Is scientology becoming the new cult of sports?

From today's blackathlete.net:

"Is scientology becoming the new cult of sports??"

"In fact, the other night I was watching ESPN when an intriguing commerical captured my attention. In my mind, I'm thinking this must be a new commerical from Nike. No, maybe it's Reebok. Or even Adidas. But to my surprise, it was the latest advertisement for Scientology. Scientology??? (WTF) Get the hell out of here!!!"

Full article: tinyurl.com/ylnyzga

The truth about hypnotism

From today's Leaving Scientology Blog:

"The truth about hypnotism."

"Scientology uses a sort of reverse NLP to entrap people even though it predates it. This is because NLP is not a body of theory but simply a collection of useful techniques. Every person who has ever influenced another human being has used some form of NLP to do so. This occurs even when the influencer has never even heard of NLP! Scientology uses this exact same method to prevent people from reading information such as this in the Internet.

They do this by linking the act of becoming informed (and therefore free) with emotional pain."

Full article: tinyurl.com/yd6qtql

Warburg Institute to unseal the Babalon Working Documents

"L. Ron Hubbard's involvement in occult ceremonies that included sex magick: Warburg Institute to unseal the Babalon Working Documents""

"We have no doubt that if we had known the truth about Hubbard and The Babalon Working, we would never have entered Scientology or given the cult a moment of our time or a plugged penny. Because Hubbard and Scientology withheld the truth and instead, for forty years now, repeated his lies about being on a secret mission for the US Government, Scientology got me for 12 years, got Caroline for 24 years and over $60,000, and when we complained they made us fair game and got her daughter. - Gerry Armstrong"

Full article: tinyurl.com/yzem5ux

Further reading: blacklies.xenu.ca

Scientology: Caught illegally clearing the planet

"David Miscavige's interpretation of L.Ron Hubbard's dream, "clearing the planet", was brought to a grinding halt at Scientology's Golden Era Productions faculty near Hemet, Calif. by the Code Enforcement Dept. of Riverside County, with the help of some keen-eyed residents and anonymous (including not so anonymous) protesters."

Full article: tinyurl.com/ylbyref

Scientology 2009…Year Of Epic Fail

"Queen here, I decided to compile a list of Scientology’s most memorable moments blunders of 2009. This will be my final article…so I thought I would leave with a bang!

I wasn’t able to include EVERYTHING or all the pending court cases, as the list was way too LONG."

Full article: tinyurl.com/ydott46

SP Times strikes again!

Links to the three SP Times articles published today:

"Three of Scientology's elite parishioners keep faith, but leave the church"
tinyurl.com/ydfq9hp

"Recent high-profile defectors"
tinyurl.com/ylg2zjt

"Climbing The Bridge: A journey to 'Operating Thetan'"
tinyurl.com/yhkucfb

Scientology's Paramilitary 'Sea Org' is Looking for Suckers

"A recently-leaked 2009 issue of "International Scientology News" features a large advertisement recruiting for Scientology's paramilitary organization and pretend-Navy, the Sea Organization. To anyone who didn't know better (which apparently includes the 50,000 remaining Scientologists worldwide), to join the "Sea Org" is as honorable an endeavor as such legitimate public service as joining the military forces of one's own country. Those fancy uniforms must mean that the Sea Org is very important, right? Unfortunately for Scientology, being in the Sea Org is about as useless a thing as anyone can do. Moreover, it is really an intensification of Scientology brainwashing and in many ways is even a kind of slavery."

Full article: tinyurl.com/yeuuqhk

Uncertain about Clear for eternity

"After McPherson died, Miscavige successfully withheld from even those handling the criminal and civil cases that he in fact had initiated the chain of events leading to her death. Then in his inimitable every-outpoint-is-a-why style of evaluation, DM instituted a number of arbitraries to make the attestation to the state of Clear an engramic episode. He created a pendulum swing whereby it became an increasingly complicated process to attest to Clear."

Full article: tinyurl.com/ydvzxz9

Not more Xenu denying, surely?

Another "that horse has bolted" video clip featuring Kate Ceberano denying the existence of Xenu in Scientology scripture:

Next week: Tommy Davis arguing that black is white.