Adrian Pybus
Patron
Preamble
This all happened a long time ago for me and I have forgotten a lot of the details.
Stockholm Org
I started on the Comm Course (TR0-4,TR6-9) in Stockholm Org the 4th of Jan 1974. I was 17.
I didn't like school much and much preferred Scn. Quit school. No problem with my father as he was the one who got me in.
He bought me the Class IV training package but a few weeks into Student Hat I was recruited for staff.
Started out as a TTCer but wound up being DTS (Director of Technical Services) pretty soon.
Our Org wasn't SO but it was run like one. A few people were sent down to FOLO EU to the RPF.
We all lived in the same house and got almost no pay. I think the highest I ever got was around 40 SEK for a week but quite often we would get nothing or next to nothing. The only people who got anything worth having were the Div 2 Registrars and booksellers.
At around the end of 1974 I blew. I can't remember the details.
Malmö Org
I moved down to the south of Sweden and lived with my father who was at that time working in the Malmö Org. I sent a letter to 'LRH' via the SO 1 line asking for amnesty to work on staff again and got it.
I started working at the Malmö Org in division six which at the time contained one body router. I had never done any sales before but week by week I was selling more books. My NNCF was up 14 weeks running the problem was that the main statistic at the time was people started on Services (can't remember the exact stat) so especially the LRH Comm was after me all the time and being generally abusive, the CO too but to a lesser degree. After some months the LRH Comm and I had a shouting match and I went home. I stayed home for one day and when I got back I was sent to the RPF in FOLO EU.
FOLO EU RPF
I wasn't very long on the RPF. After about a month I decided I wanted to leave the RPF.
So I did a Gandhi and justed stopped cooperating and was thrown out via a Comm Ev. I was very lucky to be on the RPF at that time, just a few years before it had been much worse by what I've heard from others. We did work for 72 hours without sleep once though.
Scientologist in Bad Standing
From the middle of 1975 till the end of 1979 I was off lines paying of my Free Loader debt. I tried to come back as public but failed to get through the ethics conditions.
Stockholm Org
Around '79/'80 there was an amnesty. I did it and started as public. I bought a training package for the new False Purpose Rundown.
Did the Pro TRs course and had some fantastic insight in the middle of it. Completed the Sec Check Course and then started on staff again! (Talk about stupid). I started working in the LRH Comm Office. This time on staff went a lot better than before and near the end of 1980 the LRH Comm at the time was sent for training to FOLO EU. I became the LRH Comm. Reading between the lines I surmise some kind of power struggle was going on at the time in upper management, e.g. we were sent Policy Letters on how the SO 1 line was run explaining that LRH never answered the but that staff did plus an
Executive Directive was sent inside the answers from 'LRH'. We stopped the EDs going out to the public and I sent a telex straight to LRH telling him about this (was I naive or what?). This was of course stopped at FOLO EU and I was told that this would be handled by upper management. (As an side: in the policy letters describing the LRH Comm duties and powers it is expressely stated that no one is allowed to stop communication from an LRH Comm to LRH).
Product Zero
The old LRH Comm came back and I was sent down to FOLO EU to do my product zero. This was at the worst of times as FOLO was moving to new quarters so after I had finished product I just continued (like most staff at FOLO) with the renovations of the new quarters.
The failed mission
OK, so our new quarters were done and I was sent on a mission to one of the Class IV Orgs in Copenhagen. This Org was nicknamed 'Missionairies Graveyard'. I failed at the mission which incidentally didn't follow the rules for a mission and after a days absence I returned to FOLO.
FOLO
When I came back I was supposed to do amends by helping to collect the stats. I was feeling really low at this failure and it hit me really hard. I was not very cooperative and refused to do amends because I was so tired I couldn't think straight.
I was routed out.
Stockholm Org
But did I give up? No, when I came back to Stockholm I was recruited to work in FBO Office despite the fact that I had routed out of the SO. I worked a lot with Div 6 and promo, held lectures etc but ... as all of you who have worked somewhere on the registrar line knows. There is a LOT of pressure to get the money in and I mean a lot.
Its a chain of pressure that starts with the registrar and goes through his senior, the division head, the CO and then on to FOLO. Plus the Flag Reps and the FBO Office are also heavily involved. No wonder there were so many stange deals made to get the GI and book sales up.
I can't remember how I wound up not on staff but I continued to help as a volunteer off and on until ...
FLAG
In 1985 we had a few very active upper OT level FSMs selling Flag Services to our public in the Stockholm area. They were sending loads of people of to Flag, people were taking loans right, left and centre. They were guarantors for each other. Anyway, I was helping these guys out and I was sent to FLAG 1986 for some kind of registrar training.
I don't remember the details but it wasn't as staff. I was supposed to be at FLAG for one month. I didn't do so well on this and soon found myself helping out in the DIR COMM Office.
Squirrels
Prior to me coming to Flag there had been a lot going on that we at Class IV Orgs had no clue about, e.g. The declare of David Mayo. That never washed with me. Either David wasn't an SP or LRH was a fake. Would LRH have worked years and years with David without seeing this? If that were so then that would invalidate the Tech. I knew that some kind power struggle had been going on not just what. Luckily for me while working in the Comm Dept I received all the Squirrel material that the dutifull public were sending in. I sent them all on to Ethics after having read them. This opened my eyes quite a bit. Now, remember, I was only supposed to be there one month but as is usual this dragged out and I left after six months.
Back in Stockholm
Fast forward to 1988. Many of the people who had taken loans earlier were unable to pay them back. The newspapers had weekly articles about this and I read them all. It would go like this - the newspapers had no idea how bad it was. While reading these articles I would go 'no, thats not right its much worse' all the time.
Out of it
I decided I had had enough. Proven by evidence or rather lack of evidence the 'OTs' of Scientology were no more able than any one else. The hard ethics obviously didn't work (I saw the RPFers at FLAG and that was hard to look at, they were like ghost people, broken). The Orgs were dwindling and the planet was not being cleared. I quit. Later, reading the ludicreous story of Xenu really nailled it for me.
The first years after leaving were pretty bad. I had spent 14 years thinking Scientology every day.
This all happened a long time ago for me and I have forgotten a lot of the details.
Stockholm Org
I started on the Comm Course (TR0-4,TR6-9) in Stockholm Org the 4th of Jan 1974. I was 17.
I didn't like school much and much preferred Scn. Quit school. No problem with my father as he was the one who got me in.
He bought me the Class IV training package but a few weeks into Student Hat I was recruited for staff.
Started out as a TTCer but wound up being DTS (Director of Technical Services) pretty soon.
Our Org wasn't SO but it was run like one. A few people were sent down to FOLO EU to the RPF.
We all lived in the same house and got almost no pay. I think the highest I ever got was around 40 SEK for a week but quite often we would get nothing or next to nothing. The only people who got anything worth having were the Div 2 Registrars and booksellers.
At around the end of 1974 I blew. I can't remember the details.
Malmö Org
I moved down to the south of Sweden and lived with my father who was at that time working in the Malmö Org. I sent a letter to 'LRH' via the SO 1 line asking for amnesty to work on staff again and got it.
I started working at the Malmö Org in division six which at the time contained one body router. I had never done any sales before but week by week I was selling more books. My NNCF was up 14 weeks running the problem was that the main statistic at the time was people started on Services (can't remember the exact stat) so especially the LRH Comm was after me all the time and being generally abusive, the CO too but to a lesser degree. After some months the LRH Comm and I had a shouting match and I went home. I stayed home for one day and when I got back I was sent to the RPF in FOLO EU.
FOLO EU RPF
I wasn't very long on the RPF. After about a month I decided I wanted to leave the RPF.
So I did a Gandhi and justed stopped cooperating and was thrown out via a Comm Ev. I was very lucky to be on the RPF at that time, just a few years before it had been much worse by what I've heard from others. We did work for 72 hours without sleep once though.
Scientologist in Bad Standing
From the middle of 1975 till the end of 1979 I was off lines paying of my Free Loader debt. I tried to come back as public but failed to get through the ethics conditions.
Stockholm Org
Around '79/'80 there was an amnesty. I did it and started as public. I bought a training package for the new False Purpose Rundown.
Did the Pro TRs course and had some fantastic insight in the middle of it. Completed the Sec Check Course and then started on staff again! (Talk about stupid). I started working in the LRH Comm Office. This time on staff went a lot better than before and near the end of 1980 the LRH Comm at the time was sent for training to FOLO EU. I became the LRH Comm. Reading between the lines I surmise some kind of power struggle was going on at the time in upper management, e.g. we were sent Policy Letters on how the SO 1 line was run explaining that LRH never answered the but that staff did plus an
Executive Directive was sent inside the answers from 'LRH'. We stopped the EDs going out to the public and I sent a telex straight to LRH telling him about this (was I naive or what?). This was of course stopped at FOLO EU and I was told that this would be handled by upper management. (As an side: in the policy letters describing the LRH Comm duties and powers it is expressely stated that no one is allowed to stop communication from an LRH Comm to LRH).
Product Zero
The old LRH Comm came back and I was sent down to FOLO EU to do my product zero. This was at the worst of times as FOLO was moving to new quarters so after I had finished product I just continued (like most staff at FOLO) with the renovations of the new quarters.
The failed mission
OK, so our new quarters were done and I was sent on a mission to one of the Class IV Orgs in Copenhagen. This Org was nicknamed 'Missionairies Graveyard'. I failed at the mission which incidentally didn't follow the rules for a mission and after a days absence I returned to FOLO.
FOLO
When I came back I was supposed to do amends by helping to collect the stats. I was feeling really low at this failure and it hit me really hard. I was not very cooperative and refused to do amends because I was so tired I couldn't think straight.
I was routed out.
Stockholm Org
But did I give up? No, when I came back to Stockholm I was recruited to work in FBO Office despite the fact that I had routed out of the SO. I worked a lot with Div 6 and promo, held lectures etc but ... as all of you who have worked somewhere on the registrar line knows. There is a LOT of pressure to get the money in and I mean a lot.
Its a chain of pressure that starts with the registrar and goes through his senior, the division head, the CO and then on to FOLO. Plus the Flag Reps and the FBO Office are also heavily involved. No wonder there were so many stange deals made to get the GI and book sales up.
I can't remember how I wound up not on staff but I continued to help as a volunteer off and on until ...
FLAG
In 1985 we had a few very active upper OT level FSMs selling Flag Services to our public in the Stockholm area. They were sending loads of people of to Flag, people were taking loans right, left and centre. They were guarantors for each other. Anyway, I was helping these guys out and I was sent to FLAG 1986 for some kind of registrar training.
I don't remember the details but it wasn't as staff. I was supposed to be at FLAG for one month. I didn't do so well on this and soon found myself helping out in the DIR COMM Office.
Squirrels
Prior to me coming to Flag there had been a lot going on that we at Class IV Orgs had no clue about, e.g. The declare of David Mayo. That never washed with me. Either David wasn't an SP or LRH was a fake. Would LRH have worked years and years with David without seeing this? If that were so then that would invalidate the Tech. I knew that some kind power struggle had been going on not just what. Luckily for me while working in the Comm Dept I received all the Squirrel material that the dutifull public were sending in. I sent them all on to Ethics after having read them. This opened my eyes quite a bit. Now, remember, I was only supposed to be there one month but as is usual this dragged out and I left after six months.
Back in Stockholm
Fast forward to 1988. Many of the people who had taken loans earlier were unable to pay them back. The newspapers had weekly articles about this and I read them all. It would go like this - the newspapers had no idea how bad it was. While reading these articles I would go 'no, thats not right its much worse' all the time.
Out of it
I decided I had had enough. Proven by evidence or rather lack of evidence the 'OTs' of Scientology were no more able than any one else. The hard ethics obviously didn't work (I saw the RPFers at FLAG and that was hard to look at, they were like ghost people, broken). The Orgs were dwindling and the planet was not being cleared. I quit. Later, reading the ludicreous story of Xenu really nailled it for me.
The first years after leaving were pretty bad. I had spent 14 years thinking Scientology every day.