I'm not fully following your gist re: Otto. Per the
story that he wrote: "There were lots of, what was later labeled, "discreditable" reads. This was what R 2-12 and Tiger Drilling had been all about and it certainly was n't something the FESers attached any further significance to than noting it down for future handling."
So if those weren't being called R\S'es, then what is the real story?
Maybe I have a crashing MU here. In 1962 Rock slame were used in GPM tech, circa 1962. See tech dict.
Not discreditable.
Just found this fascinating post from Ken Urquhart on ACT google archives.
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Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 20:24:24 -0500
From: "Kenneth G. Urquhart" <
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Subject: Re: LRH the ideal pc (fwd)
Homer W. Smith wrote:
> We are having a discussion elsewhere where someone said that LRH was an
> ideal pc because he knew so much about the mind.
> Anyone wish to comment on this?
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LRH was the only person on auditing lines at Flag, either on the ship
or at Clearwater, who did not have a full Folder Error Summary done
on his folder, with all errors detected and corrected.
This just happens to be what we used to call Gross Out-Tech.
In view of the nature and extent of his auditing up to and including
hundreds of hours on GPMs, we really goofed it on him.
The one person who tried to do something about it, Otto Roos, landed
himself in deepest shit when LRH found out it was being done. Otto
unfortunately did not lock away the work he was doing on the LRH
Folder Error Summary and so a messenger was able to get hold of it
and bring it to LRH. When he opened it up (a stupidity on his own
part) he found there were in it lists of "Rock Slams" taken from
the GPM sessions. In the days when GPMs were run, Rock Slams were
expected; whether they were valid R/Ses (ie the auditor had the
ability to tell what was an R/S and what wasn't, and could tell
what they were reading on when they occurred [if they did]) we
now can't tell. However, when he opened his FES and read it he
came across lists of these real or supposed R/Ses. Now, he had
not long begun an action of 'weeding out' from the ship's crew
anybody who had List One R/Ses (ie R/Ses on LRH, MSH, or Scn or
Dn) so the shock to him must have been considerable. He did not
stop to consider what the reality might be regarding the listed
R/Ses, but exploded in fury.
Otto was summoned, and, although I can't blame him for how he
handled it, since LRH in fury is one thing, but LRH in fury and
dramatizing session by-passed charge out of session would be
just about unhandlable. Anyway, Otto chose to handle it with
TRO, and did not make any of the indications of BPC that he
might have. The final result was that he was soon kicked off
the ship, and the LRH FES was dropped. Since I was the one who
held the key to the cabinet in which LRH's folders had been
filed, and I had given the folders to Otto, I expected to
follow him swiftly but I didn't, for some reason.
LRH did years and years of research--solo auditing himself on
OT levels up to (he told me) about 85--over all that BPC,
including hours and hours of listing on extremely heavily
charged areas.
He also lived and worked over that charge..
I do not think he was an ideal pc. There were two regular auditors
he had that I remember, on the ship. One was David Mayo. I do not
know of any trouble that David had, and indeed, from his own story,
David saved LRH's life and helped develop NOTs. I was not in
California when that took place, and have no direct knowledge of
that.
There was one time in the early seventies when he had not been well.
A woman auditor was sent up to give him a session. A few moments
after she took him into session he started yelling. He did not
stop yelling for the rest of the session, I think it was about an
hour. Mayo (who was C/Sing at the time) eventually went into the
auditing room and took over. I never asked what had been going on;
we all just assumed that the first auditor had really goofed it
up. But years later it occurred to me that perhaps she had just
been doing a good job of trying to get his ruds in so she could
give him a session, and was sticking to her guns. I can't say
what it was--only David could, by now, I should say.
To what extent any difficulty he had with being in session had to
do with known withholds and with unhandled session and program
errors, I can't say. From what I know of him I would say that it
would have been uncharacteristic of him to knowingly withhold in
session from an auditor he trusted (I think he trusted Mayo); he
knew only too well what that does to a pc); so I would be inclined
to lean towards the unhandled FES as the source of most of any
difficulty he might have had.
We know from the products of his actions that he was subject to
aberrated ideas and feelings that did not get brought to light
and handled in his sessions, or anywhere else.
I must say that all those of us who were around him are culpable
to a large degree for not applying to him his own technology.
I very often saw him get upset and be extremely angry; he could
be extremely critical of others behind their backs; yet neither
I nor anyone else confronted him with these evidences of out-
ethics on his own part. We all knew the manifestations of missed
withholds, of overts, of MUs, and we did not even think that we
should sit him down and help him come clean. We didn't view L. Ron
Hubbard as a creature to whom such things would be done. I don't
think he wanted to be viewed like that and I'm sure he would have
screamed blue murder if we had, but we might have clearer
consciences had we at least made the attempt. But I should speak
for myself, not for others, and this is how I feel about that.
He knew better as well as we.
We'll do better in the future.
Hope this forwards the discussion a bit.
KG