Why I left Scientology

 Why I left Scientology


Same as it ever was 

Open show with this. 

Paddy- twin?


02/04/24

What if debi opened with an incredible song… then into my bit. 

Just to set the mood.


Ok… start it off as a sort of , line in a hat.” But, instead, hand out a one question questionnaire, and Tha question would be, what would you like to know about what I know about Scientology. 

Add… and, I do not know if john travolta is gay.


The show opens with a question being drawn from the box. Before anything else is said, a question is read. And answered. (All off script, truth as recalled.)


"Then, there is the box in front of me, and you, it is 36 pounds of mail I got last year from the church of Scientology. 

They have called me more times than I care to remember. 

They ask if they could verify my address. 

I’d ask them what address they were using and then I’d validate whatever they said, because it wasn’t my address."


Then in March of 2023, after a conversation with the fabulous Laura Splotch, under the popup tent outside of Vini’s, getting ready to see Jaguar Bennett, she said that she might do a show that for next year.  I said I like to that too.

"What would your show  be about", she asked.

I turned and looked at her and said, "Why I left Scientology.”

I that I thought I’d write a version of my time in the church of Scientology and why it was that I left, in the best way I know how to explain.

I concluded that to answer that question,  why did  I leave, I had to explain why I joined.

Now during the show (for those of you who are reading this and not seeing it, this is a draft of an idea, so this "Explain to the audience (or not explain)" bit are notes to myself for the final draft, so...)  at a random moment,  a bell will chime and I’ll stop doing whatever I’m doing and draw another question from the box, answer it and then move on). 

(Pause…)


I do well with direction. 

“Why don’t you just tell me what movie you’d like to see?”. 

My father, navy vet of WWII, died when I was 12. 

Left was my mother,

Two sisters

1 "family engaged" grandmother. 


By the time I got to my mid to late teens to early 20’s I had, Acne.


OK, so dealing with the mail. Today five 2024. I’ve got about 25 pounds of mail that has been delivered to my house since March 2023. So what I can do is offer to anybody that wants to know more about Scientology an amount of mail, how much mail do you want? How much do you think you need.? How much? Do you need an ounce of mail?  Do you want a pound ? Do you want to take the whole box home and see if you too might be clear? 


Kind of a deal I think that would be a good bit to work and to the show or whatever the fuck it’s gonna be.

I don't write this, I don't perform this, because I still have deep connections to Scientology and though they are tenuous, a violation of Scientology's doctrine, could sever them entirely. It's not something I could live with.

Maybe one day someone will find this blog and read it and think t might make a good screenplay. Or maybe it will die with the internet being nothing more than a journal hiding in plain sight.


Well, if you are reading. I'll continue to write, because it helps.

Have a great new year, 2025 here, what year are you reading this?

Best

JA


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