The "Church" of Scientology has recently screwed everything up by forcing OT7s to have sec checks every six months at their own expense and to have to redo the level.
Scientology has also had no completions on this and on OT8 lately, and a recent ex told me the problem was that a couple years ago, the OT8 completions were all hopeless fuckups: broke, physically ill, with all kinds of personal problems and totally caved in. The cult had intended that their OT8s would be able to start up orgs and missions and get stats up. This didn't work, the OT8s were completely fucked up and couldn't do anything.
So the cult had to find some kind of excuse for this situation of all the fucked up OT8s, because it was creating bad PR and discouraging people from going OT.
The excuse was that the OT7s were only using "3 of the 79 tools" that they should have been, so they had to redo OT7 at their own expense, AND cough up more cash for OT7, that they had already paid for.
This is why Magoo (Tory Bezazian) left, as well as other OTs like Greg and Debra Barnes and Mike and Virginia McClaughry. The OTs were just getting no value at all for their money.
As Magoo was yelling at the "parishioners" at the Coachman building, if you had bought a car and it didn't work, and was totally fucked up and didn't run, the car company would give you a new one at no cost. They would RECALL it if the car was defective.
Well, the alleged "Church" was forced to RECALL the OT7 levels that were already paid for, and then they expect the people who were defrauded already to cough up even more money for this nonsense.
Now this idiot cult is building a "Super Power" building, which sounds like something a kid in Underoos would yell while jumping on a bed. After about two years, they have nothing but a skeleton with two cranes on it for no reason at all, because they don't even need cranes for a building this size. They are already running out of money for this "Super Power" building and they haven't even got to the expensive stuff like wiring and plumbing and other infrastructure stuff, and they are trying to get skilled cultists to volunteer their time and effort to build this. Plus, this would also really piss off unions if they found out about it, because the people they are trying to recruit would be non-union labor.
In any case, even if they finish this "Super Power" building, they only will deliver it to pre-OTs and people who have finished their OT levels. So you have people stuck on OT7 who can't get anywhere, and pre-OTs who already see how fucked up the OT8s are, and despite this they are trying to build a "Super Power" building for services they won't even be able to deliver to people on their OT levels.
This is a complete clusterfuck and no wonder the OTs are leaving in droves.
The "Super Power" building is a complete disaster, and their fuck-overs of the OT8s is yet another sad chapter in the history of this screwed-up organization.
Incidentally, even the "Church" appears to have realized how stupid the name "Super Power" is and on the recent injunction against the LMT, Minton et al, they are calling it a "Pastoral Counseling" building. Whatever it's called, and whether it's the "Super Power" building or the "Stupid Power" building, it's still stupid and doesn't address any real need, especially when they can barely keep the courserooms they HAVE filled.
This could be a prelude to some ham-handed attempt to abandon the OT levels entirely and instead route people on to the "Super Power" rundowns while also having something to milk the remaining OTs for when and if they finish OT8, if they even bother. That assumes they even build this hunk of junk and it isn't just an excuse to reg people endlessly for donations.
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