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Scientology’s new class of super beings are here to take over the planet!

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Here they are, the new class of Scientology super beings who have achieved the highest rung on the ‘Bridge to Total Freedom,’ OT 8. According to founder L. Ron Hubbard these folks should be able to crush a planet between thumb and forefinger! Recognize any of these super heroes? [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Alex Barnes-Ross talks to current Scientology staffer who joined because of Tom Cruise

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Alex Barnes-Ross is a former Scientology staffer who has once again done something pretty special: A video interview with a current staffer at the Edinburgh org who said what interested him in Scientology was that he was a film fan who thought Tom Cruise must be on to something. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Proof of Life: Looking for a family member stuck in Scientology?

 
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 showing off its new re-trained staffs at several of its ‘Ideal Orgs’ around the world. But we thought these photos might have another purpose: Helping families find the church lifers they may not have seen in a while. Recognize anyone? [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Heber Jentzsch: A Scientology life shaped by control, and the cost paid by a son

[Heber with John Travolta]

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Yesterday, we learned from Karen de la Carriere that her former husband, Scientology president Heber Jentzsch, had died. Today, she sends us this remembrance of him and the price he paid for a life under Scientology control. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Heber Jentzsch, 90, Scientology’s longtime ‘president,’ dies in nursing home

[Heber in one of his last public appearances, the 2006 “Maiden Voyage” event]

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We heard from Karen de la Carriere that her former husband, Heber Jentzsch, longtime ‘president’ of Scientology, died at a nursing home. Heber was a legendary figure in Scientology, one of its most recognizable executives as the church’s spokesman in the 1980s and 1990s. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Memories of Jefferson Hawkins from people who knew and admired him

[Jefferson with Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, Amy Scobee and Marc and Claire Headley]

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We were stunned by the news that Jefferson Hawkins died on Monday. He was 79. We admired him very much, but we wanted to hear from his former colleagues and friends, the people he helped so much by writing about his experiences leaving Scientology. Here is what they had to say. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Grant Cardone and Doug E. Fresh pull in a big crowd for Scientology

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology has once again turned to Grant Cardone to pull in a big crowd, and this time with Doug E. Fresh. We have some images from the event that took place at Scientology’s ‘mecca’ in Florida. But is church leader David Miscavige ready to share the spotlight with Cardone? [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Mitch Brisker knows why Scientology is fixing up those old L. Ron Hubbard haunts

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology opened up three new shrines to founder L. Ron Hubbard last year, renovating places where Ron had lived in the past. It turns out that the church’s former film director, Mitch Brisker, was involved in those projects and gives us some key insights about them. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Remembering Mike Rinder: His warning about Scientology and Christianity

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We lost Mike Rinder a year ago today, and we’re still coming to grips with it. We thought it might be best to remind people of the good work that Mike did by reprinting one of our favorite stories that he ever did at his blog: How Scientology lies about other religions. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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The major Scientology donors taking over the planet, one gutter at a time

[Rury MacLeod, center, and Scientology megadonor Tom Cummins, far left]

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Alex Barnes-Ross let us know he spotted a familiar face in Scientology’s New Year’s event slide show, and then sent us over this fascinating description of who was being celebrated at the party by church leader David Miscavige. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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