Scientology 101

An interview with Tony Ortega

I was excited to see that Tony Ortega’s Underground Bunker—a blog that covers the Church of Scientology as a daily beat—has started its move to Substack last week.

To welcome Tony to this platform, I’m going to post a series of transcripts from the interviews I’ve done with him over the years. I think will serve as a great overview of Scientology: its structure, history, philosophy, practices—and how they all combine to pull people in and make them stay in a culture that exploits them day after day.

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