Russell Bellin: . ], [Petrolias vault entrance, farther along the road, inland from the previous image. [Paul Haggis, director of Crash, issues an ultimatum, leaves the church] "Just as you know this is simply the latest in his long string of harassment and stunts. [Scientology never forgets: A heartwarming telemarketing holiday miracle] A French woman tripped walking between the main production building to a building where staff lived. Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. "The more you scratch a mosquito bite the more it itches," Pope wrote. The Church of Spiritual Technology (CST) is a California 501(c)(3) . He found spiked "ultrabarrier" spiked fences, razor wire, motion detectors,infrared spotlights, and satellite dishes. [Scientology spokesman Tommy Davis secretly recorded discussing disconnection], [Benjamin Ring, LA deputy sheriff, wants you to spend your 401K on Scientology], [Scientologists: How many of them are there, anyway? In this case, Gill explains, a fellow member admitted to masturbating, and told his interrogators that the idea to do so had come into his head after Dylan Gill threw a condom at him. Jamie DeWolf | 23. The more important you are in the church, though, the more you learn. "Its even worse now. Several observers said that there was little love between the two. In 1986, CST's Articles of Incorporation were amended to clarify the "disposition of the corporation's assets upon dissolution". Scientologists are known to do that. 2023 Village Voice, LLC. I told him I understood that concept, but why the big logo visible from the air (which at that time was still being planned)? Starkey gave the property to the Church of Spiritual Technology in 1993. [Scientology dodges a bullet in Australia] | [Scientology exec Jan Eastgate arrested] It's meant for executives of the Church of Scientology who displeased David Miscavige. It is not clear what the purpose of the dishes is. Instead, Gill was telling me it was there to signal the wandering spirit of L. Ron Hubbard. Pope also noted pink ribbons. You may as well go on the mountain and get them in their natural environment, because Im the only one thats got that footage. When they leave, the church hits them with a bill for what they would have paid for the services at full price. CSTs estates secretary had been overseeing numerous construction projects at the headquarters, but he had run afoul of Scientologys top management. Janet Reitman | 14. [10][11] Former members claim that the purpose of CST's archival efforts is to ensure that Hubbard's work survive a nuclear apocalypse and reform civilization. Gill says that when he arrived in 1988, the guard shack had not yet been built. It's meant to "preserve and archive the Scientology scripture and so ensure its availability for all future generations,"according to the church. What I came up with was heated pathways. Shelly Miscavige was escorted to her fathers funeral in August 2007. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner ruled her death a suicide. This is an aerial view of the Twin Peaks, California, property owned by Scientology. Other ex-Scientologists tend to call the compound "Twin Peaks," which is the name of another nearby mountain village. Its still rare, however, to have a press interview with a former CST employee. Kendrick Moxon | 22. It was like a bankers box, and youd have a place to fill it with inert gas, like argon gas, he says. Plates etched, Compact discs copied. "In the years since, theyve planted things up even higher," Pope told INSIDER. As such, CST operates as the L. Ron Hubbard Library.[6]. Dave Touretzky | 25. Twin Peaks is an unincorporated community in San Bernardino County, California, United States, located on California State Route 189 2.5 miles . The 2014 Vanity Fair article says Miscavige was responsible for restructuring the upper levels of Scientology, but she told a former Scientology member at her father's funeral that she had "f----d up.". ], [The Wyoming complex is along Sweeney Ranch Road, south of the town of Rock Springs.]. Company: Church Of Spiritual Technology. I came to the [Rimforest] base, and I was escorted to a car, and was driven down to Happy Valley.. The titanium capsules were still in the planning stages, and much of CSTs work involved simply archiving all of Hubbards written and spoken words, organizing them, and xeroxing them on acid-free paper. I like Mike [Rinder], he says, referring to two of the most prominent former church executives in the independence movement. One way to look at Shelly's power is that she held watch over Tom Cruise, Scientology's most famous adherent. Building Information. She wasn't present at Tom Cruise's wedding to Katie Holmes in November 2006 and she didn't return letters sent to her for the holiday season. Located at 18749 First Avenue, Tuolumne serves as archival storage for the writings of L. Ron Hubbard. With $14 million in projects, he was being accused of vague problems with expense receipts but as weve heard from several former high-ranking officials, executives often found themselves sent to Happy Valley or a place called The Hole at Int Base for reasons that were hard to understand. Church of Spiritual Technology or CST in short is the part of Scientology that owns the rights to the works of L Ron Hubbard. "I guess that would be some sort of tribute to a woman. ", Letter by the Internal Revenue Service to Flemming Paludan, Regional Director, Danish Tax-Office, Washington, D.C., USA, December 22nd, 1993, Summary Description of Other Scientology Organizations - CST (Church of Spiritual Technology), Author's Family Trust, ASI (Author Services Inc.) - CSI Prod. The complex consists of multiple production buildings, barracks, and other structures. [Commenters of the Week] | [Thursday 2pm Stats!] According to the Los Angeles Times, the CST "is using state-of-the-art technology to protect Hubbard's writings, tape-recorded lectures and filmed treatises from natural and man-made calamities, including nuclear holocaust.". As at Rimforest, Tremintinas vault was in place, but was mostly empty. The conditions areharsh the windows and doors are barred, according to ex-Scientology members, and had to go through self-castigating punishments. Shelly Miscavige her real name is Michele rose through the ranks of thechurch along with David Miscavige and becamewhat Vanity Fair called "the First Lady of Scientology." I got a month and a half of MEST work, Gill says, which is Scientology jargon for hard labor. CST operates numerous bases throughout the western United States. the answer is the Stockholm Syndrome.". An aunt was the first to get into the church, he says, and then her husband, Gills uncle. Gill says its called the Ventilation House. Trementinas LRH House is some distance away, and is only one story. In 1988, the Daniels gave the property to Norman Starkey, trustee of "Author's Family Trust". He knew he wasnt supposed to, but he talked to her anyway. Scientology's Church of Spiritual Technology (CST), bought late actor Larry Hagman's massive Ojai, California estate for $5 million and converted it into it into a luxurious celebrity rehab center. [Desperate Scientology fundraising caught on video], The Ice May Be Synthetic, But the Dreams Are Real. This is the logo for the Church of Spiritual Technology, an arm of Scientology created in the early 1980s after the Internal Revenue Service revoked the group's tax-exempt status. And after a botched reorganization project in 2006, according to Vanity Fair, she disappeared from public life. Over time, Anonymous's persistent efforts against Scientology waned, but Pope kept going. [5], At the time of the filing for tax exemption, the following individuals held corporate positions at CST: The Board of Trustees was composed of John Allcock, David Lantz and Russell Bellin. Access is through a gated road and a private concrete airstrip, the San Miguel Ranch Airport (NM53). Your information will never be sold or otherwise given to a third party. As a kid, my own family used to go up to nearby Crestline to stay in a big, rustic old cabin. Thats where hes supposed to be raised and be taken care of, Gill says. CSTs specific duty, unique among Scientology Churches, is to create and maintain an archive of Scientology scripture for future generations. ], [CSTs complex lies just off Rim of the World Highway where it intersects with Lake Gregory Drive and Highway 189, called Squirrel Inn Road (this should get a chuckle from some readers Squirrel is Scientology jargon for heretic, and just about the worst thing you can call a church member. "For decades, Shelly Miscavige had been the First Lady of Scientology," Ned Zeman wrote Vanity Fair. "Just as you know this is simply the latest in his long string of harassment and stunts. [Scientologys West U.S. spies list revealed] | [Scientologys enemies list: Are you on it?] Journalists and former Church of Scientology members say she's in a compound owned by the church right outside of Twin Peaks, California, deep in the woods by Lake Arrowhead. Steve Hall, a former Scientologist who left the church in 2004 after spending the previous 17 years at its international management level as a senior writer of its marketing materials, spoke to Business Insider recently about where Shelly Miscavige might be. Naturally, people have made fun of the symbol, saying that it looked like it was intended to signal space aliens coming to Earth. Her mother died in 1985 under mysterious circumstances. The CST oversees the Scientology scriptural archiving project, which aims to preserve the works of Hubbard on stainless steel tablets and encased in titanium capsules in specially constructed vaults throughout the world. [Philip Boyd, Saving Grace actor, rips the business that is Scientology], [Our review of Inside Scientology] | [An interview with Janet Reitman] | [A report from Reitmans first book tour appearance] | [At the Half-King: Reitman not afraid] Hubbard, as shown in 1998 on ABC News 20/20: "Buried deep in these New Mexico hills in steel-lined tunnels, said to be able to survive a nuclear blast, is what Scientology considers the future of mankind," ABC's Tom Jarriel said in his report. Ken Dandar | 24. . Hubbard's taped lectures are recorded again into gold compact discs encased in glass.[8]. The priority when I was there was finishing the LRH House, he says. The Trementina location is supposedly a store for material written by L.R. We put in three to five miles of pathways connecting the dining area to the production building to the staff housing, using stamped concrete pathways with glycol hosing in it. [Ramana Dienes-Browning, marriage at 16, sexual interrogation, life in the engine room] He had to sign a bond promising that hed keep confidential anything that came out in those interrogations, which are known as sec-checking. When it came to CST executives, however, Morehead says he had to sign a second bond. Besides the hard labor, he was intensely interrogated, and in one of those sessions, he learned that he was being blamed for another persons crimes in this case, the crime of masturbation. Having it there was an enormous fire risk, Pope said. Mary Florence Barnett's body was found dead with three bullet holes in the chest from a rifle, one bullet hole in the head, and both of her wrists slashed. [17] Its founders included Meade Emory,[18] a non-Scientologist who used to work for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) but went into private practice as a tax lawyer. After he got away, his family disconnected from him. It is marked by a CST logo visible only from a high altitude and was built in the late 1980s. So the symbol is a way for a spirit to find its way back to where it belongs.. (Many of the videos are available on his YouTube page.). Top editors give you the stories you want delivered right to your inbox each weekday. "I had plenty of opportunities to witness them together and never, ever saw them affectionate with each other.". Jefferson Hawkins | 18. Real life Garmonbozia anyone? Since his last visit, it hasbecome harder to see inside the compound. I did my EPF, and thats when CMO picked me up, he says, referring to the Commodores Messenger Service, an elite group within the elite Sea Org that tends to be populated by young recruits. Tory Christman | 15. This agreement was subject to an additional "Option Agreement" between Hubbard, RTC and CST. A congressman, a 2020 Electoral College delegate, and three pundits go into a bar. All rights reserved. It was a huge deal. Reel-to-reel players, for example, and other devices that could make use of the things that would be stored. 14211 Twin Peaks Road. . Archaeological Investigations and Mitigation of Adverse Impacts at the Historic Squirrel Inn CA-Sbr-4731H, Feature H, Near Twin Peaks, San Bernardino County, California, Volume I (1989) Related Creators. He sees Scientology as a dying cult, and hewants to see its end during his lifetime. Where he was taken was a complex in the mountains above Los Angeles. Journalists and former Church of Scientology members say she's in a compound owned by the church right outside of Twin Peaks, California, deep in the woods by Lake Arrowhead. As soon as everybody was asleep, I left.. Its day-to-day activities are the long-term archival preservation methods to ensure that Mr. Hubbards written recorded works will be preserved for future generations. The website also states that the archive's purpose is to make available L. Ron Hubbard's technology in its exact and original form, no matter what happens to the society.[14], Additional archive sites exist in Tuolumne California[15] and Petrolia California.[16]. "Someone had put pink ribbons on the ultrabarrier, on the fencing," he told INSIDER. Under these agreements, RTC is forced to turn over 90% of its net income to CST. [When Scientology was hip] | [Sad: David Miscavige makes fun of his own fundraisers] Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. [Accidental leak shows Scientology spy wing plans to handle the Voice] "But the pope didnt drive around in a black SUV following me. But the highest levels of international management are housed at a secretive desert base near Hemet, about 85 miles east, which Scientologists call Int Base or Gold, because it houses Scientologys audiovisual studios, Golden Era Productions. But Miscavige's wife, Shelly Miscavige, hasn't been seen in public since 2007. CST also owns the copyrights to L.RonHubbards works and licenses their use. Garys a good guy. A runway for smaller airplanes is located on CST owned land in connection to the site. But he says he doesnt remember frightening Gill to the point of urinating. Once youre out, youre out. Other examples of trademarks and service marks owned by CST are The Way to Happiness and The Way to Happiness symbol. Your first step to find out more can be as simple as a free Personality test. ", "Other Scientologists do not know Twin Peaks even exists," Pope said. Now she's disappeared. It was pretty hard for me. Mention CST, and even longtime former members of the church admit that they knew almost nothing about it, or even where CSTs own super-secret headquarters was located. When the temperature dropped, it would pump heated glycol into the pathways and melt the snow, he says. CS Code: Operational Fixed Station - More Radio Licenses. I hadnt spoken to her in five or six months, he says. It's now easy to find his identity on the internet he's an animator who's worked on two Emmy Award-winning shows but Pope likes to wear the mask and keep up the alter ego to throw the Scientologists off. The Lady Washington Mine and two houses on 26.23 acres were purchased in 1988 by William and Donna Daniels. Its a huge door with a timelock on it. Land owned here by the Church of Spiritual Technology, was acquired from the Estate of Simona Padilla by Grant Deed dated 2/3/1984. Anyone coming from CST, it was very sensitive, says Gary Morehead, who was chief of security at Int Base and oversaw the interrogation of executives who had gone awry. . But the fact is that Shelly Miscavige hasn't been seen by anyone for years, even though she was the one who played matchmaker between Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes on behalf of the church, according to the Village Voice. This aerial view has notations by Angry Gay Pope. [4] The Bylaws of CST were signed on June 7, 1982, by its General and Special Directors, who were at that time Lyman Spurlock, Rebecca Pook, Maria Starkey, Stephen A. Lenske, Sherman D. Lenske and Lawrence A. Heller. The site is marked from the air with Church of Spiritual Technology double diamonds. Top editors give you the stories you want delivered right to your inbox each weekday. Church of Spiritual Technology (CST) is a California nonprofit religious corporation formed in 1982 to preserve and archive the Scientology scripture and so ensure its availability for all future generations. They call it "Twin Peaks.". In the production buildings, where the Hubbard archives were being handled, they had actually constructed full-blown clean rooms, the kind of thing you normally only expect at high-tech firms. Shortly after its inception, RTC received on May 16, 1982 "the ownership, supervision and control" of the trademarks and service marks, identifying "Scientology applied religious philosophy" and "Dianetics spiritual healing technology" by the originator and founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard through a so-called "Assignment Agreement". But I dont practice Scientology.. Church of Spiritual Technology CST Maps and oversight Church of Spiritual Technology CST Trademark Serial . as well as other partner offers and accept our, Scientology's little-known Church of Spiritual Technology, A 2014 Vanity Fair article referred to Shelly Miscavige. [Scientologists: How many of them are there, anyway?] About 120 miles east of Los Angelesnear Lake Arrowhead reportedly lies the Church of Spiritual Technology (CST). While every religion has its archives, some quite extensive and dating back two thousand years, nothing approaches the level of technology used in the preservation of L.RonHubbards works. But there was still much work to be done to them. How are Churches of Scientology supported financially? You also have the option of receiving more information on Scientology. The organization has edited together several negative videos about his network of lawyers and activists fighting the church. [Freedom magazine parodies The New Yorker. Notable residents. 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Steve Hall, a former Scientologist who left the church in 2004 after spending the previous 17 years at its international management level as a senior writer of its marketing materials, spoke with Business Insider about where Shelly Miscavige might be. After pissing himself, Gill relented and agreed to go into the Sea Orgs prison detail, the RPF and even, for a brief time, be assigned to the RPFs RPF a prison within a prison. Chairman of Religious Technology Center. Were they a memorial? He gave up any idea of getting back in the good graces of the church, even though that meant his family would continue to shun him. Everything about his job, Gill says, was done on an emergency basis; each new order had to be treated with even more urgency than the one before, whatever the expense. The organization has edited together, having clawed his way to the top with ruthless tactics and alleged violence, what Vanity Fair called "the First Lady of Scientology. The existence and founding of CST is intimately connected to the creation of the Religious Technology Center (RTC), which was incorporated on January 1, 1982. So at this point, the vaults themselves were empty. His father doesnt see him and doesnt see Gills children. Parallel and similar-sounding agreements between Hubbard, RTC and CST were created during that period concerning the so-called "Advanced Technology," which consists of unpublished derivatives of Scientology's confidential "Advanced technology". Thats when I figured out that, for me, my wife came before Scientology. The first time the Church of Spiritual Technology was mentioned publicly to Scientologists was by David Miscavige in 2000 at the New Year's event. Other ex-Scientologists tend to call the compound Twin Peaks, which is the name of another nearby mountain village. [Giovanni Ribisi as David Koresh: Scientology-Branch Davidian link makes sense] Gill didnt only oversee construction projects at CSTs Rimforest headquarters. Other Scientology organizations require all corporate officers to be Scientologists in good standing, along with Scientologist general directors and staff. ", "When I left the Catholic Church, my mom was upset, and I got a call from the local priest," Pope said. From our family-friendly Sunday Services to our growing Youth Ministry, TPCC has effectively shared God's Word . It was pretty arbitrary, he says. For a time, Gill paid towards his freeloaders debt. Scientologists who worked on staff would receive spiritual services auditing at discount rates. US. My aunt, the familys original Scientologist, suggested I go to the EPF at Flag, he says, referring to Estates Project Force, the sort of boot camp that new Sea Org members go through, at Flag, the churchs spiritual headquarters in Clearwater, Florida. Marty Rathbun | 4. CST does business as L. Ron Hubbard Library. He believes Shelly is at Scientology's little-known "Church of Spiritual Technology," a remote forest compound with prison-like security in Twin Peaks, Calif., near San Bernadino. Its set up so youll eventually fail, he says. ], [The entrance to the compound from Squirrel Inn Road. Attorneys for the church recently denied that she's missing, telling Us Weekly that Shelly Miscavige "is not missing. The first 98 feet from the entrance are improved, with a 10.5-foot domed ceiling. 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Theres an argon gas system that will flush out the air in the room in three seconds, he says. CST also owns the option to acquire RTC's rights to the Scientology advance[d] technology and religious marks under three narrowly defined sets of circumstances, each of which contemplates a serious threat to continued existence of the religion. Construction began on the property about 1984-1985, including a road to the site and preparation for the vault excavation. Like the Twin Peaks compound, it's secluded and secure. All moldy, and under tarps.. The disappearance of Shelly Miscavige continues to be a high-profile mystery for Scientology critics and former members. The compound is technically run by the Church of Spiritual Technology, a division of the Church of Scientology that ensures L. Ron Hubbard's writings will be preserved for millennia. [12][13] The church believes that these plates will last beyond a thousand years and that Hubbard's teachings will be vital for "rebuilding civilization," in the event of global turmoil. [An overhead view of the complex around the mine entrance, which is just south of the center of the image. As in the case with many other young church members, Gill soon started getting recruited for the hardcore Sea Org.
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