Late last year, we got some eye-opening reports on how hard the pandemic has been on Scientology from someone inside the organization. We dubbed them The Insider, and they told us about chaos caused by Covid, new details on the ‘Chase Wave’ financial debacle, a detailed description of the Ideal Org scam, and even told us about the new ‘Golden Age of Admin’ that was on the way. Now they wanted to give us yet another look inside an ailing Scientology movement. - T.O.
For several months, I've been leaking information about Scientology's activities over the course of the Pandemic. Namely, the misuse of the ‘Decon 7’ cleaning agent, the insane protocols Scientologists have been forced to follow, the abuses against Sea Org members at PAC in LA, and of course the nationwide credit and bank fraud operation known as the Chase Wave.
What I would like to try and explain now is the current state of Scientology. To use L. Ron Hubbard terminology: I want to bring you all up to present time.
You already know that every single Sea Org “registrar” on the planet was removed from post quite literally overnight in 2019. Now I want to tell you about the people who replaced them, and what they've been doing for the last two and half years.
Hubbard wrote a policy on what he called “musical chairs.” He uses this term derisively to describe moving people around from post to post constantly. It's something he said must never be done. When current leader David Miscavige ordered the registrars (called “regges” for short) removed from their posts, and their positions filled, it resulted in the largest musical chairs ever.
Hundreds of people were ripped off whatever job they had been doing to become registrars. (The position involves selling Scientology courses and processing to members and bringing in as much money as possible.) It was another example of Miscavige blatantly violating Scientology policy — not that I would defend the policy either.
Being a “reg” requires a certain type of personality. Hard selling is the only type of selling done in Scientology. The most successful regges and fundraisers are always incorrigible liars willing to do or say anything necessary to get your money. The problem was, every single one of those types of personalities in the Sea Org had just gotten busted down to cleaning toilets. What's left were people who absolutely dreaded the idea of being a reg.
People that had been in technical or administrative positions — often times non-public facing — were thrown on post as registrars. The only reason the previous regges had been financially successful is because they were breaking the law. There was no “training” for the newly minted regges. They were mostly told what not to do, i.e., don't commit fraud.
The gross income statistics planet-wide crashed hard. Not only were these not sales people, but most Scientology “public” (non-employees) were and are so overwhelmed with debt (much of which has been defaulted on) that they couldn't give more money even if they wanted to. That's why COVID was, in some ways, Miscavige's salvation. It was the perfect scapegoat for the crashing statistics.
The Class V orgs were ordered closed for months. For the entirety of the pandemic, and to this day, the Purification Rundown and the Survival Rundown — which are the first two steps on the Bridge — cannot be delivered by Class V orgs.
At Sea Org orgs, there was a mandated two week quarantine, followed by not being able to leave the base until you're done, being required to wear masks and gloves, and having to constantly subject yourself to toxic levels of Decon 7. And if you did happen to get sick, you would be subjected to the highest level of Scientology justice procedure: a committee of evidence.
On top of all of this, as of today the staff are still wearing masks and gloves, and all Scientologists are still being exposed to Decon 7.
These factors, combined with the new registrars and no real system to replace the old successful (criminal) system, have resulted in an organization-wide crash of statistics.
Yet despite all this, Miscavige stated at the L. Ron Hubbard Birthday event in March that over the course of the pandemic Scientology has seen across-the-board expansion. That he had no actual Birthday Game statistics to present was not overlooked by all.
The reality is, Scientology is going down the drain at an increasing rate.
Unfortunately, as we expose more we also turn up the heat on those still in. Management operates by reacting to a crisis with further draconian measures. As more people leave or leak information, they tighten down even further and turn up the heat. This results in more people leaving, and therefore more heat and pressure and so on.
In my estimation, the number of active public has been cut by a third as a result of the last couple of years. Those that remain who aren't among the minority of wealthy Scientologists are drowning in debt and have no way to pay. And the registrars now responsible for relieving Scientologists of all their money aren't very good at it.
Examining these factors alone, you can imagine the current state of the statistics within Scientology.
Ideal Orgs are not only empty of public, but because of the “Golden Age of Admin” training program currently running at the Flag Land Base in Clearwater, Florida, they are empty of staff as well.
The Golden Age of Admin itself is doomed from the start. No amount of training in Hubbard Policy — which doesn't work anyway — is going to solve the problem of having no public with any money. The only possible solution to this would be a sudden influx of brand new people; which would be nothing short of a miracle.
In order for Scientology to function as intended, it has to maintain a certain membership size. Yes, they could survive on donations from their wealthy “whales” for years. But when it's gotten to the point that there's no one left but the whales to reg, what do you even have to sell them on?
I couldn't posit the exact number, but there is a certain number of members required to keep the scam going. When international events have fewer and fewer people in attendance (when they happen at all) while Miscavige still proclaims worldwide expansion, people start to notice. It's this and other reasons so many people have left recently. This is why I believe the number of people leaving Scientology is growing.
I tell you this not to make you think that the end is nigh and therefore you need not do anything but watch it collapse. Quite the contrary, I see Scientology's swan song is our rallying cry.
Never in its history has it been this weakened. What's needed now is the final push to send it over the edge.
It may be that nothing less than federal intervention will be able to render Scientology wholly inert, but every new voice speaking out gets us closer to that happening. And there are more “insiders” leaking information now than ever.
What we need is more people that are still in, exposing the abuses of Scientology in real time.
If you're reading this while still in and on the fence, speak out. You can do it anonymously or not, but do something. I can help you. The Aftermath Foundation can help you.
You can contact me through reddit at u/0theinsider0
Or the Aftermath Foundation at their website: theaftermathfoundation.org/
I look forward to hearing from you.
— The Insider
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The Insider: What I'm seeing is a Scientology in big trouble
I would say, "Wow" but this is what an informed person could predict was coming with corporate scientology. But like Insider said, more insiders need to speak out and expose the abuses and lies about what's going on in this "church." Of course, my aims are simple, I want my son back in my arms; I want all loving relationships torn apart by this church back in the arms of each other.
It was a pleasant surprise when there was no IAS event last year. If that stays off the charts for this year, surely the whales are going to have an increasingly hard time maintaining that all important delusion that lets them look the other way when defendant David “he is NOT insane!” Miscavige helps himself to their cash.