The one thing Hubbard could not stand was if someone displayed abilities or was successful to a point where they "dimmed his own light"
In about 1966, Beth Fordyce submitted a report on her use of "Book of Case Remedies". This was highly acclaimed, Hubbard awarded her a Doctorate of Scientology and there was a front page spread all about her in the Auditor issue. Beth worked at a E.US org and her fame grew as she was acknowledged far and wide.
Hubbard was clearly upset by all this praise for her and set about undermining her and destroying her reputation. Within a couple of years she was a declared SP.
John MacMaster, the first Clear, was hailed everywhere he went. He enthralled and inspired audiences all over the world. He was a huge Scientology celebrity. Hubbard saw him as a threat to his own "aura" and set about destroying him. He was, of course, declared SP.
Beth Fordyce, after seeing this thread and the above post sent her own and quite different view of the events alluded to above to a freezone friend. I've re-posted the relevant remarks here with her permission as she is not interested in joining ESMB at this time.
Mark A. Baker
p.s. Beth doesn't post here but has indicated her openness to questions and discussion with old friends. Contact info is available by pm'ing me.
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My goodness, what a surprise! Looks like I finally got my 15 minutes of fame!
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Interesting site, I must say. I cannot quite agree with that person's opinion of what occurred with me because, in my own opinion and the facts bear me out, that was not the reason I was declared an SP.
The reason, so far as I could make out, was a jealous and aggressive/suppressive-type person (Donna Reeve) in the Detroit area who was determined to declare me--the several reasons given were not factual—in fact, one stated reason/action was done by another person who spoke up and said she had done it.
I was railroaded, no doubt, because a person (Ruth Poris) on the Com-Ev wrote me later and apologized for being party to it—then she died shortly after, so apparently she was getting her life in order before she left. I really don't see how Ron could have had anything to do with that entire episode.
On the surface, Ron awarded me with the Doctorate so why would he then not approve his own decision? He was the one who arranged for that data and my picture to be put in The Auditor, and there was also an HCOB about it. It looked to me to be more of a point of information for people.
The fact is that I really didn't gain that much fame from it—not from my own viewpoint. Also never got any PCs from it, which is probably the best way to judge that type of situation.
I am not looking at any of the past with rose-colored glasses and I can recognize that Ron had two sides—as does everyone else, for that matter. I was never closely connected to him, since I was out in the field as we called it, so therefore I did not personally see or experience many of the negative things about which I have heard. Because of that, and because I have used the Scn tech to rid myself of all negative-type stuff, I hold no animosity toward Ron—or anyone else. That's the IS-NESS of it!
I gained a tremendous amount of wins from Ron's materials, in fact much more than I felt he was offering. I feel his materials have had much to do with my continuing to live so well and healthier to this ripe old age of 87, here in 2009. As a matter of interest, when I joined Scientology, I got up off a death bed to do so. Therefore, I'm not very interested in knocking success!
By the way, I am still assisting/volunteering my services to help the psych student at a local college run the first 2 TRs in his classes.
Just finished the last one of 3 classes for this month's term. The student is a person to whom I taught the TRs when he was about 17 or 18 years old--about 30
years ago. Looks like I must have done a good job with the teaching!
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I have a bit of data that perhaps others do not know, John McMaster created and developed the PrPr processes. I know because he was in good comm with a Clear friend of mine who lives in Scotland, and there was much discussion about that.
If you care to forward this email data to that site, it's okay with me, as it never hurts to put a bit of truth into disorder. I could send it myself, but I'm no longer interested in hashing over those days as I'm totally free of them.