Holy Toledo Part Deux

...there's a much better place on Ellsworth Street for your dog to shit.

While I love the exposure this blog has been receiving, I have to say this particular reference is an honor but it's also incredibly saddening.

The writer of this tribute knows the remaining sycophant, hit man, goon and psychotic mouthpiece for this dysfunctional and decrepit organization.  As I read it, the two were acquainted some time before the corpulent yes man was consumed by the Academy for Psychic Studies.

By the short description written here, it is truly amazing to note the dramatic transition the remaining cult goon has made from his former life to his present mode of existence.  His voyage from a trusted and honored mentor to his laughable and incompetent tenure with the Witches of Ellsworth Street is a decent so embarrassingly tragic, it is the first time I almost felt human compassion for him (whew, thank God that's over - I nearly felt sorry for the fucker).

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Another spin off cult: Academy for Psychic Studies (actually a spin off of a spin off of Hubbard called the Berkeley Psychic Institute).

This is a great blog on the subject:
http://leavingsrf.blogspot.com/

This one is actually dying off much like it's model. Funnily enough it was brought to a halt because the gentleman who started this blog in '08 allowed anonymous comment. There was even an epic court battle in which he won the right to publish anonymously submitted commentary and won something like $35 grand in legal fees back from the 'academy'. 

Why do I care? A person from my past who was a chef and a mentor of sorts to me is became caught up in their scam and is now one of their major threatener/ enforcers (as well as one of their few believers left in the academy).   I just found this out within the last couple of weeks and the news has saddened me. Believe me, he was not a bad person before the cult, but they certainly found his ruin; it is immortalized now in both a blog and book. They will continue to ruin his life as they have his health and personal relationships. 

I was always anti-cult, but this has become personal. I never want to see this philosophy regain ground enough to continue to lure more in with slick words disguising the same old con. The rot starts at the head, and Hubbard's philosophy must be discredited before it can snare more souls under new names. 

 dongcopter fruitcake, Feb 11, 2012#57