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DIV 6 & Happy Girl....Thanks for the info on the popcorn icon.
Welcome FoTi
You got started around the same time as I did I believe, when was the Chateau Elysee purchased?
I too spent some time at CC and met Yvonne and Heber at the 8th St center.
Keep telling your story. I really like the how your writing flows.
and some for you too
salt? butter?
My guess is it was purchased in 1973.
Thanks for the comment on how my writing flows. I'm glad somebody likes it.
That encourages me to continue.
Thanks for the popcorn too.
I've got my popcorn and I'm ready to type.
This time, I'll leave ASHO for a bit and talk about the Manor Hotel.
I moved into the Manor with my king size water bed, my art supplies (My major in college was Interior Design) and my many plants. I fixed up the room and made it more homey.
Most of the time, I really loved living there. It was such a friendly place and most of the people were really happy most of the time because most were getting auditing either at ASHO or the AO Anex right next door to the Manor Hotel - on the Manor grounds.
Mealtimes were really fun because people doing their OT Levels in the next building would tell their wins (that they could tell) at the table, and I loved listening to them. I remember one gal who had finished OT II and then she went to the dentist and came back all elated because she didn't have to use any anaesthetic and she didn't have to experience the pain she would have normally experienced at the dentist. I thought that was pretty cool. It was also fun because I enjoyed just walking into the dining room and sitting down and ordering and not having to cook or wash dishes for a while. I lived there for 4-6 months in the early 70's.
felt kind of sorry for the staff, though. They worked like dogs in a hot kitchen and running their tails off serving everyone at meal times. Sometimes I wondered why they did it, but I figured if they didn't like it, they could just leave, couldn't they? No one was twisting their arm to stay (were they?)
I do remember one time someone who came back from the ship talked about the overboarding of the Class VIIIs...I reminded myself never to go to the ship for training. I thought that was pretty severe and pretty stupid and pretty scary. How the hell was that supposed to make them audit better? And didn't LRH say that punishment doesn't work to make a person better?
I also remember one of LRH aides that had just come back from the ship...she talked about how LRH hardly ever slept and he would wear out his aides rather quickly because there was so much work for them to do. She said he wore her out and that's why she wasn't on the ship anymore.
At night, after everyone got off course and auditing, a bunch would gather in my room and party....play guitar, make music - I remember one night we got a bunch of pot and pans and had a band. LOL It was fun.
The gal who got me to move into the Manor also ran the switchboard at the front desk sometimes. One day I said..."Would you teach me how to do that?" She said "Sure." So I went and sat at the switchboard and she taught me how to run it...it was one of those old fashioned ones. Well, I got a few calls mixed up and the execs from upstairs came charging down to see what was the matter. I wasn't allowed to run the switchboard anymore. I didn't get in trouble, I just felt bad for her because they were all mad at her for letting me do it.
One night, shortly after I moved in, and after I started getting my auditing at ASHO, I was in bed, going to sleep and the next thing I knew I was hanging out about 10 feet up in the air over the stairwell that went into the underground garage at the south end of the Manor. I was just looking down at the steps..ho hum...dum..dee..dee.....all of a sudden I thought..
I'm going to fall (as if my body was up in the air - but it was still in bed). I slammed back into my body and sat up with a jolt. That was my first real experience of being exterior a distance away from my body that I was aware of this lifetime. It surprised the hell out of me. I liked it.
One night after everyone was off course, I went to the room next door to mine to talk. The only person there had just completed OT7 that evening. A brand new OT7. We sat on the floor in the forier in the dark - there were no lights on anywhere in his room and I sat watching in fascination because the light he was radiating lit up the space where we were sitting. I wanted to go OT.
Another evening after course, a friend of mine knocked on my door. He was solo auditing on OT III and it was right before he completed. When I opened the door and looked at him...he was all fuzzy looking - kind of like his body was blurred..that's the only time I ever saw anyone look like that.
It was so much fun living at the Manor at that time with all the interesting things happening with all the people there who were getting auditing. It was so different than today. Scientology was fun then....sometimes scary...but mostly fun. Scientologists seemed to be a much happier lot then.
I remember one lady that lived across the hall from me...she was Ray Charles mistress
She had her car parked in the Manor parking lot and someone stole it and she was quite upset about it. I asked her if she had had any thoughts about wanting to get rid of the car. She said she had. I said...well wouldn't it be better to sell the car instead of having it stolen? She said yes...she decided to get her car back so that she could sell it and a few minutes later the police phoned...they found her car...so now she could sell it. Fun stuff like this happened alot around that time. It was a kind of magical time.
One day when I returned home to my room, a Manor Reg came to tell me that I had to move out of my room because she had rented it to someone else for twice the amount of money that I was paying.
WHAT??? She had showed my room...all decorated....to someone who thought it was nice...sure....but when I move out....it won't be there anymore. I was pissed. They got me to move in there and now they're going to kick me out?
So, now she gives me this rule that says that I can only keep the room if I am living with a 2D. ?????????????? What kind of rule is that?
So, my boyfriend, wanting to help me out moves in. Now, they can't kick me out. 2 weeks later he announces to me..."I can't do this...I'm not in love with you"...he ends the relationship and goes down and handles the Reg on this issue and I get to keep my room.
Before I got involved in Scientology I was so bored. After I got into Scientology I don't think I was ever bored...there was always something happening.....somebody was being entertaining or there was always something new to learn and some new experience to be had.
It was quite a fun experience to be living at the Manor in those days. This was my first time living at the Manor. I lived there again at another time period, but that's for another story.
I'm out of popcorn here.
Catch you later