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Oct 1, 2009
Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counterculture (book) - Chapter 8 — New World Digital Publishing
More: paulkrassner.com, amazon.com
Type: Book
Author(s): Paul Krassner
Source: New World Digital Publishing
[Reproduced here with express permission of author Paul Krassner. Thank you!] What I really wanted to do was publish something that would top “The Parts Left Out of the Kennedy Book.” I had observed a disturbing element being imposed upon the counterculture — various groups all trying to rip off the search for consciousness — and I felt challenged to write a satirical piece about this phenomenon. Scientology was one of the scariest of these organizations, if only because its ...
Jan 23, 2009
Devoir d'enquête: "La Scientologie: La secte démasquée" [Part 1] [Unofficial English translation] — RTBF 1 (Belgium)
More: Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
Type: TV
Author(s): Safia Kessas, Jean-Michel Dehon
Source: RTBF 1 (Belgium)
Tag(s): Alain StoffenAnonymous (group)AuditingBelgiumBlackmailBody thetans (BTs)Celebrity CentreChick CoreaChildren, youthCostDavid MiscavigeDeathE-MeterExtortionForgeryFranceFraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentationFront groupsHarassmentHard sellHugo CoveliersHypnosisIDeASIncomeInfiltrationJean-Jacques MazierJean-Marie AbgrallJean-Michel DehonJean-Michel RouletJohan DemolJohn DuignanJohn TravoltaJudge Georges FenechJulia MigenesL. Ron Hubbard's credentialsLegalLisa McPhersonMarc BrombergMarc De TurckMaria Pia GardiniMedical claimsMV Freewinds (formerly, La Bohème)Myriam ZonnekeynNarconon (aka Scientology drug rehab)Nicolas FakiroffOperating Thetan (OT)Oxford Capacity Analysis (aka, "free Scientology personality test" aka "U-Test" aka "Pape Test")Patrice VicPatricia CeysensProtest, picketPurification Rundown ("Purif")Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF)Roger GonnetRTBF 1 (Belgium)Safia KessasSchoolsSecurity check ("sec check")SuicideThierry JacobThreatTom Cruise's leaked video of 2004Training Routines (TRs)U-ManVlaams Belang (political party of Belgium)Workplace recruitmentWorld Institute of Scientology Enterprises (WISE)Xenu (Operating Thetan level 3, OT 3, Wall of Fire)
Nov 20, 2008
Hubbard Center closed up in Samara — Interfax
Type: Press
Source: Interfax
Samara, November 20, Interfax – The Samara city court has banned work of Dianetics Center as its staff-members worked without license and practiced hypnotherapy and Ron Hubbard teaching. The Samara Region Prosecutor’s Office reported that staff-members of the Dianetics Center lectured at seminars and courses on dianetics and scientology without having special licenses. “These educational courses allegedly aimed at forming world outlook and life style based on priority of human values. They tried to reach it by applying philosophy of improving ...
Apr 6, 2008
Special report: The Scientologists — Israel TV
Mar 15, 2008
Ex-Scientologist share story about the suicide of her dad
Jun 20, 2007
Stars in their eyes — Spectator
Type: Press
Author(s): Tessa Mayes
Source: Spectator
Tessa Mayes is the first reporter to have gone undercover in the London Celebrity Centre of the Church of Scientology. It is, she finds, like a pious version of Pop Idol. The adherents want to be celebrities at least as much as Scientologists ‘A culture is only as great as its dreams and its dreams are dreamed by artists,’ wrote L. Ron Hubbard, who founded the Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre in 1969, 15 years after he formed the church itself. ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Nov 19, 2006
Scientology: Stress test or recruiting? — WLWT 5 (Cincinnati)
Type: TV
Source: WLWT 5 (Cincinnati)
CINCINNATI — It is a church that critics believe is dangerous, but members say it's completely misunderstood. You may not realize it, but during this holiday season, a visit to the mall may come with an invitation to a religion that sparks passion and controversy. Sylvia Stanard/Scientology Spokeswoman: "It's really the religion of religions." To those who believe, it's both a church and a lifestyle. Worker #1: "I know that this works." To critics, it's a money machine and mind-controlling cult. ...
Jul 3, 2005
An expanding universe // Scientology believes in aliens - and in buying lots of Manhattan real estate — NY Daily News (New York)
More: rickross.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Adam Nichols
Source: NY Daily News (New York)
TOM CRUISE's leap of faith into Scientology is a visible example of the religion's hold on its followers — but the Church of Scientology already has a multimillion-dollar grip on Manhattan. The controversial group, now blitzing the media after Cruise became its most outspoken advocate, has a massive city empire used by tens of thousands of devotees. And New York's church president the Rev. John Carmichael said, "Interest is increasing markedly." Its huge seven-story city headquarters was opened last year at ...
Jun 28, 2005
Stranger than fiction — Salon
Type: Press
Author(s): Laura Miller
Source: Salon
L. Ron Hubbard's "Dianetics" is a fantastically dull, terribly written, crackpot rant — it's also the founding text of Scientology. So, what does it actually say? Most of us respond instinctively to "Dianetics." We glimpse the covers (for some reason, you only see this book in battalions of copies), with their lurid pictures of spouting volcanoes emblazoned with screaming, foil-stamp lettering, and as if by reflex, our steps quicken, our eyes avert and our faces compose themselves into the expression of ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Feb 8, 1998
Scientology got blame for French suicide — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Nov 19, 1997
Secret lives: Lafayette Ron Hubbard [video] — Channel 4 (UK)
More: transcript, local copy of transcript
Type: TV
Source: Channel 4 (UK)
VOICES: "We were saving the world, we were convinced that Hubbard was the returned saviour and that his techniques and his knowledge and his majesty would eventually bring all mankind to an enlightened state and that was what we were doing..." "There were some things about him that I do feel were rather dangerous. I felt so much under his spell that I told my room-mate that if ever I told her that I was going to marry this man, she ...
Apr 21, 1994
Humans are 'thetans' — Chichester Observer (UK)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Chichester Observer (UK)
[Picture / Caption: The founder: L Ron Hubbard.] Scientologists have been active in Chichester for at least 10 years and their English base is in East Grinstead. They stepped up their role in the city after their Portsmouth offices closed a few years ago. The cult was founded in 1950 by American science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, who had been involved in black magic. Its main beliefs is that humans are 'thetans', clusters of spirits who were banished to Earth ...
Jan 16, 1994
Father's letter pleads for a week's dialogue — Sunday Mail (Brisbane, Australia)
More: link
Sep 1, 1992
Scientology: Church, cult or con? // 'People need to know there is a way out' — Australian Women's Weekly
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Australian Women's Weekly
Glen entered the trap willingly and, for a while, he didn't even realise that he'd been caught Glen McClelland has the look of hate in his eyes as he remembers what he's just been through. Now 28, Glen spent four years as a convert to the Church of Scientology. For him, this wasn't so much a religion as a way of life. And it nearly cost him his family and girlfriend, his sanity — and bank balance, too. The story starts ...
Nov 12, 1991
Scientologywood // Putting the CULT back in Culture — Village Voice
Type: Press
Author(s): Russ W. Baker
Source: Village Voice
And now, the next Walt Disney Studios— the Church of Scientology! That is, if entrepreneurs connected with the Hollywood based cult can muscle into the film business with their proposal to homogenize films by tailoring them to the tastes of the unwashed masses. It all began last July, when Future Films, a new, eccentric studio, began running ads in Variety and the Hollywood Reporter touting its revolutionary ideas. No one knew what to make of it all. The grand concept, to ...
Tag(s): Al JarreauAmerican Inmate CommunicationsAnne ArcherAnne RackhamAuditingCelebrity CentreChick CoreaChurch of Scientology Religious Trust (CSRT)Church of Spiritual Technology (CST) (dba, L. Ron Hubbard Library)Citizens for an Alternative Tax System (CATS)Clearwater Sun (Florida)CostCult Awareness Network (CAN) (earlier form, Citizen's Freedom Foundation)Cynthia KisserDarcey HollingsworthDianeticsDouglas L. GametteFeshbach Brothers Inc.Fred CookFront groupsFuture FilmsHypnosisJames M. JusticeJohn CarmichaelJohn TravoltaKaren BlackKaren JusticeKen LeeKirstie AlleyKnowledge ReportL. Ron Hubbard's credentialsLawsuitLisa Marie PresleyLos Angeles Business JournalLouis Jolyon WestMembershipMimi RogersNan Herst BowersNancy CartwrightNarconon (aka Scientology drug rehab)Nazi labellingOperation Snow WhiteOxford Capacity Analysis (aka, "free Scientology personality test" aka "U-Test" aka "Pape Test")Priscilla CoatesPriscilla PresleyPrivate investigator(s)RecruitmentRegistrar (also, to "reg")Richard BeharRobert "Bob" CefailRuss W. BakerSchoolsScientology's "Clear" stateScientology: The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power (article)Set A Good Example Foundation (formerly, Concerned Businessmen's Association of America)SettlementSinger ConsultantsSonny BonoSt. Petersburg Times (Florida)Sterling Management Systems (SMS)Steven L. HayesThe Hollywood ReporterThe Way to Happiness (TWTH)Thomas "Tom" PaquetteThreatTigre Lis EnterprisesTIME MagazineTom CruiseVarietyVillage VoiceWalter HegetschweilerWhittle CommunicationsWiseman & Burke, Inc.Workplace recruitmentWorld Institute of Scientology Enterprises (WISE)
Jul 29, 1991
The rock drummer out to beat the cults — Exmouth Express & Echo (UK)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Exmouth Express & Echo (UK)
Last week cult expert Jon Caven-Atack set up a meeting in Exmouth and persuaded a member of the Church of Scientology to return to her family. The Echo's Peter Hardy now talks to the man who has dedicated his life to exposing cults which he says brainwash their members. FOR NINE years, former rock drummer Jon Caven-Atack was under the spell of a "religious" sect known as the Church of Scientology. Now, outside the cult, Jon has pledged his life and ...
Jul 21, 1991
Parents snatch cult girl to safety — Sunday Express (UK)
Jun 22, 1991
Letters // Scientologists unfairly attack Prozac — Tampa Tribune (Florida)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Tampa Tribune (Florida)
The June 1 letter on Prozac by Doug Johnston is another example of the campaign of misinformation that Scientologists are spreading on Prozac and other treatments prescribed by psychiatrists. Johnston refers to research carried out by L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology. Hubbard initiated his "research" with the premises that all psychiatric treatment is damaging to all patients and that psychological problems can be dealt with only by training the mind to forget, using a form of self-hypnosis. He conveniently ...
May 11, 1991
Cult busters — The Age (Australia)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Jacqui MacDonald
Source: The Age (Australia)
Two American cult-busters recently flew to Australia to try to reclaim a young man from Scientology. JACQUI MACDONALD watched as they tried to unlock his mind, hour by hour, inch by inch. The names of the family and the cult-busters have been changed. FOR TWO days Peter Nolan has rehearsed how to greet his son. Peter and his wife Mary have planned how they will open the flywire front door and smile at the son they have not seen for several ...
Jun 24, 1990
The Scientology Story: The Making of L. Ron Hubbard // Chapter 1: The Mind Behind the Religion — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s): Joel Sappell, Robert W. Welkos
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
It was a triumph of galactic proportions: Science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard had discarded the body that bound him to the physical universe and was off to the next phase of his spiritual exploration — "on a planet a galaxy away." "Hip, hip, hurray!" thousands of Scientologists thundered inside the Hollywood Palladium, where they had just been told of this remarkable feat. "Hip, hip, hurray! Hip, hip, hurray!" they continued to chant, gazing at a large photograph of Hubbard, creator ...
Sep 29, 1989
Affidavit of Monica Pignotti (29 September 1989)
Aug 15, 1989
Letters // On Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
More: news.google.com, pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Editor: I was in Scientology for 12 years. Now I face being jailed because I am talking to the public about the real story of Scientology — that it involves hypnosis, brainwashing, and satanism. All because I am trying to prevent what happened to me from happening to other people. It may seem by my violations of the court order not to speak publicly about Scientology that I have no respect for the law. Such is not the case. In fact ...
Aug 10, 1989
Ex-Member defies gag order, speaks out against Scientology — Associated Press
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Associated Press
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A former member of the Church of Scientology is defying church lawyers and a federal judge by publicly alleging that the church held her captive and committed fraud by promising to cure her mental illness. Margery Wakefield, 41, is prohibited under a 1986 federal court settlement from speaking out against the cult, which has its spiritual headquarters in Clearwater. But she says she is ignoring the gag order so she can expose church practices and warn potential ...
Aug 5, 1989
Ex-Scientologist calls church a moneymaker, not a religion — Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee)
More: news.google.com, link
Type: Press
Author(s): Chester Sheard
Source: Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee)
Claims that the Church of Scientology is a religion are false, a former member charged. The church is an intelligence and information agency that uses mind manipulation, hypnotism and other methods to gradually turn members into agents to financially enhance the organization, said Larry Wollersheim, a former salesman and touring spokesman for the Church of Scientology. After spending 11 years as an active member in the church Wollersheim, 40, a native of Milwaukee, sued the organization In 1980 for intentional and ...
Aug 2, 1989
Ex-Scientologist risks jail to speak against church — Orlando Sentinel
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Claire Dezern
Source: Orlando Sentinel
TAMPA — You shouldn't be reading this story. The tale of Margery Wakefield vs. the Church of Scientology is supposed to be a secret. Church officials say so. So does a federal judge. In fact, Wakefield could go to jail for talking about the 12 years she spent as a member of the cult, which has its spiritual headquarters in Clearwater. Wakefield, 41, is talking anyway, braving the threats of Scientology lawyers and testing the patience of a U.S. district judge. ...
Jul 21, 1989
Church demands pay-back / Scientology seeks fine, jail for gag-order violation — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
More: link
Jul 11, 1989
Woman reveals Scientology secrets — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
More: news.google.com, link, pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Stephen Koff
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Margery Wakefield got $200,000 for settling a lawsuit against the Church of Scientology in 1986. In return, Scientology thought it had bought Ms. Wakefield's perpetual silence. She wasn't supposed to disclose the $200,000 figure. She wasn't supposed to talk about Scientology's lop-secret training techniques. And she wasn't supposed to make claims about alleged hypnosis and Satanism in the church. But Ms. Wakefield's been talking, going on Tampa Bay radio twice recently to discuss just these things. In so doing, she's testing ...
Jul 11, 1989
[...] prevented her from getting mental care [exact date unknown; incomplete] — Tampa Tribune (Florida)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Tampa Tribune (Florida)
[...] Wakefield now repudiates the agreement, claiming she was pressured into signing it, and aggressively seeks forums — in the press, on radio shows, in churches — to denounce Scientology. "I don't care what the legal repercussions are at this point," she told the Tribune recently. "I want people in this area to know what Scientology is about. I want them to know it's a satanic cult." The church has been the center of controversy since it was founded by science ...
Jan 16, 1988
Scientology: the other side — The Weekend Australian
Jun 5, 1985
Researchers question cult techniques — Daily Emerald (Oregon)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Michael Duncan
Source: Daily Emerald (Oregon)
Some extremist religious sects and a number of related self-help therapies employ communication techniques that may over time "alter or impair fundamental information-processing abilities" and may result in severe physical, emotional and mental disorders, a team of University researchers announced at a press conference Tuesday. Authors and research associates Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman released a study titled "Information Disease," presenting findings of a nationwide study on the effects of covert induction and deprogramming. These results are the culmination of four ...
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