November 4 in Scientology history

One of the pillars of "stable data" drilled into every Scientology staff member is: Outflow equals inflow. Leave it to the church to completely misinterpret and misapply this simple phrase. Terra Math First off, outflow does not equal inflow. Outflow equals outflow, and inflow equals inflow. The two aren't identical.

Tags: A&E, ASHO, Body Routing, Bridge Publications, Buffalo, California, Central Files, Cincinnati, Clear, David Miscavige, Dianetics, Europe, Field Staff Member, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, Google, HBO, L. Ron Hubbard, Mental Health, OT, OT Committee, Purification Rundown, Scientology practice, Scientology staff, Terra Cognita, UK

On October 19, Tracey McManus at the Tampa Bay Times revealed that a somewhat strange thing had happened at Scientology's vaunted "Flag Building" — more colloquially known as the "Super Power Building," which opened in 2013 after some two decades of fundraising and construction. The building includes the space age coolness of the fifth floor "Perceptics" stations, as well as a huge running track on the sixth floor, and elaborate personal office space for Scientology leader David Miscavige on its seventh and top floor. McManus reported that on Sunday, October 15, a 17-year-old girl from Mexico suffered a head injury in the building, and there were a lot of questions about the way Scientology had handled it. The girl was in the country by herself, and her parents were in Mexico. Although her injury was serious enough to need hospitalization, the Scientologists on the scene had not called 911, but instead had decided to drive her to a hospital themselves. And they had bypassed the closest medical facility, Morton Plant Hospital, to go to one several miles farther, Largo Medical Center. (This, of course, reminded us of one of Scientology's worst debacles in its history, the death of Lisa McPherson.)

Tags: 2012, 2013, 9-1-1, Allen Taft, Clearwater, David Miscavige, Flag Building, Hospital, Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, Largo, Lenny Serna, Lisa McPherson, Medical, Mexico, Morton Plant Hospital, Police, Rebecca Meijer, Sarah Heller, Sea Org, St. Petersburg, Super Power, Super Power Building, Tampa Bay Times, Tracey McManus

L. Ron Hubbard in the Van Allen Radiation Belt

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Two men connected to the embattled Narconon Arrowhead say they consider Pittsburg County Sheriff and state Senate candidate Joel Kerns unqualified, saying he didn't do enough to investigate the drug rehab center, where a string of deaths drew national attention. When asked for comment, Kerns said he couldn't see the link between his role in the investigation at Narconon Arrowhead and their experiences with the facility, saying his department carried the investigation as far as they could before it was handed over to different agencies. Robert Murphy, whose daughter was the third patient to die at Narconon Arrowhead between 2011 and 2012, and former patient at the center, Colin Henderson, held a news conference Tuesday in which they challenged Kern's fitness for District 7's state Senate seat. Both said they were "appalled" that someone who failed to prevent the Narconon deaths was seeking government office.

Tags: 2011, 2012, Colin Henderson, Gabriel Graves, Hillary Holten, Jessica Brown, Joel Kerns, Narconon Arrowhead, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, Oklahoma Senate, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, Pittsburg County, Pittsburg County District Attorney's Office, Pittsburg County Sheriff, Robert Murphy, Stacy Murphy

Our helper is back who dives through obscure newspaper archives in search of forgotten Scientology history. Last time, he found for us a really remarkable 1968 interview of L. Ron Hubbard when a Daily Mail reporter, Peter Smith, tracked him down on his ship in Bizerte, Tunisia. Our tipster kept digging, and found that the Daily Mail was also hot on the trail of Hubbard and Scientology two years earlier, and produced three substantial pieces that year about the movement as it existed then. At the time, there was growing pressure in the UK about doing something about the stream of young people who were coming to East Grinstead from various parts of the world to do something weird they called Scientology. Today we have the first of those three pieces, published on February 14, 1966 as a Daily Mail "Newsight" investigation into Hubbard's academic claims. We've done our best to preserve the original text as closely as we could. We found it a pretty good general description of Scientology and debunking of Hubbard some 20 years before writers like Russell Miller and Jon Atack and Bent Corydon were able to dive into matters in much greater length with their books after Hubbard's 1986 death.

Tags: 1911, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1932, 1934, 1940, 1941, 1945, 1946, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1986, A History of Man, Alaska, All About Radiation, Arizona, Australia, Bent Corydon, California, Canada, Caribbean, Civil Engineer, Class VI, Daily Mail, Dianazene, Dianetics, Doctor, East Grinstead, Europe, Explorers Club, Founding Church, Fundamentals of Thought, George Washington University, Hawaii, Jon Atack, London, Los Angeles, Mary Sue Hubbard, Melbourne, Montana, NASA, Nebraska, New York, New Zealand, OT, Pasadena, Peter Smith, Phoenix, Piltdown Man, Quicky, Reg Sharpe, Registrar, Russell Miller, Saint Hill, Saint Hill Manor, Sequoia University, South Africa, Sussex, Telex, Tunisia, UK, Victoria, Washington

Last month, we had the opportunity to attend the premiere of Louis Theroux's fun new film My Scientology Movie at the London Film Festival. After the screening, we were invited by the producers to have a drink, and Louis came over to have a talk. We engaged in about an hour's worth of nonstop talk about Scientology, and was it fun. We can't share a lot from it, but we did call up Mark Bunker and tell him one thing that Louis asked us: When is "Knowledge Report" coming out? Theroux said he was very much looking forward to the documentary, which Bunker has been working on for about five years now. Energized by that question from Theroux, Bunker has posted what he expects to be his final fundraising appeal as he announced a date of May 2016 for an all-but-final cut of his movie. We thought it was about time to get a more detailed update from him, so last night we called Mark and asked him... What the hell is taking so long, Bunker?

Tags: 2010, 2016, Alex Gibney, Clearwater, E-meter, Janet Reitman, Jenna Miscavige Hill, Knowledge Report, Lawrence Wright, Lisa McPherson Trust, London, Louis Theroux, Mark Bunker, My Scientology Movie, Quicky, San Diego

Actress Lead Remini has revealed her unlikely support system when she defected from Scientology – Tom Cruise's ex-wife Nicole Kidman. Remini, best known for her role on tv sitcom King of Queens, left the religion in 2013 with her family, who had all spent the majority of their lives worshipping Xenu. She is now preparing for the release of her tell-all book Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology and has been teasing tidbits in recent days, including much about the group's most famous member and golden child, Cruise.

Tags: 2001, 2006, 2008, 2013, Beverly Hills, California, Celebrity, Hollywood, Jennifer Lopez, John Travolta, Katie Holmes, King of Queens, Leah Remini, Marc Anthony, Nicole Kidman, Quicky, Suppressive Person, Tom Cruise, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology, Xenu

Dear Leader jetted off to Milan for a ribbon yanking even last weekend. It was certainly supposed to have happened PRIOR to the IAS event and couldn't get done in time. Ah well. It will be good to have something for the New Year's event. And he got to spend a week shopping for some new shoes at John Lobb. With the constant news from the Hurricane Leah, things have been backed up. I didn't want this to wait too long and tomorrow is Thursday Funnies and Friday is Regraded Being, so letting this see the light of day.

Tags: 2000, Chairman of the Board, Europe, International Association of Scientologists, Italy, Milan, Milano, New Year's Eve, Padova, Photoshop, Quicky, Regraded Being, Rome, Thursday Funnies

As the media onslaught surrounding Troublemaker continues unabated, now hitting Entertainment Tonight, People mag, the Washington Post and everywhere else you turn, scientology is in bunker mode. Refusing all media inquiries for "spokespeople" and dishing out the same old cut and paste "responses." And as with every media who has sought to cover anything related to scientology, ABC received the usual litany of letters prior to the airing of the 20/20 piece. Each of them complains about how their sources are disreputable liars, every question the media asks is ludicrous and accusing them of missing the real story of scientology (massive international expansion under the brilliant leadership of David Miscavige, proven by the number of square feet of empty buildings he has cut ribbons on). Those ABC letters have now been put on one of the church's websites.

Tags: 20/20, 2006, Brooke Shields, David Beckham, David Miscavige, Dead Agent, Disconnection, Ethics, Fair Game, Int Base, Jennifer Lopez, Leah Remini, Norman Starkey, OT, Paul Haggis, Quicky, Sea Org, Shelly Miscavige, Tampa Bay Times, Threats, Tom Cruise, Tommy Davis, Truth Rundown, Washington Post

If some Los Angeles residents wanted to vote in Tuesday's midterm elections, there were required to enter the Church of Scientology's mammoth blue Hollywood headquarters to do so. Voters living in the 90029 zip code area were first required to pass several Scientology members handing out promotional leaflets at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Vermont Avenue. Read more Scientology's Hollywood Real Estate Empire

Tags: 1993, 2000, Critic, First Amendment, Happiness Rundown, Hollywood, Karin Pouw, Los Angeles, Nicole Kidman, Quicky, Real estate, Sunday service, Tom Cruise

European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg. Photo © Katrinitsa Three times now, the European Court of Human Rights has condemned Russia for its treatment of Scientology. Critics of the movement should accept the judgments. Last month, Europe's top court condemned Russia for refusing to let Scientologists register as a religious group - almost five years to the day after handing down a similar judgment against Moscow.

Tags: 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, Belgium, Christian, Claire Headley, Critic, Dianetics, Eric Roux, Europe, European Court of Human Rights, France, Humanitarian, Independent, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus, Moscow, Nizhnekamsk, Paris, Quicky, Review, Russia, Salvation Army, Sea Org, Siberia, St. Petersburg, Strasbourg, Surgut, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker, US Department of Justice

We told you previously that one of the announcements Scientology leader David Miscavige made at an October 17 gala in front of a few thousand people under a giant tent in England was that he had plans for a new "Advanced Org" in Australia. It's a fascinating study in Scientology hubris. At a time when the church is shrinking, unable to attract people to the "Ideal Orgs" it already has, and with its drug rehab program Narconon increasingly under fire, Scientology doubles down by announcing plans for "Ideal Narconons" and new Advanced Orgs. In Scientology's model, local "missions" feed newcomers to larger "orgs" or "Ideal orgs" where they go through a significant part of their "Bridge" — Scientology's long list of courses and training. For higher level instruction, they must go to one of several "Advanced Orgs" in places like Copenhagen, Los Angeles, or Clearwater, Florida. And they finish things off with a final course aboard the church's private cruise ship which sails the Caribbean, the Freewinds. Justifying new Advanced Orgs, at the upper end of that scale, would make sense if the missions and orgs below them were proliferating. But they aren't.

Tags: 1987, Advanced Org, Australia, Caribbean, Clearwater, Copenhagen, David Miscavige, Dundas, England, Florida, Freewinds, Ideal Narconon, Ideal Org, Los Angeles, Narconon, OT, OT 7, Quicky, Sydney

Here is the hype from scientology.org about the wondrous launch of the "future of scientology" in the "European Commonwealth." Somehow there is no mention of the size of the crowd (I wonder why?) But there is plenty of Shermanspeak hype to keep the clubbed seals clapping. Just a sample:

Tags: 2012, Chairman of the Board, CLO EU, Continental Liaison Office, Copenhagen, David Miscavige, Denmark, Dianetics, Europe, Italy, Padova, Quicky, Religious Technology Center, Shermanspeak, Siberia

Scroll down for Version 3 of my "three column version" of the Scientology Mafia. The latest chart compares the Church of Scientology to the classic Mafia structure. In this case, David Miscavige is the boss of the three major components of the Scientology Mafia: CSI, IAS., and the Sea Org. For many decades the classic Mafia legal defense was to argue that the Mafia did not exist — and it was virtually impossible for prosecutors to actually prove that the Mafia existed. In the same vein, Sea Org Captain David Miscavige and the Church of Scientology are arguing in court that the Sea Org has no legal existence and that Sea Org rank means nothing. In my view, however, the Church of Scientology is the operating arm of Scientology's paramilitary Mafia-like Sea Org. To be exact, the Church of Scientology and the Sea Org are inseparable and synonymous; the distinction between the two is purely a legal fiction to fend off lawsuits. Likewise, the separation of CST, RTC, and CSI is also a legal fiction. The Church of Scientology is a singular entity that has no checks and balances in any proper form of governance. The Church is a madhouse and an asylum awash in legal fictions and dirty laundry. For example, did you know that, legally speaking, the "Church of Scientology" does not exist?

Tags: Church of Spiritual Technology, David Miscavige, International Association of Scientologists, Office of Special Affairs, Quicky, Religious Technology Center, RICO, Sea Org

Claire Headley is taking us on our journey to train as Scientologists. She and her husband Marc were Sea Org workers who escaped from Scientology's International Base in 2005. She spent years working with Scientology's "tech," and was trusted to oversee the auditing of Tom Cruise. Go here to see the first part in this series. Well, this is it. We're finally plunging into Scientology's "Operating Thetan" levels after Claire Headley has taken us all the way up the Bridge to Total Freedom. Claire, we're very excited about this. You've explained to us that the anticipation of Scientology's superhuman secrets — finally revealed on the OT levels — is what keeps people in for years, toiling away at repetitive tasks that can seem ridiculous in the extreme. But now, we're finally here! CLAIRE: Well, cool your jets. We have one final step before we can plunge into OT 1 itself — and that's "OT Eligibility."

Tags: 1968, 2001, 2004, 2005, Bridge to Total Freedom, Claire Headley, David Miscavige, Denise Brennan, False Purpose Rundown, Hemet, Int Base, Knowledge Report, Los Angeles, Old Gilman House, Operating Thetan, OT, Quicky, Religious Technology Center, Scientology organization, Sea Org, Sec Check, The Hole, Tom Cruise

OK, the hyperbole is STRAIGHT UP AND VERTICAL!!!!!! With Exclamation Points!!!!!! Here are 3 examples that have come in in the last few days. They are a follow up to the posting from this morning. Rest assured, this insane hype is just a warm up for the tsunami of shit that is cascading out from Flag and all orgs and missions and everywhere else now that the dates of the most monumental events in recorded history have been officially announced by one of Voldemort's minions.

Tags: ANZO, Basics, Chairman of the Board, Class VI, Clear, Clearwater, CLO UK, Dan Sherman, DEA, Dianetics, Extension Course, Flag Mecca, Golden Age of Tech, Humanitarian, Ideal Org, International Association of Scientologists, L. Ron Hubbard, OT, Publisher, Purification, Quicky, Student Hat, Super Power, Turkey, UK, YouTube

That day will highlight more than a week of celebrations for the church, which has requested street and sidewalk closures, police protection and other city services through an application for a special events permit. Most problematic is the church's request to close a major downtown thoroughfare - Fort Harrison Avenue - for most of the weekend of Nov. 15-17. Fort Harrison is a north-south street through downtown that normally carries heavy beach-bound traffic on weekends. The church also asked that Clearwater police erect a temporary fence "to create a perimeter" to keep uninvited guests at a distance from the Flag Building that Sunday.

Tags: 1998, Bill Horne, Christopher Hubbard, Clearwater, Clearwater Police Department, Flag Building, Fort Harrison, George Cretekos, Twitter

We have to hand it to our tipsters. Not only have they come through yet again, but we've heard from our Australia sources after things had gone quiet Down Under for some time. On Sundays, we like to share with you the Scientology fliers and mailers that have been forwarded to us during the week. It gives us a good idea of what's happening up to the minute for church members, who are constantly being hit up for cash. Let's take a look at the come-ons that arrived this week!

Tags: ANZO, ASHO, Australia, CCHR, Celebrity Centre, Clear, Germany, Hollywood, Ideal Org, International Association of Scientologists, Patrick McGorry, Quicky, Shelley Wilkins, Sunday Funnies, Tel Aviv, UK

Mosey and I are on the road this week. As per usual, we are being followed by a phallanx of Corporate Scientology spooks. Also per usual they are playing extremely creepy, cold war era terrorist games. The game they've been playing with me for the past year and one half is to closely surveil us to determine who it is we are helping at any given time. They then cull folders, pc and ethics, take the most sensational "dirt" they can find, embellish the living daylights out of it, then spread it - by both internet anonymous publication and intel agent rumor mongering - to put the most hurt possible on those who we are helping. The intent is crystal clear. It is extortion and terrorism designed to send a message - if you connect with Marty we will make it hurt. It occurred to me on this particular trip - where Miscavige's level of sleaze and evil has hit a new low - that in the past year and one half, not one single person who has come to us for help and/or friendship has allowed their affinity to be alloyed by such tactics. Mosey and I were talking this over this morning. We recognized the character of our friends and the Indies who have come to us for service are extraordinary. A special breed of folks who don't waver under threat, who become stronger under the stress of Corporate Scientology terrorism, and who despite every invitation not to, keep their eyes on the mountain and continue to move on up a little higher. We are humbled and want to express our gratitude and appreciation to each and every one of you. You know who you are. Collectively, you all are breaking the back of an organized crime racket that until now has managed to rule by intimidation, threat, and the most heinous type of violation of trust.

Tags: David Miscavige, Quicky

Hold the presses. You many not have been outed after all. I had little time to analyze the LT posting referred to in the last post. However, I was contacted by some WWP people to verify whether or not one of their own actually sent to my blog one of the comments LT published in his photobucket. Turns out, by comparing search data from my blog with other external evidence we discovered the alleged comment was manufactured by LT. It was never sent by the alleged sender. Now, the nature of the comment tended to make the WWP person look like a rat working with me to screw over other WWP folk. Manufactured out of whole cloth by OSA. Think DM is getting a little uneasy about disparate factions - who are on to him - going into communication? You doubt OSA sent the LT email? Well, LT send his message from the same computer Kim did. Who is Kim? The OSA operative that attempted to, on behalf of Miscavige of course, declare Mosey unclear. Remember? https://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2010/10/02/has-miscaviges-church-run-out-of-clears-to-invalidate/

Tags: Coin, David Miscavige, Office of Special Affairs, Quicky, WhyWeProtest

Originally, the applicant sought closure of the road but was open to studying realignment options. The county staff recommends initiating a general plan amendment to evaluate realignment options, with the applicant bearing study costs and any realignment cost. If realignment is considered, "We would like to be at the table," said San Jacinto City Manager Tim Hults. Last year, the San Jacinto City Council went on record against closure because of the regional significance of the road.

Tags: Gilman Springs Road, Golden Era Productions, Int Base, Riverside County, Riverside County Board of Supervisors, Samuel Alhadeff, San Jacinto

There is a lot we can learn from children. One of my favorite artists is seven years old. He sent Mosey and me a water color almost two years ago and it still adorns our kitchen. Here is his first formal written piece. I hope you enjoy it, and perhaps learn something from it like we did.

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As might be predicted, once Sherry Katz, New OTVIII, had published her Knowledge Report about Tech and Policy violations by the current Church of Scientology management, they were quick to issue a Suppressive Person Declare on her, and send it to all of her friends. The declare was sent by e-mail all around Los Angeles and forwarded to other areas. One isn't even supposed to send KRs by email, let alone an SP Declare, but someone goofed and it went out. And it has backfired. OSA Int has tried to "pull it back" stating that it was never meant to be BPI and that they are "issuing a new "official" one." Oops. Too late. Sherry already had copies of the declare in hand, forwarded to her by a number of her friends. Our support goes out to Sherry. It is not easy being the target of one of these issues, particularly as they are normally, these days, filled with half-truths, innuendo and generalities.

Tags: 2007, Basics, Class VI, David Miscavige, Disconnection, Enturbulation, Ethics, Ethics Order, Facebook, Freewinds, Hubbard Communication Office Bulletin, Independent, Knowledge Report, Knowledge Reports, L. Ron Hubbard, Los Angeles, Maiden Voyage, Marty Kassowitz, OSA Int, OT, Pasadena, Quicky, Religious Technology Center, Sec Check, Sherry Katz, Squirrel, Suppressive Person

Timing is everything, and sometimes it's awkward: The Church of Scientology unveiled its grand new center a half-mile from the White House on Saturday -- the same day the St. Petersburg Times unveiled a major investigative report alleging the church deployed coercive tactics and espionage against staff members who tried to leave. Among the dignitaries speaking to the crowd that filled a cordoned-off block of 16th Street NW: Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.), who presented the church with a flag that had flown over the U.S. Capitol and praised the organization as a positive force for human rights and religious freedom.

Tags: Brad Sherman, DC, Sylvia Stanard

Marc Headley's remarkable account of his 15 years as an employee at Scientology's formerly secret international headquarters east of Los Angeles, Blown for Good, officially goes on sale Thursday. He sent the Voice a review copy, and then in a telephone interview provided additional details that aren't in the 383-page book, which will be available for sale at his website, blownforgood.com. In 1990, not long after he was assigned to the sprawling Scientology compound at Gilman Hot Springs, near Hemet, California, Headley was told that he would be excused from his normal duties so that Tom Cruise -- fresh off his most recent success, the movie Days of Thunder -- could practice auditing on him.

Tags: 1990, 9/11, Anonymous, Ashtrays, Barry Van Sickle, Blown for Good, California, Chairman of the Board, Claire Headley, David Miscavige, Days of Thunder, Disconnection, E-meter, Escape, Freedom Medal of Valor, Gilman Hot Springs, Heber Jentzsch, Hemet, Int Base, Los Angeles, Marc Headley, Muscial Chairs, Nicole Kidman, Physical abuse, Rehabilitation Project Force, Riverside County, Sec Check, Steven Spielberg, Suppressive Person, Tom Cruise, Upper Indoctrination Training Routines, Will Smith

While A-list followers like Tom Cruise, Kirstie Alley, and John Travolta have credited their faith in the religion as the secret of their success, common man John Duignan said that it cost him everything and everyone he held dear. Duignan, 45, who had lost everything when he became a leading figure in the church's British branch, revealed that he was so brainwashed that he would have killed for Scientology.

Tags: John Duignan, Office of Special Affairs, Rehabilitation Project Force, Tom Cruise

In 1997 a former member of the Church of Scientology, unhappy with courses she had taken, tried to get a refund of 700,000 Belgian francs - about $17,000. Authorities began looking into the church's finances and interviewing people. Now, 10 years and 76 cartons of documents later, prosecutors say the evidence points to one conclusion: The Church of Scientology in Belgium is a "criminal organization" that has used fraud and extortion to separate members from their money. "I always say that you are innocent until proven guilty, but we really have enough elements and statements that we can prosecute them for a number of crimes and misdemeanors," says Lieve Pellens, a spokesperson for Belgium's Office of the Federal Prosecutor.

Tags: 1954, 1991, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2005, Belgian Buildings Acquisitions, Belgium, Brussels, Catholic, Clearwater, Critic, Delaware, Dianetics, E-meter, Europe, Fabio Amicarelli, France, Henri de Cordes, Italy, Jean-Marie Surinx, John Travolta, Legal, Lieve Pellens, Luc Willems, Moscow, Real estate, Russia, Scientology lawyer, Scientology Life Improvement Center, Squatters, Tom Cruise, Ute Surinx, William Walsh

Announcing the new drive, Scientology chief David Miscavige said: "History is about to be made in one of the most important... cities on Earth. We are about to drive home the message "This Is Scientology" like you have never seen." According to former Scientologist Bonnie Woods, 56, who now runs a counselling service for ex-members, Britain is seen as ripe for conversion. "Make no mistake, the people at the top of Scientology see us as a huge untapped well of easy converts, where many people are apathetic to mainstream religion and have large disposable incomes. "These are exactly the sort of people they want. They're called "raw meat"."

Tags: Bonnie Woods, David Miscavige, Golden Age of Tech, International Association of Scientologists, Sec Check

Microsoft has developed complex instructions to remove part of Windows 2000 that had generated bad publicity in Germany because it was written by a firm headed by a Scientologist, a spokesman said yesterday. "The problem exists only because people and the media in Germany became aware that the author of the tool is an American company called Executive Software Inc., whose CEO is a member of the Scientology Church," said Thomas Baumgaertner, a Microsoft spokesman in Germany.

Tags: Craig Jensen, Executive Software, Germany, Microsoft