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The night Scientology’s celebrities shined, and he reached his limit

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: This week, Brendan Tighe marked 13 years since he left Scientology and his job providing armed security for David Miscavige and Tom Cruise. Here is his remarkable account of what happened the night he []

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Field report: Scientology sticks by the same old methods (because they work)

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: As much as Scientology is struggling and it suffers from horrible press and a terrible public image, its old-school methods still manage to bring in the curious. Why are we so easy to tantalize []

Scientology must be thriving in the biggest city in the world, right?

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology leader David Miscavige promises followers that ‘Ideal Orgs’ create booms of interest. Instead, when we check in with these places, they seem mostly empty. If there’s one place where an Ideal Org should []

The Scientology hype video you have been waiting for: Saint Hill en fuego!

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 hype video from Scientology not only pumps you up to go “OT,” but takes you into the inner sanctum at Saint Hill Manor, including the famous Monkey Room. Strap in, space cadet! []

Historic flooding from Hurricane Helene hits Scientology-heavy Tampa Bay

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Although the eye of Hurricane Helene passed west of the Tampa Bay area its storm surge produced historic flooding in Tampa and Clearwater, where one of the largest concentrations of Scientology members in the []

HEDGE WIZARD: Busy apostate deals another blow to Scientology’s sneaky ways

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: There’s more evidence that the activism by former staffer Alex Barnes-Ross has ‘enturbulated’ Scientology in major ways. Apostate Alex keeps pushing, and now he’s got the church in hot water over a barrier it []

EXCLUSIVE: Former Hollywood madam sued Tom Cruise in 2021 — and then dropped dead

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: EXCLUSIVE: A former Hollywood madam that TMZ called ‘somewhat of a beloved pop culture icon’ quietly filed a lawsuit against Tom Cruise in 2021 that contained a bombshell allegation. But the lawsuit, and the []

Take it from them: Scientology is creating a new civilization of super-beings!

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Our tipster who brought us the latest ‘OT Phenomena’ from Scientology’s Advance! magazine let us know that the new issue also had testimonials from members who had recently been let in on the Xenu []

Testimonial: Waking up your Scientology space cooties with Neil Gaiman’s nephew!

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Another testimonial from Scientology’s UK headquarters at Saint Hill has come our way, and it answers that age-old question: Is it possible to rid yourself of ancient, unseen space parasites while ALSO healing a []

Your Scientology superpower is here, Thetan, and it’s for the birds!

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Last time Scientology put out an issue of Advance! magazine with its popular feature ‘OT Phenomena,’ we complained how tepid the stories by Scientologists boasting about supernatural abilities had become. Were they listening? You []