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Scientology’s Bridge to Nowhere: Part 2

This is the second part of my breakdown of Scientology’s Bridge to Total Freedom, otherwise known as the Grade Chart. This is L. Ron Hubbard’s step-by-step guide to spiritual freedom and personal immortality, or at least that’s what he said it is. What it actually represents is a one-size-fits-all guide to an increasingly more expensive series of training and counselling services which result in a person having spent hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars to end up pretty much exactly where they started. I don’t mean that no one ever gets anything from doing Scientology services. That would not be true. What I mean is that Scientologists these days are literally being made to re-do Bridge steps they’ve already paid for and completed, sometimes more than once.Read More »Scientology’s Bridge to Nowhere: Part 2

Scientology’s Totally Insane Recruitment Methods

Today we are going to talk about two of my favorite subjects: Scientology recruitment and conspiracy theories. Now by Scientology recruitment I don’t mean getting people in to do their silly personality tests or sign up for their courses, but I mean the actual recruitment activities to get people to join Scientology staff or to sign a billion year contract of committment for Scientology’s elite core group, the Sea Organization. We’re actually going to concentrate on Sea Org recruitment specifically, but all the methods I am going to describe here are used to a greater or lesser extent to recruit Scientologists for staff at local, city-level churches as well. I’m pretty sure some of you watching this may find a lot of what I’m going to talk about unbelievable, but I swear it’s all true. We really used to do this stuff and as far as I know, Scientology recruiters still do. A lot of people think that the Xenu narrative is the most crazy part of Scientology but I think you may change your mind after you hear all of this. Not every Scientologist falls for Hubbard’s conspiracy theories, but most of them do.Read More »Scientology’s Totally Insane Recruitment Methods

Let’s Talk Xenu (Deconstructing Scientology: Chapter 19)

Hey everyone. I’m back and this week, I really mean this when I say we have a fascinating chapter for you. In fact, never have I been so appropriately dressed for the occasion. As with every video in this series, we are taking on a new chapter of this book, Scientology, edited by James R. Lewis and featuring academics writing about Scientology. So far, whether they have been sociologists, psychologists or religious studies professors, Lewis managed to gather together a group of people who have favorable ideas about destructive cults like Scientology and whether he meant to or not, he put together a book of apologetics about it. However, this week we truly do have something so different and unique from what has come earlier, I honestly wonder if it somehow slipped into this book by accident.Read More »Let’s Talk Xenu (Deconstructing Scientology: Chapter 19)

Critical Q&A #6

I apologize for having been away for a few weeks longer than usual. I had some personal issues to deal with which kept me off the camera. Here now is the sixth installment of my question-and-answer video show, where I take up questions subscribers and commenters have asked me in my videos and answer them as best I can. Questions in this video:Read More »Critical Q&A #6

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