FOLLOW ME ON
Daily Notifications
Sign up for free emails to receive the feature story every morning in your inbox at tonyortega.substack.com

Categories

Meet the Man Behind WWP, the Web Home of Anonymous and Project Chanology

[]

ADVERTISEMENT

In His New Book, Is Neil Gaiman Exorcising His Scientology Past?

Neil Gaiman’s new book, The Ocean at the End of Lane, is garnering good reviews and a lot of attention as his first novel for adults in eight years. Gaiman, 52, is well known for his fantasy and science fiction, including The Sandman comic series, the Hugo-winning novel American Gods, the Hugo-winning novella Coraline, and []

Dianetics Noir: Dangerous Women Hiding Their Womb-Secrets

Welcome to our ongoing project, where we blog a 1950 first edition of Scientology’s bible, Dianetics, with the help of ex-Scientologist, lawyer, and author Vance Woodward. Go here for the first post in the series.

We’re finally going to finish the chapter “Mechanisms and Aspects of Therapy” this week, Vance, and we won’t really be very []

LEAK: Scientology’s Script For Softening Up A Crowd

Fellow Scientology Watchers, we’re really looking forward to your thoughts about today’s document leak.

We want to thank the tipster who forwarded this item. It’s a script for introducing the latest rah-rah videos that Scientology leader David Miscavige is having sent around to local “orgs” in the hopes that church members already exhausted with years of []

What Scientologists at War Left Out: Some Annotations on Channel 4’s Documentary

Before Scientologists at War aired last night on Channel 4, the documentary’s director, Joe Martin, told us he was looking forward to our review of the film. But we told him that since we had helped with the making of the movie and appeared in it, “reviewing” it would be bad form.

Instead, we’re fortunate that []

SCIENTOLOGISTS AT WAR, the Channel 4 Documentary

As we predicted, a version of Channel 4’s documentary, “Scientologists at War,” has appeared on the Internet. We don’t know who’s responsible for it, but we’re embedding it here so our readers not in the UK can get a look at it.

We also asked some ex-Scientologists in the UK to give us their impressions of []

Tonight on Channel 4: “Scientologists at War”

Meet director Joseph Martin and producer Danielle Clark, the young duo behind tonight’s 1-hour documentary on the UK’s Channel 4, “Scientologists at []

Scientology Sunday Funnies: When David Miscavige Made RTC Look Like The Matrix

We have another Underground Bunker exclusive this morning, and it’s fun!

We’ve learned that in 2005, Scientology leader David Miscavige asked his personal tailor, Claudio Lugli, to dress up everyone at the Religious Technology Center like they were from the 1999 film The Matrix.

RTC is the controlling entity of Scientology, the inner sanctum of power among []

OT Powers: Jon Atack on Scientology’s Promise to Make You Superhuman

Jon Atack is the author of A Piece of Blue Sky, one of the very best books on L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology. He now has a new edition of the book out, and on Saturdays he’s helping us sift through the legends, myths, and contested facts about Scientology that tend to get hashed and []

The Fair-Gaming of ESMB’s Michelle “Emma” Sterling

Karen de la Carriere has a new video, and this one is about the woman behind the Ex-Scientologist Message Board, Melbourne’s Michelle Sterling.

Otherwise known by her nom de guerre, “Emma,” Michelle started up ESMB in 2007, and it’s still a hive of activity for people who have left the church.

But in November 2010, Sterling []