The original concept of "Scientology" was to use a scientific approach to try and understand life... instead of an emotional, superstitious or dogmatic approach. Pretty simple.

A year earlier Hubbard had discovered that mental problems (such as self-doubt and depression) were caused by previous bad experiences. And he found that simply having a person recall the memory over and over discharged the harmful influence. Why people can’t explain these things, I’ll never know.

Anyway, fixing the mind was Dianetics which means “through mind” (from Greek). Since the scientific approached worked, Hubbard thought maybe he could go further and use it to explain some of the common issues that gave people trouble. That worked too, and about a year later he announced Scientology.

Science hits soul

Interestingly, it was just this scientific approach that revealed the presence of a powerful single-point energy source within the area of each person’s head. That turned out to be the human soul and woops! suddenly Scientology was into the province of religion.

Further research indicated the person was their soul. The idea that a person is their body proved out to be wrong (sorry!). The spirit is eternal and at death simply moves off or hangs around the room or attends the funeral and eventually gets bored and then goes and selects another body in a maternity ward somewhere. The soul doesn’t need eyes or ears. This is what “sees” pictures in your mind, aka the “mind’s eye.” The mind’s eye is you.

On the up side, it’s nice to know you’ll have another chance to live again after you die. Most people would like to have another chance. The really cool thing from a practical standpoint is that the processes Hubbard developed increase IQ and result in specific abilities. To my knowledge, nothing else that does that. My own IQ went up 18 points. In school I was always taught that was impossible. The specific abilities available from Scientology include,

• Knowing you won't get any worse
• Ability to communicate freely with anyone on any subject
• Ability to recognize the source of problems and make them vanish
• Relief from the sufferings and hostilities of life
• Freedom from the upsets of the past and ability to face the future
• Moving out of fixed conditions into the ability to do new things
• The ability to be a well and happy human being
• Ability to confront the past
• The return of self-determinism
• Freedom from overwhelm

Déjà vu

Love and friendship and animosities develop through multiple lifetimes so some of us go “way back” in terms of past relationships. This explains stuff like “love at first sight,” deja vu, and child proteges.

On the down side, if you were really looking forward to sitting on a cloud somewhere and singing hymns to someone on a thrown for 99 quintillion-zillion years... “Okay, Hymn #112, once again, this time like you mean it...” huh, that isn’t the way it works.

That’s not to say there’s something wrong with “heaven” and “hell” as metaphors. Pretty accurate as metaphors. One need only visit the nearest state prison to see hell or experience love to visit the other place.

Turf Wars

Back in 1950 some people instantly hated Dianetics because they were afraid it might put them out of  business. Psychiatry has always said “the mind is very mysterious.” So they really hated Dianetics from the start and a turf war erupted.

They caused a lot of problems and put Scientology on the defensive. No doubt it was a major reason why Scientology became a church.

But after about 40 years everyone found their world wasn’t going to end and actually there was plenty of room for everyone. Psychiatry and drug companies could operate side by side with Scientology in the world and no one was going to go out of business. Why? Because there are people who really believe drugs and psychiatry are answers. Those people will never be interested in Dianetics or Scientology.

The Birds

So the turf wars finally died down and everyone went home... except David Miscavige. He never figured out the war was over. He goes on battling imaginary enemies. Like the lady in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds who keeps batting at seagulls long after they’re gone. Coo-coo.

That’s why we want to get David Miscavige out of there. Besides being a pecker, he’s dishonest. So what we want to do is free Scientology from this little Hitler.

You may or may not ever be interested in what Dianetics or Scientology can do for you. What we want to do is keep it available and keep it free so it’s always there should you ever need it. Pretty simple.

It’s not a religion!

Scientology is not a religion in the western sense; we don’t worship God. So if that's your definition of religion, Scientology is not that. It's a spiritual philosophy.

Hating Scientology or fighting Scientology is as stupid as Scientology fighting psychiatrists. Or David Miscavige fighting Scientologists. Actually, David Miscavige fighting his own people is a lot stupider than some people hating Scientology.

Science fiction

Scientology is not perfect. Never was, never will be. And there are several main criticisms that you always hear. What makes Scientology valid is that the techniques work. When your IQ goes up 18 points like mine did, you pretty much don't care about its imperfections. It worked and that's more that I could say for everything else I studied or tried before Scientology. So that's why most Scientologists are so doggedly devoted to the subject even when the leader, David Miscavige, is a complete brain-fried flipped-out punk.

A lot of people criticize Hubbard. Contrary to the phony image that Hubbard was "perfect" as presented by lunatic David Miscavige, Hubbard was just a normal guy with as many flaws and mistakes as you and me. Personally, I don't care that Ron wasn't perfect or that he made mistakes. One has to weigh the good with the bad and when you do that, he was a decent human being. I don't expect perfection of anyone.

Most of the criticisms you hear about Hubbard are efforts to discredit him on a personal basis, rather than rejections of his findings. Personally I've investigated many schools of thought. None of it worked for me. Except Scientology. That works beautifully. What is really important to me is does it work? That's my only test.

So I don't care what his profession was or like every other human he wasn't perfect. I just don't care.

Everyone’s different

Some people like Scientology. Some people like Christianity. Some people like pharmaceuticals. Some people like psychiatry. Some people like chocolate. Some people like whale blubber. I don’t like whale blubber. But I respect your right to like it if that’s your thing.

It’s a big planet. There’s plenty of room for all of us to live in peace. That is objective one. The second objective is finding out that we can actually help each other. I’m sure that’s waaaaaaay down the road. Whatever. The only thing none of us have room for in the world is criminality. Criminals need to go to jail and that’s where David Miscavige belongs. Take care.

Written by Thoughtful

 
Dianetics = study of the mind, dianoētikos ‘relating to thought’ + -ics.
Scientology = study of knowledge (from scire ‘know’ and -logie ‘denoting a subject of study’).

After the year 2,000 David Miscavige was gone for long periods from the Int Base -- a 500 acre compound with scores of buildings, and new ones continually being built. When he returned, his first action was to tour the base. Wherever he saw anything out of place, heads would roll. If a curb wasn't painted the proper shade of red, if a few weeds had grown in a flowerbed, if a production graph was out of date... 

Abuse

Basically, on any pretext, heads could roll and that could result in any number of penalties. For example, you might forfeit your weekly pay of $46 for weeks on end, you might suffer sleep deprivation for weeks, your driving privileges (and thus chances of escape) might be suspended for months, you might be forced to run everywhere you went, you might have to go up in front of several hundred people and "confess" your crimes (make some up if they didn't exist), you might be "thrown overboard" i.e., pushed fully clothed into a pond, with a word you might lose your job and be forced to do degrading work, you might lose the privilege of eating normal food so that you had to live only on beans and rice, you might be incarcerated or "restricted" to the Base meaning you'd sleep under guard, unable to see your spouse for months (= no sex). Then again there were various "justice actions" that could be called, each one a kangaroo court that passed sentence on your guilt in a public way.

This is life at the Int Base. Of course, it was horrible. Under these kind of idiocies and pressure, friends and even your own spouse might turn on you. If they showed any sympathy, they too might become a target. Sometimes people received all these penalties at the same time. 

Why would anyone put up with that? In my case, after more than 15 years of marriage, I did not want to leave my spouse. And my spouse failed to grasp what was happening. That was all that kept me there... that, plus (thanks to David Miscavige) leaving the Int Base meant automatic declare. So there was the little matter of not knowing how I'd manage to start life over from scratch, with no friends, no money, no car, no contacts, no college degree, no 401K, no health insurance, no place to live, no savings, no credit score, no credit cards, no computer, no idea how to use a cell phone or email, no idea how to "surf the net." Then again, I was not sure how of if I could ever find someone to love again; I wasn't as good-looking as I once was. My hair was gray. Thanks again to Miscavige, I suffered from lack of sleep, lack of exercise and lack of confidence. I wasn't sure how a resume that said I'd slaved for a notorious cult for 25 years would land me a decent job in the modern work force.

But I digress. 

It is quite an understatement to point out such living conditions comprised what L. Ron Hubbard called the "dangerous environment." The dangerous environment is the mechanism behind the cause of accidents and always created by a person. Anyone under stress can usually be helped by getting them to root out who created the dangerous environment in which they struggle. It's a way to decrease the frequency of accidents and improve safety, a tool Hubbard gave Scientologists to enable them to create a safe environment. That is the purpose of Scientology.

Black Scientology: Weapon of David Miscavige

The trick of David Miscavige was always to use Scientology in reverse. So instead of making a safe environment, Miscavige created an environment so incredibly dangerous that staff were too harried, distracted and upset to resist his control, to band together, or even to realize what he was doing. His attacks on staff were relentless, vicious and continuous. Using Scientology in reverse even has a name: Black Scientology. And Hubbard warned that Black Scientology could be used to enslave others in the same way that nuclear physics could be used to destructive ends.

So before Miscavige would arrive back at the Int Base, after being gone for months, someone from his office would send word to tip us off. At that point hundreds of staff were suddenly mustered to an "All Hands." Shovels and brooms were quickly handed out, staff pulled weeds at midnight or painted curbs in full dress uniforms. Late into the night heavy machinery filled in ditches or moved whole trees, streets were washed down, sidewalks were painted, and flowers were painted along Highway 79 that ran right through Gilman Hot Springs. 

Beheaded

I was working one Saturday night, one of the few who was excluded from the All Hands since I interacted directly with Miscavige. From my office I could hear distant shouts and orders, motors and heavy machinery as several hundred staff worked to improve the view along the highway that Miscavige would take when he arrived. The orders were to beautify and make the highway as picturesque as possible, and thereby avert impending slaughter. And the angst was such that at 10 or 11 PM, hundreds of staff were still working along the highway in the dark. Stupid.

A local contractor with a huge front-end loader had been brought out to help along the highway. And so the work wore on, with staff toiling along a dark along the highway, without proper safety equipment or even lights. 

Suddenly, there was a long screech of tires and a hard crash. Moments later came a wail of inhuman agony unlike anything I have every heard in my lifetime. The screams were so incredibly loud. They filled the sky and the valley and my empty office. 20 or 30 minutes they went on.

Days later I heard the story.

A young girl was driving home, followed by her parents in another car. She was just 16 or so. Apparently distracted by a throng of strange zombie-like creatures (staff) staggering along a two-lane highway in the gloom -- a weird and wonderful scene straight out of the film, Night of the Living Dead -- she didn't see the huge front-end loader that was blocking her lane, its massive steel shovel leveled just above her hood.

She smashed directly into the blade of the front end loader and was instantly beheaded. Her parents, driving just behind, witnessed it all. And when her mother ran up to the car, she found her daughter's head. The senseless loss and her mother's inconsolable agony makes the soul ache... words can not describe.

If you think about David Miscavige, think about that girl. Think about her mother. And connect the dots.

Scientology was intended to help people. Used correctly, it does just that. David Miscavige has turned it into a massive Ponzi scheme. Here’s how his carefully guarded system works:

International Events

After Hubbard died in 1986, David Miscavige kicked off a schedule of “international” events. Each event is global in scope and all Scientologists are commanded to attend “to get briefed up on the latest wins, news, and new releases.” Per LRH, this is what the various Scientology magazines are for.

In actual fact, Hubbard banned all future international events in 1977 because they knocked everyone off post to prepare for the event instead of doing their routine daily actions which are vital. The Central Bureaux Order (CBO) in which Hubbard issued that order is not well known, but it does exists. Naturally it was suppressed by Miscavige.

The schedule of events repeats throughout the year; the six largest events include,

• January: New Year’s Event
• March: LRH’s Birthday Event
• May: Anniversary of the release of Dianetics
• June: Anniversary of the Freewinds (ship) Maiden Voyage
• August: Auditor’s Day
• October: Founding of the IAS (stands for "International Association of Scientologists")

As you can see, there is a major event roughly every 2 months throughout the year.

Massive boiler rooms were organized and eventually computerized to get the phone numbers of all Scientologists. Scientologists are called and re-called until they confirm their “attendance.” Staff and volunteers in local Churches and Missions are forced to do “call-in” for the event.

Propaganda Machine

No expense is spared to create a favorable image of success and forward progress

Crews were assigned to design and build extravagant stages for each event intended to dazzle spectators and put them into a state of hypnotic awe. With the exception of Hitler, no other ego in history has demanded such extravagant stages, not even the President of the United States! Why, Barack Obama needs nothing more than a microphone to garner support from the entire planet. Why do you think Miscavige requires an event stage large enough to house a 747?

Every available marketing staff member was absorbed into the machine to constantly “repackage” all possible Scientology books and services on an endless treadmill, racing from one event to the next.

Video Shoot Teams were formed and sent out across the world to capture the latest news. And where none exists, they simply manufacture it or exaggerate it all out of proportion. Example: for the opening of a new Scientology group in the Far East, “rent-a-crowds” were hired to populate an otherwise empty building. This is shot on video and voila, “Scientology is expanding!”

Politicians and VIPs are cajoled to say something on camera, and that is edited into positive statements by Miscavige’s master spin doctors and often by Miscavige himself.

Slave Labor

Every year, at the May, June and October events Miscavige announces new “dissemination campaigns” and shows the latest TV ads “to drive massive numbers of people into Scientology organizations.” The ads cost virtually nothing to produce because Miscavige uses his own slave labor to produce them with each laborer making well under minimum wage, about $0.40 an hour. So the beautiful TV ads cost nothing. But they look expensive.

Huge teams of sales people (called registrars or consultants) are assigned to use each event as a tool to demand money from parishioners “for our ongoing dissemination programs and expansion.”

Scientologists know it costs money to put TV ads on the air and consider anything that helps Scientology expand to be an investment in a better world. Remember that word, investment. We will come back to that word in a minute.

Massive Fraud

So they make generous donations to help out. And if they don’t, they are coerced until they do. For example, a Scientologist is hauled in to watch the latest event (on DVD) “so he can get briefed.” The event contains speeches and videos with grossly exaggerated claims and flagrant generalities, such as “reaching some 1 billion people with the message of Source!” What does that mean? It means nothing. Nothing of that magnitude really happened at all.

David Miscavige enjoys the fruits of his Ponzi scheme, hanging with "best friend" Tom Cruise on July 20, 2008.

The Bernie Madoff Hustle

The money, tens of millions of dollars every year, is funneled into the Church where a fat chunk goes to Miscavige every week. With it he buys $500 shirts, cars, motorcycles, suits, homes, buildings, cameras, flat-screen TVs, swimming pools, spy equipment, guns, home theaters... whatever he wants. He builds himself houses, offices, takes vacations, goes to the races and hangs with his millionaire friends like Tom Cruise.

Here’s where the real Ponzi fakery comes in. The “dissemination campaigns” are launched but the TV ads that were shown to the Scientologists play for only a few weeks in spot markets instead of throughout the year as implied in the event. After all, every campaign is hyped up as “our biggest campaign ever!” In this way, the “dissemination programs” announced by Miscavige appear to be happening and Scientology seems to be really moving somewhere! Woo-hoo.

When this kind of extravagance is required for a simple briefing, you know something is wrong

Bad to the Last Drop

So, on the model of an elaborate Ponzi scheme, Scientologists are coerced to “invest” in the dissemination of Scientology, a subject which they believe will help people. Miscavige makes a show of carrying through, but in reality he only puts up a few ads and then pulls the funding, or cross-orders the program, or transfers the marketing staff member who was running the program. Miscavige has numerous ways of stopping any actual dissemination since it would be expensive. In other words, he promises a river but delivers a drop.

Anyone with rudimentary math skills can understand that the number of ongoing programs would quickly add up. However no extra staff are added into marketing to run the dissemination programs. In fact, the organization responsible for Church marketing has been decimated by Miscavige; they have gone from about 35 staff down to maybe 7 or 8. So there’s no one there to run any programs anyway.

No meaningful investment of parishioner funds is actually allowed by Miscavige. The money goes into bank accounts he personally controls.

Shhhhh, Keep this Part Secret!

But, just between us, you know the one thing a Ponzi man just hates?

Transparency. So before you listen to any whitewashing of this website, how about some transparency? Let Miscavige show us the money or produce the receipts.

Again, this is not criticism of Miscavige.

This is intervention on behalf of the thousands of Scientologists who have been defrauded, and on behalf of a world that deserves to know what the real Scientology is all about -- not a perverted, criminalized version of it!

This website is fully backed up on multiple servers and set so that if anything happens to it, a duplicate website with the same information will go online overnight. We know the kind of person we are dealing with. We're expecting dirty tricks and we're prepared and ready for them.

Bernard Madoff had his $50 billion ponzi scheme exposed. Robert Allen Stanford had his $8 billion ponzi scheme exposed. All we're saying is, "Psssst, look under the white robes of David Miscavige."

We think you’re not going to like what you see.

Written by Thoughtful

A Little Hint of Things to Come...

Today Scientology faces an unprecedented degree of hostility. It is drifting in a sea of ill will: protests and demonstrations, exposes in the news, videos catching Scientology security guards in the act of abuse, and a firestorm of public protest online.

In the case of an individual experiencing such antagonism, the standard thing is to find out what he or she is doing to create the antagonism in the first place. Ironically, it was Ron himself who wrote, “Many Scientologists, in their misunderstanding and misapplication of Scientology, create the conditions that bring about the antagonism in the first place.”

As it is with the individual, so it is with the group. But in the case of Scientology, the cause traces directly to the crimes, violence, abuses and brutality of David Miscavige.

And what of the resulting antagonism? Toward what end does it move? Is it really aimed at the destruction of Scientology? There certainly is a lot of talk online about ending Scientology. But where is all this is really going? Ah, there is an answer and what it means is something far worse for David... Call it a phenomenon of the times we live in. Call it

...transparency.

Strong hands are manning the ropes and pulling in unison. The dark curtains have begun to part. David's crimes are being exposed for the whole world to see. And there is nowhere for him to hide.

With transparency comes justice. And with justice comes dismissal and possible jail terms for some of top lieutenants on the wrong side of the law. The time to blow the whistle is now. The time to speak up, provide evidence and expose the corruption is now. To say nothing is to condone crime. Those of us who have left did so because we don’t believe in condoning criminality.

Once that happens, and it already IS happening, woe be to David. He will soon become a man without a friend in the world. A man destined, like the fictional Tony Montana in the film Scarface, to reap the hurricane of his own treacherous actions.

Most ironic of all...

Ron’s screenplay entitled, Revolt in the Stars, tells the somewhat sanitized version of the Xenu story. In it, the villain, apprehended after bringing worldwide calamity, was “displayed in glass-encased locomotives that traveled the face of every planet in the Confederation. At every station, the trains would halt, met by angry, indignant crowds. Among the bands of citizens were some more bold than the rest. These displayed their hatred and utter contempt for the felons with tangible expressions in the form of eggs, tomatoes and other such objects, pelted pell-mell at the carriages.”

In the case of Miscavige that glass-encased train is called the Internet. And he’s already on aboard. Citizens throw their rotten tomatoes in unison at all stops. And he will never get off that train.

Written by Thoughtful