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Patron Meritorious
It is taught in Dianetics/Scientology that in order to get something to "blow" one needs to examine the earliest incident on a "chain". Thus let me examine my earliest experiences in Scn and the effects those incidents had.
Hello. My name is Gene Trujillo. I am 46 years old. I was first introduced to Scn in 1990 at the U-Way Mission in the U-District (basically composed of Tess Runyon, Brad Colling, and Brent Johnson) where I was body routed in at the age of 22. I stayed in and on Class V org staff for 11 years. I got out in 2001 - asked in a rollback session whether I wanted to continue supporting a management I knew by then to be corrupt and not reflecting my own values, or whether I wanted to leave. I chose leaving.
But that is the end of the story, and this is the beginning.
I was always interested in philosophy and the nature of reality. I had just lost my job a couple of weeks earlier so I was running low on money, so I bought a cheap course out of the Volunteer Minister's Handbook wherein I studied the Eight Dynamics.
I was really impressed with it because it said an optimum solution was one that took each dynamic into account. That made sense to me, I had seen groups that were too oriented towards the group, I had seen people who were selfishly too oriented towards themselves and not towards others, I knew that not enough attention was paid to the overall condition of life on the planet. Wow, a group that tries to take every aspect of life into account, what a concept!
Based on my excitement with the course and the fact that I was out of work, I was quickly recruited for staff. It wasn't exactly what I was looking for but they offered me a position in Treasury and I needed accounting skills because I knew I would have my own business one day. They told me they wouldn't make me rich but being only 22 I didn't need to be rich, I just needed my basic life needs met.
I told Tess Runyon, the main person recruiting me, that I was leery of the proportionate pay plan but I only needed $200/week - a fairly trivial sum I couldn't imagine any business not being able to afford proportionate pay or not - so I could pay my rent in a few weeks and be able to feed myself. She told me that $200 per week shouldn't be any problem at all because I was going to be an executive!
I was very excited. I could learn philosophy that takes all dynamics into account, be an executive, gain accounting skills, and be able to support myself - what could possibly go wrong?
Hello. My name is Gene Trujillo. I am 46 years old. I was first introduced to Scn in 1990 at the U-Way Mission in the U-District (basically composed of Tess Runyon, Brad Colling, and Brent Johnson) where I was body routed in at the age of 22. I stayed in and on Class V org staff for 11 years. I got out in 2001 - asked in a rollback session whether I wanted to continue supporting a management I knew by then to be corrupt and not reflecting my own values, or whether I wanted to leave. I chose leaving.
But that is the end of the story, and this is the beginning.
I was always interested in philosophy and the nature of reality. I had just lost my job a couple of weeks earlier so I was running low on money, so I bought a cheap course out of the Volunteer Minister's Handbook wherein I studied the Eight Dynamics.
I was really impressed with it because it said an optimum solution was one that took each dynamic into account. That made sense to me, I had seen groups that were too oriented towards the group, I had seen people who were selfishly too oriented towards themselves and not towards others, I knew that not enough attention was paid to the overall condition of life on the planet. Wow, a group that tries to take every aspect of life into account, what a concept!
Based on my excitement with the course and the fact that I was out of work, I was quickly recruited for staff. It wasn't exactly what I was looking for but they offered me a position in Treasury and I needed accounting skills because I knew I would have my own business one day. They told me they wouldn't make me rich but being only 22 I didn't need to be rich, I just needed my basic life needs met.
I told Tess Runyon, the main person recruiting me, that I was leery of the proportionate pay plan but I only needed $200/week - a fairly trivial sum I couldn't imagine any business not being able to afford proportionate pay or not - so I could pay my rent in a few weeks and be able to feed myself. She told me that $200 per week shouldn't be any problem at all because I was going to be an executive!
I was very excited. I could learn philosophy that takes all dynamics into account, be an executive, gain accounting skills, and be able to support myself - what could possibly go wrong?