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๐ 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.
๐ฐ Milton R. Sapirstein, The Nation, August 5, page 130
๐ฐ William Blackbeard, Shangri La #20
๐ฐ Charles E. Bures, California Institute of Technology
๐ฐ American Scientist, Autumn Issue Volume 38, October
๐ฐ Individual Psychology Association of Chicago, Individual Psychology Bulletin, volumes 8-9, pages 38-39
๐ Robert E. Peck, The American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 107, No. 6, December 1, pages 477-478, DOI: 10.1176/ajp.107.6.477
๐ New York (State). Dept. of Mental Hygiene, Psychiatric quarterly, Volume 24, page 832, State Hospitals Press
๐ฐ Martin Gumpert, The New Republic, August 14
๐ Dr. Morris Fishbein, Postgraduate Medicine, September, pp. 242-243
๐ฐ Albert Q. Maisel, Look magazine, December 5, page 79
๐ Parker Davis, Ph.D., Training School Bulletin, volumes 47-48, January, pages 220-229
๐ 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 โclear.โ 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.
๐ฐ Consumers Union of United States, Consumer reports, Volume 16, pages 378-381
๐ฐ Willard Beecher and Calder Willingham, American Mercury, August, pages 74-81
๐ฐ Isaac Isidor Rabi, Scientific American, January
๐ Medical economics, volume 28, pages 87, 131-137
๐ฐ Frederick R Stearns, Clinical Medicine, March
๐ฐ Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, Etc.
๐ Samuel J. Ravitch, M.D., Journal of the American Medical Association
๐ 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 โpercepticsโ (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.
๐ฐ Time magazine, December 22
๐ Harvey Jay Fischer
๐ฐ Volney G. Mathison
๐ 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.
๐ John Edgar Hoover, September 21
๐ฐ Melbourne Spy, Nation, December 6, pages 14-15
๐ Jack Fox, Alvin E. Davis and B. Lebovit, Psychological Newsletter 10, pages 131-134
๐ 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.
๐ฐ J. Anthony Lukas, New York Times, December 8
๐ Retired Naval Provost Sergeant, February 7
๐ฐ James Phelan, Saturday Evening Post, March 21
๐ฐ Richard G. Sipes, Borderline, Volume 1 Number 2, October 21, pages 32-39
๐ฐ The Age, April 17
๐ Kevin Victor Anderson, Q.C., September 28
๐ฐ Richard Whitehead and Peter Younghusband, Daily Mail, February 14 - July 14
๐ 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.
๐ American Cancer Society, CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, October, pages 214-215, DOI: 10.3322/canjclin.16.5.214
๐ฐ A.M.A. News, July 24
๐ฐ Leslie Wilson, Sunday Telegraph, March 19, page 11
๐ฐ Alan Levy, Life magazine, November 15, page 99
๐ฐ Time, August 23, page 40
๐ฐ A.M.A. News, September 2
๐ฐ Ralph Lee Smith, Today's Health, December
๐ Dumbleton - Powles, June 30
๐ฐ Arlene and Howard Eisenberg, Parents magazine, June 1, pages 48-49 and 82-86
๐ United States Court of Claims, July 16
๐ฐ Alexander Mitchell, The Sunday Times, October 5
๐ฐ Joseph Martin Hopkins, Christianity Today, November 7 and 21
๐ John A. Lee, chapter 4
๐ฐ Jane Nellis, Confidential magazine, October 1
๐ 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.
๐ United States District Court for the District of Columbia, September 29
๐ John Foster, December
๐ 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."
๐ 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 โin advice given me to facilitate my case progress and that any failure to do so renders this contract null and void without rebate.โ (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.
๐ Robert Kaufman, Olympia Press, ISBN 0700401105
> 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.
๐ G.P.C. Kotze, June 9
๐ฐ Paul Krassner, The Realist, October 1
๐ 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."
๐ 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.
๐ฐ James E. Adams and Elaine Viets, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 3-7
๐ John B. Fallis, Metropolitan Toronto Police, May 7
๐ฐ Winnipeg Free Press, June 27
๐ 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
๐ Susan M. Blindman, Delaware Criminal Justice Planning Commision, October
๐ Roy Wallis, Sociology, January 1, pages 89-100, DOI: 10.1177/003803857500900105
๐ฐ Jesse Kornbluth, New Times: Feature News Magazine, โFlirtation with Scientologyโ, March 19, pages 29-52
๐ 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.
๐ฐ Timothy S. Robinson, Washington Post, July 9
๐ฐ Time magazine, July 25
๐ 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."
๐ฐ East Grinstead Courier, February 22
๐ฐ Ron Shaffer, Washington Post, August 18
๐ฐ Robert Gillette and Robert Rawitch, Los Angeles Times, August 27-28
๐ฐ Jon Standefer, San Diego Union, January 26
๐ Margaret T. Singer Ph. D, Psychology Today, January
๐ Wolfgang Heckmann
๐ Roy Wallis, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 0312698348
๐ฐ Calgary Albertan, October 28
๐ฐ Gregory Gordon, The Boston Globe, November 24
๐ฐ Charles Stafford and Bette Orsini, St. Petersburg Times, fourteen part series, December 16-30
๐ 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.
๐ Gerrit Komrij, De Arbeiderspers, ISBN 9029526971
๐ณ๐ฑ Dutch language
๐ 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.
๐ฐ John Marshall, Toronto Globe and Mail, January 23-24
๐ 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 โOTโ statuses. The โfirst dynamicโ overcome by clears is only one of eight dynamics, each representing a sphere of human motivation the first is the drive for personal survival.
๐ฐ Eugene H. Methvin, Reader's Digest, May
๐ฐ David Beresford, The Guardian, February 7-9
๐ฐ James B. Stewart Jr., The American Lawyer, December
๐ David Hogg, M.D., October 8
๐ Marjorie Heins, Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, September-November
๐ Michael J. Flynn, Thomas G. Hoffman, Thomas Greene, William Sheridan, Paul Jenkins, Kevin Sullivan, Kevin Flynn, September 14
๐ Martin Gardner, Prometheus Books, ISBN 0879755733
> In my Antioch review paper I was clearly wrong in predicting that interest in Hubbard would โsoon subside.โ Today, thirty years later dianetics, which became part of Hubbard's new โreligion,โ Scientology, is the backbone of one of the nation's biggest cockamamie cults.
๐ฐ Eugene H. Methvin, Reader's Digest, September
๐ฐ Richard Leiby, Clearwater Sun, Volume 68 Number 118, August 30
๐ Hugh A.D. Spencer, August
๐ 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.
๐ Transcript
๐ Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman, Science Digest, January, pages 86-92
๐ David A. Snow and Richard Machalek, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 21, Issue 1, pages 15-26
๐ Friedrich-Wilhelm Haack, Claudius, ISBN 3532620030
๐ฉ๐ช German language
๐ฐ John Saar, People Weekly, Vol. 19 No. 3, January 24, page 84
๐ 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 โ except that Scientology has taken the next logical step and tries to exorcise the traumatic engrams left from previous incarnations.
๐ฐ Jon Atack
๐ฐ Otto J. Roos, September 7
๐ Lt. Ray Emmons, December
๐ Tweede Kamer Commissie, pages 120-160
๐ฐ Robert Lindsey, New York Times, July 11
๐ฐ John Barnes, Sunday Times Magazine, October 28
๐ 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.
๐ 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.
๐ฐ Bill Driver, Willamette Week, May 30
๐ฐ Fred Leeson, The Oregonian, March-May
๐ฐ Richard Behar, Forbes 400, October 27
๐ 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.
๐ Roger Straus, Symbolic Interaction, May 1, 9(1), pages 67โ82, DOI: 10.1525/si.1986.9.1.67
๐ 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.
๐ Erik Cohen and Nachman Ben-Yehuda, Sociological Inquiry, October, pages 382-390, DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-682x.1987.tb00245.x
๐ 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.
๐ 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 โpick upโ or just sulking in between lives. Occasionally, a Scientologist will bump into one of these in predictable haunts.
๐ฐ Jeremy Main, Fortune, November 23
๐ฐ Stephen Koff, St. Petersburg Times, December 22-24
๐ฐ The Sacramento Bee, November 24
๐ฐ February 16, 1989
๐ฐ Tom Joyce, Gnosis, Summer
๐ Ford Greene, Cultic Studies Journal, Vol. 6 No. 1
๐ 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 (โFlagโ), 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.
๐ 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 โgradesโ 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, โLet's sell these people a piece of blue sky.โ Preface by Russell Miller.
๐ฐ Richard Weizel, Akron Beacon Journal, January 21
๐ฐ Northern Echo, June 22
๐ Margaret T. Singer, Maurice K. Temerlin and Michael D. Langone, Cultic Studies Journal, Vol 7 No. 2, pages 101-125
๐ฐ Joel Sappell and Robert W. Welkos, Los Angeles Times, six part series, June 24-29
๐ Jeff Jacobsen, The Arizona Skeptic, September/October, pages 1-5
๐ Oklahoma Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, December 13
๐ Dr. Stephen A. Kent, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, November
๐ 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.
๐ Margery Wakefield, Lulu, ISBN 0557090407
> โWe have a job for you to do,โ he said abruptly. โSomething 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.โ He stopped and cleared his throat. โWhat 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?โ
๐ Ulrich Kramer, VAP Publishers, ISBN 3922367267
> The raw man-to-man approach of Book One (โDianeticsโ) 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.
๐ 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.
๐ 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 โyou are more in present time.โ 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.
๐ฐ Richard Behar, Time magazine, May
๐ฐ anonymous, Notes from the Hangar, Volume 1 Number 1, January, pages 12-16
๐ฐ Margery Wakefield
๐ฌ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWs8C9oZLbY&list=PLmY6p-DNfaRrYReZRNkuxZUr2bltVmplq&t=1m46s ๐ฌListen
๐ฐ Monica Pignotti
๐ฐ Margery Wakefield
๐ Charles Lindholm, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, Vol.16 No.3, September, pages 287-310
๐ฐ Edmonton Journal, September 12
๐ Margaret T. Singer and Marsha E. Addis, Cultic Studies Journal, Vol. 9, No. 2, pages 163-189
๐ฐ Jeff Jacobsen
๐ Potthoff, Thiede, Schroeder, Abel and Westphal, Rowohlt, ISBN 3499193418
๐ฉ๐ช German Language
๐ Dr Nikos Passas Ph.D. Assistant Professor and Manuel Escamilla Castillo Ph.D, Behavioral Sciences & the Law, Winter, pages 103โ116, DOI: 10.1002/bsl.2370100110
๐ Werner Thiede, F. Bahn, ISBN 3762177015
๐ฉ๐ช German Language
๐ Friederike Valentin and Horand Knaup, Herder, ISBN 345104109X
๐ฉ๐ช German Language
๐ฐ Jon Atack
๐ฐ William W. Horne, The American Lawyer, July/August
๐ฐ John H. Richardson, Premiere, September, page 88
๐ Serge Faubert, Calmann-Lรฉvy, ISBN 2702119476
๐ซ๐ท French Language
๐ Paul Ranc, Editions Contrastes, ISBN 2882110081
๐ซ๐ท French Language
๐ Silvia Redhead, Ralf-Dieter Mucha, Claudius, ISBN 3532621576
๐ฉ๐ช German Language
๐ Steven Pressman, St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0312092962
๐ฐ Robert Vaughn Young, Quill, November-December, Volume 81, Number 9, pages 38-41
๐ John Weldon, Christian Research Journal, Summer, page 20
๐ Christoph Minhoff, Martina Mรผller, E. Wewel, ISBN 3879041970
๐ฉ๐ช German Language
๐ฐ Eric N. Winter, Cult Awareness News, July/August
๐ฐ District of California, Case # CV 91 6426 HLH (Tx), April 4
๐ Liane von Billerbeck, Frank Nordhausen and Bernd Abel, Links, ISBN 3861530716
๐ฉ๐ช German Language
๐ฐ Anonymous
๐ 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 auditorโs 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 hoursโ duration, which means in every session a person is also going into a period of natural hypnosis.
๐ฐ Ken Rose, September 5
๐ 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.
๐ฐ Agnes Hadley
๐ฐ Tim Kelsey and Mike Ricks, The Independent, January 31
๐ Renate Hartwig, Heyne, ISBN 3453085213
๐ฉ๐ช German Language
๐ฐ Paul Bracchi, Evening Argus, March 28-30, April 12, June 10 and 13
๐ 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.
๐ฐ David John Carter, November
๐ 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 โprobable causeโ 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 โScientology workshopโ 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.
๐ Dr. Hans-Gerd Jaschke, commission of the Ministry of the Interior of the Province of North Rhein-Westphalia, December
๐ฐ Jon Atack
๐ National Assembly, Tenth Legislature
๐ฐ Karin Spaink, De Groene Amsterdammer, October 4
๐ Elke Nietsche, Wichern-Verlag, ISBN 3889810772
๐ฐ Jon Atack, October
๐ Renate Hartwig, Metropolitan Verlag, ISBN 3896230492
๐ฉ๐ช German Language
๐ Renate Hartwig, Heyne Verlag, ISBN 3453090292
๐ฉ๐ช German Language
๐ 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 โend point of the questโ 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.
๐ 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.
๐ฐ Peter Forde, June
๐ Peter Vossmerbรคumer, Universitas publishing house Munich, ISBN 3800413337
๐ฉ๐ช German Language
https://web.archive.org/web/20160508054419/http://solitarytrees.net/racism/ L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology, Dianetics and Racism
๐ฐDavid John Carter
๐ฐ Alison Frankel, The American Lawyer, March
๐ฐ Jeff Jacobsen
๐ฐ Laurie Goodstein, Seattle Times, December 1
๐ Josรฉ Lenzini, Plein, ISBN 2877645169
๐ซ๐ท French language
๐ Dr. Stephen A. Kent, Journal of Contemporary Religion, Vol. 11 No. 1, page 21
๐ 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.
๐ Canadian Legal Information Institute, April 18, CanLII 16226 (ON CA), Docket: c13207; C13047
๐ฐ Chris Owen
๐ฐ Dr. Stephen A. Kent, November 7
๐ฐ Sara Catania, LA Weekly, November 14
๐ฐ Steve Keller
๐ P. Craig Taylor, Department of Physics, University of Utah, February 26
๐ J.P. Kumar, The Review of Litigation, Volume 16, pages 747-772
๐ Peter Reichelt, Brockmann und Reichelt, ISBN 3923801939
> I understood too late that, without knowing what I was doing, I had โsuppliedโ 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.
๐ Norbert Potthoff, Lรผbbe, ISBN 3404613929
๐ฉ๐ช German Language
๐ Roger Schenk, Bund der Selbstรคndigen Baden-Wรผrttemberg, ISBN 3000017259
๐ฉ๐ช German Language
๐ฐ Chris Owen
๐ฐ Chris Owen
๐ฐ Craig Branch, The Watchman Expositor, Vol. 14 No. 5
๐ Tom Voltz, Herder, ISBN 3451045729
๐ฉ๐ช German Language
๐ Gunther Trรคger und Ursula Caberta, ECON, ISBN 3430182492
๐ฉ๐ช German Language
๐ฐ Perry Scott, April 7
๐ Paul Horwitz, DePaul Law Review
๐ฐ Douglas Frantz, New York Times, March 9
๐ฐ Chris Owen
๐ Hansjรถrg Hemminger, Quell, ISBN 3791834908
๐ฉ๐ช German Language
๐ฐ Nefertiti, October 12
๐ฐ Lisa Wurscher and Marion Paulsen, June 9
๐ฐ Arnie Lerma
๐ฐ Craig Branch, The Watchman Expositor, Vol. 15 No. 1, January 1
๐ฐ Lawrence Wollersheim
๐ Folke Sjoqvist, National Board of Health and Welfare, June 2
๐ Bonner Universitรคts-Buchdruckerei Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme
๐ Deana Hall, Sociology of Religion, Volume 59 Issue 4, pages 393-410, DOI: 10.2307/3712124
๐ฐ Chris Owen
๐ Michael Peckham, Canadian Journal of Sociology, Vol.23 No.4, September, pages 317โ347
๐ Italian Parliament, February, pages 44-52
๐ Norbert J. Potthoff, Bastei Lรผbbe, ISBN 3404604598
๐ฉ๐ช German Language
๐ฐ Joseph Mallia, Jim MacLaughlin and Andrew Gully, Boston Herald, multi-part series, March 1-5, and March 19
๐ฐ Chris Owen
๐ Report of the Business Review Commission of the National Assembly, July 1
๐ Dr. Stephen A. Kent, Religious Studies and Theology, December): pages 97-126
๐ Charity Commission, November 17
> no established public benefit arising out of the practice of Scientology
๐ฐ Joe Cisar
๐ฐ Jon Henley, The Guardian, September 9
๐ฐ Scott Mayer
๐ฐ Tony Ortega, Phoenix New Times, January 21
๐ฐ Helle Meldgaard
๐ฐ Employment Law Weekly, December 29
๐ฐ Chris Owen
๐ Jana Jacobi, Butzon and Bercker, ISBN 3786783004
๐ฉ๐ช German Language
๐ฐ Laura Kay Fuller
๐ Jutta Elsรคsser, Droemer, ISBN 3426773759
๐ฉ๐ช German Language
๐ Stephen A. Kent, Marburg Journal of Religion, July
๐ฐ Ron Russell, New Times Los Angeles, September 9
๐ John Carter, Feral House, pages 101-194, ISBN 0922915970
> After Parsonsโ initial contact with the astral plane during this second working, Hubbard began acting as seer, although Parsons continued to call him โScribeโ in his notes, and it was actually he who was โscrying in the Aethyrโ while Parsons took notes.
๐ฐ Brian Ambry, International Viewpoints Magazine (โIvyโ), May
๐ 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 โcelebrity centers.โ
๐ Andrรกs Veรฉr and Lรกszlรณ Erลss, Art Nouveau, ISBN 9630390760
๐ญ๐บ Hungarian language
๐ฐ Eldon M. Braun
๐ฐ Ron Russell, New Times Los Angeles, December 21
๐ฐ Daniel E. Martin, Skeptic, November 2
๐ฐ Chris Owen, November
๐ 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 โPurification Rundownโ is more a matter of manipulation through the general weakening that it causes; it is a way of brainwashing the subject.
๐ Andrรกs Veรฉr and Lรกszlรณ Erลss, Art Nouveau, ISBN 9630030357
๐ญ๐บ Hungarian language
๐ฐ Thomas Lardeur, Paris Match, February 17
๐ฐ Erik W. Snead
๐ฐ Robert Vaughn Young, February 21
๐ฐ Jody Veenker, Christianity Today, September 4
๐ฐ Cheryl Sola
๐ Jonathan Bohm and Laurence Alison, Psychology, Crime & Law, Volume 7 Issue 2, pages 133-165, DOI: 10.1080/10683160108401792
๐ฐ National Mental Health Association, September 17
๐ Andrรกs Veรฉr and Lรกszlรณ Erลss, Art Nouveau, ISBN 9630065061
๐ญ๐บ Hungarian language
๐ฐ Brian Ambry
๐ Stephen A. Kent, chapter 8 in โMisunderstanding Cultsโ, Edited by Benjamin Zablocki and Thomas Robbins, University of Toronto Press, December 1, pages 349โ378, ISBN 0802043739, DOI: 10.3138/9781442677302.13
๐ Brigitte Schรถn, Marburg Journal of Religion, Volume 6, No. 1, January
๐ Stephen A. Kent, Marburg Journal of Religion, Volume 6, No. 1, January
๐ 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.
๐ฐ Hartley Patterson
๐ Peter W. Edge and Joan M. Loughrey, Legal Studies, Volume 21, Issue 1, March, pages 36โ64, DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-121X.2001.tb00166.x
๐ฐ Caroline Letkeman
๐ฐ Caroline Letkeman
๐ฐ Tony Ortega, New Times Los Angeles, September 27
๐ฐ Kurt Van Gorden
๐ฐ Tori Marlan, Chicago Reader, August 15
๐ฐ Alan Prendergast, Denver Westword News, June 16
๐ Heinrich Kรผfner, Norbert Nedopil and Heinz Schรถch, Pabst, ISBN 3936142408
๐ฉ๐ช German language
๐ฐ David F. Gallagher, New York Times, April 22
๐ Raik Werner, Fink, ISBN 3770537815
๐ฉ๐ช German language
๐ฐ Maria Cherkasova and Oksana Alexeeva, Kommersant-Daily, December 10
๐ Camille Paglia, Arion: A Journal of Humanities and Classics, vol. 10 no. 3, pages 57-111
๐ฐ Rick Ross, Cult News Network, September 1
๐ Ecclesia News, February 2
๐ 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).
๐ Arnaud Palisson, Favre, ISBN 2828907333
๐ซ๐ท French language
๐ฐ Michael Pattinson
๐ Margaret Thaler Singer, Wiley-Blackwell, ISBN 1405101814
๐ Dr. Lรกszlรณ Erลss, ISBN 9638621486
๐ญ๐บ Hungarian language
๐ Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Marburg Journal of Religion, Volume 8, No. 1, September
๐ฐ Dr. David S. Touretzky and Chris Owen, MBE, September 13
๐ Simon Locke, Social Compass, March, vol. 51 no. 1, pages 111-131, DOI: 10.1177/0037768604040794
๐ฐ Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, October 2, page B1
๐ Dr. Guenther Beckstein, State Minister, Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior
๐ 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.
๐ Hugh B. Urban, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 74(2), 356โ389
๐ 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.
๐ Stephen A. Kent, Cultic Studies Review, Volume 3 Number 2, pages 101-134
๐ฐ Gerry Armstrong, November 10
๐ Stefan Braun, Nomos, ISBN 3832907645
๐ฉ๐ช German language
๐ Heidrun Beer, Verlag-Haus Monsenstein und Vannerdat, ISBN 3865820190
๐ฉ๐ช German language
๐ฐ Michael Pattinson
๐ฐ Karen Pressley, September 1
๐ Stephen A. Kent, Cultic Studies Review, Volume 4 Number 2
๐ Deborah Wood Ph.D, California Healthy Kids Resource Center, January
๐ Pieter Blondeel, Ghent University, August 1
๐ Wilfried Handl, Mensch vs. Scientology, ISBN 3200003944
๐ฉ๐ช German language
๐ฐ Mark Sommer, Buffalo News, February 1-2
๐ฐ Richard Harriman, August 5
๐ฐ Katharine Mieszkowski, Salon, July 1
๐ Geoffrey D. Falk, Million Monkeys Press, Chapter 14: "Battlefield Teegeeack", ISBN 0973620331
> Hubbard himself died in the mid-โ80s. By the end, he had become a rather unhappy man, living in a rather unhappy, Howard Hughes-like fashionโreportedly 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.
๐ Ushma S. Neill, The Journal of Clinical Investigation, Volume 115 Issue 8, August 1, DOI: 10.1172/JCI26200
๐ฐ Janet Reitman, Rolling Stone, February 24
๐ Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, July 25
๐ฐ E. Scott Reckard, Los Angeles Times, November 8
๐ฐ David Cohen, Evening Standard, October 23
๐ฐ Paula J. Caplan, CounterPunch, October 2
๐ Edmund A.C. Crouch and Laura C. Green, Chemosphere, May 23, DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2007.05.098
๐ 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.
๐ Maria Pia Gardini and Alberto Laggia, Edizioni Paoline (Paoline Publications), ISBN 8831533169
๐ฎ๐น Italian language
๐ W. Vaughn McCall, Journal of Religion and Health, Volume 46 Number 3, September, pages 437-447, DOI: 10.1007/s10943-006-9079-9
๐ฐ John DeSio, New York Press, June 6
๐ฐ Interfax, July 13
๐ Rigmor C. Berg, Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, ISBN 8281212144
๐ Michael Streeter, New Holland, pages 202-230, ISBN 1845379373
> A prominent Los Angeles Psychiatrist suggested that Dianetics was little more than a โclever scheme to dip into the pockets of the gullibleโ, and that a Dianetics auditor was just another name for a โwitch doctorโ exploiting โreal need with phoney methodsโ.
๐ Ursula Caberta, Goldmann, ISBN 3442155460
๐ฉ๐ช German language
๐ Elliot Benjamin, International Cultic Studies Association e-Newsletter, Volume 7 Number 3
๐ฐ PhilVaz, June
๐ Ursula Caberta, Guetersloher Verlagshaus, ISBN 3579069810
๐ฉ๐ช German language
๐ 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 โlowered condition.โ 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.
๐ฐ Neville Chamberlin and Alan C. Walter, December 3
๐ฐ Sunny Pereira, December 15
๐ฐ Jodi M. Lane, M.A. and Stephen A. Kent, PhD, December 8
๐ฐ Scott Pilutik, February 18
๐ Drew Tewksbury, University of Southern California, May, ISBN 0549609377
> Kim Gawlick noticed this practice of using โnonprofessionals and recovering addicts for service therapy and support.โ 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 didnโt want to face the world outside the center, or sometimes they would have already started the process of becoming a Scientologist.
๐ Frank Nordhausen, Links, ISBN 3861534703
๐ฉ๐ช German language
๐ Paul Guerin, Ph.D., University of New Mexico Institute for Social Research, October
๐ฐ Fredy Gareis, Stern, May 15
๐ฐ Jeff Jacobsen, December 20
๐ Jeannette Schweitzer, Brunnen, ISBN 3765517097
๐ฉ๐ช German language
๐ 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.
๐ฐ John August, Philorum, September 2
๐ Maria Pia Gardini and Alberto Laggia, Edizioni Paoline (Paoline Publications), ISBN 8831536893
๐ฎ๐น Italian language
๐ Federal Bureau of Investigation, May 10
๐ 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.
๐ 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.
๐ 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.
๐ฐ Dorothee Moisan, Agence France-Presse, October 27
๐ Susan Raine, Religious Studies and Theology, Vol 28 No. 1, ISSN 0829-2922, DOI: 10.1558/rsth.v28i1.63
๐ฐ Joe Childs and Thomas C. Tobin, St. Petersburg Times, multi-part series, June 21-23, August 1, November 1-3 and December 31
๐ฐ Jonny Jacobsen, Infinite Complacency, March 16
๐ Alain Stoffen, PRIVE, June 22, ISBN 2350760901
๐ซ๐ท French language
๐ Terra Manca, Marburg Journal of Religion, Volume 15, ISSN 1612-2941
๐ Miriam Williams Boeri and Karen Pressley, Cultic Studies Review, Vol. 9 No. 1
๐ฐ Laurie Goodstein, New York Times, March 6
๐ Asuris Northwest Health
> There does not appear to be a clear structured therapy process orientating the member to recovery resources.
๐ฐ Tatiana Kuznetsova, December 8
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16121435W/Scientology Scientology - Abuse at the Top
๐ 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 โCome with me!โ Surprisingly a lot of people did! Once I turned these people over to the experienced Public Registrars, I was out the door again.
๐ Emmanuel Fansten, Robert Laffont, October 14, ISBN 2221114302
๐ซ๐ท French language
๐ Linus Hauser, Schรถningh, ISBN 3506770101
๐ฉ๐ช German language
๐ Dirk Ritter-Dausend, Herder spektrum, September 7, ISBN 3451062895
๐ฉ๐ช German language
๐ฐ Tony Ortega, The Village Voice, May 21
๐ Wilfried Handl, Gesellschaft Gegen Dogmen U. Psych. Abhรคngigkeit, April 9, ISBN 3200009829
๐ฉ๐ช German language
๐ 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 โbulletinsโ and tapes, I was completely indoctrinated and fiercely dedicated to the group.
๐ 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.
๐ Ministry of Welfare and Social Services, State of Israel, March
๐ 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
๐ฐ Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, February 14, page 84
๐ Stefan Tunedal, CKM, ISBN 9170400997
๐ธ๐ช Swedish language
๐ 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.
๐ Giovanni Del Vecchio and Stefano Pitrelli, Biblioteca universale Rizzoli, ISBN 8817048275
๐ฎ๐น Italian language
๐ Stephen A. Kent, Jenaer Akademische Verlagsgeselleschaft, pages 113-146
๐ 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
๐ฐ Jesse Prince, April 27
๐ฐ Stephen Kent, European Federation of Centres of Research and Information on Sectarianism (FECRIS), April 17
๐ฐ Caroline Letkeman, March 14
๐ Janet Reitman, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, July 5, ISBN 0618883029
> De Vocht witnessed numerous sรฉances, 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.
๐ฐ Mark Ebner and Walter Armstrong, The Fix, March 27
๐ฐ Denver7, February 25
๐ฐ 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
๐ฐ Tony Ortega, The Village Voice, multi-part series, August 5 - September 28
๐ 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.
๐ 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
๐ 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 isnโt one. Yes, Scientology is a drug.
๐ Peter W. Edge, Legal Studies, October 10, ISSN: 0261-3875, DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-121X.2012.00252.x
๐ฐ Danna Harman, Haaretz, September 30
๐ 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
๐ 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 โpulled it in,โ 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.
๐ฐ Jim Lippard, Skeptic, Volume 17 Number 1, February, pages 18-27
๐ฐ Molly Young, The Oregonian, October 4
๐ 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
๐ 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 โwrong,โ or โbadโ necessarily, but some of the words and phrases may function as thought-terminating clichรฉs. 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.
๐ Bruce Clark, Random House Struik, September 15, ISBN 1415201706
> On one or two occasions Clark and his sister joined his mother on the elite โSea Orgโ ships, where celebrities are โauditedโ, but they didnโt 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 Clarkโs teenaged sister once spent three days in a chain locker. He was fortunate, he only got thrown overboard and he at least could swim. โUsing 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.โ
๐ Mark Lacour, Mauricie and Centre-du-Quรฉbec Health and Social Services Agency, April 17
๐ 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
๐ 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 โRed Pill,โ my diary.
๐ฐ Juan Pablo Proal, Proceso, issue 1878, October 28, pages 44-46
๐ 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.
๐ Mark Marty Rathbun, CreateSpace, October 10, ISBN 1479277266
> โThere 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.โ Published in small, paperback format for easy, concealed conveyance into and out of corporate Scientology influenced organizations, businesses and homes.
๐ฐ Josh Dulaney, OC Weekly, February 23
๐ 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 oneโs corporate-Scientology frame of mind is always right.
๐ฐ Jon Atack, February 10
๐ 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.
๐ฐ Skip Press, The Morton Report, November 27
๐ฐ Tony Ortega and Vance Woodward, twenty-five part series, January 4 - June 28
๐ 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.
๐ 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.
๐ U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, May 9
๐ Geir Isene, May
> Imagine getting to the end of the road, still possibly having major issues youโd 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 โ at the whim of the Churchโs 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 โ where you get the next fix only if you give your heart and soul to a greedy management.
๐ 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.
๐ 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.
๐ Rob Rose, Zebra Press, November 20, ISBN 1770226214
> What Scientologists donโt want you to know is exactly what was in those letters to the South African ministers. Theyโve gone out of their way to airbrush Hubbardโs craven fawning over the apartheid government, specifically, his gushing praise for the father of the racist ideology, Dr Hendrik Verwoerd.
๐ 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.
๐ฐ Dave Lee, BBC News, July 16
๐ฐ Felix Clay, Cracked, November 16
๐ฐ Alex Klein, BuzzFeed, January 15
๐ 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.
๐ฐ Jeanne LeFlore, McAlester News-Capital, August 7
๐ฐ Christian Boone, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 25
๐ Geir Isene, Humanist forlag, ISBN 8282820598
๐ณ๐ด Norwegian language
๐ฐ Ashley Anne Ullrich, Brainstorm, Volume 5, pages 41-48
๐ฐ Harriet Hall, Skeptic, Volume 18 Number 3
๐ฐ Jon Atack, trentvalley, May
๐ฐ Miles Klee, The Daily Dot, October 2
๐ Stephen A. Kent and Robin D. Willey, Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion, Volume 14, March, pages 306-360
๐ฐ Roger Friedman, ShowBiz411, July 5
๐ Susan Raine, Routledge, October 1, DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2014.957746
๐ Max Halupka, Politics and Religion, Volume 7 Issue 3, February 14 (September in print), pages 613-630, DOI: 10.1017/S1755048314000066
๐ Rick Ross, CreateSpace, October 16, ISBN 149731660X
> Groups historically referred to as โcultsโ, such as Scientology, may arguably be in decline.
๐ Mikael Rothstein, International Journal for the Study of New Religions, Volume 5 Number 1, August, pages 51-75, DOI: 10.1558/ijsnr.v5i1.51
๐ฐ Mike Spies, Vocativ, April 9
๐ฐ Lydia Smith, International Business Times UK, January 29
๐ฐ Tony Ortega and Jefferson Hawkins, fourteen part series, October 17 (2013) - January 30
๐ 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.
๐ฐ Anonymous, three part series, December 1-3
๐ Annik L'Archevรชque, Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse, January 16
๐ Mateja Tschom-Sifrar, CreateSpace, September 26, ISBN 1500971375
๐ฉ๐ช German language
๐ Mike McClaughry
> People who have done the Clearing Course still had their specific aberrations and some committed suicide. Theyโre not โClearโ 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.
๐ฐ Donal O'Grady, Leitrim Observer, January 26
๐ 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: โYou can control men like you would control robots with those techniques โฆ we've got some new ways to make slaves here.โ 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.
๐ Erika Spohrer, Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, Volume 26 Number 1, March 21, pages 107-123, DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.26.1.107
๐ 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.
๐ฐ Tony Ortega, Van Winkle's, October 27
๐ 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 Scientologyโs 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 โEthics Officer,โ who uses the principles in this book to pull them back into line.
๐ฐ Xavier Smerdon, Pro Bono Australia, June 30
๐ 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.
๐ 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 didnโt receive our mere $90 net pay for our weekโs work โ only a few bucks in cash to tie us over till the next let-down.
๐ฐ Jeffrey Augustine, May 22
๐ Robin Boyle-Laisure, St. John's School of Law, November 9, DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2690453
๐ฐ Jethro Nededog and Matt Donnelly, TheWrap, April 9
๐ฐ Jesse Hicks, The Kernel, September 20
๐ฐ Mike Rinder, May 10
๐ George M. Witek, Amazon Digital Services, February 4, ISBN 0692371796
> Explaining his ideas about L. Ron Hubbard and Scientologyโs โtechnology,โ George provides a lengthy personal take and harsh critique of Hubbardโs creation considered against the long history of human ideas. In the latter parts of the book George talks about his experience on the Freewinds.
๐ Pรฉter 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 โ 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 โ 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.
๐ฐ Anonymous, eleven part series, August 9 - October 7
๐ฐ McCarton Ackerman , The Fix, May 12
๐ Court of The Hague, De Rechtspraak, October 21
๐ Monica Pignotti and Bruce A. Thyer, The Guilford Press, pages 191-209
๐ 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.
๐ฐ James L. Kelley, Jay's Analysis, November 28
๐ฐ Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, June 26
๐ 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.
๐ USAMRMC Office of Research Protections Human Research Protection Office, Department of the Army, April 22
๐ฐ Jordan Hayne, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, May 10
๐ Don Jolly, Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review, Volume 6 Number 1, pages 51-60, DOI: 10.5840/asrr2015779
๐ Leah Remini, Ballantine Books, November 3, ISBN 110188696X
> You need to reveal in excruciatingly specific detail what it is youโve done wrong. Scientology doesnโt factor in how much this kind of truth can break a husbandโs or wifeโs 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.
๐ The staff of the Tampa Bay Times, Times Publishing Company, August 12, ASIN: B013UWYHAI
> The Times' ongoing series, โInside Scientology,โ launched with an installment called โThe Truth Rundown,โ published in June of 2009. That initial work โ the focus of this book โ shed unprecedented light on the internal workings of a secretive church that generates interest around the world.
๐ 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 Guardianโs Office was a formidable and fanatical organization, which campaigned relentlessly to protect Hubbard from prosecution and successfully dissuaded or ruined most of Scientologyโs 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 โMiss Lovelyโ 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.
๐ฐ Jonny Jacobsen, Byline, June 24
The Babalon Working 1946: L. Ron Hubbard, John Whiteside Parsons, and the Practice of Enochian Magic
๐ Henrik Bogdan, Numen, Volume 63 Issue 1, January 13, pages 12โ32, DOI: 10.1163/15685276-12341406
๐ฐ Mike Rinder, December 31
๐ฐ Felis Uncia, Penumbral Jots, May 22
๐ฐ Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Conatus News, October 5
๐ Steve K. D. Eichel, International Journal of Cultic Studies, Volume 7, February, pages 1-14
๐ฐ Chris Shelton, multi-part series, July 28 - February 9 (2017)
๐ 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 Josรฉ 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 โthat all men have inalienable rights to their own livesโ 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?
๐ฐ Jeremy Gold, July 27
๐ฐ Derek Beres, Big Think, November 7
๐ฐ Lawrence Wright, The Sunday Times, March 13, Section 4 pages 1-2
๐ Stefano Bigliardi, Zygon, Volume 51 Issue 3, September, pages 661-683, DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12281
๐ฐ Crocoshark, December 24
๐ 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, โIf he dies, he dies. Donโt intervene.โ I couldnโt 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 fatherโjust to let him die?!
๐ฐ Victoria Gisondi, Priests For Life, December 29
๐ฐ Michael A. Sherlock, December 1
๐ฐ Brian Krebs, June 27
๐ Carole M. Cusack, Nova Religio, Volume 20 Number 2, November, pages 5-33, DOI: 10.1525/nr.2016.20.2.5
๐ฐ Tony Ortega, February 9
๐ Bernard Doherty, Intelligence and National Security, May 4, DOI: 10.1080/02684527.2016.1175213
๐ฐ Tony Ortega, April 11
๐ 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.
๐ 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.
๐ฐ Mark Sweney, The Guardian, March 2
๐ฐ Bryan Seymour, 7News, September 10
๐ Cylor Spaulding and Melanie Formentin, Journal of Public Relations Research, Volume 29 Issue 1, March 13, DOI: 10.1080/1062726X.2017.1281137
๐ฐ Mike West, Cannon Courier, May 3
๐ 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?
๐ 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.
๐ฐ Michael A. Sherlock, July 12
๐ Regina Knapp, Berghahn Books, โCulture Change and Ex-Change: Syncretism and Anti-Syncretism in Bena, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guineaโ, 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 โauditingโ procedure before entering the classroom. According to Christine, โauditingโ in this context means โtelling secrets.โ 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 personsโhere in the form of their personal secretsโand thus increase their strength and their power over them โฆ resembled negative forms of Bena exchange and were therefore structurally similar to harmful sorcery and witchcraft.
๐ Francesca Retana, Relics, Remnants, and Religion: An Undergraduate Journal in Religious Studies, Volume 2 Issue 2 Article 4, May 5
๐ 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. Scientologyโs 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
๐ 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.
๐ 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.
๐ Dr. Attila Pรฉterfalvi, National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, October 13
๐ 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 โScientology Celebrity Centerโ 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.
๐ Stephen A. Kent, Marburg Journal of Religion, Volume 19 Number 1, November, DOI: 10.17192/mjr.2017.19.6495
๐ 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.
๐ฐ Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, August 9
๐ 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.
๐ 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 โreligionโ is relentless, and the harmful results are passed on to their loved ones. You are not alone.
๐ฐ Jeremy Gold, January 21
๐ Hugh B. Urban, Nova Religio, Volume 20 Number 4, May, pages 13-36, DOI: 10.1525/nr.2017.20.4.13
๐ฐ Mike Rinder, January 3
๐ฐ Chris Owen, December 6
๐ฐ Mikhail Telekhov, RAPSI, October 30
๐ฐ Alec Nevala-Lee, Longreads, February 1
๐ 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.
๐ 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.
๐ฐ Hemant Mehta, Patheos, August 29
๐ 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.
๐ฐ Hsin-Yi Lo, The Argus, April 28
๐ฐ Micaiah Bilger, LifeNews.com, July 24
๐ 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.
๐ฐ Alec Nevala-Lee, Longreads, October 23
๐ฐ Marilyn Yung, January 21
๐ฐ Jeffrey Augustine, November 19
๐ Philippe Lord, Social Science Research Network, December 9, DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3297379
๐ 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
๐ 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.
๐ 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 Scientologyโin the process isolating and indoctrinating its practitionersโshe confronts how language can also be used as a tool of authoritarianism.
๐ 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 Iโd be working with a veteran of Church counter-intelligence operations whoโd be showing me the ropes. My part in this high-tech caper wasnโt much. OSA only needed me as a โfrontโ 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.
๐ฐ J.W. Alden, August 10
๐ฐ Tarpley Hitt, Daily Beast, August 18
๐ฐ Shaun Ewart, Moffat Street, January 8
๐ Michelle LeClair, Berkley, September 11, ISBN 110199116X
> In this tell-all memoir, Michelle offers an insiderโs perspective on Scientologyโs pervasive influence, secret rituals, and ruthless practices for keeping members in line. Itโs a story of self-acceptance, of finding the strength and courage to stand up for your emotional freedom, and of love prevailing.
๐ฐ Raj, May 31
๐ฐ Sophie Barowsky, Wellesley College Student Library Research Awards, April 30
๐ 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."
๐ Nathan Rich, Dynasty Systems, November 8, ISBN 1949629996
> Born into Scientology, Nathan resisted indoctrination from the start. Eventually he was sent to the cultโs 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.
๐ Sandra Kay, CreateSpace, December 15, ISBN 1723105260
> At the age of 17, as one of the first residents of the โBig Blueโ (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 Guardianโs Office while the Church battled the government to keep L. Ron Hubbardโs wife, Mary Sue Hubbard, out of jail for her role in illegal government break-ins known as Operation Snow White. Sandra left in the 80โs only to find herself haunted by the ghosts of the Church for decades."
๐ 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
๐ฐ Chris Owen, March 19
๐ Stephen Hupp, Jean Mercer, Bruce A. Thyer, and Monica Pignotti, Cambridge University Press, April 25
๐ 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 โ especially wrapped in the bizarre trappings of the sci-fi space opera โ 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.
๐ฐ C.J. Ciaramella, Reason, January 16
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19636160W/I_Survived! I Survived!: Overcoming Abuse, Scientology and Life in General
๐ 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. Thatโs just how it was. I was told to do it and I did what I was told to do. I didnโt 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.
๐ Skylar Reese Croy, Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal, July 4
๐ฐ Amy Zimmerman, Daily Beast, May 9
๐ฐ Lynn Fountain Campbell, January 16
๐ 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.
๐ Gabriella Lee, The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Journal, pages 90-94
๐ฐ Gaรฉtan Pouliot, CBC News, January 9
๐ Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld and Frank J. Costa Jr., Yale Law Journal, Volume 128 Issue 7 Article 5
๐ 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 โ and even his own wife โ as supposed Russian agents. Thereโs no sign that any of his denunciations were taken seriously, and an FBI agent wrote, โappears mental,โ on one of his letters of denunciation.
๐ฐ Samar Habib, Psych Central, May 28
๐ 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.
๐ 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.
๐ Robin Scott, Independently published, July 2, ISBN 178972032X
> Robin was one of the three people who conspired to get a โNew Era Dianetics for Operating Thetansโ (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.
๐ฐ Jeffrey Augustine, June 3
๐ Carole M. Cusack, Implicit Religion: Journal for the Critical Study of Religion, Vol. 23 No. 1
๐ Kristian Klippenstein, University of Alberta Department of Religious Studies, September, pages 94-144, DOI: 10.7939/r3-hs9m-sm65
๐ฐ Tracey McManus, Tampa Bay Times, March 18
๐ 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
๐ 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.
๐ฐ PickAnotherID, November 4 and 7
๐ Diana Dudas, PublishDrive, December 8, ISBN 6150101320
> Dianaโs 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 โ a few years ago in Budapest, to be exact.
๐ 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.
๐ Michael A. Helfand, Washington University Law Review, Pepperdine University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2020/2, January 17
๐ฐ Tony Ortega, July 27
๐ 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.
๐ Guy Gendron, CBC/Radio-Canada Ombudsman, July 2
๐ฐ Tony Ortega, September 17
๐ Hannah Bushon, The Ashen Egg: A Journal of Undergraduate English Scholarship, Vol. 8, pages 11-28, November 1
๐ฐ Leah Remini and Mike Rinder, July 27
๐ฐ Chris Centeno, February 25
๐ 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.
๐ฐ Steven Trask, SBS Dateline, September 16
๐ Taylor C. Holley, Texas Tech Law Review, Volume 53, February 1, DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3777276
๐ 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.
๐ฐ Tracey McManus, Tampa Bay Times, February 23
๐ Stephen A. Kent, International Journal of Coercion, Abuse, and Manipulation, Volume 1 Number 2, June 8, pages 3-26
๐ Amanda Montell, Harper Wave, June 15, ISBN 0062993151
> Scientology actually offers a whole upper-level course extravagantly titled Key to Life where you word-clear all the grammatical basicsโconjunctions, determiners, single-letter words. โCan you imagine having to look up the word โofโ?โ Cathy asked me. (As a linguist, I actually could, yes, though certainly not on Scientologyโs terms.) Graduating from Key to Life is considered extremely prestigious just because youโve invested so many hours of tedium.
๐ Gary Garland, The Valuation Tribunal For England, June 10
๐ Hugh B. Urban, Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion, Volume 20, February 22, pages 329โ342, DOI: 10.1163/9789004435537_016
๐ Bernard Doherty, Implicit Religion, Volume 23 Number 2, March 5, pages 102โ128, DOI: 10.1558/imre.40237
๐ฐ Chris Owen, May 16
๐ฐ Tony Ortega, April 13
๐ Lawrence Toomajan, July
> My supervisor Marcia Valente Cruz yelled, โGet your fucking TR's in!โ 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.
๐ 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.
๐ฐ Ben Schneiders, Sydney Morning Herald, May 1
๐ Sarah R. Lonelodge, University of Oklahoma English Department, May
๐ 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.
๐ Phil Lord, UMKC Law Review, Volume 90 Number 2, March 18, pages 1โ64, DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3798780
๐ฐ Tony Ortega, March 17
๐ฐ Eric Levai, Daily Dot, February 2
๐ฐ Sergey Fadeichev, TASS Russian News Agency, September 24
๐ Michael Thorn, Journal of Media and Religion, Volume 20 Number 2, March 9, pages 1-21, DOI: 10.1080/15348423.2021.1875661
๐ฐ Alberto Sierra, The Objective, December 9
๐ Stephen A. Kent, Implicit Religion, Volume 23 Number 2, March 5, pages 167โ174, DOI: 10.1558/imre.19161
๐ Paulette Cooper, Independently Published, February 21, ISBN 9798417850950
> I was taken to a basement area in the federal courthouse to be mugshotted and fingerprinted once again. From there, I went to my arraignment in a cavernous room, which if I recall, had written on the wall in big letters: โIn God We Trust.โ But the T was missing, so it read, โIn God We rust.โ Standing there, in a room filled with a lot of frightening-looking defendants โ and some pretty scary-looking lawyers as well โ I felt as if I was about one-foot tall.
๐ฐ Mike Rinder, January 10
๐ Debbie Norwitz, Independently Published, April 17, ISBN 9798804223367
> I saw two of the shipโs crew walk over to me, and each one grabbed one of my arms and on Hubbardโs command, I heard him say, โOverboard.โ They picked me up and I went sailing over the railing through the air, landing full face into the ocean. The freezing cold water shocked my system, and I started to go under. I wanted to scream, help me, help me, but I was already under water and unable to breathe. The sleeves and pant legs of my uniform were unfolding and getting water soaked. They were getting heavier, and their weight continued to pull me down even lower under the oceanโs surface; I was panicking and thought I was going to drown.
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