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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 []

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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 []

Scientology tells members ‘Save The Date’ for IAS event — but not *which* date

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: The coming showdown between Scientology and local UK government is really getting entertaining. The latest escalation by the church over a big coming event is a music video telling members to save the date []

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? []