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Scientology mega-donor Tom Cummins: How can a deathless thetan make a will?

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: As a Scientology OT 8, mega-donor Tom Cummins can resist invader forces trying to erase his memory during his ‘between-lives’ period, and will remember who he is when he starts out his next lifetime. []

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This is how Scientology is going to turn around its ship of state!

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: So much of what Scientology focuses on now is leveraging the few people it has left. You see it in the recovery efforts to bring back former members, and getting active members to bring []

Wall Street Journal unmasks startup’s troubling Scientology ties

[Chicago Scientologist Joe Cecala made the front page of the Journal!]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We noted yesterday the investigation of Scientology that appeared at the Wall Street Journal’s website Sunday. But this morning the piece is on the []

When Lolita met Xenu: How Scientology targeted Nabokov’s publisher

[Maurice Girodias and Olympia Press]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Seventy years ago today the unconventional publisher Maurice Girodias published Nabokov’s ‘Lolita’ for the first time. Historian Chris Owen does a deep dive to explain how he then became a []

The turning point: When paranoia became official Scientology policy

[Hubbard at his office in Saint Hill]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: By 1959, L. Ron Hubbard was feeling the pressure. He and Scientology were under investigation in the US, and he was increasingly concerned about breakaway groups. So that []

Scientology teaches that your life was ruined by your oversexed parents

[L. Ron Hubbard, horndog]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: L. Ron Hubbard’s earliest attempts to get the Scientology movement going were rocked by a series of booms and busts. And as a science fiction writer trying to enslave his fellow []

It’s up! And we have a song to salute Scientology leader David Miscavige’s big tent!

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Once again Scientology leader David Miscavige has had a giant tent put up at the church’s UK headquarters for next month’s IAS gala. So today, we’re celebrating Dave’s circus coming to town the best []

L. Ron Hubbard and the second wife he never had: Photos Scientology suppresses

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Our helper who dives through old newspaper archives hit on another gem recently that we’ve told you about before, but we thought it was worth looking at it again for its great photos, which []

A deeper look at Scientology’s last-minute bid for permission to erect its big tent

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Former Scientology staffer Alex Barnes-Ross has had more time to consider the last-minute proposal the church submitted to a local council for major changes at Saint Hill Manor, Scientology’s UK headquarters. He’s found numerous []

Scientology submits last-minute application for much more than big tent

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: At the last minute, Scientology has asked permission for much more than simply the large tent it puts up each year for its big UK gala. It also wants to install a new permanent []