The Little Thread Which Grew - the Apollo '73 to Everything But

[CarmeloOrchards]

Not "A Little Bit" of Heaven

This is sort of a NOTS and whatnot post. We'll just have to see where it ends up.

Back when NOTS was the big deal at Flag in 1980?? Julie Beard Gerbode Spickler ran me on it in Palo Alto. I got this at a very reduced rate (free) because we're family. It was terrific stuff. She and Phil had paid hundreds of thou (I assume) for the same stuff, only they had to travel and live in Florida in the heat and humidity soaked summer. So all in all, it was a very good deal. I don't remember much about it, other than it cured my insanity de jour. One thing I remember is running family track. My name is Edward Berwick. My father had the same name. His grandfather, Edward Berwick, Jr. came to Carmel Valley, California, USA in 1860. I've got a grandson with the same name. -- what gives?

anyway... back to my story

consequently I am a farm boy.

I remember as a kid drinking home made red wine under an old wooden water tower with other farmers--not sneaky, just lunch. and chew the fat. It was a moment out of Steinbeck.

Steinbeck, a guy who used to walk out to our house in the (Carmel) Valley, and be so sweaty, my grandma would cringe.

Right now, I'm standing at the kitchen counter relating this to you on a laptop with wifi, drinking sangria, as my fish fries.

This is such a huge present time moment with ownership of my "bloodline" and complete ownership of who I am in that chain.

I've got Moby Grape blaring from my Mac on a JBL sound system, so you know it's me, and not a great grandfather or parent.

Sangria is what Martha Weller taught me how to make back in 1971. sngria means "blood" - basically cheap red (or you can use white) wine with fresh squeezed fruit juice. So delicious on a hot summer day. Today is a nicely warm spring day.

I had been frying my fish with a cast iron pan. I just got off ebay (where one of my kids is an alpha geek) a Revere Ware fish frying pan. It is elongated for fish, stainless steel clad copper with a brass handle. It rocks. I love Revere Ware. I love OLD Revere Ware. The copper transmits the heat efficiently. The stainless doesn't stick and it cleans easily. Martha turned me on to Revere Ware too. Our daughter "stole" a lot of our Revere Ware for her kitchen. Good choice.

The connections just keep flowing.

I just seared some Ahi Tuna that I had covered in black sesame seeds. Raw (rare) inside, delicious hot or cold.

and I did some sole, in butter with pepper. very simple and yet melts in your mouth taste.

I was raised on sardines and fresh fish and fresh vegetables and fruit.

Of course, our youngest child shared all of this with me. He's the one wearing the wet fur coat because we just came from the beach. He really looks pitiful when he's hungry, and he's hungry whenever food is around. Now that the food is gone, he's laying on the door mat soaking up sun rays.

Out in the yard, soaking in the sun are plants, flowers, trees soaking up the water I gave them at 5AM, when I got the morning paper.

You can take the boy off the farm, but you can't take the farm out of the boy. The family culture is mine, as it was my parents, and their parents, ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWwayDfJtkE

 

[afaceinthecrowd]

Great Pic, great story, great stuff, Carmelo!

I cook with Revere Ware and Calphalon except for my electric skillet which is an "oil core" Salad Master (very, very nice). When I was a kid we used to have fresh caught pan fried brook trout for breakfast often...yummmmm!

I make my own Sangria, too.

Face

 

[justsayin']

that was a nice story. you're original bay area! i'm a fifth generation san franciscan but i don't think i know any nice stories like that. and i still have my original pots and pans from the 70's (revereware) that i bought because that was the brand my mother had and HERS never wore out. so what's the difference between old and new revereware?

 

[CarmeloOrchards]

that was a nice story. you're original bay area! i'm a fifth generation san franciscan but i don't think i know any nice stories like that. and i still have my original pots and pans from the 70's (reverewear) that i bought because that was the brand my mother had and HERS never wore out. so what's the difference between old and new reverewear?

I'm 5th gen CA too! My GG Grandfather was first governor of the state, Peter Burnett (on my mother's side).

Older Revere Ware is heavier with more stainless steel and especially more copper. I found that like anything from Hershey bars to houses have had cheaper and / or fewer quality ingredients composing the product.

Old Pyrex glass can handle oven to fridge and vice versa. Newer breaks.

 

[FoTi]

Hat, thanks for posting the pics of the new Tampa Org. They're beautiful. That's the purdiest org I've ever seen. They did a fantastic job with them old bones. Looks to me like it outshines Flag.

Too bad this is all for a brainwashing cult.

It would make a beautiful museum/art gallery/restaurant with a few nice shops.

I wonder what DM plans to do with it?

2,000 people at the opening? I wonder if everyone at Flag was ordered to attend.....public and staff....."Mandatory Attendance"?

Did any people fly in or come from a long distance for this opening? Anybody know?

How many staff and public do they actually have at the Tampa Org these days?

 

[FoTi]

Carmelo, nice story. You are fortunate to have this kind of family background/history.

 

[Mark A. Baker]

I'm 5th gen CA too! My GG Grandfather was first governor of the state, Peter Burnett (on my mother's side). ....

Insurrectionist.


Mark A. Baker,
6th Generation Californio

 

[CarmeloOrchards]

something very much worth reading

Face wrote this on another thread. It deserves wide readership.

I’ve brought this up 3 times before on ESMB and I’m gonna say it again.

The first time Marty blew was a time he coulda really done some serious damage to the Cof$ and DM—the timing was there and he was in the know. What did Marty, The “On ‘Source’” do? He S-O-L-D O-U-T! He flinched and he sold out so that he could become the biggest, bestess “Tech” Stud on the Planet. That’s how he makes his living now and the only reason he’s getting away with it is because of Mayo and all the folks he’s now trashing.

I said it before here and I’ll say it again…Marty sees himself as “The Lieutenant” from “Final Blackout…he’s sees himself as THE Loyalist of the Officer's. There once was a time that Marty could have really done some good. Like the Cof$, the time is now past. The genie is out of the bottle and can never be gotten back in. “IT” is all over. He doesn’t see this because of his blind spots, one of which I already said, is that he has no knowledge, experience and understanding of what once was…what he actively and avidly worked to destroy.

Bully for Marty if he’s getting’ some folks out…most of them wouldn’t be there now to be got out if it wasn’t for Marty and his main squeeze Mike.

I knew them both and I can guarantee you I’d never want either of them in my foxhole.

Face

 

[RogerB]

CarmeloOrchards Wrote:

In Financial Crisis, No Prosecutions of Top Figures


GRETCHEN MORGENSON and LOUISE STORY, On Thursday April 14, 2011, 7:33 am EDT

It is a question asked repeatedly across America: why, in the aftermath of a financial mess that generated hundreds of billions in losses, have no high-profile participants in the disaster been prosecuted?

Yes. I read Gretchen's articles on this in the NY Times . . . but this post of CarmelO's is larger, with more details.

One of the beefs I have on this whole thing is that suing or prosecuting "corporations" is a wrong target.

Corporations are inert. They do nothing unless executives cause things to be done using the facilities of the corporation.

One of the great stupidities of the "system" is the failure to put executives on proper notice that they must execute their duties honestly, within the law.

This can only be done when proper suit and prosecution for crimes is carried against malfeasant executives.

Bank fraud is a Federal crime . . . and the executives and brokers who incited, facilitated and rewarded staff and themselves for the management of and execution of fraudulent lone applications (NINJA loans) should be prosecuted just as those (or at least the one I read of recently) who applied for such a loan with false income statements, known to be false by the broker and bank executives processing and granting the loan.

But only the schmuck who got the loan was prosecuted even though it was known he was advised to apply with false income statements by the broker.

But then, the system only worked due to the new game of packaging these mortgages into Collateralised Mortgage Backed "Securities." So the game became to get as many mortgages issued as possible . . . quality or truth in lending didn't matter because the crap could be sold off into "the system."

And there was knowing fraud all along the line . . . hence the euphemism, "sub prime."

What this article reveals is the extent of political corruption the Wall Street gang of financiers have affected on the US.

Rog

 

[Dilettante]

This is sort of a NOTS and whatnot post. We'll just have to see where it ends up.

Back when NOTS was the big deal at Flag in 1980?? Julie Beard Gerbode Spickler ran me on it in Palo Alto. I got this at a very reduced rate (free) because we're family. It was terrific stuff. She and Phil had paid hundreds of thou (I assume) for the same stuff, only they had to travel and live in Florida in the heat and humidity soaked summer. So all in all, it was a very good deal. I don't remember much about it, other than it cured my insanity de jour. One thing I remember is running family track. My name is Edward Berwick. My father had the same name. His grandfather, Edward Berwick, Jr. came to Carmel Valley, California, USA in 1860. I've got a grandson with the same name. -- what gives?

anyway... back to my story

consequently I am a farm boy.

I remember as a kid drinking home made red wine under an old wooden water tower with other farmers--not sneaky, just lunch. and chew the fat. It was a moment out of Steinbeck.

Steinbeck, a guy who used to walk out to our house in the (Carmel) Valley, and be so sweaty, my grandma would cringe.

Right now, I'm standing at the kitchen counter relating this to you on a laptop with wifi, drinking sangria, as my fish fries.

This is such a huge present time moment with ownership of my "bloodline" and complete ownership of who I am in that chain.

I've got Moby Grape blaring from my Mac on a JBL sound system, so you know it's me, and not a great grandfather or parent.

Sangria is what Martha Weller taught me how to make back in 1971. sngria means "blood" - basically cheap red (or you can use white) wine with fresh squeezed fruit juice. So delicious on a hot summer day. Today is a nicely warm spring day.

I had been frying my fish with a cast iron pan. I just got off ebay (where one of my kids is an alpha geek) a Revere Ware fish frying pan. It is elongated for fish, stainless steel clad copper with a brass handle. It rocks. I love Revere Ware. I love OLD Revere Ware. The copper transmits the heat efficiently. The stainless doesn't stick and it cleans easily. Martha turned me on to Revere Ware too. Our daughter "stole" a lot of our Revere Ware for her kitchen. Good choice.

The connections just keep flowing.

I just seared some Ahi Tuna that I had covered in black sesame seeds. Raw (rare) inside, delicious hot or cold.

and I did some sole, in butter with pepper. very simple and yet melts in your mouth taste.

I was raised on sardines and fresh fish and fresh vegetables and fruit.

Of course, our youngest child shared all of this with me. He's the one wearing the wet fur coat because we just came from the beach. He really looks pitiful when he's hungry, and he's hungry whenever food is around. Now that the food is gone, he's laying on the door mat soaking up sun rays.

Out in the yard, soaking in the sun are plants, flowers, trees soaking up the water I gave them at 5AM, when I got the morning paper.

You can take the boy off the farm, but you can't take the farm out of the boy. The family culture is mine, as it was my parents, and their parents, ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWwayDfJtkE

I like where you are, its cozy.
:wink2:

 

[Hatshepsut]

Hey! It's 4 in the mornin...ANYTHING GOES!!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNiIld-vtK8&feature=player_detailpage

 

[lkwdblds]

Comments on two things

Two comments on Carmelo's fine post.

#1 Early NOTS - It was promoted that each session was equivalent to a whole Dianetic chain, a rundown, or even a Grade. The name, New Era Dianetics was very misleading. It didn't have much in common with Dianetics other than it seemed to be able to get rid of one's "somatics".

Dianetics could do something similar but the procedures were long and arduous. With NOTS, one would merely find a somatic on or in their body and focus their attention on it; often it vanished "by inpection". If that did not occur, the auditor ran a few commands of the NOTS valence technique and that quickly got rid of it. When the process was over, the person had not just a floating needle but usually had a floating Tone Arm.

The word was out that virtually anything could be run using this technique, not just somatics. One could get rid of anything which they didn't want. This included fears, phobias, compulsions, evil intentions, negative postulates, etc..

I did some NOTS in 1979 and 1981 at Flag and a lot more at AOLA. I bought into the party line and felt that I could get rid of anything about me that was non optimum. A long era of big bucks income and a lot of happy clients for Flag ensued. We thought that Hubbard had done it, invented the great catch all process that could cure anything. Mayo was not mentioned as a contributor to NOTs. Later on, when he was in disrepute, people were ordered in to retread NOTS so as to eliminate any of the "harmful" Mayo influence. Flag was raking in money in unheard of amounts. I was hearing figures of $3 million to $4 million a week. I don't know if this is true.

This was mainly just on audited NOTS but then after that was Solo NOTS where a person would take several years running out everything on their case.

Somewhere in the mid to late 90's there was a train wreck. People on Solo NOTS were not really doing that well personally and many were becomming chronically ill. Those that attested to completion, came out into the public on speaking tours, etc. and the public could see that they did not have the abilities and levels of case that the "church" was touting. Both my ex wife and I were lied to routinely by New OT 7's and 8's. No apologies were ever given.

At that point in 1993, my ex wife quietly dropped out of C of S without letting me or any of her Scio friends know. She enrolled in law school and has made a career for herself in law. Finally, in 2001, I got out too. Only then did she let me know that she had left for good in 1993.

#2 The John Stewart Song - That line, "A lot of people doing the best they can." That really grabs an old timer by the heartstrings. That seemed to be the way things were in the 30's (before my time), the 40's, the 50's and the very early 60's. The death of Kennedy and the sudden emergence of the Beatles in the USA immediately after seemed to bring the curtain down on that era.

As the phrase suggests, people had a lot of self reliance in those days, there were not large amounts of governmental assistance for the needy in those days. In that generation, "called the 'Greatest' generation by Tom Brokaw, it seemed to consist of a certain group of beings that had quite a bit of self reliance, more in the spirit of our Founding Fathers. That generation seems to include people born all the way up to 1945, of which I am one.

The following generation, people born after WWII, seemed to be led by a group of beings fed up with WWI and especially WWII and all the violence and killing which had ensued. That generation led society in a whole different direction than that of their parents. Someone born around 1940, such as myself ended up like a fish out of water. When the Beatles arrived in 1964, I was only 24 but was out of step with the youth of the day, only 5 years younger than me. I wore slacks, sports coats and ties, had short hair and refused to touch any street drugs because the law said they were illegal. It got even worse when I was 30 and the other generation was 24 or 25. Those of us in my age group were even more out of step as that group started to take over the leadership of society.

In retrospect, that was one of the reasons that I was attracted to C of $. The majority of people in the "church" were from 5 to 9 years younger than me but they accepted me as a cool guy because I left the establishment to do Scientology. C of $ was a bridge to connect me to the new Baby Boomer generation of the day and enabled me to gain access to them.
Lakey

 

[Ted]

Another Process

[...]

When the Beatles arrived in 1964, I was only 24 but was out of step with the youth of the day, only 5 years younger than me. I wore slacks, sports coats and ties [...]

Lakey

You coulda been a contender.

In that age bracket, someone 5 years older, as were the Beatles to many of us, would have been an opinion leader. All you had to was pick up a guitar, bass, or pound on some drums. We didn't know that the Beatles were doing drugs until later. They were billed as washed clean and blown dry in their matching suits.

I see from your photos that you sport an early Beatle haircut. Let it grow a tad on the sides, then you have a Beatle haircut circa 1965. Let it grow a bit more, and there you are in the "Rubber Soul" era.

"What would (being 5 years younger) have gotten you into?" Run to a flat point.

"What would (being 5 years younger) have gotten you out of?" Run to a flat point.

"What could you prove (by being 5 years younger)?" Run to a flat point then go back to the first question.

I don't expect you to run anything at my suggestion. I am just saying, your answers would satisfy my curiosity.

 

[CarmeloOrchards]

stay young

one thing anyone can do to stay young is go for a walk

Nick Wallenda out walking in Santa Cruz yesterday

He'll be out walking again today. If you live in the Bay Area, come see at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk at noon and 5

 

[lkwdblds]

Wow! Very interesting.

You coulda been a contender.

In that age bracket, someone 5 years older, as were the Beatles to many of us, would have been an opinion leader. All you had to was pick up a guitar, bass, or pound on some drums. We didn't know that the Beatles were doing drugs until later. They were billed as washed clean and blown dry in their matching suits.

I see from your photos that you sport an early Beatle haircut. Let it grow a tad on the sides, then you have a Beatle haircut circa 1965. Let it grow a bit more, and there you are in the "Rubber Soul" era.

"What would (being 5 years younger) have gotten you into?" Run to a flat point.

"What would (being 5 years younger) have gotten you out of?" Run to a flat point.

"What could you prove (by being 5 years younger)?" Run to a flat point then go back to the first question.

I don't expect you to run anything at my suggestion. I am just saying, your answers would satisfy my curiosity.

You know Ted, your post is very interesting. Heber Jentzsch was 5 years OLDER than me and he was doing what you suggest and he was well received by the younger people. When I first arrived on the Scio scene, Heber had moderately longish hair and wore a red bandana wrapped around his forehead and played guitar and sang. His attire was sort of "Hippy Lite"! His two most popular songs were "Abraham, Martin, Bobby and John" aka "it seems that the good, they do die young" and a funny song about a dog, "Old Blue" who chased various prey up into a tree whereupon Old Blue's owner would shake the tree, the critter would fall out and Old Blue would fornicate with the trapped critter until it died. I believe that in the final stanza, the trapped critter would not fall out of the tree so that the dog's owner went into the tree to get the critter to fall to the ground.

You can guess what happened, the dog's owner fell out of the tree and and his way down, he yelled out to the bystanders, "Shoot Old Blue!!"

I don't know about running those processes on myself or having Candy run them. We'll see how it goes. They would have to read or have interest for me. I'll report back on what happens if I run them.

Here's a link to the song which Heber did best song by Dion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPdYViBu0is
Lakey

 

[CarmeloOrchards]

Heber also did "Tiptoe Through the Tulips"

This is the best version that I could find, the way Heber did it. He did it the way The New Christy Minstrels did it (with Barry McGuire)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhcuUo2Wf5Q

 

[justsayin']

carmelo, you're killing me! i miss my "homeland". what kind of nut job walks on top of a ferris wheel? looks like an awesome day there. as opposed to the yuck of oregon weather!

 

[Ted]

[...]

I don't know about running those processes on myself or having Candy run them. We'll see how it goes. They would have to read or have interest for me. I'll report back on what happens if I run them.

[...]
Lakey

Your comment would seem to indicate that the process is unnecessary.

As I said, your answers would satisfy my curiosity, not necessarily yours.

How about that Beatle haircut? Paul McCartney is still rocking & rolling and hitting it with a younger crowd. Physical age simply isn't a factor if you have the cool factor.

 

[CarmeloOrchards]

carmelo, you're killing me! i miss my "homeland". what kind of nut job walks on top of a ferris wheel? looks like an awesome day there. as opposed to the yuck of oregon weather!

We're leaving in just a minute to go watch. I'll take my i phone with me to record. I don't know how good a shot I'll get.

from today's Santa Cruz Sentinel

Wild walk, risky ride: Member of legendary Wallenda family plans Saturday stunts at Boardwalk

By JENNIFER PITTMAN
Posted: 04/14/2011 06:25:38 PM PDT



SANTA CRUZ - Nik Wallenda is stopping by the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk on Saturday for a quick walk, then a short motorcycle ride. But if the name sounds familiar, you realize there's a little more involved.

The scion of the legendary high wire-walking family plans to walk atop the moving Ferris wheel, then ride a motorcycle up a thin wire to the top of the 125-foot-high Double Shot tower ride. And oh, yeah, his trapeze artist wife will be suspended below.

"We're keeping up with the times and continuing to do what our family's done for seven generations - doing the unexpected," Wallenda, 32, said Thursday as he was getting ready to set up rigging for the Boardwalk feat. "I'm excited."

The Boardwalk is sponsoring the free-admission stunts to kick off the amusement park's annual spring break festivities.

Viewers will be able to see the noon Ferris wheel event from the beach and from the east end of the park by the San Lorenzo River. The second event, at 5 p.m., will have Wallenda riding his lightweight Yamaha Vertigo up a 350-foot wire from the beach to the Double Shot tower and back. His wife Erendira, of the famous Flying Vasquez family of trapeze artists, will hang from a trapeze under the motorcycle during the risky ride.

"These are some of the most incredible stunts ever attempted in the Boardwalk's 104-year history," said Boardwalk promotions manager Karley Pope. "We are privileged to welcome such a talented member of the Great Wallenda family back to the Boardwalk. It's been a long time."

Wallenda, who made his entertainment debut in a clown suit at age 2, has been walking wires since he was 4. He holds several Guinness world records including Highest Tightrope Crossing by a Bicycle - he rode across a wire suspended 260 feet in the air at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas; Longest Tightrope Crossing by Bicycle - he rode a 235-foot wire; and before that, he, his parents and sister set a record with an eight-person pyramid atop a wire.

The Ferris wheel and Double Shot stunts won't break any records, but Wallenda says it is good to be at a place where his family members once performed.

The Great Wallendas extensive traveling-circus roots date to 18th century Europe. His great-grandfather Karl Wallenda, born in Germany in 1905, brought the family circus entertainment business to America during the last century, gaining notoriety for building multi-level chair pyramids on high wires. He performed at the Boardwalk in 1975, three years before he died in a tragic accident while performing in Puerto Rico.

In 1976, Stephan Wallenda, a nephew to Karl Wallenda, walked the Boardwalk's Skyglider cable with Steve "Unique" McPeak. Nik Wallenda said he was unable to obtain authorization to do the same feat this year.

In the past week, Nik Wallenda has performed in Texas and Los Angeles. Santa Cruz is the latest stop on a worldwide tour that is being documented by a 30-person team for a six-part Discovery Channel series about the Great Wallendas.

Karl Wallenda's most famous walk was a 1,200-foot-long trek across the Tallulah Falls Gorge in Georgia, where 30,000 people watched as the 65-year-old legend performed two separate headstands at more than 700 feet in the air. Eight years later, equipment failure caused his death in Puerto Rico.

Nik Wallenda hopes to complete the same stunt where his grandfather lost his life and one day walk a wire across the Grand Canyon. He already has the permits to do so, according to his personal website.

When he's not performing, Nik and his wife live in Sarasota, Fla., with their three children, ages 13, 10 and 8 - all of whom know how to walk on wires.

IF YOU GO

Nik Wallenda, King of the High Wire



WHAT: Daredevil stunts by Nik Wallenda of the famous Wallenda family will kick off spring break at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.

WHEN: Saturday. Wallenda will walk atop a moving Ferris wheel at noon. He will wide a motorcycle to the top of Double Shot ride at 5 p.m.

WHERE: Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, 400 Beach St., Santa Cruz

COST: Free, open to the public

DETAILS: 426-7433 or 423-5590, www.beachboardwalk.com

Note: The Boardwalk rides will be open daily starting Saturday through May 1.



Other activities

April 20-22: Special family-friendly activities are planned at the Boardwalk including appearances by SpongeBob SquarePants, Patrick Star, Star Wars Clone Trooper, UFC fighter Dan 'The Outlaw' Hardy, and Casey Anderson, 'The Bear Guy' from National Geographic Wild. Musical performances on the beach by School of Rock All-Stars, Sing Blue Silver, and Stung.

DETAILS: www.comcastspringbreak.com

 

[justsayin']

okay, now i remember. it was a wallenda that fell off the high wire and died. don't remember what year that was. i can't watch video on dial-up, but i love the heck outta these pics. i'll continue to live vicariously. lol and thanks!