BarMoshiach
Patron
This episode caused me to develop a little smirk that I didn't really lose till I was expelled. Previously, I could use my considerable ability of rationalization to turn tiny turds of bullshit into tasty morsels. I believed that correctly applied tech and admin would ultimately make everything come out right in the end.
So, it's 1980, and I'm nearly done with my third time through the Class VIII checksheet. That's how the course was done, three times through, by very explicit order of LRH, with dire curses upon anyone who would dare attempt to shorten it.
Except now an order comes from Senior C/S International, David Mayo, stating that ever since the introduction of Study Tech the Class VIII Course is only to be one time through. Whatttt??! They wanted to graduate me immediately. The Mayo letter was photo-copied and thumbtacked on the courseroom wall.
Okay, you can't fool me. This sounds more like a test. There were five or so students, and we all refused to abide by the new order. So one of us writes up a query which goes on the S.O.#1 Line. Standing Order #1 (as I approximately recall): "All mail sent to me will be received by me." It was the direct line to Ron.
In those days S.O.#1 replies came back typically signed, "Ron 3" or "Ron 6." This seemed to imply that there was no way LRH could possibly answer every letter personally, and that he had a full-time team trained to acknowledge, encourage, and validate as he himself would. But we really thought that the implications of this particular query would take it all the way to the top.
The answer came fast, and I quote, "If David says it, it must be true." It was signed by a numbered "Ron." So, sarcastically, we hung the letter on the wall next to Mayo's order. Alright, then! David Mayo has been officially handed the title of Source. It's a new era.
The only way around this was to question the integrity of the S.O.#1 Line. And apparently someone did, because the LRH Comm International, Laurel Sullivan, issued a statement to the effect that there was no way LRH could possibly answer every letter personally, and that he had a full-time team trained to acknowledge, encourage, and validate as he himself would.
One little problem, a new issue comes out from Ron declaring Laurel Sullivan an SP for cutting his most treasured comm line. He apparently went to do his mail and found only two postal mail sacks one day, and launched an investigation and found that his trusted LRH Comm Int had told the world he didn't really truly read and answer these letters himself.
So, that means that it really truly was Ron himself who appointed David Mayo as an authoritative source of SCN technology. I tried to listen to the rest of the tapes my third time through, but was a few short when they graduated me. I heard them again anyway later.
And then the final piece to lock in this exchange as a perfect Catch-22: David Mayo gets declared suppressive for claiming to be an authoritative source of SCN technology.
ASHO Crew didn't seem to have a problem. I heard several expressing big wins that they understand how even if the physical body of the letter-writer was someone else's, it was still Ron they were channelling, etc. And if you're not a disaffected, lower-condition, purveyor of "enemy-line," then you'll happily see it that way.
"Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth." (Bob)
So, it's 1980, and I'm nearly done with my third time through the Class VIII checksheet. That's how the course was done, three times through, by very explicit order of LRH, with dire curses upon anyone who would dare attempt to shorten it.
Except now an order comes from Senior C/S International, David Mayo, stating that ever since the introduction of Study Tech the Class VIII Course is only to be one time through. Whatttt??! They wanted to graduate me immediately. The Mayo letter was photo-copied and thumbtacked on the courseroom wall.
Okay, you can't fool me. This sounds more like a test. There were five or so students, and we all refused to abide by the new order. So one of us writes up a query which goes on the S.O.#1 Line. Standing Order #1 (as I approximately recall): "All mail sent to me will be received by me." It was the direct line to Ron.
In those days S.O.#1 replies came back typically signed, "Ron 3" or "Ron 6." This seemed to imply that there was no way LRH could possibly answer every letter personally, and that he had a full-time team trained to acknowledge, encourage, and validate as he himself would. But we really thought that the implications of this particular query would take it all the way to the top.
The answer came fast, and I quote, "If David says it, it must be true." It was signed by a numbered "Ron." So, sarcastically, we hung the letter on the wall next to Mayo's order. Alright, then! David Mayo has been officially handed the title of Source. It's a new era.
The only way around this was to question the integrity of the S.O.#1 Line. And apparently someone did, because the LRH Comm International, Laurel Sullivan, issued a statement to the effect that there was no way LRH could possibly answer every letter personally, and that he had a full-time team trained to acknowledge, encourage, and validate as he himself would.
One little problem, a new issue comes out from Ron declaring Laurel Sullivan an SP for cutting his most treasured comm line. He apparently went to do his mail and found only two postal mail sacks one day, and launched an investigation and found that his trusted LRH Comm Int had told the world he didn't really truly read and answer these letters himself.
So, that means that it really truly was Ron himself who appointed David Mayo as an authoritative source of SCN technology. I tried to listen to the rest of the tapes my third time through, but was a few short when they graduated me. I heard them again anyway later.
And then the final piece to lock in this exchange as a perfect Catch-22: David Mayo gets declared suppressive for claiming to be an authoritative source of SCN technology.
ASHO Crew didn't seem to have a problem. I heard several expressing big wins that they understand how even if the physical body of the letter-writer was someone else's, it was still Ron they were channelling, etc. And if you're not a disaffected, lower-condition, purveyor of "enemy-line," then you'll happily see it that way.
"Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth." (Bob)