For how Scientology Inc.’s obsession with celebrities turned its greatest Public Relations assets into liabilities, see excerpts from Lawrence Wright’s book concerning the courting of Tom Cruise and John Travolta.
Is there something about Scientology that would lead to this inevitability, or is this simply a Miscavige Scientology Inc. deal?
While the Miscavige/Cruise business is in a league of its own in terms of excess and obsession, is the inhumanity exhibited by Scientology Inc. pre-Miscavige (as most of the cruelty reported in the Travolta sections are) any more tolerable in a civilized society?
While I was going through my decompression from Scientology Inc. my wife and I watched Paul Haggis‘ Oscar-winning film Million Dollar Baby. The movie prompted me to have the first in-depth discussion on the subject of Scientology that I had had since leaving the cult. I pointed out to Monique Haggis’ wonderful depiction of a number of elements of L. Ron Hubbard’s seminal work, The Code of Honor.
I was to later learn that David Miscavige and his deputy Tom Cruise had quite an opposite reaction to Haggis’ award-winning work.
…At first, Wilhere acted as if this surprise encounter and Tom’s immediate cottoning to Nazanin (Boniadi) would take priority over the “secret mission” for which she’d been selected. But after Nazanin lived with Cruise for a couple of weeks, the heights of Miscavige’s conceit apparently made him forget to inform Nazanin that the “secret project” had been cancelled. Nazanin began to suspect her encounter with Cruise was set up from the beginning. She was so overwhelmed, though, by the affections of the number-one movie star in the world and the number-two Scientologist in the world, that she was afraid to create an upset. Her trepidation was exacerbated by the fact that she was constantly being coached by Tommy Davis and his then-wife Nadine, as well as Tommy’s future wife Jessica Feshbach, on how to act around Cruise. They were clearly working for the boss, David Miscavige, and the coaching was constantly reinforced with implications that her pleasing Tom Cruise was the most important thing in the world of Scientology.
Ultimately, Cruise’s own behavior became so erratic that Nazanin had difficultly continuing to play the obedient wife-to-be.
One evening, while Miscavige and his wife Shelly were visiting Tom’s home in Telluride, Colorado, they watched a private screening of the Paul Haggis written, Oscar-winning movie Million Dollar Baby. David Miscavige proclaimed extreme distaste for the movie, saying the content indicated that Paul Haggis, a Scientologist at the time, was a depraved person.
“Yeah,” Tom piled on, “what is up with Haggis? Is he back on board?”
Miscavige asserted, “No, that film was so low-toned and completely psych-oriented.”
“Yeah,” Tom double-piled on, “he needs to get his ethics in.”
Tom and Dave apparently prefer billion dollar babies to million dollar babies:
I am in the process of having a book published by the above title. It ought to be available at Amazon books sometime later in the week.
Here is the short description that will apear with it at Amazon:
Why Scientology must be reformed. It answers the most frequently asked questions about Scientology today, including:
What is behind the madness and violence widely reported on Scientology Inc. supreme leader David Miscavige?
Why does Tom Cruise continue to support Miscavige despite international media reports of his increasingly sociopathic conduct?
What does Tom Cruise know and when did he know it?
Does Cruise follow his mentor Miscavige’s penchant for bullying and violence?
The whole story of Miscavige’s pimping and pandering for Cruise.
Where does all the money go?
Can Scientology survive all the exposure?
What is the future of Scientology?
While The Scientology Reformation was primarily written for Scientologists, it is written in such manner that non-Scientologists can read it and might find it informative and useful.
Because the book delivers on the assertion made in the subtitle (What Every Scientologist Should Know), it will be published in small, paperback format for easy, concealed conveyance into and out of corporate Scientology influenced organizations, businesses and homes. When you read it I think you might agree it warrants wide distribution among fence-sitters, sideliners, under the radar folk and all of their friends, associates and family members.
Once you have read it, some may find it useful, and think of some opportunities, for larger distributions among Scientologists. If you fall into that category, you can contact me for bulk quantities at reduced prices around cost that can be drop shipped to you. Once you’ve read it, and if you are interested tell me the numbers you have in mind – 25 minimum for bulk rate – and location for shipment and I’ll be able to quote you a price.
David Miscavige’s personal counsel has promised Vanity Fair:
The sting of the jury verdict will last longer still; far longer than any pleasure from racing to publish a poorly researched and sourced story.
Dave Miscavige, if you follow through on your threat, I will grant you power of forgiveness. Don’t bother retaining a process server to deliver my deposition subpoena. Save the parishioner donations, and send it FED EX cash-on-delivery. My treat.
All joking aside, the final meltdown has become divine comedy.
The ‘church’ of Scientology has proudly posted their serial threat letters to Vanity Fair on their own website. Miscavige is so out of touch he thinks people will think better of him for it…apparently.
A cursory read of the letters – a thorough read is impossible for someone with important work to do – demonstrates to me one thing and one thing alone. That is, the words of one-time popular guru gone bad da Free John, describing why he left Scientology after completing its highest level of spiritual attainment, were prophesy. He said he had to leave because the church of scientology’s:
MENTALITY OF POWER AND PARANOID, COSMIC POLITICS.
Check them out yourselves. No other seven words can possibly describe the mentality behind them:
The Tony Ortega Village Voice summary, including Claire Headley and Tom Devocht on Miscavige joking about the confessionals of Lisa Marie Presley, Kirstie Alley, and Tom Cruise. Also includes Mike Rinder’s potential quote of the year: Village Voice.
Mat Lauer of the NBC Today show went full frontal on behalf of Tom Cruise trying to put a crack in Maureen Orth’s Vanity Fair story on Nazanin Boniadi. As you can see, Maureen just decimated Cruise and Miscavige’s best shot at covering up the truth Orth reported.
The Vanity Fair affair is not going to be pretty. As folks are preparing for the Cat 4 or 5, I want the record to be crystal clear that I put Tom Cruise on notice more than three years ago that this was coming.
You can check the history of this blog to see that I gave him every opportunity to consult his conscience and choose an ethical course. Instead, he chose to hunker down in David Miscavige’s bunker.
A little word of advice to Tom from L. Ron Hubbard: paraphrased, it is never too late to trim your sheets.
NBC Today ran a story about the coming Vanity Fair story on Tom Cruise and David Miscavige’s unnatural and twisted relationship. They focused on the one aspect of the in-depth piece, the Nazanin Boniadi story, that VF has thus far teased about. As noted Saturday, I will be correcting inaccuracies as they are published and aired by the media.
Tom Cruise and David Miscavige had Tommy Davis and Jessica Feschback Rodriguez Davis ship Nazanin to the ‘church’ of Scientology for behavior modification because Nazanin began to put Tom Cruise into an extreme state of anxiety. Scientologists understand this state as the ‘missed withhold phenomena’. It is intense mental agitation caused when another person nearly finds out about a crime one has committed and carefully kept a secret. In Cruise’s case, Naz began to question whether her relationship with Cruise was an elaborate set-up operation personally directed by the supreme leader of corporate Scientology, David Miscavige.
Of course, we now know that Naz was right on the money. And apparently it was Naz’ nearly finding that out that sent Top Gun into orbit. Miscavige came to the rescue to have Naz hauled into Scientology Inc premises for behavior modification in the form of weeks of intense, overwhelming, and introverting forced confessions interspersed with hard, demeaning labor.
Moving On Up a Little Higher 