Yes.
Below is an old exchange from ESMB.
From one time poster Steven James:
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I once read OTIII (plus additional data which I have yet to see on the internet). I word cleared, I demoed the whole scenario and all of a sudden something incredible happened - something very powerful. A huge blue light poured out of my head- it flicked in and out for a few minutes and there was a holohraphic of a Marilyn Monroe type figure, looking very broken in a babydoll dress in the light. I stood up and got out of the chair and cannot describe how big I felt. The veil had been lifted."
To which Terril Park responded:
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I've heard sort of similar stories. Thats apart from the successes of those formally running OT 3. This level gets results."
Above is a segment of an old post which was allowed to remain in this re-post, just to illustrate a certain mind set.
That aside, and moving on, here's some background on the 1980 OT 8 HCOB:
The founding Free Zone movement, now also called Ron's Orgs, believed that the Markabians had taken over Scientology. (See Free Zone Decree of 10 November 1982, below) Of course the Markabians ran MI5, CIA, KGB, Illuminati, etc., and almost everything else, having thoroughly infiltrated the power centers of Earth with their - according to Captain Bill Robertson - "200,000" Markabian agents.
According to Bill Robertson, Hubbard (a.k.a. Elron Elray) is the "Sector 9 Commander" (Sector Nine is a portion of the galaxy), and Robertson (a.k.a. Astar Paramejgian) is Deputy Sector Commander.
With the confirmation of Hubbard's authorship of the 1980 "Truth Revealed/3rd Wall of Fire" HCOB, it appears that Bill Robertson was inspired by that document - which contains only theory - to create his own OT 8, which is called the 'Excalibur' level, but was initially called "Super NOTs." Here's the description of it from Ron's Orgs, and an image of their Grade Chart:
" 'Excalibur' - handle the most secret and ancient barriers to OT, an organized attempt on the 7th dynamic [outside the MEST universe] to force one to conform to a lower state of awareness."
There are people who not only believe this HCOB, but regard it as (albeit incomplete) vitally important information, and that "Captain" Bill completed the task of fully developing the level.
Initially, Senior Case Supervisor International, David Mayo, was given the 1980 OT 8 material by an excited Pat Broeker (then, at least theoretically, the second in command of Scientology under Hubbard). Mayo later looked it over and tossed it in the waste paper bin. (According to his account.)
Mayo also had disagreements on the topic of Dianetic Clear and wrote the Harmonics of Clear HCOB in an attempt to reduce the confusion among Scientologists. He didn't realize at the time that Hubbard's announcement of Dianetic Clear was primarily motivated by a desire to increase income to the top of Scientology.
Sometime later, David Mayo also made the mistake of siding with the Mission holders - and that's another story - but, ultimately, Mayo was kidnapped on Hubbard's orders and taken to the Southern California desert where he was forced to run around a bright (fire engine) red (telephone) pole, all day, day after day, in the summer heat. According to David Mayo, Hubbard, who was C/Sing this "running round the pole" process, wanted to drive him insane and believed that running around a bright red pole would re-stimulate a particularly lethal whole track implant.
Much is made of the 1980 OT 8 HCOB's references related to Christianity, Jesus, etc., but it should not be that surprising since Hubbard was referring the the
man Jesus, not the Christ (which was an
implant), and to his being in the
role of Lucifer (which some will insist is different than Satan, which is fine, except that there's no indication that Hubbard differentiated the two), and to the "second coming" which was described as an upcoming Marcabian (space alien/implanter) invasion.
So it all lines up pretty nicely with already existing (although mostly confidential) older Scientology material, with the exception of a few frank comments by Hubbard, such as his mention of the Cabbalah (sic). This is reminiscent of his similarly frank comments during the 1952 PDC lectures. One commonality of this 1980 HCOB and the 1952 PDC lectures is that (by accounts) Hubbard was under the influence of psychoactive substances: amphetamines, and perhaps cocaine, and sometimes alcohol during 1952, and a strong tranquilizer in 1980.