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Alex Gibney Helps Us All Get Clear of Scientology

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I traveled from Denver to Austin on Tuesday to see a special advance screening of Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief. This is a film which defies one-word descriptions so I can’t boil it down to some adjective like “amazing” or “perfect” or “touching” because
all of those words apply and so many more.

I don’t want to give “spoilers” and there are some surprises in this film for everyone including long-time Scientology watchers and ex-Scientologists, so I’ll be sllghtly vague about some things but still do my best to convey what I got from it.Read More »Alex Gibney Helps Us All Get Clear of Scientology

On the Shoulders of Giants

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Although I have tried at every turn to give credit where credit is due, frankly I think so far that I have done an inadequate job. So I’m taking this opportunity now to dedicate an entire post to just this subject of acknowledging the giants upon whose shoulders I stand. This is something important in the community of ex-Scientologists and a point that should not be ignored by any of us who are relatively newly coming out of Scientology.Read More »On the Shoulders of Giants

[VIDEO] An Open Message to Scientology Leader David Miscavige

Dear David Miscavige:

When L. Ron Hubbard passed on in the mid 1980s, you took over stewardship of the Church of Scientology. You have been in control of this movement for longer than L. Ron Hubbard was and have inarguably put your own brand on it in ways that Hubbard could never have foreseen. Much of what Hubbard said and wrote needed to be changed because let’s face it, he didn’t have all the answers and he didn’t predict all the things that were needed for Scientology to continue into eternity.Read More »[VIDEO] An Open Message to Scientology Leader David Miscavige