How many times out of the goodness of your heart, have you donated to a good cause? Did you ever wonder if the good cause you donated to was on the up and up? Have you ever checked out a charity before donating your hard earned money? Well you should.

Just because it looks like a charity is on the up an up or sponsored by celebrities, doesn’t mean your money is going where you think it may be.

Glosslip is about to give you a small lesson in the many front groups of Scientology. If you are thinking that there is no way that you have have given cash to Scientology, think again. It happened to me, only I didn’t realize it until YEARS later. I will get to that later.

As you may or may not know, the cult of Scientology THRIVES on deception and secrecy. It has hundreds of front groups. Some of the better known front groups you may have heard about are, CCHR, Narconon, Criminon, Applied Scholastics, WISE, ABLE, FASE, and The Way To Happiness. 

While all the proceeds from these groups end up going to the same place, which is Scientology of course, the names of these groups usually are attached to a business, an inmate betterment program, a drug treatment program, a dentist or chiropractor’s office (we will get to that) or a school which teaches L. Ron Hubbard tech, like Will and Jada Pinkett Smith’s school, the New Village Academy.

But there are a whole slew of names that you may not be aware of that are in fact Scientology.  Scientology’s deception runs so deep, that your own town officials may have some of these programs implemented and your tax dollars are ending up in Scientology’s pockets without you even knowing it. Yes, your tax dollars may be funding a Scientology drug rehabilitation program. Sad but true. It has happened in many states in the U.S. and just recently in New Mexico.

Ask Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chavez whose tax payers paid over $1.5 million dollars to run the now defunct Second Chance program which was run in their old Westside Jail. This program used Scientology’s teachings and the very dangerous Purification Rundown, which is also used by all Scientologists. This of course is the same program used in Narconon AND Criminon AND the NY Fire Fighter’s Detoxification program, just to name a few. ALL the same program, only with different names.

FYI…The Second Chance program left in the middle of the night and not only stole items, but left an outstanding bill. They owe more than $600,000 in tax liens, about $400,000 is due to the IRS, and more than $200,000 to the state. I would  like to know why Joy Westrum, who ran that particular Second Chance, is not being brought in for questioning? Crazy, isn’t it?

I know if that was MY money going towards a Scientology phony baloney drug rehab, I would be slightly miffed, to say the least.

Some of these programs that you may not be aware of are: The Drug Free Marshals, (this program is for children, and a new chapter just opened in Cincinnati) STOMP (Stop Torture of Mental Patients), World Literacy Crusade, Riders Against Drugs, The Association for Peace in the Middle East, Cry Out, Artists For A Better World, Slums To Schools, Racing For Human Rights Awareness & Education, Educating Children International, Fight for Kids, Author Services Inc., Volunteer Ministries, Guardian Art, Youth For Human Rights, Human Rights International, The NY Fire Fighters Detoxification Program, (created after 911, a front group for Narconon) Poets for Peace And Poets For Human Rights, and the list goes on and on and on. Narconon has MANY front groups and has recently been handing out pamphlets and information in many schools across the US. Tell your school no thank you!

Other names for Narconon front groups are stopaddiction.com, cocaineaddiction.com, ecstacyaddiction.com, methamphetamineaddiction.com, addiction2.com, just to name a few. Click here for more of Scientology’s front groups to watch out for.

Disturbing enough, the front groups names I just listed are merely  a drop in the bucket. Scientology has hundreds more and has successfully eked their way into law enforcement positions, government positions, our jail systems, our schools, our colleges, Hollywood, football teams, soccer teams, the arts and entertainment world, and yes, even NASCAR.

NASCAR driver, Kenton Gray, founded the Dianetics Racing Team in 2001. The name Dianetics Racing Team was a title taken from a book by founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard.

Kenton drove a car sponsored by Bridge Publications, (another Scientology front group) which publishes Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s “Dianetics”, the biggest book of dribble I have ever had the misfortune of trying to read.

The hood of the car that Kenton drove read “Dianetics”, along with a volcano graphic. The slogan is “Ignite Your Potential”. *rolls eyes*

Poor Kenton has no idea what he has gotten himself into. I am sure a lot of his prize money will be going towards Scientology courses and auditing so he can climb his way up Scientology’s Bridge To Total Freedom or what we here at Glosslip refer to as “The Bridge to Nowhere and Financial Ruin.”

Scientology has also been infiltrating other countries for years now. They are looking for “fresh meat” to join their Sea Organization and their Volunteer Ministries. They have snaked their way into India, Africa, Russia, Thailand and even the Czech Republic and many more. They typically go into countries with using their front groups The Way To Happiness and Volunteer Ministries ostensibly to help the underprivileged. Many unsuspecting people have joined the Volunteer Ministries through Scientology’s “World Crusades”  events that Scientology holds thinking they were helping people, completely unaware of the negative influence they were spreading until it’s too late.

Scientology also creeps into businesses through companies like Sterling Management, Hollander Consultants, Silkin Management Group, (formally called Hollander Consultants) and Stellar Consultants, these are just a few. They are ALL affiliated with WISE, which stands for World Institute of Scientology Enterprises.

How is Scientology able to achieve getting into businesses? They contact the owners and tell them that their employees productivity will increase greatly if they take their courses. Of course they are Scientology courses. Scientology courses which were written up by L. Ron Hubbard. They also tell the owner that they too will also make money depending on how many employees they get on course, so naturally some business owners jump at the chance to make more money. The owners must pay a licensing fee to WISE for use of the course materials and also a pay a percentage to WISE.

What is being taught in these courses? L. Ron Hubbard tech of course! And why? MONEY for Scientology and hopefully indoctrination into Scientology down the line. It’s all a a very slow deceptive process.

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There have been lawsuits against owners of companies who fired employees who refused to get on board with taking these courses. This is a scary and sad situation, especially today where employees may be afraid of losing their jobs in such a poor economy and feel they better take the courses or else they will have to go job hunting. It’s especially disturbing for employees with families they have to support. Take the case of an employee at a company called DISKEEPER who was dismissed when he refused to take courses.

And like we mentioned earlier, dentists and chiropractors are a big target for Scientology. Dentists are usally brought into the cult through the front group WISE. They are asked to pay for pamphlets that Scientology prints. Scientology puts the dentist’s name and endorsement on the pamphlet. Then the dentists will distribute these phamphlets in their offices and waiting rooms. Any patients or employess that sign up for a course, the dentist ends up with a commission.

They hook the chiropractors in through the front group the CCHR, because chiropractors are agaisnt drugging, and so is the CCHR.

Many chiropractors and dentists AND their patients were indoctrinated into the cult this way. The hook is, if the patient trusts and likes their dentist or chiropractor, and think that if they see that their dentist’s name is on a phamphlet, or they pick up a CCHR pamphlet in their chiropractor’s waiting room on the anti drugging of kids, that it’s a good thing because it was endorsed by someone they trust. This can happen at any time. You can be a patient for years, and then start to see these pamphlets show up in the waiting room. We are not suggesting you drop your dentist or chiropractor. But do not get into taking any courses. And keep in mind again, your money will end up in Scientology’s pockets eventually.

We can’t possibly name all of Scientology front groups here. Click here for a list of JUST Scientology Schools in the world.

Scientology also sneaks in the back door using the entertainment world. Of course most people have heard about Tom Cruise and John Travolta and other big league celebrity Scientologists, but I am talking about small time performers too. Like comedians. How about Evan Wecksell, who tours college campuses and who’s a HUGE advocate for “Fight for Kids“. He participated in a 2009 Run Evan Run Tour this past August.  All the proceeds went to Fight For Kids. YES of course it’s another Scientology front group.

Evan also trains for the ING New York City Marathon where he ties in raising funds for Fight For Kids at this website. You can make a donation directly to Fight For Kids on that website, but it’s really a donation for Scientology’s CCHR . How many people realize that when they give money to Evan for Fight For The Kids, that it is actually going to the CCHR? Just sickening.

Evan also released a press release which stated:

Wecksell also will take his marathon experience to the next level by fundraising concurrently for “Fight for Kids,” a campaign launched by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit public benefit organization. The campaign combats the psychiatric over-drugging and labeling of children while educating and offering alternatives for concerned parents.

At least the CCHR was mentioned in the article, but how many people know it is connected with Scientology? Or how much is Scientology mentioned at the race?  It’s not. Notice how the CCHR is described in the article as a “non profit public benefit organization.” Once again, no mention of Scientology or that he is a Scientologist raising money for Scientology.

Now keep in mind, the only thing that the CCHR does to help kids off drugs is print pamphlets about drugs and hand them out. It’s highly doubtful this is very affective in helping kids.

The CCHR funds their Psychiatry Industry of Death Exhibit (it’s a riot) both in California and the exhibits that travel across the US. All the rest of the money goes towards Scientology’s lawyers who are fighting pending lawsuits and also to pay their washed up and seedy private investigators, who follow, photograph, chase, and who dig up info on critics of Scientology and ex members who have left and have spoken out. The funds also go to their Office of Special Affairs which is nothing more than another group within the CCHR that is a group of Scientology goons who also photograph, follow people, dig up information, and “fair game” anyone who opposes Scientology or gets in the way of their quest to clear the planet. The rest of the money goes to Scientology cult leader David Miscavige who is a multi-millionaire living off Scientology front group earnings, money from the courses, the auditing and the “donations” of Scientology members. Lovely, isn’t it?

Now back to Evan Wecksell…

You can be the judge of his “talents” . Watch for yourself.

He also participates with his wife Kelly Meyersfield — of course another Scientologist – in the ”College The Musical: A Musical About College.” He is also an alum of the Theta Chi fraternity. It’s scary to think that Evan’s tours are at college campuses. What exactly do you think his intentions are? Promoting the CCHR? Evan’s website has other Scientology front groups links listed as well.

Now please know that I am not picking on Evan Wecksell. I am just using him as an example of how Scientology can reach smaller towns with semi-famous entertainers. And even raise funds through using a marathon race.

In Evan’s defense I would imagine like most public Scientologists, he and his wife do not have a clue about the dark side of Scientology. Members are kept far away from this information, and for obvious reasons. Just another deception of Scientology to keep their members in. Evan probably thinks he is doing a world of good for kids by thinking he is actually raising money for them. Sadly, he is not.

Scientology’s front groups are world wide. There are Narconon facilities world wide and many other front groups. L. Ron Hubbard would have loved to taken over the world if he could when he was alive. He thought he would be able to take over Rhodesia in the 1960’s. (named after Cecil Rhodes) Fact, Hubbard believed he was Cecil Rhodes in a previous life. Cecil Rhodes once said:

“I contend that we are the first race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race.”

Rhode’s dream of world domination was Hubbard’s dream too.
Rhodesia ended up kicking Hubbard’s sorry ass out.

Oh well… so much for world domination L. Ron.

In the UK, there is band called the The Jive Aces. They are a swing band whose members are all Scientologists. They go around with clip boards and hand out Scientology literature between their sets. Not my idea of a good time, having to be bothered by recruiters when your out for an enjoyable evening. Some of their venues have asked them to stop recruiting at their shows or else they wouldn’t be aloud to play any more. These guys are SO indoctrinated into Scientology, they even use Hubbard’s words in some of their songs. Click here. This was taped at their performance at Saint Hill Manor in East Grinstead, UK.

St Hill is the biggest Scientology Org in the UK. The entire beginning of their song, “When Your Smiling” is strictly quoting Hubbard’s work. And yes they are very dorky in their matching yellow suits. I love swing music, but NO THANKS!

OR how about when Beck did a performance last year and the poster for his gig stated that all the proceeds went to Educating Children International?

YUP! You guessed it. Another Scientology front group. Pretty damn sneaky Beck. And not cool.

We did a story on that gig. His fans and now ex-fans were not too tickled that their $35 bucks went to Scientology. They were totally deceived. Nice thing to do to your fans huh?

So how did it happen to me?

How did I unknowingly donate money to Scientology? The same way as the Beck concert. I was totally duped by the deceptive promotion of an event.

I was asked to go to a benefit MANY years back. This was previous to my full knowledge of Scientology and all its abuses.  Like most people, I always thought Scientology was just some wacky group of people who believed in way out alien crap, and I thought they were totally harmless.

Someone told me the cause for the benefit I was attending was for the over drugging of school children. I thought, hmm… seems like a noble cause. My friend and I paid $30 a ticket and enjoyed the performers that night. There was a table set up passing out pamphlets and they were taking additional donations. I didn’t pay it any mind or even notice the literature they were handing out. Many people donated money and never even looked at the literature, thankfully I declined.

Now like I said, this benefit was YEARS ago. It wasn’t till a little over a year and a half ago I remembered reading an article that mentioned the over-drugging of school kids and that it was for the CCHR. It struck me kind of funny when I read it, as the words used in the article were so similar to the words used in describing the benefit I attended.

Well with a little snooping, I found out that the benefit I went to was also for the CCHR. So I looked into the CCHR and Scientology and I nearly fell of my seat. I was HORRIFIED.

Right then and there was when I decided to fight against Scientology. I was beyond disgusted and I couldn’t believe their out right deception.

But in the long run (many years later) I was happy that I did attend that benefit, because I would have never found out about all the abuses of Scientology and especially about their Sea Organization. So thanks Scientology, I guess you pulled me in and opened my eyes to your treacherous ways.

The more I dug up about Scientology on the net, the more and more I knew that I wanted to speak out for those who couldn’t speak out for themselves. Especially the Sea Org. I went on to read about Operation Snow White (when Scientologists (Hubbard’s wife too) infiltrated the IRS offices and stole government documents) It was the the single largest infiltration of the United States government in history! How Scientology was able to obtain tax exemption after this just makes me shake my head in disgust. Eleven people, including Hubbard’s wife, went to jail.

Equally as shocking, was the incredible story of the fair gaming of author Paulette Cooper who authored The Scandal Of Scientology. That Scientology fair game project was called “Operation Freak Out.” The poor woman was framed by Scientology and almost went to jail for a very long time. Read the story, it will blow your mind.

I was also shocked over Scientology’s religious cloaking and how they strong armed the IRS into giving them their tax exemption status back in the 90’s. And FYI…. they are the ONLY “religion”, *ahem* which is allowed to deduct courses, Scientology schooling and auditing as a deduction from their taxes. Nope not kidding.

From the Jewish Law website:

 In 1993, the Internal Revenue Service reached an agreement with the church, which was later leaked to the press, in which it pledged “not to contest the deductibility of Church of Scientology fixed donations in connection with qualified religious services.”

WHY IS THIS ALLOWED? 

Perhaps the Sklars court case from 2002 will interest you. They wanted to know why Scientology is the only “religion” that is allowed this exclusive tax exemption and so they decided to take their question to court. The LA Jewish couple asked if they can deduct their five children’s religious school costs off their taxes, in the same manner Scientology members are allowed to do, but guess what? They were denied. HUH?

Curious isn’t it? And more curious still…Scientology’s founder said and I quote:

“Scientology…is not a religion.” – L. Ron Hubbard, CREATION OF HUMAN ABILITY, 1954, p. 251

The Sklars have recently appealed to the Supreme Court. The outcome of this case will be very interesting.

Although I don’t believe that anyone should be allowed tax exemption for religious expenses, I think Scientology should not have exclusive rights. Perhaps this will rally the Supreme Court to take a good long hard look at all of Scientology’s shenanigans and favoritism that they were some how blessed with and why.

So, are you appalled yet? Good! Your learning!

I couldn’t stop digging around the internet about Scientology. It was like looking at a car accident. After reading about the death of Lisa McPherson and all the other alleged Scientology deaths, their use of fair game, all the abuses of their Sea Org members, and the out right evil deceptions that occur on a daily basis, I was totally hooked on making a promise to shed light on this insidious, litigious cult.

The people over at WhyWeProtest.com have been an ongoing thorn in Scientology’s side. Their website and forum consists of members of the group known as “Anonymous”, as well as critics and ex-Scientology members. Their website is a wealth of information, as well as their Research Wiki Page.

I tip my hat to Anonymous.

They have been able to shed more light on Scientology more than any other group or person. Their antics at their world wide protests which they claim they do for the “lulz”, and the all mighty internet has literally made the cult of Scientology start to crumble in a huge way and Anonymous may very well end up being the cult’s demise entirely.

I also have read some very heart wrenching stories at exscientologykids.com. This website was a real eye opener for me. It was started by Scientology ex-members Astra Woodcraft, Kendra Wiseman and Jenna Miscavige who were only children in Scientology’s brutal Sea Organization. Jenna suffered family disconnection from her parents as a child and left in 2005. She is the niece of Scientology cult leader David Miscavige. Be sure to give that website a visit. You will be both saddened and outraged by Scientology’s outright cruelty to children.

Of course Scientology does a good job themselves of constantly “pulling it in” by not only believing that they are above the law, but their constant “foot bullets” and lies are no longer working. People world wide are wising up and uniting to put an end to this utter sham of a religion, which is nothing more than a money making pyramid scheme.

So the next time you hand over your hard earned money as a donation, or buy tickets to a show or benefit, attend a race, a movie with a Scientology star or check a loved one into any kind of rehabilitation center, OR you have to take a course at work…. be sure to check it out first. Read the small print. Be sure you know who you are supporting!

Check the Scientology front group list and make sure it is not on that list. And keep in  mind, Scientology is VERY shifty. When a smaller front group’s name gets too much attention of having Scientology ties and the funding stops, they just come up with new names and move on. All the money collected from all these front groups, all goes to the same place… SCIENTOLOGY.

Also, be aware that any time you see a “Stress Test” table with the red table cloths set up selling copies of  the book Dianetics, that it is nothing more than Scientology all the way.

These Stress Test tables set up at fairs, flea markets, malls, street fairs, college campuses, city streets, and have been seen set up outside of some Walmarts!

The Stress Test is where the deception starts, as you will not see a sign saying Scientology ANYWHERE on their tables. They are only interested in sucking you into the cult by having you take a stress test, which will then lead to their personality test. This is where they will tell you that you have problems, or you are not very happy and that you need help and they can help you with some courses. They also claim to cure illnesses. I kid you not.

Speaking of not supporting Scientology, keep in mind that any support for any Scientology celebrity, artist or musician is also giving money to Scientology down the line, as they are continually having to take courses and auditing and “donate” millions to Scientology. Right Tom Cruise?

Not too long ago, Cruise lobbied the White House to have every school in the US teaching Scientology’s L. Ron Hubbard tech through the Applied Scholastics front group. Some schools in the US do teach this tech already. The tech is very dangerous, as it will eventually elimnate your child’s ability to think critically and when they go to further their education, they will most likely be far behind others. It also teaches that if the child is not able to understand what they are being taught, that it is THEIR fault. Many students can not get into college after attending a school teaching this tech. Is your child’s school next?

So any movie ticket that you purchase that has a Scientology star in it, the money will end up supporting Scientology down the line. YOUR money.

Don’t be duped, and don’t support a cult that is rife with abuse, deception and utterly drains people of their critical thinking along with their bank accounts and lively hood.

If you are outraged by all of Scientology’s deceptions and abuses of its members, let your local, state and government officials know about it. They are not above board with their front groups and fake charities and it simply must end.

There is no way for Scientology to reform. In order for Scientology to reform, they would first have to put an end to their mind control process. But that is very unlikely, as Scientology IS all about mind control, Without mind control, there would simply be no Scientology.

I urge you to please click on the many links I have thoroughly researched and provided in this article so you can easily read up on some of the many stories, information and horrors of Scientology.

And I end this very long article with words from the founder of Scientology,  the late L. Ron Hubbard, who is revered by cult members who still hang on to his every word…

“THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great big letters”.

L. Ron Hubbard, “Off the Time Track,” lecture of June 1952, excerpted in JOURNAL OF SCIENTOLOGY issue 18-G, reprinted in TECHNICAL VOLUMES OF DIANETICS & SCIENTOLOGY, vol. 1, p. 418

On The Way to Scientology's Bridge To Total Freedom?

Will and Jada Pinkett Smith have recently fired Jacqueline Olivier of their New Village Academy School in Calabasas Ca. The reported reason for the dismissal stems from Olivier’s refusal to go along with the L. Ron Hubbard Study Tech that the school uses in its curriculum. Smart lady.

Jacqueline was fired over the PHONE by Jada and was told that they decided to go in another direction. Jacqueline’s position commanded a $200,000 a year salary, one would think that Jada would have the common decency to at least talk to her in person. 

So what different direction are the Smith’s talking about? The Scientology direction, that’s what. The Smiths hired a woman by the name of Piano Foster, who just so happens, to be, you guessed it, a Scientologist. So now you might wonder how many Scientologists does that make on their school staff?  Foster is listed in the Scientology data base as a “celebrity”. We were unable to find out much of anything as far as Piano’s education other than she took Hubbard’s Study Manual course back in 2005. Seems to be enough credentials all would need to be the head of school, right?

Here’s what RadarOnline is reporting:

Jacqueline Olivier – the woman the famous husband and wife enlisted to set up their Calabasas campus – was axed from her $200,000 a year position via a telephone call from the Matrix actress.

“Jada phoned Jacqueline and told her that they had ‘decided to go in another direction’ with the school,” an insider told RadarOnline.com. “As head of the campus her position was becoming untenable as she did not agree with Study Tech and felt uncomfortable with it.”  Olivier “thrashed-out” a severance package with the couple and “it’s understood that she signed a confidentiality agreement with regard to her time at the school.”

When contacted by RadarOnline.com, Foster confirmed: “I officially took over on July 1, 2009, and I’m looking forward to the challenge. I’ve been working in education for the past 20 years at various public and charter schools so I feel I’m ready for the job.”

RadarOnline has followed up with some additional information in a new article about Piano Foster’s Scientology connections:

I’ve been working in education for the past 20 years at various public and charter schools so I feel I’m ready for the job.”

It seems one of Foster’s other possible qualifications stems from her knowledge of and participation in Scientology. Foster completed a Scientology Basic Study Manual course in 2005 and her name appears on an official Scientology list.

RadarOnline.com contacted The California Department of Education with regard to the school’s current status. From the beginning, the school has denied any affiliation to any religion, calling the institution nondenominational.

“I can confirm that the New Village Academy is registered with us.” Information Officer with the (CDE)  Tina Jung said. “They signed an affidavit in line with our regulations which name’s Jacqueline Olivier as the Site Administrator. It is listed as a private business and as being ‘non-religious’ within the affidavit. New Village Leadership Academy is listed as a private business with the Secretary of State’s Office.

Very interesting. Jada was quoted as saying, ”We are a secular school, and just like all non-religious independent schools, faculty and staff do not promote their own religions at the school.”

Hmmm…if Hubbard’s main goal was for all Scientologits to always practice “KSW” (Keep Scientology Working) and also to “infiltrate and disseminate” then how on earth can these Scientology teachers at this school, not be promoting Scientology? They ARE promoting Scientology simply by using Scientology Study Tech. It is a very sneaky way to slide Scientology in. And of course why would Oliver be made to sign confidentiality agreement? Why was this necessary? Does anyone else find that odd? I hope she comes forward with what she experienced. She owes it to not only the children, of course, but to the parents who are enrolled, and to those parents who may be considering enrolling their child at the New Village Academy.

Oliver has  previously commented about the Study Tech when she first started out at the school a while back:

Jacqueline Olivier, New Village Academy’s head administrator, denied that the school had a religious affiliation, and told the Los Angeles Times: “People tend to think study technology is a subject, but it is really just the way the subject is taught. They then come to the conclusion that we are teaching Scientology when actually a methodology doesn’t have anything to do with content.”

Olivier was appointed administrator at the school in 2007, and her duties have included hiring all teachers since that time.

Well it’s obvious that Oliver has changed her tune dramatically about the Study Tech that is being taught at New Village. The Study Tech being taught at New Village is a carbon copy of the Study Tech which is taught at Scientology Schools, Delphi Academy for instance.

Delphi Academy:

This know-how is contained in Study Technology (Study Tech), an educational philosophy and a practical approach to teaching and learning based on research and developments by American writer and educator L. Ron Hubbard during the second half of the twentieth century.

Starting in the early levels, every Delphi student eventually learns all the tools about how to learn.

Any school that teaches this study tech has to pay for a license fee from Applied Scholastics, a known Scientology front group.

Applied Scholastics claims:

In the 1920s, L. Ron Hubbard’s concern for education began when he realized the “influence of a mislearned word on a life.” At that time, he was teaching English in a school in Guam. During the Second World War, he became involved in the direct instruction of military personnel as well as the redrafting of instructional materials.
As educators throughout the world learned of Mr. Hubbard’s breakthroughs, they began to utilize them in their own work. Thus were formed the roots of a new world wide movement – Applied Scholastics.

From the New Village Academy website:

Study Technology – An educational model developed by L.R. Hubbard, study technology focuses on three principles. First is the use of “mass” (manipulatives and hands-on experiences) to foster understanding – children need to see and feel what they are learning about. Second is the attention to the “gradient,” which ensures sure students master one level before moving on to the next. Third is the “misunderstood word,” in which students master word definitions and are taught not to read past words they don’t know the meanings of in order to understand completely what they are reading and learning. NVLA uses study technology as an umbrella methodology woven through the subjects.

What were L. Ron Hubbard’s credentials as an educator?

A very informative website had a myriad of information on the subject. It is entitled Scientology vs Education. Here are a few interesting excerpts about L. Ron Hubbard, his Study Tech and what professionals think about Study Tech:

A curious fact about the Study Tech books is that they list no author or editor. The covers all say “Based on the works of L. Ron Hubbard”, and the copyright registration is held by the L. Ron Hubbard Library, the business alias of the Church of Scientology’s corporate alter ego, the Church of Spiritual Technology. But while the copyright dates are 1992 (or in the case of the Basic Study Manual, 1990), Hubbard died in 1986. So who wrote these books?

Hubbard was a college dropout with no qualifications beyond a purchased degree from a notorious Los Angeles degree mill. Nor had he any experience of teaching children other than one month in a native school on Guam in 1927, when he was just 16 years old. None of this, of course, is mentioned in any official account of Hubbard’s career as an educator. Remarkably, Applied Scholastics omits entirely any mention of the fact that he spent 30 years teaching Scientologists, or that Study Technology itself was invented to “educate” Scientologists.

Since he died in 1986, unauthorized biographers have documented in considerable detail how Hubbard systematically falsified his life story to exaggerate his own achievements and make it appear that Scientology was the culmination of a lifetime of effort (Atack, 1990; Miller, 1988; Owen, 1999). His teaching “career” was no exception to this rule.

It has to be said that he was not a very successful father; of his five children, he disowned and disinherited two, and one committed suicide. His surviving children were brought up as Scientologists but never saw him again after he went into hiding in 1977. He was actually closest to the children of other Scientologists, who became his most loyal followers and confidantes. In a bizarre twist, these loyal Scientology children took control of their Church in a “palace coup” in the early 1980s, and continue to run the Church to this day.

One curious aspect of Scientology’s ideology is that children are not actually treated as children. Hubbard claimed that human beings are actually immortal spirits or “thetans,” trillions of years old, housed in “meat bodies.” An individual’s body might be ten years old or thirty, but the thetan – the person himself – would be entitled to equal treatment regardless of physical age.

Scot Danforth, who oversees teacher education for the University of Missouri at St. Louis, said he searched a database of four decades of published educational research and could find no study on L. Ron Hubbard’s instructional techniques.
“In my opinion, they are involved in the worst kind of deception. They make grandiose claims about the effectiveness of their methods and materials … with data that has never been published in a legitimate educational research journal,” he said.

Greg Jung, president of the Missouri National Education Association, is cautious.
“We don’t know if the people who are providing training are qualified and if the teachers providing the tutoring are qualified,” Jung said.
(Bower, 2003)

Johanna Lemlech, a professor of education at USC specializing in curriculum and teaching, calls the books “awful.” They “violate everything we know about how children learn, and appropriate pedagogy,” she says. “In short, these books should be carefully placed in the cylindrical file.” (Catania, 1997)

Hubbard’s dogmatic doctrine of the “misunderstood word” attracted particular criticism:
“In many cases, lack of comprehension is not because of a misunderstood word,” says Sidnie Myrick, who leads a UCLA research group on early literacy, teaches a master’s course in reading at Cal State L.A., and also teaches a class of first, second and third graders at Thomas Edison Elementary School in Glendale (she was Glendale’s 1993 Teacher of the Year). “In fact,” she says, “in many cases the student won’t get the meaning until the material is presented in a completely different way.”

Myrick also finds the books’ illustrations “cutesy and condescending,” the explanations “stilted and manufactured,” and study technology, all in all, “woefully inadequate.”

Ms. Catania also interviewed members of the Los Angeles school board, about which she wrote:
“One member of the Los Angeles school board is unimpressed. A former high school history teacher, David Tokofsky calls the books “remedial” and says they would be of little use to any but the lowest-performing students. “If you walked into an eighth-grade class and tried to use these books on kids who are at the proper level, you’d kill them,” says Tokofsky, who coached the Marshall High School Academic Decathlon team to a national championship in 1987. “They’re not even good comic books.”

Study Tech has been around for several decades, but today, only Scientologists recommend it for use in public classrooms. Its proponents claim miraculous results, yet no independent evaluation of its effectiveness has ever been done. Its creator claimed that it represents a revolutionary advance in learning, yet it is in practice little more than a method of compelling mindless rote learning devoid of any critical thought or interpretation.

But Study Tech is no more a secular learning methodology than wine and communion wafers are a Sunday morning snack. Its ambitions may be entirely conventional, but its vocabulary and practices are part of a religious doctrine closely tied to Scientology beliefs. The end product of Study Tech is an individual who has been taught to “duplicate” uncritically any proposition, no matter how dubious. It deprecates critical analysis and genuine understanding in favour of a mindless acceptance of the author as an unassailable authority figure. It reflects L. Ron Hubbard’s profoundly authoritarian desire to be seen as the “Source” of all Scientology wisdom and it serves his aim of encouraging unquestioning acceptance of his authority.

The real danger of Study Tech is that it was designed for indoctrination, not education. While it may be good at producing obedient Scientologists, it is completely at odds with promoting the ability to think independently. It quite deliberately aims to reduce a student’s ability to think critically. Students are taught to distrust their own intelligence and background knowledge, passively and uncritically accepting whatever they are being told. This can only deprive students of a skill vital in an age saturated with conflicting messages, where critical thinking is essential to making sense of the world. Study Tech’s doctrinaire and authoritarian approach to teaching is hostile to, and deserves no place in, secular educational institutions.

Between Hubbard’s history of lies, the damaging aspects of using Study Tech, his own personal views about children, and his failure as a father, why would Will and Jada Smith consider teaching this unproven mumbo jumbo which derived from an uneducated con man who lied about his entire life and his accomplishments. Keep in mind he lied about MANY more of his accomplishments, including his trumped up military career. We just listed a few concerning his educational background, or shall we say lack there of.

So who convinced the Smiths that this Study Tech was the right route to go? Maybe it was his trainer Darrel Foster. Who just happens to be Piano Foster’s husband. Smith golfs on the weekends with Darrel too. Darrel is of course also a Scientologist and is listed in the Scientology data base as a celebrity, like wife Piano. They both took the same Scientology course. Interesting.

Or perhaps it was BFF Tom Cruise. Tommy boy is such a HUGE advocate of Applied Scholastics, and even lobbied in DC to have every school in the US teaching this study tech.

Quoting the Applied Scholastics website: (where it has an entire page of celebrities that endorse this study tech. Of course every one of them a Scientologist  including Isaac Hayes, even though there is no mention of Isaac’s death, or that he was a part of WISE another huge Scientology front group):

Tom is an activist and global ambassador for Applied Scholastics. His work includes helping Applied Scholastics establish their 100-acre international training institute and headquarters in St,. Louis Missouri.

So Tom Cruise is a global ambassador for this Study Tech? And his educational credentials are exactly what again? Or am I just being glib?

Cruise was a very poor student. He claims that Study Tech helped cure his dyslexia. Wait a minute, he is a full blown Scientologist, and he claims he was helped by using Scientology Study Tech? Now remind me again how the New Village Academy isn’t indoctrination into Scientology?

This Study Tech is ONLY endorsed by Scientologists, Scientology celebrities and people who just do not know any better. Would you want your children learning Hubbard’s Scientology Study Tech in their school?

Wake up Will and Jada. Either you are already brainwashed into thinking this was a good idea to use Study Tech in your school, or Scientology is using you. Well, sadly it’s probably both.

People, get involved. Ask the Government why this Study Tech is not being put under a microscope and fully investigated. Tell Scientology NO. Not my children, not in my neighborhood.  Every day that passes, is another day that a child will be experiencing the harmful effects of this Study Tech. Write to the Board Of Education, the California Teachers Association and your law officials.  There are many schools teaching this tech and parents must be made aware of the consequences their children may face.

This Won't Hurt A Bit

Well just when I thought TV couldn’t get any more boring, TNT will be premiering another medical show come June. *Yawn*

Scientology fembot, Jada Pinkett Smith will be starring in the new series called “Hawthorne.” The thing that makes this show totally ironic, is that Jada Pinkett Smith will be playing an RN. Yes the school marm is taking time out from being school headmistress of her New Village Academy Scientology school, which we recently reported on. 

She will be donning a white coat and transforming herself into “Christina Hawthorne RN Heroine” (must say in booming movie voice). Man, don’t Jada and Will just LOVE playing these “save the world” parts?

Will was just in Hancock, I Am Legend and Seven Pounds.
Blech! Enough already!

TNT writes:

Following in the footsteps of Kyra Sedgwick in “The Closer” and Holly Hunter in “Saving Grace,” Jada Pinkett Smith (The Women, The Matrix Trilogy) is the latest actress to bring her talent to TNT’s arsenal of strong, complex female characters. In this character-driven medical drama told from the nurses’ point of view, she stars as Christina Hawthorne, the forceful-yet-caring director of nursing at Richmond Trinity Hospital. When a patient’s care is at risk, she will not hesitate to violate hospital protocol, defend her staff against egotistical doctors or firmly stand up to apathetic administrators who seem to have forgotten a hospital’s true purpose. Recently widowed, she also has to take on her equally important role as a mother to a willful, rebellious teenage daughter. Pinkett Smith heads a diverse cast that includes David Julian Hirsh (Lovebites), Michael Vartan (Alias), Christina Moore (90210) and Suleka Mathew (Men in Trees). She also serves as executive producer, along with Emmy®-winning creator John Masius (St. Elsewhere, Providence, Dead Like Me) and Jamie Tarses (My Boys).

Why do I find the part she plays SO ironic? Because Scientology’s beliefs include NOT taking any psyche drugs of any kind and often frown on the medical community as a whole, preferring their own “scientific methods.”  So does this mean she will not be shown administering any drugs on the show? Or will she not be present when someone is administering drugs on the show? Or is she going to teach the staff Scientology “touch assists”? If a drug addict comes in the hospital, will she can guide them to Narconon for a detox using mega doses of vitamins, oil and days in a sauna? (Scientology’s Purification Rundown and what Katie went on several times).

Or perhaps if a patient needs psychiatric care, she can send them over to the CCHR’s  Psychiatry Industry of Death Exhibit. (The CCHR is a Scientology front group whose goal is to “obliterate psychiatry”).

Instead of a defibrillator, maybe she can use an e-meter, aka “the cans”.  Scientology followers (which we at Glosslip have concluded Jada is) believe that if there is anything is wrong with them mentally or physically…not only did they “pull it in” themselves, but they can ”audit” out their problems and ill feelings on the e-meter. Then once the needle on the e-meter “floats”, they will no longer be labeled “PTS” (a potential trouble source).

Sounds kind of preposterous huh? Welcome to Scientology baby!

Bizarrely enough, that’s just a SMALL part of the overall kooky-ness of Scientology. In the interest of space and time, we won’t get into all the specifics on founder, sci-fi writer and snake-oil salesman L. Ron Hubbard, or the wacky story of body thetans clinging to Scientologist’s bodies, as told in OT III, or the sadness of their fake navy, para military sect, the  Sea Organizationand all the human rights abuses ect… that husband “I am not a Scientologist” Will and Jada support by dumping butt loads of money into.

This is just a short little article to let people know, that come June,  Hawthorne is on it’s way, and soon after, hopefully on it’s way out.

On a more serious note, to support this show, is to support Scientology. How can part of her paycheck NOT be going towards the new Scientology companion school that her and Will just announced that they are going to build in the near future? Doesn’t seem possible, does it?

Will and Jada can argue all they want these schools are not Scientology schools, but for those of us who’ve investigated the connections, we know the truth.

Suffice it to say, when you employ Scientologist teachers, have PR flack Pat Kingsley (Tom Cruise’s former PR gal) fielding all media inquiries about the school, and proudly proclaim using L. Ron Hubbard tech, it can only mean one thing: kids are being exposed to body thetan excising, Xenu-fearing, Tom Cruise lovin’, anti-psychiatry spewing, Scientology whackadoodles.

Well, just when I thought I have had my fill on how despicable Tom Cruise can be, he up and announces his youngest child, Suri (who turns 3 on April 18) will be attending a Scientology school.

Bye bye Suri!

Not just ANY Scientology school mind you, but the school of Will “I am a Christian. I am a student of all religions. And I respect all people and all paths” Smith and wife Jada “The Schoolmaster’s” school of course.

Yes, it’s true, Suri will be attending the New Village Academy School in Calabasas California and learning her ABC’s Scientology style.

More like ARC’s, a Scientology acronym which stands for Affinity, Reality, and Communication, which is the meaning of the lower triangle in the cult’s logo.

By now, most of you know the school, the one that Will and Jada dumped a cool $1 mill of their own money into last year? The private school will offer organic meals, laptops for every student and an environment of learning based on “equity” and “respect” to create “citizens of the world.”

Wow sounds kind of fantastic right?

The school accommodates students pre-k through sixth grade.

Laptops? Hmmm I wonder if the laptops will all be installed with a “net nanny” so if students are allowed to connect to the internet, which is doubtful, their wandering eyes won’t be able to access any criticism against Scientology.

Reported by the Daily Mail UK

Tom and Katie Cruise’s doll-like daughter Suri is to be trained in Scientology after her third birthday this week.

The Cruises are sending their daughter five days a week to the Church of Scientology’s £6,000-a-year New Village Academy in Los Angeles, launched last year by Tom’s friend, fellow actor Will Smith.

It is staffed by trained Scientologists and lists ‘study technology’ as a key curricular focus.

‘The children have a lot of responsibilities from a very young age,’ says a source.

‘The school is particularly strict about nutrition, demanding a low-carb, low-sodium and low-sugar organic diet.

‘Katie is understandably a little anxious about being separated from Suri.’

I’ll bet Katie is a little anxious! How will Suri (or Katie) get along without mom carrying her all over the place? Who will Katie and Tom use in all those photo-ops to distract from them being crazy cult followers? Questions, questions and so few answers.

Sarcasm aside, I was really rallying for Katie and Suri to get out if this dang cult, but now I am losing hope. Suri’s budding critical thinking skills will be stunted thanks to the use of L. Ron Hubbard “tech” at the New Village Academy. Suri will be made a zombie even before she even has a chance of being fully potty-trained. Not right!

Katie’s parents must be slipping away more and more from their child’s life, you just can’t help but feel sorry for them. Not only have they lost their daughter, but now their precious grand-daughter. Hopefully a disconnection is not on the horizon, but as Katie gets more indoctrinated into the cult, it seems inevitable.

While sympathy goes hand in hand for those with loved one’s in entrenched in Scientology, there are nagging questions about their complicity. One has to wonder how Katie’s parents can continually look the other way as disturbing images of their ill-looking daughter pop up all over the web and in magazines. Reports state Katie has been following a dangerous Scientology diet called the ‘purification rundown” which consists of high doses of vitamins and sauna treatments. How could her parents not step in to help? This is a sign that something is really wrong here.

And now, the life-long devout Catholics are going to allow their grandchild to attend a Scientology and say nothing?

No one really knows how much time they are given to visit with Suri. Considering the very rare sightings of Katie with her family, my guess is not too often. In fact, we haven’t seen Katie’s parents since her and Tom’s wedding over two years ago. *sigh*

So back to that Scientology school….

I was wondering how early Scientology starts kids out on their e-meter? Which is Scientology’s electropsychometer, which in non-cult speak is a rudimentary lie detector which picks up slight changes in skin temperature while a subject is being asked a series of personal (sometimes VERY personal) questions.

Scientology states the e-meter is used to audit out past traumas. But in actuality, it is used to control members by keeping records of what is said during their “auditing” sessions on file, in case they decide to leave and speak out against Scientology. (They have PLENTY of juicy tidbits on Travolta, wink wink..)

Using the e-meter is known to release endorphins due to it’s mild electric current. Endorphins are chemically very much like morphine. This is why it keeps people coming back for more, but like a drug, it’s rush is one of ever diminishing returns, leaving the subject feeling let down over time. Ask any ex-Scientologist how they felt about their time in the cult and most will say, “it was great at first, but it never delivered on any of it’s promises. Sadly, that can be a lesson learned many, many of thousands of dollars later.

In doing research on children in Scientology, I discovered kids can start auditing as early as four years old.

Hmm…I am not sure what past or current traumas a 4 year old can have, besides of course, spilled milk or they got crayon on the wall? But that’s not the point is it? The point is to indoctrinate the children early, so auditing becomes second nature.

In the book, The Scandal Of Scientology, written by Paulette Cooper, she states:

Hubbard wrote that “serious processing” should not be done before a child was five years old, “extensive Processing” except in very unusual circumstances, should not be done before he was eight, and that no child should be “forced” into the prenatal area until he was twelve.

If the child is even faintly unwilling to be audited, you can coax the child into short sessions, and then, as time goes on, lengthen them gradually. Hubbard, who has seven children, plus seven grandchildren, naturally has devised an auditing technique for kids. Children are given such simple processing as “Feel my arm. Thank you. Feel your arm. Thank you.” They are also sent back to relive their birth, and it is apparently as painful an experience for them as it is for some of the adult pre-clears, since Hubbard wrote:

If the auditor should make a slip, like telling the child that birth won’t hurt him much when he returns to it, the child will be expecting a mild or nothing at all … an auditor hasn’t known frustration until he has run a child halfway through a painful experience only to find that a happy ending has been tacked onto it.

Hubbard recommends Scientologists put teachers and students on e-meters, and give “daily mental activities” — which is what they do in Scientology.

The last is to create an environment of fear because these vicious people know everything about you, and can use it in whatever psychotic, dysfunctional, socio-pathic way they want. Especially in children, this creates the appearance of an all knowing organization that has the money and resources to keep you under lock and key forever, without ever needing a physical lock and key.

Even school is done by Scientology, public school is out. You do not get even an 8th grade education, and you learn definitions of words that are completely wrong according to the Oxford English Dictionary… redefining the meaning of words in order to further support their mind control.

Oh that is nice. That’s what every parent should look for in a school.

Monica Pignotti, Cult Intervention Specialist and former Scientologist, wrote a paper to show how mind control is used in Scientology.

She wrote about the cognitive dissonance theory, behavior control, emotional control, thought control and information control.

“The major premise of the Scientology study techniques is that there is no legitimate reason to disagree with anything written by L. Ron Hubbard. If a person on a course has a disagreement, they are immediately referred back to the materials to find what word they have “misunderstood”. Anyone who no longer wishes to continue on a course is also said to have misunderstood words that must be found and “cleared”. Thus, there is no legitimate reason, according to Scientologists to disagree or to want to leave and anyone who does is forced to internalize the blame within themselves. [Wow, that's got to do wonders for a child's self esteem.]

No verbal discussions of the course materials among students or with the supervisor is allowed. If the student has a question, all the supervisor is allowed to do is to say “What do your materials state” and to find “misunderstood words”. This gives the students no opportunity to get any feedback whether other students are experiencing the same doubts they might be experiencing themselves. The whole course environment is very tightly controlled.”

That was just a small snippet from her article which shows over time how critical thinking can vanish from a student. It’s an excellent read, and frightening on many levels.

I am sure the only ones who will know EXACTLY what is being taught at the New Village Academy, are the Scientologists on staff. The clueless parents who signed up for this “school” are doing so unaware of the long-term damage they will have inflicted on their child’s burgeoning academic future.

Do they think just because it is run by celebritities this automatically makes it great? I think a quick run-through mainstream celebrity news will prove celebs are the last group to follow in terms of smart decisions.

More importantly, why hasn’t the government stepped in to check on the teaching methods used in this and similar Scientology schools to determine whether the techniques constitute brainwashing? It is the government’s job to standardize educational requirements and protect children. Perhaps they too were also blinded by the shining glimmers of fame.

The fact the NVA continues to exist, isn’t for a lack of unanswered question on the part of government authorities, just a lack of action.

Back in May, Fox News reported, “Ron Reynolds, executive director of the California Association of Private School Organizations, a consortium of the state’s private and religious schools, said it’s not the actual teaching of Scientology methods that raises a red flag for him. His concern is the school’s non-disclosure about its apparent religious affiliation.” [Wait.... what? The teaching does not raise a red flag with him?]

Reynolds also said: “How can parents make informed choices if they have to struggle to ascertain what the purpose and philosophy of the school is” and “why the New Village Academy wasn’t more upfront about the school’s Scientology connection.” “Numerous e-mails and phone calls for comment on the school’s faculty by Smith’s representatives and NVA were not returned.”

I fail to understand why you would hide what you are. I also fail to undertand why they have such a dumbass as an executive director of California’s Association of Private Schools!

Alarmingly, as I recently reported, the Smiths have plans to build a companion high school. Great.

We wouldn’t want Suri left high and dry once she “graduates” from the New Village Academy. Cruise wouldn’t think of putting her in Delphi (another Scientology school) with other “regular” Scientology kids. Pishaw!

Besides, Cruise has to support his buddy Will and support Will he will! The cost for Suri’s enrollment at NVA will be $12,000 a year.

Now don’t worry, it’s tax deductible. Yes, it’s true, if you are a Scientologist, you can deduct your child’s school costs off your taxes! What’s even more amazing (or enraging) is Scientology is the ONLY “religion” allowed to do this! Why? You’ll have to ask the IRS!

Which is exactly what the Sklar family did. The Sklars are a Jewish couple who recently asked the courts that same question. They too wanted the right to deduct their child’s religious clases off their taxes, just like Scientology parents are able to do. But guess what? The IRS said no, and now they are entangled in a strange and drawn out legal battle with the IRS over this outrageous partnership between the IRS and the Church of Scientology.

To be fair, I don’t believe ANY religious schooling should be tax deductible, especially in this day and age, but if the IRS is going to be exclusive and award Scientology that perk, it should be across the board and made available for other religions.

Suri AND Katie’s chance of being free has now narrowed substantially. Based on thousands of Scientology cases, Katie’s disconnection from her family seems to be looming right around the corner.

So what will Katie do now that Suri will be busy getting audited, engaged in word-clearing and learning about galactic overlord aliens threatening her very existence?

According to the Daily Mail, getting knocked up with Suri #2 or as Tom seems to think, Photo Op #2:

“Katie is currently filming The Extra Man in New York but will return to Los Angeles in May to try for her second child.”

Was Suri like a puppy? Cute when she was small… but now that she is older…eh….time to produce another media distraction?

After all, who even sees Connor and Isabella, (Tom’s two adopted children with 2nd Nicole Kidman) any more? Connor who? Isabella huh?

Guess it’t time to knock boots and fire up the ol’ Scientology PR machine again. ‘Cuz if the thetans are rockin’ don’t come knockin’!

(posted by Queen, edited by D)

Update: Supposedly TomKat’s team have denied this rumor, stating the New Village Academy is for ages 4 and up and Suri will be only be 3 in a few days, therefore she is not eligible. Whatever, when have rules ever applied to Tom Cruise? He’s Maverick, he can what he wants. So, while there maybe a delay in Suri’s Scientology education, the information in this article about Scientology schools, Hubbard’s teaching tech and how children are treated in the cult remain true.

Our favorite little person and closet Scientologist, Jada Pinkett Smith, has been coming under fire in the last year for the controversial Scientology school she and hubby, Will “Keepin’ My Xenu On The DL” Smith, dumped almost a cool million into last fall.

To refresh your memory, this new school is called the New Village Leadership Academy for pre-k through sixth grade and is located Calabassas, CA. It’s just like any other school, except when you call to ask questions about the curriculum you are referred to the school’s PR flack, Pat Kingsley. Why yes, the same woman who USED to be Tom Cruise’s PR genius before he replaced her with his Scientologist ister LeeAnn. We all know how that worked out for him.

The NVLA has Scientology teachers on staff and appears to be “flourishing” according to Jada. Will and Jada STILL deny it is a Scientology school even though it incorporates study techniques developed by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard tech. These same study tools are used by Scientologists in the paid courses they use as well as Scientology-run schools.

“Hubbard’s “study technology” is a secular course akin to a Montessori approach, the Web site states.”

Montessori approach? O’rlly?

“Children in Montessori classes learn at their own, individual pace and according to their own choice of activities from hundreds of possibilities. Learning is an exciting process of discovery, leading to concentration, motivation, self-discipline, and a love of learning.”

From the New Village Academy website: (notice how its says “LEAD THE WORLD,” sounds like Sci-speak to me!)

OUR FOUNDERS’ VISION:
NVLA will lead the world in identifying innovative learning styles and educational best practices. We are building an optimum learning environment – an ideal model to be shared with all people of the world.”

More importantly is the school’s core beliefs, which its emphasis is on COMMUNICATION.

Dianetics anyone? That has L.Ron Hubbard written all over it.

Now there are also plans for “schoolmaster” Jada (snicker) and Will to open a companion high school with the same sort of curriculum.
*Shakes head.*

Why do Will and Jada continue to think the public is completely clueless? If it looks like a duck,walks like a duck, quacks likes a duck, then it’s a Scientologist. Well, you know what we’re saying.

I can’t tell you how important it is to make sure you thoroughly look into ANY school that you are considering enrolling your child into. Just because a school is endorsed by celeb-utards,…it won’t mean a thing, if L Ron Hubbard is king!

Oh, and Jada had some words for those who don’t believe her or hubby Will aren’t Scientologists and don’t have “interesting” sex live:

“I definitely respect and understand people’s curiosity, but people, they have to trust me when I speak on my truth…If I say to you, ‘I don’t have an open marriage,’ ‘No, we’re not gay,’ and you don’t trust that, well then there’s nothing that I really have to say to anybody about anything, because at the end of the day, I’m living my life, and I’m happy.”

Personally, if people were spreading “false” rumors about my religion or sex life, I wouldn’t be respecting them for it. Sounds like a less than truthful answer. Sorry Jada, I am not buying your “truth”.

(posted by Glosslip contributor Queen)

The following post was submitted to Glosslip by Number 6:

Lipstick On the Pig-Scientology’s Front Groups

The greatest trick the devil pulled off was convincing the world he didn’t exist. If the devil doesn’t exist, then no one will focus attention on him and his ugliness. And that seems to be par for the course for many cults and criminal organizations. The best PR for rotten organizations like the Church of Scientology is the set up of benevolent groups that offer services to help mankind. It’s the best way to sneak in and infiltrate all levels of society, and people should be alerted to this kind of subversive activity.

Appealing to the youth

The above video is a Public Service Announcement from the Youth For Human Rights International. Youth For Human Rights certainly seems like a good group at first glance. In an age where young people are more apathetic than ever, it’s encouraging to see youth stand up for human rights. The above PSA has a catchy beat and a very positive message, that’s a given. Why then am I including this video as an example of the devil’s age-old trick? Because this human rights group is a front group for the Church of Scientology. Its founder, Mary Shuttleworth, is a Scientologist and the organization is mostly staffed by Scientologists. Many people catch on to the fact that YHRI is a front group, but they don’t find out until it’s too late.

Many non-Scientologist youth join YHRI not knowing it is a front group for Scientology. Their good intentions to make the world a better place are misused by people who intend to push the “technology” of a raving lunatic into all levels of society. In fact, YHRI is set up to draw many young people into Scientology, which is what most Scientology front groups are designed to do.

Why the furor over Will Smith’s new private school?

Many people must be wondering why there is a lot of controversy over the New Village Academy, a school set up by actor Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett. The New Village Academy intends to employ a lot of educational approaches in this new type of school. But one stands out the most: the employment of Scientology Study Technology. That is the one thing that is controversial about Will Smith’s new school. Since this revelation came out in the media, Jacqueline Olivier, the principal of New Village Academy, and Will Smith have strongly insisted the new school is not a Scientology school. But why is Study Tech controversial?

Study tech is founded on 3 principles: Using visual images to teach concepts, breaking down complex concepts, and using the dictionaries to find the meanings for unfamiliar words. Seems reasonable enough, given that’s how children are taught in the first few grades of elementary school. But Study Tech is unavoidably tainted with Scientology related teachings, therefore raising questions about the separation of church and state. There have been numerous attempts to slip Study Tech into public schools as well, which is much worse than Will Smith’s private school employing Study Tech. Study Tech in itself is just a concept, not a front group. The relevant front group that pushes it in public schools is Applied Scholastics, which is a misnomer.

CCHR-An Industry of Fear and Paranoia

Another misnomer for a front group name is the Citizen’s Commission on Human Rights. The CCHR was established in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and non-Scientologist psychiatry critic Thomas Szasz, and since then it has been spreading lies and misinformation about psychiatry and psychology. Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard wrote of psychiatrists:

“Crimes of extortion, mayhem and murder are done daily by these men in the name of ‘practice’ and ‘treatment’. There is not one institutional psychiatrist alive who, by ordinary criminal law, could not be arraigned and convicted of extortion, mayhem and murder. Our files are full of evidence on them.”

The CCHR formed a website called PsychCrime, which tracks down crimes committed by individual mental health professionals. Granted, crimes are committed by individual psychiatrists, psychologists, and mental health professionals like any individual of any profession, but the CCHR takes their crimes and makes a mountain out of a mole hill. In 2005, the CCHR debuted its notorious Psychiatry-An Industry of Death museum exhibit, which blames psychiatry for everything from Hitler and the Holocaust to Kurt Cobain’s suicide.

The CCHR is one of the worst Scientology front groups because it uses lies and half-truths to instill paranoia not only into Scientologists, but also the general public. It is this paranoia that led to the death of Elli Perkins by her schizophrenic son Jeremy. It is also this paranoia that eventually killed Lisa McPherson, who died in the care of Scientologists who did not want her in a psychiatric ward. And the paranoia the CCHR propagates originates from a man who most experts feel was likely mentally ill himself. (Autopsy results show Hubbard had anti-psychotic drug, Visaril in his system at the time of his death.)

More focus needed

There are many other front groups that are not mentioned here, but a little search on Google will bring up a complete list of Scientology front groups, like Narconon (here’s a comprehensive list of front groups. So far the monthly Anonymous protests have dealt with the Church of Scientology’s tax-exempt status, the disconnection policy, the fair game policy, and the Church of Scientology’s elite Sea Organization. The upcoming July 12th deals with the subversive activities of OSA. Scientology’s front groups deserve lots of focus because they are the “secular” fronts of Scientology, meaning their ties with Scientology are not obvious. It is like Intelligent Design used as a deceptive name from Creationism. Each of Scientology’s front groups claims the groups have nothing to do with Scientology, and on paper, each Scientology front group is an independent entity. But more public scrutiny is needed because with these front groups, L. Ron Hubbard’s insane “tech” is fed to the public.

If the Church of Scientology’s influence is to be reduced to pussycat size, then the focus of a future protest should be its front groups.

Will Smith is a philanthropist at heart. As one of the most successful actors in Hollywood, he and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, often donate sums of their wealth to what they consider worthy causes, including political campaigns and charities which help underprivileged youth. So news of Smith donating and helping found a new school dedicated to teaching children the fundamental building blocks of learning is hardly something shocking.

What is shocking is what we find at the New Village Academy. Scientology. And A LOT of it. Here’s a description of the school from NVA’s website:

New Village Academy is a Pre-kindergarten through Grade 6 (in 2008) independent school scheduled to open in Fall, 2008. Currently a home school, we are thrilled to announce that we have just secured a new site for our school! The site will be in Calabasas, California. NVA will be fully operational in the fall (September 3 is the first day of school) after we spend the summer moving in and making campus improvements. We are now accepting applications. Please contact the Head of School at NVA with questions about the school, our philosophy, mission and goals.

Not only will New Village Academy be employing “study tech” straight out of the teachings of science fiction writer and Church of Scientology found L. Ron Hubbard, but the Academy is also employing Scientologists to teach the children these unique forms of “study tech.” From NVA’s site on their curriculum terminology:

Study Technology – An educational model developed by L.R. Hubbard, study technology focuses on three principles. First is the use of “mass” (manipulatives and hands-on experiences) to foster understanding – children need to see and feel what they are learning about. Second is the attention to the “gradient,” which ensures sure students master one level before moving on to the next. Third is the “misunderstood word,” in which students master word definitions and are taught not to read past words they don’t know the meanings of in order to understand completely what they are reading and learning. NVA uses study technology as an umbrella methodology woven through the subjects.

Before I get into the specifics of the New Village Academy and their links to Will Smith, I want to point something out. Unlike much of Scientology and its otherwise cult-like activities, I’ve heard some relatively positive things about LRH’s “study tech” and “Applied Scholastics” programs. I recently spoke with two ex-Scientologists who used the tech and were taught in Scientology schools and while they had very little positive to say about the abuses of the Church and especially those who are stuck in the Sea Org (the most devout sect within Scientology) they did state the “tech” can help struggling students learn.

Essentially, the same technique used to brainwash members of the cult into turning their lives over Scientology, works wonders for helping children who have barriers to learning. Through the use of repetition and breaking down difficult subjects or words even, into their smaller parts, this allows children to understand concepts little by little, when it might be otherwise overwhelming to those with either learning disabilities, like say dyslexia (like Tom Cruise claimed to have before being cured by LRH tech) or specific mental block to a certain subject.

On the surface, this sounds innocuous enough. Much of tutoring and teaching is built around breaking down broader concepts into smaller parts, and certainly much of how we learn is through repetition. My issue isn’t with the “tech” but rather how it is applied and by whom.

Celebitchy, who did much of the legwork into this story, outlines the number of Scientology-ties linked to the school, and how Will Smith’s involvement is being somewhat hidden. The original story broke in the National Enquirer and now we have new information.

I was contacted by a member of the “Old Guard” in the anti-Scientology movement to look into this school more thoroughly and ask some specific questions. So, I did. I called the New Village Academy at their listed number on their website and identified who I was. A nice young woman named Keisha called me back and asked me to get in touch with their publicist, which just so happens to be Pat Kingsley.

Pat Kingsley should ring a bell as she was Tom Cruise’s publicist and is now Will Smith’s publicist. A small world indeed. I’m not sure why a children’s elementary school needs a publicist, especially the most powerful publicist in Hollywood, but if any doubts remained about Will Smith’s involvement in the NVA, this should remove them for you.

While I await word back from Ms. Kingsley’s office regarding some of the tech used at the Academy, my concern remains heightened as to why Will Smith, who consistently denies being a Scientologist, would then found a new “independent” school which has curriculum designed specifically around the “study tech” set forth by L. Ron Hubbard? And why there was a need to employ Scientology teachers (from Celebitchy article)?

Five out of seventeen teachers are easily identified as Scientologists:
Director of Learning: Tasia Jones
Education Enrichment Program Supervisor: Andrea Beckham
Director of Qualifications: Sigrid Burgett
Artistic director: Sisu Raiken
Teacher: Marcia Perkins
Teacher: James Oliver

Do these Scientology teachers have teaching accreditations? Is the school itself accredited to teach children? Will the tech be perverted into a subversive effort to direct its children and their parents to convert to Scientology? Will an e-meter be used as a learning accelerator? Will NVA be using word clearing methods 3, 7, and 9? Will students be taught how to assign a condition and apply appropriate ethics? Will they use clay table demos?

These are all questions I have for the NVA, I mean Keisha, I mean Pat Kingsley. I mean Will Smith.

Will, are you and Jada going to come forward and admit your are closet Scientologists who already are using LRH’s study tech at home? How long until you start “Sec Checking” your own kids to find out if they are PTSP, or “out ethics”? Hmm…Will, because inquiring minds want to know before we spend another dime on one of your movies which you will then turn around and donate to some Scientology-run “school” which brainwashes kids into disconnecting from their families.

So Oprah and Tom are back on the couch. This time to celebrate Tom’s 25 years in show business based on his first starring role, “Risky Business.” To be honest, Tom really is a great actor, he’d be in the ranks of Tom Hanks, Robert Redford, Paul Newman category if it weren’t for that detour he took way back in the 80’s. Moving on……

So Oprah has some surprises in store for Tom in the way of Hollywood friends telling us how awesome Tom is.

Please tell me that’s not Will Smith and Jada Pinkett sucking up to Tom on the show? Oprah introduced them as his “two best friends.” Oh geez, will the circuitous circle jerk between these two couples just stop already. If my best friend got up there to do a retrospective on me, I can guarantee you there would be a fair amount of ball-busting, not butt-licking.

Tom looks beat down and tired.

Oprah really loves the money doesn’t she. I loved her reference to her own wealth when she asked Tom if there was ever a time when he didn’t think there’d be another movie, and he stated at some point he knew he was set, and Oprah must have been waxing poetic on her trillions in the bank when she said, “yeah about five years ago I realized I AM FILTHY RICH.” Or something like that. Oh, the things she can buy…

And we’re back with Tom doing a terrible job of Righteous Brothers “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin” from “Top Gun” but that’s ok, he was still cute then.

Tom has a need for speed. (As an aside, he and CoS head David Miscavige like to outdo each other with motorcycles and cars, overcompensate much?)

It’s time to show me the money. I wonder, what’s Cuba Gooding, Jr. been doing these days? “Jerry Maguire” was a great movie. Oh, good it’s squishy face Renee Zellweger. He really should have won an Oscar by now, you know it’s that kooky faith holding him back.

Everyone keeps saying what a “good person” Tom is. Yeah, we get it, he’s a nice guy. I have no doubt about that. Tom is looking very subdued. Oh, there’s the crazy smile and awkward laughter. Tom’s says some things make him nervous. I bet holding those e-meter cans make him nervous. Talking to Oprah seems to be making him nervous.

Oh goody it’s the Beckhams. Blah, blah, blah, “Jerry Maguire” makes us cry, Tom and David like to eat Mexican food while their wives like to *think* about eating food, poor Katie, surrounded by goofballs. Posh and Becks need to get a room, and David needs to shave that ridiculous beard off.

We’ve moved on Tom’s scariest stunt, boy he looks good in “MI:1″ hanging from the rock. Oprah asked Tom why he did his own dangerous stunts, Tom said, “I really wanted to give the audience a thrill.”

Jamie Foxx is now introducing the “Born On The 4th of July” Tom, whom many say was Tom’s major shot at an Oscar, truly, he really did deserve an Oscar, but it wasn’t meant to be.

Tom says he gave his all for “Born On The Fourth of July.” In Andrew Morton’s book about Cruise, this was reiterated and Morton portrays a man who deeply cared about telling this story and capturing the essence of heartache and redemption he found in the character he played, the real life veteran, Ron Kovac.

Moving on to “Rain Man,” Dustin Hoffman admits ad-libbing a “fart scene” in the film and both actors worked around the social faux paux. Dustin Hoffman pays tribute to his “film-brother” including enjoying some matzo ball soup with a cardboard cutout of a lifesize Cruise. Tom knows a lot of famous people.

More fart talk. Did Oprah just say “fart?” Geez, can we move on, please. Enough.

Oh, now we move on to Jack Nicholson and “A Few Good Men.” Tom was good in that too. But it begs the question, “Can Tom Handle The Truth About His Own Faith?” He does a fairly convincing Jack Nicholson, but the poor guy still looks like he’s waiting for Xenu to show up. Maybe Oprah farted and he’s trying to hold his breath. I still can’t believe Oprah said “fart.” What the hell is daytime TV coming too?

Awww…Dakota Fanning’s talking about Tom carrying her around in the movie “War Of The World” and how he bumps fists with everyone, even lowlifes on the set. Do you think Tom would bump fists with me? Dakota’s cute and precocious. Tom loves everybody. Tom’s everybody’s best friend. Everybody’s part of the team. Tom loves Oprah, Oprah loves Tom. Oprah loves money too.

OH NO, Steven Spielberg’s been dragged into this whole big lovefest. The filmmaker mentions “Magnolia” as his favorite film of Tom’s. They show Tom crying while sitting bedside with a dying Jason Robards who played his estranged father in “Magnolia,” which was very much like a real-life Tom and his own estranged and creepy father. Tom really was great in Magnolia, but some say that’s because playing a misogynistic womanizer was just Tom playing himself. I don’t agree. Tom’s a lot of things, but he’s not a misogynist. Tom seemed genuinely touched by Steven’s kind words, probably surprised considering the two haven’t really been on good terms since he choose to stump for Scientology rather than promote their film “War Of the Worlds,” which was a fantastic film btw.

Tom still seems like someone slipped him some Xanax. Someone from the audience asked Tom what he’d do on his day off, Tom says “crawl around on the floor with the kids..fly his plane..go to the beach..ride his motorcycle.. and eat dinner.” Oprah confirms Tom likes to do normal things.
Someone asked if Tom has accomplished all his dreams, Tom says, “No” but he can’t believe how much he has accomplished and thanks his fans.

Tom’s talking about how he really enjoys being on the movie set, it gives his life meaning, Oh and Kate and the kids are cool too, but making movies is DA BOMB.

I really am getting concerned about Tom being on some sort of sedative. I mean isn’t there a place in between jumping on the couch and being catatonic? Poor Tom, seriously, this man has something weighing heavily on his mind. The weight is almost palpable in his overall demeanor. It’s like he wants to say something, but can’t quite muster the courage to do so.

Awww, pics of Suri, Tom and Katie. It’s almost like Connor and Isabella don’t even exist.

Suri turned two in April and Tom reveals the little imp calls her dad “Dada Cruise.” Hmmm…that’s sort of weird.

Oh here we go with the parting gift for the audience, a copy of every one of Tom’s films starting with Risky Business. That’s a pretty nice gift, assuming you are a Cruise fan.

Yep, fluff piece is extra fluffy with a side helping of marshmallows and cotton candy. Tom is looking sincere at Oprah thanking her, it’s obvious he feels he owes her one for letting him back on her couch.

Tom, if you want to revamp your career, you surely don’t need professional celebrity butt-kisser Oprah to do that, just come forward, denounce that creepy abusive cult you belong to and all will be forgiven. At least from me.

According to new reports, Will Smith is once again denying he is a Scientologist, and has responded to an article in Radar magazine stating otherwise.

Smith tells Rush & Molloy, “You don’t have to be Jewish to be a friend of Steven Spielberg. You don’t have to be a Muslim to be a friend of Muhammad Ali. And you don’t have to be a Scientologist to be a friend of Tom Cruise.” So what is Smith, anyway? “I am a Christian. I am a student of all religions.”

I beg to differ with Will Smith’s claim that you don’t have to be a Scientologist to be Tom’s friend. In fact, I will go so far as to say that you DO have to be a Scientologist, or at least lend a friendly face and your official support to Scientology to be Tom’s friend. This is just how Tom Cruise rolls, “either you’re in or you’re out. Phewwww!!”

Tom Cruise’s entire existence on this planet not only revolves around Scientology, but is ultimately ruled by his faith. Tom is so utterly and completely consumed by Scientology he’s proven himself willing to trash his entire Hollywood career for it. In Tom Cruise’s world only one thing truly matters, the words of L. Ron Hubbard and his beloved and true love: Scientology.

But don’t take my word for it, Tom’s track record speaks for itself. When the Church of Scientology took a look at Nicole’s stalled progression on the “Bridge to Happiness” they began to wonder if she just wasn’t buying in to the whole thing. Maybe Nicole was having doubts and therefore was becoming a “potential trouble source” not only for herself and the Church, but more importantly, their chosen savior, Tom Cruise. It is said when Tom packed up his bags and took his and Nicole’s two adopted children, Isabella and Connor away from Nicole, all he would tell her about why he left was “you know what you did.”

Since Nicole vehemently denies she was ever unfaithful to Tom (though she seems to have been somewhat of an ungrateful diva at times) the only obvious betrayal worthy of her unceremonious dumping, was her singular flaw of not accepting Scientology. It could also be Nicole’s father, a clinical psychologist, proved to be too big of an obstacle for Scientology and their global efforts to “obliterate psychiatry” to overcome.

Many also suggest this unwillingness to become fully indoctrinated into the Church of Scientology is the reason Penelope Cruz, and Sofia Vergara were found to be unsuitable mates for Tom Cruise when he went courting for a new wife. Both Latin beauties were too smart, and too worldly to fall for Scientology.

Sadly, Katie Holmes was not so lucky. Seizing on Katie’s own sweet gullibility and prophetic admission to “one day being Mrs. Cruise” Katie found herself the object of a grand, sweeping courtship not only with Tom Cruise, 16 years her senior, but with the entire Church of Scientology. It wasn’t so much Katie’s beauty and sweet mid-Western charm which won the handsome Cruise over, but her willingness to buy the Scientology shtick lock, stock and barrel in exchange for what she must have thought was “true love.” I wonder if she has figured out who Tom’s true love is yet?

Also noteworthy in the Tom Cruise pantry of disposable goods is his long-time publicist Pat Kingsley. Pat Kingsley patiently helped Tom weather many storms, including rampant (and what appears to be completely untrue) rumors of a secret homosexual life, a high-profile divorce and endless negative press related to his religious affiliations. Unwavering and exceptionally skilled at her job, Pat too was unceremoniously dumped by Tom when she dared to suggest he maybe ’simmer down now’ on the Scientology rhetoric. Like Donald Sutherland in the iconic scene from Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, Scientology pointed with its mouth agape “SP,” and that was all she wrote for Pat Kingsley.

Interestingly, Pat Kingsley seems to be representing the very same man at the center of this new Scientology celecampaign, Will Smith. She even issued a statement on behalf of her client:

“As Will Smith’s publicist I can tell you with 100 per cent certainty that Will is not a Scientologist,” Kingsley says.

Pat would know, wouldn’t she.

If you take even a superficial look at Tom Cruise’s life you will see Tom is completely surrounded by Scientologists, or Scientology-sympathizers. He has managed to suck in every single one of his sisters, their kids and finally his devout Catholic mother, Mary, into his beloved religion, enveloping himself in the insular safe cocoon of Scientology. All those close to him are working their way up the bridge, or at the very least, turning a blind eye to his religious madness. In Tom’s world — “either you’re in, or you’re out.”

Eventually Will Smith and Jada Pinkett will realize this, as will, David and Victoria Beckham, Forest Whitaker and wife Keisha, and any other potential celeb or high-profile minority Tom and the Church of Scientology set their sights on. It’s black and white, it’s in or out, its Us or Them.

The worse part of all of this is Will Smith is caught between a rock and hard place. Will knows enough about the inner machinations of Scientology to make it difficult for him to just walk away, but he also knows the “taint” will soon be on he and his family. If Will’s smart, he will slowly and gradually stop taking Tom’s calls and find himself too busy to be with the Cruises, and hope that Scientology will lose interest and set its sights elsewhere. But time’s running out for the Fresh Prince, the longer he lingers in limbo, the worse it will get. Fans will drift away and opportunities will dry up as people in Hollywood begin to associate him with the special brand of crazy that is Tom Cruise.

To be perfectly honest, it breaks my heart for all of them because Scientology destroys families. I pray none of Tom’s children ever question their faith, or they too may find themselves “either in, or out.”

Spiritual faith should be something that frees you and makes your heart light and full of joy, not something that pulls a shroud of darkness around you, closing you from all the wonders of intellectual discovery the world has to offer.

Tom, it’s not to late for you either. Awaken and shake it off. Your fans would love to have you back.

The internets are buzzing* with intel that Scientology’s leader David Miscavige, feeling cornered and provoked, has started a multi-front offensive. What this entails is still up for debate, but one thing seems consistently obvious, Scientology must recruit a likable face to help them detract from their recent spate of negative press.

Could that someone be Will Smith? All signs point to yes, and if you think about it, what better person to replace Tom Cruise as spokesperson? Smith has surpassed Cruise in both popularity and likability, having ranked as the 5th most likable celeb in a 2006 Harris poll.

Coincidentally, that same year a Gallup poll showed that Cruise was the least likable of well known celebs, with a 51% unfavorable rating. Cruise, has in fact become a liability, having destroyed his successful relationship with Hollywood powerhouses Sumner Redstone and director Steven Spielberg by using his celeb status to proselytize Scientology, over promoting his films.

Not only is Will Smith a box office favorite, he has been a positive role model for many young people with his broad-base appeal. Smith, with his feet firmly planted in both the hip-hop community and the acting community has become the rare crossover entertainer. When you throw in his humble, and affable personality, this makes him a valuable asset to any group seeking his endorsement. Will Smith is grounded in the street, but able to reach Bel Air with ease and perhaps most importantly, he has soul. In the deepest and truest sense. When he pines for what might have been between he and Rosario Dawson in Men In Black II, it was a throw away moment, but one that rings so true.

Will’s rise to prominence is more than just timely, it’s as though the hands of fate have smiled upon him. Just as our society has positively shifted towards truly and finally accepting an African American as a potential leader for this nation, we are presented with the meteoric rise and popularity of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. It’s not surprising then, that the other most powerful entity in America, Hollywood, would also have a parallel leader emerge who mirrors those qualities which people admire in the man who may become our next president.

Will Smith, like Barack Obama, is exceptionally charismatic, intelligent, articulate, handsome, seemingly trustworthy and without scandal. In reality, we were long overdue for this cultural shift and both stand as emblematic figures poised to take their place at the helm of guiding our multi-ethnic nation.

Surely, even David Miscavige must see this reality as clearly as we do, and this is evident in the actions of the Church of Scientology as they apply their pressure on Smith to no longer stay on the fence between Scientology, a peaking world-view, and the otherwise skeptical eye of the general population. It’s us or them time, and Will Smith must choose wisely.

Popular opinion would tell him to avoid Scientology, as it has alienated itself from most critical thinking individuals in both the media and the arts. But the allure of the Church and how it courts celebrities can be a powerful and dizzying force. Even more potent in this mix of intoxicating influences may be Will’s own wife Jada. What Jada lacks in stature, she makes up for in sheer will. Some within the Hollywood community believe Jada is already deeply entrenched within the Org. How they managed to ensnare this diminutive power-house is inconceivable, but from the outside, it would seem she is pulling her husband into the opulent walls of Scientology.

Will admits to studying Scientology with Tom Cruise, and according to an article in Us Magazine, Jada is even more intrigued.

“I’ve studied Buddhism and Hinduism, and I’ve studied Scientology through Tom [Cruise].”

A source tells Us Weekly that wife Jada, 36, is also intrigued by the religion, saying, “She’s more gung-ho about Scientology than Will.”

Smith, 39, who was raised Baptist, says in Vogue, “Ninety-eight percent of the principles [in Scientology] are identical to the principles of the Bible. . . . I don’t think that because the word someone uses for spirit is ‘thetan’ that the definition becomes any different.”

And according to the NYDailyNews, Will is actively recruiting for the Church, despite denying being a full-fledged member:

Will Smith has joined the ranks of Hollywood power players actively recruiting for the Church of Scientology.

Big stars traditionally distribute “wrap presents” to crew members after completing a film. His recent gift after wrapping next summer’s comedy “Hancock” was a card good for a personality test at your local Scientology center.

And most revealing was Smith’s fervent defense of Tom Cruise during his PR tour for his latest film, I Am Legend. Here Smith defends Cruise to Access Hollywood’s Shaun Robinson:

“It seems like it makes you angry that people have attacked him because of what he believes?” Robinson said.

“When I sit and I talk with Tom Cruise, he is one of the greatest spirits that I’ve ever met – someone who is committed to making the world better,” Will said. “You have people [that] are attacking and wanna fight that don’t know nothing — how you gonna not know nothing about Scientology and attack somebody? It’s dangerous and it’s ignorant.

“How can I condemn someone for what they believe and I believe that God was born from a pregnant virgin?”

And if money talks, then Will’s putting his where his mouth isn’t ready to go just yet. FoxNews reports Will and his wife Jada donated $20,000 to a literacy program run by Scientology called HELP, Hollywood Education Literacy Program in 2004. Although in fairness, Will gives to plenty of charitable organizations. But, so do lots of celebs, though it is unusual for a non-Scientologist to donate funds to the group without also being a practicing member.

In all truthfulness, its unlikely Scientology has its full tentacles in the Pinkett-Smith conglomerate as of yet. Scientology doesn’t lend itself to allowing people to be full-fledged followers and hugely popular celebrities without the obligation of shilling for the organization. But time is running out, and the Church of Scientology is not a patient beast.

Someone better get DJ Jazzy Jeff on the horn, because it will take an army of funky fresh DJs to save the Fresh Prince from the sticky clutches of Scientology.

*You’ll have to look it up, as I am not at ease with pointing out the direct source.