Greetings Earthlings;
I'm happy to have found this forum - have been out of the 'Scio' loop for several years now. I attempted the 'Student Hat' course in the late '90's but flunked out after a few sporadic attempts. I was slapped with the 'other practices' label because I was found out to be practicing 'meditation' and other 'spiritual' disciplines and was told I had to give up all my other practices and buy into the 'scio' program hook, line, and sinker - "you are either with us and play along or else you are against us and you will not be welcome here any longer" I was told ! ??? that didn't sound to me like spiritual freedom, so I said goodbye . I figured I was on my way out anyway, when weeks earlier the Sea Org attempted to recruit me and I balked at signing their "million year contract" --- guess I could not contain my WTF facial expression.
Only a few years later however I did find myself living in Clearwater. I was fascinated by the militaristic scientology environment throughout downtown Clearwater :confused2: . The criticism surrounding the organization fascinated me and I sought out more info from the critics. Found Bob Minton's office through a back door alley and met to discuss what the buzz was all about. I really got spooked upon entering Bob's office with all the camera's and security - and I got spooked even further, once they showed me all the camera's around town - the scientology security guards walking the streets , the scientology security looking at my truck and taking down my license plate # - etc. After being approached by scientology security upon leaving Bob's office and threatened , I felt like I had entered a war zone. Scientology security on every street corner - all speaking on walkie-talkies - and all eyes on me - FREAKY .
Did a little research of my own on the internet back then - never found a forum like this 5 years ago though - only stories of law suits, fear and intimidation tactics, suspicious deaths ie: Ken Ogger (Pilot) - and scientology setups of critics like Bob Minton and the planting of marijuana at a critic's home (Jesse Prince) ..... I'm really really glad to find more people coming out to challenge this 'suppressive cult', and maybe - finally - something can be done - to disassemble this criminal network of SP's ....
Accolades to the St Petersburg Times for their relentless pursuit of truth behind this cult -
and kudos to:
Katie H , Leah R , Jenna M , Lisa McPherson
I'm happy to have found this forum - have been out of the 'Scio' loop for several years now. I attempted the 'Student Hat' course in the late '90's but flunked out after a few sporadic attempts. I was slapped with the 'other practices' label because I was found out to be practicing 'meditation' and other 'spiritual' disciplines and was told I had to give up all my other practices and buy into the 'scio' program hook, line, and sinker - "you are either with us and play along or else you are against us and you will not be welcome here any longer" I was told ! ??? that didn't sound to me like spiritual freedom, so I said goodbye . I figured I was on my way out anyway, when weeks earlier the Sea Org attempted to recruit me and I balked at signing their "million year contract" --- guess I could not contain my WTF facial expression.
Only a few years later however I did find myself living in Clearwater. I was fascinated by the militaristic scientology environment throughout downtown Clearwater :confused2: . The criticism surrounding the organization fascinated me and I sought out more info from the critics. Found Bob Minton's office through a back door alley and met to discuss what the buzz was all about. I really got spooked upon entering Bob's office with all the camera's and security - and I got spooked even further, once they showed me all the camera's around town - the scientology security guards walking the streets , the scientology security looking at my truck and taking down my license plate # - etc. After being approached by scientology security upon leaving Bob's office and threatened , I felt like I had entered a war zone. Scientology security on every street corner - all speaking on walkie-talkies - and all eyes on me - FREAKY .
Did a little research of my own on the internet back then - never found a forum like this 5 years ago though - only stories of law suits, fear and intimidation tactics, suspicious deaths ie: Ken Ogger (Pilot) - and scientology setups of critics like Bob Minton and the planting of marijuana at a critic's home (Jesse Prince) ..... I'm really really glad to find more people coming out to challenge this 'suppressive cult', and maybe - finally - something can be done - to disassemble this criminal network of SP's ....
Accolades to the St Petersburg Times for their relentless pursuit of truth behind this cult -
and kudos to:
Katie H , Leah R , Jenna M , Lisa McPherson