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Rod Keller has a great update for us about Scientology’s Ideal Org program around the globe… Continue reading Nancy Cartwright goes home as Scientology ‘Ideal’-izes the world
We have a real treat this week in our ongoing ‘Scientology Lit’ series. It’s a full chapter from Robert Dam’s book The Defector: After 20 years in Scientology. Robert gives us a look inside Scientology’s operation in Copenhagen, its headquarters in Europe, where he spent some of his 20 years in Scientology before leaving the organization in 2004. Published in Denmark in 2011, the book was a bestseller there, but is less well known here in the U.S. We hope this intriguing chapter gives you some idea of how much the authoritarian nature of Scientology is consistent around the world…
Continue reading Scientology in Europe: ‘A scapegoat always had to be found when something went wrong’
[Kristi Bouck went Clear in 2015]In 2015, our correspondent Rod Keller posted at his own website a photo from Scientology’s South Coast mission in Orange County, California (see above). It featured a young woman named Kristi Bouck showing off a document indicating that she had attested to “Clear.” Continue reading Why did a 26-year-old ‘Clear’ kill herself at Scientology’s spiritual mecca?
[Paulette, right, and her sister Suzy, at a Belgian orphanage]Paulette Cooper, the “Unbreakable Miss Lovely” herself, turns 76 today, and she has an amazing update for us. We are so in awe of this lady.
Continue reading Paulette Cooper turns 76: ‘I found my best friend from the orphanage — from 70 years ago’
[Guardian’s Office execs Jane Kember and David Gaiman talk to the BBC in 1968]We’re thrilled to have another well-researched piece by historian Chris Owen, who today is marking a major milestone in Scientology history on its anniversary…
Continue reading 50 years ago today, Scientology was banned in the UK — Here’s why it was a bad move
[Efrem’s ice cream dates]The day after we reported last week on the ordeal of 75-year-old Efrem Logreira — who says the Church of Scientology ran up charges on his credit cards for courses he would never take, and which cost him thousands in interest payments — he heard from the church in a letter disputing his numbers. Continue reading Scientology used an ice cream ‘date’ to run up $20,000 on senior’s credit cards
[Laura D, from her Facebook account]After nine years of characteristic scorched-earth legal maneuvering which included numerous appeals and delays and long-shot Hail Mary passes, Scientology has finally chickened out of actually going through a trial over the forced-abortion allegations of Laura DeCrescenzo. The two sides hammered out a settlement to end the case before trial was scheduled to begin on August 13, more than nine years since Laura first filed her lawsuit. The settlement of the case was announced in open court this morning. Continue reading SCIENTOLOGY CAVES: MISCAVIGE SETTLES FORCED-ABORTION CASE TO AVOID TRIAL
Last week we published a report from an eyewitness at the third “Maiden Voyage” event held on L. Ron Hubbard Way at Scientology’s “Big Blue” headquarters in Los Angeles. This week, our inside source was once again in attendance Saturday night when the fourth Maiden Voyage event took place. Our source had some pretty interesting observations about what went down…
Continue reading Eyewitness report: Scientology’s LA orgy of praise for the new TV network
Rod Keller compares Scientology’s approach in two very different places where it plans to “expand” in the near future… Continue reading A tale of two cities: Scientology courts pols and police in one place, acts sneaky in another
Our Saturday ‘Scientology Lit’ series continues with a glimpse of Sands Hall’s richly penned memoir, Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Lost Decade in Scientology. Sands, a veteran musician and writing instructor, may not have been a Sea Org member or high-ranking Scientology executive, but we found her book to be one of the best for explaining the “tech” that members encounter and the ways that Scientology affects the mind. She gave us this excerpt to share with you.
Continue reading From Sands Hall’s excellent ‘Flunk. Start.’ — the paradox of ‘Keeping Scientology Working’
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