Prt 2 Ethics Course & How I did NOT Become a Scn'ist
To clarify, while thinking on this last night, I remembered I had read about scn once before, in the book "What Ever Happened to the Class of '65". My friend and I had both read and really liked that book BEFORE we'd even met each other. One of the 65 grads interviewed for that book was in scn after high school, and in the SO - too. The book wasn't flattering, but not denigrating to scn - either. It was a very small part of the book - not something I or my friend ever discussed, or really thought about when that book came up in conversation. Maybe that is why it slipped my mind. It came back last night, because I was thinking of how scn has just dogged me most of my adult life - Oh yeah, there was that book, Class of '65 - THAT was the very first bite. . . I'd forgotten about that.
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I started the Ethics Course. Now I may be a bit confused here. When I first started thinking back on this, I thought maybe I'd done a course on SPs/PTS -- too -- BEFORE the Ethics Crs ?? Is there such a course? But then I started thinking - Nooo - that was probably IN the Ethics Course - because I got all re-stimulated in that course - AND - I can remember being confused with the course - Why are we talking (figuratively speaking) about SPs and PTS in an ETHICS course?
I don't really remember anything about it - LOL. I remember what HAPPENED.
I met my course supervisor. Oh, another aside: When I first came to this/these boards, I thought S/C was an abbrev for course super. I've come to realize in my reading here that it means CASE super (to do with auditing) - right? Not the same thing. Am I right? Well, I am still picking up the lingo, and info on inside stuff.
I met my crs sup and his wife, the Ethics Officer. Does that mean she was SO? I am not sure. Does the E/O have to be SO? I don't think my crs sup was SO. He was Staff. She did not wear a uniform. I don't really remember uniforms, but I do recall being told Sea Org was in residence, or around, or there, or something. I am sure I saw some SO, or had them pointed out to me, but do not remember uniforms. Maybe they were subtle, or maybe they just stay incognito, like wall paper, old cars and spies. This was during a bad time, I think, for non SO scn'ists, and orgs/missions.
I really liked my crs sup and his wife. Let me call them Joe Goodman and his E/O wife Tallen Stately - no real names here.
I REALLY came to LIKE my crs super Joe Goodman. If he hadn't been married, I'd have had a huge crush on him, might have fallen in love. But I had ethics - and didn't do stuff like that to fellow women - you don't steal another woman's man. So I drew a line in the sand, not to go over in feelings/emotions/actions, and began befriending them both. I had great respect for her, as E/O. Ethics means a lot to me . . .
E/O Tallen Stately must have started talking to me about joining, and getting on staff, and she may have mentioned Sea Org too. I don't think I brought any of that up. But we ended up talking about it. I remember feeling a bit of pressure. Just a bit. You know - there are no half ways, it's all or nothing - kind of talk. Hell, I didn't mind being half-way, one foot in, one foot out. I was still checking it out, thinking it over, and the boat hadn't left the dock yet, so I felt I was on good ground. So to speak.
And ooooh, as class continued, did I ever come to like my crs sup. He was such a kind and gentle soul, and he really had a desire to help people. And he wasn't bad to look at either. And he liked me too - as a friend. I never felt he was crossing the line - or me either. We kept our distance, especially emotional distance. But we had a connection. I often saw him and Tallen together. They were a great couple.
Tallen called me into her office, and gave me an application. I think it was for staff, not SO. I glanced at it quickly, and stuck it in my purse, saying I'll read this later. I don't think I was supposed to do that. She let me, and I ended up at home with it. I read it - at my leisure, and something went off in my head - UGH OH. Look at the wages info - My God, they don't take out taxes, as it is a church. WTF? (Just so you know, I probably did not have that phrase back then, but the 'feeling/reaction' was very like that).
Hey, I'd been around a bit, wasn't a newbie fresh out of high school, flipping burgers at McD's and wondering what I was going to do in life. I'd struggled to find and make a living, and take care of myself. And even though I was in flux, my life/job changing, I HAD reached a comfortable place of being able to take care of myself (and knowing I could), with a few extra bucks to spare for vacations, classes, fun stuff - like scn. I'd be damned if I'd give all that up, for a measly living, that didn't even take the right taxes out . . . church or not. What is so special about a church anyway (never went growing up, though not opposed to it or religion)?
Well, maybe I could do it in my spare time???? But not JOIN. Just help out. I don't join stuff . . . that going off in my head

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I was beginning to feel something dark and heavy in that place. I didn't focus on it, but just sort of acknowledged it to myself. It just felt secretive and sinister. And it was building. Something wasn't quite right, but I couldn't figure out what was bothering me. I didn't push that feeling away. I just let it be. I'd already learned in my life to not dismiss feelings like that, that gut-feel, that something isn't right. Learned that lesson, big time.
And it was being restimulated as I read in the Ethics book about SPs. Back then there wasn't the word 'sociopath' - or if there was, I didn't know it, never had heard it. I'd heard of serial kiillers, like Ted Bundy, but the term was psychopath, like Norman Bates in Psycho - Only Ted passed as normal, and I think that was a new thing to the world. Well, not new, but first time the news of it could travel far and wide, and shock folks. A seemingly NORMAL person being a serial killer - a pyschopath - hidden among us. Serial and Spree killers were getting famous around this time period, people taking notice, for first time probably since Jack the Ripper - and Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood".
Mine was more like a Scott Peterson, or Drew Peterson, an OJ Simpson type, a seemingly 'normal' great guy, who ends up trying to kill, perhaps getting away with it - more than once. And no one suspects.
But I got away.
And that was being restimulated as I read about SPs. SP was the only word, the only 'name', I'd ever heard of that indentified this person - for what he was - to me.
Believe me, I had spent many a waking hour wondering what the hell had happened to me (and many nights with bad dreams). Who was he to have done that, and WHY - ? And why was I attracted to him, and him to me, and what did that say about me? When I first met him I didn't even believe in Evil. Sure bad things happened, and some people did bad things, but everyone has good in them, and all we have to do is UNDERSTAND them, LOVE them, and the good will come out. Naive, idealistic, a child of the 60's/70's . . .
Yep, the old 'inside every bad boy is a good boy trying to get out', the misunderstood youth crap. Gees, do I have to tell you, I was a huge fan of S.E. Hinton's books, "The Outsiders", "Rumble Fish", "Tex", etc. (And the movies that came out - but were they out at this time ? - not sure - don't think so - those movies came out in 80's, right?). (Shades of Tom Cruise, hey).
I was that Good Girl - And mama's tell your baby girls about Outlaws.
"Ladies love Outlaws like babies love stray dogs."
But it is not good.
When it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and talks like a duck - it IS a freakin' duck. Same with Evil.
In the aftermath of my personal ordeal, I had no other word for 'him' but Evil. He was Evil. And that haunted me, for years. I have spent an adult-life time researching out 'psychopaths/sociopaths/Evil' - and by extension, becaude of what happened there - SCN.
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So, there I am in Ethics, with my dreamy Crs Sup, Joe, the MARRIED GoodGoodman, and I am having some troubles - with the course, with what I am reading. Yes, I am getting re-stimulated, with my past, but also lots and lots of questions are coming up for me - about what I am reading. And that dark heavy feeling is coming down on me, pressing in on me, making me feel very uncomfortable, and leary. And every time I looked at a picture of LRH, my skin crawled, my nose wrinkled/crinkled up, like a drug dog sniffing pot.
I didn't like him.
So there I am, reading Ethics, and I get to this one paragraph. Going into it I was myself, in my own mind, a 'not joiner' - I am Not a scn !. At the end of the paragraph, to my utter surprise, and confoundment, I WAS A SCN !.
WTF? What just happened here? I had no idea how 'they' did that. So I took a moment to get myself back, get back into my head. I am NOT a scn - I am not a joiner. Then I started again on the same paragraph. And, I'll be damned, it happened AGAIN. By the end of it, I WAS A SCN !
WTF? I took another moment to get back in my own head, NOT, NO JOINER, and started the paragraph over again, this time looking for 'it'. Where is "it", that word/sentence that is 'flipping' me ? Where are 'they' 'getting' me?
Slowly, re-reading each and every sentence, word for word, trying to identify the 'trip-lever' - and NOT FINDING IT !
WTF ! Here I am AGAIN, at the end of it, a SCN ! So I started over AGAIN, wiping my head clean, and word for word, sentence by sentence - - .
By this time, Joe MyMcDreamy, is by my side.
You knew that was coming, huh.
"Are you having problems?" "Yes." And I started asking my questions, all the stuff that had been piling up in my head, one by one, What about this, and this and this and that, blah blah. I was having a normal conversation. He was getting books off of shelves and reading me stuff, and quoting LRH, and having me read stuff aloud, look up words, blah blah. I was getting VERY frustrated. I didn't want to know what LRH thought - or said. I wanted to know what he - Joe MyMcDreamy - thought about all this. I wanted to hear HIM reply to my questions . . .
REALLY, I had no fucking idea . . .
And no, this is not going where you think it is.
I am stopping here, just to post it, because it is long, but will start in again on next part - that is, if I am not kicked out again, losing all this - God forbid.

Getting paranoid !
