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Scientology’s Enforcer Has a New Book: Will This Be The One We’re Waiting For?

Marty Rathbun’s latest book comes out this time next week, and we’ve got a review copy that we’ll be writing about next Wednesday.

Rathbun was once the second-highest ranking official in Scientology before his defection in 2004. He then disappeared so thoroughly, many people assumed he had died. But then he not only resurfaced, he started []

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A Womb With a View: More Dianetics Just-So Stories

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.

Vance, we’ve reached a short chapter titled “Some Types of Engrams,” and it provides several examples of engrams, which we always []

Meet Dennis Nobbe, Miami Chiropractor and Scientologist!

We spoke yesterday with Beatriz Biscardi, the EEOC attorney who filed a lawsuit on May 8 against Dynamic Medical Services, Inc., a Miami chiropractic business run by a Scientologist named Dennis Nobbe.

On May 9, we reported that the EEOC had put out a press release announcing that it was suing Nobbe’s business for forcing his []

Disconnection: Scientology’s Most Toxic Sacrament

Claire Headley is taking us on our journey to train as Scientologists. She and her husband Marc were Sea Org workers who escaped from Scientology’s International Base in 2005. She spent years working with Scientology’s “tech,” and was trusted to oversee the auditing of Tom Cruise. Go here to see the first part in this []

Your Hot Scientology Event in Los Angeles Tonight

We have several really big stories brewing here in the Underground Bunker, but they require a lot of reporting and aren’t ready to pop yet.

In the meantime, we wanted to give our wonderful commenting community something to chew on, and we realized there’s a great little event happening tonight in Los Angeles!

If you can []

How Not to Protest Scientology

ALSO, CCHR IN SAN FRANCISCO

Last night, New York City’s chapter of Anonymous conducted its 63rd consecutive monthly “raid” of the Church of Scientology on 46th Street near Times Square. We’ve been to several of these demonstrations, and we can tell you they are foul-mouthed, chaotic fun. Our hats are off to the NY anons for []

Jon Atack on the Hypnotic History of Scientology Auditing

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 []

About that Scientology “Photoshopped” Image…

On Sunday, we reported that the Church of Scientology had put on its main website a photograph of last Saturday’s Portland “Ideal Org” grand opening.

The photo was posted along with a church press release which claimed that 2,500 people had attended the event. Our own eyewitnesses on the scene, counting people in images they had []

And Now For Something Completely Different: Scientology Stand Up!

You just have to hand it to the folks in the San Fernando Valley. They’ve tried raising money for an Ideal Org with bowling nights and by selling doorknobs. And now, well, apparently it’s time for a little old-fashioned show biz.

For those just joining us, the Church of Scientology is in the grips of crisis, []

Scientology Now Has Until July 2 to Turn Over Evidence in Forced-Abortion Lawsuit

With its California Supreme Court petition shot down, Scientology learned in Los Angeles Superior Court today that it has a little more than six more weeks before it has to turn over thousands of pages of evidence that Laura DeCrescenzo (right) believes will bolster her lawsuit against the church. In her lawsuit, DeCrescenzo alleges that []