Scientology revives another tradition as it keeps pushing new buildings
We’ve come nearly a full year since Scientology leader David Miscavige began what appeared to be an effort to shake off the restrictions of the pandemic and restore some of Scientology’s previous traditions.
It began last November with restoring the IAS event to Saint Hill in England, then the New Year’s Event to the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, and then the L. Ron Hubbard birthday event in March to Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, Florida.
We still haven’t seen anything about whether Maiden Voyage was restored to its place aboard the Freewinds in June. But this past weekend, it appears that Auditor’s Day celebrations were brought back at various orgs on Friday or Saturday night.
As you can see from the image above, this annual tribute to E-Meter jockeys resulted in a fairly lavish affair at the Flag Land Base in Clearwater.
There’s no doubt that the pandemic was tough on Scientology, and that it continues to show signs of dwindling membership, staffing shortages, and of course miserable public relations.
But Dave still doesn’t hesitate to pay for ice sculptures when it comes time to convince the donors that everything’s just fine.
Meanwhile, Dave’s pet project of Ideal Orgs can’t slow down. Here’s a new report from the folks pushing to finish the project in Puerto Rico.
And one more sign that Scientology never rests, another sneaky front group reports on its tireless efforts to spread propaganda about L. Ron Hubbard.
We remember a time, however, the Scientology front “Artists for a Better World” featured events hosted by an actual artist, actress Anne Archer. Now, apparently, it is busy simply handing out copies of The Way to Happiness booklet and pretending that it is going to create a “moral revival” in Los Angeles. Imagine that.
Los Angeles is on the verge of a moral revival, and Artists for a Better World International (AFABW) is leading the way! The dynamic LA-based non-profit is creating a buzz by distributing The Way to Happiness, a common sense guide to better living. Authored by renowned humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard, this powerful booklet offers an easy-to-follow roadmap for anyone looking to improve their life and positively impact the world around them.
According to AFABW’s President, Barbara C., the response to the custom-printed covers of The Way to Happiness has been nothing short of amazing, and the impact has been undeniable. After distributing thousands of The Way to Happiness booklets across the city, it's easy to spot people from all walks of life taking time to read the book.
That “Barbara C.” they’re referring to, and that you can see in that first photo, is none other than Barbara Cordova, the woman who disappeared for a time and ended up at a hellhole in Tennessee that was being run by some Scientologists (and that was later shut down in dramatic fashion).
Seeing Barbara again reminds us that we admired her mom, who had reached out for us for help finding out what had happened to her daughter. We’re sorry to say, Arlene, that she’s still caught in her prison of belief.
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Logical. That Miscavige has inserted Auditor's Day back into the core "events" put on yearly by the movement.'
Auditors are the most important practitioners, without whom, the practice would not take place.
Hubbard had he lived through all the legal backlash he himself had caused, and had he sorted those all out, the subject of Hubbard's is all about making auditors and auditors auditing.
We humans cannot alleviate our "lower level case" and our "OT case" without auditors, and without becoming the auditor role to handle our "OT case".
Logical.
Too much hype and glitz, and that is honestly on Hubbard. Hubbard's final ASI writings are sickening to me in this angle.
Hubbard gave Greg Wilhere a "reject" comment on Greg's "fiction" strategy program, Hubbard wrote:
"....not enough hype...." to Greg.
Thus, if "hype" wasn't already deep enough in Scientology's DNA, LRH let the top ASIers know that "hype" was key.
All of the Hubbard ASI traffic re "Battlefield Earth" are so counter normal marketing strategies, and ASI gave up on doing what Hubbard ordered. Hubbard's book strategies for his fiction books centered upon Battlefield Earth, and I hope those become public somehow.
But for Scientology, to get back in their Auditor's Day, now, against Hubbard's wishes, if Scientology wished to counter Hubbard and center upon "Auditor's Day", that'd be actually the right thing, if they believed in their subject.
Would I do it if I were there, yes.
Would I support it now, no, other than it'd be the right thing if one is a Scientologist.
Training and becoming an auditor really is the burden of every Scientologist, and shows if they are dilletante followers or real followers.
But, to be an auditor, really isn't everyone's cup of tea. I realized this very late, while on the RPF. I realized MOST people are not suitable to even be auditors who follow faithfully the "Auditor's Code" it is something that no everyone is even suited to be this Hubbard "auditor" role. Most people cannot even be the role.
Which to me is why the subject really ought only be like the 1950s PAB level follower. Professional Auditor's Bulletin level auditor. Today, Trey Lotz is such a PAB level auditor, aka what Hubbard later labeled a "Field Auditor." (Hubbard wrote so many other requirements that when instituted it put off all the "official" Field Auditors, so that today there are literally NO Field Auditors.)
IF I were allowed, I would attend and watch the Auditor's Day even carefully, for WHO in the official Scientology world are today's "top auditors" of the various categories of auditors.
In the old traditional Auditor's Day events, what would happen is the various echelon of auditors of the year were celebrated.
IF one wishes to get the Hubbard quackery auditing today, I wouldn't, but it one did, I'd find an independent field non official Scientology "Field Auditor" or PAB level auditor.
Trey Lotz would b my pick if I were shopping.
Trey himself received one of the categories of "auditor of the year" in an event I attended back in the late 1970s I think it was, at Flag.
Trey was and likely still is the Scientology "auditor of the year" type of auditor.
Within official Scientology, there used to be almost one or one, the top Class 12s each of them, were "auditor of the year" level of quality auditor.
Funnily, on the RPF, in my years there, guess who were some of the best auditors? The OSA staff busted to the RPF were often the best auditors, LOL.
Must have something to do with smarts (as misguided as the OSA RPFers one of one are) but faithful and dedicated, any of them were, to put up with the RPF stringent rules and confinements, but dedicated unquestioning they were. Some were jerks, but most were some of the "best" Hubbard genuine auditor good "tech" (quackery proficient) people.
Oh well, so many weird counter intuitive stuff I observed in my wasted 27 years in Sea Org.
Apparently, Scientologists, one of the top four benefits of the next Ideal Org is that Puerto Rico is a "tax haven".
I don't know of any other religion that would think that would matter so much to their parishioners.
Then again, I don't know of any other religion that requires parishioners to spend thousands of dollars on basic services. Do you?