Margery Wakefield
Former scientologist,
left after 12 years. Authored four books.
Testimony: The Autobiography of Margery Wakefield
«I began to be alarmed as the auditing hours
passed by, at a cost of approximately $800 per hour, and we
weren't making any progress.
I began to complain to the C/S, and was then given a series of
"reviews" which were supposed to remedy the problem.
Meanwhile, when I was not in session, I volunteered to work in
the juice bar in the dining room, making up exotic fruit shakes
for other guests who would come into the lounge between sessions
to relax.
I had arrived in Clearwater in November of 1979. We struggled
through the auditing until late January of 1980. Nothing was
going well.
When the auditor told me to close my eyes and be out of my head
and look around, I simply told her that I couldn't see anything.
I wasn't able to "exteriorize." I kept saying, "The tech's not
working." Like the story of the Emperor's New Clothes, this was
the one thing you were never supposed to say about Hubbard's
"tech."
I felt terribly guilty about the money. As the $16,000 dwindled
away, I became more and more desperate.»
Understanding Scientology
«Scientology is about money. In Governing
Policy Hubbard wrote:
"MAKE MONEY. MAKE MONEY. MAKE MORE MONEY. MAKE OTHER PEOPLE
PRODUCE SO AS TO MAKE MONEY."
Hubbard was probably one of the, if not the, most successful con
men that ever lived. He was able to convince thousands of people
to sell their homes, liquidate their assets, and give everything
they had to him, in exchange for the questionable commodity of
spiritual salvation for eternal lifetimes to come. And not only
did they buy it, but they bought it fully believing they had
made the best of the bargain.»
Affidavit of
Margery Wakefield (13 April 1990)
«The second murder that I heard planned was of
Paulette Cooper, who had written a book critical of Scientology,
and they were planning to shoot her. To my knowledge this
murder was not carried out, but at this meeting it was planned.» more
Affidavit of Margery Wakefield (23 June 1993)
«7. I was coached for my performance in court
according to the Scientology policy called TR-L (for Training
Routine Lie) which I was already familiar with as I had been
introduced to it on one of my Scientology courses. TR-L
teaches a Scientologist to lie with conviction under
stressful circumstances.»
«15. I consider myself to have been an average
Scientologist in the performance of these and other duties for
the G.O. In one other case, I was included in a meeting where
two murders were planned by Scientology personnel, and I was
at that time in agreement with everything I heard planned in the
meeting.»
The Road to Xenu: A narrative account of life in Scientology
«The turning point came for me one day in
October of 1981. Frank had taken me to a deserted church where
we sat in the empty pews and I soaked in the long-forgotten
comfort of the religion I had abandoned many years before
getting into Scientology. I knew in my mind that I was going to
have to make a choice. Who would be my God? Would it be Hubbard?
Or would it be the god of my childhood whom I had abandoned long
ago?
I knew the answer. Hubbard was not worthy of godhood. Not any
more. Strangely and miraculously, having made my choice, one
night I suddenly snapped out of the hypnotic trance I had been
in for twelve years. I literally woke up, as if an invisible
hypnotist had snapped invisible fingers. And I knew from that
moment that I would never return to Scientology. A decision
began to emerge. I would, I decided, return to Florida to talk
with the attorney to whom I had been referred by the lawyer in
Boston. Over the ensuing weeks, this resolve hardened into
action.»
What Christians Need to Know about Scientology
«It is a well documented fact that the religion
of Hubbard was Satanism. Hubbard's mentor was, in fact, the
infamous English black magician Aleister Crowley. Hubbard
reportedly discovered Crowley's works as a teenager on a trip to
the Library of Congress with his mother.
Thereafter, he was fascinated by Crowley's "Magick," and Crowley
became Hubbard's mentor, a relationship that would last until
Crowley's death in 1947. In one of his later lectures, Hubbard
would refer to Crowley as "my good friend."
[Miller,
p. 135]»
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