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By the time this story posts on Saturday morning here in the US, it will already be Saturday evening in Perth, Australia, and Scientology’s newest “Ideal Org” would have had its grand opening, complete with a visit from church leader David Miscavige. Continue reading In the US and Australia, new Ideal Orgs are increasingly isolated and uninviting. What gives?
[Laura DeCrescenzo, center, with Marc and Claire Headley (and minion) after a previous victory in court]It was quite obvious to us that Scientology’s most recent shameless legal gambit — suing the woman in federal court who is already suing the church in a forced-abortion abuse case in state court — was simply an outrageous waste of time as the trial in Laura DeCrescenzo’s nine-year legal odyssey finally draws nearer. Continue reading Federal judge smacks down Scientology’s shameless attempt to delay forced-abortion case
Chris Shelton and Sunny Pereira — two longtime former Sea Org members who really know the subject — today wrap up a series of discussions they’ve put together about Scientology and mental health. Continue reading How Scientology’s mental health ideas end up enabling the worst compulsions
[Back in the day, Geoff Levin (right) and People! hang with Paul McCartney at Capitol Records in 1968]For Geoff Levin, the final thing holding him back came tumbling down a few weeks ago: His daughter, Savannah, 21, informed him that she no longer wanted to be a part of his life. Continue reading Fifty years later and post-Scientology, 60’s band People! aims for a comeback
Dee Findlay ended 2017 with an item from her bucket list: She burned more than $10,000 worth of Scientology materials that she had bought on an impulse back in 2010. Continue reading Scientology tries to get a Christian minister in trouble for helping Dee Findlay burn her past
On April 30 1960, a celestial spirit trillions of years old began a new meat-body lifetime by jumping into a newborn twin baby boy in Bucks County, Pennsylvania who was given the name David Miscavige. His sister was named Denise — she also turns 58 today — and their parents were Ron and Loretta. As Ron says in his recent memoir, Dave was a sweet little kid, and so he often wonders — what the hell happened? Continue reading David Miscavige turns 58 today, and we’re celebrating with tales of birthdays past
Books by ex-Scientologists keep arriving, and we received one this week that we didn’t even know was coming at all, from an ex-Scientologist we hadn’t spoken to before. So yes, forgive us if we were a little skeptical about whether we’d enjoy Chris Shugart’s Fractured Journey: A Personal Account of 30 Outrageous Years in the Church of Scientology. Continue reading A new ex-Scientologist memoir provides a journey through extortion in the rank-and-file
[Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Chrissie Carnell]
“The dog was yelping in pain,” Cedric Bixler-Zavala says, telling us about a nightmare scenario that took place in October when he got home after a grueling tour with his band, At The Drive In. Continue reading Strange days for a woman accusing Danny Masterson of rape — and for her rocker husband
We talked to Kimberly Poff yesterday, the former inspector general who recently won a $200,000 settlement which ended several years of litigation with the state of Oklahoma. We’ve been following Kim’s story since she was fired for acting as a whistleblower when she revealed that Oklahoma’s officials were afraid to take on the Church of Scientology. She had recommended that its flagship drug rehab facility, Narconon Arrowhead, be shut down following three patient deaths in a nine-month period that culminated with the overdose death of 20-year-old Stacy Murphy in July 2012. Continue reading Kim Poff, finally free to speak: ‘I want this story out. I want people to know what Narconon did.’
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