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Video Vault: Another dose of L. Ron Hubbard wisdom you aren’t supposed to see

We have another “quote video” that normally you can only see inside a Scientology “org.” In this case, it’s an excerpt that is used to entice church members to fork over $125 for a set of lectures that L. Ron Hubbard gave in Johannesburg in 1961.

The South African Anatomy Congress is described this way by []

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Video Vault: The universe is yours to duplicate, Mr. Hubbard!

Our video source came through again this week with another “quote video,” and this one goes way back, enticing you to buy an L. Ron Hubbard lecture from 1953 — Universe Processes Congress!

For only $150 from Bridge Publications, the full lecture series can be yours. As with our previous videos in this series, you normally []

Is Google aiding a Scientology front group that claims the Holocaust was caused by psychiatry?

We contacted Google’s media relations as soon as we saw what former Scientology spokesman Mike Rinder posted to his blog yesterday. It was a mailer from the Orange County chapter of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), the Scientology front group that advocates against the psychiatric profession.

The mailer claimed that CCHR Orange County had []

Why is Scientology’s cruise ship caught up in a lawsuit about human slavery?

In 2005, two Cuban workers showed up in the town of Willemstad, on the island of Curaçao in the Caribbean, and said they had escaped hellish conditions at a nearby drydock facility, where they’d been held for years. A third worker had made his own escape from the drydock a few months earlier.

One of the []

Video Vault: Hear L. Ron Hubbard unite Dianetics and Scientology in connubial bliss!

Our video source came through with another gem this week. It’s the “quote video” that Scientology created to help sell the Unification Congress, that fateful Phoenix event in December 1954 when L. Ron Hubbard explained how he was going to unify Dianetics (which he had invented in 1950) with Scientology, which he had developed in []

VIDEO: Learn the power of Scientology in L. Ron Hubbard’s Science of Survival lectures!

Our video source has another fun dose of L. Ron Hubbard for us this week. In this “quote video” used by Scientology to sell a $125.00 set of lectures, we learn about the power of theta as it heals the faithful at a church in South America. Huh? Well, whatever.

Here’s how Bridge Publications describes this []

Video Vault: L. Ron Hubbard at his campiest, in 1960’s State of Man Congress!

L. Ron Hubbard is at his campiest in a 1960 lecture that is featured in this week’s “quote video” supplied by our secret source. Hubbard was born in Nebraska, grew up in the Pacific Northwest, and spent a lot of time in places like New York and Los Angeles for his writing career. But where []

Another smuggled Scientology video to warm your inner thetan: ‘Success Congress’!

Our video source has come through again, and we have another internal Scientology “quote video” for your enjoyment. As we’ve explained before, these short videos feature excerpts from L. Ron Hubbard lectures — this one took place in January 1959 — which is intended to sell the full package. Bridge Publications, Scientology’s printing arm, lists []

Video Vault: When Scientology basked in the success of giant cucumbers

Our video source is back with a new “quote video” for us today, and another fun slice of L. Ron Hubbard wisdom.

This week, we get a peek at the “Theta Clear Congress,” a series of lectures Hubbard made in 1959.

Here’s a description from Bridge Publications, which sells the lectures for $125.00: []

BRAD HALSEY, 1957-2014

 On Sunday, Brad Halsey took his own life. He was []