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I've been out for a while now, approx. 10 years. Left due to a family emergency which for them would've been bad PR to declare me suppressive for especially when staff knew I wasn't anything other than a team player. I don't care to give too much personal info because everyone is out of my life who mattered except a few which were the true definition of a friend and those who I haven't spoken to I will and I will find them later in life as a thank you for making a genuine attempt at being nothing but a friend but that is more the Buddhist nature (I'm not a full blown Buddhist) in me because I appreciate and know I can decipher between fake friends.

The younger guys that drop out always find me when they leave because I made a genuine effort at keeping my integrity and making sure they kept theirs regardless of what their personal integrity stood as), applying the tech and saying fuck you (by understanding ethics courses, conditions and extensive personal word clearing and speaking up to deaf ears including ethics staff who knew me in the course room as the guy who would find the problem, definitions anywhere, references etc. to you not understanding your material regardless of what course you would take, I did laugh in the Eo's face a few times because I did not need word clearing I needed to quit being mishandled with bullshit, Finally I got my way because there were no Mu's and the only overts were that I needed to fucking eat and make money to eat and gas my car to get to the org, same shit I exclaimed every time I was sent to the Eo and finally after a year or so of "handlings" by a Flag trained Ethics staff and being a shit head to family because I had to keep borrowing money to get by I got my desire of handling my basic need of improving my life by spending less time there.)

I was one of the people that read every single thing to be able to word clear or supervise because I believed in it and I believed these people were paying a lot of money to not have me be the best I could be for them. I believe in study tech still because I saw it work. There are portions of Scn which I still hold true and they are basic tenets in other religions as well. I believe there is a positive nature to "auditing" which in other practices is used as well to help a person see from an exterior viewpoint the situation and destimulate the negative side. I don't believe in lies, I don't believe in fucking up your dynamics for only the third when the goal is to better yourself and be "cause" over your environment. I don't believe in sitting by and watching other people that are your friends practically starve because of lack of pay and having no empathy except, find your words, write your overts. I believe myself to be highly personally trained as I've read everything I could get my hands on including all the Philly doctorate courses and management courses while there and also kept every course book when they were too disheveled to keep in the course room, or when the golden age of tech started and older materials were tossed as I was too broke to purchase my own. TTC for 5 plus years full full time. course supervisor for some time to fill up a hole so others could go to the Sea Org.

I was stuck on the doubt condition for a long time and left. When I had those family issues I brought up earlier (not pts) I had maybe 2 people that were public try to even offer help and what I mean by help I don't mean subjective help, I mean help by actions not locationals. My "friends" whom I helped, ate with daily, were like a brothers and sisters turned a blind eye to my situation. That knowledge made it easier to walk out to handle my situation without personal guilt.

I've heard stories of RPF and all that but we never had that kind of extreme bullshit, just simple looks were enough for a mind fuck on all staff and the knowledge that all execs had access to my folders when highly personal information about myself was divulged in sessions at my attempt for enlightenment.

I was very disappointed to find out that I had given a few of the end ep cognitions especially the Clear one while on staff and never recognized. I was a lil amazed to hear about faked accomplishments of LRH which led to a lot of people joining wanting to emulate him, associations with Crowley and Parsons which were never made public while on staff, I believe Crowley was mentioned briefly and there have been records that somewhat tie the time frame with parsons to about a 3 month living situation and some alleged Magick rituals.. I would like more info on that ritual if anybody has that. I'm not biased on occultism or satanism.. I'm just into information.
Also have been looking at the transcripts for L Ron Jr. (Dewolfe) in court and then accounts of Ron's final days that were similar to Howard Hughes.
Also I have heard accounts and read from ex scientologists online that when the golden age of tech started David M was acting as Cs without training and chopping pieces of the bridge. I barely started looking online on all this about a month ago.. I haven't considered myself a Scn for a long time but it is the first month out of all this time away that I even got into looking behind the veil and see look for government accounts and death records and such out of morbid curiosity.

Today I live a happy life, same kind of life I lived prior to Scn., I was happy in Scn when I wasn't broke or noticing that these people who were OTs were acting like completely aberrated people on a regular basis. That made me question what exactly I was doing there when people outside of Scientology including staff were happy and not mocking up happiness for show. And I now know I can keep my integrity under pressure. Making the best of it and rebuilding my life taking the good parts I learned out to use for business, art etc.

If I am incorrect about anything I ever mention I don't mind being corrected by those who know more or were old timers who saw these things first hand. I am merely stating my account with this experience and there is a need for a place like this because it's hard to get other people to understand this life unless they've lived it. You'll excuse me from naming names, dates, locations and case levels as I don't care to have a motherfucker knocking on my door when I've been getting back on track on a real life.

I urge you younger guys that are curious about philosophy to inspect every aspect before getting involved with any commitment. I got suckered in by my own want for learning which I could've done at home online downloading PDF books for free. Thank you.
 

LongTimeGone

Silver Meritorious Patron
Welcome Blindleadingblind. :welcome2:

You are in good company here and the vast majority of us understand exactly what you are saying.

LTG.
 

MostlyLurker

Patron Meritorious
... Finally I got my way because there were no Mu's and the only overts were that I needed to fucking eat and make money to eat and gas my car to get to the org, same shit I exclaimed every time I was sent to the Eo and finally after a year or so of "handlings" by a Flag trained Ethics staff and being a shit head to family because I had to keep borrowing money to get by I got my desire of handling my basic need of improving my life by spending less time there.) ...

That's a classic! :roflmao:

:welcome2:
 

Kookaburra

Gold Meritorious Patron
Welcome, Blindleadingblind!

It is amazing how much you find has been hidden from you when you are on staff or in Scn. When I first looked on the internet, I was stuck into it for about 2 years before I had pretty much found out everything. So prepare for a few more shocks. And keep reading.
 
the name david mayo was not hidden from me as well as other supposed "squirrel" names and accounts we all had a pretty open dialogue because we had trust beyond scn, we had relationships, hobbies, true friendships. and if something ever popped up on a needle read in session we were very good at telling an auditor one story while we personally told another in session to a floating needle. so we left no paper trail on "betraying" each other, even on the stuff that was looked down upon as a staff member like drinking with public who were cool and knew we were balls out about "keeping scientology working". we figured, lrh smoked , lrh drank and that wasn't hidden why couldn't we? The older guys back then were cool with us and we'd hang out on weekends and do normal stuff like play music and drink if we didn't have course or auditing the next day. We'd work together, start outside businesses together, advice on books to read. We learned to take care of each other. We weren't sell outs to each other because we'd just tell ourselves that we were doing something positive and staying human and as a smaller group of the higher trained guys we knew something was very wrong and were trying to find the source in the execs in our org. I'm sure every org has groups like this, I always found a comfortable few who were just cool kids who weren't robots. I've been to a few for training or for twinning up on courses as well as aola for new programs.

Is it true that david mayo created some processes that are still used today even after his being declared?

Is there any history of any org not making public pay for an overt product or refunding giving credit etc. meaning if his case was mishandled by an auditor? I believe THAT to be criminal.


You'll have to excuse me, we did a lot so its a complete change of reality to just negate what I did learn and saw with my own eyes and positive changes in people.... I'm not saying that these changes couldn't have happened outside of scn either....and I am not claiming to be a scn anymore... this is as an outside observer... just when you're on staff day to day there's very little of the outside world you see so I'm only offering the life I lived and the changes with the people I saw day to day.. so I do believe some tech works and I wont be a hypocrite either way. That's just who I am and that wont change. I believe a lot of corruption in tech occurred on the exec side and there of course was favortism but thats my personal experience with how uncomfortable it became for me.

We never had anyone die on us.. people went to the hospital when needed and took meds when needed, they of course couldn't go on course or in session on meds, people didn't break the law in our org that we know of..

I know I have a long way to go to find the truth for myself because some of the shit I've read has been ridiculously hard to even imagine like we didn't ever know that LRH was married to Parsons' ex and bigomy with Mary Sue, that Mary Sue went to jail, that he had a gay son who killed himself or another son who went to court to testify against him.. still trying to see for myself if he did drugs.. it did seem like every scn event was overblown pr bullshit because I didn't see those changes in my surrounding world he spoke of and if we'd travel for fun on weekends to other cities we'd hang out with different staff and drink with them in that city so I know there's a lot of cool, good people in it but we wouldn't see those changes in those cities either..

I guess I have a long way to go to find out my own personal questions..
@kookaburra, if you have any links that would be of use to blow my mind i welcome them completely because I'm just blindly going from website to website.. feel free to private message me, whether good bad or whatever.. just curious as fuck and don't know where to exactly start because i was more on the tech side and I haven't been able to find any bulletin comparisons etc.. I may be rambling but there is just so much to say and so many questions.

thanks for the welcome to the guys prior to this post.
 

Zhent

Leakus Maximus
I believe Crowley was mentioned briefly and there have been records that somewhat tie the time frame with parsons to about a 3 month living situation and some alleged Magick rituals.. I would like more info on that ritual if anybody has that. I'm not biased on occultism or satanism.. I'm just into information.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/corydon/Messiah_or_Madman.txt

L. RON HUBBARD - Messiah of Madman?

A book written by Ronald DeWolf, contains what you are looking for, check the contents.
 

Kookaburra

Gold Meritorious Patron
Here's another:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/miller/interviews/kima.htm

Jeff Hawkins blog is great:

http://leavingscientology.wordpress.com/

John Zegal gives a lot of inside skinny on Int. Old now but highly informative.

http://www.religion-spirituality.org/scientology/zegel-tapes-audio.php

There is also some good data on the site in my signature.

I found my viewpoint changed and evolved many times since I started reading all the stuff about Scn. I too was a techie and never had much to do with admin, dissem and so on. As little as possible, actually, lol. So I left Scn still a believer because I had used the tech and gotton results. It took a huge sort out and re-examination of everything I had encountered in Scn. Some things in Scn are truth. But those things are interwoven with insideous control mechanisms, and lies designed to entrap. Just keep at it. You will get through it. :yes:
 

Lurker5

Gold Meritorious Patron
Hello

Hello, BlindLB :wave: :welcome2: Keep reading, lurking, posting, sharing.
Steep learning curve, all the background info - but once you get momentum, you will never stop wanting to know more. :yes:

:thumbsup: Welcome !
 
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Gottabrain

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Hi and WELCOME

Heya BLB!

Welcome to ESMB!!:happydance::dance3::cheerleader::woohoo::party:

Take your time, look around, make friends, enjoy. Good to have you here. :clap:
 
thanks guys. my mind is being blown by the accounts of members who were actually in lrh's presence... it's refreshing to read real accounts and to see that I was not the only one who 1 saw out tech and tried to complain to get it right but was shunned or reprimanded for trying to do the right thing. often I wondered if it was the ots that I dealt with tried to mock up having no he&r or they just plainly didn't give a shit because my stats didn't reflect on them.. I'm seeing more and more that it was simply the blind leading the blind\ that's why I chose that name. and these states weren't as high as promised...

I used to think of ot's in the same light as you see video's of Tibetan monks in the freezing cold sleeping and having their surrounding areas melted because of the knowledge they knew. More and more I see this as pr in Scientolology. I am still wondering if any of you had any experiences that were more in the direction of ot powers... I've had random shit like making candles flare up real high and changing street lights immediately in the past on pure intention and to prove I wasn't insane I did it in front of my girlfriend at the time so I could have a witness. whether in good standing or not whether you name them ot powers or power of suggestion has anybody had anything like that?

I am really appreciating you guys being cool with all my questions and I still need to catch up on the links added to this thread but I will see to it to get to every one. including full books.
 
I do apologize for the dirty mouth because I understand that it's cheapening the point of what I'm expressing and out of respect to those who do not appreciate it in their everyday life. I'm going to lurk posts for a bit and catch up so I'm not just asking questions that are already taken care of. Thanks again guys. I'm happy I found this message board.
 

uniquemand

Unbeliever
I'm still in the "doubt condition". I think you are in danger of becoming truly blind (and willfully so) as soon as you leave it.

The Church wants you to make a PRETENSE of examining statistics (or checking to see what fruits are born, to use normal English), but the real goal is to get you to make a DECISION to trust them and be a member of their group. You cannot be a member in good standing of the Church of Scientology if you are willing to examine evidence or arguments from anyone not promoting the party line.
 

VaD

Gold Meritorious Patron
Hi, blindleadingblind!

Welcome to this board! :welcome2:

It's a great place where you can speak your mind about Scn freely. (And you will be nothing for it - no chits, no KRs, no "condition assignments" and no "declares").

Enjoy our ride out of Scn dogma. :)
 
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