CarmeloOrchards
Crusader
Re: The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973
Before I heard of Scientology, I was accustomed to putting my feet on the wood stove while French toast and coffee were being made (on it). I think the stove came, with my great grandfather, around the "Horn" in 1860. The pantry off the kitchen, was designed to always be chilly. My great grandfather, whose name I bear, built the house. My daughter, when she was two, helped me reroof it. It's a steep roof, and she handed me nails, as I put on a new shingle roof three decades ago. The roof has held up 150 years, and my particular roof is still in good shape.
[video=youtube;kzldLJcorbo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzldLJcorbo&feature=related[/video]
I would never change the way I was brought up, i.e.. driving tractors at age three, collecting eggs every day, working in the barn, fixing the tractors and disks, getting the blacksmith forge going with coal, and hammering red hot metal on the anvil.
The cultural undercurrent, so far as I remember, in Scientology, was ALWAYS Domination and Submission. If you were an auditor, you had more prestige. LRH was the top banana. He said things that you were supposed to buy into.
I didn't buy it all from the start.
Before I ran into Scientology, I ran into Alan Watts, Aldous Huxley, D.T. Suzuki, the i Ching, Jean Paul Sartre, to name a few.
Probably the biggest influence wasn't a philosopher or book. There was a rock and roll band from Liverpool, that had an enormous effect on me. I don't think our family ever had a color TV before I moved out, so I must have watched this world wide live event in black and white, but it didn't alter the magic. I used to run to and from high school in my barefeet singing this song to myself.
[video=youtube;r4p8qxGbpOk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4p8qxGbpOk[/video]
One night (it is as clear today, as it was then) sitting in my room, I realized that love was the most important thing for me. It has taken me nearly fifty years to refine my definition of love to what I mean today, but that vision of me in relation to others was so large and encompassing, that nothing has ever come close to supplanting it.
When I read that survival was the basic motivation, I thought, "That's bullshit."
I thought Scientology was a developing science, and would catch up to me on that.
When I met John McMaster in 1969, There was a guy, who understood love. That man was the personification of a spiritual being. I didn't have enough tech training under my belt yet, to know he developed the power processes. I just knew he was beautiful. He gave me a look, across a room, that bowled me over with its power and love. My girl friend, standing right next to me, looked at me and said, "What did you do to deserve THAT?" I've never had an answer, but it sure was nice.
As I would never choose, not to have been raised on a working farm, I would never choose not to have done grade 6, the Clearing Course, and the briefing course. Those changed, enhanced,and gave me foundation for this life and many more to come. I have changed many people's lives and loves from those things I learned.
When I was done with the briefing course, I was, once again, hooked up with the girl, who had been my girl friend, when I got involved with Scientology.
She hooked up with me in Los Angeles, while she was married (to the brother of the girl, whose picture is with my paragraph on John McMaster). We kissed in the May Company parking garage, and she went home to Northern California. After a few months of torrid letters, she came back down to LA, we lived together, and then we moved back home to Nor Cal. She would sit in the yard and paint ( she's an artist), while I would go off every day, and fix tractors. It was idyllic.
[video=youtube;A3yt2aH42JE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3yt2aH42JE&feature=related[/video]
It wasn't much later, when prices, in Scientology started rising 10% per month. Not being too stupid, I knew who was raising the prices, but not why.
I hadn't any interest in further OT levels (not at all happy with OT3) or the Class Vlll course (I wasn't enamored with "Standard Tech")
It was getting close to the time for my Scientology involvement to end. Greed, as a company policy, wasn't what I wanted to be associated with.
[video=youtube;vdB-8eLEW8g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdB-8eLEW8g&feature=related[/video]
[video=youtube;rp2Jn5ttlac]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp2Jn5ttlac[/video]
Before I heard of Scientology, I was accustomed to putting my feet on the wood stove while French toast and coffee were being made (on it). I think the stove came, with my great grandfather, around the "Horn" in 1860. The pantry off the kitchen, was designed to always be chilly. My great grandfather, whose name I bear, built the house. My daughter, when she was two, helped me reroof it. It's a steep roof, and she handed me nails, as I put on a new shingle roof three decades ago. The roof has held up 150 years, and my particular roof is still in good shape.
[video=youtube;kzldLJcorbo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzldLJcorbo&feature=related[/video]
I would never change the way I was brought up, i.e.. driving tractors at age three, collecting eggs every day, working in the barn, fixing the tractors and disks, getting the blacksmith forge going with coal, and hammering red hot metal on the anvil.
The cultural undercurrent, so far as I remember, in Scientology, was ALWAYS Domination and Submission. If you were an auditor, you had more prestige. LRH was the top banana. He said things that you were supposed to buy into.
I didn't buy it all from the start.
Before I ran into Scientology, I ran into Alan Watts, Aldous Huxley, D.T. Suzuki, the i Ching, Jean Paul Sartre, to name a few.
Probably the biggest influence wasn't a philosopher or book. There was a rock and roll band from Liverpool, that had an enormous effect on me. I don't think our family ever had a color TV before I moved out, so I must have watched this world wide live event in black and white, but it didn't alter the magic. I used to run to and from high school in my barefeet singing this song to myself.
[video=youtube;r4p8qxGbpOk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4p8qxGbpOk[/video]
One night (it is as clear today, as it was then) sitting in my room, I realized that love was the most important thing for me. It has taken me nearly fifty years to refine my definition of love to what I mean today, but that vision of me in relation to others was so large and encompassing, that nothing has ever come close to supplanting it.
When I read that survival was the basic motivation, I thought, "That's bullshit."
I thought Scientology was a developing science, and would catch up to me on that.
When I met John McMaster in 1969, There was a guy, who understood love. That man was the personification of a spiritual being. I didn't have enough tech training under my belt yet, to know he developed the power processes. I just knew he was beautiful. He gave me a look, across a room, that bowled me over with its power and love. My girl friend, standing right next to me, looked at me and said, "What did you do to deserve THAT?" I've never had an answer, but it sure was nice.
As I would never choose, not to have been raised on a working farm, I would never choose not to have done grade 6, the Clearing Course, and the briefing course. Those changed, enhanced,and gave me foundation for this life and many more to come. I have changed many people's lives and loves from those things I learned.
When I was done with the briefing course, I was, once again, hooked up with the girl, who had been my girl friend, when I got involved with Scientology.
She hooked up with me in Los Angeles, while she was married (to the brother of the girl, whose picture is with my paragraph on John McMaster). We kissed in the May Company parking garage, and she went home to Northern California. After a few months of torrid letters, she came back down to LA, we lived together, and then we moved back home to Nor Cal. She would sit in the yard and paint ( she's an artist), while I would go off every day, and fix tractors. It was idyllic.
[video=youtube;A3yt2aH42JE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3yt2aH42JE&feature=related[/video]
It wasn't much later, when prices, in Scientology started rising 10% per month. Not being too stupid, I knew who was raising the prices, but not why.
I hadn't any interest in further OT levels (not at all happy with OT3) or the Class Vlll course (I wasn't enamored with "Standard Tech")
It was getting close to the time for my Scientology involvement to end. Greed, as a company policy, wasn't what I wanted to be associated with.
[video=youtube;vdB-8eLEW8g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdB-8eLEW8g&feature=related[/video]
Carmelo ... give that gorgeous loved dog a huge kiss from me and please, accept a little one yourself.
[video=youtube;rp2Jn5ttlac]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp2Jn5ttlac[/video]
