Welcome to the Canadian Scientology critical information webpage. I host several other webpages about Scientology, but with all the information out there about this brainwashing cult that I used to be a member of in Vancouver, BC, from 1988 to 1989, the time has come to specialize and focus on one aspect or area of the complex global issue of Scientology. [...]

Scientology is, as I know it to be based on my experience, an empty organization, devoid of spirituality, cold, and utterly ruthless. I was ordered to disconnect from my family, which I refused to do. I was ordered to stay at my post and work through Christmas, which I also refused to do. I began to see that the organization did not live up to its many promises of improvement of people; I myself was not improved, and neither was anyone else I saw in the organization. I asked Scientology's elite, Operating Thetans, to show to me some of the powers they claimed to have, and they failed miserably at this small task. Most "OTs", as they are called, were elderly, sick, feeble, dying of cancer, wore thick glasses, and were unimpressive to me, mentally, physically, and spiritually. If the top of Scientology's "Bridge to Total Freedom" looked so shabby, there was little hope for myself or anyone else in the organization. In addition, my superiors were, one and all, unremarkable people, given to fits of rage, bouts of depression, and other behaviour that did not fit in with L. Ron Hubbard's claims for his so-called "technology" and the wunderkind it was meant to produce.

Scientology is a dangerous, mindbending cult that was established in the 1950's by Lafayette Ronald Hubbard and presents a grave threat to the concepts and tenets of freedom and democracy. Scientology has, as its basic purpose, the destruction of freedom and the erosion of human rights on the way to making money; it uses any means possible to achieve this end, including legal harassment, verbal and physical threats, hiding under the cover of "religion", and thought reform so complete that to talk to anyone brainwashed by the cult is to talk to little more than the mouthed platitudes of mechanical zombies.

References used

• Zegel1. 1982. Tape transcript. (Note: very bad spelling of the names in all the Jon Zegel tape transcripts used. Transcripts from Homer Wilson Smith post to ars.)
• Zegel2. 1984. Tape transcript.
• Zegel3. 1984. Tape transcript.
• Lamont. 1986. Book Religion Inc. by Stewart Lamont. Harrap, London. ISBN: 0-245-54334-1.
• LegalA. April 25, 1996. Case No. C 332 027, Plaintiff's reply to defendant's opposition to his renewed motion for the appointment of a receiver to enforce judgment; declarations of Craig Stein; points and authorities, Superior Court of the State of California, Country of Los Angeles, Central District, Lawrence Dominick Wollersheim Plaintiff, vs Church of Scientology of California, Defendants.
• LegalB. May 20, 1996. A documentation of Martin Ottmann, c/o EZW H&oouml;lderlinplatz 2 A 70193 Stuttgart, Germany: The Religious Technology Center (RTC) and the crossing of corporate lines. Ottmann previously filed a declaration as a witness for the case before the Superior Court of the State of California, in and for the County Los Angeles, known as Uwe Geertz and Steven Fishman vs. Church of Scientology International et al., Case No. BC 122 467, that mainly consisted of first hand experiences with Scientology and the Sea Organization.
• FAQ1. June 17th, 1996. Celebrities in scientology FAQ by Tilman Hausherr. Archive-name: scientology/celebrities. Email: tilman@berlin.snafu.de Web page: http://www.snafu.de/~tilman/ Web address for FAQ: http://www.snafu.de/~tilman/faq-you/celeb.txt FAQ names included from the main body down to the unclassified section.
• P1, Jun 26, 1996. Post by Don Krieger, (dkrieger@light.lightlink.com), Subject: CAN closes doors. Release: Cult Awareness Network Files Chapter Seven Bankruptcy/Ceases Operations