BunnySkull
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ETA: THE COMMENT WAS TO A MIKE ELDRIDGE - NOT RINDER - so I was totally confused. Rinder is not currently a indie auditor. Carry on.
So I'm reading a recent post on Mike Rinder's blog that details a sad story about a woman named Gayle Smith who disconnected from her son (Colin), because he went against the cult. The son was later killed in a car accident, without the mother ever speaking to him again. Very sad story, and I found the tragedy compounded by the fact she still clings to the tech (as a indie) to try and rationalize what destroyed her relationship with her son before his untimely death.
Then something caught my attention. Gayle left one of the first comments on the post and said to Mike Rinder,
Maybe I'm out of the loop, but I was a bit shocked to hear Mike is auditing people. I had gotten the vibe that he was slowly and steadily distancing himself from the tech and he was becoming less of a fanatical believer. I knew he worked for a indie/ex-scientologist in some PR capacity, but I didn't think he actually was practicing the tech on other people. I had even hoped he may be close to the cognition of the entire thing being a con.
I'm rather sad to read he actively participating in sucking ex-COS people into auditing. Is this a side-line business for him, like it is/was for Marty? I didn't know Mike even was an auditor. I thought he was purely a PR guy in the cult, not a tech guy.
Anybody know anything about this? Has he been auditing for years and I just some how missed it?
So I'm reading a recent post on Mike Rinder's blog that details a sad story about a woman named Gayle Smith who disconnected from her son (Colin), because he went against the cult. The son was later killed in a car accident, without the mother ever speaking to him again. Very sad story, and I found the tragedy compounded by the fact she still clings to the tech (as a indie) to try and rationalize what destroyed her relationship with her son before his untimely death.
Then something caught my attention. Gayle left one of the first comments on the post and said to Mike Rinder,
I sit here in profound gratitude to you (Rinder) for taking me in session last week-end and for the first time addressing things that made it impossible for me to tell this too but a few people.......
I’m grateful and thank you for the OT review and if Collin were here today he’d be thanking you too.
Maybe I'm out of the loop, but I was a bit shocked to hear Mike is auditing people. I had gotten the vibe that he was slowly and steadily distancing himself from the tech and he was becoming less of a fanatical believer. I knew he worked for a indie/ex-scientologist in some PR capacity, but I didn't think he actually was practicing the tech on other people. I had even hoped he may be close to the cognition of the entire thing being a con.
I'm rather sad to read he actively participating in sucking ex-COS people into auditing. Is this a side-line business for him, like it is/was for Marty? I didn't know Mike even was an auditor. I thought he was purely a PR guy in the cult, not a tech guy.
Anybody know anything about this? Has he been auditing for years and I just some how missed it?
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