If Miscavige were not suppressing the OT levels, and there were 10 times as many people doing OT 3 and NOTs, would there be more or fewer sick and dying people?
I've known several outside the CofS NOTs auditors who've become ill with cancer - usually in their 50s, and died. Even Bill Robertson, founder of the largest outside the CofS group (Ron's Orgs), died of cancer at age 55.
I can recall - before NOTs was developed, and before Miscavige came along - being surprised by the number of people, who had done OT 3, who were sick. This was rationalized, at the time, by me, as indicating either their PTSness (but, in retrospect, to whom? Hubbard?), or indicating the "power of the tech," and that a slight error could be dangerous or deadly in such powerful tech. Afterall, this was the tech that was removing the final barrier to full OT and actually making full OTs - meaning OTs who could do things, travel anywhere n the universe, move physical objects with intention, heal at a distance, or even let loose with a lightening bolt, if necessary, to handle an SP.
Sounds silly doesn't it? It was silly.
But that's the way it was.
In the mid 1960s, after the release of the Clearing Course (with tremendous fanfare), it was promoted and believed that this would remove the final barrier to full OT, and if anyone can locate 'Success Stories' from that time, it was typical for a new 'Clear' to believe that he/she was "just around the corner" from becoming full OT. There was, after all, no more Bank, and now it was simply a matter of drilling OT abilities, such as in 'Route 1' from 'Creation of Human Ability'.
John McMaster became the "first real Clear," and toured, including making TV appearances. He made a very good impression and brought thousands of people into Scientology.
http://forum.exscn.net/showpost.php?p=347640&postcount=4
I've heard that some time later, Hubbard issued certs for himself and had them posted on the wall at St. HIll, announcing that he was - really - the first real Clear. That his becoming Clear preceded McMaster's. A minor detail, but curious, as around the same time Hubbard released OT 2 - which looked like the Clearing Course part two. (Thus taking the wind, somewhat, out of McMaster's sails.)
Soon after came OT 3, and Hubbard revised his theories further (in the Class 8 course), explaining that the Clearing Course, OT 2, and OT 3, were different phases of the Incident 2 from 75 millions years ago, and that the dates on CC and OT 2 were implanted (false) dates, the actual date being 75 million years ago. (Incident 1, of course, was 4 quadrillion years ago.)
Meanwhile, dedicated upper level Scientologists were doing their best to avoid the "agonized (trillions of years) future" depicted by Hubbard in his 'KSW' of 1965, and, with non-manby pamby fixed glare, progress on his "Bridge to Total Freedom."
Here are some views of someone who was on the original Class 8 course:
http://forum.exscn.net/showpost.php?p=77530&postcount=18
Just posting this, as some info, for anyone who may believes that the main problem is that "tech is out in Orgs."