Twenty upcoming books on Scientology

Here's the current list of upcoming books with unknown dates of publication:

• Untitled autobiography by Hana Whitfield
• Untitled book by Bryan Seymour about his encounters reporting on Scientology
• Untitled book by Chris Shelton about the RPF
• Untitled book by Jason Barclay
• Untitled book by Jonny Jacobsen
• Untitled memoir by Jacqueline Olivier as Principal of New Village Leadership Academy
• Untitled autobiography by Andrea Gerak
• Untitled book by Rachel Bernstein about children raised in cults
• Untitled books by Steph Keldani and her mother
• Untitled book by Robin Gaby Fisher about a woman’s struggle with the Church of Scientology
• Untitled recollections by Lawrence Wollersheim of the team involved in winning his lawsuit
• Untitled book by Marcus Lee Sawyer about being on staff in an Org
• Untitled book by Jeffrey Augustine about Hubbard in the period 1949-1955, Scientology and contract/copyright law with religious protections
• Untitled book by Marc Headley, in addition to…
• “The Greatest Good” by Marc Headley
• “A Sucker Born Every Session: My Misadventures in $cientology” by Skip Press
• “The Final Fall: Mixing Allah, Jesus and Xenu” by Leila Wills
• “Hollywood Babylon III” by Kenneth Anger
• “Son of Scientology: Dad, L Ron and Me” by Peter Jukes
• “Scientology: A Walk into Darkness” by Glenn Samuels
• “Scientology: Pre and Post Operating” by Frank Edwin Pate
• “Who's the Best?” by Mark Tordai aka Mark Turi
• “Gullible's Travels” by John Duignan
• “My Scientology Memoir” by Steven Mango
• “L. Ron Hubbard: The Dao of Insanity” dealing with the occult matrix beneath Scientology, by Peter Moon
• “From Wench to Widow” by Penny Mixhau about a Pagan being married to a Scientologist
  

Academic goes ‘Among the Scientologists’ to bring back what we already knew

By Tony Ortega, The Underground Bunker, December 8, 2018

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Your proprietor spent a lot of time in academia and has a huge respect for the scholar who wants to advance knowledge in a particular area by doing the scholarly thing — investigating, listening, measuring, while trying to be as objective as possible.

That, however, does not describe what’s going on in Donald Westbrook’s newly published Among the Scientologists: History, Theology, and Praxis, and so we don’t really feel a motivation to dive into it too deeply. From the beginning, Westbrook’s sneering contempt for the journalists who have risked their careers, their livelihoods, and perhaps even their lives to get us information about what’s really going on in Scientology is tiresome.

This is a book that takes potshots at consummate professionals like Russell Miller and Lawrence Wright and then admits that its 69 interviews with Scientologists were arranged by the church’s own notorious Office of Special Affairs.

OSA may have hand-picked his interviews, but OK, let’s see what Westbrook actually came up with. He tells us that he’s the first person ever to get this kind of access, and that finally, we’re going to learn what Scientology is for the average, non-celebrity member, because that’s not what the public has been getting from lazy journalists.

Here are the major points that Westbrook learns from his revolutionary interviews with 69 members of the church.

— Scientologists consider Scientology less a faith than a workable philosophy they use in all aspects of their lives.
— Scientologists really do think they lived past lives that they can call back up during auditing.
— Scientologists don’t like to say that L. Ron Hubbard is a god, but their esteem for him borders on worship.
— Scientologists rationalize the high prices they pay for services by saying how much being a Scientologist means to them.
— Scientology is bringing in almost no new members by its traditional methods of outreach, and nearly all younger members were brought up in the church.
— Scientologists attribute mostly vague ‘gains’ to going ‘Clear,’ with some anecdotes of minor healing.
— Keeping Scientology Working is important because that’s the way Ron wanted it.
— Current Scientologists say David Miscavige is doing a hell of a job.
— Scientologists don’t consider themselves to be part of a cult.
— The social betterment groups are doing wonderful work.
— Psychiatrists are evil and have been sabotaging thetans for trillions of years
— Scientologists consider the world on fire, and Scientology is the only thing that will save it.

Westbrook is especially impressed with his “discovery” that 90 percent of Scientologists haven’t even reached Clear or the OT levels. But since he’s ignoring journalists, he may have missed that Karin Pouw gave us that exact figure some 18 years ago when we interviewed her at a Celebrity Centre lunch.

And that’s literally about it. That is the sum total of revelations that Westbrook gleaned from his 69 interviews, sprinkled throughout an apologist review of Scientology history that bends over backwards to tamp down every controversy and cast doubt on every claim of abuse.

Once we could see that this was all Westbrook had managed to get out of his 69 interviews, we were fairly stunned. Westbrook may have little respect for the journalists working in this field, but of course if you actually read the work by Tom Tobin and Joe Childs, Joel Sappell and Robert Welkos, Janet Reitman, Lawrence Wright, Jon Atack, Russell Miller, Richard Behar, Richard Leiby, Tracey McManus, Bette Orsini and so many others, you know that every single one of Westbrook’s “discoveries” has been revealed and documented countless times.

Yes, journalists write about celebrities and abuses and many attention-grabbing subjects about Scientology. But you have to be pretty blind to say that the many stories that have been done about the church didn’t spend a lot of time on the reasons people join, the reasons they stay, and the reasons they give so much money.

Westbrook, the Gordon Melton for a new generation, will no doubt be hailed by his fellow religious studies types for going among the Scientologists and bringing back this information. Thankfully, almost no one pays attention to them.

PS: Forgot to mention, this is a 332-page book supposedly about the current state of Scientology that doesn’t contain a single instance of two words: “Remini” or “Rinder.” Chew on that.

Source: https://tonyortega.org/2018/12/08/a...tologists-to-bring-back-what-we-already-knew/

He needs more people to call him out. Siding with the cult is just bad.

An upcoming untitled book by Chris Owen about Scientology and the law:

From https://tonyortega.org/2019/02/11/u...an-to-protect-itself-from-the-law/#post-55015

"That’s the subject of a major project that I’ve been working on for the past year, a new book exploring Scientology’s relationship with its adversaries around the world, from 1950 to the present day. It’s a project which has so far taken me through three continents and many thousands of pages of archived documents, much of which has never been reported on before."

Fundraiser by Chris Owen : Writing a book about Scientology's conflicts | GoFundMe

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Since the early 1950s, the Church of Scientology has been waging a relentless war against those it considers enemies – critics, journalists, government agencies, ex-members and especially psychiatrists. It has created a worldwide intelligence apparatus and propaganda machine, notorious for its "always attack, never defend" policy. Along the way, it carried out the largest domestic espionage campaign in US history (Operation Snow White). Scientology has nonetheless managed to survive decades of scandals, exposés, lawsuits, raids and defections.

I'm writing a book which takes an inside look at Scientology's campaigns against its foes, reveals the secrets of its intelligence operations and tells the story of how it has managed to weather its opposition. I've carried out research on three continents so far, reviewing thousands of documents. The book will tell many previously unreported stories from Scientology's secret history and help to explain why the organisation has been so resilient in the face of opposition. It'll also explain the ideology behind its activities and assess whether it is as big a threat to society as many have alleged. It'll shed a new and at times startling light on Scientology's often contentious history.

Over the past year, some of the research that will appear in the book has appeared on Tony Ortega's blog, The Underground Bunker, and I've previously documented some of Scientology's intelligence activities at Scientology's Secret Service . My research on Scientology has featured in other authors' books and I contributed to both the book and film versions of Lawrence Wright's "Going Clear".

The book is at an advanced stage of writing. My intention is to have it published some time in 2020. However, the research isn't cheap, and support would be very much appreciated to help with this project. Donations will be used to support travel to a number of key archives and the cost of making physical and electronic copies of documents.

More at https://www.gofundme.com/scientologysconflictsbook

Joey Chait is noted as currently writing an autobiography by Rachel Bernstein about 55 seconds into the Indoctrination podcast at https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/indoctrination/e/60554841

Chris gave an update in this video about the book, saying he was on the last chapter and that it will be out soon.

Victoria Britton is "currently writing a book exposing the underworld of the ultra-secretive and litigious Church of Scientology" about her son Kyle Brennan called Heart of Darkness.
She has published excerpts from the book on her blog: https://vbreton2062.wordpress.com/2015/01/27/heart-of-darkness-part-i-the-handling-of-kyle-brennan/

Claire Headley will soon write a book according to her hubby.

Chris Shelton on reddit:

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How to spread leaflets

• Steve A on how to hand out leaflets - "I'm not saying that this is the only way, but it was getting 4-500 leaflets out in an afternoon's picketing."
  
• Neil Muspratt on how to spread leaflets far and wide in the non-Net world, particularly ones with great big lists of URLs on them.
  
• Bev on titles of leaflets for org and mission eradication. "The one that I saw got people totally unfamiliar with the Co$ curiosity up the most was one title: 'What the Church of Scientology Doesn't Want You To Know' ... it is a natural instinct for people to want to know something that someone or some group is trying to hide from their knowledge."
  
• Put leaflets into Scientology-related books - then tell the Org about it, to use up their time a little less destructively.
  
• You want to get ten thousand Xemu leaflets printed up? Don't forget to send a sample to a WISE printer for a quote.
  
• Roland Rashleigh-Berry came up with a leaflet about Xemu, the Galactic Emperor.
  
  • He's getting really quite good results from the leaflet - after all, if OSA wants you to stop doing something ...
    
  • How to get the Xemu leaflet into orgs - including just walking in with it - ask if it's a late April Fool's joke.
    
    • The Xemu Dare - softening up the org pre-picket (or whenever!) by letting yourself be body-routed in with a 'Scientology Kills' or similar T-shirt.
  • The importance of getting leaflets into orgs. "I helped blow a young man (aged 21 years) from the Birmingham org a few months back ... He has his life back because here in the UK we picketers did something about it."
    
  • If you want to post it to an Org, Roland has a suitable framework for a cover letter, and 'Mr. Ex-CMO' has a handy list of positions within the Org to send it to. Don't forget to do a followup every few months.
    
  • It is also good for picket conversation with the Scientologist counter-demonstrators.
    
  • Roland on the time-bomb nature of the Xemu leaflet. "The point is that a good gossip leaflet will do the rounds in a town. Everybody will get to hear about it. The Xemu leaflet is ideal for that."
    
  • Johnny Xemuseed: ideas on spreading the new version of the Xemu leaflet (MS Word 6 .DOC file, 128k) around:
    • the Orgs themselves - brighten up the staff's day!
    • your local café strip, bookshops, gay-scene shops and venues and any other arty or subcultural areas;
    • the cinema - well, it's sci-fi, isn't it?
    • putting it in newspapers;
    • your local library;
    • Tilman Hausherr on what to do with a Xemu leaflet and a bottle of wine;
    • print up a pile and shove 'em in letterboxes (be sure to check local laws/conventions - in Australia, only do letterboxes that don't say 'No Junk Mail'; in the US, don't do it at all) - spread Xemu and keep in shape!
    • 'Coltice Warrior' goes for the big effort: mailing leaflets to over one thousand addresses near the Cedars Complex in Hollywood! Just imagine everyone for a four-block radius around your Org being so informed ...
  • See the Demo Hints'n'Tips for more ideas on Xemu-related paraphernalia.

If I had the time, I would be smashing Toronto to instill doubt and cause many to blow out of that mOrg, then it shall collapse.

These would great post these Leaflets on thanks ✌️

• Scientology: The Big Lie - How I made an evil cult look good
  by Mitch Brisker
  

• Confessions of an ex-Scientologist Pothead
  by Liz Gale

Due out on 2023-09-01

And more to come, Come in Ex-Scientologists, This board is yours for the taking and to change for your own purposes