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Xenu's Runway: New Scientology Fashions

By Steven Mikulan, Thursday, Aug. 6 2009 @ 6:20AM
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Gawker disses the L.A.-based Church of Scientology for its new uniforms that have been created by local celebrity designer Richard Tyler for the organization's officer caste. (Hey, why not? Christian Dior designed airline stewardess uniforms.) By now those who live or work near central Hollywood are used to seeing Scientology members strolling down Sunset or Hollywood boulevards attired in military-style uniforms. If the outfits strike the casual observer as nautically overboard, it's because of Scientology's obsession with the ocean (a legacy from its late founder, L. Ron Hubbard) -- a fixation embodied in both the church's instructional metaphors and in its  "Sea Org" nomenclature.

Titled "Scientology's Creepy New Uniforms," Ryan Tate's Gawker piece reports that the latest getups, designed for wear in Scientology's new churches, or "Ideal Orgs," would "look at home in an Ian Shrager hotel, save perhaps for the capes. A tipster tells us all 'Ideal Org' staff members must wear them."

Scientology's fall line for its "emissaries of a new civilization" features bucket hats and, indeed, capes with red lining for women, and dark, less ostentatious wardrobes for men.

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James Lightfield says:

What was overlooked is that the design is for a religious venue.

Scientology and Dianetics therapy enables a person to reduce early traumas (not only while in mom's womb, but also before this current life).

Posted On: Thursday, Aug. 6 2009 @ 9:22AM
Miles says:

Scientology and Dianetics therapy enable suckers to reduce their bank balances.

Posted On: Thursday, Aug. 6 2009 @ 9:36AM
Air Xenu says:

L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology, wrote that evil galactic overlord Xenu committed terrible crimes including transporting captured alien souls to be imprisoned on earth. Although this allegedly occurred 75 million years ago, the souls were said to be flown here in space ships that looked just like old DC-8 airplanes from the 1950s.

So, isn't dressing Scientologists up like airline staff rather like dressing Christians up as the Devil's henchmen? What's up with that - are you guys switching side now? Or just showing your true (red & black) colors?

Posted On: Thursday, Aug. 6 2009 @ 9:56AM
Catherine Longfellow says:

@JL: Does it matter if a "religious venue" uses celebrity, commercial designers to create hideous clothing? Are they somehow above reproach? Should we go about deleting all mockery of the Pope's hat's too? I think not.

The second part of your comment would be better believed with scientific back up or links to funded, certified research (not testimonials)... I'll be waiting. :]

Have a Wonderful Day.

Posted On: Thursday, Aug. 6 2009 @ 10:11AM
James Lightfield says:

I find it immensely amusing that those who cannot recall earlier than 3 or 4 years of age THIS lifetime, comment on electronic whole track (before the current body's life) implants designed by immense energy flows to cause a being not only to attack anything that would enable the "I" (the immortal being, YOU) to reduce the effects of these implants specifically designed to cause a being to forget who/what he is AND insert false memories and thought-processes in the form of pictures and concepts to make that being controlled.

A far, far, far lesser version is subliminal messaging used in TV commercials. Also, on a far, far, far lesser impactful method are the brainwashing techniques, such as waterboarding used by the CIA.

Google MKULTRA as one example of brainwashing.

So, here are the Anon mouthpieces who cannot recall their existence before this life, acting out the "beware, I'll protect you -- don't look there -- just listen to me" implanted conditioning.

But who cares about past existence? The average person just wants an easier time of it this lifetime.

Select one of the 16 how-to problem solving solutions posted at http://www.ScientologyHandbook.org

Posted On: Thursday, Aug. 6 2009 @ 10:19AM
Miles says:

Ah, the sound of one clam snapping.

Posted On: Thursday, Aug. 6 2009 @ 10:32AM
Kirsten says:

James Lightfield mentions "implants" in his last post. He is referring to alien implants, because they believe we are infested with aliens. They call them "body thetans."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_thetan

The founder was a science fiction writer.

Posted On: Thursday, Aug. 6 2009 @ 10:44AM
Kat says:

Oh my god, do all Scientologists act like James?
They sound so crazy and full of themselves!
I'll keep my sanity and bank account and stay away from you folks, thanks.

Posted On: Thursday, Aug. 6 2009 @ 11:06AM
bob dobbs says:


But James, I'm a Scientology critic and I remember my past lives, I can remember being a clam on a beach and getting a grain of sand in my gills, first time I ever cried.

Posted On: Thursday, Aug. 6 2009 @ 11:14AM
shithouserat says:

James...you are crazier than a shithouse rat.

Posted On: Thursday, Aug. 6 2009 @ 11:18AM
Dynasty says:

I love how when Scientologists try to sound smart or make their "religion" look appealing, they end up sounding like lunatics which makes you want to stay far away from whatever alien activity they have going on. But i guess when you're involved with aliens you wont sound very sane. Well that's just life, or whatever those people in capes (Scientologists) what to call it.

Posted On: Thursday, Aug. 6 2009 @ 11:25AM
Jason Riggs says:

"we're not asking how they got their hands on a copy"... I know how... Gawker reads whyweprotest website forums.

I guess those new space vampire chic cloths are supposed to distract the org members from all those pesky stories coming from the St. Petersburg Times in June and Aug. 2nd establishing that the COS leader, Miscavige, is a violent lunatic, who regularly beats COS staff members in wanton and bizarre fashion.

Posted On: Thursday, Aug. 6 2009 @ 12:10PM
James Lightfield says:

Case in point:
The anon one-lifer mouthpieces can't recall existence prior to the current body's lifetime, and play the old, old, old tape of "beware - don't look -- listen to me! I'll protect you." Boring, tedious.

***
bob dobbs
Apparently you know of the book History of Man but missed the key point, the difference between genetic and theta experiental time tracks.

Buy that's only data to be determined on a personal level if it is valid or not. Suggest you do some Self Analysis lists and fine-tune your this lifetime recollection.

Cheers and g'day
James

Posted On: Thursday, Aug. 6 2009 @ 12:14PM
Anonymous says:

I'm an Anon protester and I don't believe in past lives because I am a Muslim woman and it's not a part of my religion. Are you going after my religion because I don't agree with you, James? ;) And none of this has to do with the fantastically and terrifically bad costuming of Ideal Org staff. It's creepy and not at all welcoming, exactly what I would expect from a group of people so isolated from the world and out of touch with how others preceive them.

I feel sorry for you and the rest, James, for a variety of reasons. I am even sorry they'll have to wear such hideos gothic uniforms in the misguided attempt to bring modernity and some sort of human connection to relate to the general public. :(

Posted On: Thursday, Aug. 6 2009 @ 12:29PM
geezer says:

I was in the Sea Org in the late 1960's. We wore white turtleneck shirts, white mini-skirts and silver boots. Supposed to look like futuristic space travelers...or something. I escaped in the middle of the night from the Advanced Organization of Los Angeles in Sept. 1969 and had to wear that ridiculous outfit all the way back to Phoenix. Oh, I do love my freedom.

Posted On: Thursday, Aug. 6 2009 @ 1:57PM
Diane says:

I actually googled "James Lightfield", and you guys should to. Is this like, your CAREER or something? Just to promote scientology and act crazy in comment sections across the internet?
Fucking weirdo.

Posted On: Thursday, Aug. 6 2009 @ 3:14PM
Miles says:

Maybe James is just trying to stay on David Miscavige's good side.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/faith/2009/08/scientology_miscavige_st_peter.html

Posted On: Thursday, Aug. 6 2009 @ 5:02PM
James personal psychiatrist says:


Let's just leave poor James alone now. After all, he's obviously delusional, heavily brainwashed, and no longer is capable of logical reasoning.

He also is financially ruined from that cult he was in, and saddest of all, he thinks he is an "emissary to a new civilization".

Please don't encourage him or say anything about the red cape! He'll just go on 4 hours!

James, don't forget to take your meds again......OK?

Posted On: Thursday, Aug. 6 2009 @ 5:34PM
Tommy Davis says:

"Scientology and Dianetics therapy enables a person to reduce early traumas" (not only while in mom's womb, but also before this current life).

Somehow, those uniforms seem to induce 'traumas'

Here's some 'theraputic' quotes from LHR:

"In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind, because by abusing those rights he brings into being arduous and strenuous laws which are oppressive to those who need no such restraints." - L. Ron Hubbard, SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL, 1989 Ed., p. 145 [The "Tone Scale" is Scientology's measure of mental and spiritual health.]

"There are only two answers for the handling of people from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale, neither one of which has anything to do with reasoning with them or listening to their justification of their acts. The first is to raise them on the Tone Scale by un-enturbulating some of their theta by any one of the three valid processes. The other is to dispose of them quietly and without sorrow." - L. Ron Hubbard, SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL, p. 170

"The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the Tone Scale from the social order would result in an almost instant rise in the cultural tone and would interrupt the dwindling spiral into which any society may have entered." - L. Ron Hubbard, SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL, p. 170

Posted On: Thursday, Aug. 6 2009 @ 10:51PM
Anonymous says:

As a general note Scientology offer techniques to find out about the past... this lifetime and earlier lifetimes.
What you will find is what "you" will find.
Some things will look "normal" but others not!
When you take a long trip to foreign lands and then come back are you supposed to tell what you "really" found or just report things that are considered normal?
Some people think that we live in a very advanced society but so far only less than 20 persons went to the moon. Nobody went to a different solar system! ...
Advanced society? Compared to what!

Posted On: Friday, Aug. 7 2009 @ 1:41PM
BnThDnTh says:

Scientology:
A man writing sci-fi for pennies-a-word thinks there's a better way
He rewrites Freudian psychology of a subconscious plagued with bad memories
He charges sci-fi fans to get rid of them using hypnosis
The helpless eat up the rhetoric for thousands of dollars
The old guy gets rich and goes sailing with 14 year old girls
The US Government charges the old fart with practicing medicine
He turns his business into a religion
The church infiltrates the FBI and the guy’s wife goes to jail
Lisa McPherson dies while under church care
The church continues the con using personality tests and a bridge to nowhere
The old guy goes nuts and writes about UFOs, space stations and alien spirits
The church gets richer selling the space secrets at higher levels
The old guy dies in seclusion
A midget takes over the church
The church sets up front groups for recruiting
The church gets narcissistic actors to join for legitimacy
The midget is accused of abuse

Posted On: Friday, Aug. 7 2009 @ 2:23PM
Scott says:

Scientology is funny. So funny it's easy to forget how dangerous it is. It's run like a criminal organization that lies and intimidates to protect their money making business. They pretend to be a religion to avoid paying taxes and shield itself from criticism.

Posted On: Friday, Aug. 7 2009 @ 4:12PM
Liam says:

Sorry to break it to you Lightfield but, the last written OT Level, OT 8 has been leaked to the internet (just like OT 3, the Xenu story). In OT 8, Hubbard tells you that "You mocked up your own past lives." So much for all that auditing sucker.

Posted On: Friday, Aug. 7 2009 @ 4:28PM
AJ Simkatu says:

So, James Lightfield, did you have a lot of trauma in your mother's womb? Did she attempt to abort you numerous times, like L. Ron Hubbard says in Dianetics that over 1/2 of all mothers attempt to do to their children? Did your mother poke you with a hanger or a pencil in the womb.

Posted On: Saturday, Aug. 8 2009 @ 3:42PM
Nathan Dromedary says:

@ Kristin,

Yes, James did mention "implants". But your explanation of this Scientology term confuses it with "body thetans". While also alien in nature, implants are not body thetans.

In Scientology, implants refer to fraudulent belief structures that were 'implanted' into the thetans on Teegeack by Xenu.

The famous one is R6. R6 was the religion implant.

Scientology claims and Christianity, Islam and Judaism are not only false, but the product of malevolent alien brainwashing.

Scientology claims to be able to remove these implants.


Posted On: Sunday, Aug. 9 2009 @ 5:32PM
MJ says:

Hey Diane, yeah it IS James Lightfield's 'job' to comment on the internet on anything to do with scientology on the internet, in the news, on blogs everything. As I understand it scientology has a special operations team whose job it is to spam sites with ridiculous advertisements and praise for this cult. For a while I was seeing the same messages on the internet that all started with 'I'm no scientologist but...' and then mouths off a bunch of bull honkey about how 'unfair' all the criticism is. Often under different names. James, maybe you should try some different alias's buddy. And maybe get off the e-meter/ crazy train once in a while.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 10 2009 @ 2:40AM
blownforgood says:

James - it is funny you mention MKULTRA. The new Scilon E-Meter that you will have to buy soon is called the MK VIII ULTRA. Isn't that funny?

Yeah, the one you have been using has been known to be inferior by David Miscavige and he had the new meters made up 6 years ago. They have been sitting in a warehouse in downtown LA.

He is waiting to sell it to you and all of the other scilons until you buy up all the old crappy meters. As soon as the old ones are out of stock, he is going to tell you how wonderful the new one is.

The price to make the new meters is around $40 dollars, so when you see the sales price of $3500, that is based off of David pricing system to pay for the re-release the rest of the Bridge To Total Freedom.

Have a nice day!

Until next time...
BFG

Posted On: Saturday, Aug. 15 2009 @ 7:06PM
ibanez guitar says:

Thanks that was a interesting read!

Posted On: Sunday, Jan. 10 2010 @ 10:55AM

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