Scientology holidays opened at Saint Hill Manor in 1967. Celebrates the opening of the Flag Land Base in Clearwater, Florida in 1975. This is the only secular and non-Hubbard-based observance on the official Scientology calendar, which states ""This event welcomes in the new year with a review of accomplishments over the previous year and a look forward to the upcoming year and plans for further reach into new areas of society with L. Ron Hubbard’s technology. Stellar accomplishments of Scientology parishioners helping new people to move up The Bridge to Total Freedom are acknowledged."" Additionally, many more anniversaries of notable events in
The Scandal of Scientology started collecting everything I could get my eager hands on — magazine articles, newspaper clippings, government files, anything." Later, when "A Piece of Blue Sky" was dropped from Amazon.com listings in a controversial move, this was compared to court actions that initially limited distribution of "The Scandal of Scientology". J. Gordon Melton recommended reading both Cooper's book and the church's refutation, "False Report Correction/The Scandal of Scientology by Paulette Cooper", for "insight" into the Scientology controversy in his 1978 work, "The Encyclopedia of American Religions". The Scandal of Scientology The Scandal of Scientology is a critical exposé book about the