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[Nancy Cartwright with last year’s charity recipients]TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology is rolling the dice, waiting until the last minute to apply for big changes at its UK headquarters ahead of a major annual event usually attended by Tom Cruise. And to make sure it succeeds, they’ve lined up various shills to make it sound like the best thing ever. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology’s shills line up to sing its praises for crucial planning application
[Clearwater Mayor Bruce Rector wants the city to think big]TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Clearwater’s city council doesn’t want Scientology’s richest donor putting a branch of her existing Tampa Bay glass art museum in their library, so they decided this week to try again for a better tenant. And former vice mayor Mark ‘Wise Beard Man’ Bunker has a suggestion! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Clearwater council not into Scientology donor’s glass art, will try again
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: As a Scientology OT 8, mega-donor Tom Cummins can resist invader forces trying to erase his memory during his ‘between-lives’ period, and will remember who he is when he starts out his next lifetime. But what about his stacks of cash? It turns out he’s thought deeply about that! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology mega-donor Tom Cummins: How can a deathless thetan make a will?
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: So much of what Scientology focuses on now is leveraging the few people it has left. You see it in the recovery efforts to bring back former members, and getting active members to bring in everyone they possibly can. We have a fun new example from one of our helpful readers. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading This is how Scientology is going to turn around its ship of state!
[Chicago Scientologist Joe Cecala made the front page of the Journal!]
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We noted yesterday the investigation of Scientology that appeared at the Wall Street Journal’s website Sunday. But this morning the piece is on the newspaper’s front page. And it’s so rare to see Scientology taken apart at the Journal we figured it was worth pointing out twice! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Wall Street Journal unmasks startup’s troubling Scientology ties
[Maurice Girodias and Olympia Press]TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Seventy years ago today the unconventional publisher Maurice Girodias published Nabokov’s ‘Lolita’ for the first time. Historian Chris Owen does a deep dive to explain how he then became a target of Scientology’s notorious spy corps. ALSO: The Wall Street Journal takes on the church! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading When Lolita met Xenu: How Scientology targeted Nabokov’s publisher
[Hubbard at his office in Saint Hill]
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: By 1959, L. Ron Hubbard was feeling the pressure. He and Scientology were under investigation in the US, and he was increasingly concerned about breakaway groups. So that year he began to write down policies reflecting his increasing paranoia. The result is fascinating. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading The turning point: When paranoia became official Scientology policy
[L. Ron Hubbard, horndog]TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: L. Ron Hubbard’s earliest attempts to get the Scientology movement going were rocked by a series of booms and busts. And as a science fiction writer trying to enslave his fellow man, Hubbard wrote himself into some continuity problems! We have a great example. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology teaches that your life was ruined by your oversexed parents
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Once again Scientology leader David Miscavige has had a giant tent put up at the church’s UK headquarters for next month’s IAS gala. So today, we’re celebrating Dave’s circus coming to town the best way we know how: With a song from former Scientology celebrity Geoff Levin! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading It’s up! And we have a song to salute Scientology leader David Miscavige’s big tent!
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Our helper who dives through old newspaper archives hit on another gem recently that we’ve told you about before, but we thought it was worth looking at it again for its great photos, which Scientology doesn’t want you to see. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading L. Ron Hubbard and the second wife he never had: Photos Scientology suppresses
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