Listening to early tapes you can observe how Ron waffled back and forth from the victim viewpoint to the Cause and Responsibility viewpoint. One would hear laughter as incidents were described and the audience was made to understand that the PC had done all of these terrible implants to other beings and to bodies on the opposite flow. Not too serious about serious somatics turning on was LRH. Rolling with the flow.
Slowly the lectures changed and began to include stories of the saboteurs and secret counter-intentions. He had to know that his congregation was having some mental dissonance regarding abandoning the idea of total responsibility for one's case. I'm sure Ron knew this was his own case he was dramatizing. He had thought in 1952 that different beings presented themselves into this universe at different times. Now all of a sudden we all had a similar Inc I, and we all had an Inc II. :confused2: He probably knew better. But his mock up of being the Commodore with the Sea Org needed that background story.
Back in the 80s David Mayo remarked that OT III had become an embarrassment for the C of S that they didn't know what to do with. From what I saw at the AAC he included some advanced level VII techniques to be used in level III solo sessions. Buttons to check and handlings that dealt with BTs not blowing on the INC II Xenu story.
While in Santa Barbara there was a young man, Steve Ayres, on OT III. He was part of the original clique who set up housing for those leaving the C of S with David and Julie. He was with DeDe Reisdorf and Ken Urquhart and John Nelson and Larry Little. From something he said while getting himself coffee in the kitchen when his folders were brought to him I got the impression that he was privy to using NOTS solutions to OT III glitches coming up in his session.
In my last D of P with David he said I'd be doing OT III as my next step when I returned and then NOTS where he 'knew' my complaint would be finally handled. He told me that my "problem was with another
person." (not incarnate) I knew that, but doing III did not indicate at all.
In what he said I got the distinct impression that once
paying my dues to get on OT III so as
not to violate group expectations, he could C/S me using what he knew would
bite. Everyone's jobs there at the AAC were dependent on the new arrivals who were still demanding a standard bridge. He would not let these people down. But believe you me, once you got to 'ownership processing' he did not consider it a violation to give you the indications you needed. Nobody need know you weren't sticking to the Galactic Confederation 'script' carved in granite. This attitude probably contributed to there being no alliance with CBR's group in Europe.