I have given a lot of thought for a decade now, since leaving the Sea Org.

My background was the admin theoretical side of Scientology "top management", as Admin Course Supervisor, admin rules compiler (routing forms project 1983-1987), then INCOMM computer branch, then ASI, then RPF for 7 years then return to outside world again.

From 2004 till recently, I've pushed ex members to write books and tell raw details and in the early years, 2004-2007ish, I networked a lot, and speculated a lot.

Today, not much is being argued in Scientology's favor anymore, since Hubbard mainly disallows the official Scientologists a voice for themselves.

All they are allowed to do is speak and write favorably about their Scientology experiences.

Hubbard's admission of "failing" which is published in Lawrence Wright's book's final pages, and also more detailed in Marty Rathbun's 3rd book, Chapter 24 (a must read chapter to hear what Sarge Steven Pfauth says LRH admitted at the end of LRH's life) is part and parcel why official Scientology is not a mature healthy organization or movement.

The members have to be allowed to discuss their movement's founder and the Hubbard writings and policies freely.

Hubbard wrote too many rules making it an offense to criticize Hubbard or his rules too much.

The movement is not a healthy self criticizing movement that can reform itself. Janet Reitman's book touches on this, and her book has a huge overlooked point which is that the young people of the Scientology movement are NOT taking any responsibility for their movement.

These years of Office of Special Affairs being the footmen for David Miscavige's orders re surveillance of ex senior Sea Org members like on John Brouseau and on Tisiano Lugli and his wife, among all the other surveillance of Marty Rathbun and Mike Rinder (two other senior ex leaders) is grounds for the movement members to discuss and influence their leader/Miscavige to cease this offensive practice, even if this practice is ordered by Hubbard writings!

Hubbard's writings have to cease being grounds for Scientology's irreligious and immoral behavior.

Act like a church, act like a practice that is genuinely helping the world, and stop acting like an intelligence organization.

Hubbard's whole intelligence tactics borrowed from the Cold War intelligence services is not how a religion ought to act.

And Scientologists have to read the recent critical books and take note of how society is NOT appreciative of how Scientology is behaving!

And change their behavior!

Hubbard ordered two top councils for the movement, and those two top councils are vacant and out of the picture not doing anything.

It will take years of experienced Sea Org members to even fill those two councils, but those were the organizational marching orders Hubbard left the movement, and I see nothing visible publicly that these two councils are even being attempted to be built.

Miscavige is not supposed to be running the church as he is.

The two top management councils ought to be solving the movemenet's major problems, and that is not happening.

The movement's management structure at the top has been collapsed and the movement members top to bottom don't even see this.

Scientology's way too much of a pipe dream, and it isn't drawing its own members up to the top management ranks to even discover how far off of the Hubbard organizational game plan they are as a movement.

They need to shed a huge amount of Hubbard's draconian Cold War paranoid mentality, and it could be done by the top councils painstakingly going through Hubbard's admin rules in detail, shedding the rules that need shedding.

Probably won't happen until future generations, who are people who have NO contact with Miscavige and who discover that Hubbard's admin writings were NOT executed faithfully by Miscavige, so this whole comment will fall on deaf ears, for about 20-50 years I imagine, and I'm long dead!

Chuck Beatty
ex OEC/FEBC Course Sup
ex Sea Org 1975-2003