I am a new member. I have long experience with COS, but was very fortunate in that I myself never spent one red cent of my own money scratching the Scientology itch. I could never bring myself to shell out my own money since my beginning courses and auditing sessions, paid for by my family and then my employers, were all so....uncomfortable. Weird too. But my employer paid for some of my bridge as part of my compensation, so I got plenty of exposure to the beginning and intermediate classes, LRH Admin Tech, Condition Formulas, and all the rest of that bologna.
I thank the LORD, that I saw very quickly what Scientology was all about. Not only were some of the elementary concepots just crackpot gibberish (like misunderstood words being the only reason to blow a course), but I quickly saw the Resistrars were little better than sharks trying like used car salesman to get you to but something, anything....
I worked many years around many full blooded Scientologists many OT 8 and had a good chance to observe them closely in many different situations. I worked for a Wise company many years also and rubbed shoulders on a daily basis with many successful and wealthy Scientologists, including the infamous Reed Slatkin and quite a few of the celebrity Scientologists.
Here is one experience I will always remember: I lived near the Org and many many Scientologiest were packed into that building like sardines. One was a really pretty young woman. Her beauty was marred by a mouth full of rotten teeth. One day I saw her crying and asked her what was wrong. She told me her parents had sent her 20 grand so she could have her teeth fixed. She told one of her Scientologist friends who told one of the Regs and soon the Reg had her convinced she should spend the $20K on the Student Hat Course, instead of her dental care, since after completing the Student hat, her dynamics would become unjammed and she could then pay for her own teeth with all the money that would just come pouring in....
Now the Student hat as you all probably know is a deadening load of crap that keeps going on and on and on until the poor student is so desperate to get out of there that they will say anything even claim great success to make it so.
I saw the poor girl again about one year later. She had finished her Student Hat, and still had a mouthful of rotten teeth. How sad she looked!
That's it for now, will write more later.
I thank the LORD, that I saw very quickly what Scientology was all about. Not only were some of the elementary concepots just crackpot gibberish (like misunderstood words being the only reason to blow a course), but I quickly saw the Resistrars were little better than sharks trying like used car salesman to get you to but something, anything....
I worked many years around many full blooded Scientologists many OT 8 and had a good chance to observe them closely in many different situations. I worked for a Wise company many years also and rubbed shoulders on a daily basis with many successful and wealthy Scientologists, including the infamous Reed Slatkin and quite a few of the celebrity Scientologists.
Here is one experience I will always remember: I lived near the Org and many many Scientologiest were packed into that building like sardines. One was a really pretty young woman. Her beauty was marred by a mouth full of rotten teeth. One day I saw her crying and asked her what was wrong. She told me her parents had sent her 20 grand so she could have her teeth fixed. She told one of her Scientologist friends who told one of the Regs and soon the Reg had her convinced she should spend the $20K on the Student Hat Course, instead of her dental care, since after completing the Student hat, her dynamics would become unjammed and she could then pay for her own teeth with all the money that would just come pouring in....
Now the Student hat as you all probably know is a deadening load of crap that keeps going on and on and on until the poor student is so desperate to get out of there that they will say anything even claim great success to make it so.
I saw the poor girl again about one year later. She had finished her Student Hat, and still had a mouthful of rotten teeth. How sad she looked!
That's it for now, will write more later.