This article was originally published on Dreamsendweb.com on February 19th 2008, a couple of days after Shawn Lonsdale was found dead in his home. For reasons unknown, the article, along with the website, disappeared from the Internet. If the author of the article reads this, I hope you’re doing OK. Here’s a PDF version of [...]
UPDATE (05/23/08) I tried to leave a comment on xenutv2 but kept getting an error message. UPDATE (05/22/08) Last week I asked Google and YouTube press support (and another Google employee) whether their Scientology channel was paid. The channel was listed in the “Sponsors” section of the site, for one thing, and Scientology has been [...]
UPDATE (11/27/2009): The Title “Why Germany Wants to Ban the Cult of Scientology” is now back on the index, but the permalink still isn’t. UPDATE (11/13/2009): It seems Google has taken the permalink for this article out of its index completely. You will still see articles linking to this post, but you won’t find it [...]
Pope Benedict XV was forced to cancel his visit to La Sapienza, the largest and oldest university in Rome founded in 1303 by the Vatican, to deliver an inauguration speech for the new academic year amidst protests from faculty and students. 67 academics signed a letter protesting the Pope’s visit for his speech in 1990 [...]
A university where students learn to meditate? Consciousness based education and world peace? It actually all sounds quite beautiful if it doesn’t so alarmingly resonate with the Scientological agenda of world domination. In any case the famed director David Lynch has been touring Europe these couple of weeks to promote and found universities to teach [...]
Religion Beat Became a Test of Faith: A reporter looks at how the stories he covered affected him and his spiritual journey. After reading the article on Los Angeles Times I wrote William Lobdell, author of the piece, to thank him for his heart felt honesty. In an age of religious monomania, where feigning piety [...]
Update (11/27/09): Link to the Youtube video updated. If L. Ron Hubbard can do it, you can do it!
If you’re into Science Fiction, especially the satirical kind, or if you’re into musical, especially the religion-trashing kind, you might wanna visit the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh this year for the premier of Xenu is Loose, a rock and roll musical mocking the Church of Scientology. The full title of the show, by the way, [...]
BBC reporter John Sweeney’s encounter with Scientology. Watch this, people. BBC vs. Scientology
Sueddeutsche Zeitung is running an eerie piece (in German) on how Scientologists in Germany are converting ordinary folks into believers. A blogger spent 10 days with Scientology recruiters in Munich to write his first hand experience.
