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Body thetans hungover from space junk? Scientology can help with that

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We’ve said it before: Scientology’s ‘OT 3’ auditing level gets all the attention, but the other ‘Operating Thetan’ levels are just as wacky, and deserve to be better known. We have a new OT […]

20 YEARS: Scientology leader David Miscavige made his wife Shelly vanish

[Shelly Miscavige in the 1990s, and her 2010 driver’s license photo]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: According to our sources who were there at the time, it was 20 years ago this week when Shelly Miscavige drove away from Scientology’s […]

Cambridge University is lending its credibility to a Scientology front

[OT Scientologist and COA International founder Vladimir Krasniakov]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: A reader pointed out that an online homeschooling academy run by Scientology lifers is claiming to be affiliated with Cambridge University. That can’t be right, can it? […]

Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s depravity — the audiobook version

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: The depravity of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s final work of fiction, the Mission Earth series, came up here at the Bunker recently. And now we’ve found in our library of leaked material some […]

Site report: Scientology invasion of this city getting lost in the weeds

[When are Ron’s minions coming to their new digs?]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: More than 20 years ago Scientology leader David Miscavige set out to replace existing churches with gleaming new cathedrals in every major city in the world. […]

FBI raids Tampa church, indicts leaders for forced labor: So why not Scientology?

[It even looks a little like the Flag building. (Fox13 Tampa)]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: The FBI raided a church in Tampa yesterday over forced labor allegations — and it had nothing to do with Scientology. Former Scientologists have […]

Scientology success: ‘I became at peace with being controlled by a man’

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: A new #success story has a mother of four gushing about learning to be ‘controlled by a man’ regarding processes we first learned about because Tom Cruise had gone through it himself. And meanwhile, […]

When a Scientology spy becomes a double agent — and then gets burned

[New Republic illustration by Jovana Mugoša]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: She had done Scientology’s dirty work for years, following people the church considered its enemies, and even stealing their trash. But then she had a moment of clarity and […]

Take the survey: How can Scientology lure you to its cruise ship for Christmas?

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: The holidays are still months away, but Scientology is already thinking about how it can get you to spend the big bucks and come to the cruise ship Freewinds for pricey services in the […]

Scientology critic obtains documents of church plot against him

[Alex answers Scientology’s ‘Fair Game’]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Character assassination is how Scientology reacts to questions about its abuses, and for Alex Barnes-Ross it’s coming at him from all sides. He let us into the details of just […]

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