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Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine has had drastic consequences for millions of people, most obviously the ten million Ukrainians who are now refugees. The Russian people also face imminent hardship as Western sanctions take effect. Scientology’s Volunteer Ministers have already ‘mobilised’ in Ukraine’s westerly neighbour to aid (or exploit) the wave of refugees fleeing the country (see the earlier story on the Bunker). But what effect will the war have on Scientology and Scientologists in Russia and Ukraine? Continue reading War in Ukraine: What does it mean for Scientology there and in Russia?
[Quentin Hubbard audits a preclear. Photo courtesy of Karen de la Carriere.]Clearwater, October 1976. Every evening at the Fort Harrison Hotel’s Lemon Tree restaurant, which had been converted to the officers’ dining room, we get together for dinner. There are four of us sharing a booth along the wall, the seats and backs covered with shiny lemon green plastic. Continue reading Quentin Hubbard’s suicide: A Scientology-based explanation so insane it might be true
We were surprised and saddened to learn yesterday that Ginger Sugerman died in Georgia of a heart attack in early February. She was 62. Continue reading Ginger Sugerman: Her way out of Scientology was marred by trauma
Last month we told you that, thanks to a “reply all” accident, we’d learned that some in the Dutch government consider Scientology a “controversial” organization and are keeping a wary eye on its floating cathedral, the vessel Freewinds, as it spends time in Dutch islands of the Caribbean. Continue reading Scientology enlisting police to indoctrinate kids? Sure, why not!
[Adrian Caligiuri, super being]Thanks to one of our great readers, we have the new issue of Source magazine, the propaganda organ for Scientology’s “Flag Land Base,” its spiritual mecca in Clearwater, Florida. Continue reading This is what it’s like to become a super being at Scientology’s Florida ‘mecca’
After an appeals court’s stunning January put-down of Scientology’s “religious arbitration” strategy in the lawsuit brought by Danny Masterson’s rape accusers, Valerie Haney was hoping Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Richard Burdge Jr would reconsider his ruling in her lawsuit, which was also derailed by Scientology’s arbitration gambit. Continue reading Judge denies Valerie Haney do-over after Scientology’s appellate loss in Masterson suit
Over the years we’ve had some great drone shots of Scientology properties. You probably remember our exciting series of posts highlighting the first ever 4K drone footage of Scientology’s secret compounds in California and New Mexico in 2016, for example. Continue reading A drone’s eye view of Scientology’s mecca, including Tom Cruise’s penthouse
[Illustration by Observer]On March 13, 1911, the Great Thetan jumped into a newborn in Tilden, Nebraska, and began the latest incarnation in his 76-trillion-year journey through space and time. Continue reading It’s Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s eleventy-first birthday! And we have guests!
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