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05/09/2008 (12:10 pm)

Marc Headley Returns To Glosslip Radio, Friday 5/9, 8:30 - 9:30pm EDT

Glosslip Radio is extremely excited to have ex-Scientologist Marc Headley back for a second interview.

Marc, who spend 15 years in the Church of Scientology’s Sea Organization is working on a major project which will intimately detail his experiences within the church and working closely with RTC president and Scientology leader David Miscavige.

The last interview we did with Marc has reached legendary status, having over 12000 people listen to the show. Tonight’s show will focus on the Scientology cruise ship, the Freewinds and the current scandal surrounding they cover-up attempts by the Church regarding a massive asbestos contamination on that ship. For coverage of this story, see Glosslip’s reports.


But wait, there’s more…

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Filed under: David Miscavige, Marc Headley, Scientology, cults

05/02/2008 (1:41 pm)

Ex-Scientologist States David Miscavige Participated In Lisa McPherson Death Cover-Up

In our continued coverage of the astounding interview we did with ex-Scientologist and Sea Org member Marc Headley, he revealed David Miscavige, RTC President and head of the Church, was directly involved in the cover-up of Lisa McPherson’s death. Lisa, a young and pretty Scientologist whose death in 1995 rocked the Church of Scientology, has since become the poster child for the alleged abuses leveled at the Church.

The story of Lisa’s death is incredibly tragic. Not simply because we see the face of vibrant, beautiful young woman cut down it the prime of her life, but because for all intents and purposes, her death was completely preventable. Here’s a very brief summary in the interest of time, but I encourage anyone interested to do more research about the events surrounding Lisa’s death:


But wait, there’s more…

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Filed under: Attention Whores, David Miscavige, Intrigue, Marc Headley, Sadness, Scientology

04/30/2008 (11:45 pm)

Happy Birthday David Miscavige!!! Here’s To A Billion More, XXOOXX

I can’t believe I almost forgot that today was Davey’s special day. BTW, we interviewed Meat Beat Manifesto (that’s their song in the vid for those who don’t know MBM) last week, look for the video of that on Blogcritics.org tomorrow :)

In any case, since wishing David a fruitful life full of wisdom, loving relationships and happiness is sort of pointless, my only wish for David is that he finds his heart grows three times its size and he let’s all the Whos in Whoville have a merry Christmas.

(I made a promise to myself I would be more balanced, so I won’t post the very funny, but even too mean for me YT vid. But here’s the link.)

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Filed under: David Miscavige, Scientology

04/29/2008 (12:49 pm)

Was Tom Cruise ‘Whipped’ By Wife Nicole Kidman? Plus, The Scorn Of David Miscavige


Yes Nicole..er..David..er…Wait, who’s in charge again?

In part four of our series highlighting the powerful interview Glosslip had with ex-Scientologist and former Executive Producer of Golden Era Productions, Marc Headley, a duplicitous David Miscavige is revealed to the public.

From all we’ve seen in the mainstream media, RTC President and Church figurehead David Miscavige has a very close relationship with famous actor, and top celeb Scientologist Tom Cruise. In Andrew Morton’s book about Cruise, this relationship was fleshed out fully and the reader comes away seeing two like minded idealogues in Cruise and Miscavige. Both are driven, ambitious and fierce in their pursuits, sharing a rather manly like bond, akin to brothers who are constantly seeking both approval from the other, and to out do each other in varying degrees of one-ups-manship.

It’s hard to imagine a rift existing between them, but then again, their commonality, Scientology, is known for causing deep divides in even the closest of loved ones.

Marc stated Tom Cruise left the Church of Scientology throughout the 90’s because he became disillusioned with the faith. Jason Beghe backed this up, and Andrew Morton hinted at it in his book.

According to Marc, David Miscavige saw Tom’s second wife, actress Nicole Kidman, as the trouble source for Tom (or PTSP), and he wasn’t going to let his best friend get away that easily.

Here’s the scoop straight from someone who was there to witness the betrayal this caused between Miscavige and Cruise, and what was done to “heal” the divide:

DO: You worked with Tom Cruise quite regularly..

MH: Well, no, I didn’t actually work with him. What had happened was in the early ’90’s when he first became a Scientologist he had to do his training to become an auditor. While you do your training you also get auditing and you kind of go back and forth. In order to do that, you need to get somebody who hasn’t had any auditing. In the early ’90’s I had had very little auditing, if any. So I was the perfect candidate for Tom Cruise, so he actually audited me while he did his auditor
training.

So I got to know him then, but in the mid ’90’s, when he got up to OT3 he left the church. He was not being a scientologist. And during those times…

DO: He was disillusioned, wasn’t he?

MH: Well, he basically thought it was complete bullshit. He read all the stuff about…

DO: The wall of fire, right??

MH: Yeah, he got to all that Xenu stuff. “Xenu stuff?”, and he was like “I’m out of here”. And he left. And when he was in Scientology, though, several Scientologists were implanted into his staff network. His assistants and his people, people that helped him run his career. And they were Scientologists. So, when he became upset with Scientology these people stayed with him. And they were the eyes and ears for David Miscavige. On when they were going to be able to get Tom Cruise back into Scientology. So for many years, Tom never came back to the Int Base to do anything. We never heard of him, we never saw him.

DO: Was that when he was married to Nicole?

MH: Absolutely.

DO: So this is during that time?

MH: Totally. And Dave would comment regularly about how how much of an out-ethics person Tom Cruise was. Because he’s off with Nicole and he does whatever Nicole wants, and Nicole. Totally. The facts surrounding him getting back into Scientology are very speculative, but from all that I know, the church seized upon the fact that Nicole had gotten pregnant.

And that Tom, up until that point, was not able to have children whatsoever. So her being pregnant was a major faux pas for her and that she had been cheating…So then out of nowhere, Tom Cruise divorces Nicole Kidman, completes OT4 in the same week. And now, out of nowhere, he’s the most dedicated Scientologist in the whole world. Just like overnight. He’s with Dave all the time. And it was bizarre to people that worked at the Int Base.

Ten years this guy was gone and all of a sudden he just shows up out of nowhere. And now he’s just a fanatic. He’s claiming that he’s been in Scientology for fifteen, twenty, years and you’re just like “What the hell, man? Where did that come from?”

Part of the appeal to celeb Scientologists to join the “religion” is the how much the tech focuses on the “individual” and making them the best they can be. Magnifying this mind-set in people already prone to self-absorption and narcissism could only result in what I’d call a “Super-Ego” mentality. Of course, Marc’s anecdote below illustrates how this is manifested from the top down at Gold Base, Scientology’s brain-center.

MH: The whole reason that you’re there, that anyone is there, in Scientology or in the Sea Organization, is because they have an internal urge to help other people. That’s it. So, when you see all these things happening, people being treated like this, it totally goes against the grain of what you’re there for. And sooner or later I think a lot of these people are just going to leave. More and more of these stories will come out and more of these different things. In 2003 Dave Miscavige instituted a rule that all staff at the Int Base facility have to call Tom Cruise “Sir”.

Okay, now, Tom Cruise is a public scientologist. He’s a parishioner. Some of these people that have been in the Sea Organization at the Int Base have been in the Sea Org for 30 years. Dedicated their life.

And the only person that they have to call “Sir” is someone who’s senior in rank to them. But now, this new guy, Tom Cruise, garners the title of “Sir”. And if you don’t call him “Sir”, you might get away with calling him “Mr. Cruise”, if the situation deems that you couldn’t just say “Sir”. But if you called him “Tom” or “T.C.”, that’s it, you were in trouble. People actually did get in trouble for calling him “Tom”. And it was made a big deal of, like “blaughty-blah” called Mister Cruise “Tom” today and that person was made an example of.

What job security do you have if you’ve been in the Sea Organization for 30 years and a movie star can come along and suddenly he’s senior in position to you and … nd when he hasn’t dedicated nearly as much of his life to doing what you’re doing, that kind of thing.

Wow, and we thought Tom jumping on Oprah’s couch was weird, speaking of which….

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Filed under: David Miscavige, Marc Headley, Scientology, Tom Cruise

04/28/2008 (2:51 pm)

More Details Of Sadism From Scientology Church Leader David Miscavige


Church of Scientology’s Gold Base, Miscavige’s Home Away From Home

In an earlier post about Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige, we focused on his violent and abusive history of beating staff members who upset him. For years, Miscavige’s unpredictable temper was rumored to explode in unhinged outbursts which resulted in him slapping and punching his over-worked and disturbingly underpaid staff, commissioned as Sea Organization members.

The Sea Org is described by Scientology insiders, as an elite and dedicated group which have their own slogan: “Many Are Called, Few Are Chosen.” A pseudo-military outfit, so select is this group, and so distinctive is this “honor,” they must sign a billion-year contract which states their allegiance to the Church of Scientology and the Sea Org are bound beyond death. Scientologists believe we live millions of lives and keep coming back after a person “drops their body.” Sort of like a perverse non-negotiable reincarnation, but without the becoming enlightened part.

These members work well over 60 hours a week, and according to Marc Headley, a former member of Scientology (and of the Sea Org) they are paid approximately $46 dollars a week, which he calculated to be only a few cents more an hour than Chinese slave labor workers. Marc’s interview, on our BlogTalkRadio show (listened to be over 3500 people so far) is so powerful and explosive we are releasing it in parts, and members of the online activist group Anonymous worked diligently on helping Glosslip get this interview transcribed. Below is part three of this interview with 15-year Sea Org/Scientology veteran Marc Headley:

DO: It’s disturbing, you and I talked about the Jenna Miscavige ‘Nightline’ interview which is pretty powerful. I know sure, it’s unfortunately only half an hour, but I think they covered some of the major talking points. The forced abortions and the child labor practices within the church. Those are some pretty sensational claims and you read about them on the internet, you’ve heard about them from ex-scientologists, and now you have a major media site essentially validating it by presenting it for public consumption.

So I’m hoping that more of these stories that we hear are being treated in the light that they are
given, and that is “This is truth, this is reality, this is what has happened to these people, and it’s
very sad, it’s damaging”. You seem like one of the more stable ex-scientologists. I’m not sure if it’s
your upbringing or just your nature, but having talked to you a few times now you really seem to
understand what you went through and have been able to move forward. That’s good to see, because
people inside need to know that there’s hope when they leave to the outside. We want to help
people, I know you do, you have family members in there. I want to stay on the David Miscavige
thing because I think it’s very fascinating. This is the leader of the Church of Scientology, this is the
man who represents the state of this spiritual organization which says they are going to clear the
planet and make everything better for mankind.

Yet obviously we’ve just heard your story, you’ve seen several people physically abused by
David Miscavige, we know Jeff’s story, and you yourself were abused. Now there’s and interesting
story about David Miscavige throwing people overboard? This is all just so confusing to me. Can
you tell us a little more about that particular story?

MH: L Ron Hubbard actually formed the Sea Org on ships, on sea vessels and when people, students or staff, would do something that was against his teaching, then he would throw them overboard. This was when they were at dock or in port or something, they would be thrown over the side of the ship as a punishment. Obviously the Sea Org is no longer a sea based organization, they have moved to land.

At the Int Base there is a large lake that is very close to the manufacturing building. If you look on
Google Earth you’ll see it in a second, but there’s a little bridge that leads out to a little island. In the
’90s Dave re-instituted being thrown overboard. So if somebody was late to report to post or they
had done something they weren’t supposed to … basically it was a way of punishing people. And
you would literally get walked out to the lake, you were allowed to take off your shoes, and I think
your tie, we were wearing at the time button-down dress shirts and tie, so you were allowed to take
off your shoes and your tie, and then they read like a little passage, something like “May your sins
be thrown into the water”, and then they’d push you into the water.

This lake by the way was filled with dead birds, fish, mold, and it never got cleaned or anything. People started to get sick after they’d been thrown into the lake so they had to cancel it.

Okay, now fast-forward to 2004, all of a sudden in the middle of the night, like 4 AM, hundreds of people are called in, you’d need to report to the base right away. Buses were sent out to pick people up from their housing, everybody showed up. David Miscavige was there, wearing his nighttime pajamas, walking around, waiting for everybody to show up.

He explained that this guy, he was the C.O.C. of International, Mark Yager, was living with another executive in Fairmount who was named Guillaume Lesevre, the Executive Director International. Every day when Dave would have meetings with these two guys, he would tease them and torment them about how they were gay and because they lived together he knew they were up to stuff. This went on for months, and he would always tease them.

Well this night when we got pulled in, Mark Yager had decided that he wasn’t going to take it anymore, he had dragged his mattress out of his room, halfway across the property, and put it in basically just a field of dirt and decided he was going to sleep there. Dave walks by his room that night, he saw that he was gone and the mattress was gone, and then that’s when he ordered “Okay, somebody go find Mark Yager and call everybody back in”. After he explained this whole thing to us, he said that it was our fault that Mark Yager wouldn’t sleep in the room he was assigned and that we were all going overboard.

And a hundred people were thrown, because we couldn’t go into the lake anymore, we thrown
into this swimming pool that’s at the property, it’s called the Star of California. It’s like a ship that’s
built into the hill and has a huge swimming pool. We all, one by one, had to just walk off the diving
board into the pool, like walking the plank. Those are the kind of things, like being woken at 4 am,
being dragged in, being thrown into the pool, and then being told “You guys are useless and you
can’t get anything right” and then … “Go home”. Incidents like that were regular occurrences at the
Int Base.

DO: It’s sick, but worse, that it’s being done by a church that says they’re a religion, that gets tax-exempt status. That presents themselves as the alternative to psychiatry, that they are going to help us all and all of mankind. You’re right, this is really sick.

MH: There’s a story on the internet, if you Google “musical chairs int base” there’s a tear-jerking story of something that Dave put several hundred staff through, threatening to split them up from their spouses. It’s too long of a story to tell right now but somebody did write it up and it is on the internet. It’s insane, but even during that time people were made, as punishment, to sleep under their desks for weeks on end until certain achievements or milestones were met.

Until those were met, you went to sleep under your desk, then you got up in the morning, you went
to take a shower in the garage of the estate facility there, and you never went home. And if your
wife was in a different area of the church, then you didn’t see her, because you were sleeping under
your desk and that’s just the way it was. Sometimes he would even forget that he had ordered people
that they were restricted to the property and couldn’t go home. And months later someone would
say “Well, I’m not going home anyway” and he would go “Why not?” and it’d be like “Sir, we’ve
been restricted to the base for three months now”. And he would be like “Oh. That was only meant for a day or two”, and this is like four months later.

In 1990, when I arrived at Golden Era Productions, there were 1200 staff that worked at that
facility. It was a sprawling complex, it’s actually over 500 acres. There’s several International
Management Organizations that exist there. It’s also where Religious Technology Center is located,
which is the organization that Dave Miscavige is the chairman of the board of, and about four or
five other church organizations that are housed there. As of 2007, there was about 400 people left
that worked at that facility. And those 400 people are still demanded to do the work of the 1200
people that were there in the early ’90s.

In the next installment of our interview with Marc, we will continue this story and discuss how David Miscavige disparaged current 2nd-in-command Scientology superstar, actor Tom Cruise when he left the Church in the 90’s, plus how David instituted a rule stating, all Sea Org members were to refer to Tom Cruise as “Sir” and were told not to speak directly to him, or look him in the eye.

Yes, Scientology. It’s far, far worse than you think.

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Filed under: David Miscavige, Marc Headley, Scientology

04/27/2008 (12:50 pm)

Leader of Church of Scientology, David Miscavige, Physically Abused Staff For Years

Glosslip’s interview with ex-Scientologist Marc Headley in many ways was more of a blow to the Church of Scientology, than ABC’s light coverage of CoS victims Jenna Miscavige (niece of Scientology leader David Miscavige) and actor Jason Beghe’s powerful Scientology video with Mark Bunker of Xenutv.com.

Thanks to the exceedingly gracious efforts of Anonymous, we are able to bring you transcribed information from that interview, so that our hearing impaired, or dial-up users can be privy to this illuminating, yet disturbing details about the Church of Scientology’s inner workings. Marc Headley is not only an amazingly articulate person, he’s also very brave for stepping forward to share this information from deep inside the Church. As Executive Producer at Golden Era Production, the production company owned by Scientology, Headley worked closely with RTC President and CoS figurehead, David Miscavige.

When you read this transcribed interview I ask that you bear in mind, this man, David Miscavige, is a role model to Scientologists around the globe, he is the head of an organization which deems itself as the spiritual salvation for mankind. Please try to imagine any other spiritual leader in this role, and truthfully ask yourself if this conduct is befitting of such an honor:

DO: Good afternoon Glosslip radio listeners, I am Dawn Olsen of glosslip.com, and I am very excited to have a very special guest with me today. It’s Marc Headley, an ex-Scientologist who was with the Church of Scientology for 15 years. He’s got some really very interesting, exciting and sad stories to share with us about his experiences within the Org. He and I talked a few times before while we were setting up the interview, and certainly I’m well aware of the stories he has to tell, so I’m just going to give you a little background here from his bio.

Marc worked at the Scientology international management headquarters in Gilman Hot Springs
from 1990-2005, and he worked for the media production company owned by the Church of
Scientology, Golden Era productions. They’re the ones that put out all those Scientology
commercials and propaganda videos we’ve seen and mocked on the web over the last few months.

Having worked there for quite some time, he ended up becoming the Executive Producer at
Golden Era Productions. He left in 2005 and now lives in California with his family. We’re going to
leave it at that because why he left is very pertinent to this story. First we’re going to begin with
introducing Marc. Hello Marc, thanks for joining us, I’m really excited to have you.

MH: Hi Dawn, great to be here.

DO: And you’re recovering from a cold, so everybody…

MH: Just a little bit hoarse.

DO: Just a little bit hoarse. We’ll try and not make you talk too much. I’m just curious, can you tell us how you became involved in Scientology? I know you still have family members who are in, so let’s go with your background first.

MH: What actually happened was my mother, probably in the very early 80’s, got involved in Scientology through a friend.

More and more, she became involved in doing courses and getting auditing. I grew up living
across the street from the Celebrity Center in Los Angeles. So I grew up around Scientologists,
then my mom became a Scientologist and I went to a Scientology school. So from about the age of
six or seven I was indoctrinated into the lingo and the procedures, and all the different things that
Scientologists do. In 1989, I left school, the Scientology school that I was attending, to join the Sea
Organization.

Very shortly from when I joined the Sea Org, I was transferred from Los Angeles to the
Golden Era productions facility, so that’s how I got in. When you grow up in Scientology, the Sea
Org is made out to be the elite of all Scientology so if you can actually go into the Sea Org, it’s
considered a privilege. They have a slogan: “Many are called, few are chosen.” And that’s how they
recruit people.

DO: So, they make it sound like a very elite society, and not everyone, you may be interested but not everyone gets to join, therefore increasing the image of the Sea Org?

MH: That’s exactly correct. You don’t really see when you’re Scientology public, if you’re a parishioner, behind the scenes into the Sea Org. You only see the staff that work at the different churches. A parishioner might never go into a management facility or a confidential location such as Golden Era Productions. They’re not really privy to the goings on there, its very mysterious.
Even when I joined the Sea Org in 1989, I was not aware that there was a facility, even a secret
facility that was up in Hemet. I had no idea, even after I was in the Sea Org for many months. I had
never heard it until I was asked if I would like to go there. So I said “Sure, what it it?”, I didn’t even
know.

I didn’t know who David Miscavige was, I didn’t know who any of the current leaders of
Scientology were, nothing. I had no knowledge of them whatsoever, that’s the view of a kid
growing up in it. So that’s how I ended up at Golden Era Productions.

DO: Now, when you and I talked, I shared with you some experiences that Jeff Hawkins and I talked about. Do you know Jeff?

MH: Yeah, I know Jeff.

DO: I assumed you would have, but there’s a lot of people who’ve come and gone over the years so I shouldn’t assume that people know each other. But he worked with David Miscavige doing marketing, that type of stuff, I figured you could have run into each other. He told a very disturbing story about David actually abusing his staff members and specifically Jeff, he himself was abused.

And he saw a senior Org member get beaten, it was like an open-handed slap to the face
several times. That was David’s way of intimidating staff into doing what he wants and he’s a very
angry man. But you also have some more stories and I’d like you to share that with us, I think it’s
very important because we’re trying to build a picture about a man we don’t know that much about,
you have a lot of insight into that, why don’t you tell us what you know about David Miscavige.

MH: Well, from the time I showed up at Golden Era Productions in 1990, I had been there maybe a few months when I saw David Miscavige physically beat somebody up. And that was in 1990. So it’s not like this just developed over the past five years, there’s a pattern going on.

All the way up until I left in 2005 I’d say that I saw David Miscavige physically strike somebody or slap as you say or punch in the face, I’d say I witnessed myself at least thirty different occasions, myself. And I heard from other people second hand many more instances that occurred. That was the turning point was for me. In late 2004 I was walking through the main factory facility with David Miscavige and I had made a smart-alec comment in response to one of his questions, apparently he’d not had a good day already and my comment was not well received and he proceeded to unload on me.

He punched me in the face at least ten times and my glasses fell off, I was thrown up against a
desk unit, a counter top, and that was the moment right then when I realized I could go no further
down than this, to be beaten by the leader of my so-called church. What else could I do that could
get me in a lower status than that? And I decided that I would strike back. As soon as he saw that in
my eyes, I was grabbed and escorted out of the building and made to take a walk for about an hour
or so. He sent several people off to console me, that he really shouldn’t have done that and he was
really sorry. While I was being escorted out of the room I heard him say to his staffers, “He was
going to hit me back”.

And I thought to myself, “Do you know what? I really was, I really was going to hit you back”. At that point that I started figuring out what I was going to do because I wasn’t going to be staying there much longer. And in January 2005 I left. A lot of people, a lot of Scientologists think that Dave Miscavige is the savior of the church and all those things that he’s done have kept it alive, basically the reason they are still around. That might also be the reason why they’re not going to last, because of the crimes, the physical violence, the emotional and mental torture, that he puts people through, its mind-boggling.

A lot of people don’t believe, the stuff they read on the internet, that David Miscavige has done. When I got out of the Sea Org I couldn’t believe the amount of stuff that was on the internet that was absolutely, 100% accurate, of the going ons at the international headquarters or Int Base. So yeah, there’s a lot of stuff on the internet and it’s absolutely true, pretty much I’d say 99% of it is very accurate.

David, while not a “minister” at the Church, is certainly the person who sets policy, creates initiatives and leads his “parish.” By virtue of Miscavige’s role as head of a “religious organization” it is entirely appropriate to set standards of conduct upon him befitting of someone who leads such a wealthy organization. An organization mind you, which prides itself on ethical mores, spiritual guidance and has taken the charge of “obliterating psychiatry,” saving mankind, and ultimately “clearing the planet” of undesirable elements which keep us as a species from becoming enlightened.

Do you suppose Pope Benedict XVI punches, slaps and abuses his flock? Does the Dali Lama do this? What about high ranking Rabbis, Ministers, Reverends and spiritual leaders around the world? Today while sitting in my own house of worship, I tried imagining the leader of my faith doing this. It was laughable, inconceivable.

This man, who cradles babies with the love of a father to all, the person who smiles upon me and all those who stood with me as though the very light of divinity shone through me, and those in my fellowship. This person who asked kindly for my donations to continue their good works, but smiled just as benevolently upon me as they did upon those who couldn’t give. This person who feels their offering of salvation on behalf of their chosen faith, is predicated on the example they set, based on teachings which are thousands of years old. This person wouldn’t dare think it was appropriate to treat another member of their congregation or any other human the way David Miscavige has treated his dedicated Sea Org members as described above.

I wish this were the worst of it, but sadly, the sadism and cruelty is even worse than the abuse Marc discusses above. Regardless of your faith, or lack thereof, we are all expected to treat each other with respect. But this behavior, witnessed first hand, is unforgivable coming from a leader of a so-called “religion.”

Coming up next….how David Miscavige tortured his staff, had members thrown in filthy lakes, and mentally abused and ridiculed his own associates.

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Filed under: Anonymous, David Miscavige, Hollyweird, Scientology, Tom and Katie, You Can't Fix Stupid

04/24/2008 (2:46 pm)

GLOSSLIP RADIO Exclusive: Ex-Scientologist Marc Headley, Friday, April 25th, 1:00pm EDT

This has been the most explosive week ever for Glosslip Radio in our continued crusade to expose the abuses of the Church of Scientology. Already this week we’ve interview two of the top anti-CoS critics in the world, Andreas Heldal-Lund of Xenu.net (Operation Clambake) and Mark Bunker of Xenutv.com, as well as the incredibly powerful Jeff Hawkins, a 35-year vet of Scientology who had some very damaging things to say about CoS leader, David Miscavige.

To top it all off, we have Marc Headley, a name many of you may know for sharing some very sensitive details about the CoS, David Miscavige and the inner world of Tom Cruise, whom world-famous author Andrew Morton claims is the 2nd in command at the Church of Scientology in his NYT best-selling book, Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography.

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE SHOW!

Marc and I spoke about his experiences and one of the intriguing details he revealed to me, was the amount of time he spent with Tom Cruise, and how he was audited by the world-famous actor during Cruise’s “pre-Clear” training in the org. Marc also had the “honor” of being one of the few people favored by CoS leader David Miscavige during his tenure with the Church and had an intimate view of the man so few of us really know and understand.

As Marc described it, he was close to Miscavige until one day the Scientology church leader, turned on him and beat him in the face several times. This is when Marc snapped and had decided it was time to give Miscavige a taste of his own medicine, but was quickly ushered off the premises and unceremoniously disassociated from the Church of Scientology. When Marc told me this incident, it was clearly a pivotal moment in his tenure with the CoS:

“He saw in my eyes that I had turned, reached the point of no return and was going to hurt him back. Fortunately for David, there were several other members in the room and I was quickly throw off the grounds.”

Here’s Marc’s bio:


Marc Headley worked at the Scientology International Management Headquarters in Gilman Hot Springs, CA from 1990-2005, working for the media production company owned by the Church of Scientology, Golden Era Productions.

After many years of working in the Manufacturing, Audio, & Cinematography Divisions, Marc ultimately became the Executive Producer at Golden Era Productions.

In early 2005 Marc left Scientology and started his own business. Marc and his wife of 15 years live in California with their two boys, Kaleid - 2 years old and Kaiden - 7 weeks old. Marc has appeared on radio programs and in magazine articles all over the world exposing the activities of the church that go on behind closed doors at the International Headquarters of Scientology.

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04/24/2008 (11:43 am)

Jenna Miscavige Hill, ex-Scientologist on ABC’s Nightline Tonight 11:35pm


Photo: Theda Bara

This is the interview we’ve all been waiting for, and I for one, am stoked. Jenna Miscavige Hill, the niece of current leader of the Church of Scientology, David Miscavige, will be appearing on tonight’s ABC Nightline news series. Here’s a link to the article for the show on ABC’s site. Comments open. You know what to do!

Jenna, along with two other former Scientology children, Astra Woodcraft and Kendra Wiseman, grew up in the Church but have since left and are speaking out against the Church of Scientology’s abusive practices. These three brave ladies created a website called Ex-ScientologyKids.com, which offers support for those seeking to leave and those who’ve left the Church of Scientology and trying to piece their lives back together.


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