Hiya Kendra: I don’t mind telling a story. My family is still in (mom, step dad and sisters) but I left at my 16th birthday. Goodbye ASHO, hello world! 1992 I believe. It’s been 15 years now. We went to Apple school for pre-school, Delphi LA when it first opened, blah blah. My parents were in the Sea Org when I was an infant but they literally paid their way out when I was a toddler to pursue careers, yet continued to move up the...

I want to make clear that I’m writing this story in the interest of perspective. I don’t think of myself as an “ex-Scientology kid,” but rather a young man without religion. When I read about Kendra in the Times as having started this site I was shocked; I remembered her from the Pro Metering course as a skinny, thoughtful teenager who seemed infinitely older than my adolescent self though we were the same age. I didn’t see her for...

Reposted from www.scientologydisconnection.com My family were involved in Scientology from 1964/5-1969. I was a child and had two younger siblings. My Father worked at St. Hill until 1967 when my parents split up and we (my Father and I) joined the Sea Org on board the Royal Scotsman. I saw very little of my Father on the ship, had very few meals together and sometimes we went out on liberty days. These got less and less as time went on. I was...

This is not the full account of my life or my experiences. Names and dates have been left out to preserve my anonymity for the time being. However, the events described are true even if particulars and details cannot be mentioned at this time. It is a longer story only to give context and background to my later experiences. My early childhood was pretty normal and pretty devoid of Scientology’s influence. My parents were not actively...

1975 – 1980 (ish) This story is not for the faint hearted. Read on, if you wish. I will have to do in segments, as it covers thirty years. When I was born, my mother was already on staff in a Cl V org. She really wanted to join the Sea Org, but, per her, my father would not have it. He was also in staff in the same org. (My mother told me stories about him which I don’t know if they are true as I did not hear his side). I also have...

I guess on some level I need to come to terms with my experiences in the church and how it has affected my life both directly and indirectly even today some 25 years after my parents left the church for good. Let me preface this by saying that the reason I decided to write is due to something written by lulu-belle in the tragic story of Serge Obilinky on OCMB She wrote something to the effect that just as in the “wog world” there are...