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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 []

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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 []

Scientology to restore Clearwater to a gloried past that no one remembers

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: A helpful reader forwarded an invitation from Scientology for members to assemble tomorrow and watch one of leader David Miscavige’s propaganda films, this one about his plans for downtown Clearwater. We can’t go, but []

Presley family turmoil revealed in more lawsuit bombshells

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: [What is this Substack thing, []

Common roots of Scientology & Nazi occultism: Jon Atack’s shocking new book!

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We talked with Jon Atack about his new book that dives head first into the weird side of L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology, reaching back more than a century to trace the disturbing ideas []

John Travolta jet-home not for sale, but is caught up in litigation, criminal case

[Have JT and friend Jimmy already moved out of the airpark shangri-la?]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Despite what you might have heard elsewhere, John Travolta’s aviation-home in Ocala is not for sale, but it is caught up in litigation []

The shocking list of crimes Scientology thinks you committed on other planets

[L. Ron Hubbard is sure you’ve been very naughty]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Since we’re all 76 trillion years old in L. Ron Hubbard’s cosmology, the Scientology founder believed we’ve lived long enough to have committed every revolting crime []