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Best early takedown of Dianetics? Perhaps this gem from the great Carey McWilliams

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Until a friend tipped us, we had no idea the great Carey McWilliams, the crusading California journalist, had, 75 years ago this month, written a superb takedown of Dianetics, and we thought you’d enjoy []

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See the next generation of Scientology superstars being groomed to perfection!

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology is struggling to bring in new members in an environment of brutal press and general mocking by the public, so it tends to focus on one sure source of new bodies: the children []

Scientology’s new class of super beings are here to take over the planet!

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Here they are, the new class of Scientology super beings who have achieved the highest rung on the ‘Bridge to Total Freedom,’ OT 8. According to founder L. Ron Hubbard these folks should be []

Alex Barnes-Ross talks to current Scientology staffer who joined because of Tom Cruise

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Alex Barnes-Ross is a former Scientology staffer who has once again done something pretty special: A video interview with a current staffer at the Edinburgh org who said what interested him in Scientology was []

Proof of Life: Looking for a family member stuck in Scientology?

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology is showing off its new re-trained staffs at several of its ‘Ideal Orgs’ around the world. But we thought these photos might have another purpose: Helping families find the church lifers they may []

Heber Jentzsch: A Scientology life shaped by control, and the cost paid by a son

[Heber with John Travolta]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Yesterday, we learned from Karen de la Carriere that her former husband, Scientology president Heber Jentzsch, had died. Today, she sends us this remembrance of him and the price he paid []

Heber Jentzsch, 90, Scientology’s longtime ‘president,’ dies in nursing home

[Heber in one of his last public appearances, the 2006 “Maiden Voyage” event]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We heard from Karen de la Carriere that her former husband, Heber Jentzsch, longtime ‘president’ of Scientology, died at a nursing home. []

Memories of Jefferson Hawkins from people who knew and admired him

[Jefferson with Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, Amy Scobee and Marc and Claire Headley]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We were stunned by the news that Jefferson Hawkins died on Monday. He was 79. We admired him very much, but we []

Grant Cardone and Doug E. Fresh pull in a big crowd for Scientology

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology has once again turned to Grant Cardone to pull in a big crowd, and this time with Doug E. Fresh. We have some images from the event that took place at Scientology’s ‘mecca’ []

Mitch Brisker knows why Scientology is fixing up those old L. Ron Hubbard haunts

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology opened up three new shrines to founder L. Ron Hubbard last year, renovating places where Ron had lived in the past. It turns out that the church’s former film director, Mitch Brisker, was []