📗 = Books 🎓 = Reports/Journals 📰 = Articles/Essays
📗 Anastasius Nordenholz, ISBN 398047240X
The Axioms of Consciousness claim to be an expression of self-placed constructive stipulation of Knowledge. With Knowledge itself all our science points to the final assignment of axioms. Science is generally looked upon as a system of comprehension; Scientology especially is that one system of comprehension which complies with the consciousness.
📰 Milton R. Sapirstein, The Nation, August 5, page 130
Pipsqueak Prometheus: Some Remarks on the Writings of L. Ron Hubbard
📰 William Blackbeard, Shangri La #20
📰 Charles E. Bures, California Institute of Technology
📰 American Scientist, Autumn Issue Volume 38, October
📰 Individual Psychology Association of Chicago, Individual Psychology Bulletin, volumes 8-9, pages 38-39
🎓 Robert E. Peck, The American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 107, No. 6, December 1, pages 477-478, DOI: 10.1176/ajp.107.6.477
🎓 New York (State). Dept. of Mental Hygiene, Psychiatric quarterly, Volume 24, page 832, State Hospitals Press
📰 Martin Gumpert, The New Republic, August 14
Dianetics or the “poor man's psychoanalysis”
🎓 Dr. Morris Fishbein, Postgraduate Medicine, September, pp. 242-243
📰 Albert Q. Maisel, Look magazine, December 5, page 79
A critique of the evolution of dianetics
🎓 Parker Davis, Ph.D., Training School Bulletin, volumes 47-48, January, pages 220-229
A Doctor's Report on Dianetics: Theory and Therapy
📗 Joseph Augustus Winter, M.D., Julian Press, ISBN 0517564211
By October, 1950, I had come to the conclusion that I could not agree with all the tenets of dianetics as set forth by the Foundation. I could not, as previously mentioned, support Hubbard's claims regarding the state of “clear.” I no longer felt, as I once had, that any intelligent person could (and presumably should) practice dianetics. I noted several points on which the actions of the Foundation were at variance with the expressed ideals of dianetics: one of these points was a tendency toward the development of an authoritarian attitude. Moreover, there was a poorly concealed attitude of disparagement of the medical profession and of the efforts of previous workers in the field of mental illness. Finally, the avowed purpose of the Foundation -- the accomplishment of precise scientific research into the functioning of the mind -- was conspicuously absent.
📰 Consumers Union of United States, Consumer reports, Volume 16, pages 378-381
Boiled Engrams: An Elegy to Dianetics
📰 Willard Beecher and Calder Willingham, American Mercury, August, pages 74-81
📰 Isaac Isidor Rabi, Scientific American, January
🎓 Medical economics, volume 28, pages 87, 131-137
📰 Frederick R Stearns, Clinical Medicine, March
From Science-fiction to Fiction-science
📰 Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, Etc.
🎓 Samuel J. Ravitch, M.D., Journal of the American Medical Association
Hubbard's response February 12
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
📗 Martin Gardner, Dover Publications, Chapter 22: "Dianetics", ISBN 0486203948
In 1950, speaking to an audience of 6,000 in the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, Hubbard introduced a coed named Sonya Bianca as a clear who had attained perfect recall of all “perceptics” (sense perceptions) for every moment of her past. In the demonstration which followed, however, she failed to remember a single formula in physics (the subject in which she was majoring), or the color of Hubbard's tie when his back was turned. At this point, a large part of the audience got up and left. Hubbard later produced a neat dianetic explanation for the fiasco.
📰 Time magazine, December 22
Dianetic Therapy: An Experimental Evaluation
🎓 Harvey Jay Fischer
📰 Volney G. Mathison
New dimensions of deep analysis
📗 Jan Ehrenwald, Ayer Publishing, pages 237-239, ISBN 0405070276
Thus an auditor, i.e. a practitioner of dianetics, in all seriousness, related the following story to the present writer: Six subjects or preclears were carried back on the time track to their pre-natal, pre-embryonal lives. Obviously, cures effected by such a method are to be explained much in the same way as those achieved by the primitive medicine man, the quack or charlatan by purely magical procedures.
Letter to Melbourne Director-General of Security from FBI Director
🎓 John Edgar Hoover, September 21
Scientology—with a Drop of Guk
📰 Melbourne Spy, Nation, December 6, pages 14-15
An Experimental Investigation of Hubbard's Engram Hypothesis (Dianetics)
🎓 Jack Fox, Alvin E. Davis and B. Lebovit, Psychological Newsletter 10, pages 131-134
📗 Louis Lasagna, Harper, pages 235-236, ISBN 0836916697
Unfortunately, Hubbard and his disciples seemed to have a hard job clearing much besides some book royalties, and as rapidly as it burst into popularity, dianetics fell into disfavor.
Australians Look Into Scientology; Ask If Preclear and Entheta Constitute Medical Fraud
📰 J. Anthony Lukas, New York Times, December 8
Letter to U.S. President John F. Kennedy
🎓 Retired Naval Provost Sergeant, February 7
📰 James Phelan, Saturday Evening Post, March 21
L. Ron Hubbard: An opinion and a summing up
📰 Richard G. Sipes, Borderline, Volume 1 Number 2, October 21, pages 32-39
Scientology paid private detectives to investigate critics
📰 The Age, April 17
Report of the Board of Inquiry into Scientology
🎓 Kevin Victor Anderson, Q.C., September 28
Attention the Minister of Health: This Man is Bogus
📰 Richard Whitehead and Peter Younghusband, Daily Mail, February 14 - July 14
📗 Helen O'Brien, Whitmore, LCCN 66018682, OCLC 4797460
As soon as Ron reached Philadelphia, after a flight from Spain marked by dramatic mishaps, we tried to find ways to equate the differences between us but he would not, or could not, understand. He seemed bent on a weird foxiness. He was terribly changed, almost a stranger. About the double-crossing in minor ways - yes, he agreed that it had occurred. But he had an explanation.
Unproven methods of cancer treatment: Hubbard E-Meter and hubbard electrometer
🎓 American Cancer Society, CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, October, pages 214-215, DOI: 10.3322/canjclin.16.5.214
Electric Devices To Be Destroyed
📰 A.M.A. News, July 24
📰 Leslie Wilson, Sunday Telegraph, March 19, page 11
📰 Alan Levy, Life magazine, November 15, page 99
📰 Time, August 23, page 40
Scientologists Lose Tax-Exempt Status
📰 A.M.A. News, September 2
Scientology - Menace to Mental Health
📰 Ralph Lee Smith, Today's Health, December
The Commission of Inquiry into the Hubbard Scientology Organisation
🎓 Dumbleton - Powles, June 30
The dangerous new cult of Scientology
📰 Arlene and Howard Eisenberg, Parents magazine, June 1, pages 48-49 and 82-86
Federal Income Tax Exemption Denied to The Founding Church of Scientology
🎓 United States Court of Claims, July 16
The Odd Beginning of Ron Hubbard's Career
📰 Alexander Mitchell, The Sunday Times, October 5
Scientology: Religion or Racket?
📰 Joseph Martin Hopkins, Christianity Today, November 7 and 21
Sectarian Healers and Hypnotherapy
🎓 John A. Lee, chapter 4
Scientology can drive you out of your mind
📰 Jane Nellis, Confidential magazine, October 1
📗 George Malko, Delacorte, LCCN 73108660, ISBN 1112963731
I know of several instances when members of families have returned from Los Angeles, home of Scientology's American Saint Hill Organization, or from England, or particularly from the Sea Org, one of Hubbard's floating sanctums, and for two days have impressed their loved ones with the love and purity which seems to glow from their very being. Then, because they are not surrounded by fellow Scientologists whose presence recharges their cells with the Right Words and predetermined responses to that constant expression of Scientology's truths, these people dim and darken. Nothing around them seems sufficiently real. It is as if they have come down off a very sweet and shining trip, and only a return to the safety of their Scientology world will restore their functioning realities.
E-meter and Scientology/Dianetics literature: legal requirements (US)
🎓 United States District Court for the District of Columbia, September 29
Enquiry into the Practice and Effects of Scientology
🎓 John Foster, December
📗 Cyril Vosper, Spearman, ISBN 0854350616
One of the larger and more cunning aberrations that people have is that they do not like to be told what to do. In order to overcome this obvious weakness, there are processes (the CCH's mentioned earlier, for instance), and organisational policies to ram the point home that the only use Hubbard has for a follower or staff member is as someone who can follow his word with slavish devotion. He wants to hear of people getting better with Scientology. If someone does not get better in the correct, party-approved manner, then that person is maliciously going out of his way to make a fool of Hubbard and Scientologists. He is rejected as being so stupid as not to realise that here is the Road to Total Freedom."
📗 Paulette Cooper, Tower Publications, OCLC 921001
In fact, the Scientologists haven't always returned the money either, and have sometimes set up certain conditions that have made it difficult for people to collect. The person must usually ask for his money within thirty (sometimes ninety) days after the course is completed. Some people have also been made to take the security test before they can get a refund. Others have signed a contract that obligates them to obey their Ethics Officer “in advice given me to facilitate my case progress and that any failure to do so renders this contract null and void without rebate.” (The Ethics Officer can, of course, tell them not to ask for their money back, because that would be hindering their progress, and tell them to facilitate it by signing up for more courses instead.
📗 Robert Kaufman, Olympia Press, ISBN 0700401105
Foreword: “A Look Into Scientology” by L.Ron Hubbard Jnr.
Ron was an amorphous thing, creating thetans by enslaving human beings, then eating their minds and souls, engorging them back into Source, bloating himself with thetans in his insatiable craving. This was being At Cause. This was the grotesque culmination of our noble, naive desire for freedom. He played with us as he played with his pack of creatures, and the evil he accused others of was his own creation.
Report of the Commission of Enquiry into Scientology
🎓 G.P.C. Kotze, June 9
The Awful Truth About Scientology
📰 Paul Krassner, The Realist, October 1
📗 C. H. Rolph, Andre Deutsch Limited, ISBN 0233963758
From among a variety of scientology broadsides one may perhaps select, as representative of the next phase, an issue of Freedom Scientology which appeared early in 1969 as 'International Edition No. 1'. By this time, orthodox psychiatry had been branded by the scientologists as a system of murder, sexual perversion and monstrous cruelty, and the National Association for Mental Health as a criminally motivated 'psychiatric front group'. No one seemed to be taking much notice of these accusations, and new ways had to be found of hotting them up."
📗 Dr. Christopher Evans, Harrap, ISBN 0245518703
Slightly over half of this book is about Scientology, with good material on the early days of Dianetics, some amazing and hilarious material about OT wins, life at Saint Hill and aboard the ships, as well as good coverage of various Scientology offshoots, the E-Meter, and more. As organized religion has declined, new surrogate beliefs, many of them based on pseudoscientific rationality, have sprung up. These are what Dr. Christopher Evans calls the cults of unreason, man's attempt to fit technology to a religion-like belief. In many of these cults naivete and sophistication work side by side.
Expensive Trip To Spirituality
📰 James E. Adams and Elaine Viets, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 3-7
Intra-departmental Report on Scientologists breaking in to the office of Nancy McLean's lawyer
🎓 John B. Fallis, Metropolitan Toronto Police, May 7
📰 Winnipeg Free Press, June 27
Outline For Recovery House Evaluation - Narconon New Life
🎓 Forest S. Tennant Jr., M.D., Dr.P.H., Jane Thomas, R.N., Mike Reilly, and Joseph Shannon, M.D., M.P.H., California State Department of Health
Narconon NEWS Volume 6, Issue 3: “Bridge to the Bridge” cover image
Flag Order 3502 “Shore Story” October 28
Narconon - A Project Evaluation
🎓 Susan M. Blindman, Delaware Criminal Justice Planning Commision, October
Scientology: Therapeutic Cult to Religious Sect
🎓 Roy Wallis, Sociology, January 1, pages 89-100, DOI: 10.1177/003803857500900105
📰 Jesse Kornbluth, New Times: Feature News Magazine, “Flirtation with Scientology”, March 19, pages 29-52
The Road to Total Freedom: A Sociological Analysis of Scientology
📗 Roy Wallis, Heinemann Educational, ISBN 0435829165
The truth-seeker individuals were attracted to Dianetics when they came upon it at some point during a life-long search for meaning and truth. Science fiction, with its panoramic vision of man and the cosmos, also provided many with an insight into the meaning of life and human behaviour.
Agents Search Scientology Offices for U.S. Documents
📰 Timothy S. Robinson, Washington Post, July 9
📰 Time magazine, July 25
Ali's Smile / Naked Scientology
📗 William S. Burroughs, Expanded Media Editions, ISBN 0388030119
Contains essays previously published in US alternative newspapers in the early 1970s, and a series of letters between the Church of Scientology and the author."
Scientology Boss Gets Jail Term
📰 East Grinstead Courier, February 22
Scientologists' Matriarch Surrenders
📰 Ron Shaffer, Washington Post, August 18
Scientology: A long trail of controversy
📰 Robert Gillette and Robert Rawitch, Los Angeles Times, August 27-28
Scientology-linked Policeman Fired
📰 Jon Standefer, San Diego Union, January 26
🎓 Margaret T. Singer Ph. D, Psychology Today, January
Findings of the accompanying state inspection of the activities of Narconon
🎓 Wolfgang Heckmann
Salvation and Protest: Studies of Social and Religious Movements
📗 Roy Wallis, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 0312698348
📰 Calgary Albertan, October 28
Scientologists Plotted to Frame a Critic as a Criminal, Files Show
📰 Gregory Gordon, The Boston Globe, November 24
Scientology: An in-depth profile of a new force in Clearwater
📰 Charles Stafford and Bette Orsini, St. Petersburg Times, fourteen part series, December 16-30
Scientology and its Cover Companies (Die Scientology-Sekte und ihre Tarnorganisationen)
📗 Ingo Heinemann
The Scientology sect has a very poor reputation in many places. Very few of their numerous press releases are actually published by the press. However, the Scientology sect needs the press in their worldwide membership recruitment as a document of public acknowledgment. Because of this, articles about the cover companies are frequently found in advertisements internal to Scientology, where they are supposed to reinforce the view of members and their dependents. Since Scientology followers generally believe anything the sect puts in front of them, such articles also strengthen the self consciousness of the adherent as well as the coherence of the organization.
The stench bubble at the Nieuwezijds (De stankbel van de Nieuwezijds: contra Scientology)
📗 Gerrit Komrij, De Arbeiderspers, ISBN 9029526971
🇳🇱 Dutch language
The Commodore and the Colonels
📗 John Forte, Corfu Tourist Publications & Enterprises, ISBN 1848970048
In fact, he was more than just a coroner's nark and it was some ten years later that, by a most remarkable coincidence, I learnt of Richard Wriggley's boast that he had been employed by the scientologists to break into my office and my villa to seize any documents on scientology that he could find. He claims he could find no files on the subject but his accurate description of both premises and his method of entry leave no doubt that his boast was genuine.
Cult harassment, spying in Canada documented
📰 John Marshall, Toronto Globe and Mail, January 23-24
📗 William Sims Bainbridge and Rodney Stark, University of California Press, Chapter: "Scientology: To Be Perfectly Clear", ISBN 0520048547
Cult advertisements and informal comments vary, but, in general, it is no longer boldly asserted that clears are geniuses or that they never get colds. Clear status has been mystified and subtly deflated. Even the most doctrinally learned Scientologists may be unsure exactly what palpable qualities a clear is supposed to manifest, other than confidence and loyalty to the cult. Therefore, new clears may not feel justified in criticizing the quality of the clear experience, but they still may want more than they have received. The original promise of clear, and much more, is offered by a still growing series of levels above clear, the operating thetan or “OT” statuses. The “first dynamic” overcome by clears is only one of eight dynamics, each representing a sphere of human motivation the first is the drive for personal survival.
Scientology: Anatomy of a Frightening Cult
📰 Eugene H. Methvin, Reader's Digest, May
Scientology's bizarre manual of dirty tricks
📰 David Beresford, The Guardian, February 7-9
Scientology's War Against Judges
📰 James B. Stewart Jr., The American Lawyer, December
Critical Analysis of the Purification Rundown
🎓 David Hogg, M.D., October 8
Other People's Faiths: The Scientology Litigation and the Justiciability of Religious Fraud
🎓 Marjorie Heins, Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, September-November
🎓 Michael J. Flynn, Thomas G. Hoffman, Thomas Greene, William Sheridan, Paul Jenkins, Kevin Sullivan, Kevin Flynn, September 14
📗 Martin Gardner, Prometheus Books, ISBN 0879755733
In my Antioch review paper I was clearly wrong in predicting that interest in Hubbard would “soon subside.” Today, thirty years later dianetics, which became part of Hubbard's new “religion,” Scientology, is the backbone of one of the nation's biggest cockamamie cults.
Scientology: The Sickness Spreads
📰 Eugene H. Methvin, Reader's Digest, September
Sect courses resemble science fiction
📰 Richard Leiby, Clearwater Sun, Volume 68 Number 118, August 30
The Transcendental Engineers: The Fictional Origins of a Modern Religion
🎓 Hugh A.D. Spencer, August
📗 Irvine Robertson, Moody Press, 3rd edition (1st edition in 1966), pages 124-131, ISBN 0802494110
The teachings of Scientology contain references to previous existences, prenatal influences, and future lives. And the clearing of the engrams from previous lives relates too much to the Hindu doctrine of karma and reincarnation to be coincidental.
City of Clearwater Commission Hearing: The Church of Scientology
🎓 Transcript
Information Disease: Have Cults Created a New Mental Illness?
🎓 Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman, Science Digest, January, pages 86-92
On the presumed fragility of unconventional beliefs
🎓 David A. Snow and Richard Machalek, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 21, Issue 1, pages 15-26
Scientology - Magic of the 20th century
📗 Friedrich-Wilhelm Haack, Claudius, ISBN 3532620030
🇩🇪 German language
📰 John Saar, People Weekly, Vol. 19 No. 3, January 24, page 84
Psychology's Occult Doubles: Psychology and the Problem of quackery
📗 Thomas Hardy Leahy and Grace Evans, Burnham Inc Pub, July, ISBN 0882297171
There are various therapies that try to overcome the psychic scars of birth trauma. These therapies have much in common with Scientology – except that Scientology has taken the next logical step and tries to exorcise the traumatic engrams left from previous incarnations.
Reconnection magazine (30 issues)
📰 Jon Atack
📰 Otto J. Roos, September 7
The Organization Called Scientology
🎓 Lt. Ray Emmons, December
Report of the “sects” Subcommittee of the permanent House Committee on Public Health
🎓 Tweede Kamer Commissie, pages 120-160
Scientology Chief got Millions
📰 Robert Lindsey, New York Times, July 11
📰 John Barnes, Sunday Times Magazine, October 28
Wonder’s Child: My Life in Science Fiction
📗 Jack Williamson, Bluejay Books, ISBN 0312944543
I declined to be audited, partly because of what I recalled of Hubbard when I saw him at Heinlein's party in Philadelphia before I went overseas. Hubbard was just back from the Aleutians then, hinting of desperate action aboard a navy destroyer, adventures he couldn't say much about because of military security. I recall his eyes, the wary, light-blue eyes that I somehow associate with the gunmen of the old West, watching me sharply as he talked as if to see how much I believed. Not much.
📗 Eric Townsend, Anima Pub, ISBN 0951047108
Large numbers of experienced and qualified staff were expelled in one major purge. The Church has remained implacably hostile to those it expelled in 1982 and those who have supported them. The Church regards itself as entitled to use active harassment tactics in the course of collecting evidence. It made use of private investigators for visible surveillance which also aimed to exert a degree of intimidation. The perceived injustice of this will give a continuing motivation to prove the Church wrong and themselves right. Thus the Church may by its own actions be contributing to the chances of the survival of the Independent Scientologists. The initial enthusiasm generated by those Scientologists who had fallen out with the Church did create a very heady and exciting atmosphere within the Independent movement. Whether this goodwill and cooperation will continue and be able to hold together a loose federation is in some doubt. Already signs of differing views can be detected.
📰 Bill Driver, Willamette Week, May 30
The selling of Scientology // Hubbard's motivations revealed in correspondence
📰 Fred Leeson, The Oregonian, March-May
The prophet and profits of Scientology
📰 Richard Behar, Forbes 400, October 27
Religion Inc. The Church of Scientology
📗 Stewart Lamont, Harrap, ISBN 0245543341
As the sun streamed in through his window on that September afternoon, Flynn told me in his Boston Irish accent what had started him on his crusade against Hubbard and his church. 'This girl came to see me in 1979. They were doing awful things to her. Then they started doing awful things to me.' The girl was a former Scientologist and resident of Nevada named Lavenda van Schaick and the 'awful' things included attempts to get Flynn disbarred. Then there was the time when Flynn's private plane mysteriously acquired water in the fuel tanks and was forced to make an emergency landing.
Scientology ‘ethics’: Deviance, identity, and social control in a cult-like social world
🎓 Roger Straus, Symbolic Interaction, May 1, 9(1), pages 67–82, DOI: 10.1525/si.1986.9.1.67
Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard
📗 Russell Miller, M. Joseph, ISBN 0805006540
Miller definitively covers L.Ron Hubbard and his family origins thoroughly researching his life chronologically while exploring and revealing a man who is a pathological liar and a fraud consumed by greed and paranoia. Includes an introduction by Chris Owen, and 22 photos, many of Hubbard's family.
Counter-Cultural Movements and Totalitarian Democracy
🎓 Erik Cohen and Nachman Ben-Yehuda, Sociological Inquiry, October, pages 382-390, DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-682x.1987.tb00245.x
L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman
📗 Bent Corydon, Barricade Books, ISBN 0942637577
This large book on Scientology is fairly disorganized but it remains a vital source of first-hand testimony from ex-Scientologists about life aboard Hubbard's ship, the Apollo, and many alarming accounts of illegal and criminal activities within Scientology. Includes 21 photos, mostly of Hubbard, and two illustrations that compare Scientology's cross to that of the infamous Aleister Crowley. Brian Ambry organized and wrote the addendum, the additional chapters and some revisions to existing chapters of the two later editions.
Renunciation and reformulation: a study of conversion in an American sect
📗 Harriet Whitehead, Cornell University Press, ISBN 0801418496
As to the deceased, these likewise are of little interest unless they are Scientologists or close relatives or friends of Scientologists. Admittedly, the world is teeming with bodiless thetans looking around for new bodies to “pick up” or just sulking in between lives. Occasionally, a Scientologist will bump into one of these in predictable haunts.
Trying to Bend Managers' Minds: WISE and Sterling Management
📰 Jeremy Main, Fortune, November 23
Dozens of groups operate under auspices of Church of Scientology
📰 Stephen Koff, St. Petersburg Times, December 22-24
Front Group directive 16/04/1987
Spain jails Scientology leader
📰 The Sacramento Bee, November 24
Scientologist caught spying on judge
📰 February 16, 1989
📰 Tom Joyce, Gnosis, Summer
Litigating Child Custody with Religious Cults
🎓 Ford Greene, Cultic Studies Journal, Vol. 6 No. 1
My Nine Lives in Scientology (Mes neuf vies dans la Scientologie)
📗 Monica Pignotti
The following is an account of my life in Scientology, a group I was involved in from December 1970 to August of 1976 -- about 5 years and 9 months. From 1973 to 1975 I lived aboard the Flagship Apollo (“Flag”), the home of L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Dianetics and Scientology. On Flag, I trained to be an auditor (a Scientology counselor). My life on Flag was a continual roller-coaster of ups and downs. One day I would receive a personal commendation from Hubbard and be held up as an example of what a Flag auditor should be and then, just months later, Hubbard would take away all my certificates and send me to the RPF (Scientology's prison camp) for an auditing error I did not even commit.
A Piece of Blue Sky: Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed
📗 Jon Atack, Carol Publishing Group, ISBN 081840499X
It was 1950, in the early, heady days of Dianetics, soon after L. Ron Hubbard opened the doors of his first organization to the clamoring crowd. Up until then, Hubbard was known only to readers of pulp fiction, but now he had an instant best-seller with a book that promised to solve every problem of the human mind, and the cash was pouring in. Hubbard found it easy to create schemes to part his new following from their money. One of the first tasks was to arrange “grades” of membership, offering supposedly greater rewards, at increasingly higher prices. Over thirty years later an associate wryly remembered Hubbard turning to him and confiding, no doubt with a smile, “Let's sell these people a piece of blue sky.” Preface by Russell Miller.
A Tale of Capture and Brainwashing
📰 Richard Weizel, Akron Beacon Journal, January 21
Prof's libel victory over LSD claims by CCHR
📰 Northern Echo, June 22
🎓 Margaret T. Singer, Maurice K. Temerlin and Michael D. Langone, Cultic Studies Journal, Vol 7 No. 2, pages 101-125
📰 Joel Sappell and Robert W. Welkos, Los Angeles Times, six part series, June 24-29
Dianetics: From Out of the Blue?
🎓 Jeff Jacobsen, The Arizona Skeptic, September/October, pages 1-5
Findings of Fact regarding the Narconon-Chilocco Application for Certification
🎓 Oklahoma Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, December 13
International Society Control by the Church of Scientology
🎓 Dr. Stephen A. Kent, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, November
📗 Steven Fishman
By the time his three musketeers arrived, Frank Thompson had his hand around my neck as if I were a spring chicken waiting to be slaughtered. My eyeglasses had landed on the ground after the fifth or sixth time Frank smashed my skull into the wall. The four members of the Org's goon squad paraded me down the stairs from the Org's second floor Ethics Office like a group of armed guards from the KGB. As I tripped when I hit the bottom step, Humberto kicked me harshly in my left ankle, causing me to flinch. Frank, who was still holding me by the neck, yanked my head as hard as he could because I took the time to examine my leg for injuries. Although I was visibly being forced and shoved down the hallway, the three staff members who we passed along the way did not show even the slightest emotion.
The Road to Xenu: Life Inside Scientology
📗 Margery Wakefield, Lulu, ISBN 0557090407
“We have a job for you to do,” he said abruptly. “Something that will satisfy your Liability Formula. A few blocks from here there is a psychiatrist's office. A man who has been causing us some problems with the American Psychiatric Association. It's not important for you to know what those problems are.” He stopped and cleared his throat. “What we want you to do is to get into his office. Pretend to be a patient or do whatever you want. Somewhere on his bookshelf there should be a directory of all the psychiatrists in the United States. We need that directory. Also anything else you can get us. Financial information. Names of some of his clients. That's all. Think you can handle it?”
Scientology: More than a Cult? From Crusade to Rip-Off
📗 Ulrich Kramer, VAP Publishers, ISBN 3922367267
The raw man-to-man approach of Book One (“Dianetics”) auditing gave way to an unwavering rigidity. Auditing stopped being the solution-finding dialogue between two people and was turned into a ritualistic exercise, an application of rote procedures to all and sundry.
The Secret World of Cults: inside the sects that take over lives
📗 Jean Ritchie, Angus & Robertson, April 11, page 96, ISBN 020716990X
Includes reports on The Children of God, The Unification Church (Moonies), ISKCON (Hare Krishna), Latter-day Saints church (Mormons), Scientology, The London Church of Christ, Rajneesh, Jehovah's Witnesses, Therapy cults, New age cults, Satanism.
📗 Bob Penny
Many of us considered Training Routines to be innocuous; yet we were aware they were part of something destructive, and didn't know how to sort out the connection. The feeling of lucidity produced by TRs is merely a subjective state. The group tells you how to think about that state, such as “you are more in present time.” The suggestion is that you are less suggestible and you buy it because you are in a highly suggestible state. TRs are just one more device to enforce agreement and compliance. At least they're more fun than ethics.
The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power
📰 Richard Behar, Time magazine, May
📰 anonymous, Notes from the Hangar, Volume 1 Number 1, January, pages 12-16
📰 Margery Wakefield
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The Use of Mind Control in Scientology
📰 Monica Pignotti
What Christians Need to Know about Scientology
📰 Margery Wakefield
Charisma, Crowd Psychology and Altered States of Consciousness
🎓 Charles Lindholm, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, Vol.16 No.3, September, pages 287-310
Church of Scientology fined $250,000 for spying
📰 Edmonton Journal, September 12
Cults, Coercion, and Contumely
🎓 Margaret T. Singer and Marsha E. Addis, Cultic Studies Journal, Vol. 9, No. 2, pages 163-189
📰 Jeff Jacobsen
📗 Potthoff, Thiede, Schroeder, Abel and Westphal, Rowohlt, ISBN 3499193418
🇩🇪 German Language
Scientology and its ‘clear’ business
🎓 Dr Nikos Passas Ph.D. Assistant Professor and Manuel Escamilla Castillo Ph.D, Behavioral Sciences & the Law, Winter, pages 103–116, DOI: 10.1002/bsl.2370100110
Scientology - Religion or Spiritual Magic? (Religion oder Geistesmagie?)
📗 Werner Thiede, F. Bahn, ISBN 3762177015
🇩🇪 German Language
Scientology - The Handle for Power and Money (Der Griff nach Macht und Geld)
📗 Friederike Valentin and Horand Knaup, Herder, ISBN 345104109X
🇩🇪 German Language
📰 Jon Atack
📰 William W. Horne, The American Lawyer, July/August
📰 John H. Richardson, Premiere, September, page 88
A Cult in the Heart of the Republic (Une secte au cœur de la République)
📗 Serge Faubert, Calmann-Lévy, ISBN 2702119476
🇫🇷 French Language
A Dangerous Cult: Scientology (Une secte dangereuse: La Scientologie)
📗 Paul Ranc, Editions Contrastes, ISBN 2882110081
🇫🇷 French Language
The Expensive Dream of the Superman (Der teure Traum vom Übermenschen)
📗 Silvia Redhead, Ralf-Dieter Mucha, Claudius, ISBN 3532621576
🇩🇪 German Language
Outrageous Betrayal: The Dark Journey of Werner Erhard from est to Exile
📗 Steven Pressman, St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0312092962
📰 Robert Vaughn Young, Quill, November-December, Volume 81, Number 9, pages 38-41
Scientology: From Science Fiction to Space-age Religion
🎓 John Weldon, Christian Research Journal, Summer, page 20
Scientology, Labyrinth of Illusions (Irrgarten der Illusionen)
📗 Christoph Minhoff, Martina Müller, E. Wewel, ISBN 3879041970
🇩🇪 German Language
Scientology: The Ruthless Religion
📰 Eric N. Winter, Cult Awareness News, July/August
Books Critical of Scientology Stolen and Destroyed
📰 District of California, Case # CV 91 6426 HLH (Tx), April 4
The Cult Group: Scientology is on the Rise (Der Sekten-Konzern: Scientology auf dem Vormarsch)
📗 Liane von Billerbeck, Frank Nordhausen and Bernd Abel, Links, ISBN 3861530716
🇩🇪 German Language
Cult-think: Certainty vs. Reality
📰 Anonymous
📗 Louise Samways, Penguin, ISBN 0140235531
During the weeks of an auditing course, the participant is expressly forbidden from discussing what is occurring with anyone (particularly family and friends) other than his particular auditor. That is a daily session in a highly aroused state where the participant is at the mercy of the auditor’s questions, and isolated over that time from any balancing perceptions and opinions. This number and frequency of sessions is considered by Scientologists to be the minimum needed. The sessions are made even more powerful by the fact that they are of two and a half hours’ duration, which means in every session a person is also going into a period of natural hypnosis.
📰 Ken Rose, September 5
The Fable -- Hollywood, Satanism, Scientology & Suicide
📗 Jerry Staton, CreateSpace (2009), ISBN 144145084X
From these Smersh-like secret directives Hubbard is basically directing his fanatical followers to take over world finance; take over world political leaders and to take over mental health on the planet. This is completely consistent with classical Satanism in that he is talking almost exclusively about taking over secular power: political, financial, health and media power not spiritual power.
📰 Agnes Hadley
📰 Tim Kelsey and Mike Ricks, The Independent, January 31
Scientology - I accuse! (Ich klage an!)
📗 Renate Hartwig, Heyne, ISBN 3453085213
🇩🇪 German Language
📰 Paul Bracchi, Evening Argus, March 28-30, April 12, June 10 and 13
A Chronological View of L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology
📗 Kaj Moos, Seagull Productions, January 1, ISBN 8798378627
Kaj Moos, a danish author writing in english and danish, made this list of incidents paving the bad way of that cult. Hundreds upon hundreds of facts, lots of suits and their results.
📰 David John Carter, November
📗 Margaret Thaler Singer and Janja Lalich, Ph.D, Jossey-Bass, ISBN 0787902667
In October 1993, the Nassau County (New York) Commission on Human Rights made a determination that promises to protect large numbers of employees against potential religious discrimination in the workplace arising out of such seminars. The commission found “probable cause” in the case of two employees of a physical therapy firm who were discharged by their employer for refusing to take training courses given by Sterling Management Systems. Sterling claims to be a secular organization, but one lawsuit filed by three dentists alleged that a $17,000 seminar turned out to be a weeklong “Scientology workshop” aimed at recruiting them into the church. One of the dentists alone said he spent $65,000 in less than six months on the Sterling course and further Scientology counseling.
🎓 Dr. Hans-Gerd Jaschke, commission of the Ministry of the Interior of the Province of North Rhein-Westphalia, December
📰 Jon Atack
Report Made in the Name of the Board of Inquiry into Cults in France
🎓 National Assembly, Tenth Legislature
Scientology gets caught in the Net
📰 Karin Spaink, De Groene Amsterdammer, October 4
Scientology Nightmare: a diary from Leipzig (Alptraum Scientology: ein Tagebuch aus Leipzig)
📗 Elke Nietsche, Wichern-Verlag, ISBN 3889810772
Scientology: Religion or Intelligence Agency?
📰 Jon Atack, October
Scientology - The Plot and the Cronies (Das Komplott und die Kumpane)
📗 Renate Hartwig, Metropolitan Verlag, ISBN 3896230492
🇩🇪 German Language
Scientology - The Time Bomb in the Economy (Die Zeitbombe in der Wirtschaft)
📗 Renate Hartwig, Heyne Verlag, ISBN 3453090292
🇩🇪 German Language
Scientology with(out) an End (und (k)ein Ende)
📗 Tom Voltz, Walter, ISBN 3530899801
Systematic failures of the Scientology organization too numerous to count (at the cost of the individual, so that it has to do with the sum of millions and therefore with existence) led to the conclusion that thoughts and actions inherent to the system caused the failed developments. A lack of the ability for internal criticism shattered any attempt for correction. Scientology sees itself as the “end point of the quest” for people. Lies, defamation, coerced experiments, the radical uprooting of business relations and similar experiences give rise to the suspicion that an elite group is occupying itself in a Machiavellian manner with the defense of its position and sinecure.
Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change
📗 Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2nd edition (1st edition June 1978, ISBN 0397012586)
The escalating pattern of cult fanaticism and religious-political terror that the authors call a 'death spiral' seems to be widening. If we do nothing to understand and ultimately reverse that pattern, it will pull more and more innocent people into its vortex. Conway and Siegelman place cultic behavior in the wider context of the communication revolution of our time. Indeed, SNAPPING unfolds as a traveling detective investigation, they very capably trace and analyze the course of the phenomenon.
A Scientific Scrutiny of OT III
📰 Peter Forde, June
📗 Peter Vossmerbäumer, Universitas publishing house Munich, ISBN 3800413337
🇩🇪 German Language
https://web.archive.org/web/20160508054419/http://solitarytrees.net/racism/ L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology, Dianetics and Racism
📰David John Carter
📰 Alison Frankel, The American Lawyer, March
Medical claims within Scientology's secret teachings
📰 Jeff Jacobsen
Scientologist Buys Bankrupt Cult-Fighting Organization
📰 Laurie Goodstein, Seattle Times, December 1
Scientology. Flew over a nest of Gurus (Scientologie. Vol au dessus d'un nid de gourous)
📗 José Lenzini, Plein, ISBN 2877645169
🇫🇷 French language
Scientology's Relationship with Eastern Religious Traditions
🎓 Dr. Stephen A. Kent, Journal of Contemporary Religion, Vol. 11 No. 1, page 21
📗 Margery Wakefield, December 21
What I was going to learn on OT3, was how to telepathically locate these other entities of mine and audit them through the nuclear explosion and implanting that occurred 75,000,000 years ago. Then these entities would be freed, and able to fly off and find a body of their own. I hardly heard the Supervisor when he announced the lunch break. My mind was spinning. As we walked to lunch, I had a peculiar sensation. I felt like my mind had just locked up, frozen in time. I couldn't believe what I had just read, it was too incredible. But I was too brainwashed to disbelieve. So my mind simply froze, unable to process anything at all. It was at this point that my symptoms, the terrifying anxiety attacks, began to return in full force.
🎓 Canadian Legal Information Institute, April 18, CanLII 16226 (ON CA), Docket: c13207; C13047
Bodies in Pawn: Clams, Marcabs and Galactic Invader Forces
📰 Chris Owen
Brainwashing in Scientology's Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF)
📰 Dr. Stephen A. Kent, November 7
Can L. Ron Hubbard's “study technology” make kids smarter?
📰 Sara Catania, LA Weekly, November 14
Case study of L. Ron Hubbard's education: The Delphi Academy in LA
📰 Steve Keller
Evaluation of Claims for “The Laundry Solution”
🎓 P. Craig Taylor, Department of Physics, University of Utah, February 26
“Fair Game”: Leveling the Playing Field in Scientology Litigation
🎓 J.P. Kumar, The Review of Litigation, Volume 16, pages 747-772
Helnwein and Scientology - Lies and Treason (Lüge und Verrat)
📗 Peter Reichelt, Brockmann und Reichelt, ISBN 3923801939
I understood too late that, without knowing what I was doing, I had “supplied” Helnwein with countless world stars, many of whom were my friends, and that I had served a system without my being aware of it. I noticed that his artistic productivity which he presented on the outside was, for the most part, feigned. He would spend months in the USA, in Clearwater and Los Angeles, without painting one picture.
In the labyrinth of Scientology (Im Labyrinth der Scientology)
📗 Norbert Potthoff, Lübbe, ISBN 3404613929
🇩🇪 German Language
📗 Roger Schenk, Bund der Selbständigen Baden-Württemberg, ISBN 3000017259
🇩🇪 German Language
📰 Chris Owen
Piercing the corporate veil: the true structure of Scientology
📰 Chris Owen
Scientology: A History of Terror and Abuse
📰 Craig Branch, The Watchman Expositor, Vol. 14 No. 5
Scientology: An Insider Tells All (ein Insider packt aus)
📗 Tom Voltz, Herder, ISBN 3451045729
🇩🇪 German Language
Scientology Attacks (greift an)
📗 Gunther Träger und Ursula Caberta, ECON, ISBN 3430182492
🇩🇪 German Language
The Scientology Comparative Theology Page
📰 Perry Scott, April 7
Scientology in Court: A Comparative Analysis
🎓 Paul Horwitz, DePaul Law Review
Scientology's Puzzling Journey From Tax Rebel to Tax Exempt
📰 Douglas Frantz, New York Times, March 9
📰 Chris Owen
Scientology - The Cult of Power (Der Kult der Macht)
📗 Hansjörg Hemminger, Quell, ISBN 3791834908
🇩🇪 German Language
📰 Nefertiti, October 12
Tutor Trap: How Scientology recruits the next generation
📰 Lisa Wurscher and Marion Paulsen, June 9
The Art of Deception - How $cientology Appears to Work
📰 Arnie Lerma
Church of Scientology - A Religious Mafia?
📰 Craig Branch, The Watchman Expositor, Vol. 15 No. 1, January 1
Coercive Persuasion and Scientology
📰 Lawrence Wollersheim
Expert advice regarding Narconon's treatment program
🎓 Folke Sjoqvist, National Board of Health and Welfare, June 2
Final Report of the Enquete Commission on “So-called Sects and Psychogroups”
🎓 Bonner Universitäts-Buchdruckerei Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme
Managing to Recruit: Religious Conversion in the Workplace
🎓 Deana Hall, Sociology of Religion, Volume 59 Issue 4, pages 393-410, DOI: 10.2307/3712124
Narconon: Drug reformers or Scientology front?
📰 Chris Owen
🎓 Michael Peckham, Canadian Journal of Sociology, Vol.23 No.4, September, pages 317–347
Religious Sects and New Magical Movements
🎓 Italian Parliament, February, pages 44-52
📗 Norbert J. Potthoff, Bastei Lübbe, ISBN 3404604598
🇩🇪 German Language
📰 Joseph Mallia, Jim MacLaughlin and Andrew Gully, Boston Herald, multi-part series, March 1-5, and March 19
📰 Chris Owen
“Sects” or Assimilative Movements in Switzerland
🎓 Report of the Business Review Commission of the National Assembly, July 1
State Security Advisory Commission report
The Creation of “Religious” Scientology
🎓 Dr. Stephen A. Kent, Religious Studies and Theology, December): pages 97-126
Decision of the Charity Commissioners for England and Wales
🎓 Charity Commission, November 17
no established public benefit arising out of the practice of Scientology
Doing Hard Time on Planet Earth
📰 Joe Cisar
Files destroyed in Scientology case
📰 Jon Henley, The Guardian, September 9
“Making God Swallow His Laughter”
📰 Scott Mayer
📰 Tony Ortega, Phoenix New Times, January 21
Pseudo-Buddhism in the form of Scientology
📰 Helle Meldgaard
📰 Employment Law Weekly, December 29
📰 Chris Owen
Scientology - A Look Behind the Scenes
📗 Jana Jacobi, Butzon and Bercker, ISBN 3786783004
🇩🇪 German Language
Scientology and Totalitarianism
📰 Laura Kay Fuller
Scientology: I Sought Light and Found Darkness (Ich suchte das Licht und fand die Dunkelheit)
📗 Jutta Elsässer, Droemer, ISBN 3426773759
🇩🇪 German Language
Scientology — Is This A Religion?
🎓 Stephen A. Kent, Marburg Journal of Religion, July
📰 Ron Russell, New Times Los Angeles, September 9
Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons
📗 John Carter, Feral House, pages 101-194, ISBN 0922915970
After Parsons’ initial contact with the astral plane during this second working, Hubbard began acting as seer, although Parsons continued to call him “Scribe” in his notes, and it was actually he who was “scrying in the Aethyr” while Parsons took notes.
📰 Brian Ambry, International Viewpoints Magazine (‘Ivy’), May
Soul Snatchers: The Mechanics of Cults
📗 Jean-Marie Abgrall, Algora Publishing, ISBN 189294104X
The transmitter may be more than one individual: it can be a group, even the cult itself in its totality. But in every case, the two-fold requirement of credibility and attraction leads cults to use figureheads who are constantly spreading the word. This is the basis of Scientology's “celebrity centers.”
📗 András Veér and László Erőss, Art Nouveau, ISBN 9630390760
🇭🇺 Hungarian language
📰 Eldon M. Braun
Brained - The Raul Lopez Story
📰 Ron Russell, New Times Los Angeles, December 21
Brought into the fold: Influence and Persuasion in a Conversional Religious Setting
📰 Daniel E. Martin, Skeptic, November 2
The Control Agenda: Control, Responsibility and Freedom in the Church of Scientology
📰 Chris Owen, November
Healing or Stealing? Medical Charlatans in the New Age
📗 Jean-Marie Abgrall, pages 193-4, Algora Publishing, ISBN 1892941511
Drug addicts are just one of the Scientologists' targets for recruitment. The offer of care and healing through techniques derived from dianetics is only a come-on. The detoxification of the patient by means of “Purification Rundown” is more a matter of manipulation through the general weakening that it causes; it is a way of brainwashing the subject.
Hungary in the Web of Scientology (Magyarország a szcientológia (pók)hálójában)
📗 András Veér and László Erőss, Art Nouveau, ISBN 9630030357
🇭🇺 Hungarian language
📰 Thomas Lardeur, Paris Match, February 17
Scientology and the Paradoxes of Freedom
📰 Erik W. Snead
Toward a new model of “cult control”
📰 Robert Vaughn Young, February 21
Why Christians Object to Scientology
📰 Jody Veenker, Christianity Today, September 4
A Critical Examination of the Goal of the Church of Scientology
📰 Cheryl Sola
An exploratory study in methods of distinguishing destructive cults
🎓 Jonathan Bohm and Laurence Alison, Psychology, Crime & Law, Volume 7 Issue 2, pages 133-165, DOI: 10.1080/10683160108401792
Beware Scientologists Claiming To Be Mental Health Professionals
📰 National Mental Health Association, September 17
📗 András Veér and László Erőss, Art Nouveau, ISBN 9630065061
🇭🇺 Hungarian language
Brainwashing Manual Parallels in Scientology
📰 Brian Ambry
Brainwashing Programs in The Family/Children of God and Scientology
🎓 Stephen A. Kent, chapter 8 in “Misunderstanding Cults”, Edited by Benjamin Zablocki and Thomas Robbins, University of Toronto Press, December 1, pages 349–378, ISBN 0802043739, DOI: 10.3138/9781442677302.13
🎓 Brigitte Schön, Marburg Journal of Religion, Volume 6, No. 1, January
The French and German verses American debate over “new religions”, Scientology and human rights
🎓 Stephen A. Kent, Marburg Journal of Religion, Volume 6, No. 1, January
From Slogans to Mantras: Social Protest and Religious Conversion in the Late Vietnam Era
📗 Stephen A. Kent, Syracuse University Press, October, ISBN 0815629486
Osborne went on to highlight several aspects of Scientology that she believed added to its attraction. One of these aspects was Hubbard's claim that the technology could end war. In a statement first printed in 1965 but periodically reproduced for years afterward, Hubbard announced the world has an optimistic five years left, a pessimistic two.
📰 Hartley Patterson
Religious charities and the juridification of the Charity Commission
🎓 Peter W. Edge and Joan M. Loughrey, Legal Studies, Volume 21, Issue 1, March, pages 36–64, DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-121X.2001.tb00166.x
Scientology and the Left Hand Path
📰 Caroline Letkeman
📰 Caroline Letkeman
📰 Tony Ortega, New Times Los Angeles, September 27
Challenging Scientology with the Gospel of Jesus Christ
📰 Kurt Van Gorden
📰 Tori Marlan, Chicago Reader, August 15
Follow That Story: Eighty-Six Million Dimes
📰 Alan Prendergast, Denver Westword News, June 16
Supplement by Tony Ortega in October
📗 Heinrich Küfner, Norbert Nedopil and Heinz Schöch, Pabst, ISBN 3936142408
🇩🇪 German language
📰 David F. Gallagher, New York Times, April 22
Scientology in the Mirror of the Law (im Spiegel des Rechts)
📗 Raik Werner, Fink, ISBN 3770537815
🇩🇪 German language
Totalitarian sects: the threat of religious extremism
📰 Maria Cherkasova and Oksana Alexeeva, Kommersant-Daily, December 10
Cults and Cosmic Consciousness: Religious Visions in the American 1960s
🎓 Camille Paglia, Arion: A Journal of Humanities and Classics, vol. 10 no. 3, pages 57-111
Have Scientology stars, celebrities and regular members signed away their human rights?
📰 Rick Ross, Cult News Network, September 1
The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece Synodical Committee on Sects
🎓 Ecclesia News, February 2
📗 Walter Martin, Bethany House Publishers, pages 369-386, ISBN 0764228218
Scientologists thought they only needed to clear their Thetan, but now Hubbard tells them they have body Thetans and clusters to be rid of. This keeps them bound to the church for longer periods trying to achieve salvation. Hubbard tells them that some of these body Thetans have been asleep on their Thetan for seventy-five million years. Hubbard also believes he went back four quadrillion years ago (give or take a few years).
📗 Arnaud Palisson, Favre, ISBN 2828907333
🇫🇷 French language
MPES - View from the end of Scientology's the bridge to total freedom
📰 Michael Pattinson
The Process of Brainwashing, Psychological Coercion, and Thought Reform
🎓 Margaret Thaler Singer, Wiley-Blackwell, ISBN 1405101814
Psychobusiness Contra Scientology (Pszichobiznisz kontra szcientológia)
📗 Dr. László Erőss, ISBN 9638621486
🇭🇺 Hungarian language
Scientology - Religion or racket?
🎓 Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Marburg Journal of Religion, Volume 8, No. 1, September
Scientology's Study Technology - The Hidden Message in L. Ron Hubbard's “Study Tech”
📰 Dr. David S. Touretzky and Chris Owen, MBE, September 13
Charisma and the Iron Cage: Rationalization, Science and Scientology
🎓 Simon Locke, Social Compass, March, vol. 51 no. 1, pages 111-131, DOI: 10.1177/0037768604040794
📰 Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, October 2, page B1
Constitutional Protection Report Development of political extremism in 2004
🎓 Dr. Guenther Beckstein, State Minister, Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior
Deceived: one woman's stand against the Church of Scientology
📗 Bonnie Woods and David Waite, Bonnie Woods, ISBN 1903905214
On their own, none of the pre-trial problems we were having to sort out were huge, but collectively they seemed so, particularly against the backdrop of all the hassle we had experienced, together with six years of trying to deal with legal procedures and documents which were way out of our range. Add to all that the fact that I had not been sleeping well, so a ringing phone was not a sound I particularly wanted to hear.
Fair Game: Secrecy, Security and the Church of Scientology in Cold War America
🎓 Hugh B. Urban, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 74(2), 356–389
The Road to Truth: One Man's Journey from a Cult to Torah
📗 Jonathan Ottenstein, Independently Published, ISBN 1521914664
The registrar had good rapport, gave me a lot of attention, love and sympathy to get my trust. I was frightened but at the same time wanted help. I told her my story and revealed my problem of fear of women. At one point, to be sure that she had my ruin, she pushed my buttons on it, causing me to fall to the floor crying. Once they get you, Scientology uses extremely hard sell techniques to get money from you. I was sold various services, including life repair auditing. In order to pay for these services, which amounted to thousands of dollars, I sold some stock that I had gotten from my grandmother. I also had to sell my car, a two year old Toyota Tercel.
Scientific Evaluation of the Dangers Posed by Religious Groups: A Partial Model
🎓 Stephen A. Kent, Cultic Studies Review, Volume 3 Number 2, pages 101-134
Scientology, the Cult of Total Espionage
📰 Gerry Armstrong, November 10
📗 Stefan Braun, Nomos, ISBN 3832907645
🇩🇪 German language
Scientology Understood (Scientologisch verstehen)
📗 Heidrun Beer, Verlag-Haus Monsenstein und Vannerdat, ISBN 3865820190
🇩🇪 German language
📰 Michael Pattinson
The Church of Scientology from a Christian Perspective
📰 Karen Pressley, September 1
Education and Re-Education in Ideological Organizations and Their Implications for Children
🎓 Stephen A. Kent, Cultic Studies Review, Volume 4 Number 2
Narconon Drug Abuse Prevention Program Evaluation
🎓 Deborah Wood Ph.D, California Healthy Kids Resource Center, January
Scientology: Freedoms in Conflict
🎓 Pieter Blondeel, Ghent University, August 1
Scientology: Illusion and reality (Wahn und Wirklichkeit)
📗 Wilfried Handl, Mensch vs. Scientology, ISBN 3200003944
🇩🇪 German language
Scientology tests' purpose and validity are questioned
📰 Mark Sommer, Buffalo News, February 1-2
Scientology's VM Fraud: The fiction in the yellow tent
📰 Richard Harriman, August 5
Scientology’s War on Psychiatry
📰 Katharine Mieszkowski, Salon, July 1
📗 Geoffrey D. Falk, Million Monkeys Press, Chapter 14: "Battlefield Teegeeack", ISBN 0973620331
Hubbard himself died in the mid-’80s. By the end, he had become a rather unhappy man, living in a rather unhappy, Howard Hughes-like fashion—reportedly believing, at various times, that his cooks were trying to poison him; and demanding that his dirty clothes be washed thirteen times, in thirteen different buckets of clean spring water, before he would wear them.
Tom Cruise is dangerous and irresponsible
🎓 Ushma S. Neill, The Journal of Clinical Investigation, Volume 115 Issue 8, August 1, DOI: 10.1172/JCI26200
📰 Janet Reitman, Rolling Stone, February 24
Narconon Credibility Investigation
🎓 Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, July 25
📰 E. Scott Reckard, Los Angeles Times, November 8
Tom's aliens target City's “planetary rulers”
📰 David Cohen, Evening Standard, October 23
What the Supreme Court Doesn’t Know
📰 Paula J. Caplan, CounterPunch, October 2
Comment on the Narconon Purification as used for 9-11 Rescue Workers
🎓 Edmund A.C. Crouch and Laura C. Green, Chemosphere, May 23, DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2007.05.098
The Complex: An Insider Exposes the Covert World of the Church of Scientology
📗 John Duignan, Merlin, ISBN 1903582849
This book is a remarkable insight into the murky world of Scientology. It's quite a page-turner, particularly towards the end, when John realises that Scientology is not what he believed it to be. What is remarkable is John's obvious intelligence and raw ability, enabling him to climb to various leadership positions around the world. The story of how he discovered the lies at the centre of Scientology is a case study in emerging skepticism.
My years in Scientology (I miei anni in Scientology)
📗 Maria Pia Gardini and Alberto Laggia, Edizioni Paoline (Paoline Publications), ISBN 8831533169
�?🇹 Italian language
Psychiatry and Psychology in the Writings of L. Ron Hubbard
🎓 W. Vaughn McCall, Journal of Religion and Health, Volume 46 Number 3, September, pages 437-447, DOI: 10.1007/s10943-006-9079-9
The Rundown on Scientology's Purification Rundown
📰 John DeSio, New York Press, June 6
St. Petersburg court shuts down Scientology Center
📰 Interfax, July 13
A brief summary and evaluation of the evidence base for Narconon as drug prevention intervention
🎓 Rigmor C. Berg, Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, ISBN 8281212144
Behind Closed Doors: The Power and Influence of Secret Societies
📗 Michael Streeter, New Holland, pages 202-230, ISBN 1845379373
A prominent Los Angeles Psychiatrist suggested that Dianetics was little more than a ‘clever scheme to dip into the pockets of the gullible’, and that a Dianetics auditor was just another name for a ‘witch doctor’ exploiting ‘real need with phoney methods’.
The Blackbook of Scientology (Schwarzbuch Scientology)
📗 Ursula Caberta, Goldmann, ISBN 3442155460
🇩🇪 German language
The Boundaries Between Cultic, Benign, and Beneficial in Five Spiritual Groups
🎓 Elliot Benjamin, International Cultic Studies Association e-Newsletter, Volume 7 Number 3
Catholicism (Christianity), Scientology, and L. Ron Hubbard
📰 PhilVaz, June
Childhood in Scientology: Forbidden (Kindheit bei Scientology: Verboten)
📗 Ursula Caberta, Guetersloher Verlagshaus, ISBN 3579069810
🇩🇪 German language
📗 Jeff Hawkins, Hawkeye Publishing (2010), ISBN 0615375642
The accusations went on and on, for more than an hour. I was screamed at, accused of every crime under the sun, and finally assigned a “lowered condition.” I finally left, broken and very confused. We had just ended the biggest book sales year in the history of Scientology. I had been responsible for the sales of millions of books. Dianetics was on all the major bestseller lists. Why was I the subject of a vicious personal attack? It made no sense. And there was no explanation forthcoming.
📰 Neville Chamberlin and Alan C. Walter, December 3
Devoted to the Cult: An Orphan with Parents
📰 Sunny Pereira, December 15
Malignant Narcissism, L. Ron Hubbard, and Scientology's Policies of Narcissistic Rage
📰 Jodi M. Lane, M.A. and Stephen A. Kent, PhD, December 8
Scientology Abuses eBay's VeRO Program to Practice Religious, Price Discrimination
📰 Scott Pilutik, February 18
Scientology and the state: Narconon's influence in the prison system
📗 Drew Tewksbury, University of Southern California, May, ISBN 0549609377
Kim Gawlick noticed this practice of using “nonprofessionals and recovering addicts for service therapy and support.” At the Vista Bay program, the Narconon participants would stay at the facility long after their treatment had ended to train others in Narconon techniques. Staff members often petitioned these participants to become peer mentors to others in the program, and according to Gawlick many stayed because they didn’t want to face the world outside the center, or sometimes they would have already started the process of becoming a Scientologist.
📗 Frank Nordhausen, Links, ISBN 3861534703
🇩🇪 German language
Second Chance Center Preliminary Process Evaluation Study
🎓 Paul Guerin, Ph.D., University of New Mexico Institute for Social Research, October
Undercover at the Scientology-Church Berlin
📰 Fredy Gareis, Stern, May 15
We Are Legion: Anonymous and the War on Scientology
📰 Jeff Jacobsen, December 20
📗 Jeannette Schweitzer, Brunnen, ISBN 3765517097
🇩🇪 German language
Blown For Good: Behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology
📗 Marc Headley, BFG, ISBN 0982502206
The author has a good sense of humor while at the same time detailing the horrors of his slave-like existence as a captive Scientologist whose parents were in the organization and who was forced to attend Scientology schools, do Scientology course work, and who, out of desperation, joined the sea-org at fifteen. The punitive, coercive, and sadistic nature of the organization and the horrors he lived through are vividly told in a chilling, conversational account of event upon event showing how dramatically dysfunctional the workings of the organization were, and how rooted in personal power and emotional blackmail.
Comments on “The Way to Happiness”
📰 John August, Philorum, September 2
📗 Maria Pia Gardini and Alberto Laggia, Edizioni Paoline (Paoline Publications), ISBN 8831536893
�?🇹 Italian language
🎓 Federal Bureau of Investigation, May 10
The Miscavige Legal Statements: A Study in Perjury, Lies and Misdirection
📗 Larry Brennan
I later taught Miscavige much of his initial corporate knowledge in 1981 and then under Miscavige oversaw similar rudiments program compliances for the next couple of years. Some of us who planned and carried out organized scientology's corporate reorganization in late 1981 and 1982 planned to actually get corporate integrity into organized scientology but this was thwarted by Miscavige and Hubbard.
📗 Nancy Many, CNM Publishing, ISBN 0578039222
A moving story detailing some of the horrible practices used by Scientology's leadership to keep the membership in line and to milk money from those 'believers' and followers of L. Ron Hubbard. Nancy Many demonstrates what happens to the mind when totalitarian tactics and policies are used to control the individual and the thought processes that occur which result in a person staying in scientology despite these dehumanizing tactics used against them. It is a very personal story, and it shows how Scientology messes with people's minds irresponsibly.
The Psychiatrist who cured the Scientologist
📗 Aaron David Gottfried, Pandora Press, May 10, ISBN 0981057209
Another way we learned was with plasticine. We would make demos of a scenario or idea to explain it in form, labelling each action to explain what it implied. My earliest memory involving Scientology was from my childhood, when I was about four years old playing with plasticine. I came out of the demo room to a bunch of adults toasting around a mantel piece of a man's head. I was told it was L.Ron's birthday.
Scientologists convicted of fraud in France
📰 Dorothee Moisan, Agence France-Presse, October 27
judgement analysis, upheld in 2012, 2013 and 2014
Surveillance in a New Religious Movement: Scientology as a Case Study
🎓 Susan Raine, Religious Studies and Theology, Vol 28 No. 1, ISSN 0829-2922, DOI: 10.1558/rsth.v28i1.63
📰 Joe Childs and Thomas C. Tobin, St. Petersburg Times, multi-part series, June 21-23, August 1, November 1-3 and December 31
Violence and Abuse in Scientology
📰 Jonny Jacobsen, Infinite Complacency, March 16
Voyage to the Heart of Scientology (Voyage au coeur de la scientologie)
📗 Alain Stoffen, PRIVE, June 22, ISBN 2350760901
🇫🇷 French language
Alternative therapy, Dianetics, and Scientology
🎓 Terra Manca, Marburg Journal of Religion, Volume 15, ISSN 1612-2941
🎓 Miriam Williams Boeri and Karen Pressley, Cultic Studies Review, Vol. 9 No. 1
Defectors Say Church of Scientology Hides Abuse
📰 Laurie Goodstein, New York Times, March 6
Health Insurance claim denied for Narconon
🎓 Asuris Northwest Health
There does not appear to be a clear structured therapy process orientating the member to recovery resources.
Personality Transformation in Scientology
📰 Tatiana Kuznetsova, December 8
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16121435W/Scientology Scientology - Abuse at the Top
📗 Amy Scobee, Scobee Publishing, May 9, ISBN 0692008012
I personally felt uneasy as a 14 year old asking strangers much older than me about what's ruining their lives. Therefore, I pretty much skipped that part and just went directly to “Come with me!” Surprisingly a lot of people did! Once I turned these people over to the experienced Public Registrars, I was out the door again.
Scientology: Anatomy of a Cult (Autopsie d'une secte d'État)
📗 Emmanuel Fansten, Robert Laffont, October 14, ISBN 2221114302
🇫🇷 French language
Scientology: Birth of an Empire (Geburt eines Imperiums)
📗 Linus Hauser, Schöningh, ISBN 3506770101
🇩🇪 German language
Scientology: Knowing What's Accurate (Wissen, was stimmt)
📗 Dirk Ritter-Dausend, Herder spektrum, September 7, ISBN 3451062895
🇩🇪 German language
Scientology Raided in Italy, Stash of Personal Records on 'Enemies' Found
📰 Tony Ortega, The Village Voice, May 21
📗 Wilfried Handl, Gesellschaft Gegen Dogmen U. Psych. Abhängigkeit, April 9, ISBN 3200009829
🇩🇪 German language
Understanding Scientology: The Demon Cult
📗 Margery Wakefield, lulu.com, February 24, ISBN 0557109264
I entered Scientology at the age of eighteen, a shy and emotionally disturbed teenager, a psychological survivor of a painfully dysfunctional family. I had little confidence or self-esteem. Within months, I was transformed into an aggressive, radical Scientologist. As a result of daily hypnotic rituals and an unending barrage of propaganda from “bulletins” and tapes, I was completely indoctrinated and fiercely dedicated to the group.
A Brief Guide to Secret Religions
📗 David V. Barrett, Running Press, June 28, pages 357-365, ISBN 0762441038
But the 2001 Census returns revealed a very different picture from the Church's figures. In England and Wales 1,781 people said they were Scientologists, less than 1.5 per cent of the number the Church claims. The 2001 Census figures for other English-speaking countries were similarly low.
An Examination of the Phenomenon of Cults in Israel
🎓 Ministry of Welfare and Social Services, State of Israel, March
An Object Relations Approach to Cult Membership
🎓 David R. Perkins and Joseph D. Salande, American Journal of Psychotherapy, Volume 65 Number 4, pp. 381-391, November 1, DOI: 10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2011.65.4.381
The Apostate: Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology
📰 Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, February 14, page 84
The Blasphemers: About Scientology Operations (De hånfulla: om scientologirörelsen)
📗 Stefan Tunedal, CKM, ISBN 9170400997
🇸🇪 Swedish language
The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion
📗 Hugh B. Urban, Princeton University Press, August 21, ISBN 069114608X
The Scott case brought about the end of the Cult Awareness Network and marked a significant turning point in the anticult movement in the United States. The final irony, however, took place in bankruptcy court in 1996, as CAN's logo, furniture, and phone number were auctioned off. Stephen Hayes, a Scientologist, outbid Cynthia Kisser herself and won what remained of CAN's assets for $20,000. Today, New CAN is in fact an advocate of religious tolerance and freedom that is undoing the negative biases of anticult groups like the old CAN.
Cults in Italy (Occulto Italia)
📗 Giovanni Del Vecchio and Stefano Pitrelli, Biblioteca universale Rizzoli, ISBN 8817048275
�?🇹 Italian language
🎓 Stephen A. Kent, Jenaer Akademische Verlagsgeselleschaft, pages 113-146
Disaffiliation Among Scientologists - A Sociological Study of Post Apostasy Behaviour and Attitudes
🎓 Elisabeth Tuxen Rubin, International Journal for the Study of New Religions, Volume 2 Number 2, December 31, ISSN 2041-952X, DOI: 10.1558/ijsnr.v2i2.201
📰 Jesse Prince, April 27
The History of Credibility Attacks Against Former Cult Members
📰 Stephen Kent, European Federation of Centres of Research and Information on Sectarianism (FECRIS), April 17
Hubbard’s “Allied Scientists of the World” Scam
📰 Caroline Letkeman, March 14
Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion
📗 Janet Reitman, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, July 5, ISBN 0618883029
De Vocht witnessed numerous séances, including those where Miscavige himself would stand up and reveal someone's crimes, having combed through their auditing folders. Well, people had very little sleep, they were eating rice and beans, they were half psychotic from working such long hours, and they'd go into a frenzy.
Inside Scientology's Rehab Racket
📰 Mark Ebner and Walter Armstrong, The Fix, March 27
Script to talk parents into sending a child to Narconon, April 30
Rex Fowler Found Guilty Of First-Degree Murder
📰 Denver7, February 25
📰 Roxanne M. Seibert, October 22
https://web.archive.org/web/20150428114850/http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/top_25_people_c/ The Top 25 People Crippling Scientology
📰 Tony Ortega, The Village Voice, multi-part series, August 5 - September 28
📗 Kate Bornstein, Beacon Press, May 1, ISBN 0807001651
She had me there. L. Ron Hubbard defines sex, marriage, and children as a vector along which all beings survive, a unit that generates more power than the sum of its parts. It was our duty to marry optimally, so we'd generate more power for the Sea Org. Molly took hold of my shirtfront and pulled me across the table, close to her face.
A war over mental health professionalism: Scientology versus psychiatry
🎓 Stephen A. Kent and Terra A. Manca, Mental Health, Religion & Culture, Volume 16 Issue 1, November 26, pages 1-121, ISSN: 1367-4676 (online: 1469-9737), DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2012.737552
Executive Directive from L.Ron Hubbard: "The War" 29/11/1968
Addicted to Scientology: Overcoming the Ups & Downs of Scientoloholism
📗 Vance Ashley Woodward, BookBaby, November 7, ASIN: B00A412OGS
This book is a behind-the-forehead look inside the mind of someone addicted to Scientology, heading towards a brain-tranquilized stupor. Using Scientology, Vance gets everything that a powerfully psychoactive drug can offer. Mind-blowing highs, deep insights, harsh come-downs and depression. Crooked dealers and overdoses. Withdrawal, suffering, craving and relapse. Self-annihilation, loneliness, financial ruin and the inevitable abyss. The metaphor isn’t one. Yes, Scientology is a drug.
Believer beware: The challenges of commercial religion
🎓 Peter W. Edge, Legal Studies, October 10, ISSN: 0261-3875, DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-121X.2012.00252.x
Breaking out of Scientology’s iron grip
📰 Danna Harman, Haaretz, September 30
🎓 Dominiek D. Coates, Deviant Behavior, Volume 33, Issue 3, January 10, pages 168-184, ISSN: 0163-9625 (online: 1521-0456), DOI: 10.1080/01639625.2010.548302
Damaged Lives: the Legacy of Scientology
📗 Margery Wakefield, lulu.com, October 27, ISBN 1105106152
When I had MY nervous breakdowns in Scientology, I was also sent to the RPF, then located on the ship Excalibur, which was moored in Long Beach, California. When you have a nervous breakdown in Scientology, it is YOUR fault - you have “pulled it in,” and you will routinely be sentenced to life in the RPF. Life in the RPF is not pretty, or fun. Long hours and hard labor are the norm.
The Decline and (Probable) Fall of the Scientology Empire!
📰 Jim Lippard, Skeptic, Volume 17 Number 1, February, pages 18-27
Dentist fined nearly $348,000 for requiring Scientology-based training for staff
📰 Molly Young, The Oregonian, October 4
Appeal denied on April 23, 2013
🎓 Terra Manca, Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, Volume 24 Number 1, September, pages 80-96, ISSN: 1703-289X, DOI: 10.1353/rpc.2012.0012
Leaving Scientology: A Practical Guide to Escape and Recovery
📗 Jefferson Hawkins, Hawkeye Publishing Co., June 7, ASIN: B0089SHGJI
I sometimes advise people who are recently out of Scientology to stop using the terminology, and stop thinking in the terminology. That's not because the terminology is “wrong,” or “bad” necessarily, but some of the words and phrases may function as thought-terminating clichés. If you deliberately avoid talking and thinking in the terminology for a while, you force yourself to think things through newly rather than falling back on a pat phrase.
Love, Sex, Fleas, God: Confessions of a Stay-at-Home Dad
📗 Bruce Clark, Random House Struik, September 15, ISBN 1415201706
On one or two occasions Clark and his sister joined his mother on the elite “Sea Org” ships, where celebrities are “audited”, but they didn’t last in the bizarre environment. Instead of studying engineering, as he had been promised, Clark was made to swab decks for 12 hours at a time. Bruce Clark’s teenaged sister once spent three days in a chain locker. He was fortunate, he only got thrown overboard and he at least could swim. “Using the term wog made me feel better about myself. It took me half my life to realise that people use words like nigger, chink and dyke for pretty much the same reasons: that deep down bigots are not at peace with themselves and do not really like who they are.”
Narconon Trois-Rivières Closed by Health Authorities for Failing 46 of 55 Certification Criteria
🎓 Mark Lacour, Mauricie and Centre-du-Québec Health and Social Services Agency, April 17
The Occult Roots of Scientology?
🎓 Hugh B. Urban, Nova Religio, February, Volume 15 Issue 3, pages 91-116, ISSN: 1092-6690 (online: 1541-8480), DOI: 10.1525/nr2012.15.3.91
📗 Billy Denham El, CreateSpace, November 25, ISBN 1481061674
Louis Farrakhan has totally done away with the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and his original teachings and has replaced them with L. Ron Hubbard's Scientology mumbo jumbo comic book garbage. The believers who follow Farrakhan are in a matrix of sorts, and this is the metaphoric “Red Pill,” my diary.
Scientology, Between Cult and Mafia
📰 Juan Pablo Proal, Proceso, issue 1878, October 28, pages 44-46
Scientology Exposed: The Truth About the World's Most Controversial Religion
📗 L.A. Klein, CreateSpace, September 11, ISBN 1479228133
Dianetics was rejected by the medical community in the late 40's. Repeated criticism led to the New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners instituting legal proceedings against Hubbard's organization for teaching medicine without a license. The legal proceedings led to bankruptcy.
📗 Mark Marty Rathbun, CreateSpace, October 10, ISBN 1479277266
“There is no civil or ecclesiastical crime within Scientology Inc. that cannot be forgiven and forgotten for a price. Status among Scientologists is now measured by how much money they are able to fork over to the church. In essence, the worth of a person is gauged by his or her wealth.” Published in small, paperback format for easy, concealed conveyance into and out of corporate Scientology influenced organizations, businesses and homes.
📰 Josh Dulaney, OC Weekly, February 23
What is Wrong with Scientology?: Healing through Understanding
📗 Mark 'Marty' Rathbun, CreateSpace, June 21, ISBN 1477453466
To survive within that closed society, one must learn to comfortably ignore all news media, all websites, and all friends, family and associates who might impart some of the facts we are discussing in this book. What is the most effective means for accomplishing that? The answer is to train oneself to consider that all news media, all websites, all friends, family and associates who do not agree one hundred percent with Scientology are not worthy of consideration. In other words, carry around an automatic consideration that such sources are wrong, while also considering that one’s corporate-Scientology frame of mind is always right.
A cult by any other name, or propaganda by redefinition of words
📰 Jon Atack, February 10
Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
📗 Jenna Miscavige Hill, William Morrow, February 5, ISBN 0062248472
We got calluses and blisters. We had cuts and bruises. Our hands lost feeling when we plunged them into the frigid water of the creek bed for rocks. When we pulled weeds from the scorched summer earth, our hands burned from the friction and stung from the nettle. The conditions we worked under would have been tough for a grown man, and yet any complaints, backflashing, any kind of questioning was instantly met with disciplinary action.
Black Scientology: Planned Darkness
📰 Skip Press, The Morton Report, November 27
📰 Tony Ortega and Vance Woodward, twenty-five part series, January 4 - June 28
The Church of Fear: Inside the Weird World of Scientology
📗 John Sweeney, Silvertail Books, January 7, ISBN 1909269034
Sweeney tells the full story of his experiences for the first time and paints a devastating picture of this strange organisation, from former Scientologists who tell heartbreaking stories of families torn apart and lives ruined to its current followers who say it is the solution to many of mankind's problems.
Escape: My Life Long War Against Cults
📗 Paul Morantz, Cresta Publications, September 26, ISBN 0615848699
On August 31, 1948, Hubbard pleaded guilty in a San Luis Obispo, California, court to charges of petty theft for passing bad checks. He was fined $25. Scientology claims he was a Special Police Officer with LAPD, studying society's criminal elements.
Florida Chiropractor Forced Scientology on Staff
🎓 U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, May 9
$170,000 settlement, December 17
From Independent Scientologist to Just Me
📗 Geir Isene, May
Imagine getting to the end of the road, still possibly having major issues you’d like to have handled. I would imagine some people could get quite confused, spinny, mad or feel fucked over by such a brush-off end result. Parked out in nowhere and asked to contribute their lives to get the next level released – at the whim of the Church’s management. All the while being demanded to uphold a perfect facade of a happy opinion leader to the rest of the foot soldiers. A perfect exterior, interior in shambles. I am not saying this is how the majority of OT 8s feel after completing the level. But I know of several that have had some serious issues and even contemplating suicide after reaching such a spiritual dead end hostage situation – where you get the next fix only if you give your heart and soul to a greedy management.
God Bless America: Strange & Unusual Religious Beliefs & Practices in the United States
📗 Karen Stollznow, Pitchstone Publishing, October 1, ISBN 1939578000
To get the inside story I seek out the great-grandson of L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology. To gain a better understanding of these beliefs and practices, I experience them. I'm the sole member of the congregation at a Church of Scientology service, where L. Ron Hubbard's science fiction stories are told as sermons.
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
📗 Lawrence Wright, Knopf, January 17, ISBN 0307700666
Miscavige's title was head of Special Project Ops, a mysterious post, and he reported only to Pat Broeker. As gatekeepers, they determined what information reached Hubbard's ears. Under their regency, some of Hubbard's most senior executives were booted out - people who might have been considered competitors to Miscavige and Broeker in the future management of the church - and replaced by much younger counterparts.
📗 Rob Rose, Zebra Press, November 20, ISBN 1770226214
What Scientologists don’t want you to know is exactly what was in those letters to the South African ministers. They’ve gone out of their way to airbrush Hubbard’s craven fawning over the apartheid government, specifically, his gushing praise for the father of the racist ideology, Dr Hendrik Verwoerd.
Have You Told All?: Inside My Time with Narconon and Scientology
📗 Lucas A. Catton, Catton Communications, February 13, ISBN 0615768725
As the months have unfolded, I have continued to peel away the layers of embedded judgemental thoughts and other mental traps that I got myself into by being a part of these organizations. After more than a year I finally started to publicly speak out, and found that there are many, many details of personal experiences that they don't want others to know about. Part of my healing process and taking responsibility for participating is to share the truth of those events in order to hopefully help others.
How Scientology changed the internet
📰 Dave Lee, BBC News, July 16
How to Escape from Scientology
📰 Felix Clay, Cracked, November 16
Is Scientology Self-Destructing?
📰 Alex Klein, BuzzFeed, January 15
Memoirs of a Scientology Warrior
📗 Mark Rathbun, CreateSpace, May 27, ISBN 1484805666
In the dispatch, Hubbard matter-of-factly detailed how psychs are a special breed of being. He said they were raised and trained on a planet called Farsec. They were sent to Earth in order to keep its population under control, ignorant, obedient and slave-like. Earth is a prison planet, he said, and most of its inhabitants were pirates, rebels or artists, millions of years before being deposited here by a regressive inter-galactic government. The psychs were also assigned to see that no mental or spiritual technology arose that might expose the nefarious plot. They had always been with us on Earth. Before the advent of psychiatry, they had been priests and shamans.
Narconon Arrowhead loses state certification
📰 Jeanne LeFlore, McAlester News-Capital, August 7
Narconon of Georgia Closed Down
📰 Christian Boone, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 25
investigated April 26 for insurance fraud
📗 Geir Isene, Humanist forlag, ISBN 8282820598
🇳🇴 Norwegian language
Quasi-Religious Rhetoric in Scientology and Heart of Darkness
📰 Ashley Anne Ullrich, Brainstorm, Volume 5, pages 41-48
📰 Harriet Hall, Skeptic, Volume 18 Number 3
Scientology: the Church of Hate - An Anti-Social Religion Emerges in the Space Age
📰 Jon Atack, trentvalley, May
The secret to Scientology's recruitment on Craigslist
📰 Miles Klee, The Daily Dot, October 2
CoS reaction email to members on October 3
Sects, Cults, and the Attack on Jurisprudence
🎓 Stephen A. Kent and Robin D. Willey, Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion, Volume 14, March, pages 306-360
Will Smith Private Quasi-Scientology School is Shut Down
📰 Roger Friedman, ShowBiz411, July 5
interview with the principal, November 18
Astounding history: L. Ron Hubbard's Scientology space opera
🎓 Susan Raine, Routledge, October 1, DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2014.957746
The Church of Scientology: Legitimacy through Perception Management
🎓 Max Halupka, Politics and Religion, Volume 7 Issue 3, February 14 (September in print), pages 613-630, DOI: 10.1017/S1755048314000066
Cults Inside Out: How People Get In and Can Get Out
📗 Rick Ross, CreateSpace, October 16, ISBN 149731660X
Groups historically referred to as “cults”, such as Scientology, may arguably be in decline.
Emblematic Architecture and the Routinization of Charisma in Scientology
🎓 Mikael Rothstein, International Journal for the Study of New Religions, Volume 5 Number 1, August, pages 51-75, DOI: 10.1558/ijsnr.v5i1.51
📰 Mike Spies, Vocativ, April 9
Ex-Scientologist Reveals Shocking Life Inside 'Dangerous, Secretive Cult'
📰 Lydia Smith, International Business Times UK, January 29
📰 Tony Ortega and Jefferson Hawkins, fourteen part series, October 17 (2013) - January 30
Human Trafficking by the US Church of Scientology
📗 Steven Douglas, CreateSpace, August 5, ISBN 1500506842
This is a scholarly work regarding the transnational crime of human trafficking in Russia and the plight of victims brought to the US Church of Scientology through Government approved issuance of R1 religious worker visas (or R2 for children under 21 and spouses related to the R1 recipients). Araxia was the mother of two children who came to Clearwater, Florida as Scientologists and ended up as slaves.
The L Ron Hubbard Baby Formula
📰 Anonymous, three part series, December 1-3
Narconon Trois-Rivières Violated Human Rights
🎓 Annik L'Archevêque, Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse, January 16
interview with a victim, April 15
Not Without My Son Tim-Erik (Nicht ohne meinen Sohn Tim-Erik
📗 Mateja Tschom-Sifrar, CreateSpace, September 26, ISBN 1500971375
🇩🇪 German language
📗 Mike McClaughry
People who have done the Clearing Course still had their specific aberrations and some committed suicide. They’re not “Clear” by Scientology descriptions and advertisements of what that state is supposed to be. On the Scientology OT levels, the reason for your irrational behavior is the body thetans. It is another case of blame and offering up another outside reason for your bad actions. The same idea stated about the Reactive Mind, applies to the body thetans. It is just part of Scientology spin.
Scientology – the biggest scam about
📰 Donal O'Grady, Leitrim Observer, January 26
Scientology: the Cult of Greed
📗 Jon Atack, CreateSpace, December 12, ISBN 150549012X
It has often been asserted that Scientology and Dianetics are hypnotic in nature, Hubbard made his own point on this subject: “You can control men like you would control robots with those techniques … we've got some new ways to make slaves here.” Although Hubbard claimed that he took nothing from Scientology, by the time he died, he had accumulated $648 million. Given this evidence, it is hard to think of Scientology as anything more than a moneymaking scam, but there is far more to this story.
The Seeker-Consumer: Scientology and the Rhetoric of Consumerism
🎓 Erika Spohrer, Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, Volume 26 Number 1, March 21, pages 107-123, DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.26.1.107
📗 Merrell Vannier, CreateSpace, February 27, ISBN 1508534071
By my estimate seventy-five percent of all Scientologists want to see a change in Scientology leadership. They keep a very low profile, though, many of them waiting for the right moment to spring into action. Martiniano reiterated his 100 percent conviction that Alverzo was a spy, sent into the G.O. to bring about its downfall, put LRH on the run, and allow someone like Miscavige, who was also a plant, to take control.
The Church of Sleep Deprivation: How Scientology Keeps Its Workers Compliant and Childless
📰 Tony Ortega, Van Winkle's, October 27
Closing Minds: How Scientology's “Ethics Technology” is Used to Control Their Members
📗 Jefferson Hawkins, Hawkeye Publishing Co., February 17, ASIN: B00TQEJ8EU
By 2010, most of my Scientology books had been dumped, unceremoniously, into the recycling bin. However, I had kept one for further analysis: Introduction to Scientology Ethics. I had felt for some time that this book formed the core of Scientology’s mental manipulation techniques. In the Sea Org, anyone who steps out of line is forced to restudy this book over and over again, until they practically know it by heart. It is the go-to book used by the organization when any member begins to doubt or question Scientology. And anyone who steps out of line in any Scientology Organization is sent to the “Ethics Officer,” who uses the principles in this book to pull them back into line.
📰 Xavier Smerdon, Pro Bono Australia, June 30
Cults: In Too Deep From Jonestown to Scientology
📗 Lightning Guides, November 1, ISBN 1942411685
Explores 20th and 21st Century cults and the 1960's American culture by which many of them were birthed. From Then Manson Family to The Ripper Crew to Scientology, Cults provides an in-depth look at America's religious and social cults, their nefarious leaders, and the millions of lives they have stolen.
Dante's Eighth Circle: Why Scientology's Narconon Must Be Stopped
📗 David E. Love, Smart People Today Publishing, September 7, ISBN 0692502408
As more funds were bled off, veteran staff in the kitchen and elsewhere did not receive their pay checks. Some weeks only a small advance on pay was given in cash. Eventually, valued staff, such as cooks, quit without notice, and students were pressed behind the kitchen counters and grills. So vampirish was this cult, that even I and the other four staff recruits didn’t receive our mere $90 net pay for our week’s work — only a few bucks in cash to tie us over till the next let-down.
DOX: How Scientology ensnares the unsuspecting in a series of binding contracts
📰 Jeffrey Augustine, May 22
Employing Trafficking Laws to Capture Elusive Leaders of Destructive Cults
🎓 Robin Boyle-Laisure, St. John's School of Law, November 9, DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2690453
Going Clear - How Scientology Lost Its Grip on Hollywood
📰 Jethro Nededog and Matt Donnelly, TheWrap, April 9
How the Church of Scientology fought the Internet—and why it lost
📰 Jesse Hicks, The Kernel, September 20
📰 Mike Rinder, May 10
Lucifer's Bridge: Scientology's Lost Paradise
📗 George M. Witek, Amazon Digital Services, February 4, ISBN 0692371796
Explaining his ideas about L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology’s “technology,” George provides a lengthy personal take and harsh critique of Hubbard’s creation considered against the long history of human ideas. In the latter parts of the book George talks about his experience on the Freewinds.
Money, Power, Servitude: Adventures in the Wonderland of Scientology (Szcientológus voltam)
📗 Péter Bonyai, CreateSpace, October 13, ISBN 1505235162
I had enough of the insatiable greed of Scientology. My only regret at this point was that it took so long – 10 years of hard work as a virtual slave and throwing 50,000 USD out the window. All the bitterness that had accumulated over these long years came out in a big burst of anger – I screamed at the guy for using Mafia tactics and I told him I would not pay a fucking cent. My conscience was clear, I added, I did everything they asked and if they did not like the type of amends I did, they should get back to me in writing.
Narconon ‘Drug Rehabilitation’ is Scientology in Disguise – The Evidence
📰 Anonymous, eleven part series, August 9 - October 7
Narconon Rehab Fined For Wild Claims About Detox Programs
📰 McCarton Ackerman , The Fix, May 12
Undertaking, Consumer Affairs Victoria
notice on www.getoffdrugs.com.au
Netherlands court revokes Scientology’s tax-exempt status
🎓 Court of The Hague, De Rechtspraak, October 21
New Age and Related Novel Unsupported Therapies in Mental Health Practice
🎓 Monica Pignotti and Bruce A. Thyer, The Guilford Press, pages 191-209
Opening Minds: the secret world of manipulation, undue influence and brainwashing
📗 Jon Atack, Trentvalley, December 4, ISBN 0997109637
Over 30 years ago, when I left Scientology, it became apparent to me that cults are a microcosm of the larger society, where powerful social forces are played out. My investigation into the secret world of manipulation, undue influence and brainwashing has included every type of group from the interpersonal to the international.
Perfect Control Without Further Fear: A Psychobiography of L. Ron Hubbard
📰 James L. Kelley, Jay's Analysis, November 28
Private investigator snooped on e-mail of Scientology critics
📰 Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, June 26
Scientology᛬ A to Xenu: An Insider's Guide to What Scientology is Really All About
📗 Chris Shelton, CreateSpace, December 24, ISBN 1522879323
Yes, Hubbard did say there is a guy named Xenu and he did horrible things so many millions of years ago, and this involved volcanoes. What most people who are relating this story get wrong is the significance.
🎓 USAMRMC Office of Research Protections Human Research Protection Office, Department of the Army, April 22
Scientology-funded Youth for Human Rights group strikes out with Canberra Cavalry baseball club
📰 Jordan Hayne, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, May 10
Sexuality In Three Ex-Scientology Narratives
🎓 Don Jolly, Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review, Volume 6 Number 1, pages 51-60, DOI: 10.5840/asrr2015779
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
📗 Leah Remini, Ballantine Books, November 3, ISBN 110188696X
You need to reveal in excruciatingly specific detail what it is you’ve done wrong. Scientology doesn’t factor in how much this kind of truth can break a husband’s or wife’s heart. Unlike other religions, where one can relieve guilt by talking to a member of the clergy, Scientology forces its parishioners to confront their partners face-to-face and admit their transgressions, no matter the consequences.
The Truth Rundown: Stories of violence, intimidation and control in the world of Scientology
📗 The staff of the Tampa Bay Times, Times Publishing Company, August 12, ASIN: B013UWYHAI
The Times' ongoing series, “Inside Scientology,” launched with an installment called “The Truth Rundown,” published in June of 2009. That initial work — the focus of this book — shed unprecedented light on the internal workings of a secretive church that generates interest around the world.
The Unbreakable Miss Lovely: How the Church of Scientology tried to destroy Paulette Cooper
📗 Tony Ortega, Silvertail Books, May 1, ISBN 1511639377
Under the direction of its malignant creator, L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology developed an intelligence agency second only to the infamous KGB in its infiltration of western government agencies. The Guardian’s Office was a formidable and fanatical organization, which campaigned relentlessly to protect Hubbard from prosecution and successfully dissuaded or ruined most of Scientology’s critics. Paulette Cooper was a prime target. She was preyed upon by agents, who inserted themselves into her private life and referred to her as “Miss Lovely” in their reports. She was framed for a bomb threat and indicted. She was subjected to a whispering campaign, where her neighbours were assured she was a child molester. The attack was relentless and very nearly caused her to take her own life.
📰 Jonny Jacobsen, Byline, June 24
The Babalon Working 1946: L. Ron Hubbard, John Whiteside Parsons, and the Practice of Enochian Magic
🎓 Henrik Bogdan, Numen, Volume 63 Issue 1, January 13, pages 12–32, DOI: 10.1163/15685276-12341406
Can Scientologists be Christians or Jews Too?
📰 Mike Rinder, December 31
📰 Felis Uncia, Penumbral Jots, May 22
The Church of Scientology: A Dangerous Cult
📰 Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Conatus News, October 5
Counseling Former Cultists: The Brief Intermittent Development Therapy (BIDT) Approach
🎓 Steve K. D. Eichel, International Journal of Cultic Studies, Volume 7, February, pages 1-14
📰 Chris Shelton, multi-part series, July 28 - February 9 (2017)
Fair Game: The Incredible Untold Story of Scientology in Australia
📗 Steve Cannane, HarperCollins, September 19, ISBN 0733331327
So how did it come to this? Why did the Australian government have to provide a protection visa for José Navarro on the grounds that a religious organisation it deems a tax-exempt charity had trafficked him? How could a church that claims to believe in freedom and human rights enslave and traffic its members? How could a church that in its own religious creed says ‘that all men have inalienable rights to their own lives’ separate a loving couple who wanted to get married and have a child, and force the woman to have an abortion? How could a church use Australia as a penal colony in the 21st century?
📰 Jeremy Gold, July 27
The Insidious Nature of Scientology's Outreach Programs
📰 Derek Beres, Big Think, November 7
Mission: Tyrannical - The Secrets of Scientology
📰 Lawrence Wright, The Sunday Times, March 13, Section 4 pages 1-2
🎓 Stefano Bigliardi, Zygon, Volume 51 Issue 3, September, pages 661-683, DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12281
Rebutting “The Historical Context of Scientology”
📰 Crocoshark, December 24
Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me
📗 Ron Miscavige, St. Martin's Press, May 3, ISBN 1250096936
So they called their contact, and within minutes a man who identified himself as David Miscavige called them and he told the PIs, ‘If he dies, he dies. Don’t intervene.’ I couldn’t believe my ears. In fact, I heard it but did not accept it for quite some time. I think it is one of the most basic human impulses to help others, especially someone who is in dire need and especially a family member. And for a son to say that about his own father—just to let him die?!
Scientology: The Church of Forced Abortion
📰 Victoria Gisondi, Priests For Life, December 29
Scientology, Cults & Religion: The Mechanics of Cult in 2 Essays
📰 Michael A. Sherlock, December 1
Scientology Seeks Captive Converts Via Google Maps, Drug Rehab Centers
📰 Brian Krebs, June 27
Scientology and Sex: The Second Dynamic, Prenatal Engrams, and the Sea Org
🎓 Carole M. Cusack, Nova Religio, Volume 20 Number 2, November, pages 5-33, DOI: 10.1525/nr.2016.20.2.5
Scientology’s thug life, documented: Aaron Smith-Levin shares a record of Sea Org violence
📰 Tony Ortega, February 9
Spies and Scientologists: ASIO and a controversial minority religion in Cold War Australia, 1956–83
🎓 Bernard Doherty, Intelligence and National Security, May 4, DOI: 10.1080/02684527.2016.1175213
Spying, intimidation, and ruin: Two lives caught up in Scientology’s notorious ‘Fair Game’
📰 Tony Ortega, April 11
Swim to Get Out: A Soldier's Account of Scientology's Sea Organization
📗 Marius Jeanpierre, Tate Publishing, March 29, ISBN 1682930912
My enthusiasm for scientology was akin to being drafted for an army. If it expected anything of me, I dropped everything to do it. I would serve, no questions asked.
Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems
📗 Alexandra Stein, Routledge, November 3, ISBN 1317194497
In the Church of Scientology's inner organization, the Sea Org, the induction process famously involves signing a billion year contract - one's commitment is therefore cemented for all possible future lives. This induction ritual is visited upon old and young alike. Jenna Miscavige Hill, born into the church, reports that she was made to sign this document when only 7 years old.
Watchdog bans Church of Scientology TV ad for misleading viewers
📰 Mark Sweney, The Guardian, March 2
Advertising Standards Authority ruling
📰 Bryan Seymour, 7News, September 10
🎓 Cylor Spaulding and Melanie Formentin, Journal of Public Relations Research, Volume 29 Issue 1, March 13, DOI: 10.1080/1062726X.2017.1281137
Cannon Scientology facilities CLOSED
📰 Mike West, Cannon Courier, May 3
Commodore's Messenger: A Child Adrift in the Scientology Sea Organization
📗 Janis Gillham Grady, Outback Publishing, August 1, ISBN 154720219X
While Peter, Terri and I had been involuntarily living a life of servitude to LRH and Mary Sue, Dad, having no idea what our lives were really like, pursued his life as a Scientologist and Mum worked for the Sea Org in America. I wondered if the Commodore or Mary Sue ever gave a second thought to us children working full-time for them for $5 or $10 a week and sometimes nothing, with no parental guidance, while receiving almost no education?
Cracking the Cult Code for Therapists: What Every Cult Victim Wants Their Therapist to Know
📗 Bonnie Zieman, CreateSpace, June 16, ISBN 1546894683
Therapists can use this book as a primer to bring themselves up to speed on the topic. It is - until such time as they decide if they want to take more formal training in order to help former cult members reclaim their authentic self and rebuild a self-directed life - a useful reference tool for therapists who need to inform themselves about cult abuse and its aftermath.
The Cult of Scientology in Australia: Religious Freedom v Human Rights
📰 Michael A. Sherlock, July 12
Expect the Unexpected: Scientology in Napamogona
📗 Regina Knapp, Berghahn Books, “Culture Change and Ex-Change: Syncretism and Anti-Syncretism in Bena, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea”, Chapter 8, October 1, ISBN 1785333844
On her first day in school, she was allocated a personal supervisor or trainer, in this case a young man from the coast. He explained to her that she would have to undergo a daily “auditing” procedure before entering the classroom. According to Christine, “auditing” in this context means “telling secrets.” She found his behavior intrusive and totally ignorant of taboos and rules in the conduct of social relationships in Bena. In terms of Bena exchange, the new guests aimed at taking on detached parts of Bena persons—here in the form of their personal secrets—and thus increase their strength and their power over them … resembled negative forms of Bena exchange and were therefore structurally similar to harmful sorcery and witchcraft.
🎓 Francesca Retana, Relics, Remnants, and Religion: An Undergraduate Journal in Religious Studies, Volume 2 Issue 2 Article 4, May 5
The Defector: After 20 years in Scientology
📗 Robert Dam, Independently published, January 23, ISBN 1520441827
Robert's personal life as a member of the European mothership of Scientology right in the center of the Danish capital until he defected in 2004 is hair-raising reading. Scientology’s paranoid world view and the strict control of its members and critics make an alarming pivot point in the author's story as well as the story of the movement itself.
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8998294W/Escaping_Scientology Escaping Scientology: An Insider's True Story
📗 Karen Schless Pressley, Bayshore Publications, September 17, ISBN 0999088106
They lived in shared quarters with other couples where they had no more than a bedroom to themselves. Karen gave up contact with family and former friends and experienced the constant coercion of the church in every aspect of life. After 16 years serving in the higher levels of Scientology, the veil of deception lifted from Karen's eyes. Following two failed attempts to leave, she successfully disentangled herself from Scientology on her third attempt, but that action resulted in a divorce from her husband of 20 years.
Escaping Utopia: Growing Up in a Cult, Getting Out, and Starting Over
📗 Janja Lalich and Karla McLaren, Routledge, September 8, ISBN 1138239747
Two young men who grew up in Scientology recall the beginning of their indoctrination sessions. A young women who was raised in Scientology recalls the way her fifth-grade classmates were deployed to bring her back into the fold. Children born or raised in cults have very different experiences and aftereffects than individuals who join as adults, and their stories can help you understand cults in valuable new ways. Of equal importance, we focus on the fortitude and resilience that helped these children resist, break free, and heal from mistreatment, loss, and trauma.
Hungary Ruling on Private Data Handling by Scientology
🎓 Dr. Attila Péterfalvi, National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, October 13
Naked in the Spotlight: My Life with Sex, Singing and Scientology
📗 Mark Janicello, Independently published, January 14, ISBN 1520305079
Janicello's candor reveals an ebullient personality and a troubled man, fraught with human weakness. After unsuccessful trips to the famed “Scientology Celebrity Center” in Los Angeles to gather support from John Travolta, Priscilla and Lisa Marie Presley, Tom Cruise, Kirstie Alley, Jenna Elfman and others, Janicello soon came to the terrible realization that he had been abandoned.
Narconon, Scientology, and the Battle for Legitimacy
🎓 Stephen A. Kent, Marburg Journal of Religion, Volume 19 Number 1, November, DOI: 10.17192/mjr.2017.19.6495
Over the Edge: A Pawn in the Scientology Money Machine
📗 Kay Rowe, Amazon Digital Services, October 4, ISBN 1977547176
This is not just Kay's memoir, but a story that needs to be told of harsh abuse, medical neglect and voracious greed all under the banner of a religion which claims to be saving this planet and the universe. From her early days getting involved in Scientology in Santa Barbara to joining the elite Sea Organization and slaving for pennies a day, there are no stones left unturned.
Scientology Anti-Drug Program: Fabricated Court Orders Suggest Attempt to Silence Critics
📰 Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, August 9
Scientology in Popular Culture: Influences and Struggles for Legitimacy
📗 Stephen A. Kent and Susan Raine, Praeger, January 31, ISBN 1440832498
Approaches the study of Scientology from multiple viewpoints, enabling readers to have an informed, multicultural perspective on the religious group's beliefs and practices from which to form their own opinion, and presents information about Scientology derived from one of the largest university archive collections on the subject worldwide, with a number of documents never before having been referenced in scholarship.
Scientology … The Destruction Of A Family
📗 Karen Carson, CreateSpace, August 10, ISBN 1974478629
If this book stops just one person from joining Scientology, or re-unites one Scientologist with a family member, I have successfully told my story. The evil mind games that are taught to the cultist are damaging, crushing. The nonsensical brainwashing of this so-called “religion” is relentless, and the harmful results are passed on to their loved ones. You are not alone.
📰 Jeremy Gold, January 21
“The Third Wall of Fire”: Scientology and the Study of Religious Secrecy
🎓 Hugh B. Urban, Nova Religio, Volume 20 Number 4, May, pages 13-36, DOI: 10.1525/nr.2017.20.4.13
📰 Mike Rinder, January 3
Why is it so hard for governments to crack down on the Church of Scientology?
📰 Chris Owen, December 6
Woman sentenced to 6.5 years for transfer of stolen millions to Church of Scientology
📰 Mikhail Telekhov, RAPSI, October 30
Xenu’s Paradox: The Fiction of L. Ron Hubbard and the Making of Scientology
📰 Alec Nevala-Lee, Longreads, February 1
A Dual Purpose: An autobiography told in two distinct voices
📗 Al Arevalo, Amazon Digital Services, September 10, ASIN: B07H8CCBVK
From being raped as a child to being forced into slave labor existence as a closeted adolescent, to the systematic removal of everyone he ever loved you will feel the desperation of seeking the cosmic answers even when in the end it cannot save him from his own agreed upon fates. This self reflective life path, is expressed in two distinctive voices, that of the writers himself, and the other his own souls.
A Mother's Heartbreak: How Scientology Destroyed My Family
📗 Lori Hodgson, Book Publishers Network, May 1, ISBN 1945271957
When one loses a child through death, I know there is immense grieving and sorrow, but there is a time of fond memories too of the good times and eventually a time of closure. I too have those wonderful memories, but my heart will not release this heavy sorrow because I still have HOPE. The only thing that will bring me closure is to be able to hug my children once again and tell them, IN PERSON, how much I love them. That is my everlasting HOPE.
A Scientology Kiosk Was Installed (Then Removed) from a Hollywood Police Station
📰 Hemant Mehta, Patheos, August 29
Battlefield Scientology: Exposing L. Ron Hubbard's Dangerous “Religion”
📗 Tony Ortega and Paulette Cooper, CreateSpace, October 2, ISBN 1727131568
The best reporting from The Underground Bunker, edited and updated with new material that widely covers the issues of L. Ron Hubbard's infamous church, Scientology's celebrities, strange Scientology deaths, the disappearance of church leader David Miscavige's wife Shelly, Scientology's spy operations and dirty tricks, as well as early church history and its attempt to seek immortality.
Church of Scientology fined £14,000 for polluting river
📰 Hsin-Yi Lo, The Argus, April 28
Church of Scientology Settles Lawsuit With Woman Who Says It Forced Her to Have Abortion
📰 Micaiah Bilger, LifeNews.com, July 24
Commodore's Messenger Book II: Riding out the Storms with L. Ron Hubbard
📗 Janis Gillham Grady, Outback Publishing, September 1, ISBN 1721725288
As more and more ports denied entry to the Apollo, Hubbard crossed the Atlantic to the somewhat friendlier waters of the Caribbean, though still harassed by numerous agencies including the U.S. State Department, FBI, Interpol among others. This harrowing journey takes you from October 1970 until October 1975, when L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology headquarters moved from his personal yacht to land in the United States.
Dawn of Dianetics: L. Ron Hubbard, John W. Campbell, and the Origins of Scientology
📰 Alec Nevala-Lee, Longreads, October 23
“A Criticism of Dianetics” by L.Ron Hubbard writing as Dr. Irving R. Kutzman, M.D. 1949-12-09
Dear Teachers: Avoid these so-called “educator’s kits” from the Church of Scientology
📰 Marilyn Yung, January 21
Disaster relief? Scientology’s own documents spell out the real mission of “Volunteer Ministers”
📰 Jeffrey Augustine, November 19
The Eternal Commitment: Scientology's Billion-Year Contract
🎓 Philippe Lord, Social Science Research Network, December 9, DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3297379
Exes speak out, Narratives of apostasy: Jehovah’s Witnesses, Scientology and Soka Gakkai
🎓 Nicola Luciano Pannofino and Mario Cardano, International Journal for the Study of New Religions, Volume 8 Number 1, July 27, pages 1-26, DOI: 10.1558/ijsnr.34152
The Expert Witness: My Life at the Top of Scientology
📗 Jesse Prince, CreateSpace, September 13, ISBN 1725992639
A memoir of a life that became involved in a secret society masquerading as a religion in Hollywood that practices magic and domination. This body of work could have been about you if you were contacted or chosen like I was. Buckle up and get ready to be changed in your thinking forever.
Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology
📗 Sands Hall, Counterpoint, March 1, ISBN 1640091939
In this candid and nuanced memoir, Hall recounts her spiritual and artistic journey with a visceral affection for language, delighting in the way words can create a shared world. However, as Hall begins to grasp how purposefully Hubbard has created the unique language of Scientology—in the process isolating and indoctrinating its practitioners—she confronts how language can also be used as a tool of authoritarianism.
Fractured Journey: A Personal Account of 30 Outrageous Years in the Church of Scientology
📗 Chris Shugart, Independently published, May 8, ISBN 1980987718
I accepted my role of agent provocateur with enthusiastic relish. It was better than being Batman. Accompanying me behind enemy lines was an ex-GO staff member who was now a public Scientologist. I thought it was cool that I’d be working with a veteran of Church counter-intelligence operations who’d be showing me the ropes. My part in this high-tech caper wasn’t much. OSA only needed me as a “front” to set up a personal internet account with a service provider. It worked this way: An OSA staff member or volunteer would log on to a newsgroup and start canceling messages.
Going Clearwater: The Illusory “Firewall” of the Writers of the Future Contest
📰 J.W. Alden, August 10
Inside Scientologists’ Bizarre Plot to Sell Bogus Meat to the Poor
📰 Tarpley Hitt, Daily Beast, August 18
L.Ron Hubbard - Life Before Scientology
📰 Shaun Ewart, Moffat Street, January 8
Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love
📗 Michelle LeClair, Berkley, September 11, ISBN 110199116X
In this tell-all memoir, Michelle offers an insider’s perspective on Scientology’s pervasive influence, secret rituals, and ruthless practices for keeping members in line. It’s a story of self-acceptance, of finding the strength and courage to stand up for your emotional freedom, and of love prevailing.
Psychopaths as Gurus… and Vice-Versa
📰 Raj, May 31
Scientology: The Art of Cultic Persuasion
📰 Sophie Barowsky, Wellesley College Student Library Research Awards, April 30
Scientology᛬ reclaiming freedom: A testimony from the dark
📗 John A. Kilmore, Independently published, October 23, ISBN 1729156606
My involvement with the Church of Scientology spans a quarter century where I got most of the way up The Bridge and did scores of courses, trained as an auditor and did Admin training as well. I hope I show how in this strange environment a man can lose sight of what matters to him, his goals, values and passions, himself and the reason he joined the church in the first place."
Scythe Tleppo: My Survival of a Cult, Abandonment, Addiction and Homelessness
📗 Nathan Rich, Dynasty Systems, November 8, ISBN 1949629996
Born into Scientology, Nathan resisted indoctrination from the start. Eventually he was sent to the cult’s infamously abusive Mace Kingsley Ranch, at age 8. He was sent again to the ranch at age 14, where he was not allowed contact with his family for nearly 3 years. After finally getting away, his family disowned him. He lived for 7 long years homeless and without hope. Drugs, violence and despair plagued his mind until he was finally able to rise out of the gutter, face his past and live in the present.
📗 Sandra Kay, CreateSpace, December 15, ISBN 1723105260
At the age of 17, as one of the first residents of the “Big Blue” (the landmark building in Los Angeles), she not only witnessed the largest FBI raid in history, she was also a member of the infamous 1977 PAC RPF (Rehabilitation Project Force) where she pulled 18-hour shifts performing heavy labor to renovate the new headquarters. What followed were years of sleepless nights as a member of the United States Guardian’s Office while the Church battled the government to keep L. Ron Hubbard’s wife, Mary Sue Hubbard, out of jail for her role in illegal government break-ins known as Operation Snow White. Sandra left in the 80’s only to find herself haunted by the ghosts of the Church for decades."
🎓 Steven A. Hassan and Mansi J. Shah, Ethics, Medicine and Public Health, Volume 8, March 1, pages 97-107, DOI: 10.1016/j.jemep.2019.03.002
Cops, soft porn, and psychiatry: The curious origin of Scientology’s Snow White Program
📰 Chris Owen, March 19
Critical Thinking about Psychotherapy
🎓 Stephen Hupp, Jean Mercer, Bruce A. Thyer, and Monica Pignotti, Cambridge University Press, April 25
Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television
📗 Louis Theroux, Macmillan, September 19, ISBN 1509880364
This notion of idealism being a close cousin of zealotry was central to what interested me about the Church – especially wrapped in the bizarre trappings of the sci-fi space opera – and it took me back, in a pleasurable way, to my Weird Weekends days of people passionate about nonsense in a way that was comical and troubling and sad, but with some of the seriousness and maturity of the later shows mixed in. I wrote up a film treatment that developed these ideas.
How Scientology Recruits Inside Florida Prisons
📰 C.J. Ciaramella, Reason, January 16
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19636160W/I_Survived! I Survived!: Overcoming Abuse, Scientology and Life in General
📗 Margery Wakefield, April 26, ISBN 0578492997
This abortion was one of several that I had while in Scientology. I think, before it was all over, I had six abortions. I lost count. I was so lonely that I often traded sex for perceived attention and love. Whenever I got pregnant, I had an abortion. That’s just how it was. I was told to do it and I did what I was told to do. I didn’t know any better. Also, we were encouraged to get people into Scientology no matter how we did it. That included having sex with potential recruits.
In God We Trust (Unless We Change Our Mind): How State of Mind Relates to Religious Arbitration
🎓 Skylar Reese Croy, Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal, July 4
Inside the Mysterious $11 Million Death of a Scientology Rehab Patient
📰 Amy Zimmerman, Daily Beast, May 9
The Lame Way Scientology Tried to Keep Their Members Off the Internet
📰 Lynn Fountain Campbell, January 16
My So Called “Crazy” Life: A True Story of an Escaped Scientologist
📗 Aurora Rucker, Barnes & Noble Press, September 15, ISBN 1078720738
This eye-opening life-experience of a child, born into, and raised according to the beliefs of the Church of Scientology, soon joining the militant-structured higher echelons of the church as a staff member, is an extremely informative tell-all of how the church takes hold on one's life completely and utterly. Many people in this day and age, have heard of this church, but are unaware of the scope of its reach, and the depth of its grips in our society's structure.
The Ontology of Suppression: Apostasy, Disconnection, and the “Suppressive Person” Type
🎓 Gabriella Lee, The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Journal, pages 90-94
Quebec's labour watchdog seeks $900K from Church of Scientology for underpaying staff
📰 Gaétan Pouliot, CBC News, January 9
The Reverse-Entanglement Principle: Why Religious Arbitration of Federal Rights Is Unconstitutional
🎓 Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld and Frank J. Costa Jr., Yale Law Journal, Volume 128 Issue 7 Article 5
Ron The War Hero: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard's Calamitous Military Career
📗 Chris Owen, Silvertail Books, May 9, ISBN 1909269891
Hubbard had a long history of denigrating the loyalty of those around him. In 1940, he wrote to the FBI to denounce the steward of the New York hotel where he was staying as a Nazi spy, and on his last day in Australia he took the time to denounce several people in Brisbane as supposed Japanese and German agents. After founding Dianetics in 1950, he denounced numerous colleagues and ex-employees — and even his own wife — as supposed Russian agents. There’s no sign that any of his denunciations were taken seriously, and an FBI agent wrote, “appears mental,” on one of his letters of denunciation.
Scientology and the Engram: Fact and Fiction
📰 Samar Habib, Psych Central, May 28
Scientology for Never Ins: Clearing Away the Fog That Hides the Truth
📗 Stefani Hutchison, Independently published, October 15, ISBN 1694579581
Written by a Never In for Never Ins this is a Primer, intended to explain some of the strange concepts and strip away the false face Scientology shows to the world of a benign humanitarian organization albeit one with some quirky beliefs revealing the dangerous truth; this is a cult motivated by paranoia and greed, founded by a mentally ill conman that deals in abuse, lies and fear through insidious policies and practices.
Shrapnel in the San Fernando Valley
📗 Carol Es, Desert Dog Books, April 6, ISBN 1733520880
Seduced by the celebrity that lured her into Scientology and their magic promises to fix her broken life, Carol buried herself in the concepts and philosophies of L. Ron Hubbard. Meanwhile, she hopelessly denied and hid her own underlying mental illness which went on untreated because of her belief in a doctrine that made psychiatry out to be an evil hoax.
The Significance of Scientology
📗 Robin Scott, Independently published, July 2, ISBN 178972032X
Robin was one of the three people who conspired to get a “New Era Dianetics for Operating Thetans” (NOTs) pack out of the Church of Scientology. After Robin scoped the place out, the other two dressed up in full Sea Org uniform and entered AOSH EU in Copenhagen on the 9th of December, 1983, claiming they were missionaires from the Religious Technology Center. They went to the Senior Case Supervisor and demanded the NOTs materials for inspection. They also wanted a room where they could check out the materials undisturbed. They were given both. Later that day the Snr C/S could not find the two people anymore. They were gone and so was the NOTs pack.
A Brief History of How Scientology’s E-Meter Came Into Existence
📰 Jeffrey Augustine, June 3
Apostate Memoirs and the Study of Scientology in the Twenty-First Century
🎓 Carole M. Cusack, Implicit Religion: Journal for the Critical Study of Religion, Vol. 23 No. 1
Be Clear: Scientology and Organizational Fluency
🎓 Kristian Klippenstein, University of Alberta Department of Religious Studies, September, pages 94-144, DOI: 10.7939/r3-hs9m-sm65
Clearwater City Council Seat 2: Scientology critic Bunker earns historic win
📰 Tracey McManus, Tampa Bay Times, March 18
Degrees of Embellishment: Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, and His Civil Engineering Credentials Fraud
🎓 Stephen A. Kent, The Journal of CESNUR, Supplement to Volume 3 Issue 1 (January-February 2019), pages VI-LX, April, DOI: 10.26338/tjoc.2020.supp.3.1
L. Ron Hubbard - The Tao of Insanity
📗 Peter Moon, Sky Books, January 16, ISBN 0963188976
For over a half century, countless people have suffered severe misadventures after encountering the mysterious legacy of L. Ron Hubbard and his ever puzzling brainchild: Scientology, a subject that continues to intrigue, baffle and perplex the general public as well as the many critics it has attracted. L. Ron Hubbard - The Tao of Insanity attempts a deep delve to unravel the tapestry of his insanity.
Medal by medal, Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s ‘stolen valor’ is laid bare
📰 PickAnotherID, November 4 and 7
My Scientology Story: The True Story of an Ex-Scientologist
📗 Diana Dudas, PublishDrive, December 8, ISBN 6150101320
Diana’s story manages to be an upsetting and an inspiring read at the same time. The shocking events recounted in it do not take place in a remote location or in the Middle Ages, but in a modern-day European capital – a few years ago in Budapest, to be exact.
Out of the Darkness: My Escape From Sin
📗 Michael D'Aigle, Independently published, December 15, ISBN 9798683604134
A broken young man tossed out of his home. Hitch-hiking across America, panhandling, stealing doing whatever to survive. Then disillusioned and desperate for answers to the emptiness inside he became involved with Scientology as a staff member working in Detroit, Michigan. Realizing later that he was trapped in a religious cult that had him under their control - he began to cry out to God to help him escape from Scientology. God answered.
The Peculiar Genius of Private-Law Systems: Making Room for Religious Commerce
🎓 Michael A. Helfand, Washington University Law Review, Pepperdine University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2020/2, January 17
📰 Tony Ortega, July 27
📗 Lucas A. Catton, Catton Communications, January 8, ISBN 0578633108
After experiencing a deep personal, spiritual, familial and financial crisis, Lucas Catton chronicles his time over the course of a decade of rebuilding his life. The road from mental anguish to redemption and then transcendence has been a learning experience that brought him to his knees, literally and figuratively, and then to standing proud with renewed confidence and self-respect, as well as more meaningful connections with others and life as a whole.
Review of a complaint regarding an article on COVID-19 by journalist Gaétan Pouliot
🎓 Guy Gendron, CBC/Radio-Canada Ombudsman, July 2
Scientology chiro Dennis Nobbe drops dead after being informed he’s going to jail
📰 Tony Ortega, September 17
Scientology: The Cult of Religion
🎓 Hannah Bushon, The Ashen Egg: A Journal of Undergraduate English Scholarship, Vol. 8, pages 11-28, November 1
Scientology Deaths and Suicides
📰 Leah Remini and Mike Rinder, July 27
Scientology, Stem Cells, and Exosomes?
📰 Chris Centeno, February 25
Scientology & the Occult Teachings of L. Ron Hubbard
📗 Billy Crone, Get a Life Ministries, September 29, ISBN 1948766558
So many people are being deceptively swayed to become members of Scientology and shockingly unable to get out. Some of the jaw-dropping topics you will uncover are: Why is Scientology so interested in celebrities? How is Scientology connected to occult practices? What are Scientology's tactics to keep their membership strong? What is Scientology's answer to Shelly's disappearance? This book will give you the necessary tools needed to witness to a member of Scientology and open their eyes to the false teachings they have been under.
Auditing Scientology: Reexamining the Church’s 501(c)(3) Tax Exemption Eligibility
🎓 Taylor C. Holley, Texas Tech Law Review, Volume 53, February 1, DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3777276
📗 Duane K. Estill, Independently published, June 13, ISBN 9798749440225
Billiontology is the first in a series written by a trained philosopher and non-Scientologist that goes into Scientology's logical, rational, and conceptual flaws.
Company giving free books to Florida had $10 million settlement for deception
📰 Tracey McManus, Tampa Bay Times, February 23
Comparative Reflections on Scientology and NXIVM
🎓 Stephen A. Kent, International Journal of Coercion, Abuse, and Manipulation, Volume 1 Number 2, June 8, pages 3-26
Denial of Appeal for Tax Exemption of Scientology Buildings in England
🎓 Gary Garland, The Valuation Tribunal For England, June 10
Handbook of UFO Religions: Chapter 14 Scientology
🎓 Hugh B. Urban, Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion, Volume 20, February 22, pages 329–342, DOI: 10.1163/9789004435537_016
Handle with Care: Reflections on the Academic Study of Scientology
🎓 Bernard Doherty, Implicit Religion, Volume 23 Number 2, March 5, pages 102–128, DOI: 10.1558/imre.40237
Inside a PR mutiny: How Scientology’s war on Prozac backfired in spectacular fashion
📰 Chris Owen, May 16
📰 Tony Ortega, April 13
📗 Lawrence Toomajan, July
My supervisor Marcia Valente Cruz yelled, “Get your fucking TR's in!” With my upper arm bleeding, I patched it with toilet paper and scotch tape until I got home. I did not report it to authorities as I should have as a job-related injury. Within a few days Isabelle, realizing her unfulfilled legal obligation in the matter as an employer, called me to her office and fired me for being a Potential Trouble Source.
The Origin of Scientology: Turning Science Fiction Into Religion For Profit
📗 Gerald Charles Tilley PhD, California Biblical University Press, March 16, ASIN: B08ZC7DW6C
Tracing the beginning of Scientology from a self-help method of therapy (Dianetics) into a business and then into the semblance of a religion, in order to evade regulation by professional organizations and avoid paying taxes to the U.S. Government. The book demonstrates the lack of integrity of L. Ron Hubbard, a former Science Fiction author who created a fictional autobiography and this complex system of interlocking organizations whose purpose is to generate money for its top officials.
The Peculiar Experience of Being Targeted by Scientology
📰 Ben Schneiders, Sydney Morning Herald, May 1
Relentless: Rescuing My Daughter From Scientology
📗 Brian J. Sheen, Independently published, April 3, ISBN 9798714658389
Feel the emotional impact through the gripping illustrations that share Brian's devastating journey. Discover how the Church of Scientology hypnotizes their members and uses mind control, while attacking anyone who questions it, especially family or friends, demanding their members disconnect from those who dare to question their alien invasion and enslavement doctrine in the hope to achieve fabricated superhuman abilities.
🎓 Phil Lord, UMKC Law Review, Volume 90 Number 2, March 18, pages 1–64, DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3798780
Scientology's Brent Jones & ‘Real Water’ horror: kids needed liver transplants, attorney says
📰 Tony Ortega, March 17
📰 Eric Levai, Daily Dot, February 2
🎓 Michael Thorn, Journal of Media and Religion, Volume 20 Number 2, March 9, pages 1-21, DOI: 10.1080/15348423.2021.1875661
🎓 Stephen A. Kent, Implicit Religion, Volume 23 Number 2, March 5, pages 167–174, DOI: 10.1558/imre.19161
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