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by Andy Porter
For 20 years I was an active member of the Church of Scientology, first as a public person taking courses, then as a staff member and finally as an international missionary. My trajectory through the church traces a dual path of increasing awareness and improvement while at the same time trying not to notice the things that were wrong. The problem was that the more aware I became the harder it was to ignore what wasn’t right.
My story is not heroic. I made and accepted excuses for the “bad” parts of the Church. In many cases I perpetrated wrongnesses on others, led witch hunts and used force and threats to get compliance. In the end it was only when I, personally, had been repeatedly betrayed that I was prompted to take action.
Last week I received a call from the local Org ethics officer, informing me that I had been declared a suppressive person. No reason was given, I was not sent, or shown, or even read my SP declare. Such was my ignoble ending of church membership!
The trip started in 1980 in Bellevue, Washington. I had just moved to Washington and was looking for a job when I was stopped by an attractive gal in the street and asked to do a survey. This led to taking the personality test and signing up for the Communications Course.
Back then the course consisted of reading the definitions of basic scientology terms and then doing the Training Routines (TRs). I completed the course in a few weeks and was then signed up for an auditor training package at the mission.
In a few more months I completed the training and became a New Era Dianetics Auditor. I then went over to the local Scientology Org and did my internship and started the next training levels.
Things seemed pretty cool in Scientology, there were lots of young people, like me, and the idealism was up my alley. “To hell with the “authorities” let’s create a better world.” The concept of the reactive mind was very real and as I audited more people I could really see that there was a hope.
Andy at Clear Lake
In June 1981 I joined staff at Bellevue Mission. I was posted in Division 6 and was a body router, basic course supervisor and Div 6 registrar. I was good at doing test evaluations and started giving introductory lectures. Read the rest of this entry »
John Rafanello
I was directly responsible for bringing thousands of people into Scientology.
I did events and seminars that completely rekindled people’s faith and belief in the power and Magic of Ron’s Tech.
Many people joined staff after attending my events and seminars. Hundreds of others dedicated themselves to doing both sides of the bridge. (All the training and all the processing).
I trained up to Class-VIII, and did nearly all of the Admin and PR courses to record stats.
I did tens of thousands of hours of very well done auditing.
I supervised the Solo Course and Briefing Course to record wins and stats, with hundreds of glowing success stories.
I interviewed the stars at the Academy Awards the day I completed Ron’s 1st PR course
I dedicated over twenty years to making Scientology and Ron’s tech well known, well though of and lived.
I had incredible personal case gain, including many OT experiences so amazing and so fantastic I was often reluctant to say they considering I would not be believed.
Then I was illegally Com-Eved and declared to be a SP (To quote the Dianetics and Scientology Tech Dictionary – “A person who rewards only down statistics and never rewards an up statistic. He goofs up or vilifies any effort to help anybody and particularly knifes with violence anything calculated to make humans beings more powerful or intelligent. A suppressive person automatically and immediately will curve any betterment activity into something evil or bad. “A person who doesn’t get any case gain because of continuing overts.
I presented over 7500 written success stories to the ComEv, and, evidence of the fantastic case gain I had enjoyed. All of it was ignored. (I am attaching a few of the success stories to this report, and a few pictures from people who attended some of the seminars I did at the Founding Church in Washington DC, as one example of the wins people got from my services.)
Every statement on the published golden rod SP declare was a lie.
Also, the ComEv was illegal, because I had been awarded Kakan status personally by Ron and was not supposed to have any ethics action done except at Flag. That was totally ignored, as the ComEv was done in LA by non tech staff.
The Declare was broadly published and distributed throughout the Scientology Orgs, but no copy was ever sent to me.
As a result of the declare, hundreds of close friends were required, to disconnect from me. Subsequently hundreds did so under the threat of losing their Bridge to Total Freedom if they did not. Those who asserted that I was not an SP, and those who protested the idea that they had to disconnect and have nothing to do with me, were either declared because they refused to disconnect, or they were finally coursed into doing so.
The pain I suffered for years, (and to a degree to this very day), because so many loved ones disconnected to me, even when the knew I was not an SP, is indescribable. There is nothing greater than love, and nothing more painful than having it unjustly denied to you. For years the idea that the Church I gave so much of my life to, and the friends that I loved so dearly, would turn their backs on me because the Church said they had to, was pure hell. I had horrible nightmares about it for years, and it took years to confront what had happened, and come to terms with it.
For over twenty five years no one in the Church has made any effort to correct this injustice.
I am putting this on the line now, to see if there is anyone who has the willingness, courage or authority to accept the truth.
In has been my belief and experience that I would have to confess to overts and crimes I did not commit in order to be forgiven by the Church. It seemes that innocence is not something the Church will accept. Guilty as charged, seems to be the only acceptable reality. Confess and you will be allowed to make up the damage and work your way back up the conditions.
Sincerely,
John Rafanello
Class -VIII OT-VII
Invitation to all of you to the International Event in Copenhagen this year.
Look forward to see you!
The picture is not that sharp, click on it to enlarge or download the PDF format.
Charlotte Nød
Professor Walter J. Veith
http://AmazingDiscoveries.org
Life at its best (9 parts)
Your Health Your Choice (8 parts)
Sitting on a Time Bomb (8 parts)
Udderly Amazing (8 parts)
Health and Happiness (8 parts)
- когда началось спаивание славянского народа?
- откуда взялась “культура правильного пития”?
- когда нам навязали, что наши предки пили и это в нашей культуре?
- вред спиртного, мифы о пользе и многое, многое другое
- из 36 минут видео – ни одной лишней!
Here is another work of protest and rebellion against the usurpers of Scientology that is destined to join the list of classics. This declaration of independence comes from a French OT 8, artist and true Scientologist. Please see that his work was not done in vain; disseminate it as far and wide as you possibly can.
Marty Rathbun
http://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2012/04/06/vincent-magni-truth-revealed/
Également disponible ici dans sa version originale en Français
Vincent Magni – Wahrheit enthüllt
Personal Website: http://www.vincentmagni.com/vincentmagni/index.html
From: Vincent Magni
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 6:31 PM
Subject: Doubt Formula
Hello,
My name is Vincent Magni. I am an artist. I am a painter and a sculptor. I am a public of Celebrity Center Paris, New OT 8 and auditor Class V.
The reason why I am writing you this letter is that I am doing a Doubt Condition.
I became a Scientologist 28 years ago, in 1984. After a period of being on staff as ED at the mission of Paris, I pursued my road as public in 1987. At the end of the same year, I was Clear and auditor CL IV.
I then left to Flag to go up my Bridge. Six months later in July 1988, I returned home on OT 7. I was 24 years old. I always paid for my Bridge by my own means.
In January 1989, I started a field group auditor in Geneva.
In February 6, 1989, I attested to OT 7 and in February 27, I attested to OT 8.
In 1999, I left for Flag to do my certainties. I was returned to OT 7 and audited until April 2004 when I attested to OT 7 for the second time. I attested to OT 8 soon after.
In July 2004, I attended the Maiden voyage where COB announced as priority number one the purchase of the “ideals orgs”.
In 2006, I bought an industrial fallow of 10,000 square meters in Bourgogne to build a village for artists and a theater. I was immediately the target of all the regional SPs that did not miss to make the amalgam between my project and Scientology and to attack violently both as an inseparable block.
For these last 6 years, I spent most of my time defending the Church, handling hundreds of persons one by one to make them allies, to deny the enemy lines on the Church, to visit all the personalities, influential people and the VIPS to clean the subject of Scientology. I then obtained extraordinary products.
As many of us, on January 1, I received and read Debbie Cook’s email. Debbie raised points on which I had some attention on for several years. After having asked for the opinion of some friends, I turned to lines suited to handle these questions: HCO CCP (Celebrity Center Paris).
I wanted to obtain simple clarifications but the denial, which HCO made me read to handle this email generated many more questions.
During my second meeting with HCO, the DSA of Paris Org and a terminal from the Freewinds, the Ethics Officer of Celebrity Center Paris made me read a new pack of “Dead Agent” relating to “the lies of a squirrel group” called “Friends of LRH” (www.friendsoflrh.org ). I did not understand why this group was being cataloged as squirrel liar while they raised only a long list of out tech by indicating exactly the violated references!!! It seems to me that a squirrel is someone who alters the Tech and not the one who spreads efforts to maintain its standard?
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By Tony Ortega
Wed., Apr. 4 2012 at 8:00 AM
Taken from:
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/04/mike_rinder_scientology_former_spokesman_interview.php
For years, Mike Rinder was the Church of Scientology’s chief spokesman and executive director of the Office of Special Affairs, its intelligence wing. In 2007, his defection was among the most surprising in an exodus of high-ranking officials from the church. Since then, he’s given several interviews, but none as complete as the videotaped discussions we had with him last month in his Florida home. In this first segment, he describes the conditions in “The Hole,” Scientology’s notorious concentration camp for fallen executives at its California headquarters. In other segments, Rinder also talks about the confessions forced out of prisoners, the constant indoctrination of church members, and much, much, more…
First, some background that we picked up while getting a tour of Scientology’s spiritual home.
Rinder was born in 1955 to Ian and Barbara Rinder in Adelaide. (He has two younger siblings, Andrew and Judy.) Ian was an entrepreneur and owned a series of businesses, including a wholesale grocery distributor, an aerosol canning company, a travel agency, a restaurant — he even raised goats at one time. Barbara kept the books.
Mike went to private schools growing up. “They were Christian but non-denominational. There were a lot of private schools in Adelaide,” he says, calling it Australia’s version of Omaha or Des Moines.
In 1959 or 1960, Rinder’s parents became interested in Scientology — L. Ron Hubbard had given lectures in Melbourne around that time, and left behind some active groups there and in Adelaide. After moving to Sydney for about a year, the Rinders then made a pilgrimage to Saint Hill Manor in England in 1966 or 1967 that lasted nine months. (Hubbard had just left the manor, which remains to this day Scientology’s European headquarters.) After a second trip to Saint Hill a few years later, Rinder had twice been around the world by ship by the time he was 15 years old.
John Rafanello – OT8, Class VIII
Website: http://wonderworldonline.com
Michael Priv THETA WRITE
Friends of L. Ron Hubbard
The Truth Rundown
Clearbird
Free Zone Assocoation
http://www.ivymag.org
http://www.ralphhilton.org/Ralph Hilton Org
http://www.st83.org/
Rediscover Scientology
True Source Scientology Foundation
WALKING AROUND THE ELEPHANT
FZAuditors
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