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Counterfeit Dreams - Chapter 12: Over the Rainbow
Type: Book
Author(s):
Jeff Hawkins Scientology’s International Base is located on the sloping foothills at the north end of California’s San Jacinto Valley, about ninety miles east of Los Angeles. When I first moved there in 1989, the valley was still mostly a rural farming community – sheep still grazed on fields near the Base. But the area was being rapidly taken over by LA’s "Inland Empire" suburbs, spreading out east from Riverside like a virus. Nearby Moreno Valley had already achieved the dubious status of ...
Jun 4, 2008
Counterfeit Dreams - Chapter 8: Revolution
Type: Book
Author(s):
Jeff Hawkins It was well after midnight and the Tampa airport terminal was almost empty. Just a few late-night travelers sitting on the benches, reading, trying to sleep or, like me, watching the movie on the screen hanging above the waiting area. They were showing Pancho Villa , the 1972 Eugenio Martin film with Telly Savalas as Villa. I was identifying with Villa – his betrayal and imprisonment, his escape, his revolt against his enemy, Huerta. I could feel Villa’s hot outrage. ''¡Viva la ...
May 25, 2008
Dr. David S. Touretzky, Mark Ebner interview on Glosslip — Glosslip
Type: Radio
Author(s):
Dawn Olsen Source:
Glosslip Scientology expert and outspoken critic Dave Touretzky will be joining Glosslip to discuss his knowledge of LRH's controversial "Study Tech" and the drug addiction program Narconon. The second hour we'll be talking to best-selling author and Scientology critic Mark Ebner of the popular website Hollywood Interrupted. Ebner has written countless articles on the CoS and has been victimized by the CoS.
May 17, 2008
THE POLICE: Many blame health problems on years of busting meth labs — Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jose Arballo Jr. Source:
Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California) OREM, UTAH - Officer Terry Sparks says he feels like he was beaten with a sledgehammer. The pounding headache was bad enough, but the surging nausea made it almost unbearable. He gathered his energy and once again entered the nondescript clinic in this rural community south of Salt Lake City. The side effects of his treatment there are a price he is willing to pay to purge his body of toxins he believes have built up in his system after years ...
May 1, 2008
Scientology and the state: Narconon’s influence in the prison system
Type: Research
Author(s):
Drew Tewksbury Abstract: Scientology has never been a stranger to controversy and now an alternative prison rehabilitation center based on Scientology drug treatment stirs concern with medical experts. The Second Chance Center is a small facility outside Albuquerque, N.M., which uses the Scientology-based drug treatment program called Narconon. It is the first prison-based rehabilitation center in America that was designed specifically to foster the Narconon system, and its founders hope that it will be the model for more centers around the country. The ...
Apr 30, 2008
Tom Cruise Sends Katie Holmes To Scientology's Version Of Guantanamo — Defamer
Type: Commentary
Author(s):
Molly Friedman Source:
Defamer Apparently all of Katie Holmes' recent naughty behavior has prompted loving husband Tom Cruise to reprimand her with a punishment that's slightly more severe than asking her to not only wash the dishes but dry them, too. After eating too little with bad influence Victoria Beckham and daring to consider a promising role on Broadway later this year, Cruise decided to step up her Scientology training with a fun-filled three-day vacation to Gold Base. And Canyon Ranch it is not. Gold ...
Apr 19, 2008
Future of rehab center unknown — Battle Creek EnquirerMore: rickross.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Elizabeth Huff Source:
Battle Creek Enquirer Narconon Stone Hawk's drug rehabilitation clients at the Pennfield Township inpatient treatment facility will be relocated by May. The center's approximately 75 patients will be moved to Albion's Narconon Stone Hawk East facility, President Per Wickstrom and Executive Director Eric Tenorio said. Narconon Stone Hawk is a private-pay drug and alcohol rehabilitation center. Clients shell out about $29,000 for typically three to six months' worth of treatment. Treatment includes classroom lessons, a vitamin regime, exercise and two to three weeks' detoxification ...
Apr 2, 2008
Des théories remises en question [French] — Société Radio-Canada (Canada)More: Video: Unofficial English translation , Transcript: Unofficial English translation
Type: TV
Author(s):
Émilie Dubreuil Source:
Société Radio-Canada (Canada) La scientologie est une entreprise ultramoderne qui a aussi des activités séculières. Par exemple, en 1966, Ron Hubbard fondait avec un collègue Narconon une cure de désintoxication qui compte aujourd'hui plus d'une centaine de centres dans le monde, dont un à Trois-Rivières. En plus d'être une cure de désintoxication, Narconon s'est donné pour mission d'instruire les jeunes sur les méfaits de la drogue en donnant des conférences dans de nombreuses écoles de la province. L'atelier offert dans les écoles, appelé La ...
Feb 22, 2008
Funding sought for meth cops' health regimen — Salt Lake Tribune
Type: Press
Author(s):
Nate Carlisle Source:
Salt Lake Tribune Funding sought for meth cops' health regimen
Detoxification program is touted by officers, but legislator is asking for scientific proof it works
By Nate Carlisle
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 02/22/2008 01:48:36 AM MST
Retired police officer for the Utah Department of Public... (Steve Griffin/Tribune file photo )
A proposal before lawmakers would allocate $440,000 for police officers exposed to methamphetamine labs to undergo a regimen designed to excrete poisons.
The regimen has roots in Scientology and officers who ...
Feb 6, 2008
Second Chance seeks state funding (video) — KRQE
Jan 30, 2008
Malignant narcissism, L. Ron Hubbard, and Scientology's policies of narcissistic rage
Type: Research
Author(s):
Stephen A. Kent ,
Jodi M. Lane In this article, we argue that Scientology’s founder, L. Ron Hubbard, likely presented a personality disorder known as malignant narcissism, and then we establish that this disorder probably contributed to his creation of organizational policies against perceived enemies that reflected his narcissistic rage. We illustrate our argument by discussing Hubbard’s creation of an internal Scientology organization called the Guardian’s Office, which carried out a sustained and covert attack against a Scientology critic, Paulette Cooper. This attack, and the Scientology policies that ...
Jan 20, 2008
Scientologists enlist police to push antidrugs drive in school — The Times (UK)
Jan 18, 2008
EPA a bunch of liars says Tom Cruise — eCanadaNow.com
Jan 18, 2008
Tom in Ground Zero tantrum — New York Post
Nov 21, 2007
Utah Foots the bill for ailing cops' controversial Scientology-based detox treatment — FOX News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Sara Bonisteel Source:
FOX News [Picture / Caption: Nov. 7: Ailing meth cops sweat it out at an Orem, Utah, clinic.] A controversial Church of Scientology treatment used on World Trade Center emergency responders is being used in Utah to "detoxify" cops who raided methamphetamine labs in the 1980s and 1990s. The Utah Meth Cops Project is treating around a dozen former and current police officers at taxpayers' expense, using a regime devised by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard at a Bio-Cleansing Centers of America facility ...
Nov 8, 2007
Meth cops swear they can sweat off toxins — Salt Lake Tribune
Type: Press
Author(s):
Nate Carlisle ,
Lisa Rosetta Source:
Salt Lake Tribune Meth cops swear they can sweat off toxics Utah officers undergo treatment at taxpayers expense; experts leery Salt Lake Tribune/November 8, 2007 By Nate Carlisle and Lisa Rosetta Orem – The first time Kelly Call stood beside a methamphetamine lab, he felt a burning in his lungs and eyes. He was exposed to dozens of labs over the years and has had short-term memory loss, shortness of breath and trouble sleeping. But he recently began to feel better, and he credits ...
Nov 8, 2007
Officer Detox — Daily Herald
Type: Press
Author(s):
Joe Pyrah Source:
Daily Herald [Picture / Caption: CRAIG DILGER/Daily Herald Kelly Call (L) and Al Acosta (R) joke together while sitting in the sauna for detoxification. Both men were repeatedly exposed to the toxic chemicals used in meth-amphetamine labs while working for the Department of Public Safety. Acosta says that he has noticed a marked improvement in his health and his moods in the 22 days that he has been in the program. "If my humor is coming back thats a good thing," says Acosta. ...
Oct 7, 2007
Clinic's results make 9/11 responders believe — Philadelphia Inquirer
Type: Press
Author(s):
Art Carey Source:
Philadelphia Inquirer Critics aside, they say Scientology's detox center cures ills.
By Art Carey
Inquirer Staff Writer
Within days of beginning treatment, Mike Wire noticed changes. His pain eased. His mood brightened. His sense of smell returned, sharper than ever.
A retired millwright from Bucks County, Wire, 60, is among thousands of rescue workers, firefighters and police officers who developed an array of serious ailments after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York. Wire spent 21/2 ...
Oct 5, 2007
'I wished I had never gone there' — Philadelphia InquirerMore: philly.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Art Carey Source:
Philadelphia Inquirer On 9/11, Bobby Morrill got a call from his cousin Bobby Stewart, project manager for a construction company, inviting him to come to Manhattan to help clean up the mess. Morrill, who lives in Newark, was there the next day. He worked for 36 hours nonstop, directing fellow ironworkers as they began untangling the mound of twisted steel beams and girders. That first night, Morrill slept under a table in Battery Park. He wound up spending 10 weeks at Ground Zero, ...
Oct 5, 2007
A skeptic, she's willing to give it a try — Philadelphia InquirerMore: philly.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Art Carey Source:
Philadelphia Inquirer Picture: "Lisa Gengo exercises before going into the dry sauna on the 23d day of her program. The exercise speeds niacin into circulation. Gengo had worked near Ground Zero."] Among medical professionals calling for further research into what's going on at the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, Lisa Gengo is unique. Since July, Gengo has been visiting the clinic once a week and she plans to go through the detox program herself. "I'm using myself as a guinea pig," she ...
Oct 5, 2007
A sprite who was sapped of spirit — Philadelphia InquirerMore: philly.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Art Carey Source:
Philadelphia Inquirer Because she lived only a block from Ground Zero, Jodi Bettis wasn't allowed to return to her apartment until the end of October, about six weeks after 9/11. On her window ledge, she found six inches of dust and soot, embedded with grim souvenirs of people who had worked in the Twin Towers - an earring, the scrap of a photograph, popcorn. Her apartment assaulted her with a variety of smells - all of them repellent. "It smelled like heavy dust," ...
Oct 5, 2007
Detox program — Philadelphia InquirerMore: philly.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Art Carey Source:
Philadelphia Inquirer [Picture / Caption: Joe O'Sullivan, 42, of Queens, and his wife Helena, 33, talk with Jim Woodworth (right), the detox project's president, during a consultation. Joe O'Sullivan's has had health problems since 9/11. The framed towel had been used by patient Tom Bulger.] It's become something of a medical mystery: This detox program shouldn't work, but it seems to. Nobody - from convention doctors to the patients - can explain why, but those suffering severe symptoms after exposure to debris kicked ...
Oct 5, 2007
Patient No. 1, and a towel stained purple — Philadelphia InquirerMore: philly.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Art Carey Source:
Philadelphia Inquirer [Picture: "Tom Bulger on the roof of Stuyvesant High School in New York. To the left of his shoulder is the rebuilt 7 World Trade Center building (the tallest glass building in the background). Bulger was the first person through the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, a Manhattan clinic that follows a protocol pioneered by L. Ron Hubbard, controversial (and late) founder of the Church of Scientology."] Tom Bulger heard the sound of a jet flying low, gunning its engines. ...
Sep 20, 2007
Deceitful study used in promoting Scientology's detoxification program
Aug 29, 2007
The Invasion Begins: Scientology's Plan To Conquer Cleveland — Cleveland Free Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
James Renner Source:
Cleveland Free Times The optometrist wants to hear about my most painful memories.
This is an auditing session, an important component of a religion called Scientology. The optometrist is the auditor. His name is Steve Sasala. He is skinny. And tall. His face is long and narrow. I can make out the shape of his skull. We sit across from each other, on opposite sides of a tiny desk inside a claustrophobic room at the back of some historic building in Parma Heights. The ...
Aug 17, 2007
A bridge too far — Haaretz
Type: Press
Author(s):
Aviva Lori Source:
Haaretz Hollywood, Tel Aviv is right behind you: Artists, businesspeople and middle-class seekers are filling the classrooms of local Scientology centers, hoping to rid themselves of excess spiritual baggage. Opera singer Gaby Sade used to have a very short fuse. If someone cut him off, he was capable of getting out of the car and giving the offending driver more than a piece of his mind. If if did not come to blows, he would at least tell him, in choice language, ...
Aug 8, 2007
Councilman parties with H'wood Scientology set — New York Post
Type: Press
Author(s):
David Seifman Source:
New York Post A Queens legislator — who insists a controversial detoxification program he's promoting in lower Manhattan isn't a front for Scientology — attended a celebrity-studded Los Angeles gala sponsored by the Church of Scientology. City Councilman Hiram Monserrate said he paid his own way Saturday to the glitzy Hollywood event celebrating the 38th anniversary of the Church of Scientology Celebrity Center. Monserrate said the trip had no connection to his work on behalf of the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project on ...
Jul 13, 2007
St. Petersburg court shuts down Scientology Center (Russia) — Interfax
Jul 12, 2007
Russian court shuts down Scientology center in St. Petersburg: prosecutors — International Herald Tribune
Type: Press
Source:
International Herald Tribune Moscow: A Russian court has ordered a center operated by the Scientology movement in St. Petersburg to be shut down, city prosecutors said Thursday, after accusing the organization of unlicensed teaching and other activities. The St. Petersburg City Court ordered the Scientology center closed after it agreed with prosecutors who said the center's operations were violating its charter. "The center was engaging in 'auditing' and 'purification' activities," prosecutors said in a statement. "Such practices were advertised by the organization as healthcare ...
Jun 20, 2007
Stars in their eyes — Spectator
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tessa Mayes Source:
Spectator Tessa Mayes is the first reporter to have gone undercover in the London Celebrity Centre of the Church of Scientology. It is, she finds, like a pious version of Pop Idol. The adherents want to be celebrities at least as much as Scientologists ‘A culture is only as great as its dreams and its dreams are dreamed by artists,’ wrote L. Ron Hubbard, who founded the Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre in 1969, 15 years after he formed the church itself. ...
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