The Christmas season is here, and Scientology wants all your presents
Manchester, England is one of those places where Scientology bought a building for an “Ideal Org” during a buying spree in 2007 and it has sat rotting ever since.
And the building, a former distillery, will go on rotting until Scientology leader David Miscavige decides he wants it cleaned up and rehabbed for one of his “grand opening” ceremonies. He really doesn’t care how many stories get written by the local press about these empty buildings becoming eyesores, he will get around to opening them when he’s good and ready.
And not before, that is, a ton of Scientologist money has been harvested from the faithful.
Scientology fundraises all year round, of course, but there’s something special about the way they try to convince members that giving over their hard-earned cash in December is the most magical thing ever.
Get a load of this video invite that the Manchester org put out enticing members with its “Winter Wonderland Ball.” This is some sell!
Hey there are you ready to step into a world of magic and wonder
Picture this
A night where the air is filled with the spirit of the holidays
The lights twinkle like stars
And every moment feels like a scene from your favorite fairy tale
You are invited to Manchester's Ideal Winter Wonderland Ball
Mark your calendars for December 14th
Because you won't want to miss this enchanting event
Imagine walking into a winter paradise
Where every corner is brimming with festive charm and whimsy
It's not just a ball
It's a celebration of the most magical time of the year
You'll be surrounded by beautifully decorated trees
Snowflakes that seem to dance in the air
And the warm glow of holiday lights
You'll get to enjoy an evening of music
Exquisite dining and unforgettable performances
There will be plenty of opportunities to dance the night away
Make new friends and lasting memories
All while giving Manchester the greatest gift of all
Hope and freedom of mankind
So do yourself a favor and grab your tickets now
This is one night you won't want to miss
Full of magic wonder and holiday spirit
See you at the Winter Wonderland Ball
If those prices for a night of dining and entertainment don’t appear too outrageous to you, remember that this is a Scientology event, so the pressure to fork over much larger sums will also be on the menu for those in attendance.
While that event is still a couple of weeks away, Apostate Alex let us know that at Saint Hill, Scientology’s UK headquarters in Sussex, there’s something going on this very day…
And Alex had a further note about the fireworks being scheduled for today, December 1.
He said that the fireworks display was originally scheduled for last week along with the traditional Christmas light switch-on. But the weather was bad and the OT Scientologists were somehow unable to convince the clouds to go elsewhere.
“Normally fireworks are part of Christmas light switch on. So because they didn’t do fireworks due to the storm, they’ve put on a whole separate second event for today,” Alex tells us.
Meanwhile, one of our American readers forwarded on this heartwarming seasonal message from one of Scientology’s sneaky front groups, Applied Scholastics, that works to get L. Ron Hubbard’s backwards “study technology” into schools…
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All of Applied Scholastics can be boiled down to one sentence. "Get a dictionary". How Lronic is that?
It's quite a massive bit of information "control" which Hubbard has built into the whole Scientology Hubbard multi echelon setup.
Ideal Orgs are just beginner locales, to lure in the richer Scientologists who can be funneled up to the "Advanced Orgs" and then to "Flag Land Base" in Clearwater, for the final steps of the Xenu's body-thetans exorcism/soul-freeing.
I wish someone had said the above, and made this info available to me, before I wasted my 27 years in the Hubbard cult Scientology bureaucracy, as a feeble sort of lame behind the scenes paperpusher in the "staff training" department mostly in my favorite years in Sea Org.
If I knew it was all about our "OT case" being supposedly such a big deal, and Hubbard's "From Here to Eternity" Ron's Journal gives the heaviest import to the OT 3 to OT 7 band, the exorcism band, but of course Hubbard never admits it's the exorcism/soul-freeing band; but had I knew it was going to be a whole lotta exorcism, I think I'd have done MORE research prior to foolishly even jumping aboard Scientology's spiritual stepladder of essentially trauma memories talk therapy (lower levels cover your this lifetime, upper levels inevitably get into your past lives and into the memories of invisible souls which leak onto each of us).
This all makes Xenu a key word to define, and tie it all together, when I define Scientology and official Scientology's current stepladder of spiritual practices.
Try to have a discussion with ANY Ideal Org staff member about this, and watch them run away.
They are not allowed to discuss their spiritual theory, they get in serious trouble discussing Xenu's body-thetans exorcism of OT 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. Try discussing it with them, and see.