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Once it became official that Ray Jeffrey and his colleagues — Marc Wiegand, Elliott Cappuccio, and Leslie Hyman — were no longer working for Monique Rathbun in her harassment lawsuit against the Church of Scientology, we called up Ray to see if he’d be interested in an interview. We’re glad to say he accepted. And while he can’t talk specifically about some things regarding his work for Monique and why that relationship ended, we were happy that he opened up as much as he did. Here we go…
Continue reading No longer working for Monique Rathbun to sue Scientology, Ray Jeffrey opens up
Time again for Rod Keller’s Scientology Social Media Review! Rod goes way back, having kept a meticulous eye on the church since 1992. He’s well known for his indispensable “ARS Week in Review,” which ran for nine years when ARS — the Usenet newsgroup alt.religion.scientology — was the most important daily source for Scientology news. More recently, Rod has made a specialty of hunting down the odd and wonderful things Scientologists post to social media. Rod is a chronicler who piece by piece builds a highly detailed assessment of what Scientology is doing around the world, and this is what he found for us this week… Continue reading Got a war wound? Scientology can help you with that, and more in our social media review
[San Diego Police Lt. Skip Young, left, in 1976.]
Skip Young’s involvement in the Church of Scientology’s notorious “Snow White Program” was only a footnote, but it was a memorable one. It was the summer of 1976, and Scientology’s chief Washington DC spy, Michael Meisner, was in hiding after he’d been discovered that June using a fake IRS badge to gain access to a US Attorney’s office while on a mission to pilfer government documents about Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. Continue reading A Scientology spy comes forward: Now he’s ready for ‘war’ with David Miscavige
Monique Rathbun has waived her right to respond to the Church of Scientology’s petition to the Texas Supreme Court just a couple of days before the initial deadline for her to respond had arrived. Continue reading Monique Rathbun waives a response: Will the TX Supreme Court take up Scientology’s appeal?
Chris Shelton has a nice treat for us today. He took a very detailed look at the history and use of Scientology’s “Oxford Capacity Analysis,” the fancy (and fraudulent) name for its famous personality test. Continue reading Scientology’s ‘personality test’ taken apart like never before, and by a former member
Ron Miscavige’s book has a new title and a publication date. What was originally announced as “If He Dies, He Dies” has been renamed “Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me,” and St. Martin’s Press is publishing it on May 3. Continue reading Ron Miscavige book out in May: ‘Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me’
[Brian Kennedy of Regency Outdoor]Another billboard company has caved from the pressure applied by the Church of Scientology. Phil Jones learned this afternoon that Regency Outdoor Advertising, which had planned to put up Phil’s billboard this weekend for Tuesday’s unveiling, has now cancelled on him. Continue reading Regency Outdoor caves to Scientology, cancels ‘disconnection’ billboard
[Ramana Dienes-Browning and her daughter, Iyana]We recently received a message from Ramana Dienes-Browning that, sadly, was all too familiar. “Well, it finally happened,” she said to us over Facebook. “My mum has disconnected from me so she can continue Scientology.” Continue reading Scientology disconnection rips apart another family, this time affecting a familiar face
 The WISE logo In December, we told you about a lawsuit filed by a woman named Annie R. Lee against a Pasadena company, Lusida Rubber Products, after she claimed she was fired for refusing to take Scientology courses forced on her by her employer. Last week, an L.A. website reported that Lusida had filed a motion hoping to end the lawsuit and force Lee into binding arbitration, which is a common tactic used by the Church of Scientology itself against its former members. Continue reading Turns out at least FOUR employees sued Pasadena firm that forced Scientology on them
Today is the holiest day of the Scientology year, when the party-happy organization celebrates March 13, 1911, the date L. Ron Hubbard emerged into the known world to begin a life more adventurous than the lives of a dozen other men. He deigned to spend a little over 74 years in his Nebraska-sourced meat body before jettisoning it voluntarily on January 24, 1986. It was just one of countless lifetimes that the Great Thetan would spend in his eternity game. Can you handle the truth of your quadrillion years of existence? Dare any being contemplate the true nature of existence except for Ron? Continue reading John Travolta and his ancient galactic friends celebrate Scientology’s holiest day of year
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