Archive for the ‘From the Archives’ Category

From the Scientology archives … Robert Vaughn Young

Posted: 31st May 2023 by Imhotep in Ex-Scientologists, From the Archives, Operation Snow White
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In the late 1980s Robert Vaughn Young “escaped” from Scientology with his then-wife Stacy Brooks. He was among the highest-level executives ever to defect from the church. Young made a major contribution to Hubbard’s Church until he learned the truth about L. Ron Hubbard and his past. Robert revealed much of this truth after he […]

The Mind Benders, Scientology … the book they tried to ban.

Posted: 25th May 2023 by Imhotep in Dianetics, E-Meter, Ex-Scientologists, From the Archives
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When the Ex-Scientology member movement began in earnest… Cyril Ronald Vosper (1934-2004) was an anti-cult leader, former Scientologist and later a critic of Scientology, deprogrammer, and spokesperson on men’s health. He wrote The Mind Benders, which was the first book on Scientology to be written by an ex-member, and the first critical book on Scientology […]

If it quacks like a cult … L. Ron Hubbard’s Scientology Policy Letters entered into evidence.

Posted: 22nd May 2023 by Imhotep in From the Archives, L. Ron Hubbard, Policy Letters
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L. Ron Hubbard issued tons of “Policy Letters.” They are literally a sanctioned addendum of Scientology gospel (regardless of what the Green Volumes say). As this letter’s postscript states: Adopted as official Church policy by CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY INTERNATIONAL HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE Saint Hill … Wilfried Handl DEAR IRS AND EVERYONE … DOES THIS SOUND […]

L. Ron Hubbard learns it’s difficult to jumpstart a religion when surrounded by Commies.

Posted: 22nd May 2023 by Imhotep in From the Archives, Just Hilarious, L. Ron Hubbard
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He’s gonna show ’em. He knows some folks over at the… March 3, 1951 LOL … he wanted to fingerprint his employees. J. Edgar Hoover responds:

Writer of a 1981 Master’s thesis examines the fictional origins of Scientology.

Posted: 21st May 2023 by Imhotep in Amazing Factoids, From the Archives, Media Coverage
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THE TRANSCENDENTAL ENGINEERS: THE FICTIONAL ORIGINS OF A MODERN RELIGION HUGH ALAN DOUGLAS SPENCER (THESIS) 1981 McMASTER UNIVERSITY This thesis by Hugh A.D. Spencer has been cited on very few occasions over the past several decades … BoingBoing and Scientology Books and Media were those sites that gave it more than mere mention. It seems appropriate to bring […]