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Image. The Scientology free personality test, often advertised on sidewalk signs, is a 200-question assessment called the Oxford Capacity Analysis (OCA). It acts as a recruitment tool, inviting passersby to assess their personality traits and receive a free analysis at a local Church of Scientology. The results of the “test,” whether complimentary or negative, are…
Image: The headline for those who escape follows a similar theme … “Former Scientology Member Shares Shocking Story.” 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…
Hold onto your thetans, folks, because the rumors are true: L. Ron Hubbard has clawed his way back from the great beyond, just as he predicted! But forget those past life regressions he used to charge a fortune for; this time, he’s starring in his own reincarnation flick – a zombie movie, no less! Now,…
Despicable: [adjective] deserving to be despised; contemptible. Remember when those fake #Scientology “Ministers” posted the famous YELLOW Coast Guard helicopter like it was theirs? If you can’t wait … scroll to the end. Above is the website of Scientology’s Volunteer Ministers, detailing their latest “news,” shown in this screen capture today, June 8, 2024, at…
SCIENTOLOGY: A HISTORY OF MAN By L. RON HUBBARD Forward This is a cold-blooded and factual account of your last sixty trillion years. This is useful knowledge. With it the bond again see, the lame walk, the ill recover, the insane become sane and the sane become saner. By its use the thousand abilities Man…
THE TRANSCENDENTAL ENGINEERS: THE FICTIONAL ORIGINS OF A MODERN RELIGION A Master’s Thesis by Hugh Alan Spencer, 1981 McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada This collegiate 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…
THE MOVIE: Battlefield Earth To put it bluntly, Battlefield Earth stands out as a colossal failure in the sci-fi genre, “much like the Hindenburg disaster did for Zeppelin air travel.” While not explicitly a Scientology film, Battlefield Earth, based on L. Ron Hubbard’s sci-fi novel, was heavily influenced by the religion. Scientology leader David Miscavige…
As a reminder, it will be noted that the most famous face of Scientology is Tom Cruise. “From the religion of Tom Cruise, we present “Operation Freakout.” That famous “Tom Cruise” smile. A video featuring actor Tom Cruise, where he describes himself and other Scientologists as experts on the human mind, surfaced online in 2008….
As Paulette Cooper writes in her book, “The Scandal of Scientology,” When people first enter this exciting world of the totally free, they rarely realize just how expensive it is going to be … In addition to the price of the courses, there are many other expenses. A Scientologist must buy many of Hubbard’s books,…