Tory Christman [Facebook public message]
Sand Can---I'm so sorry, if it's true you were "uninvited". You know I'm big on not excluding people, and this wasn't my party. (I do also recognize that people often have groups they're familiar with, thus --not intentionally to leave people out---but by the nature of that, people, self included, do get left out, sometimes). I started having *my* parties----(not this one) for that reason.
Also, I don't know you---so I was never told you (whomever you are) are a "plant". Trust me, I've lived with *that* label since I left Scientology. OSA has spread it for 10 years...and yes, I know it sucks. All I can say is move on, find friends, and connect with people who you love and they love you.♥ Call me and we'll talk: #
Sand Can [Facebook response]
Hi Tory,
Thanks for your splendid reply.

I was told by Gary Hart [CC Treasury] that
you were the switchboard operator at CC at the time I was Yvonne's Celebrity Auditor.
Since I was always in session, and never even knew there was a mess hall nor was I ever invited to dinner with the staff [as Dean Stokes was, according to Dean a couple of days ago by phone] I guess we never met.
I'd love to see some pics of you from that era, posted here on your Facebook if you have any. I'll try to find one of me and post it here on my Photos page.
It's very possible we never met.
But we may have seen each other in passing. My boyfriend at the time who lived with me in my house at the top of Echo Park, was Frank Dunn, the blond 6'6" hunk. He had a band which played at Celebrity Center, called Gemini, named in honor of both our birth signs, along with 6'6" Frank Blumer, who's still in CoS I'm told by his ex wife ex Scientologist and still my friend, Lee Blumer [who was Tech Sec in the early days at CC] and Jim Fleming.
We all blew in 1973 after Yvonne had had me comm ev'd and Heber physically blocked and refused Frank access to Yvonne. Frank Dunn, who had originally found her the wood building on 8th street, was heart broken and I felt extreme hatred for Heber, who had gotten Frank into Scn while they were on the set of PAINT YOUR WAGON, and had been our dearest friend at the start of CCLA.
We all moved to Sausalito where I rented a house boat for us, and the rest is another story.
Spanky had invited me to dinner with Ellen Jones, etc, when I first got to California about 5 years ago.
I was running my retro Horn of Plenty Cafe in Torrance at the time [very far from doing any kind of legitimate auditing for money].
In fact, I call it LIFE SESSIONS: working things out in real life by helping another face one's problems and completing cycles of action. It's completely FREE OF CHARGE. It's PRICELESS, and, putting any price tag on it, devaluates its worth.
LIFE SESSIONS is what I've done for 28 years while HOME IN HAWAII, developing my own TOOL BOOKS comprised of concepts from the I Ching, Carlos Castaneda books, Jung, etc, etc = whatever works.
The person themselves does the work. "No need to believe in a hammer for it to work for you." quoting myself. "You just need to know the proper way to handle it as to make it useful and work for you. No BELIEVING IN IT required here. RESULTS are the proof. etc"
In Scn's eyes, I would be labeled a MASTER SQUIRREL, and, proud of it, mind you.
After I sold the cafe and my children had moved on into their own independent lives, leaving me to flounder in my empty nest, Spanky then invited me to a party at her house where about 30 exscns showed up.
I brought all my photo albums from the old days and shared them with everyone, while we all waited for my ex husband, Ira Chaleff, to show up. [Aida Thomas knows of these photo albums as I brought them to a party at her house when I first met her about 3 years ago].
I guess you now know more about me, Tory, than you ever wanted to know, so I'll end it for now.
I guess it's best that I set it all down in written form, so there can be no misunderstandings, as we all get to know each other.
I do respect you tremendously and all you've done for the independent field, whatever the persuasion. I'm sure it runs the gauntlet, from those totally against even the mention of any of the Scn jargon to those like Pierre, completely practicing the tech in full gear and regalia, in full view of all to see.
My hope is that we can all co-exist and help each other out, regarding the fight with the usurped Church of Scientology.
Personally, I'm not interested in reforming the Church in any way, as I mentioned in my earlier rant.
HAPPY DAY, OH HAPPY DAY, WHEN.........
aloha and NAMASTE,
Candy Swanson
the one who refuses to be limited by labels
Class VIII XDN original OT VII ex Sea Org
MSW Autism Specialist
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