John Connolly: Vanity Fair Hack is an OSA SPY!

Summary: John Connolly, contributing editor to Vanity Fair, has been outed as a spy for Scientology's notorious Office of Special Affairs. I have reported this to Federal authorities and asked for Connolly to be investigated for various crimes. The goal is to see if Scientology critics, Anonymous, and former Scientologists can get Connolly charged and arrested. We want to see Connolly do the perp walk. Mr. Townsend, CEO of Conde Nast Publications, will be contacted with a formal complaint seeking the revocation of Connolly's credentials with VF.

The game is on Mr. Connnolly. You have come to the attention of many, many of people who have sought long and hard to find and expose OSA agents such as yourself.

As an OSA Spy, you are Fair Ga, er... Fairly Lame.

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Note: The following is reposted fromM. Rathbun's blog: http://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/journalists-beware-of-scientology-inc-spy/

"Jason Beghe phoned me to catch up with hurricane aftermath news. He told me that shortly after the New Yorker story ran a John Connolly, who represents himself as a Vanity Fair regular contributor, phoned Jason. Connolly tried to pump Jason for anything he knew about the New Yorker’s investigation. A covert investigation of the author Lawrence Wright. While doing so Connolly attempted to drive a wedge between Jason on the one side and Mike Rinder and I on the other. Since Jason didn’t just fall off the turnip truck Connolly did, hard.

"John Connolly has been a Church of Scientology Office of Special Affairs informant for nearly two decades. He has infiltrated several journalists doing stories on Scientology during that time, posing as a like-minded investigative journalist working on a Scientology story. Journalists have apparently either not compared notes, or simply not noticed that Connolly hasn’t delivered on a Scientology story in the twenty years he says he’s been working on one. Connolly was originally recruited by Eugene Martin Ingram.

"Here is an excerpt from a document authored by then-DCO External OSA INT (currently CO OSA INT – and at all times since the early eighties to the present Intelligence Chief OSA Int effectively) Linda Hamel. The document is dated, coincidentally, 14 February 2006 – five years ago, today. It reports on Connolly’s spy work against the author of the unauthorized biography of Tom Cruise, UK journalist Andrew Morton.

"Welcome to the sunlight John Connolly.

"14 Feb 2006

"Connolly was here in LA working on the Pellicano story and contacted Morton and met with him on the basis of gaining his cooperation to be interviewed for an article for Vanity Fair about the books Morton has done on celebrities including the one he is writing on Tom Cruise. Connolly wanted to see what Morton was like and get any information about where Morton is currently at with regard to writing the book and to see if Morton would agree to be interviewed for an article. Based on the meeting, Connolly said that Morton seems to have finished his research already and is busy writing the book.

"Connolly told Morton that it would not be a puff piece and would show both sides including "what would be said about Morton. (Connolly will use the article to investigate Morton’s past treatment of other celebrities, use of sleazy sources, etc. that would undermine Morton’s credibility). Morton said he would check with St. Martin’s Press to get their take on cooperating for the story. Morton seems to be interested in generating publicity for the book.

"Connolly’s impression of Morton is that he is a serious writer and is a focused person but enjoyable to talk to. He knows how to use his charm to get people to talk. Morton also told him that it only took him five weeks to write the Monica Lewinsky book – so he is capable of churning out a lot in a short period of time.

"Morton said that he thought that Tom Cruise was a good story and that is why he wanted to write the book. The reporter got the impression from talking with Morton that Morton has collected a lot of information about the Church and that this will be well covered in the book. Morton also mentioned that he has an assistant who is working for him.

" Morton also said that he had met Paul Barresi a couple of times but did not go into the details of what Barresi said.

"Connolly’s impression is that Morton is a formidable adversary who is not going to back down. He thinks that Morton has made up his mind already as to the angle of the book but did not specifically say what it was.

"Morton mentioned that he had received a nasty letter from Bert Fields – he didn’t have any further comment about this.

"Morton asked if Anthony Pelicano ever worked for the client (the Church). Connolly, who is an expert on Pelicano said “no” and he doesn’t think that Tom Cruise has ever met Pelicano. Connolly will be getting back to Morton to see what St. Martin’s Press says. He has been given background documents that we have on Morton and on Barresi who we know that Morton has been using.

"This UK reporter that we have a line to has helped get information out about Morton hiring Paul Barresi. He is willing to continue to feed information and documents to the UK tabloids to discredit Morton. He made a proposal that he could rapidly write a pre-emptive positive book about Mr. Cruise, which he thought would undermine the one from St. Martin’s Press. However, when this idea of a pre-emptive book was checked with Tommy Davis, it was not something that he felt Mr. Cruise would want.

"This UK reporter will continue to be used for feeding information and stories to the UK tabloids about Morton. There is a rumor about Morton no longer being with his UK publisher Michael O’Mara which will be checked into to see if there was a conflict or a falling out. This could possibly be another attack point on Morton if it is found that there was a falling out.

"In the US Connolly, wants to do an investigative story and put a piece together on Morton and his use of sleazy sources in the books he has done about celebrities such as Madonna, the Beckhams and Tom Cruise. This would attack Morton on his reputation questioning the credibility of his sources."

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10/2011: The Big Crack in the Scientology Snow Globe World

It is 3:13 PM on All Soul's Eve -- Halloween -- here in Los Angeles. I have seen three new phases of the Karmic Vortex at work on this Hallowed Evening. I call these:

10/2010: The Great Awakening
10/2010: The Big Crack in the Scientology Snow Globe World
10/2010: The Third Tsunami

I sensed a a gigantic fracture in the Subtle Realms where CoS is moored. I think everything happens very fast now in the next 90 days. When I look, I see a giant wave of spiritual energy -- "The Third Tsunami" -- approaching CoS. I see Flag enveloped in The Third Tsunami. I thought it would come in 2011, but it has come three months early.

Here is my narrative with these three new events added at the end of the sequence:

10/2005: The Critics Have Reached Critical Mass
04/2006: We Are Witnessing the Destruction of Scientology
05/2006: Insurrection and the Underground Railroad in Scientology
01/2007: Scientology's 2007 New Years Eve Event
07/2007: Miscavigology: The New Scientology
09/2007: The Beginning of the End for Scientology
09/2007: BFG and Little Bear Victor Have Begun the Quiet Revolution
11/2007: The Divergence Has Occurred
03/2008: We Have Entered the Edge of the Debris Field
03/2008: The Rebel Alliance Forms Within Scientology
04/2008: The Karmic Vortex: The Hyper-Acceleration of Events
05/2008: Why Does David Miscavige Refuse to Speak Publicly?
05/2009: The Concept of the "Org" is Dead
07/2009: The Karmic Vortex II
06/2009: Scientology's Summer of Cognitive Dissonance
10/2009: Shadowmen LLC Exit Strategy
10/2009: The Organic Dissolution of the Church of Scientology
10/2009: The Collapse of the State of Operating Thetan
01/2010: The Scientology Diaspora
10/2010: The Great Awakening
10/2010: The Big Crack in the Scientology Snow Globe World
10/2010: The Third Tsunami

As I see it, there are now only 3-4 more significant thread titles needed to complete the sequence.

RPF, Disconnection, and SP Declares are weapons used to dispose of people quietly and without sorrow. When Scientologists are in good standing, they support these doctrines. However, with more Scientologists than ever running afoul of Miscavige's rapacious demand for more money and more slave labor, Scientologists are blowing in unprecedented numbers as they realize with horror that which they had been supporting.

This Big Crack in the Scientology Snow Globe is part of the "Great Awakening" for those who are leaving. Those who remain in CoS will experience what is happening as Scientology's Götterdämmerung.

Remember: This does not end until CoS is dismantled in its present form.


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(Note: The following was written by Joanna Cook and was posted at Marty Rathbun's blog. Entitled Labyrinth or Liberty?, this is one of the best pieces I have ever read about the desolation that is the Church of Scientology experience. Joanna really communicates the abysmal, spiritually failed misadventure that is the Church of Scientology. Joanna's work deserves attention and so I am posting the second half of her essay here)/

Begin Quote:

"The cruel part is that Scientology, as the organization stands now, is like living in a snow globe world. It’s supposed to be perfect, but it isn’t, and the world outside is supposed to be within our reach but it isn’t.

The “ideal scene” is always beyond reach, belonging to someone outside ourselves, and nothing we can do allows us to grasp it, even for a moment. We capture fragments, promises, of it, like snowflakes that melt in our hand.

The Church has these snow globe events that promise a utopian world if only everyone had Scientology, yet we have to give up our right to our own life in order to “Clear The Planet”. Has anyone ever given a concise and definite definition to what that means? I’ve had staff intimate it means we cross the threshold of theta versus entheta on a planet-wide scale, so that it means people’s entheta gets converted Poof! with a wave of awesome theta overtaking everything. And this is achieved solely through the IAS and library campaigns (not the actual Scientology services, but promises of future services) carried on the backs of broke parishioners. So basically, it means that Clearing the Planet is making sure everyone has an abundance of theta except us, yes? Wait. Huh?

Yet we must continue forward, because the fate of the entire sector of the universe rests on each one of our shoulders. If we fail now, we’ve doomed the entire race of humans, and all thetans everywhere (even though we don’t exist in space or time) now and forever, to the worst kind of misery imaginable. Our children will grow up in a cruel, bitter world devoid of any succor, so instead they should join the Sea Org and given to a life of “service”. But it’s okay, because they’re salvaging the universe.

And yet we can’t progress on the Bridge; instead of the glorious golden contraption leading us out of darkness to the rich and bountiful place of Total Freedom, we have a strange tangle of wooden planks and rope that becomes a labyrinth halfway across the chasm with a recurring return to this place called Clear. If we manage to escape out of the labyrinth, we’re struck by lightning before we can take the next step across, and if we survive that, we discover the world at the end is another snow globe – a place that is promised, supposed to be perfect, yet just out of our reach – that will only happen if the ones who finally escaped the labyrinth can convince everyone else to cross the chasm.

And no matter how much we take a sledge hammer to the glass of our snow globe, bang our heads against it, consult auditors and ethics officers and even chaplains to understand why the glass won’t crack, it’s indestructible. That world that is supposed to be ours can never be ours, and it’s all our own individual fault we can’t attain it, and because of our individual failure, we’ve screwed it up for everyone else. It’s premeditated, and designed to drive people insane. And yet it’s called Scientology.

People are in quite a conundrum. Here they are, in the middle of a chasm, and the world they’re trying to leave behind was awful – it had fears, insecurities, needless doubts and pain and hopelessness, and yet the price to attain the perfect world free of all that is creating a constant state of those things. Then, they’ve got their whole family or their children or someone they love entangled in this mess and they can’t move back without them, yet they can’t move forward, and they’re stuck in this labyrinth that is slowly eating them alive or sapping them of sanity, and the fact that they feel anything negative at all is entirely their fault, or the fault of strange beings or past incidences or otherworldly phenomena that can only be solved by moving forward.

Yet anytime they think it might be possible to actually move forward, there’s punishment in the shadows of their hope, and after a while they instinctively will hold themselves back from hoping, or from trying, and that again is cause for punishment.

In essence, the game where everyone wins is now the hell where everyone loses. Even the snow globe ideal orgs, in their perfect buildings with the perfect renovations, are built on musical chairs (swiping staff from other places), extortion, in locations that are unwise, or for orgs that were financially struggling to begin with, or based in countries under tyranny… they are supposed to be perfect, but something about them just isn’t. And people who are aware, who are supposed to be the public we seek, will know it, and instinctively they’ll stay away. Meanwhile, the org itself will be destroyed because the multiple policies protecting it have been utterly violated, and its destruction will be the fault of the public and the staff who were supposed to make it go right.

This organization that calls itself Scientology has made a premeditated effort to lock each dynamic into Scientology, at the exclusion of any other entity. For instance, the 8^th dynamic is apparently only understood when you have a total grasp of the 7^th, which you can’t fully understand until you’ve reached the top of the Bridge. The 6^th dynamic (which is constantly at war with us) can only be conquered through Scientology. The 5^th can only be salvaged from nuclear war if we Clear the Planet. We’re supposed to Clear the Planet even though “Wogs” can’t or won’t read (like they used to, they need video explanations now or they won’t get it), can’t understand basic ideas without studying 18 volumes and numerous lectures, are drug addicts, 1.1, and generally not to be trusted. Seriously, they are rather pitiful creatures when compared to us Homo Novises. They have case that sprouts off, they compare Scientology to all these other awful and weird practices, and psychiatrists everywhere have convinced them they need psychiatric drugs when all they need is Dianetics. (Plus O/Ws, Sec-Checking, donations, attendance at events, Evil purpose checks, oh we’re not supposed to mention that; Dianetics solves everything, per our patter when we do the stress tests.) And groups! My gosh, imagine trying to find a decent group outside of Scientology. What with all the people below 2.0 and faulty/inefficient technology, and ignorance on how to run a business or get along with others… so it’s better finding work and friends amongst people who understand, and can do proper admin scales, conditions, etc. Then there’s the family, which of course can only be whole and happy if Scientology is being applied. We have marriage counseling, life repair for the wayward kiddies, ethics officers standing by, and staff positions available so no one has to go to college to get a worthwhile job. Not that anyone would want to waste time with college anyway. Any friends, relatives, etc. not Scientologists are advised to become Scientologists as soon as possible. And as for the first dynamic, well, that’s not important in the scheme of things, is it? Necessity level demands we do what is the greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics, and only by consistently acting along those lines and acting as a 3.5+ on the Tone Scale can one ever have any real happiness at all.

Naturally, the greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics means what is best for the largest number of nameless faces that will benefit by our campaigns to Clear the Planet. Savings, what’s that? What’s the point in holding out for a rainy day when the fate of the world is in our hands right now? My Golly, don’t you know we’re already too late? The Big Man has his finger on the Big Red Button in this very instant, and the psyches are all but ready to take over government and all the schools, and only the IAS and the library campaign can save the day. You don’t see the connection, you say? Off with your head! I mean, over to Ethics for you.

So one day you’ve had enough, and decide you want to walk away, but you can’t. You have no choice. Exactly, it’s called Blackmail. If you leave, you lose your family, your work, your group, your only chance at salvation, your reputation, you’ve probably already lost your house, but worst of all, you lose your identity. This is who you are, now, and it’s everything you are, so it has to be okay. Things will work out. Ron promised it would in his When You Need Reassurance. So if we just hold out a little longer…

And one by one the things that were important, that made everything worthwhile, fade away, and we free-fall in our chasm, trapped in a fractured snow globe world that’s left us so we can’t reach at all; there’s nothing left to reach for. It’s the ultimate betrayal in the name of help, the one thing this wasn’t supposed to be, not this time. Some people could shatter upon this realization, and close themselves up into a tiny little box way deep inside themselves, and pretend that just because they’re still breathing it means they’re still alive; or they can go into a fit of rage; or they figure they can commit suicide; or they can walk away. Sometimes we go through shades of all these stages.

But the amazing thing is that there is a beautiful world out here waiting for us, and it isn’t separated by titanium bulletproof glass. Identities that are our own, dreams, goals, friendship, family, joy, teammanship, help, exquisite moments, are all possible and graspable and they can be yours. No scarcity. No strings attached.

It’s an interesting journey reclaiming life after it’s been molded into a shadow of what life can be, and after the shackles of what can or should exist are broken and cast aside. There’s a whole world full of awesome and friendly people, of fascinating philosophies and ideas, of life and nature experiences to be had, welcoming you with open arms — yet these things were only supposed to exist in the confines of Scientology… it has to be experienced to be believed.

For me, it makes the painful parts worth it, because at least – at last – the pain becomes transient, and the lying doesn’t have to be a necessary part of living, and prosperity, joy, unfettered existence, becomes real.

I can keep what for me is good about the philosophy, and use it as I want to, and when I want to, and my life is finally mine to live.

I want others to enjoy the gains I’ve had, and I can finally say that without the little voice in the back of my head saying, “Gains, sure, but would I want anyone to have the experience that I’ve had? No!” Being half-in and half-out is awful; I lived that for 18 months. True, I had less to lose than many still “in”: I never accepted the derogatory term “wog” and had lots of friends and family not in Scientology; my family all called it quits individually; I had no boyfriend, children, relatives in the S.O.; my job was secure; and even though things were hard for a while and there were growing pains after leaving, I would do it all again. All the painful experiences over the past year, summed up, still doesn’t come close to one week of being in that organization, not able to communicate openly, fruitlessly trying to fix things, ramming against that snow globe glass, trying to understand what was wrong with me that I couldn’t grasp. That was true pain.

I want all my friends, and my comrades, to be free of that. You deserve a beautiful, rich, full life. I hope you can hold it in your hands, and know that everyone you love can hold it, too."

Sincerely,
Joanna Cook

End Quote

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Mike Rinder: The truth David Miscavige wants to kill

Urgent: Marty Rathbun reports on his blog that Mike Rinder is on air tomorrow talking about CoS leader David Miscavige. This is the story that CoS has apparently prevented the BBC from airing. Mike Rinder is the former Executive Director of Scientology's nefarious Office of Special Affairs (OSA). The job of OSA is to conduct surveillance, spying, and smear campaigns against persons deemed to be enemies of CoS Dedicator David Miscavige:




Mike Rinder's bona fides from CoS' old webpage on him. CoS purged all traces of Rinder after he escaped from the Church:

The Independent Field and Karma

I believe that Karma is systematically dismantling CoS in its present form. Relative to CoS, certain key events are karmically unfolding according to a spiritual logic and pattern. This pattern is sometimes surreal and highly strange. I have described the sequence as I have seen it unfold since 2005. I have used certain of my thread titles to form a long-term narration of the sequence. Anonymous' arrival on the scene in February 2008 was the most staggering of all events for CoS in the sequence from 2005 forward. The meltdown of Tom Cruise in 2005 initiated the sequence.

10/2005: The Critics Have Reached Critical Mass
04/2006: We Are Witnessing the Destruction of Scientology
05/2006: Insurrection and the Underground Railroad in Scientology
01/2007: Scientology's 2007 New Years Eve Event
07/2007: Miscavigology: The New Scientology
09/2007: The Beginning of the End for Scientology
09/2007: BFG and Little Bear Victor Have Begun the Quiet Revolution
11/2007: The Divergence Has Occurred
03/2008: We Have Entered the Edge of the Debris Field
03/2008: The Rebel Alliance Forms Within Scientology
04/2008: The Karmic Vortex: The Hyper-Acceleration of Events
05/2008: Why Does David Miscavige Refuse to Speak Publicly?
05/2009: The Concept of the "Org" is Dead
07/2009: The Karmic Vortex II
06/2009: Scientology's Summer of Cognitive Dissonance
10/2009: Shadowmen LLC Exit Strategy
10/2009: The Organic Dissolution of the Church of Scientology
10/2009: The Collapse of the State of Operating Thetan
01/2010: The Scientology Diaspora

As I see it, there are 7-8 more significant thread titles needed to complete the sequence.

My support for the Indies is directly tied to my spiritual belief that they are part of the Karmic Dismantling of CoS in its present form.

To Dorothy's point, I can like their activism without endorsing their particular brand of "quasi-empirical supernaturalism."

Furthermore:

Based upon the philosophical principle of the lesser Evil, I maintain that people are harmed less in the Indie and FZ fields than in CoS.

Based upon the philosophical principle of utilitarianism, it is desirable to have Mike and Marty publicly fighting Dave. I would rather have the two gentlemen fighting Dave than working for him. I see life being easier for our side now that Mike and Marty and the Indies are openly opposing David Miscavige.

Based upon my Civil Libertarian views, I think people should have more rights and not less. If people want to attempt to erase all of the engrams, ghosts, space opera, and implants they believe to be occluding their lives by use of Scientology, why then have it! Jump in and see what's waiting for you inside of Hubbard's House of Head Games, Indieville, or the Freezone. Enter at your own risk. Pay your money, get on the cans, light up a Kool, and see what comes up for you in session.

In addition to being thoroughly discredited, the Church of Scientology should also lose its tax exempt status everywhere.


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Revolution in the Church of Scientology!

When I consider the collapsing Cult of Scientology, the word that comes to my mind over and over again is acquiescence. That is what happened to Scientologists in CoS: They acquiesced to things that were not right or true. COB and his Shadowmen worked to put Scientologists into a legal state of acquiescence. Scientologists misunderstood altogether and took acquiescence to mean compliance.

What is acquiescence?

"Acquiescence is a legal term used to describe an act of a person in knowingly standing by without raising any objection to infringement of his rights, when someone else is unknowingly and honestly putting in his resources under the impression that the said rights actually belong to him. Consequently, the person whose rights are infringed cannot anymore make a claim against the infringer or succeed in an injunction suit due to his conduct. The term is most generally, "permission" given by silence or passiveness. Acceptance or agreement by keeping quiet or by not making objections."

"Acquiescence:
1. Action or inaction which binds a person legally even though it was not intended as such.

2. Action or inaction which binds a person legally even though it was not intended as such.

3. Action which is not intended as a direct acceptance of a contract will nevertheless stand as such as it implies recognition of the terms of the contract.

4. Bitten apple: For example, if I display a basket of fruit in a marketplace and you come by, inspect an apple and then bite into it, you have acquiesced to the contract of sale of that apple.

5. Acquiescence also refers to allowing too much time to pass since you had knowledge of an event which may have allowed you to have legal recourse against another, implying that you waive your rights to that legal recourse."

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DM and his Shadowmen have made Scientology = the abandonment of rights, an acquiescence to the church made in fear over losing one's salvation. DM and his Shadowmen did this while hiding behind the UN Charter of Human Rights. This is scandalous and spiritually criminal! This type of behavior is exactly what Karma punishes.

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Marty Rathbun has answered to acquiescence with insouciance. This is close, but the better answer, the superior synthesis is Revolution. There is a Major Revolution occurring inside and outside of CoS. Theta is natively rebelling. Scientologists experience this Revolution in different ways. However, they know that an undeniable change, a major shift is underway. IMO, Marty senses the runaway Energy and wants to constructively channel it into a creative "LRH Tech Renaissance" that he characterizes as a spirit of insouciance. His efforts will gain some support, but as I see it, the Group Engram has to release all of its stored Energy before things can relax back down to a stable state condition. This could take years and years. Scientology will never be the same.

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What is happening in Scientology is an asymmetrical, runaway spiritual event, a vast unwinding and uncoiling of stored Energy. In the history of movements, senior people die as a symbol of an era passing away. IMO, Earle Cooley's recent death was a Karmic indicator that the era of DM is drawing to a close.

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Blown For Good: Behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology

"The Int Base was rotten to the core. David Miscavige knew this. He had known about all of these crimes, yet the bogus courses were still being sold, the faulty auditing was still being charged for, the money was still being taken in by orgs all around the world... Dave Miscavige was the only one that already knew all this and was NOT sitting in the SP hole at the Int Base." -- excerpt from Marc Headley's great new book Blown For Good: Behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology.

Marc Headley, or "BFG" as he was known to we critics when he first began posting online about life on Scientology's once-secret Int Base, tells a riveting story in his new "must read" book.

The first time I met BFG was at a restaurant. It was a mind-bending few hours as he related his stories of life at Gold. All of it belonged in a book. In this book, Marc shows the world how Scientology gets made and it is not ideal. Marc's book offers a "Scientology Sea Org:101" course for readers who want to know about the Sea Org up close and personal. The book includes a convenient Glossary of Scientology terms to help readers new to the subject understand Scienospeak.

Marc Headley delivers an exciting, page-turning narrative. His stories are shocking and yet he ultimately escapes from behind Scientology's Iron Curtain. Soon after Marc blew his wife Claire followed him, thus proving that Love is more powerful than the chains of Scientology. Blown for Good is an exceptional firsthand account from a Scientology survivor who became a major figure in the critics movement.

I remember when Marc and Claire showed up at one of the early Anonymous protests. They are, and remain, heroes of the movement against the abuses of the Church of Scientology. I took this picture of Marc speaking outside of the HGB in Hollywood:

This is one of my favorite BFG photos because it shows Marc down in the trenches with the rest of us. Marc is not an "Ivory Tower" guy. He took great risks when he posted as BFG at xenu.net and the other message boards. When this photo was taken, the Cult of Scientology had convinced LAPD that Anonymous was a highly dangerous group. The LAPD presence was staggering and we protesters were treated as a threat by hostile police, including undercover agents, helicopters, and OSA's private PI's. Counted among OSA's PI's were former FBI and Secret Service agents. The Cult was filming and photographing protesters in an attempt to intimidate us. It did not work. LAPD later realized that Anonymous was not a threat and that CoS had vastly hyper-inflated everything. Of course, hyper-exaggeration is not surprising coming from a Cult that tells of Space Lord Xenu nuking volcanoes full of people! That was some tax audit, eh?

At the time of this particular protest, Marc had OSA on his back in a way that few people did. He and Claire were being harassed and followed. Marc was OSA's SP #1 in the world and remains high on the SP list so far as Cult Dictator David Miscavige is concerned!

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Nancy Many: My Billion Year Contract

Congratulations to Nancy Many, former high ranking Sea Org (GO and OSA) member on her new book. You can about Nancy and order her book by clicking: My Billion Year Contract: Memoir of a Former Scientologist. I urge people to buy and read the book to look at the "fanaticism and abuse" that is at the heart of Scientology. Tom Cruise's "leaked Go to Guns"video was evidence of the pervasive and irrational fanaticism inside of Scientology as was David Miscavige's image of an exploding hand grenade at the church's 2007 New Year's Eve Event.

What drives this angry, hostile, Cult? It is not just the money; money simply serves to fuel the fanaticism. Nancy's book takes a deep look into Scientology, a predatory, psycho-occultic system of practices designed to strip its members of everything and create Homo Novis, a Master Race. Nancy speaks from direct experiences gained during her 27 years in Scientology.

Nancy's book is timely, for Scientology has recently gone on a PR offensive to prove that it is somehow good. Yet, the long-time OT's who have publicly departed and two recent Scientology suicides tell quite another story. Culture needs to understand the Evil that is Scientology. Nancy's book serves to give people real facts from a former top-ranking Sea Org member. It takes a great deal of courage to speak out against the Cult of Scientology and Nancy does so in order to prevent others falling victim to this most demented cult.

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From Nancy's website:

"To a young, teenage girl, Scientology seemed to be just what the author was looking for; a way to improve herself and attain spiritual enlightenment. But it was only after she joined Scientology’s elite inner circle, the Sea Organization, and signed a Billion Year contract that she discovered the dark world of fanaticism and abuse at the center of Scientology’s vast empire.

"For more than two decades she worked at all levels of the organization, from serving as a personal aide to the founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, who placed her in charge of the religion’s worldwide expansion to becoming the head of Celebrity Center, the organization that caters to it’s celebrity members.

"Early in her Scientology career, she spent five years as a covert agent engaged in espionage activities for the Church’s shadowy Guardian’s Office. After leaving the Sea Org she spent an additional two years as an undercover operative for the “reformed” Guardian’s Office, the Office of Special Affairs, which continued the same pattern of covert intelligence and dirty tricks against the Church’s perceived enemies while using intense legal attacks and bolstered by hire private investigators. She personally experienced the Sea Organization’s Rehabilitation Project Force; a labor camp where erring members are “re-educated”.

"When her loyalty came into question she was subjected to weeks of grueling interrogation, ending up in restraints after being rushed to a hospital by ambulance, unable to even recognize her husband.

"It is a shocking story of abuse, imprisonment, espionage, lies, mental torture and suicide- vital reading for anyone who wants to know what goes on behind Scientology’s curtain.

“Nancy Many’s book is the first full-length study to provide insight into how some of Scientology’s techniques and policies may cause or contribute to severe mental health problems among members.”
Stephen A. Kent
Professor, Department of Sociology,
Adjunct Professor, Department of
Religious Studies, University of Alberta

“My Billion Year Contract is a voyage thru the horrors of abuse and injustice in the name of the human soul. In the midst of it, we find
the healing power of the Human Spirit and Love. This memoir is of an unlikely and unwilling hero who faces the darkest of our human demons to help others. Not only is her journey riveting, she provides you will deep insight into psychosis and mind control.”
Dr. James Dincalci
Retired Psychotherapist, founder
of the Forgiveness Foundation and author of How to Forgive When You Can’t.

“This story is about the most powerful examples of how things can go wrong with the use of Scientology. It was only the deep love of her husband that brought her back from the cliff.”
Chuck Beatty

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The Twilight Glare of Scientology

Scientology Dictator David Miscavige has proclaimed a Golden Dawn. Yet, this is just another empty pretty picture. It might as well be an engram, a mental image picture that contains great pain and unconsciousness:















The OT's on Hollywood Boulevard tell quite another story. Indeed, these OT's are Truth Revealed, for they stand powerlessly in the Twilight Glare of Scientology, casting their long shadows that call to the approaching night. The once-vaunted Scientology OT's proved completely unable to stop, or even slow, the Anonymous Onslaught. The Twilight Glare, and not The Golden Dawn, is the Reality for Scientology:



















There OT's leaving Scientology like never before. New OT VIII Geir Isene has just left CoS after twenty-five years. He publicly offered a thoughtful, comprehensive eight page Write Up explaining why.

There are other Scientologists writing up their thoughts and concerns online. One of the most brilliant blogs out there is Ask the Scientologist. In a recent post, David Miscavige (DM) was discussed. It occurred to me that DM's Karma is eerily following that of LRH almost to the letter: DM is now spending time at sea, in non-extradition countries, or in the relative seclusion and security of Scientology bases that are safe-pointed by retired police officers who have proven their ability to "shoot to kill" as in the case of Mario Majorski.

The Collapse of CoS began at a Cultural Level following Tom Cruise's badly miscalculated media missteps in 2005. The Critics reached Critical Mass in 2005 when the dam broke. Critical Mass allowed for the fight against Scientology to shift from the Internet Level to the Cultural Level.

The collapse hyper-accelerated in 2008 following The Anonymous Onslaught. This onslaught shifted the Collapse of CoS from the Cultural to the Structural Level.

A potent new phase of the collapse occurred with the revelations brought about the St. Petersburg Times stories on David Miscavige. These stories shifted the Collapse of CoS from the Structural to the Dictator Level, for they offered eyewitness, executive strata testimony against David Miscavige.

The next phases of Collapse of CoS are already underway and have shifted the collapse from the Dictator to the Legal Level and will occur in courtrooms.

This is Karma. This is people speaking out and taking action. Scientology sewed the wind and is reaping the whirlwind.

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Scientology Dictator David Miscavige is Violent

The St. Petersburg Times has just broken a story in which Marty Rathbun and Mike Rinder confirm Marc Headley's shocking post on xenu.net of 14 Oct 2007. Entitled, MUSICAL CHAIRS - INT BASE STYLE - PART 2 , Headley (aka blownforgood) related a story about a sick and twisted event that unelected Scientology Dictator-for-Life David Miscavige conducted on Scientology's "Int Base" (Scientology's International HQ).

Tom Cruise and David Miscavige are best friends. Based upon what you are about to read, coupled with the fact that David Miscavige arguably killed both L. Ron Hubbard and Lisa Mc Pherson, no one should ever see a Tom Cruise movie again. Tom Cruise's best friend is a killer. Tom Cruise appears to be willingly ignorant of this, or knows and doesn't care. The information is there to read and it is all based on fact and court records. Tom Cruise is a sick, twisted cultist.

Here are excerpt's from Marc Headley's post of 14 Oct 2007 at xenu.net:

"MUSICAL CHAIRS - INT BASE STYLE

"It was just another day in hell.

"We had been 'restricted' to the CMO Int/WDC conference room for 2 months now. The basic R-factor (Reality Factor) was that until all org boards and postings for the Int Base, FB and Class V orgs were done, we were not allowed to leave. We had to sleep under our desks each night and food was brought in. We were allowed to go down to the Gold Estates Building for showers if we went down real early. We were not allowed to be around while other base staff were around.

"We were allowed to go to different areas of the Base, if it was regarding a specific COB order that had been issued. If we were to have been found to cross order COB in any way while we were in any areas, it was an immediate RPF assignment...

"Today’s meeting will be at 3PM in the CIC conference room in CMO Int. This room holds about 20 people max and that is with about 10 sitting on one side of the table and the rest standing behind them or sitting in chairs in the room behind the ones sitting at the table. The other side of the table is for Dave. He usually sits at the table and has a set variety of things that have been placed there by his stewards before the meeting:

"Water (specific brand that only he drinks) No one would dare drink that same brand water!
Protein bars
Ashtray
Pack of Camel non-filter cigarettes
Pens
Paper
Tape recorder (unless room is hardwired for recording which all Int Base conference rooms are)

"The attendants of this meeting are the CST guys, Russ Bellin and his staff that are running projects at the Base, CMO Int execs, and Gold Execs...

"He (David Miscavige) then asks for a copy of the “Queen’s Greatest Hits” CD to be brought down to the conference room. After it is brought down he plays the CD for us and tells us to listen. You have got to picture this. You have 20 people who probably don’t give a crap about Queen, have not eaten, are tired and exhausted do not care about mixing or at least are certainly not going to take away a whole lot in terms of learning about it today, but yet we listen…

"While Dave is playing the CD for us, I think during “Keep Yourself Alive” he suddenly becomes very happy and jumps up from the table. “I just had a great idea!” he says. He is the happiest any of us have seen him in months, almost in glee about this new idea that has popped into his head. He says that we should get something to eat, then get all of CMO Int rounded up and into the WDC conference room for a meeting in about an hour. He says to remove the table from the middle of the room and make sure that there are enough chairs for EVERY SINGLE PERSON to sit down. He is very clear to make sure we understand this part...

"It is around 5:30PM.

"Dave shows up and talks about the org boards and postings, He also talks about how there have been over 500 people that have been musical chaired off post over the last 5 years. (He leaves out the part about most of them being as a result of his orders) He then asks a few people what musical chairs means. About 3 people answer with the Scientology definition of musical chairs, no one seems to know that it means something else. One guy from Programs says that it is a game. Dave has him explain the game to everybody.

“'Good. So you guys understand the game?'” Dave asks. 'Okay, well today we are all going to find out how the entirety of Scientology feels about you guys playing musical chairs with the posts of international Scientology orgs and the Int Base. We are going to play the game musical chairs, but with a twist. You are all going to walk around these chairs here, while the music plays, a chair will be removed, and whoever does not get a chair when the music stops, well, that person will be offloaded from the Int Base.'”

“'Those are the rules and that is the game. Oh and the person who is left standing when all but one chair is pulled out will stay here and help me repost the base and get Scientology expanded. This is not a joke and I am not kidding. You guys have fucked with me for the last time. I am going to find out right now and right here, who is the most determined to stay here.'”

"You can imagine the horror on the faces in the room. There were about 70 people in the room and everybody knew that this was going to be a very cutthroat ordeal.

"And what did 'offloaded' mean? There were so many definitions for this word at the Int Base that this was not so clear. To most this would mean that they were going to be given $500 put on a bus to the middle of nowhere and told to never come back. Some had the hope that it meant to a lower org maybe. To some it meant going to the RPF in ANZO, CANADA or AFRICA where no external trouble could be caused.

"There was a lot of fumbling around to get the chairs into a giant circle. Dave had the Cine Sec Gold (Federico Tisi) bring up a video camera so they whole thing could be videoed. This was going to be a major production!

"Dave played a few CDs. The Queen one did not work for what he was trying to do. 'We are the Champions' was not the right message for this. 'Mozart's Requiem Mass' was what I think he ended up using. How appropriate!

"Anyway, the first people to go were the usual suspects, the older, more reserved bunch. As people would leave the game, Dave had them lined up in one area of the room. He would jab comments at them and apologize for it having to end up like this. If the person was married or had a spouse in Gold, he would ask them why they had not thought about this before. 'Is it real to you now?' he would ask.

"One guy, John Oldfield, was leaving the game. He was married to Megan Oldfield in Gold. She was a video editor and they had been married at least few years. John had tears running down his face. Dave asked him why he was crying. John said that he was going to miss Megan and that he did not want to have to leave like this. Dave said, “Well you never cried for me!”

"To prove that he was not kidding, Dave had one of his staff go off and come back with actual airline tickets printed up with the people’s names on them. They were handed out to people that had been kicked from the game so far.

"As the amount of people was getting thinner, Dave started to let the music play longer. This went on for hours...

"As the final people were weeding out, people were being thrown to the ground, pushed against walls and otherwise totally fighting for a chair. If you could imagine what it would be like if pro athletes played a game of musical chairs, that was what it was like for the last 15 or so people.

"It was very sad to watch. People, who were best friends for years, were throwing their best friend to the ground for a chance to get a seat in a chair. Most of the people who had lost were just made to stand there and wait. Wait and do nothing except wonder where you would end up, what would you do, who would you ever see again?

"Most of these people knew nothing else except for the Int Base. They had very little or no family, or at least they had not seen their family in so long, they did not even know if they could go to them.

"No one had credit cards, bank accounts, any more than 50 dollars to their name. Very few staff had driver’s licenses and fewer had vehicles. And even if they did have a vehicle, it either did not run or had been years since they had registered or insured it. How would they live, how would they even eat? What would their spouses think of them? Would they be told that they were an SP and never hear from their family or partner again?

"There were now around 70 people standing off in this big group. These people were now being referred to as the “Offload Group” by Dave. 50% had either been crying or were crying at this point. The other half might have even been happy to get the hell out of there or did not care enough either way to cry.

"The last 4 people were Greg Wilhere, Sue Wilhere, Mark Ingber and Lisa Schroer. Mark was literally thrown aside by Greg Wilhere. Lisa beat out Greg for a seat.

"Sue Wilhere and Lisa Schroer walked around a single chair for what seemed to be an eternity while Mozart rang out. Then the music stopped.

"The music stops and both of them fight for the single seat.

"As fate would have it, Lisa Schroer got the seat and Sue was sent to the side.

“'A deal is a deal,'” Dave Miscavige says to Lisa, 'you can stand next to me.'”

“'The rest of you are not done yet. We still have to figure out where you will all end up going.'”

"At this point Dave tells everybody to split up into groups of 7 and that no couples can be in any groups. So if both you and your spouse were in the room, you would have to go to different groups so that even once offloaded, you could not be together!

"The groups were split into seven separate groups. 10 people in seven groups of ten.

'Dave asked the first group where the thought that they should go. Of course none of them could agree on one place as there were 10 different people from 10 completely different places in the world. 'Okay, I know how to solve this' Dave has Marj Habshied brought into the room from here office. Marj was working in ESI as the SO#1 I/C. People would right in to ED INT from orgs all over the planet and she would answer them for him. Most of the time he would not even see the responses or even care to read them. This went on for years. Anyway, Marj was fresh on DM’s mind from this flap that had recently come up, so she would decide the fate of ten people today.

'DM was also careful to make sure that everyone in the room knew that no one could tip Marj off to what was going on in the room. Everybody needed to put on a happy face and not say ONE SINGLE WORD to Marj when she came in.

'Marj walks into the room. Dave asked her if she knows a lot about the different Conts around the world and the state of the Scientology orgs in each. She said that she was very knowledgeable about this as she gets letters from all areas and knows which ones complain about what in each area. Dave asked her to tell him which one that she felt was the worst of all. She hemmed and hawed a bit, but eventually came up with Canada.

'Dave had someone sent off to fetch the Org photos binders for Canada that exist in the Landlord office. These photos were weekly updated binders of all orgs and Sea Org units in Canada.

'Marj was asked to wait by Dave until the photos arrived. Little did Marj know that she was actually deciding where ten people would end up going after being offloaded tonight.

'The photos arrive and sure enough there are pictures of black toilets crusted in filth, 15 beds in a single room at the CLO berthing, Showers with green mold on the tiles, etc. The photos were horrid. In the binder it had said that the CLO had been broken into just a week prior and that the CLO was behind on rent and the crew had not been paid in many weeks. The CLO was not making enough money to purchase food for the crew and some had been working on missions in the orgs so that they could get food and berthing money to support at least themselves.

'Dave asked Marj if she was sure that this is the Cont that she considered the worst of all. She agreed and was dismissed. As soon as she left the room and was out of earshot, Dave said that the first group would be going to Canada.

'Dave then asked the next group who they thought the most out ethics person on the base was, This person was brought up to the room and then their Cont was picked out.

'This went on for at least an hour, Dave reading out things about the Cont, showing the pictures around the room, making sure that everybody could see that any place they went was going to suck and that no matter what, the INT Base was a resort compared to any of these places... "

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J. Swift's Paris Travel Journal -- Part VIII

Madame continued, "When the German Army collapsed in the West, the Americans were the first to reach Pennemunde and Von Braun. He negotiated amnesty and American citizenship for all of his scientists in exchange for the truckloads of secret rocket data he had hidden in a large cave. The Americans agreed and soon Arnaud and I had been secretly taken to an American air base in England awaiting passage to America.

We were sent to England in early May of 1945 in an American Army DC-3. A day or so after we landed we were having lunch with Allen Dulles when his aide came into the room and said that the BBC had just broadcast the news that Himmler had commited suicide while in American captivity. Arnaud made the strange remark that Himmler would be replaced by the powers of Evil. Allen Dulles, with whom we having lunch asked Arnaud what this meant. A conversation ensued in which Allen Dulles of the American OSS learned of Arnuad's occult and alchemical studies.

"This was not so unusual as you might think because many Germans, especially the Nazis, had occult fascinations during the war. Arnaud, who was not a Nazi, shared the broader European fascination with occultism that had arisen in the 1920's during a renaissance of Madame Blavatsky's work. The OSS learned that Arnaud had a pre-war friendhip with Aliester Crowley and this interested Allen Dulles very much.

"Mr. Dulles had learned that Crowley was the occultic teacher of Jack Parsons, the American rocket scientist who worked at the Jet Propulsion Labs in Pasadena, California. This was all very pleasing to the Americans as it meant that Arnaud would probably be very happy to come to America and work with Jack Parsons. So Arnaud's OSS handler arranged for him to secretly meet Crowley in London to renew their pre-war friendship. When the OSS became the CIA in 1947, nothing changed for Arnaud and he continued to work with Jack Parsons. Jack was a very complex and charming man.

"Arnuad's meeting with Crowley lasted a few days. Arnaud and Aliester had many discussions, all of which they knew were being secretly recorded by Mr. Dulles. This did not matter as their talk centered on non-scientific matters and focused on Crowley's work with the Golden Dawn in America and Jack Parsons. Arnaud agreed to meet with Parsons when he arrived in America. Only too conveniently, the next day Mr. Dulles told Arnaud that he was being assigned as a senior scientist to work on the secret rocket fuels program being conducted at the Jet Propulsion Labs and Muroc Army Air Force Base in Mojave. Jack Parsons was also assigned to the program. Muroc was then a very secret base where captured German technology of all kinds was Americanized and tested:

"Arnaud was the only captured German scientist to be sent to America so quickly. We were both given a new identity as a German-Polish couple who had spent the war in England with our children. We had no belongings other than some clothes and so a new household was easy to begin. We had our family and some of the other scientists and their families we had known in Pennemunde were soon moved to Pasadena and we had friends. It was good to forget the war and its horrors.

"The first few years spent in America were very productive for Arnaud at JPL. He and Jack Parsons become very good friends and discussed science and occult matters at length. Jack had not been formally trained as a scientist and learned a great deal from Arnaud, who by then was known by the new name the OSS/CIA had given him, but we will call him Arnaud just the same.

"Arnaud and Jack Parsons went to England twice to see Crowley and I knew there was some sort of CIA involvement and experiments into paranormal matters and electrical equipment to measure the paranormal. I gathered all this from "electronic seance" experiments that Arnuad and Jack conducted in our home with another experimenter named Volney Matheson... and then there was L. Ron Hubbard. He was living there in Jack Parson's home. Ron and Jack liked to...."

"What, what, what?" Bill stammered.

"Not now, we can talk later about that," Madame replied.

I knew what she didn't want to tell Bill. He was not ready to hear it in any case.


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J. Swift's Paris Travel Journal -- Part VII

Bill asked the question that I was about to ask: "Wherever did you get these Madame de Volange?" I too wanted to know where did she got these extremely valuable Scientology artifacts. I also wanted to know why was she showing them us.

"My late husband Arnaud was a German scientist," Madame began. "I married him in 1935 when I was very young and he was middle-aged. It was an arranged marriage between our families.

"Arranged?" I queried.

"You should tell them Nana," insisted Natasha.

"Yes, I should. You see gentlemen, I am a Duchess, for my dear Arnaud was a Duke in the German nobility. My own father was a Duke in the French nobility and so our families arranged a marriage in order to consolidate their great landed estates along the French-German border. In this way, no matter which side won the next World War -- which all knew was coming -- our families hoped that by intermixing our French and German noble bloodlines we would be able to keep all of our lands and castles."

So Madame de Volange was actually the Duchess de Volange. This would explain the beautiful old castle in the French countryside that sat atop the old stone cellar we were in. Madame de Volange was not a guest in the cellar as I had thought, but was rather the Duchess of castle and large estate in which it stood. She was an heiress in a long bloodline of French nobles.

"Arnaud was a brilliant chemist, a true genius" she continued, "When the war came he was forced by the Nazis to work on an exotic fuel for a secret rocket program."

"The V1?" I asked.

"Yes, the V1. Arnaud worked for Werner von Braun on the fuel for the world's first rocket of war. This made him very depressed to know that the rocket would kill people. He wanted to escape with me and the children to Britain or America but it was too late by 1939. Arnaud knew the Nazis would kill him and his family if he refused to work for them. As the war and killing began, Arnaud turned to the secret of his own royal bloodline: Alchemy. You see, for hundreds of years the men in Arnaud's family had practiced alchemy. He was descended from some of the greatest alchemists in Europe."

"You mean Arnaud tried to turn base metals into gold?" Bill interjected.

The Duchess looked at him in a bemused way. "No my dear man," she repiled. "Arnaud practiced the true alchemy, which is to transmute the human soul into the divine."

"I thought alchemy was about gold," Bill insisted.

"That is exoteric alchemy," she answered. "The true alchemy has nothing to do with something as common as metal. Arnaud was using alchemy as a way to ennoble himself as well as find the means to secretly kill Hitler. When Hitler once came to watch an early test launch of a V1, Arnaud sabotaged the fuel system so that the rocket would explode on launch. It did. Unfortunately, Hitler was in a bunker and it did not harm him. The explosion was written off as a bad experimental result and Arnaud was never suspected by the SS.


"As World War II progressed, the V2 program began and rockets began to shower down on London. Arnaud became suicidal at the killings and would have taken his own life had it not been for his family and his many prophetic dreams. For example, one night near the end of the war in an alchemical dream, Arnaud saw Hitler shooting himself down under the earth in his bunker. He secretly shared the dream with Von Braun who knew things that Arnaud and the other scientists did not know. Von Braun knew the end of the war was much closer than any of the scientists working for him in the isolation of Pennemunde realized. Von Braun took Arnaud and a few other trusted scientists into his confidence and they began to secretly hide hundreds of file cabinets of secret scientific documents in lorries that they hid in a cave. These documents would be their bargaining chips after the war.

"Arnaud was the only scientist who knew the secret formula and techniques for making the V2's rocket fuel. For Von Braun -- as well as the Americans, the British, and the Russians, this made Arnaud especially important. Many people wanted to capture him when the war ended.


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J. Swift's Paris Travel Journal -- Part VI

An old blind man, who knew he was dying, sat on a small bench in the plaza chain smoking. He was paralyzed in fear over the many voices he heard inside of his head:


He wore sunglasses so that no one could see his dead eyes.

The old man saw things from the past and heard these thousand voices, but mostly he thought of a poem by e. e. cummings and what it meant for him as he was about to depart the body:

"what if a much of a which of a wind
gives the truth to summer's lie,
bloodies with dizzying leaves the sun
and yanks immortal stars awry?
Blow king to beggar and queen to seem
(blow friend to fiend:blow space to time)
when skies are hanged and oceans drowned,
the single secret will still be man.

"what if a keen of a lean wind flays
screaming hills with sleet and snow:
strangles valleys by ropes of thing
and stifles forests in white ago?
Blow hope to terror;blow seeing to blind
(blow pity to envy and soul to mind)
whose hearts are mountains, roots are trees,
it's they shall cry hello to the spring

"what if a dawn of a doom of a dream
bites this universe in two,
peels forever out of it's grave
and sprinkles nowhere with me and you?
Blow soon to never and never to twice
(blow life to isn't:blow death to was)
—all nothing's only our hugest home;
the most who die,the more we live

*****
The old man's cruel nephew would soon come to take the man back to his very small home, an old trailer behind a castle. The nephew lived in the castle where the old man once had lived when he was young and grand and ruled all he surveyed. But now he was blind and heard voices and wanted to live in the small trailer where he would not trip over things as he did in the castle. He knew that his nephew wanted him to die in order to inherit everything, but the old man did not care and was in fact long past caring. The old man reached into his pocket and took a pill. Soon the pill would hit his bloodstream and the voices would be quiet for awhile and the man's mind would be quiet enough to consider the final part of the poem:

what if a dawn of a doom of a dream
bites this universe in two,
peels forever out of it's grave
and sprinkles nowhere with me and you?


What did it mean to be sprinkled over nowhere after having been seemingly everywhere?

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J. Swift Paris Travel Journal -- Part V

Madame de Volange and Natasha returned with the warm cookies. Madame then poured cognac for all of us. We sat and exchanged small talk at her table as we enjoyed the cookies and a very fine vintage Napoleon cognac.

Madame then asked me to help her get something. She led me down a dark hallway at the end of which was an ancient prison cell door.

Taking a keyring full of antique keys from her coat pocket, she selected a large old skeleton key and ulocked the great padlock on the door. She asked me to remove the padlock and open the door. The padlock weighed at least ten pounds and was several hundred years old judging by the crude craftsmanship of its heat-hammered rivets and iron plate. The door consisted of hammered wrought iron hinges and and bars that were bolted to thick planks of oak. I had to slide the lockbar open before I could open the door. Small flakes of rusted iron fell to the floor as I slid the lockbar open. The door was extremely heavy and took a great deal of strength to open as it swung slowly for what was probably the first time in years on its dry creaking hinges.

The door opened into a small musty prison cell. Upon one wall hung two sets of shackles bolted to the walls by short lengths of medieval chain. The cell reminded me of a religious inquisition, an ecclesiastical kangaroo court ruled over by violent religious idiots:

Madame de Volange flipped an old electrical switch and a faint incadescent light bulb illuminated the dark room. There was a large cedar box on the floor that had metal fittings. I recognized the box as being an airtight museum storage box. My estimation was correct as next to the box was a large metal cylinder of nitrogen that was used to purge the box of air when it was closed after each use. Madame asked me to carry the large box back to the table. The box was heavy. I wondered what was inside.

Bill and Natasha turned to look at me carrying the large box down the hallway towards them. Madame walked ahead of me and asked Natasha to clear the table. She then gestured for me to place the box on the floor as I approached.

I placed the box on the floor and we all gathered around as Madame de Volange again took the ancient iron loop keyring from her pocket, selected an old key, and unlocked the large padlock on the box. She had me open the box. Inside were two packages wrapped in black velvet with one stacked upon the other.

Madame had me take the first package and place it on the table. She undid the wax seal on the front fold of the black velvet and pulled the velvet apart so that we could see what was inside. It was a very sleek wooden box that had an excellent finish on it. She opened the the hinged lid and we were all amazed to see a pristine vintage E-Meter. A highly polished brass plate engraved with the intials "LRH" was mounted on the face of the meter just below the dial.

"It is the first E-Meter that Hubbard had made by Volney," she told us. We all stared at each other in amazement. Madame said nothing else as she gestured for me to take the second package out of the box. I did and placed it next to the E-Meter. Again, Madame broke the wax seal on the black velvet and opened the package.

It was an old manuscript bound by a leather strap. The cover page read:

Excalibur: The Secrets of Life.
Copyright 1948, by L. Ron Hubbard

Bill gasped.

It was quite an astonising thing to see the first E-Meter and the fabled lost Excalibur manuscript!

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J. Swift's Paris Travel Journal -- Part IV

After visiting Notre Dame the next morning, Natasha, Bill, and I took a cab to see an old fortune teller who has been a lifeling a friend of Natasha's mother. The woman is considered to be a powerful psychic and many important people come to see here.

We will call her Madame de Volange after the character in [i]Dangerose Liasons[/i]. The title is apt, for this meeting was to prove to be a dangerous liason for Bill. We had to go down the stairs of an old stone building and make our way through a very large old stone wine celler to find the place where Madame de Volange read tarot cards and did readings.

We found old Madame de Volange under the earth napping by the fireplace in the rooms of the cellar where she worked. She was lying on a small sofa while a stereo played the music of [i]Somewhere in Time[/i]. Having helped raise Natasha, Madame de Volange was expecting her child for the air was rich with the smell of chocolate chip cookies baking in the oven. Madame de Volange awoke as we entered and greeted Natasha and I warmly. She offered me her hand and I bowed and kissed it as a gentleman would do in France.

She did not speak to Bill but instead turned and studied him.

"Scientologiste, oui?" she asked as she looked at Bill.

"Oui, Scientologiste," Bill replied.

They looked at each other for a few moments and then Madame de Volange offered her hand. Bill was not so gallant as to kiss her hand and instead shook it. She smiled and gestured for Bill and I to sit down at the round table while she and Natasha went to take the cookies out of the oven.

"Did Natasha tell her?" Bill asked.

"Yes, she did," I answered.

"Does she like Scientologists?"

"I haven't a clue, Bill," I said. "All I know is that she wanted to meet an OT VII."

"Why?"

"Natasha said that she wanted to see what an OT was like, you know see if she senses any special powers in you."

"Fine."

"Okay."

"Does she know the tech?" Bill quizzed me in that impatient way he has.

"Why would she know the tech? She's a psychic."

Bill smiled that smug Scientologist smile that says, "We know it all and no one else does."

Was he in for a surprise!


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J. Swift's Paris Travel Journal -- Part III

I walked into my hotel room and Natasha was waiting for me on the balcony. She had made me a scotch and soda:


"Is that an E-Meter in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?" she asked.

"I am as sensitive and sexy as Pan," I replied, "Lord help women when I begin to fondle them...."

"Shut up!" Natasha laughed as she handed me the drink.

*****

Tonight would be all about Natasha. Bill was on his own as he wandered the streets of Paris in search of the secret key that would unlock the entire mystery of his wholetrack and the enigma of existence itself. The pale and angry ghost of L. Ron Hubbard, dragging its chains, would follow Bill and whisper to him....

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J. Swift's Paris Travel Journal - Part II

Bill and I walked along the Boulevards of Paris and had our same argument all over again.

"Bill, what is the point of auditing your past? You have hundreds of lives and tens of thousands of years of existence. You will never be able to inspect all of it. It is all a bottomless pit that never ends. I say that true spirituality requires that one walk away from their past and drop it. Get over it."

"Yes, but J., there are things in us from the past that keep us trapped. Auditing allows perople to locate these things and eliminate them so that they are free of them. The systematic elimation of past traumas makes a person free."

Free of what? Really? What does Scientology make a person free from? David Miscavige still has asthma. Tom Cruise has two divorces under his belt. You are not happy as a result all of your years of auditing. So who in Scientology is free? No one is certainly free of Ethics."

Bill lit a cigarette and didn't speak right away. We had had arguments about entheta versus truth and I had agreed to say only what was true and never use entheta around him.

It is hard for Bill to be an OT VII. He is supposed to have massive OT powers and does not. He does not lie to himself anymore. This is part of what he calls his truth process. He will not lie to himself anymore: Either a thing is true or it isn't. So he is caught being an OT VII without any of the promised spiritual powers.

"How can one drop their past, J.? One cannot be free of that which they have not located, examined, and re-experienced so that is disappears. Auditing is a way of annihilating the past at all levels so that it no longer holds power over you."

"Bill, how many lifetimes will you spend examining and annihilating your past? You don't even know which parts of your past are real or imagined. You don't even know which parts of your past you really lived. Why audit someone else's past?" I asked with a veiled reference to BT's. "Karmically speaking, you can handle the past by, as the Zen parable says, 'throwing it like snow into a roaring furnace.' You can simply decide to stand free of your past by noticing it when it arises and standing apart from it. Look, one needs introspection and transcendence and yet this path has been around for thousands of years. None of the masters has ever made enlightenment about a massive inspection of a person's past -- and for a price no less! You are paying to audit your past and the totality of your being and yet you go around and around in circles and always arrive back in the same place: You are who you are in some permanent way. Your nature and character are fixed somehow by destiny and karma."

Bill shot me that look. That "look" is one where he is trying to decide if I am an SP or if I am making sense.

"I refuse to admit that I am stuck or cannot change."

"Look, Bill, that is not what I am saying. I am saying it is like the ocean: The ocean is the ocean. It is wet and has waves and its tides move by the pull of the Moon. That is the nature of the ocean. The ocean is perfect in what it is and it can't not be the ocean. There is no problem or engrams for the ocean and there is nothing to change. It is like this with your essential nature and you can relax into the purity of your own nature and stop fighting it and trying to kill it with auditing."

"Yes but J. surely you realize that the ocean is a vast machine of Nature and that men are not. We have motives to decide, choices to make whereas the ocean does not. Auditing is focus. Auditing is a choice not to be trapped by the machine."

"But what is Scientology except a tautological machine? It is a big instution devoted to keeping people doing what? What is it you really do?"

"You don't know."

"I do."

"No, you only know what you read on the internet. Let's go over by Notre Dame and get a cappucino." Going to get a coffee was Bill's signal to back off. I do the same thing to him sometimes when he crowds me.


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J. Swift's Paris Travel Journal: Part I

I arrived in Paris, the City of Lights, and it was breathtaking to once again see the Eiffel Tower:


This photo is from the internet as I am not such a good photographer, oui? I have my dear Natasha with me as well as my OT friend who we will call Bill. Bill is an OT VII. He is having very serious problems with his participation in Scientology after decades in the Church. I offered to pay all of his expenses and take him with me to Paris so he could get away from all of the phone calls and the demands that he do Sec Checks and get back into the Org. He has not left CoS and is not in any immediate danger of a Declare as he has money. Bill has loads of money despite Scientology's best efforts to bleed him dry all these years. CoS would prefer to keep their greedy hands on him and has suggested a program recently to get Bill back on lines. Bill put them off. He also refused my offer to pay for his trip as a gift and insisted that we share the costs of the trip. He does not want to feel obligated and I understand.

My lovely Natasha is my girlfriend, my lover, and best friend. I lavish her with affection and gifts. She is the finest woman in the world and I worship the ground upon which she walks. I am in Paris with my girlfriend and my old pal Bill. Although he is in Paris, Bill remains mordant and gloomy. I know he is dealing with a great inner struggle with Scientology and my goal is to tip the scales in Paris so that he blows. Bill is even now in his room solo auditing and smoking Kool menthol cigarettes, the same LRH smoked:



Although Bill will not speak to me of the upper levels, he knows I have read all of the levels online. He knows I know the secrets and it has not killed me. This bothers him. Many things about Scientology increasingly bother Bill. He is always asked for money. Someone from Super Power tried to reg him for an amount he would only say was, "Well over $50,000." He has already given much money to Scientology and his issues remain unhandled. The Church makes him wrong for having these issues. When they fail to deliver what they are paid for, they refuse to refund money and instead say that it is an SP in one's environment causing the problem. Bill knows me as a good friend and refuses to see me as an SP so I am not the problem. He does not know I post here. I do not ask him about the upper levels and he does not ask me what I do online.

My job in Paris is to convince Bill to leave Scientology once and for all. That is the main reason I arranged this trip. Well, that and to take Natasha shopping and look at art. I will also visit the Paris Org and have concocted what should be a fun adventure.

While Bill was auditing, Natasha and I went to the Paris Opera House to meet some friends of her's who live in Paris:



The Opera House is truly one of the most beautiful places in Paris. Europe is so rich in art and architecture that one quickly realizes that America has very few buildings that can compare.


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