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Jun 19, 2010
Letters to the Editor // Saturday letters: The realities of Scientology are being distorted — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Once again you try to paint an ugly picture of a religious movement that has helped hundreds of thousands — if not millions — of people lead happy and successful lives. So let me address your latest falsehoods. My experience in Scientology has been incredible. I have been a member of the Church of Scientology since 1973. I met and married my husband while working for the church. I have raised two sons in the church. They are both practicing Scientologists. ...
May 19, 2010
Lateline: Former top Scientologist speaks out — Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) NewsMore: WMV
Apr 12, 2010
My Scientology nightmare / 'Earl' star's ex-wife exposes inner workings of celebrity church — National EnquirerMore: forums.whyweprotest.net
Apr 10, 2010
Die Seelenfänger // Wie Scientology menschenleben zerstört [Part 1] ["The soul catchers // How Scientology destroys people's lives"] [with English subtitles] — Südwestdeutschen Rundfunk (Germany)More: Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 , Part 5
Mar 17, 2010
Ex-Scientologist coerced abortion claims — Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Gabrielle Dunlevy Source:
Daily Telegraph (Australia) A CANBERRA woman has given a tearful account of how the Church of Scientology coerced her to have two abortions, as a fresh attempt was being made for a Senate inquiry into the organisation. Senator Nick Xenophon's effort to get an upper house inquiry into the tax-free status of religious groups, including Scientology, failed last week, when both Labor and the Coalition voted against it. The Senate on Thursday will vote on an inquiry with revised terms - looking at alleged ...
Mar 17, 2010
Former Scientologist tells of abortions — Channel 9 (aka ninemsn) (Australia)More: youtube.com , Full interview
Type: TV
Source:
Channel 9 (aka ninemsn) (Australia) A Canberra woman has given a tearful account of how the Church of Scientology coerced her to have two abortions, as a fresh attempt was being made for a Senate inquiry into the organisation. Senator Nick Xenophon's effort to get an upper house inquiry into the tax-free status of religious groups, including Scientology, failed last week, when both Labor and the Coalition voted against it. The Senate on Thursday will vote on an inquiry with revised terms - looking at alleged ...
Feb 12, 2010
Los Angeles Press Conference: Ex-Scientologists speak out More: ustream.tv
Type: Account
Tag(s):
Anonymous (group) •
Castile Canyon School (Happy Valley ranch) @ 45750 Castile Canyon Road Hemet CA United States •
Child labor •
Children, youth •
Chris Guider •
Commissions •
Confidential preclear (PC) folder •
David Miscavige •
David Miscavige: physical violence •
Disconnection •
Divorce •
False imprisonment •
Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation •
Freeloader's debt •
Gold Base (also, "INT Base") @ Gilman Hot Springs •
Golden Era Productions •
Harassment •
Jeff Hawkins •
Laura Ann Dieckman (formerly, DeCrescenzo) •
Marc Headley •
Mark Bunker •
Maureen Smith Bolstad •
Michael J. "Mike" Rinder •
Nancy Many •
Office of Special Affairs (OSA) (formerly, Guardian's Office) •
Operating Thetan (OT) •
Operation Snow White •
Pregnancy •
Private investigator(s) •
Protest, picket •
Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) •
Release contract, form, waiver •
Salary •
Sea Organization (Sea Org, SO) •
Security check ("sec check") •
Silencing criticism, censorship •
Slave labor •
Suicide •
Suppressive person (SP) •
Will Fry •
Xenu (Operating Thetan level 3, OT 3, Wall of Fire)
Nov 5, 2009
Blown for Good / Behind the iron curtain of Scientology (book) - 09 My secret garden — BFG Books
Oct 22, 2009
Nighline: Former Scientologists level accusations — ABC News
Type: TV
Author(s):
Martin Bashir ,
Ethan Nelson Source:
ABC News Ex-members say leader David Miscavige hit subordinates; church denies accusations. Some call it a manipulative cult. Others say it's a well-established religion that helps people reach their potential. Since its inception in the 1950s, the Church of Scientology has rarely been far from controversy. And now the Church is under attack again. Former senior insiders claim the Church's current leader, David Miscavige, has created and encouraged a climate of violence within senior staff and was frequently violent himself. Marty Rathbun was ...
Jul 13, 2009
Un jour un destin: Tom Cruise [Unofficial English translation by Anonymous] — France 2More: Original French version
Jun 23, 2009
Scientology (Part 3 of 3): Ecclesiastical justice — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: Leaving the Church of Scientology: a huge step
Type: Press
Author(s):
Thomas C. Tobin ,
Joe Childs Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) The four high-ranking executives who left Scientology say that church leader David Miscavige not only physically attacked members of his executive staff, he messed with their minds. He frequently had groups of managers jump into a pool or a lake. He mustered them into group confessions that sometimes spun into free-for-alls, with people hitting one another. Mike Rinder, who defended the church to the media for two decades, couldn't stomach what was happening on the inside. The tactics to keep executives ...
Jul 24, 2008
Counterfeit Dreams - Chapter 16: Nine Lives, Part Two
Jul 23, 2008
Counterfeit Dreams - Chapter 15: Nine Lives, Part One
Jul 18, 2008
Counterfeit Dreams - Chapter 14: Death and Resurrection
Apr 14, 2008
Counterfeit Dreams - Chapter 1: Going Home
Dec 4, 2006
Woman sues former employer for religious discrimination — Springfield Business JournalMore: groups.yahoo.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Matthew Wagner Source:
Springfield Business Journal A Springfield woman has alleged in a federal lawsuit that she was fired in 2004 from a Branson West company for refusing to convert to Scientology, the chosen religion of her boss and several co-workers. Brianne Shahan filed the suit against Richmond Monroe Group Inc. in U.S. District Court last month. Shahan claims her former employer violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by allegedly pressuring her to divorce her husband and become a Scientologist. According to its ...
Aug 16, 2005
After spending half of her life in Scientology, she found truth & freedom in Jesus Christ — Baptist Press
Type: Press
Source:
Baptist Press Posted on Aug 16, 2005 | by Staff
ATLANTA (BP)–Karen Pressley has heard it all before.
The talk of space aliens having come to earth a millennia ago, the authoritative worldview, the buffed movie star glibly handing out solutions to personal conflicts.
Movie star Tom Cruise may be spouting the truth according to the Church of Scientology these days, but Pressley has lived in that world longer than Cruise and knows firsthand the nightmare it entails.
“Tom Cruise is doing exactly ...
Aug 16, 2002
Death of a Scientologist — Chicago ReaderMore: scientology-lies.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tori Marlan Source:
Chicago Reader Greg Bashaw's father respected him and trusted him to make wise choices. Even after he chose to devote his life to Scientology. While the shock and grief of his son's suicide were still fresh, Bob Bashaw read back through their decades-long correspondence, looking in particular for references to Scientology. "I wanted to see what there was here I missed," he says. His son Greg had been a member of the Church of Scientology for more than 20 years. During that time ...
Tag(s):
American Psychological Association (APA) •
Anti-psychiatry •
Auditing •
Blackmail •
Body thetans (BTs) •
Chicago Reader •
Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization (CSFSO) •
Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) •
Communications Course •
Confidential preclear (PC) folder •
Cost •
Cult Awareness Network (CAN) (earlier form, Citizen's Freedom Foundation) •
Cynthia Kisser •
Dead agenting (Black PR, smear campaign) •
Death •
Deprogramming •
Disconnection •
Divorce •
E-Meter •
Engram •
Erich Fromm •
FACTNet •
Fair game •
False imprisonment •
Freedom (Scientology magazine) •
Greg Barnes •
Greg Bashaw •
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) •
International Association of Scientologists (IAS) •
Introspection Rundown (also, "Baby watch") •
Jason Scott •
Jim Beebe •
Lawrence "Larry" Wollersheim •
Lawsuit •
Lisa McPherson •
Lisa McPherson Trust •
Margaret Thaler Singer •
Mary Anne Ahmad •
Mental illness •
Nazi labelling •
Noah Lottick •
Operating Thetan (OT) •
Operation Snow White •
Philip Gale •
Potential Trouble Source (PTS) •
Protest, picket •
Quentin Geoffrey MaCauley Hubbard •
Reader's Digest •
Reg Alev •
Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) •
Release contract, form, waiver •
Religious Technology Center (RTC) •
Scientology's "Clear" state •
Scientology: The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power (article) •
Sea Organization (Sea Org, SO) •
Security check ("sec check") •
Silencing criticism, censorship •
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) •
Steven Hassan •
Sue Strozewski •
Suicide •
Supernatural abilities (aka OT powers) •
Suppressive person (SP) •
Tax matter •
Tori Marlan •
Wedding •
Xenu (Operating Thetan level 3, OT 3, Wall of Fire)
Aug 25, 1998
Jesse Prince interviews – Tape 3 — FACTnet
Aug 24, 1998
Jesse Prince interviews – Tape 2 — FACTnet
Jan 19, 1996
Presley is divorcing Jackson — Evening Outlook (Santa Monica, CA)
Aug 4, 1994
Harmonic conversion? // Ex-Scientologists speculate on why Michael and Lisa wed — Washington Post
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Leiby Source:
Washington Post Why did Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson get married? Love, if you believe her press release, the one pledging to "dedicate my life to being his wife." Or, goes the speculation from Hollywood, Jackson is rehabbing his image and simultaneously consummating the ultimate entertainment empire merger. But another possibility is circulating among the conspiracy-minded former members of the Church of Scientology. It's an astounding theory – that the church itself helped arrange the Presley-Jackson union – but these defectors say ...
Nov 10, 1991
Scientology's children: Saving the world — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: link , pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Curtis Krueger Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Scientologists believe they are saving the world from insanity, war and crime. "Saving the world is an understatement," said former member Kenneth Wasserman. "Saving the universe" is more like it, he said. This intense sense of purpose explains why some Scientologists are willing to work 12-hour days for $30 a week. Others pay up to $800 for an hour of counseling, and one couple brought a $35,000 counseling package. Critics say this sense of mission has another consequence: Next to saving ...
Nov 1, 1987
Science fictions [extract from "Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard"] — The Sunday Times (UK)
Dec 14, 1985
OPP Scientology raid finally nets guilty plea — Globe and Mail (Canada)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Murray Campbell Source:
Globe and Mail (Canada) Nearly three years after the largest police raid in Ontario history, the provincial Government has finally won a guilty plea from a member of the Church of Scientology of Toronto. Nanna Anderson, 39, a former church member, pleaded guilty in Provincial Court yesterday to possession of stolen goods, photocopies of material from the files of the Ontario Medical Association. Judge Lorenzo DiCecco granted Miss Anderson an absolute discharge, which means she will not have a criminal record. The charge carries a ...
Nov 13, 1982
Son claims Hubbard was heavy drug user — Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Bob LaBarre Source:
Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California) L. Ron Hubbard wrote his most important books and articles, the foundation of the Church of Scientology and his psycho-therapeutic treatment, Dianetics, while "saturated" with cocaine and other drugs, according to his son. Ronald E. DeWolf, the oldest of Hubbard's six children, contends his father distorted his military record to create cult devotion to his budding church. And, the son maintains, his father lied about his physical health, maintaining that Dianetics had made him well, when in fact he was severely ...
Jul 7, 1982
Inside Scientology: "Attack the Attacker" — News-Herald (Santa Rosa, California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Dennis Wheeler Source:
News-Herald (Santa Rosa, California) Several former policies of the Church of Scientology, founded by L. Ron Hubbard, have persistently tainted its public image. Scientologists say these policies were either "jokes" from the very beginning, or were misunderstood by the public — and in any case they have all been canceled. Most of these policies involve ways the Church deals with people it has labeled "Potential Trouble Sources" and "Suppressive Persons." The latter are "those who are destructively antisocial" or those who "actively seek to suppress ...
May 8, 1982
Sect witnesses recount fear, deception, 'suicide' — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Steven Girardi Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) Teen-ager David Ray testified Friday he had a spectacular start with the Church of Scientology in California, but quickly became a rebel trapped in The Fort Harrison Hotel, relegated to cleaning rooms and stomping garbage. Casey Kelly, 23, testifying for the second day, said he "wasn't a very good Scientologist," either. "One thing you don't do in Scientology is joke around, so obviously I didn't make out very well," he quipped. Like one other witness called in the third day of ...
Jan 9, 1980
Court tangle gave Scientology its first 'martyrs' — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Aug 31, 1977
Those affected disagree // Scientology: Self control or mind control? // Technology versus the Ethics Department — Valley NewsMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Brian Alexander Source:
Valley News Opinions about the Church of Scientology run from hot to cold, and from very hot to very cold. In the third segment of a four-part series on the church, the Valley News samples some of those opinions and tells the stories behind them. An accompanying story describes the experience of a young couple who left the church without bitterness despite some disturbing incidents. By BRIAN ALEXANDER The
price is high , and the
pressure to buy is heavy, but ...
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