Rmack
Van Allen Belt Sunbather
While reading others stories, I was recalling some of the first times I noticed what the cult taught as an 'out point'. Something that shouldn't be, but is.
I had been sucked into the cult with the promise of the 'bridge being awarded' lie. Being a carpenter, it seemed unlikely I would ever make the kind of money you needed to do the bridge, so it seemed like the thing to do. The S.O. recruiter heartily agreed with me, .
I had been in for a while, done the EPF, and all the preliminary programs, and been posted as an examiner because I did so good, they said. I started asking how I started on the awarded bridge. I had to do a co-audit. But I couldn't do the co-audit because I wasn't trained. I couldn't get trained because I wasn't eligible for the course I needed somehow and had to pay for it, etc, etc.
It seemed suspicious, but you're kept busy, and I was doing the 'sweat program' which is a predecessor to the Purification Rundown. Basically, you jogged in a sweat suit. I was 'squirrelling' big time by doing weight training every other night, so I was in a happy daze of endorphins most of the time.
Then, one day I asked the ASHO day archives IC (this was early eighties, and he had a big black beard, anyone know his name?) How long he had been in the S.O. It was like in the teens of years or something. I then asked how far he was up the bridge, and he hadn't even started Dianetics yet! I was stunned.
I started asking around and discovered that almost no one got the promised free auditing.
I knew one guy in the SO who inherited a few hundred grand, and promptly bought the whole bridge up to OT 3 for him and his new wife. She was smokin' hot, by the way, for sure #1 in our org in the hotness department, and he was a short, chubby, dumpy guy with receding curly hair. But I'm sure it was true love.:wink2:
I think the guy spending all that money solidified it for me; I had signed myself up for slave labor for shitty food and squalorly board for pennies an hour and I wasn't getting any other exchange.
When I had a filling fall out, and found out the 'free medical' promise meant I could get myself down the the UCLA dental school on my couple of days off a month using my own meager resources for transportation to let students practice on me that finally provided the proverbial last straw. I was married, and wasn't the kind of guy to take that lightly, so instead of just leaving I told my div head that I was going off post to handle my dental 'sit'.
No thank you, I'm not submitting any CSW, because I'm not asking for any permission, I'm just going to do this. He didn't know how to handle that. Remember, this was before the big freak-out of the mid 80's (right?) so the screaming at the top of your lungs tech was not disseminated that far from Laffy yet.
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I had been sucked into the cult with the promise of the 'bridge being awarded' lie. Being a carpenter, it seemed unlikely I would ever make the kind of money you needed to do the bridge, so it seemed like the thing to do. The S.O. recruiter heartily agreed with me, .
I had been in for a while, done the EPF, and all the preliminary programs, and been posted as an examiner because I did so good, they said. I started asking how I started on the awarded bridge. I had to do a co-audit. But I couldn't do the co-audit because I wasn't trained. I couldn't get trained because I wasn't eligible for the course I needed somehow and had to pay for it, etc, etc.
It seemed suspicious, but you're kept busy, and I was doing the 'sweat program' which is a predecessor to the Purification Rundown. Basically, you jogged in a sweat suit. I was 'squirrelling' big time by doing weight training every other night, so I was in a happy daze of endorphins most of the time.
Then, one day I asked the ASHO day archives IC (this was early eighties, and he had a big black beard, anyone know his name?) How long he had been in the S.O. It was like in the teens of years or something. I then asked how far he was up the bridge, and he hadn't even started Dianetics yet! I was stunned.
I started asking around and discovered that almost no one got the promised free auditing.
I knew one guy in the SO who inherited a few hundred grand, and promptly bought the whole bridge up to OT 3 for him and his new wife. She was smokin' hot, by the way, for sure #1 in our org in the hotness department, and he was a short, chubby, dumpy guy with receding curly hair. But I'm sure it was true love.:wink2:
I think the guy spending all that money solidified it for me; I had signed myself up for slave labor for shitty food and squalorly board for pennies an hour and I wasn't getting any other exchange.
When I had a filling fall out, and found out the 'free medical' promise meant I could get myself down the the UCLA dental school on my couple of days off a month using my own meager resources for transportation to let students practice on me that finally provided the proverbial last straw. I was married, and wasn't the kind of guy to take that lightly, so instead of just leaving I told my div head that I was going off post to handle my dental 'sit'.
No thank you, I'm not submitting any CSW, because I'm not asking for any permission, I'm just going to do this. He didn't know how to handle that. Remember, this was before the big freak-out of the mid 80's (right?) so the screaming at the top of your lungs tech was not disseminated that far from Laffy yet.
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