Any time there is a post about ideal org failures, there is a lot of speculation about “Why?”
I have written various posts and comments about this from time to time, but realized I had never put it all in one place.
There are two reasons for the ideal org program that go hand in hand. And it explains why, in spite of the clear failure of this program to bring about planetary clearing, or anything at all aligned with the “Aims of Scientology,” it will continue to be pushed until the very end.
1. It is vital for Miscavige to hold onto his position
2. IRS concerns
But before explaining these points more thoroughly, a review of the history of how “ideal orgs” came about will help put everything else in context.
In 2002 the city of Buffalo moved to force the church in Buffalo out of its building under the laws of eminent domain in order to construct a parking ramp.
The church sued, claiming this was preventing the practice of its religion.
The city settled, agreeing to pay money to allow the org to relocate. Prices of property in Buffalo were crazy cheap at the time and they found a large building. Miscavige had been working on his plan to eliminate the “incompetence of staff” in Div 6 by replacing them with scripted videos to explain dianetics and scientology. And so this was given the go ahead with a large space allocated for “AV displays” in Div 6. This was the precursor to the FART Div 6 and Miscavige told everyone who would listen about his brilliant plan that would drive millions onto the Bridge. Henceforth all orgs needed to have enough space for his Golden Age of Div 6.
Around the same time, Joburg Org had become extremely unsafe in its downtown premises (a staff member had been murdered on the street outside the org) and by necessity they were having to move.
Also at the time, Miscavige had been spending a lot of time at Flag with the McPherson case. Tampa Org, which was in a strip mall had become a flap through non-payment of their rent. Buffalo was financed by the city. Joburg was pretty easy to finance as there was a huge amount of money sitting in South Africa that could not be gotten out of the country awaiting exchange control approval (which would never come for the amounts that were there). The value of the rand was decreasing. So, he approved a building be purchased. But Tampa was different. So he personally briefed Jenny Linson and Angie Blankenship to round up the local “OT’s” and hold THEM responsible for the state of Tampa Org on the basis that it was out ethics for THEM to have their nearest Class V org such a disgrace and they needed to “take responsibility.”
The CMO in Clearwater were put onto Tampa Org virtually on an all hands basis, collecting money, finding the building, recruiting staff and getting the renovations done.
Same in Africa with all of CMO Africa full time on the Joburg Org and CMO EUS was directly involved in Buffalo. It became Miscavige’s pet project. He reviewed the space plans and rejected them numerous times, constantly “refining” the planning. Anyone who has ever worked on these lines can tell you that this is perhaps the most frustrating and unproductive thing they have ever been engaged in. Not only do the goalposts constantly shift, the playing field tilts and the sprinklers go on and off at random times. He spends hundreds of hours on something that should take an hour and then complains about how overworked he is.
But compared to today, those first orgs were done at lightning speed. They opened the following year — Tampa in March 2003 and Joburg and Buffalo in November. And with them the “Ideal Org” program was born. even though at that early age it didnt have a formal name — in fact, it was called “The Buffalo Strategy” because Buffalo was “so successful.” Miscavige sent out programs to all orgs to “do the Buffalo strategy.”
The next priority orgs were primarily for the benefit of Tom Cruise. Madrid (his 2D at the time was Penelope Cruz, though by the time the org opened they were split up — Miscavige was also there trying to gain religious recognition for scientology in Spain), New York (because Tom had an apartment there and visited often and may need to bring someone important into the org — you will recall it was also where he had a “chance” encounter with his church selected bride to be) and San Francisco (not especially Tom Cruise related — there happened to be a lot of wealthy people there and a building that attracted Miscavige’s attention, the “original Transamerica building”).
This whole fiasco could have ended after Tampa, Buffalo and Joburg. So, back to the two reasons WHY this has become the most important thing in scientology:
1. It is vital for Miscavige to hold onto his position
The ONLY way Miscavige (at least at the outset) was able to maintain his position of power (which by his definition is having people listen to you) was to be seen by scientologists as both “on Source” and responsible for expanding scientology.
He managed to convince the sheeple that he “knew” what LRH wanted done and that he was ruthlessly dedicated to ensuring there was nothing but standard tech in the church. He pronounced himself the man who let in the light and ended the era of the blind leading the blind with his brilliant innovation of the “Golden Age Of Tech.” Plus he kept re-releasing books and lectures, each time newly packaged, but sold as “being on source for the first time.” And each new release heavily stressed how “COB” was making sure ALL tech in its “100% pure form” was gotten into the hands of scientologists and the world. People who WANT to believe something have very short memories. The vast majority didn’t notice that the “now on Source” stuff replaced what had previously been sold to them as the “now on source stuff” by the same guy. It’s happened over and over. So, he has pretty cleverly maneuvered himself into the positioning of being the ultimate “on source” scientologist in the minds of staff and public. Nowadays he is actually less concerned about “following LRH” than he is about ensuring people understand what HIS “command intention” is. He lived out the 21 years that LRH was theoretically going to reappear in and added on a few more to be safe and then started cranking up the “Command Intention” push and the “Cult of COB.” It would take too long to really lay out how he has accomplished this, and it is not really important for this posting. Suffice to say, in the minds of “good scientologists” there is no doubt that Miscavige is the best scientologist they know.
But there is that pesky second prong — expanding scientology. This is really important. In the scientology mindset, beyond anything else on planet earth, expanding scientology is “the greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics.” Of course, scientology will help ALL dynamics of EVERYONE. So, if someone is expanding scientology, they have virtually unlimited “ethics protection”, they can “get away with murder.” This is absolutely vital to Miscavige. Many of you may have experienced telling a KMoolAid drinker about Miscavige beating people up or living lavishly only for them to respond with “that is unimportant, look at his stats, he can get away with murder.” This IS the pervasive think within the sheeple. Anyone who is exposing the facts about Miscavige is dismissed as “an SP attacking an upstat” and his “foibles” are excused because of the massive good he is doing.
It is for this reason Miscavige spends an inordinate amount of time convincing people he is an “upstat.” This includes all the idiotic sounding numbers — the miles of conduit laid, square inches of ink etc etc. These are the foundation for the big generality lies. “We have expanded 5X since the release of Golden Age Of Tech II”. These lies are swallowed whole.
But, even if his lies are bought, he had a big problem.
The LRH “game” for orgs was to reach the size of old St Hill. Every staff member on earth has had that hammered into them for years. They all know what it means. So too the public. A big Academy with lots of students and lots of clears being made – IN ADDITION to staff being well paid and going OT with their own universe corps.
To compound the problem, Miscavige had invented an arbitrary that he would not release the mythical OT IX and X until “all orgs were SH Size.”
He tried at Maiden Voyages to convince the OT Ambassadors that they had to be responsible for getting their org to SH Size if they ever wanted to get OT IX and X. It was HEAVILY pushed for a while, and a number of OT VIII’s were recruited to be org EDs (thus directly responsible for getting OT IX and X — see Geir Isene’s story about meeting Miscavige on the Freewinds). But the problem was that these OT Ambassadors had no more chance of getting an org to SH Size than the existing staff did. And that was impossible. A few orgs were “announced” but they had been stat-pushed and artificially propped up to reach the arbitrary stat quotas for the week they were awarded and promptly sank back to their previous levels. The reality began to set in with the OT Ambassadors — all orgs are NEVER going to be SH Size and the Bridge has ended right where I am at (OT VIII) and I still don’t know WTF. It also began to sink in with them, when they were putting their attention on expanding the orgs to SH size, that this was NOT happening.
So, Miscavige came up with a new “why” — the “orgs are trying to do too little” and pitched this in one of the all-time insane briefings that the clubbed seals lapped up. It “explained” the failure to reach SH Size was because they didn’t have an org capable of doing so. He equated it to trying to do an auditing session without having a meter or room set up properly. The handling for this was to “slam dunk” all orgs right now — “straight up and vertical, no gradients” and that meant “get a building big enough for all the functions of an org to be performed.” Everyone loved this because it “explained” their failures and gave them something else to concentrate on. Instead of expanding orgs, he now gave the OT Ambassadors the job of raising the money and finding the buildings. Now they couldn’t complain about no OT IX and X because the “only reason” it was not available to them was that not all orgs had become “ideal” (even this was a gradual evolution to redefine the term as the LRH policy letter doesn’t resemble what is now known as an “ideal org”) and the ONLY reason for that was that they had failed to collect enough money.
He also took their attention off the actual expansion of the orgs (there isn’t any) and convinced them that if they just got the buildings that would BE expansion and everything would happen by magic. It was genius. And of course, with all the attention on “ideal orgs” the staff forgot about the concept of ever getting a Universe Corps as nobody talked about that any more.
So why doesn’t the church just BUY and RENOVATE all the buildings? I have brought this up a number of times as they are happy to suck the last dollars out of anyone and everyone for the “most important program on earth,” but when a catastrophe like Boston happens they do nothing. Well, as long as they are NOT done, Miscavige doesn’t have to come up with something and call it OT IX and X. Though he does recognize he has to find something for the OT VIIIs to do — which has been a parade of Basics, Congresses, ACCs, Purif, Objectives, Student Hat, Running Pgm and Super Power. But that’s beside the point of the “ideal orgs.”
It’s a beautiful scheme — they raise money for him to buy buildings he owns and as long as they are not done he doesn’t have to confront what to do about his promised OT IX and X. And not only that, he has taken all attention off having to get staff through OT levels by providing Universe Corps to them – a complete pain in the ass. AND the total amount of church reserves (his ultimate “stat” to protect him from any possible internal dissent should the natives become restless he could simply claim “upstats”) just keeps going up and up and up. And he doesn’t have to have any organization or auditors or supervisors to deliver services to make money, it just rolls in to Reserves and he sits like Scrooge McDuck and watches.
Add to this that he has something to SHOW. He has redefined expansion to mean “new buildings”. And those “new churches” prove that scientology is expanding under his leadership. If you go to the scientology.org website, it is a parade of glowing reports about scientology’s international expansion with 37 “new churches” opened since 2003 (the Mormons have probably opened 370 real NEW temples in that time) and how “Mr. Miscavige” has been at the helm spearheading this incredible expansion of the “fastest growing religion on earth.”
You only need to attend a single event or read one of their magazines to know that “scientology expansion” now equals “square feet of renovated space.” And new buildings equals new orgs. And all you need for new buildings is money and a team of CGI people to make videos and the entire scam is in place. To quote Miscavige “just add water” and you have “expansion.”
2. IRS
The second element is the IRS. The reason that churches (and other institutions) are granted tax exempt status is because they are in theory providing a public benefit. All share in the goodwill and services provided by churches one way or another so taxing them makes no sense. But the IRS is concerned that the money is actually SPENT for the public benefit and is not simply accumulated. Accumulated cash is NOT benefiting the public. You are of course allowed to have reserves for future expansion or for disastrous occurrences, and a large amount is allowable.
While Miscavige can hide a lot of what he does behind “religious belief and practice protected under the First Amendment” (labor law violations, abuse of church workers etc etc) it is far more difficult to hide how much money you are taking in and accumulating. Especially when you constantly publish lists of the amounts that people give (‘statuses”). The IRS is severely limited in its ability to look into the finances of churches — but still, Miscavige and his lawyers are aware that this area of accumulating reserves is a vulnerable one.
He could spend the money on real charitable programs. Build schools. Provide vaccines. Give away food. Even give away WTH booklets or dianetics and scientology books. But he sees all of those things as draining HIS Reserves stats. And he HAS to remain “upstat” at all times, even if it destroys the entire church to keep HIS pretense going. He is above reproach because of this. It is LRH who said the ultimate stat of CO CMO Int/WDC Chairman is Total Sea Org Reserves (he never gave a stat for RTC and in any event, that is not what Miscavige does, he is directly involved in the day to day micromanagement of everything in scientology).
One thing you CAN do with the money is buy facilities to “service your parishioners.” And the IRS basically takes you at your word that this is part of your religious belief and practice. Thus the CST vaults and the ridiculous expense involved in them was proudly shown to the IRS as a valid use of church funds. Virtually any property purchased that can be given a “religious significance” passes muster with the IRS.
The beauty of property purchases is that they are also included in the “Total Reserves Stat” — thus a $10 million cash outlay does not decrease Miscavige’s Total Reserves Stat as it simply changes significance from cash to property.
This is why you see ridiculous properties like KCET being purchased for more than $40 million (who knows how much to “renovate” it?). Or Larry Hadman’s former mansion for $10 million for a “celebrity Narconon”. Or various “ideal org buildings.”
The building expenses are a defense against charges of accumulating too much in reserves.
He will always have to come up with new schemes to spend money on real estate. Buying “ideal orgs” is one way but it has a downside. It curtails the revenue stream every time one is purchased. And it takes him ever closer to having to release the non-existent OT IX and X.
Believe me, no matter how nutty the “ideal org” program gets, it is not going away.
Not while Miscavige is running the show.
“And on top of that, no dedicated scientologist is going to trust someone other than L. Ron Hubbard to put together “OT levels” from “notes.” If those notes existed they were for HIM. And “notes” is the BEST case scenario of the mythical OT IX and X (and beyond). ”
Very well put, Mike.
Ron’s mythical notes may or may not exist. Miscavige claims to have many “notes, instructions, and advices” from LRH which he bases all manner of changes to the Tech and policy, but he refuses to publish them. Obviously, they do not all address upper level OT material so why hide them? Any rational Scientologist would want to see them because they change Tech, but even highly placed SO Tech terminals do not have access to them. It is just a big hidden data line that most Scientologists don’t want to confront.
But as you mentioned, even if all these notes exist, they are LRH’s notes. Do Scientologists really want someone else taking these notes and writing Tech and Policy from them? Not if they are true-blue Scientologists they don’t.
And thanks for pointing out the obvious fact that it was out of character for Ron not to communicate what was going on at the end of his life.
This is another thing that most Scientologists don’t like to confront. He had always been in good comm with Scientologists. At the end of his life he was in a confused state to quite and extent. He had had a series of strokes which culminated in the massive one that killed his body. Anyone who has been around someone who had a stroke or strokes knows what I am talking about. He was in bad shape, neurologically. Is this so hard to understand? And isn’t it kind of mean spirited not to grant him beingness at that time as a human being?
It just highlights the failure of the “tech”. Ron was supposed to be OT god knows what and what we find out was in the end he considered himself a failure, beset by imaginary beings, likely off’d by his minions due to his unstable mental state and completely human disintegration of his body, unable to function — no OTness to be found in him what-so-ever. Well unfortunately – when you’ve spent your life trying to flim-flam the world to enrich and empower yourself while all the while putting forth the PR line that you are mankind’s greatest friend… Whoo boy what an amends project he’s looking forward to.
Yes, he was quite human.
Regarding Buffalo, I am aware that the City of Buffalo made a nice cash settlement to get the Buffalo Org the fuck out because they were developing the blighted, red-light district it was originally in.
I also thought that the Sgroi Family paid several million + dollars for the reno’s and that if it wasn’t for them, the Buffalo Ideal Org would have been pretty much paid for by Miscavige himself.
The Sgroi Financial Group in Buffalo NY’s motto is “The Path to Financial Freedom”. How ironic.
I am certainly not trolling , Mr. Rinder. I just want straight facts to be presented here. There is not any LRH ref in existence about OT V and VII being in any way related to Incident II. Out of respect, as you so elocuent put it, let’s not go into the confidentiality of it all , but at least do mention the name of the HCOB where this “datum” of yours is to be found. There isn’t anywhere. Incident II is, as you should know, 75 millions old. What you audit at V or VII didn’t necesarily got attached to you at Inc II. These “attachments” could have come ( and did in most instances) from periods well before Inc II and thus, most of these “attachments” blow w/out any running of Inc II whatsoever. Inc II is not the origin of why these “attachments” attach. The reason they do is well covered in the NOTs materials. And since when is presenting the actual truth an act of trolling ?
ARC
THE PHOENIX
And no , you are not “mocking up” these “attachments”. They are ACTUALLY there. So no ceasing of any “mocking it up” will get rid of it. And certainly no INC II running. Just plain and Standard NOTs technique.
The Phoenix
And how were they CREATED?
And who says that mocking something up means it is not ACTUALLY there? Is a Reactive Mind not there?
This debate is a waste of time. I will give you a reference that justifies my position and you will pull out another one that justifies your position. And they are opposite positions. And there will be nothing odd about that to you at all. And you will also probably be satisfied that “he didnt have a reference, so I win.” Use some observational skills and logic instead of just “what’s the reference.” Like I said at the outset of this silly debate, OT V and VII are still dealing with Incident II, even you admit that is not an untrue statement (BTW, LRH also suggested that a pilot be run to just go straight onto NOTs and not run OT III at all — but you will say that is “hidden data” and it is, but it’s certainly relevant information and it makes SENSE when compared to everything else he said).
Also, FYI, because I was one of the first people in the world to get NOTs (delivered by one of the first auditors trained on it as part of their internship before it was released to the public) as part of the legal cases in the church, I studied every NOT’s HCOB compilation, read every transcript of every briefing between LRH and Mayo/Melanie Murray and read every note he wrote about the subject of NOTs. I also audited many hours of NOTs in the RPF and subsequently Solo NOTs. I am not uninformed on the subject as you would seem to think.
Mike,
Thanks for this awesome post.
I can see ever more clearly how diabolically smart DM is when it comes to increasing his own power structure. A French saying goes “Apres moi le deluge”! = “After me the Flood”.
Greta
Here’s what Ron said in HCO BULLETIN OF 30 JULY 1973 SCIENTOLOGY, CURRENT STATE OF THE SUBJECT AND MATERIALS
The subject of Scientology is to some degree developed in reverse order. The task
was to undercut the current level of Man and this was the general target.
Therefore one finds the higher levels publicly spoken of most frequently in the earlier books and tapes (between ‘51 and ‘55). In seeking full application to others and attainment for them of their potentials it was necessary to codify the materials and develop processes for them.
Any difficulties people were having with going Clear were handled in the mid ‘60s and OT levels as they exist in Advanced Orgs were completed by ‘68. There are perhaps 15 levels above OT VII fully developed but existing only in unissued note form, pending more people’s full attainment of OT VI & VII.
I’m sorry PR, and I know you may not understand what I am about to say, but I feel you deserve a bit of an explanation.
Unfortunately, taking the words of Ron literally is often fraught with contradictions, this being an excellent example.
In 1973 he said there 15 levels above OT VII, but they await “more people’s full attainment of OT VI and VII.”
You know what OT VI and VII were in 1973 don’t you?
And you know that in 1978 he made a new discovery that in fact OT III Expanded was not the end of dealing with Incident 2 and that there was MUCH more to be done on this. In fact, he put the OT Drug Rundown (OT IV) after OT III and then OT V to deal with more Incident 2 and after that Solo NOTs and more Incident II. And he was still trying to complete handling Incident II at the time of his death.
Quoting that reference of proof of anything is like taking things said in 1965 about GPM handling or 1954 about Creative Processes and excerpting the quotes as if they were not invalidated by later “breakthroughs.” Go all the way back, do you really still think that Clears have perfect memories as described “by Ron” in DMSMH?
And on top of that, no dedicated scientologist is going to trust someone other than L. Ron Hubbard to put together “OT levels” from “notes.” If those notes existed they were for HIM. And “notes” is the BEST case scenario of the mythical OT IX and X (and beyond).
Please, just consider this, having obviously studied a lot of the writings and presumably the lectures of L. Ron Hubbard. He was a man who informed the world constantly of his accomplishments and breakthroughs and took great pains to keep scientologists “in the loop”.
Why did he not make a recording, a Ron’s Journal, towards the end of his life and tell all scientologists:
a. This is what is happening — I am dying
b. Here are my wishes as to how the church should be run and by whom
c. These are my instructions for what I want you to do
d. This is the material I have left behind, to be released when xxxx happens
This is the biggest outness of them all.
If you honestly want to know the answer as to why this did not happen, look up Steve (Sarge) Pfauth’s story on Marty’s blog or in Larry Wright’s book.
Thank you Mike Rinder.
You are a good man.
Alanzo
Greetings Rinder,
I don’t know where did you get the “data” that New OT IV , V and Solo-NOTs deals with Incident 2. I know of no reference on those levels where the technique is in any way similar to that of OT III. But this is something you are supposed to know already. I don’t know your case level but, certainly those materials have been all over the Net for years. So I am confuse here. I await your comments on this.
ARC
The Phoenix
If you can’t figure that out, there is no explaining I can do that will make sense. I phrased it that way, somewhat euphemistically, out of deference to those who find it offensive to talk about the details of the OT levels. Where did what you handle on OT V and VII come from if NOT from Incident II in your estimation? You mocked it up? In which case, a decision to stop unmocking it would be good enough to bring it to an end… But I fear I am wasting my fat fingers typing this as you are likely just trolling.
Mike, I have various points which do not contradict as much as clarify what you stated. A lot of it is very simple: people here would be surprised, I think, to suddenly learn that you decided to go on a bourbon binge, regged a couple of whales, bought a Ferrari, and rejoined the Co$, loudly praising Miscavige for all he has done. That would be out of character for you. It would also be out of character for Miscavige to suddenly decide to make immediate refunds to anyone who claims one – something like the BP settlement – make a big event of marrying Shelley all over again with $100,000 bucks worth of roses (all personally paid for), rescinding GAT II, reinstating all “defrocked embittered apostates” and vowing to learn to audit as Class VIII.
After all Hubbard has done, I find it distasteful to impugn his character and writings. A SOLUTION is what is called for. And while I hear a lot of criticism of Hubbard, I surely do not hear a lot of “Hey!! I found out how it works!! Look!! You do this, and this, and you realize states of full OT!!”
I know personally that the state of original OT VII has been achieved. Now either I am a liar, or I hallucinated in a very big way, or you have to think over what you have written a bit more carefully. I’m a bit biased towards making others wrong – I’m sorry if I’m being impolite – it is just something in the way I do things, or I have simply not quite caught on to a better way to make a point. I don’t intend to offend YOU – just set what you SAID straight. I don’t think the purpose of your blog is to gradually discredit Hubbard and Scientology. Some others, I am beginning to wonder about.
Carcha — you are more than welcome to express your views and I appreciate everyone who is willing to have their say. I don’t claim to be all-knowing or be the smartest person in the world. I proide what information I havce any my view of things. I express my opinions. I don’t think anyone is really all wrong or all right….
Perhaps LRH knew the church was lost, and anything he said would be fruitless, even if it was printed and reached staff. Perhaps he did write or record something, but it was, um … “lost.” My first run-in with theft at established institutions was the “disappearance” of a thousand some-odd dollars of my stuff from a guarded university warehouse. The explanation I got was, “Things have a way of walkin’ around here.” I’m not about to believe that everything about the Co$ is known. I do know I’d trust Hubbard before Wright, or Rathbun, or Karen … or Miscavige.
Carcha — the observable facts all point in one direction, but you choose to look in another direction you are perfectly entitled to do so.
I can’t help it, but think of Al Capone and Wesley Snipes…
Excellent analysis of DM’s game, Mike! Please do keep telling it like it really is.
I may be a dreamer, but I really do feel that there is great truth in the statements like “The Truth Will Set You Free”, “Truth Slays Lies” and Sunshine Disinfects”.
You are contributing the the creation of many perfect duplicates of DM’s big lies, and each time another person reads words such as these and actually duplicates what is going on for themselves, the big lies go “poof”. …..gone!
…..and one more person is enlightened,
…..and DM’s suppressive grip is loosened just a little bit more,
…..and the subject of Scientology is that much closer to possibly rising from the ruins left by his rampage of spiritual destruction and narcissistic enrichment.
+100
Great article.
The COB is one despicable human being.
Mike great post thanks for clarifying. All I can say is diabolical, he is purely diabolical and a brilliant con man. There has got to be another word beside SP and sociopath to describe this abomination that is DM.
Someone needs to bring him down, let’s hope he never makes it to the Cayman islands. Thanks to you Marty and all others helping in exposing his crimes.
We in RTC are hardly surprised to see suppressive elements opposing the highest ever, straight up and vertical expansion of Scientology across the fifteen continents and 15,901 countries of the world. These same suppressive elements ignore the fact that COB personally saved the global economy from utter collapse in 2008 by purchasing millions upon millions of hectares of drywall, carpeting, and travertine for use in the renovation of over 212,620,198,000 square miles of Ideal Orgs, an area so large that the local gravitational effects of Ideal Orgs had to be accounted for by NASA.
Whereupon it becomes evident that COB’s Ideal Org strategy has succeeded wildly and beyond all possible compression.
Let’s look at the actual scene shall we?
The claimed apparency of emptiness, of the so-called “empty orgs” or “Ideal Morgues” is factually, by way of contrast, a tribute to the immense and cavernous size of Scientology Organizations. Fact: One could. if one wished to do so, undertake and complete the construction of 11,277,521 Airbus 380 jetliners in our Ideal Orgs. Likewise, 412.992 zeppelins, those enormous German WWI dirigibles could, when laid end to end, be housed in Scientology Orgs.
Imagine then the refreshing Fresca-like ambiance of such pure and magnificent spaces that soar to the heavens and one has the Why: The Orgs are not empty; they just seem empty because they are so large.
Moreover, the staggering success of COB and the Ideal Orgs is summed up by the idea that if one were to take all of the religious accomplishments for the past eighty trillion years on the wholetrack and roll them up into a 3/8″ diameter cardboard tube, they only would stretch from Flag Land Base to Mars. Conversely, if one were to take the Ideal Org successes and roll them into the same 3/8″ diameter cardboard tube, that cardboard tube would stretch out for eleventy billion light years into space.
I AM PEEING MY PANTS WITH UNBRIDLED LAUGHTER!!!
OTVIII, all that is needed is an open flame (or lit cigarette) in the div 6 Fart area (assuming that someone actually comes in), and the zeppelins in storage could cause a monumental event similar to a sun going super nova.
(Talk about straight up and vertical……..a sight to behold.)
Jeff, your Sherman-speak prose is spot on. I can actually hear Captain Miscavige giving this speech in my mind and it is glorious.
How many thongs does that equal?
Help me, please, I’m in my office, I can’t stop laughing, and people are giving me odd looks asking me what is so very funny… OTVIIIisGrrr8, YOU are the Mel Brooks of Indie Scientology. Or even if you aren’t an Indie, thank you for your terrific over-the-top satire.
Funny? Well . . . um. . . a client made a very strange typo on their application. No you can’t see it! This stuff is confidential. Um . . . I think I’m going to take an early lunch (snort).
Ok I think I covered well, right, no one will suspect anything.
SRSLY, Mr. OTVIII (or is that Mr. Grrr8), did you ever consider the hardships you place on those of us who are surreptitiously reading this blog at work when you post things like that.
Besides the obvious coffee splattered screen, what about strange looks from the co-workers?
I am so glad I work in an office where we are allowed to laugh and enjoy life all day, otherwise I would be SOL by now.
Love this.
He needs the massive spaces to house his ego and all the lies he has told.
Does anyone know when the last time any evaluations were done at Int?
Has Miscavige ever written an evaluation himself?
Amongst his many problems is I think he’s let the whole evaluations branch of the Exec Strata atrophy and he’s not held anyone of the Hole managers responsible to do evals of their areas and force them to follow the old eval/program pattern. (A pattern Mark Fisher discusses in Jeff Augustine’s interview of Mark.)
At least in earlier decades the mish mash weirdnesses of Sea Org top management evaluations and bad programs they turned out, and which all “failed” per Miscavige, at least that earlier even crazier scene overall mess wasted equal amounts of time as the draconian unevaluated focused campaign era of Miscavige.
Miscavige I don’t think has ever written many evaluations has he?
I mean critics think rightly anything of Hubbard’s policy is open to scrutiny and likely is bogus policy. So Miscavige himself omitting to do the top level evaluations administratively by the book per Hubbard’s rules, is no biggy. But to top nut administrative nerds, Miscavige’s evaluations omission is a major management omission that Hubbard would dump Miscavige for in a heartbeat!
Well i worry about my niece who has done nothing but be an MAA.
How would that translate in the real world?
It wouldn’t.
Thank you Mike for the clear explanation.
Marie Guerin: Assuming that your niece occasionally helped those people who came to her, rather than just assigning them to the RPF or something … she could call herself a Human Resources consultant for an international organization … and then list out various things she did … like write up study programs to better learn jobs, write up simple life programs to improve home conditions. Help sort through troubled marriages as a good listener without taking sides.
Etc — as I said earlier — takes a bit of creativity and as long as you don’t lie and say you went to Harvard and graduated and instead perhaps say you attended Hubbard College (which is what WISE calls their training course room — Sea Org staff hatting rooms could be likened to Hubbard College) … it would work.
Also — if she were to find someone who has left the Sea Org or staff and started a business who is no longer involved as an indy or milestone person — she could just tell them she had been an MAA.
I think the thing to worry about is that — she will probably not leave until she’s the last one standing … MAAs don’t tell to leave as far as I know.
Windhorse
thank you Windhorse ,you are right the possibilities are there, the mindset will be more of a problem but will resolve eventually.
And yes she will be the last one standing.
Marie, speaking from experience and from other people I have dealt with, you can be comforted with the knowledge that people who leave Sea Org or Scientology staff in general have an amazingly easy time getting a job. I hope she makes the jump and am glad there is someone out there worrying about there and helping to give her a soft landing.
First, even if they do start out at McDonald’s, they will be making more and be more appreciated than they were on staff.
Second, they have developed an almost OCD work ethic. They will do any job and work very hard at it. They don’t complain about a task they are assigned, they just buckle down and do it.
Third, due to their staff experience, they are very self-directed. They will work even when no one is watching, so they move up in any organization quickly.
The thing I would worry about most with your niece coming out into the “wog” world to work is the thing I had the most trouble with. I tended to judge myself and my work product very harshly, based on past (Sea Org) work experience. I also judged others’ work ethic harshly based on Sea Org mores. The wog world works at a much more relaxed pace, they actually care about their employees so it took a while to not get pissed when everyone in the organization wasn’t pushing themselves beyond their abilities 24/7.
It is so sweet that you care. I hope somehow she knows there is someone “out here” rooting for her. That may make all the difference if she decides to make the leap.
Very interesting post. One thing, you say “they raise money for him to buy buildings he owns”. Is that to be taken literally or does it mean he’s in control of whichever part of the organization (which one in that case?) that’s the legal owner?
Yes, he controls the pools of money in scientology (Reserves). They do not get spent without his approval and if he orders something to be spent, it is.
Interesting coincidence, but when I was in the Sea Org, my boss, the Commanding Officer of the Hungarian Sea Org unit developed the same attitude regarding the Reserve Account. He was the only signatory on it and during the 8 years I was there, not one dime was spent from that amount. We were to solve even the worst financial emergencies by making more money.I got the feeling that he somehow considered it the barometer of his own success and the vindication of his style of management.
If we had all of LRH’s non-complied with final years’ orders to hand, and simplified into a “LRH’s Long term non complied Orders for Dummies” so the public and Scientologists could see what LRH orders are still on the books to be complied with, behind the scenes; and those orders LRH left the movement with that were badly executed and which have had to be re-done over and over, and still in many cases still need to be re-done again, then people interested in why Miscavige does what he does and why he dresses up things sometimes the way he dresses them up, can be better understood and people can see exactly what are Miscavige’s ‘bright ideas’ (his own crappy solutions) and what are Hubbard’s orders.
Chuck, after a quarter of a century of being a successful exec (multi-national, large companies) AND having done up to the Eval Course while in SO. I can tell you that Hubbard’s “management tech” and know how was pretty crappy. If followed it produces, top heavy, bureaucratic, inefficient organizations. He was a good writer and showman.
Great summary of Ideal Orgs. So it’s really solving the IRS problem with Scientology’s accumulated wealth!
Managers are always justified in solving org problems with policies on the books, that way escaping having to do the whole eval and get AVC approval, which is something that totally has dropped out, no management evals, no AVC holding managers to doing evals before doing any major management moves on the orgs!
But managers are allowed to drudge up policies to support the manager’s solving some problem they encounter in their zone by using policy on the books to dress up the solution, which you show is the IRS scrutiny problem of Scientology’s accumulating wealth!
I noticed the limited edition Gold Cine or audio visio LRH traffic advices/orders ordered having the Div 6 and general source and other types of displays showing things, has been a long term deal the last 10-20 years minimally.
There’s older 1970s traffic on the “automatic registrar” machine that he wished to have to replace crappy regging and losing prospects and failing to answer newbie’s questions. Hubbard repeated his request for the automatic reg machine in a 1982 advice/order to management also. And that dovetailed with his Cine orders regarding the Public Films for showing basic things to newbies who walk in orgs.
@ Cooper Kessel — there wasn’t a reply button left on your comment — thus I’m replying here … you said:
“Without any useful job skills and the need for constant supervision (orders) the last thing our gov’t wants is to have to take care of these folks. Better to let them live where they are and let Dave take care of them.”
It’s really not true that most Sea Org members don’t have useful job skills. They don’t have college degrees and often no high school degrees and don’t have professional degrees.
BUT — depending on where they were posted they are terrifically skilled at :
Computer IT work. Marketing skills. Design. Furniture making. Communication skills. Fundraising.
the list is almost as long as their are jobs in the SO.
Just takes some intelligent and creative wording to craft a resume. Without lying.
AND what all staff members have whether it’s Sea Org or lower orgs is an utmost unbelievable work ethic.
A smart boss would see that … friends of mine who have left who are not remotely connected to the indy movement etc have made enormous successes of their lives.
So … the government isn’t going to come after dm because they have “bigger fish to fry”
The biggest barrier to someone leaving the SO or staff is their own highly “greater than thou” attitude which is extremely off putting to any new boss. It takes IMHO years to whittle that away.
IMHO
Windhorse
I absolutely agree. Sea Org members are told when attempting to route out they “would never make it in the wog world” and would be “flipping burgers”. Not true at all. And yes, so long as you learn to look after yourself and take care of yourself, that work ethic is exceptional. Just drop the “gung ho make it go right” attitude, as it can lead to unprofessional solutions, and don’t work yourself to death – it isn’t worth it (this said to any possible SO staff reading this).
$Morgue,
Right on, one is even told “S.O. members just don’t make it” as if a stat of those that exited
were being kept. It does act like a downer until one sheds this false data.
Greta
I’m not so sure that will be the case for all of them.
It may be that those who have managed to get out are the ones who are the most resourceful ones, and that is why they did get out. Some people are fast learners and autodidacts and get an education despite the odds. Others need a bit more support, which was definitely not given to them in this organisation. I’m afraid some will be barely litterate, and have very little useful skills in the real world.
Also work ethics (whatever that means, I’ve always thoroughly hated that term, and when asked about mine I always reply that it means I will not work a single minute unpaid, as it is against my ethics) / hard work does not replace competency. Except if you’re working an assembly line, maybe – a job which has crappy working conditions nowadays.
Some will definitely need help, and it kind of depresses me how that is seen as a shameful thing in the US. Some of these people will be quite young and capable of acquiring useful skills if a chance is given to them. I would consider the help given to them an investment rather than a loss, as a society in which more people possess marketable skills is better than one in which people are left to their own devices for the crime of having been raised in a cult, or of being slower learners.
I think we have not correctly ascertained COBs actual use the new and planned Idle mOrgs. Miscavage is just playing musical chairs with real estate now. While not fiscally prudent, it is better then playing it with people. Some one please cue up Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody.
Great clear post Mike. Thanks so much for taking the time to clarify all this. It’s very helpful to know the history of how it got started. With the money for services and donos drying up, I can’t see that the reserves won’t start to drain at some point. So many buildings are very expensive to maintain and I don’t believe that adequate money will flow in to cover it. So dm won’t be just a psycho, he’ll be a downstat psycho.
Excellent post Mike. This explains why fundraising for IAS and Ideal Orgs would often cut across each other spreading everyone thin. The game is not to get an end result but rather NOT to get an end result. Someone told me that Miscavige was asked when the fundraising would end and he apparently said ‘When we win”. Genius. That will never happen (whatever it might mean).
Off thread a bit, and sorry for that, but also check out Tony O’s site. The original issue on cancellation of Family Time for the SO is there. It is a must read. And in cancelling an hr a day with your child, that comes to 30 hrs a month of face time with your child, and the order says just replace it with Libs time instead. Libs, if you get them at all, are every other week for 8 hrs. So they took away 30 hrs with your family and replaced ilt with at best, 16 hrs with your family. But as most SO know, rarely did you get libs because they made it so hard and engramic to even get libs. So in essence, the SO order cancelling family time said, “I’ll cut your family time in half and tell you it is a much better deal because it is the greatest good for the greatest number.” OMG.
BTW — that is not actually the original issue. It is one for “PAC” — the original issue was put out in the name of ED Int at the order of Dear Leader.
Sorry and still off subject, but the Mormons (you mentioned earlier that were probably increasing the number of their churches more than DM’s Ideal Orgs) say that “The Family is the Cornerstone of Civilization” AND so does just about every Sociologist graduating college in the past 75 years!
If you look at all the horrors inflicted on SO member families and also on public members forced to disconnect from their family members…. well…
The Co$ should look at itself. They say they are creating a new civilization?? OMG, they only need to look at themselves as a civilization. There are nearly no families intact (except special members like Tom Cruise) and because the field is so ARC Xen, they now have way more enemies than friends… some civilization. The Shakers had a long life compared to Co$’s future…
Good point. Though Tom Cruise’s family life is nothing to get too excited about. 3 ex-wives and a daughter who is growing up with one of those exes.
Sorry for going off subject tonight… but Yup, I agree on the point of Tom’s family life not being something to get excited about.
But (at least in the newspapers) I understand Tom has NOT been obligated to disconnect from his daughter, at least not yet. Even though Suri is connected to her SP mother Katie Holmes… As far as I know, no other “Co$ member in good standing” has been able to do that… it’s a double standard that you have pointed out in the past…
Exactly right Robert
Robert, a comparable targeting of families was done by various communist regimes, as in the Soviet union, China, North Korea, and probably others. The goal is always to destroy “traditional” values or “the bourgeoisie” (middle class or property owners) so society can be re-educated and indoctrinated with the new values.
It is probably also a tactic common in all cults ancient as well as modern. The teaching from early Christianity even includes quotes that indicate this, that one must leave or reduce one’s allegiance to his parents and family to be ‘saved’.
Well, eventually, no matter how much Kool Aid has been guzzled, it will be self evident to even the most quenched, that nobody’s home. There’s a limit to how many times you can say how much Scientology’s expanding when everybody keeps not showing up. Eventually I think he will be “dismissed”. Probably quietly and with an “acceptable justification” for the unenlightened.
Mike – I’m new to posting here –
First, thanks for your work and communication. I have enjoyed it and enjoyed your regular posters immensely. Such varied viewpoints and stories.
Regarding OT 9 & OT 10 – I just always figured the little man would take parts of, or all of the old OT 4, OT 5 and OT 6 and release them as OT 9 & OT 10 and hell, might as well go for OT 11 while he’s at it.
At first, I thought he’d have to get rid of all the old tech guys, solo CSes (myself included), and PRE OTs who who would know those levels. Now, I realize all he has to do is tell his public that positioning these levels in such a way is “what LRH intended.”
It’s so sad that that would work as those still in wouldn’t recognize a Hidden Data Line if it beat them, screamed at them, ripped up their family and then declared them. Oh wait…
Thanks, nice to see you here.
I think it is unlikely he would ever reissue old OT levels as OT IX and X as they are all over the net. BUT, he could well take processes from Creation of Human Ability or the lecture series around that time and issue them as “confidential OT IX and X” because they have never BEEN OT levels. But on the other hand, he could just make some shit up and claim it was LRH and nobody will know differently. And they will have “rave results” just like the OT VIIIs redoing the Purif and Objectives and Student Hat. As long as they are told what they are supposed to “cognite” they will write that down and sign their name to it just to be done and get a cert.
So true Mike
You need wins on one level to get to the next level…for better or worse, its always been that way.
The levels were set up originally with thoughtfulness and a kind heart. But DM’s GAG I and GAG II are thoughtless robotics. And the kind heart? Not with Black Heart in charge… cold chrome steel.
He could also tell the clubbed seals that he was now high enough on the Bridge that he is n direct communication with LRH and he gave him the processes directly. They would eat that shit up.
Great article and it explains alot. As a long time staff member I always suspected that it was more confrontable for people with money to buy a building then to fill it. Having to actually go out and talk to a stranger on the street about Scientology. Yikes. Assuming that the street your org is on actually has people walking on it. In Dallas, back when they were a ” Celebrity Center”, they were quite proud of having no foot traffic going past the org. They’ve maintained that tradition in their new ” Ideal org” by locating across from a golf course with absolutey zero foot traffic. Who needs riff raff, or people for that matter.
Great explanation of Ideal Morgues Mike.
Growing the religion by getting donations for buildings has a limit because new, unfleeced public are getting harder to find (Flag’s parking facilities are very empty these days)
To grow the organization they need to deliver services, because they are a service organization. But now with GAG II, FART Div VI, etc…he has pretty much closed the door on services.
I think we can see the first signs of an implosion with the various event stats crashing… both in number of events and size of attendance. These events are where DM, sheeple and staff can see that their numbers are decreasing.
Also, these low attendance events hurt DM’s feelings and so he will stop going to them or stop the events altogether…. I don’t think DM and Co$ failure will be explosive… it will just be quieter and quieter. DM will not correct anything. He will just blame you for his failure… and Marty…. and others, of course.
Well Robert, just so you know, I am fully prepared to be total cause for his failure…. 🙂
Yes, that would be an Ideal Total Cause…
Wait a minute! I want to be part of the cause for his failure to. Cause bogart 🙂
This even goes down to the mission level….see, we’re expanding…look at our new building!!!!!
Very good and clear post.
Thank you for this.
Mike, do you have any detail on Brussel Ideal Org?
I just know that the old Brussel was under a court case
For some stupid recruitment promo they put out,
Then the org got closed down.
But why buying such huge building, recruiting staff from all over europe
(i think only 3 staffs are from belgium)
Is this just because the European Governement?
From where the money came from?
Who is the owner of the building?
Great post Mike. It makes me wonder a bit. Does Miscavige shake his fist in the air screaming Pat Broeker’s name because by mentioning OT 9 and 10 at the death event he mentioned products that didn’t exist, and therefore DM could never deliver? Or, does he secretly thank Pat Broeker, becuase he gave him non-existent products that he could use to forever dangle in front of the sheeple?
At the end of the IAS event last year Miscavige mentioned ideal Advanced Orgs, and we also know of KCET studios and the LRH Hall on top of the idle morgues currently in various stages of disarray. So yeah, he’s running this for all it’s worth.
Pat Broeker has a duty to speak up. Now more than ever. The same goes for anyone else with valuable insider information. You have a responsibility to those you helped ensnare, those who have been or are being abused, those who lost family, friends, time, money, as well as some of the most basic of human rights. You can help in the courts. You can help heal the hearts and minds of thousands of your former public/colleagues who are still suffering in some capacity to this day. You can help the many people still trapped to find their way out.
DM’s gag orders are worthless. He knows it more than anyone.
The world has your back.
Do the right thing. Speak up.
A person with as much data as Pat B. HAS spoken up about all this. I’ve shown it to a few still in’s. ALL the people I showed the data to just said, “Oh, he’s a declared squirrel. Everything he says is false.”
It isn’t that MORE data is needed.(although it won’t hurt) It is that the few people who are still in, apparently will only learn via personal experience or something more has to happen to them to make WILING to even look and consider data from outside the cult.
mwestern,
I respectfully disagree. I don’t know you, and I’m not trying to pick a fight here, but IMHO no one has a “duty” to speak up. We aren’t wearing Pat Broeker’s shoes, we haven’t lived his life. We don’t know what he has said and to whom. By publicly calling someone out and saying they need to do the right thing, we are assuming that they have not said things they may have said.
I have personally done things behind the scenes that very few people are aware of. I think each person needs to fight his own personal battles and not expect another person to come forward to fight his battles for him.
I would be thrilled if Pat Broeker came forward and told all. However, I do not demand he do so. That is his own personal choice and not mine to make.
Mike, thank you very much for this great article which just answered all the remaining questions I’ve been carrying around with regard to Ideal Orgs. It now makes complete “sense” to me, and I can readily see that this fundraising will never be over, can never stop, under Miscavige.
Exactly, Aquamarine. And Mike, can you please post this article as a link on the side of your site with the other very important articles? It needs to be accessed often and by many.
Excellent post. The IRS aspect regarding the Ideal Buildings was new to me.
From an accountant point of view buying assets when there is too much cash in the bank, makes sense.
But, how do all these almost empty buildings profit the public? Surely the IRS must see what is going on here? The amount in dollars on the balance sheet for assets/reserves must be enormous (billions). But how many public are being served?
It looks like the Valuable Final Product of $cientology is posh buildings – invested money, to hide it. But you must be mentally blind not to see what is going on here.
As soon as the money flow is drying up, while a.o. law firm bills are rising and rising, some of these buildings will have to be sold again, and then some more, until some very small buildings or rooms remain.
Then Miscavige’s stat (Reserves) is declining. Will he find a new game to fool the IRS?
Sara, you don’t understand the constraints that exist for the IRS vis-a-vis the 1st Amend. Most churches sit empty 6 out of 7 days a week. You concentrate on the CoS because of your involvement. The fact of the matter is, they cannot get too picky about how many parishioners there are & how ornate the buildings. That would involve them in getting their asses handed to them by SCotUS and the CoS winning the Lotto via a lawsuit.
Precisely.
Swanpland: I see what you mean. I am European and not so familiar with the US 1st amendment regulations etc.
Sara, in short, per the U.S. Constitution, NO laws can be made regarding the establishment of religion. NONE.
Dave:
When you are low on fuel for the “Ideal Orgs” remenber there are also “OT Orgs”…….
Thank you, Mike for an excellent article.
I always appreciate how clearly you write; without ‘dumbing down’ your exposition, you lay it out so that even us ‘never-ins’ can understand your points and keep building up a clearer picture of The Rise and Fall of the CoS.
Mike,Great expose of the David Miscavige Follies.
My sentiment exactly that all Ideal Orgs be managed by Mormons.
Opening up Office spaces, photo studios, Mandatory Drivers Education centers,
Alcoholics Anon, Gamblers Anon,Sex addicts anon, discount Wedding receptions,
Divorce counselors offices, Native American Education ,State Parole Offices for
Early release Felons,etc,etc. Huge Cash Cow.
Then when Scientologist’s need the space for public simply reclaim it by contractual agreement. Because there is no training happening and most likely never will occur
this will be the Gold standard of Ideal Orgs, Let the Mormons Run the Show.
David Miscavige retires to Saint Kitts or some small island to terrorize the money keeps coming in providing he cannot be extradited for crimes anywhere else ,he’s safe.
Thanks Mike for a great explanation — especially for the #1 reason — Miscavige’s motivations. What a sick example of using lies to control people. He must be freaking out as he tries to keep the bubble walls from collapsing.
This posting reminded me of an anecdote, here it is:
When the Sand Castle Building was being renovated to become the new AO, Black Heart used to walk everyday through the construction sites together with Jennie De Voch and Angie B. One day a Solo NOTs D of P took a Solo NOTS public into the first entrance of the construction to show her how big the new AO will be. The staff member did so under the advice of her Senior who, somehow thought that showing the public the construction i/p acted as a promotion to get more people in.
Anyway, that day the Solo NOTS D of P was showing the construction around when suddenly COB appeared between the half constructed walls. He sort of smiled and turned around.
Hours later the RTC Rep – Pezzotti – showed up and asked who had dared to take the public into the construction site, the guilty SNs D of P raised her hand. She was immediately taken off post and, in a matter of two days, had been off loaded out of the Sea Org.
Why? Go figure, but it sure had something to do with COB. No wonder the Flag staff used to run and hide every time Black Heart was ‘doing inspections”. Part of his recipe for power and admiration he has the special ingredient to instill fear, terror and threat. Only he knows how does this taste.
Very lucky DofP, though she probably didn’t think so then.
Can’t help but note in this anecdote that DM did what most Bullies and SPs do — get someone else to do their dirty work. Note how he saw the public person and did a quick 180, rather than upbraid her right then if she had done something wrong. This helps to create the mystique of the “boogeyman.” You’ll never know when he’ll strike.
Thanks Sylvia.
Odd
Very concise, clear and factual.
In The Raven , Tim Reiterman says (about Jim Jones and the People’s Temple) “Like the Temple, most cults set out unattainable goals such as heaven on earth, because attainment would leave the organization without a justification for its own existence.” Sounds familiar . . .
Clear and easy to understand, which is a high compliment when discussing a complex, multi-faceted subject like the Idle Morgues.
The message I’m taking away from this is simple: he’s a vain egomaniac and psychopath, but he’s not dumb. He’s perfectly using Ethics Tech and Admin Tech to hold his status by exploiting both of them ruthlessly, working all of the loopholes, inconsistencies, and inanities inherent in them. He’s made sure that, since stats are everything in CoS, his stats are the only ones going up, and they go up regardless of whether Idle Morgues are successful or not (in fact, it’s better for him if they aren’t successful, because he’s supplied with more downstats to turn into scapegoats). And the fact that he’s using other people’s money and other people’s children to do it…the plan is awe-inspiring in its audacity if you look at it objectively.
The good thing is that it can’t last forever. The two requirements for the maintenance of this Ponzi scheme are 1) donations from public and 2) keeping information hermetically sealed. We’re now at a point on the graph where #1 is reaching an asymptotic low while #2 is going up exponentially. There is a point in time in the very near future where both reach breaking, and the whole scheme collapses.
It’s because of days like those (and they really are coming soon) that I thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster that Mike Rinder’s now on our side.
+1, there is a tipping point, not just a status quo to be maintained
Wow Mike, great post! I think this answered all of my lingering questions about the ideal org program.
ANOTHER great thing is that by converting to R.E. you help protect the actual value of SOR from the rapidly devaluing U.S.D. It’s a win-win, for the midget that is.
Well, like I’ve said before. Anyone who did OT Ate and didn’t realize that they are no more OT than before and thinks the “REAL” OT levels exist needs to contact me about some other great deals to spend their money on…
🙂
Hey Swampland! I’ve got a couple planets for sale! Let me know if you find any suckers…ahhhh, I mean buyers.
I remember seeing an OT Ate at graduation. I assume it was on the Fleecewinds. First off, he wore glasses! Shouldn’t he have perfect vision by now? His voice was very flat with very little emotion as he droned on about this “wins.” At what point do you come to your senses in this cult?
Will do Oldsurfer!
As to at what point do these people catch on? I’ve seen people (on the internet) who know that OT levels as delivered are crap but are CONVINCED that DM is hiding the real OT levels (that he stole from Pat) and they are going to hang in there until they “git ’em”. Totally nuts.
I’ll try to send some of those guys your way. 😉
OSD, you’ve got competition: http://www.lunarregistry.com/
‘Nothing could be greater than to own your own crater’. 😀
Thank you indeed, this really makes it clear to understand what is behind all his scams.
And what sense does it make to have accumulated so much mest in the form of buildings and billions of dollars? I assume that provides him with a sense of ‘power’ (Upstatt) and can do whatever I want but, one thing for sure is not happening – he is so worried, scared, terrified and with no friends whatsoever to the point that he can’t even enjoy what he criminally has taken off from others.
What a sad, pathetic way to live, upstate or not.
“…with no friends whatsoever to the point that he can’t even enjoy what he criminally has taken off from others.”
Very well put Silvia.
I thought the ideal org scheme came about due to cash flow problems as a result of spending on a GI basis instead of VSD. FP on GI basis is also known as Ponzi scheme 🙂
What a great business model….I’m sure
there are a few CEO’s out there that would
drool over this….free real estate being run
by free labor and financed by people who
devoutly follow your scheme no questions
asked AND no involvement from the IRS.
potpie,
You forgot Tax free Income , all expenses paid on luxury items
and lavish expenditures no matter how frivolous on a whim.
Really good post Mike. Thank you for laying it out so clearly.
Thank you so much for this, Mike.
With writing that has 1st person history and detail like this, you are David Miscavige’s worst nightmare.
And L Ron Hubbard’s, too.
I’m very grateful that you are this dedicated to eliminating the abuses of Scientology.
Alanzo
Me too, Alanzo.
I figured that there must be some stat he is focused on to the exclusion of all other evidence of success and failure, and you have explained it.
Thank you. The clearest and less “wishful” thinking post about dm and his grand plan I’ve yet to see.
All the talk for years on the various boards about a wild conspiracy keeping dm afloat were tiresome and patently untrue. All the other blah blah blah also tiresome.
Now — the difficulty is going to be for those reading these boards to not wish HARM on dm because his plan is infallible and will give him longevity as dear leader until he is in his 90’s or more – depending on his use of life extension meds etc.
The bad thing is that wishing HARM on another – screws up one’s own karma. Badly.
If you think it’s just DONEs per LRH that screw you up — watch your own mind sometime after you flip someone the bird or yell at them when driving … that churned up mind will stay with you for awhile. Potentially causing a bad mood to linger.
Buddhist ranting over.
Just remember though — contrary to the belief of some — it’s NOT a turn the other cheek religion 🙂
Love this post Mike. You’ve really taken a 12 year story and honed it down brilliantly … no one can accuse you of having an unfocused mind 🙂
Windhorse
Windhorse, I agree with you that wishing harm on another screws up one’s own karma, badly. I might not use that nomenclature but I know that the concept is a valid one. The good news for me, because I HAVE been wishing “harm” on DM, and as well, on some staff who I believe have “wronged” me – the good news for me is that after reading Mike’s complete explanation of the whys wherefore’s and howcomes of the Ideal Org program – this massive fraud on all dynamics being perpetrated on well-meaning people, I now have much LESS anger, because I understand it. Truth and understanding have always had a tonic effect on me. I can even look from Miscavige’s viewpoint now. I don’t agree, but I can just look. Its hard to explain. I can work to bring him down because he is a perpetrator of enormous evil but I don’t have to hate him nor those who are the effect of him,and in fact for so many reasons its better that I would not be the effect of him. We joke about how “It sucks to be Miscavige” but the reality is that it does, it really does.
Aquamarine — Both Mike and Marty (and Karen) are doing a tremendous service in helping those of us who were involved in various ways in scientology to unwrap the whole thing. So much was hidden from many of us. We had no idea. Some of it I did know and therefore when people say certain things it makes me kinda crazy as there was way more than what meets the eye.
To wit: The dissolving of the big Mission Holders in the ’80’s. As Diana’s deputy over the Mission Network for a couple of years I knew all of the BIG mission holders personally. They would come to Flag to see Diana. She was their boss, top dog and it gave them clout to know her and yet most often she would send me out to deal with them. Me who couldn’t have started or run a lemonade stand much less start a mission — but I’m good at faking it. AND also — I didn’t issue any orders into the network (which was ACTUALLY run by Mission Office World Wide Geri Stanley (can’t remember how it’s spelled) … they put up with me.
Trust me when I say — although the large Mission Holders were GREAT at dissemination and establishing more missions (Martin Samuels for example) — they mostly treated their staff as their personal foot servants, paid terribly wages, AND several of the big mission holders opened up their own credit unions (easier to do back pre 1980) and had their own staff take HUGE loans to buy services. So — they had in effect — indentured servants. Bent Corydon. Carl Barney. Not to mention that big mission holders in Mexico –the Garcias.
But there was TONS I didn’t know. Mark Fishers recent interview with Jeff Augustine was brilliant although I didn’t fully agree on his take regarding the Mission Holders. I disagreed with his take on Bill Franks for example.
I wholeheartedly agree with you. It has got to be HORRIBLE to be david miscavige. Not a true friend in the world. I’m sure his mother loved him but she passed away years ago.
DM spends millions and millions to keep people at bay. AND has not ONE real friend in the word.
Yes men/women are not friends.
Again — aquamarine — thanks for your comment.
Windhorse
Windhorse, you can take some comfort in the concept “Karma is a bitch, in heat”. They will pull in all kinds of stuff all by themselves. (And they will pull in help from others in the process.)
As for ‘tiresome and patently untrue’, yes, it is tiresome, however, everyone has their own speed / case, and it takes what it takes, and everyone has their own limits.
‘Tiresome’ can lead to a too quick conclusion so as to be more comfortable, so I would be hesitant at saying ‘patently untrue’. Mike is talking about ‘ideal orgs’, which is really only part of the last chapter of the story of the 3D incident called Scientology. (It started before 1950.) There is a lot of history from a lot of viewpoints involved here, and I am reminded of the joke “I may be paranoid, but that doesn’t mean that my fears are false”.
The result of all of these blogs is the gradual as-ising of the 3D incident. (Some blogs more than others, but there are many viewpoints to consider.)
At any rate, as all the blogs continue, the RCS continues to be unmocked – and that is a good thing.
Enjoy the ride. RCS is going down.
Windhorse (sorry I’m replying here because there is no reply button on your post above) – it looks to me you’ve got some stories to tell yourself. I am quite interested in the ex-Mission Holders you mentioned. Rather the overall mission operation. I have wondered about the karma that must have brought the insanity onto them – Corydon, for example, who in turn went about to produce his book, a complete 180 degree turn from what he was, and presently the Garcia’s who themselves had one of the bigger consultant groups in Scn (I dealt with one of their “situations” getting someone to donate huges sums to open Scn. in their country), who in turn now sue (which admittedly they took a lot of hits prior to this, and who I now find out are ex-Mission holders). This was a bit revealing to me.
Really great post, Mike. It really fits a lot of things together.
Great article, Mike! What a flippin’ scam this is. All SO, staff and members have given away their own knowingness. What’s true for them is what’s true for the dwarf. One good thing, I guess, is they don’t have to bother with thinking anymore. It’s all done for them. Once again, their template could have been “1984.”
After reading your article, I’ll bet everyone who posts here is incredibly happy to be out of the insanity. Scientology, at this point, has to be one of THE most insane organizations in the world.
” Scientology, at this point, has to be one of THE most insane organizations in the world.”
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now that is an understatement.
It was the same as when I was on staff back in the late 1980’s. I blew twice, only in the end to pay off my freeloader debt so I could be a public hamster.
Somewhere along the way, I realized, whether public or staff, one is working for the COS/DM.
Laughter and crying at the same time.
Thank you Mike. Brilliant article. A perfect explanation and answer to the question of Why Ideal Orgs? This really clarified some things for me.
Chris!
You should take this as your next script for a video and put a bunch of motion graphics to it!
David Miscavige would love that!
Alanzo (:>
Yes Miscavige is definitely the master of scamming, squirrelling and false stats. It really pisses me off that this criminal was the one going around intimidating and suppressing all the staff for being “SPs” and out-ethics, when the crimes, religious and secular, that Miscavige is behind dwarf anything from any staff. You have to hand it to the guy, he is first-class and unmatched in his destructiveness and ability to get away with it…for now. But the long term cracks are widening and lengthening and we see evidence of this every day.
Thank you for this article Mike. It clarifies a lot for me.
Dave,
Isn’t it time for a new game? Sure, crushing lives by giving people the problem of fixing up your real estate is fun, but what a hassle. Doesn’t a sociopath of your finesse and caliber deserve greener pastures? Isn’t it time for even you to admit to yourself that you too were duped by Hubbard into making commitments that are against your own best interests? Doesn’t a sociopath of your caliber deserve better that a flock of only 25,000 to lord over, and managing/babysitting a portfolio of a mere couple billion? Isn’t it time to move on to bigger, better and more titilating conquests?
For those who are somewhat new to reading up about the church of Scientology on the Internet, on the subject of OT9 and OT10. http://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/
Thanks for putting that up, Doug.
This is not true. There were several people who told me that either they or others had seen the LRH Notes pack with the OT Levels above New OTVII (and then new VIII). They do then exist at least in note form as LRH said. And the idea has conveniently forgotten the “old” OT Levels of 4,5,6 and 7, although of course they wouldn’t be a part of that pack but would figure in the OT line up somewhere as well. Plus the new OTVIII is just the last process of what should be OTVIII, similar in scope to a Sunshine Rundown for OT8s. Either Broker still has them stashed somewhere (he as digging in his garden according to DM’s PIs – ha!) and/or DM is feeding a line to all and sundry, including Marty. These documents are the key to it all and is Miscavige’s always final trump card in any poker game he plays with us and the rest of the universe. You just have to read (it is posted somewhere) the story of of Broeker’s caving in eventually to DM and supposedly handling them back, which his wife Annie was involved in as she eventually told DM according to the report. You don’t hand back or pursue something that doesn’t exist.
Well, the problem is that he didn’t hand anything back. And the fact of the matter is that there was someone else who was supposed to have been given the materials and that is Ray Mithoff. He was called to Creston BEFORE LRH died. Pat Broeker was not there, nor was Miscavige. Miscavige has tried to beat it out of Ray (literally) as to what these OT Levels are supposed to be. Miscavige has always derided Mithoff, saying he “can’t remember what they are.” It’s really hard to remember something that doesn’t exist. And this is confirmed by one of the three other people that was there that lived long enough to tell the story — Steve Sarge Pfauth.
All I have to say to this is… puleaze!!!!
If Miscaviage is playing hiding a trump card, he should have, rather, needed to have started playing that card long ago. He has dwindling church membership, and it is a leak on the magnitude of a sieve. GAT, Basics, Ideal Orgs, GAT II, Super Powers – all are redresses (outside of maybe SP) of the same old song and dance, each producing less and less Kool-Aid drinkers. OTs back to the beginning of the “Bridge” is the order of the day. Because simply, there ain’t nothing above to sell. Hell, at least Robertson saw the need of higher levels to sell to keep interest in the “route”.
It’s all about crisis management for him. Always on the basis of “you missed something earlier” unless some legal problem is looming and he needs to look good (I feel quite confident in saying that the only reason SP got released is due to the lawsuit from Garcia against him). I think he came up with his “missed something earlier” op basis because there isn’t a darn thing to confront above the level of OT 8, at least from the founder. It will be entertaining to see what he ultimately comes up with to satiate the need for those higher levels, or the church could hit its end-game before.
Even those who “saw the notes packs” themselves had to be strong believers to be at the levels they were to glimpse such things – and who knows what they really saw? All we actually saw was a single note of a date of some insane magnitude. But, obviously, part of the magic of Miscaviage is that he keeps people on the hook for those “levels” – apparently you too.
And frankly, what would change even if they did exist? Honestly, what have upper level Scn. been able to accomplish in this world, theta or otherwise, that would even remotely make any level above Clear worthwhile, let alone levels above 8? (God – I remember the old story of it would only take a few OT 9’s to clear the planet.)
No, I think Marty hit the nail on the head. There is nothing there but the on-going mind-f*ck to nowhere while one is becoming more mightly addicted to the need for more “standard Scn.”
Anyway, I’ve wasted too much time on this already. Good luck on finding that snipe.
Ditto to Mike’s comment in response to Foolproof.
Also, what folder notes that do exist from LRH that were apparently future processes, were unintelligible. They were not something that just needed to be typed up and issued. When read, they did not make sense in accordance with tech already in use.
The “Bridge to Total Freedom” ends, really at OT VII, but if one wants to do Miscavige’s invented version of OT VIII, well…go for it.
After that you are on your own and you still will not be “OT,” at least not per the description in the materials and sales literature of Scientology.
By all reports Broeker had nothign to give and the idiot Miscavige finally came to accept reality.
As for the rest, please contact me as I have vast reserves of KoolAid to sell you. As for this excellent post, I have but one quibble, Mike:
Misvcavige’s plan isn’t ingenious at all- It is pretty simple street-level conning.
It’s just that his two audiences are:
1) Cowed and pliant KoolAid drinkers see above), and
B) A cowed government agency that just got burned again by silly accusations of persecuting the Right, and a government cowed by silly religious-types who refuse to even sign a form saying they refuse to pay for birth control so their employees can get it elsewhere.
Unfortunately for DM, neither are in inexhaustible supply.
Mike, thank you so much for this detailed explanation. I was aware. Of point one. But had no clue on the IRS issue.
Thank you for taking the time. I appreciate it.
Ditto what Ronit said. Very interesting read!
Double ditto.
And it’s such great money.
150 Churches at an average of 15 million per church. That’s 2.25 billion dollars.
Then top that up with about 400 million for Flag and the LRH hall, sprinkle another 200 million for all the new Advanced orgs, and top it off with 40 million for the pac auditorium – voila!!!
Over 2.5 billion squeezed from about 20,000 Scientologists.
But the really cool thing is that even with just 20,000 people, if each one just sold his house and car and donated $125,000, well that would do it! Two and half billion dollars just like that!
And there are many who have donated much, much, much more.
The ideal org program will keep running until Miscavige has sqeezed the full 2.5 billion. In addition to a couple of billion in the IAS funds.
Oh, yes, this program is going to be running for a long, long, long time.
And David Miscavige is going to have “ethics protection” till he is 95 years old. I can just see it now, his last words will be “Well you have done well. So let me finally tell you, I left the notes for OT IX and X in the, in the.. arrrr….ugh”.
Good one, McGregor! Well if DM sucks the current ones dry and they, being older, die off as many have done already, the next generation of Scns won’t get inheritances cuz the parents gave it all to DM, so the next gen will have no inheritance to put on the Bridge or donate, so I see it dying out in this generation eventually when the money dries up and the whales die off. And DM may die before age 95, Roy. He deals in entheta every day as he worries and comes up with new schemes and lies to make himself look upstat. And as he fights the many lawsuits, that takes a toll too. And as he rages that he is the only one getting anything done and he is overworked, that raises blood pressure and stress creates diseases. I wouldn’t be surprised if he has a cancer growing inside him already. He has overts on his wife and on the family unit and the 2nd dynamic big time. All of these overts don’t come without some kind of karma payback. So he may kick the bucket at a relatively young age, in spite of the expensive gourmet organic food flown in to him daily.
And don’t forget he still has Asthma and probably still smokes and has had no auditing for
decades….= a few more things to speed up his trip to the coffin!
Greta
Mike, thank you for this article. As former Buffalo Project In-Charge for Budapest Org, I learned a lot from it and a lot of dots were connected. Sadly, DM probably realized that real estate projects are the best way to keep the remaining Scientologists busy, so if he ever manages to get “ideal” buildings for all orgs, I am sure he will then announce new fundraising projects to move all Sea Org orgs to bigger buildings, then to fund the purchase of a new luxury cruiser to replace the pre-GAT II Freewinds “in order to prepare for the release of OT IX – OT X” – heck, we will probably want a fleet of ships, not just one. God, it can go on forever (or at least until DM kicks the bucket).
Peter, Your predictions sound spot on to me.
Peter, your predictions sound spot on to me too. Mike, this is probably one of the most important and best articles you’ve done to date, and you’ve done some excellent ones, so this is no light praise. I really needed to see all the dots connected, and you did it very clearly and in a way we can understand. DM’s plan is genius although diabolical. It shows that he is smart and cunning and conniving and can keep on fooling the sheeple until the bitter end, whenever that comes. I just wish the IRS would wake up and grow a pair and take away his religious IRS status. And while they’re at it, how about a raid or two to free the people held in bondage and slavery and get the goods on DM so that he goes to prison for all the fraud and human rights violations he has done?
Thank you for this article, Mike, and for your unwavering work to shine light and whistle blow. You are helping so many people to see the truth, to blow charge, to leave the cult. Thank you.
The oversight of abuses whether they be the Wall Street variety, the banking sector or religion is pretty much non existent these days. The last place the IRS or anyone else in gov’t will likely go is into a religious cult.
I think it is understood that if members of the cult were turned out on the streets they would then be on the government dole needing housing, food stamps, medical care (already being provided by the gov’t) and a whole host of social services to help them cope with their new reality. Without any useful job skills and the need for constant supervision (orders) the last thing our gov’t wants is to have to take care of these folks. Better to let them live where they are and let Dave take care of them.
The IRS probably looks upon the situation as though Dave is providing a needed public service in caring for the indigent. Nothing to see here folks …move along!
Mike, your theme of ‘keeping everybodies nose to the grindstone’ is very good. The moving target scam requires the outfield fences be moved when enough have already hit home runs. The Idle mOrgs program does keep the IRS away, but it also allows for a percentage to go up to Davy and his other purposes.
Now the ‘strategic alliance’ will keep the well to do working for 2 or more idle mOrgs and keep the revenue flowing. At least until the whales have all been harvested for their blubber.
Buffalo was an odd confluence of circumstances that allowed CO$ to take advantage of a low ball eminent domain pay out and the lawyers parlayed that in to more money for the new mOrg. That new mOrg is now worth more because it has a parking lot and the whole area is becoming a medical center/campus. The rest of that part is downtown is still slowly dying. Even with a ‘strategic alliance’ with Cambridge Ontario, the new mOrg has no more customers then it did before the new building. I have heard that Tom Cruise is one of the whales helping Buffalo, I am not sure about that.
The IRS has been shown to be very toothless when it come to $cientology. As long a Davy looks like his obeying the law, he should not have any trouble. I do wish that the IRS would take a look at the current de facto structure of the CO$, it is in violation of the 93 agreement.