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The Basics of Scientology: Investigations and the Data Series

This video is the next in my ongoing series breaking down Scientology principles and concepts and showing how the fundamental assumptions and ideas underlying these principles don’t hold up to critical thinking. In this video, we are going to take a quick and dirty look at a part of Scientology which doesn’t receive a lot of attention, even by all Scientologists, but which determines many of the decisions and activities the Church of Scientology engages in, including its abusive harassment and targeting of Scientology critics. What we are going to be looking at is a collection of guidelines and methods Hubbard wrote to teach Scientologists his own brand of logic and reasoning. The actual body of written issues this is based on is called the Data Series. There will be more videos and podcasts in the near future on this subject which will go into a lot of detail about different aspects of this. The purpose of this video is just to give a short overview and commentary on what this is all about.Read More »The Basics of Scientology: Investigations and the Data Series

Scientology’s Terrible Economics – When Hubbard Wrote to Reagan

On November 28, 1980, L. Ron Hubbard wrote the following letter to President-Elect Ronald Reagan with ideas about how to boost the economy and national prosperity by abolishing income tax and Social Security. In this video, Jeff Wasel, John P. Capitalist and I go over this letter line by line and analyze just how wrong Hubbard gets it, how woefully inadequate his economic ideas are and why if this advice had been followed, America would have wound up in the toilet.Read More »Scientology’s Terrible Economics – When Hubbard Wrote to Reagan

Brainwashing the Brainwashed (More on Scientology Recruitment)

This booklet is called Brainwashing – A Synthesis of the Russain Textbook on Psychopolitics and it has a long and fascinating history both in and out of the Church of Scientology. Researcher and historian Chris Owen has published a two-part history of this book on Tony Ortega’s Underground Bunker blog and links to that article are in the description section below. He describes how it was not only written anonymously by L. Ron Hubbard in 1955 with the specific intent of deceiving the FBI and Scientologists, but also how it became the tool of unwitting far right political groups Read More »Brainwashing the Brainwashed (More on Scientology Recruitment)