warehouses for almost a decade until the Toxic Dwarf had the idea to release GAT II: Electric Boogaloo, and made the Mark VIII mandatory to own.
Wow, thanks Gus, very interesting stuff about the E-Meter. $5,000 each and you need two? How do you solo audit yourself? Do you ask yourself pressinq questions? Do you read the WOG internet and see if your heart skips a beat?
Sorry I mean Espiando !
Glad you posed the question about the Kasems. I too was confused when I saw that one. Thanks for filling in the info. I hope the daughter never gets any of the estate. It would be squandered on the “church”.
“I admire you, the EUS. You’ll call and call again.”
Shuddered when I read that.
I hope somebody brings up the rights of elderly S.O. members. What are the rights of those who aren’t worth much anymore and actually become an expense to the slurch?
I left at age 60 because of the horrible care of the elderly. Have many friends who were taken advantage of. You live on the meger benefits, about 400 dollars. Your stipend is often cut and your health care is full medicare which is a far sight better than the health care you receive in the Sea Org.
You are basically treated as worthless because you are older and cannot work. If you are suffering from dementia, you are put into a low care public facility, not paid by the Sea Org and basically left to rot.
I am workin and most likely will until i am unable to. But… i am free and have a good paying job. Free to live a productive life.
Older and free.
“I am workin and most likely will until I am unable to. But…i am free and have a good paying job. Free to live a productive life. Older and free.”
That’s fantastic, Antonia. Hats off to you for cogniting and getting the hell out of there at age 60.
You dumped them and you were still healthy. VERY well done, I say!
Elderly SO members have no rights. None…
I’m not sure what happens to someone whose body gets to the point that they can no longer keep up with the demands of that job, but unfortunately, I would imagine that whole line about “We’d rather have you dead than incapable” in KSW might come into play. I would certainly hope not, but it wouldn’t shock me in the least (although it would yet another reason to get me pissed off).
We’ve heard the words “don’t intervene if its’ his/her time,,,,that about says it all Mick!
Hey Denice Duff, got a few questions for ‘ya:
You’ve got the talent!
You have the dream!
What’s stopping YOU?
I thought Chili beans are a food. Not a person. .hmmm
Denice Duff was a talent agent? OMG, that like almost makes her a CELEBRITY!!! And poor Alex in Tampa. “…being on staff here will help me in life much more than more schooling would have.” Yes, it would have been a real shame to continue in school and run the risk of developing critical thinking skills. Fortunately, you were saved from that.
I was thinking the same thing. And you can tell that the people who create these posters and mailings thought the same thing. Grammar, spelling? Sad.
Lynn, they don’t need no stinkin’ grammar! They’ve got Scino Speak.
Scientology and Jehovah’s Witnesses has one thing in common: The rail against schooling past high school. Poor Alex. Another kid getting sucked into the abyss…
And don’t forget the Amish. They’re also against higher education.
8th grade is about as high as Amish are permitted to get an education. My mom’s family is from the Lancaster PA area way back to the early 1700’s, I’ve heard plenty of stories about the Amish & Mennonites especially the lack of education.
They don’t WANT their kids to obtain Critical Thinking because literally “How Ya Gonna Keep “Em Down On The Farm”….in today’s word, many of those kids are leaving in droves.
My wife and I took a walk-around tour of a mocked up Amish village in Lancaster, Pa. a few years back. The guide said that young Amish adults (age 18?) were allowed to go out into the “real world” for (a year?) and then would be welcomed back if they chose to do so. The guide mentioned that a “surprising number”, I don’t recall the exact stat, came back in.
Bus tours around the scn complex in Clearwater might benefit the local economy.
At around 16 or 17 the old teens are given an opportunity to “cut loose” & go “enjoy” what other young teens are doing, drinking, partying, smoking pot etc….it’s called Rumspringa & I believe they “get a year” to decide whether to get Baptized into the Amish Church & accept that way of life…or to LEAVE & more or less live non Amish or English, but are then shunned by family, friends & Church.
My Great Aunt Tillie (yes, I really had one, her actual name was Tiletha & she is buried in the Presbyterian Cemetery in Alexandria, PA), had an Amish kid come & cut her lawn with one of those old fashioned push lawn mower with the rotating blades. It took hours, but he did it.
Once the boys are older, & in firm commitment to the Amish way of life & marriage, they grow their “whiskers”. The young man was not very verbal with “we English people”, but he said he was definitely staying Amish to inherit the farm from his father.
According to family still living in the area, due to poor education, there are those that return to the fold & live the Amish life since they have no money, no real experience on the outside (like FLDS or Scientology) & no real chance of doing anything else. Yes a few who went on the outside said it was a difficult adjustment, & while Amish they DID “cheat” & had secret parties where they drank and did smoke pot.
There is still a large Amish community in many states, they farm, breed dogs to sell, and make really nice but expensive furniture & garden sheds & sell ALL that for a lot of money. There is a Mennonite store Upstate NY near where my parents use to live & are now in the local Cemetery, and that store has many bulk food items, home baked foods & home made wood crafts for sale. They do a HUGE business…..
You are absolutely right. Discouraging education and villainizing the outside world are cult-like trademarks found in many religions including the FLDS, Amish and Scientology.
No e-meters would make cheating easier. The Elders would need to us obnosis (scio-speak for observing the obvious) to determine if the kids looked guilty. Some of those elder ladies and gents would probably be pretty scary.
All cults brainwash their members about the advantages of being uneducated. They all preach against it or outright forbid it. Like our president, bless his heart, cults “love uneducated people”. Gee, I wonder why…
All presidents and politicians say they want to”expand and improve” education. It just depends on how much education they want to give away for free or encourage students to borrow their way through it.
Ha Ha! Yes, didn’t you know?
In the prime of their youth and attractiveness ALL highly successful actors forego their own ambitions and become talent agents!
Its a natural progression.
All well known stars drop their OWN hot careers mid-stream! Just like that!
Because, you see, they have this DRIVING need to help OTHERS make it in show business!
OR, they were just SO successful, and the demands of their career were SO great, that it interfered with their Bridge progress.
Denice Duff will tell you ALL about it…whaddya mean, “Denice WHO?”
First observation of the day. Jan Eastgage looks broken. I almost feel sorry for her.
Secondly, here is my first poem I wrote in scientology on some basic course where I was learning the Tone scale:
I greet everyone with a smile
but I’m really plotting all the while
unrestrained I’d do you in
with friendly handshake and a grin
1.1 is my name
covert hostility is my game
Take that William Blake.
I wrote one for every level of the damn tone scale. I ran into that last night when going through some of the last of my old scientology stuff, scanning in anything like letters, notes, and photos. I’ve already disposed of a lot of the space wasters like the red and green vols, and all other books, etc, just reaching the last of the detritus of the wasted life.
Nice, Val! I like it! You’re pretty clever!
Nice little poem. I recently cleaned up under the house and threw out arm fulls of lectures series (some spiders weren’t too happy about having their homes removed though). I bundled them up with string in packs of 5 or so and placed them beside my garbage wheelie bin on the street. When the garbage collector came along I went outside and he looked questioningly at me while picking up the first bundle of fancy colored and shinny Scio stuff. I smiled at him and remarked, “something from another life mate.” He just shrugged his shoulders and threw them into the back of his compactor. I stood there as he drove off and a great feeling of relief swept through me. No sadness, regrets , just relief.
It’s on this site, reading the stories and responding to Mike’s posts and other’s comments that I go up and down like a yo-yo. I’m grateful for all who post here, even those I lock horns with occasionally. If there’s a method of weaving your way out of the mind numbing bs of Scientology it’s through the people who comment here. It’s amazing how some of that deep seated sneaky Scientology indoctrination surfaces years later.
@yawn, I call it “mind shrapnel”. It blows my mind that all these years later it can sneak up on me. It sometimes frightens me when I snap into a piece of scientological behavior.
Moving to Wyoming 20 years ago was one of the biggest culture shocks of my life and one of the best things that happened to me because to say life is laid back here is an understatement.
The first Friday afternoon I was in a middle of a project one of the guys came out and said “shut it down and come on back and have drinks with us” I freaked out. I said “but I’m not through”. He said “it will be there Monday.”
Friday at 4:00 is the weekend, this Friday the weekend starts at noon because – Memorial Day and Monday is no work and Tuesday starts at noon. It was the same thing over Easter except there was Good Friday and Easter Monday so Memorial day is a “short long weekend”. If things from the work week are not done, oh well! Mondays usually start around 10:00 a.m or so because, well, why start earlier. The office opens around 8’ish or 9’ish or so, whenever we get here.
If you have a family occasion – baseball, football, hunting, reunion, parent teacher conference, awards ceremony, etc., just say “gotta go” and head out, work is NOT the priority here. It’s wonderful.
I have truly been able to enjoy my life, the life I want to live and do the things I personally want to do rather than feel guilty and obliged to do what others expect of me. It took me a long time to realize that I am not a “panty waist dilettante” for doing this, that I actually help out more people by being relaxed and helping the individual in front of me than by being a hard-driving zealot bent on obeying hard fast rules as to how to help someone.
We had to put my husband’s parents in a nursing home last month. We have been cleaning out their home. That’s when I realized it was time for me to get rid of the things in my home that I don’t want my children to have to deal with after I’m gone. For a group that claims to put so little emphasis on “MEST”, they certainly produce a lot of useless clutter.
Yeah, there’s real world out there, with real people in it. Scientology is the biggest time bandit ever to utter the term “schedule,” and they use it as weapon against you. This speed of particle flow crap is just another common sense thing exaggerated to the point of absurdity. Hubbard got his jollies off on pushing the limit on everything simple. It made good and obedient slaves.
What I run across even today are those little “guilty,” self policing thoughts that seem to assess everything you do, see or say. Auditor training in particular has some side effects that aren’t easy to disperse from common living. Fuck Hubbard and his “ultimatum technology”. If the guy was even just a little bit compassionate about his subject he wouldn’t have allowed it to make robots. As it is being discovered that became his prime objective and he officially announced it to the world in policy in 1965 – KSW!
Nice to breathe again isn’t it Val? Even though we have to learn how to do it all over again.
You mean you didn’t the ritual, cleansing bonfire? I’m quite surprised.
‘have., You mean you didn’t have the…CRS
OSD: Bonfire in July. My kids are coming I threw out the big books years ago before I came to Wyoming. Now I’m burning all the additional mags and paper and probably most of the hard copies if the photos except for the one of me picketing the FBI with my daughter (who will be 40 this year) in a backpack. The daughter wants it.
Hang on to some of it people…when the shit hits the fan it may be usual to bring some of the printed materials to Courts when and if you are called to “testify” or show proof of what you were once indoctrinated into.
I’m scanning it all, I’m not just burning it without keeping scans. A room full of paper or a small drive full of scans? I’ll take the scans. Digital will work just as well. These days hard copies are very seldom required.
Also, anyone who is around an ex-scientologist for more than 120 seconds and talking scio can tell they were indoctrinated. It’s like a job interview I had 35 or so years ago to teach a programming subject I knew. One of the people interviewing me knew the subject as well. We started talking in programming language and the rest of interviewers in the room watched us as we went off on a jag. (I got that job).
It is almost impossible for a never in to decipher this blog because of phrases just in the last couple of days’ comments like “meat body” “MEST” “particle flow” “don’t ridge on it” “study tech” “second dynamic” “solo audit” “blow charge” “trained auditor” “OT Levels” “admin trained”, etc that real people don’t use in the real world. Then there are other words to which scientology has assigned entirely different meanings that what they have in the real world.
The fake language that Hubbard created that scientologists were indoctrinated to use was one of the things that made them feel as though they superior to others and why scientology is such a difficult subject to unravel. Explaining scientology to someone in real world terms is really hard. That’s all it would take, IMHO to prove you were one of the indoctrinated, talk to someone who else who was in, you fall right back into the lingo.
I Had the same feeling of relief when I threw out my scientology stuff.
My head cleared up and I reconnected with society and started to make sense to people.
After i threw all the garbage away I could be my imperfect self again.Such relief.
Somehow my scn “Minister’s Certificate” got placed in a book and it still survives. I think I carried it around as a possible “credential” for job interviews. This was way before the internet.
Nowadays I only place it on display when I’m doing exorcisms.
(joke!)
You can also use portraits of Ron and Miscavige and get the same, if not better , results.
Eastgate? I don’t feel sorry for that stone-hearted bitch.
I said almost. Almost.
🙂
I saw a TV documentary about Casey Casem’s last days and how his wife prevented his kids from seeing him and actually moved a critically ill patient out of the hospital so that the kids couldn’t see him. Now the kids and his widow are locked in battle over the estate. I always took the kids’ side and thought his wife was horrible for moving him when he was so ill. But now I see here that Casey Casem’s daughter, Kerri, is a Scn. Maybe the step mom was trying to make sure that Scn didn’t get one dime of Casey’s hard earned money and thus was trying to block Kerri’s inheritance? This is merely conjecture on my part. But it does make you wonder.
And since Casey Casem had a lot of money for her to inherit, you can bet the church is love bombing Kerri and won’t let her out of their site. They are waiting for “their money.”
Cindy, I saw the same things and always thought there had to be more to the story…
Any money is always their money.
Yep you got that right, OSD. That’s exactly how they look at it too.
Jean Casem married Casey in 1980. They were married until his death in 1984. I would assume the bulk of the estate was left to her because she was his partner for decades. When was the bulk of the money made? The estate is worth tens of millions. Casey was suffering with cognitive decline. Jean claimed the kids from the first marriage were not making it easy in the nursing home he was in. At one point, she banned their visits. Sounds hard, I agree. She has the right as the spouse. Kerri and her sister snuck in and Jean found out about it,. Jean claims they were bothering Casey for money. That is when Jean removed Casey from that nursing home. I believe it was published that all the children (3 from the first marriage, 1 with Jean) would or did receive equal amounts. I am no fan of Jean, but knowing that Kerri is a secret scientologist, should make you wonder in Kerri and scientology were pushing the buttons to make Jean appear crazy.
Did Casey Cassem die in 2014?
Yes. He died shortly after the cross country trip Jean took him on. The kids (from the first marriage) say the trip was part of the reason Casey died. At one point, the kids gained ?custody / medical power of attorney after the trip. He died shortly after the kids gained this power.
The story is rather sad. At the time, kerri was dening her connections with scientology.
I do not know if the fighting over the estate has been settled or not.
Just now looked it up on Wikipedia and you’re right, Cindy. Casey Casem did die in 2014.
Ortega explored the Kasem family connection to Scientology a couple of times in June of 2014.
http://tonyortega.org/2014/06/09/casey-kasems-sordid-family-drama-is-kerris-involvement-in-scientology-relevant/
http://tonyortega.org/2014/06/12/more-proof-of-kerri-kasems-scientology-involvement-and-laura-prepon-lies-like-a-rug/
My family story goes back to Europe in the 1940s…..so what?
Why don’t they speak to Paulette Cooper?
She can tell how her family was victimized by the Nazis and then by Scientology
Jan Eastgate? You’ve got to be kidding me! Last I saw of her was on the TV news being led away from court in Sydney on charges of perverting the course of justice or some such thing by advising some sort of cover up of sexual misconduct performed on or by by a church member. The charges were later dropped, geezers that must be 10 years ago at least by now. That photo must be well over a decade old too. It always seems odd that a recipient of electro-shock treatment rose up through the ranks of Scientology to win the Freedom medal and head CCHR. Guess she had in for the psyches who buzzed her. Wonder if she’s buddies with COB being an illegal PC and all?
Talking about Scientology is easy… but saying something nice about it is another matter.
It would be impossible for me to say something nice about the cult.
Let me do it for you. Scientology is shrinking rapidly. Yay! There, doesn’t that feel better??? 🙂
You can’t wipe the smile off my face…
It would be nice if it disappeared. By the end of the week would be even nicer. See, lots of ‘nice’ things to say about Scientology!
Here’s another nice thing to say about Scn…if not for Scn all of these nice people wouldn’t have come together on this blog to raise much needed awareness about the evil deeds and devastating consequences of being involved with Scn.
I think that if Jason and Abigail Miller were willing to pony up a pile of cash for the new org, then the freeloader debt probably got swept under the rug. Along with any ethics actions.
Money speaks louder than ethics…
Sadly, ’tis true.
CCHR march and rally.
Oh, boy!
Hey, RB! Chili Beans is going to be there!
Oh, l love chili beans! My wife uses them whenever she makes chili. Wait…What? Really? Never mind…
Incidentally, OSD, I actually got to meet Chill E B when I was on staff at Nashville Org. Talk about being huge! And I mean physically! He was there for (what else?) a fundraiser. I excitedly blurted out some song I had thought up about CCHR helping black people in poverty. For some reason, I don’t think he liked that very well.