Over the Edge: A Pawn in the Scientology Money Machine by Kay Rowe

Author:Kay Rowe [Rowe, Kay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-04T07:00:00+00:00

Falling from IAS Grace –But Not from Fundraising

Dismissed from the IAS, I was made the head of the Planetary Dissemination Unit for the western U.S. — one of the various units housed in the church’s continental management office in Los Angeles. I would hold this position for nearly two years: April ’06 to February ’08. The person I replaced took over my former IAS position.

Just as a quick aside, leaving the IAS meant that my personal income would now be less, so I called my creditors to inform them that I was no longer able to make my payments. Ironically, most of the credit card debt I’d racked up was from personal donations to the IAS.

Getting back to my move to a new position, the rumor that I’d been booted out of the IAS for making a fuss about interference with my personal life followed me to my new post. Though I managed to hold onto the job, I was held in contempt within the organization, and life became more and more unbearable.

Shortly after I settled into the new job, there was a norovirus outbreak among the local Scientology staff. We ended up with more than two hundred people ill (out of approximately five hundred). After the outbreak, I was wrongly accused of being treasonous; I’d allegedly failed to report myself as ill, and thereby spread the virus.

Since I had no means of defense, and no one was willing to hear me out, I decided to take matters into my own hands and investigate the outbreak on my own, in hopes of learning something I might be able to present in my defense. I called the local medical clinic that served our staff (headed by a Scientologist) and asked a few questions of the person who answered the phone. She mentioned my call to the Scientologist doctor who ran the office, and she then reported me to someone at the church. I was hauled in for a dose of screaming and scathing contempt by two of the local senior executives. They commented on my recent, alleged transfer-in-disgrace, and increased the penalties I’d already been assigned for my “treasonous” behavior.

Sometime later, I was sent off to a convention in Clearwater, Florida, where newly re-packaged editions of L. Ron Hubbard’s books and lectures were to be released. The Planetary Dissemination Org’s involvement included sales of the materials, and fundraising — securing donations to place LRH materials in public libraries around the world. The event lasted several days, with intense pressure to make sales and donation quotas, long hours on my already-damaged feet, and very little sleep.

By the end of the convention, I could barely walk, and had great difficulty opening and closing my hands. I traveled back to LA, arriving in the evening and heading straight to bed. I’d just settled in when I was called to a mandatory staff meeting. There the West U.S. Continental Commanding Officer berated various staff in front of the whole group for insufficient contribution to the new-materials project.

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