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This week, we have a fun variety of things, with an emphasis on getting your kids involved in some summertime fun that comes with a side helping of indoctrination! Also, we raise a question about our friends across the pond. So let’s dive in. Oh brother, here we go again… This isn’t the first time that ex-Scientologist Tiziano Lugli has been mistaken for Tom Cruise zipping around Hollywood on his Ducati motorcycle. But TMZ? You’d think Harvey Levin’s outfit would want a bit more confirmation before deciding that a video of Tiziano and his wife Jamie is Tom Cruise and his “Rebound Chick.” Continue reading TMZ The Latest To Mix Up Tiziano Lugli for Tom Cruise Advertisement
We’re taking a slight departure from our usual Saturday conversation with Jon. He’s headed for Denmark this week for a meeting of FECRIS, the Fédération Européenne des Centres de Recherche et d‘Information sur le Sectarisme, which in English becomes the European Federation of Centers of Research and Information on Sectarianism. For the convention, Jon has written a brief overview of Scientology that we found powerful. If you’ve been keeping up with our Saturday conversations, you’ve seen us dive into quite a few different subjects in church history. But in this piece, Jon does his best to distill into one relatively short document what sets Scientology apart. Continue reading Jon Atack on Scientology — “The Church of Hate”
Three of those lawsuits are in response to the deaths of Gabriel Graves, Hillary Holten, and Stacy Dawn Murphy, three Narconon patients who died in a nine-month period last year. Those deaths not only generated the lawsuits but also a new law recently passed which increases state oversight of the facility. But almost a year after the July 2012 death of Stacy Murphy, we still haven’t heard anything about the criminal investigations by Pittsburg County Sheriff Joel Kerns (pictured) and the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. Kerns forwarded the results of his investigation to Pittsburg County District Attorney Farley Ward as long ago as October. And last month, on Tulsa television station Fox23, Kerns praised the drug rehab center. Richardson says he found those statements outrageous, but he’s waited until this week to speak publicly about it. Continue reading A Sheriff’s Kind Words About Scientology’s Drug Rehab Has Victims’ Attorney Riled
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 a blog in 2009 that quickly became Scientology leader David Miscavige’s biggest headache. Rahbun’s blog has changed substantially in recent months, but he’s been focusing more on writing books about Scientology. We were fairly harsh with our reading of the first, found a lot more to like about the second, and we’ll give the latest one a thorough read before we give you our thoughts. Continue reading Scientology’s Enforcer Has a New Book: Will This Be The One We’re Waiting For?
Vance, we’ve reached a short chapter titled “Some Types of Engrams,” and it provides several examples of engrams, which we always find rather entertaining. Our old friend Jeff Jacobsen has criticized us for not doing more in this series to explain that L. Ron Hubbard inherited many of his ideas from previous writers. And there’s no doubt, for example, that the basic notion of your adult life being affected by what happened while you were in your mother’s womb was something that had been suggested many years before Hubbard wrote Dianetics in 1950. If you haven’t seen it, you really should look at Jeff’s 1992 essay, “The Hubbard is Bare,” that lays out some of the predecessors to this book. Continue reading A Womb With a View: More Dianetics Just-So Stories
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 employees to take Scientology courses that had them “screaming at ashtrays or staring at someone for eight hours without moving.” As press releases put out by federal agencies go, it was a weird one. Within the week, the story had been picked up by major news organizations, each of them imparting little more than what was known from the press release or the legal complaint. But we wanted to know, how did Nobbe and the government get to this point? Continue reading Meet Dennis Nobbe, Miami Chiropractor and Scientologist!
Last week, Claire began taking us through the PTS/SP Course (for Potential Trouble Source/Suppressive Person). It’s a crucial course for Scientologists, laying in some of the most important conditioning that produces an “us vs. them” way of thinking. Rather than move on to the next course, we’ve asked Claire to spend some more time on one of the key ideas that is introduced in the PTS/SP experience — the policy of disconnection. Continue reading Disconnection: Scientology’s Most Toxic Sacrament
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 attend, we’d love a report. Continue reading Your Hot Scientology Event in Los Angeles Tonight
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 their longevity and continued good humor. Having said that, we were recently made aware of a very different situation going on in Tucson, Arizona. Someone down there, apparently, is a little unclear on the concept. |
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