Scientology OT, after having scam shut down, tests the waters for a comeback

We’ve been keeping an eye on so many scammers in Scientology in recent years, it doesn’t surprise us too much to learn that we overlooked one.

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Scientology’s evangelist is coming to town, and he wants to discuss your origin, thetan

Michael Chan, live! Is there anything more thrilling, Scientology pilgrims?

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US Supreme Court denies Valerie Haney; CA court gets letters on Scientology’s ‘neutrality’

We knew it was a longshot, but it was still disappointing to learn yesterday that the US Supreme Court was not interested in taking up Valerie Haney’s petition alleging that Scientology’s binding contract about “religious arbitration” is a violation of her religious rights.

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Is this a list of all of Scientology’s active subsidiary corporations that a tipster fed us?

[Scientology’s Nashville Celebrity Centre]

Now that we’re plunging into our tenth year together, dear readers, we appreciate more than ever what our longtime regulars bring to the feast.

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Pasadena drunk kicks hole in Scientology door: Will this ‘hate crime’ be blamed on Leah Remini?

[The Pasadena org, when it was boarded up last year]

Scientology’s ‘Ideal Org’ in Pasadena, California is less ideal today after an intoxicated man broke the glass of its front door by kicking it on Friday evening.

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Academics who ignore defectors as ‘apostates’ will never see Scientology for what it is

The Underground Bunker asked former Sea Org official Chris Shelton to dig into a new academic paperback about Scientology, which is the latest issue of a journal called Implicit Religion. We think you’ll find Chris’s take in this first piece, which he comes at admitting his own personal biases, fascinating.

In my limited experience with the “Cult Wars” that have been waged for a few decades now in the world of academia, I’ve perceived that there are three groups of scholars from varying disciplines feuding over the idea of coercive control, what new religious groups are and aren’t, and whether or not a group can actually be “destructive” or not.

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New evidence that private eyes stalking Leah Remini and J-Lo were working for Scientology

[TV polygraph expert Dan Ribacoff and his son Lance]

TV polygraph expert Dan Ribacoff has denied that his private investigators were following Leah Remini on behalf of the Church of Scientology in December 2017 when she was in New York filming a movie with her friend, Jennifer Lopez.

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Another Scientology OT dies of Covid, this time near the Florida ‘spiritual mecca’

[In January, Sergio Rojo was the happy buyer of a Mirit Castro painting.]

We’ve learned about the death of another OT Scientologist to Covid, and we found out about it from a Scientologist who had also been battling the disease, a woman named Julia in Clearwater, Florida, which is home to Scientology’s “spiritual mecca,” the Flag Land Base.

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Appeals court moves back hearing, and asks if Scientology arbitration is ‘neutral’

[Chrissie Bixler and the state supreme court that granted review of her suit against Danny Masterson]

There seems to have been a pretty interesting development in the Bixler v. Scientology lawsuit — the case that is getting an appeal thanks to the California Supreme Court.

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Scientology’s personality test is a hit on TikTok: Can David Miscavige capitalize on it?

Why didn’t Dave think of this earlier? It’s how things work now, and Scientology has finally stumbled on it.

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