Rathbun says Scientology leader David Miscavige became drunk with Hollywood life and abusive to church managers. He claims Miscavige also paid staffers less than minimum wage to customize Tom Cruise's home and cars
“I held a senior management position in the Church of Scientology from 1982 until 2004. During the last several years I was the inspector general of Scientology and answered only to Scientology’s Chairman of the Board David Miscavige.
During that time at the top I came to realize that Miscavige (pictured left) was progressively turning Scientology into a destructive cult. He began to spend most of his time courting and entertaining celebrities, most notably Tom Cruise.
Miscavige used church staff, who were paid less than minimum wage, to customize Cruise’s home, motorcoach and motorcycles. Then Miscavige presented the lavish productions himself to Cruise as personal gifts.
As Miscavige became more drunk with the thrill of Hollywood life, he became more abusive toward church managers.
In January 2004, Miscavige held more than 80 senior management personnel in a couple of double-wide trailers that had been converted into an office building. He instituted group confessions where senior managers were physically and verbally coerced into confessing to harboring disloyal thoughts about Miscavige.
The managers were beaten, hazed, and degraded for up to 24 hours a day.
This is what Katie Holmes is up against. This represents the mindset of the guy who Tom Cruise has publicly stated is his best friend — the guy who was best man at their wedding.
This is the circle Cruise runs in. And clearly, he wants his daughter to follow in his footsteps. Katie Holmes, for good reason, doesn’t want that to happen.
Suri is only 6, but at the age where private tutoring and casual indoctrination could be a precursor to her becoming part of the church as early as age 10.
Miscavige maintained a management prison known as “the hole.” Managers in the hole were required to sleep on the floor, eat cold leftovers, and were confined to the premises 24/7 for weeks on end. In late January, Miscavige sentenced me to the hole.
Gold Base, the Scientology camp on a 500-acre compound at San Jacinto in Riverside County, California
On approximately the third day in the hole I decided that nothing could be done to reform this insanity from within and I escaped. After three years of decompressing from the experience on the outside, in 2008 I met up with friends who had followed my lead and left the Scientology compound after I had. I learned that Miscavige had prison bars installed at “the hole” in response to my escape and that his sadistic behaviour had increased since I left.
In 2009, I decided that I had to speak out before someone was killed in “the hole.” I have been helping former members of the church recover and decompress from their experiences since. I have also worked to make it safe for people to stand up to the Church of Scientology and hold it accountable for such abuses. I operate a blog called Moving On Up A Little Higher at markrathbun.wordpress.com that serves as a forum for former members.
I have also tried to help people distinguish the philosophy of Scientology (which I find does help when used with the purpose of helping) from the abusive cult-like organization that the Church of Scientology has become."
Marty Rathbun is a former manager within the Church of Scientology. His book “What is Wrong With Scientology? Healing Through Understanding” was published last week.
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