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Ron Miscavige shakes off Scientology smears, rockets to #1 in ebooks

 Your proprietor left his underground lair recently to make a kitty litter run, and found himself in one of those cavernous wholesale warehouses where you have to buy everything in bulk. And while passing by pallets of industrial-sized boxes of breakfast cereal and five-gallon drums of peanut butter, we saw it. On a table overladen []

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Document leak: How Scientology freaked out over losing Lori Hodgson and her mom

[Dee McMurdie and Lori Hodgson]

We told you recently that a new source, a current member of the Church of Scientology, had sent us a small collection of documents (with promises that more are forthcoming). The first document we published was a really entertaining internal memo showing how, in 2008, the church was panicking about the []

Monique Rathbun formally ends her lawsuit in Texas; Ken Dandar wins again in Florida

Monique Rathbun’s harassment lawsuit against the Church of Scientology which she filed in August 2013 has now ended with a document she filed Tuesday in Comal County, []

‘Freedom’ magazine is back after a six-month absence, and it arrived with a surprise!

 We started hearing from readers in late April that a new issue of Scientology’s propaganda magazine, Freedom, had appeared. One of our readers even sent us scans of the new issue (and thank you very much!).

But for some reason, the Freedom website was unchanged, and it stayed that way — until yesterday. []

Phil and Willie’s excellent adventure: Taking on Scientology’s ‘disconnection’ policy in L.A.

 Phil and Willie Jones won’t rest. Despite the success of their Echo Park billboard that got a ton of media attention, the Las Vegas couple was back in Los Angeles yesterday with another mission to raise awareness about Scientology’s toxic policy of ‘disconnection.’ When Phil told us what they had planned, we asked him to []

66 years ago, L. Ron Hubbard transubstantiated from pulp writer to god among men

 Sixty-six years ago today, L. Ron Hubbard published his surprise bestseller, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. []

Giant certificates and other weirdness from Scientology in our weekly online review

Scientology may be shrinking, but Rod Keller points out that at least its commends are expanding! It’s time again for Rod’s Scientology Social Media Review. He’s made a specialty of hunting down the odd and wonderful things Scientologists post to the ‘net. He’s a chronicler who piece by piece builds a highly detailed assessment of []

Scientology’s hypnotic suggestion: What’s true for you is what’s true for L. Ron Hubbard

Jon Atack is the author of A Piece of Blue Sky, one of the very best books on L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology. He has a new edition of the book for sale, and for more than three years he’s been helping us sift through the legends, myths, and contested facts about Scientology that tend []

When Anonymous had Scientology in a panic: A new document has us nostalgic for 2008

 Where would we be without our wonderful network of tipsters? We are so fortunate that so many of our readers help us out by tracking down documents or giving us tips about where to find information. We have a few fun items for you today, but we first wanted to acknowledge how much we appreciate []

How Ron Miscavige’s Scientology memoir reads to a former Scientologist

 We had our say about Ron Miscavige’s book Tuesday morning at midnight (in London) when it first started to hit your Kindles and other devices. []