I think a lot of people look at Scientology and wonder how a sensible person could belong to something like that? What they don’t know is the rank and file public does not have a clue about the serious human rights abuses. How can this be?

They have been slowly and systematically trained not to look at anything derogatory about the subject which means that can’t really look at anything about Scientology in the general media or on the Internet. They can’t talk to the ex SO, ex non-SO staff or the abused public.  It they ask questions or try to persist it becomes unpleasant and they are asked why they are flapping.  If they talk to a friend they are nattering, furthering enemy line, or putting out Black PR. A staff member will be gone and you can’t find out where they are or what happened to them. A friend of mine's closest terminal in the church disappeared and five years later she still doesn’t know what happened to her. And believe me she has tried to find out. You hit the great wall of silence.

A well-known and liked C/S is suddenly gone. You inquire where is???? You get a no answer. I think 75% of the general Scientology public does not know that Mike Rinder, Mark Rathbun, Ron Miscavige, Jon Horwich, and many more are not longer in the Sea Org. The public has grown used to missing familiar faces. Where is Heber?  Rena? Karen Hollander? Ken Hoden? Fred Schwartz? People go up lines and you don’t see or hear from them again. Where are all the RTC reps?  

What the public Scientologist does know is Scientology isn’t much fun anymore. Your job as a public Scientologist is to make a lot of money, donate, be on course, audit, donate, work on OTCs, and did I forget donate?  You used to not be allowed to buy your way out of Ethics, now it is de rigueur.  

Forget correct financial policy! After all L. Ron Hubbard made his credit squeak when he bought Saint Hill. You should mortgage your house, liquidate your IRA, and maybe even wipe out your children’s college fund. And then you need to figure out how to do more.

It is common to get about 10 different guys jamming down your throat what you should be doing right now. It’s usually at least 3 different things. It’s all Command Intention. I ask who is "Command?" And what is his intention?

Right now you must donate to the book campaigns (even though Hubbard instructed many times not to give away books), donate to the IAS, and of course your Ideal Org. You have to agree to any building commands. Even if it’s too big for the area, not a good deal, not a good area, and not correctly zoned. You aren’t supposed to ask logical business questions because that is being reasonable. It is true that the C of S no longer runs on reason. It is more important to get the building NOW so it can be announced at the next event than do the correct action for the area.

The public does see the empty buildings. But many of them think David Miscavige is going to pull some magic switch when all the orgs are ideal and the public will come streaming in. I kid you not.

Most people got into Scientology to improve their life. They wanted to live life fully across the dynamics. They didn’t know that the game would become doing Scientology. They didn’t know they would wake up one day and realize it had become and was a CULT.  

Written by Flur Fornow