In S03E05 at 32:40 talking with Tom DeVocht the idea that Shelly might be waiting for LRH to return is brought up as a reason why she might stay there. But my sense is that she is motivated as much if not more by a loyalty to the people working under her. This isn’t a contradiction because Hubbard ingrained the idea that as an executive or leader it was your responsibility to take good care of your juniors and by virtue of those being Sea Org crew you were also serving Hubbard.
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Good post! A credible scenario.
I once gave a moment's thought to what Shelly thinks she is doing within Scientology and instantly concluded that she does not conceive herself to be under any kind of restricted movement or incarceration.
Then I gave another two seconds consideration to "WHAT WAS SHELLY'S R-FACTOR?" before she journeyed off of Scientology's front lines and into her virtual "nobody knows where I am" Bluebird Motorhome mode. That was a really simple thing to figure out.
Had I been COB I would have simply "briefed" her on a scenario where it was a TOP SECRET PROTECTIVE MECHANISM that came from LRH himself, wherein Scientology had to be protected from suppressive governmental agencies that were trying to destroy it. That's how and why there are so many dozens of different incorporations and legal entities within Scientology (IAS, RTC, CMO, COS, et al).
Shelly would be informed that there were plans afoot to attack the church's non-profit status and demand billions in tax fraud reparations, effectively eviscerating the church's financial, legal and corporate resources---and forcing it to close its doors.
However. . .
Shelly would be a key player in protecting all that Ron and the Sea Org had fought so valiantly for---in order to help the planet achieve a world without war, insanity and criminality.
Shelly would be "in charge" of a protective (but secret to all Scientologists) corporate entity that would be so off line, so "fabian", so brilliantly conceived---that even if all the other dozens of corporate entities were "shattered" by evil enemies, this Shelly-run entity would survive the nuclear destruction and emerge with all the tech under a different banner.
What a glorious, noble and romantically humanitarian role for Scientology's first lady!!!
Shelly can save the planet too!
"Oh my goodness, thank you Dave", Shelly tearfully exclaimed, "I had always hoped and prayed and postulated that you would flow power to me like this and allow me the honor of helping you and Ron to salvage this sector! I cannot thank you enough"
With that Shelly and her modestly sized suitcase of all MEST possessions would then be stealthily brought to her new hiding places. Plural, not just one.
In this way, Shelly would take a HUGE WIN on the fact that no WOG and no SCIENTOLOGIST could ever, ever, ever learn what she was really doing, where she was or what she knew.
That "briefing" by COB would have taken about 30-45 minutes, and a VVGIs Shelly would have been routed off his lines for eternity, and he would not even be a minute late for his evening scotch session.
CULTS: They are stupid. They are insane. But they are that way because the leader
makes cult members stupid and insane. That is the whole point.