David Miscavige

Born in 1960, David Miscavige has been a Scientologist for most of his life and is still remembered as the 12-year-old prodigy who served as the youngest professional auditor at Saint Hill’s famed Hubbard Guidance Center in England.

He is further remembered for the fact that barely a year after entering the Scientology religious order, the Sea Organization, at the age of 16, he was among a handful of people selected to work directly with L. Ron Hubbard.  After personal instruction from Mr. Hubbard, the 17-year-old David Miscavige served as his Director of Photography for the first Scientology training films.

Later, at Mr. Hubbard’s request, Mr. Miscavige served as the senior executive supervising ecclesiastical missions to Scientology Churches around the world.  By the age of 18, David Miscavige had become the individual L. Ron Hubbard called upon to carry out the most important assignments. No Church executive in history ever received more direct communication from L. Ron Hubbard than Mr. Miscavige.

In 1983, L. Ron Hubbard described a heroic Church executive who cleaned the ranks of rogue staff attempting to seize control of Scientology while Mr. Hubbard was engaged in intensive research and absent from the Church. As Mr. Hubbard himself phrased it: 

“So forgive me for not managing the Church when it almost fell into hostile hands.  It all came out all right.  Why? Because real Scientologists made sure it did.  My faith was justified.”

That real Scientologist L. Ron Hubbard spoke of was David Miscavige.

In light of what had nearly transpired, L. Ron Hubbard requested a corporate reorganization of the Church designed to ensure the Church would not fall into hostile hands and the religion could move on into perpetuity—always remaining true to its Source teachings.  To that end, L. Ron Hubbard saw to the formation of Religious Technology Center to hold the Scientology and Dianetics trademarks and to preserve, maintain and protect the Scientology religion. He appointed Mr. Miscavige a Trustee of that Church organization.

To oversee his personal affairs for the remainder of his life, L. Ron Hubbard also appointed David Miscavige as chairman of the organization charged with handling those matters.

Following L. Ron Hubbard’s passing in 1986, it was Mr. Miscavige who steered Scientology through those difficult days; for as history demonstrates, the true test of any religion is to survive the passing of its Founder.  Indeed, it was Mr. Miscavige who secured that survival by obtaining full religious recognition in the United States and ushering Scientology onto the global stage.

Since then, Mr. Miscavige has steadfastly carried forth L. Ron Hubbard’s legacy, until Scientology now stands as the only major religion to emerge in this modern age.  To be sure, what Mr. Miscavige has done is no more or less than the fulfillment of L. Ron Hubbard’s vision—a vision he knew would be faithfully carried out with Mr. Miscavige at the helm.

“Trust and friendship are things forged in fire and pounded out on the anvil of life. We have been through a lot together. I trust you as you trust me.”

—L. Ron Hubbard to David Miscavige

Who is David Miscavige? - A Biography

DIANETICS IN THE 21ST CENTURY

In June 2009, Mr. David Miscavige announced the single most momentous advance in Dianetics technology since the day of its original publication on May 9, 1950.

It was a project personally overseen by Mr. Miscavige for the better part of four years and culminating in the release of materials that would make Dianetics universally accessible.

The goal: to provide every group, Mission and Scientology Church with the ability to deliver Dianetics counseling as L. Ron Hubbard originally intended.

Central to the advance was an audiovisual release that propels the subject and study of Dianetics into the 21^st century. Specifically, there are now 32 new films in 15 languages—a total of four and a half hours of visual instruction in the principles and procedures of Dianetics. >>

Who is David Miscavige? - A Biography

The True Face of Scientology

• 8,071 Scientology Churches, Missions and groups in 165 nations, doubled since 2004
• Total assets and property holdings of the Church of Scientology doubled since 2004
• Church premises increased from 5.6 million square feet to more than 11 million square feet since 2004
• 70 buildings acquired by the Church in the world’s major population centers since 2004
• 401,003 square feet of construction of new premises completed in the first half of 2009
• 500,000 square feet of Church premises currently under construction in Brussels, Rome, Tel Aviv, Quebec, Mexico City, Las Vegas and Washington, DC
• Number of individuals completing Dianetics and Scientology counseling and courses doubled in the past two years
• Total number of counseling hours doubled in the past decade
• Total number of people newly introduced to Scientology and starting on training or counseling doubled in the past five years
• L. Ron Hubbard awarded three Guinness World Records in the past three years:
  • Most published works by a single author: 1,084
  • Most audiobook titles on earth: 185
  • Most translated author in the world: 71 languages
• 80 million L. Ron Hubbard books and lectures on Dianetics and Scientology distributed in the last decade, compared to 5.6 million in the prior decade
• 60 million books and lectures distributed in the past two years—more than the combined total in the first 50 years of Dianetics and Scientology
• The Church’s Bridge Publications in Los Angeles and New Era Publications in Copenhagen combined production capabilities increased 660 percent since 2007
• Bridge Publications and New Era Publications established as the world’s largest all-digital, on-demand publishers, with combined capacity of 500,000 books per week (26 million per year) and 925,000 CDs per week (48 million per year)
• 2.4 million L. Ron Hubbard Dianetics and Scientology books placed in 97,997 libraries in 155 countries since July 2007
• 12.4 million online visitors from 234 countries viewed more than 23 million videos on the Scientology website in the past year

More in Freedom Magazine: David Miscavige: at the Helm of Scientology's Explosive Growth)

The True Face of Scientology

• 8,071 Scientology Churches, Missions and groups in 165 nations, doubled since 2004
• Total assets and property holdings of the Church of Scientology doubled since 2004
• Church premises increased from 5.6 million square feet to more than 11 million square feet since 2004
• 70 buildings acquired by the Church in the world’s major population centers since 2004
• 401,003 square feet of construction of new premises completed in the first half of 2009
• 500,000 square feet of Church premises currently under construction in Brussels, Rome, Tel Aviv, Quebec, Mexico City, Las Vegas and Washington, DC
• Number of individuals completing Dianetics and Scientology counseling and courses doubled in the past two years
• Total number of counseling hours doubled in the past decade
• Total number of people newly introduced to Scientology and starting on training or counseling doubled in the past five years
• L. Ron Hubbard awarded three Guinness World Records in the past three years:
  • Most published works by a single author: 1,084
  • Most audiobook titles on earth: 185
  • Most translated author in the world: 71 languages
• 80 million L. Ron Hubbard books and lectures on Dianetics and Scientology distributed in the last decade, compared to 5.6 million in the prior decade
• 60 million books and lectures distributed in the past two years—more than the combined total in the first 50 years of Dianetics and Scientology
• The Church’s Bridge Publications in Los Angeles and New Era Publications in Copenhagen combined production capabilities increased 660 percent since 2007
• Bridge Publications and New Era Publications established as the world’s largest all-digital, on-demand publishers, with combined capacity of 500,000 books per week (26 million per year) and 925,000 CDs per week (48 million per year)
• 2.4 million L. Ron Hubbard Dianetics and Scientology books placed in 97,997 libraries in 155 countries since July 2007
• 12.4 million online visitors from 234 countries viewed more than 23 million videos on the Scientology website in the past year

More in Freedom Magazine: David Miscavige: at the Helm of Scientology's Explosive Growth)

The Golden Age of Knowledge: David Miscavige Releases the Basic Books and Lectures of L. Ron Hubbard

In June 2007, Mr. David Miscavige announced the completion of a one-million man-hour project to restore all the basic books and lectures of Scientology and make them broadly available to the public.

To see these materials and learn what they contain, visit the web site of Bridge Publications for the Americas and Australia/New Zealand and Asia or New Era Publications for Europe and Africa

Mr. David Miscavige Announced the Complete Restoration and Release of the Clearing Congress Films

On 17 March, 2006, Mr. David Miscavige took the stage before a capacity house at Clearwater’s Performing Arts Center where Scientologists from all over the world had come, joined via telecast by tens of thousands more in every geographic zone to celebrate L. Ron Hubbard’s birthday, mankind’s greatest friend. What follows is an extract from this announcement of the completion of a monumental RTC-directed and supervised project to fully restore the LRH Clearing Congress films — a historic milestone for every Scientologist.

MR. DAVID MISCAVIGE: The final element of our LRH Birthday is something that has everything to do with not only what it means to be on-Source but, rather, the very means to be on-Source. >>