In this talk, I go over the current state of Scientology worldwide, why some critics and Scientology watchers might be a little over-optimistic about the Church’s eventual downfall and what my goals as a Scientology critic actually are.
The Goals of Scientology Criticism
Thanks for this! Very enlightening and informative. Thank you for all you do, it does not go unappreciated 👏
I appreciate your insight Chris, thanks.
We had the opposite problem at my Org. Management never bailed us out financially. In fact it was Int Management who got both my mission and org into financial trouble by ordering us to rent big new buildings and furniture to handle the massive influx of public that was supposed to occur due to their promotion at the Goodwill Games.
No such influx occurred, but we still had the big building. Did management who order us there help us get out? Heck no. We received no such bailout. Our phones were shut off regularly. We were on the edge of eviction. Ended up having to lease out part of the building.
The CO regularly took what little staff pay sum there was and applied it to the rent. I often went months without any pay. No one cared about that. I am pretty sure that he got in trouble and had to return to PAC for handling when he also tried applying Payments To Flag (the percentage of income that goes to management every week) to rent as well. That might fly for us peon staff but not management, who took no responsibility for ordering us into that position then abandoning us.
We certainly never received any money from any management organization. Gold would ship us films then hound us like pitbulls for the money that we now owed them. I only ever saw money go up, never down.
The same thing happened at my org in Santa Barbara before I joined the Sea Org. We had been forced into a building we could not afford on the busiest street in Santa Barbara and every single month it was a nightmare to make the mortgage payment. We all hated it because after a while, all we were doing was working to pay the rent. So I totally understand what you mean.
“After 33 years as a Scientologist, Larry Anderson is walking away. He says the church failed to deliver the spiritual gains it promised.”
Absolutely! The church failed to deliver the spiritual gains it promised. There are no Clears and there are no OT powers. Shouldn’t this be the major issue? The Church doesn’t deliver the promised spiritual gains!