posted by Hoaxy
Blinded with injured optic nerves, and lame with physical injuries to hip and back, at the end of his active Sea Org tours, Comrade Rathbun faced an almost non-existent future. His service record states: "This officer has no neurotic or psychotic tendencies of any kind whatsoever," but it also states "permanently disabled physically.
And so there came a further blow, Marty was abandoned by family and friends as a supposedly hopeless cripple and a probable burden upon them for the rest of his days. Yet, Comrade Rathbun worked his way back to fitness and strength in less than two years, using only what he knew about Man and his relationship to the universe. He had no one to help him--what he had to know, he had to find out. And it's quite a trick studying, when he cannot see! He became used to being told that it was all impossible, that there was no way, no hope. Yet, using what he discovered in his research into the human mind and spirit, Comrade Rathbun miraculously came to see again and walk again.
And, by further applying the principles he researched & developed, Comrade Rathbun became a rich man--after which he turned his inestimable talents to Humanitarian endeavors--beginning with a series of self-funded, self-help videos which he posted for free on the Internet, in order to help mankind to, like himself, rise above the human condition on this planet."