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Like the other “quote videos” that we’ve been leaked, this was a short film which was intended to help sell a particular L. Ron Hubbard lecture or book. In this case, it’s the “Special Course in Human Evaluation,” which you can purchase from Bridge Publications for only $170.00!  Scott Pilutik We pointed out that the recitation of facts in the petition is very familiar to those of us who have been following along with Scientology’s arguments since Monique filed her lawsuit in August. But we wanted to get more perspective on the legal argument that Scientology used in its petition, which was written by Wallace Jefferson, who recently left his position as chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court. We turned to our legal adviser, Manhattan attorney Scott Pilutik, for some insights. Continue reading Scott Pilutik helps us evaluate Scientology’s petition to Texas appeals court
On Friday, Wallace Jefferson — the former chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court (pictured at right) — filed on behalf of Miscavige an 89-page petition with the Texas Third Court of Appeals in Austin, asking it to grant a writ of mandamus and counteract Waldrip’s order. We have the petition now, and we’d like your thoughts on it.
That was the first day of a crucial hearing regarding Scientology’s “anti-SLAPP” motion. A week earlier, Scientology had been ordered to turn over any evidence it had in the form of video or photographs produced in the church’s years-long surveillance of Monique and her husband Mark ‘Marty’ Rathbun. As a result of that order, the church turned over a terabyte of video on an external drive, with hours and hours of surveillance footage. Despite the volume of that evidence, Monique’s attorneys came to court on February 3 with a surprise. One of the segments of video that the church turned over was about a minute and a half long, had no audio track, and showed Monique Rathbun being filmed pulling into her driveway. Continue reading WATCH: The 10-minute video of Scientology stalking Monique Rathbun in 2010
Bruce Hines is helping us again as we push on into the upper Operating Thetan levels, and boy, are we excited. This week, we’re up to Original OT 6, and the title for this level’s materials is “Familiarisation as a Thetan Exterior with the Physical Universe.” Hey, that’s sounds major! After some review and preparation, we proceed to Step One. “Be three feet in back of your head,” we’re told, the classic Scientology instruction to go “exterior” from our bodies.
Renovations in LA have been going on for some time, and now we’ve learned why: Scientology’s “Advanced Orgs” — where church members go for high-level and expensive processing — are also being upgraded to “Ideal” status. On Saturday, the Advanced Org in Copenhagen (AOSHEU) went through a grand re-opening that featured Scientology leader David Miscavige. A similar party is being planned for LA — will Miscavige be in town? We’re hoping our LA correspondents can be on the scene to find out. Continue reading NEW DATE: Celebration details of Los Angeles Scientology facilities leaked
And now we have an e-mail which was leaked to us that suggests another advanced org — in Los Angeles — is going “ideal” in just a week! Boy, someone’s sure in a hurry. We had heard that the Advanced Org facilities in LA — the American Saint Hill Organization (ASHO) and the Advanced Organization of Los Angeles (AOLA) — had been going through renovations. And now, apparently, it’s time for a grand re-opening party! Continue reading Sunday Funnies: Scientology is having a grand re-opening at Big Blue this Saturday!
Last week, a flattering interview with John Travolta showed up in the Telegraph in advance of the actor’s appearance this weekend in London. Since then, numerous media outlets have been making much of one statement Travolta made in the piece about how he coped after the 2009 death of his son Jett… “I don’t know what I would have done if I hadn’t had the support of Scientology. I don’t think I could have got through it. They were with me every day after Jett died. They even travelled with me when I needed to get away. And for a solid two years it was like that. It was only in the second year that I started to take a break of a day or two just to see how I was doing on my own.” If Travolta intended for that to make Scientology look beneficial, it’s had the opposite effect — he seemed to indicate that church handlers were watching him so closely for more than a year, at some point he needed to get away. Continue reading Did John Travolta reveal too much about Scientology?
(For those of you who keep bringing up an anonymous commenter over at Mike Rinder’s blog who claims that Quinn didn’t donate her own money, we’ll point out that our issue is with the church promoting this young girl as a ‘humanitarian’ in order to set an example for other church members.)
The PDC came early in Scientology’s history — December 1952 — but like everything else Hubbard did, this series of lectures was meant to be taken as gospel (which explains why it’s still on sale and at premium prices). But we like this video in particular because it features a passage by Hubbard which may be among the most nonsensical word salads he ever uttered on tape. Give it a look, and then take a look at our transcription of the second half of it… Continue reading Scientology video: Some of the best L. Ron Hubbard word salad ever |
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