Archives for April 2021

Dear Dr. Introvigne: You clearly can take what you take as confirmation of whatever factoid you can imagine. There are always good reasons my communications on any subject are as long as they are. One often relevant reason is the Scientologists and their collaborators’ reliance on pretended ignorance. It could be said that they causatively know not what they do. They would say they causatively not know what they do. Pretended ignorance is a lie, of course, and often requires some … [Read more...] about Sects Trafficking; religious scholars for sale or for free

Dear Dr. Introvigne: Following is my email to Mike Rinder querying the veracity of his statement that you say is defamatory. He has not responded, and I cannot expect him to. He still serves the Miscavigeite sectists’ malign purposes in vital ways, was a paid liar for them for twenty years, and has maintained his scientologically-instilled hatred for me since claiming to have left Scientology. A key weapon in the Fair Game arsenal, as you know, is “Ignore Tech,” and Rinder has visibly been … [Read more...] about Blissing Out on Ignore Tech

On February 25, I participated by Zoom in a conference hosted in Paris by the International Center for the Study of Eurasia. The conference theme was “Nation State and the New Transnational Forms of Religious Consciousness.” Talks were to be under seven minutes, so depth and details were correspondingly limited. I titled mine “Exceptional Hypocrisy: The US’s International Religious Freedom program.” … [Read more...] about Masterminds, Sidekicks and the Bear, Oh My!