We brought our bag of tricks with us too…stuff to remove scuffs, shoe polish….every uniform inspected beforehand & thread and heavy duty needles to piece the WOOL suit material which was like sewing through IRON. Those damned uniforms weighed a ton.

Ahhh the glory days…performing in rain, and cold winds where the kids’ fingers nearly froze to their instruments. Picky judges…….but it was fun!

We had the Band Front as well….the girls would carry different kinds of Flags & perform with them….synchronized twirling of flags……very pretty…but of course EVERYONE had to be step. I hated those spats too….our shoes were BLACK OXFORDS….hard to see everyone was in step!

Thanks for happy memories Jere!

Skyler…Seriously??? My car is ELEVEN YEARS OLD & I have had NO WARRANTY on it for NINE YEARS. When they call & “should I answer”…they do NOT KNOW the MAKE & MODEL….OR THE YEAR of my car….they have to ASK.

So if they truly KNOW my car warranty is expired or about to expire…shouldn’t they KNOW all this info before hand.

Add to that fact I CALLED BACK TWO OR THREE OF THESE NUMBERS….only to find out that the person on the phone number I CALLED is NOT CONNECTED TO THIS AT ALL…the SPOOF these phone numbers……

A few times I TOLD THEM my car had over 250,000 MILES ON IT (which it does NOT, I just said that to get RID of them)…once I mentioned the 250,000…THEY HUNG UP ON ME…ahahhaa! Good Riddance!

Yes…same with my local medical facility…….decades ago I call OUR Physician’s number & spoke directly to his Office Manager or NURSE….now I have to press 1, 2, 3, 4 OR leave a message to be called back….I COULD BE DEAD BY THEN….

I truly appreciate your feedback….it’s good to know I’ve got friends that have dealt with the same bullcrap I have & FULLY understand…

Ha ha ha! Good one 🙂 Yeah, how could I have missed THAT?

Chuck,

Many thanks for your detailed insights to this twisted cult.

All I’m hearing is the state of “clear” is not really clear of anything at all real or imagined.

Andy,

The answer is LRH had “body-thetans” still bugging him, when he died. He felt, I presume, that everyone else on earth who are lesser aware than him (witness the session worksheet paper from one of Hubbard’s late in life solo sessions, him doing his solo auditing, solo quackery, to himself).

In the LRH funeral/death/memorial announcement event, Pat Broeker held up this worksheet which Pat states is from a Hubbard “OT 10” session.

The presumption, if you are versed in how deep other people have gone into their past tracks, like Hubbard, searching for “case” problems, as was Hubbard’s concept for all Hubbard’s mind/spiritual researches, you would see that Hubbard apparantly went WAY deeper into the past track/past lives time to dig up “case” blocking events.

So, in hindsight, Hubbard tried going deeper and deeper, further towards I presume, to ancient memories which happened subsequent to Hubbard’s own creation of his own Home Universe. That’d be my logical conclusion, he was searching around way way back on the time track, for ancient “case” blocking incidents, to address with some sort of spiritual talk pseudo-therapy for humans to use.

Now, all this for context, then also we know Hubbard was running OT 7 some more, on himself, in the end of his life, and he failed at ridding some of the final “body-thetans” he still had lingering and bothering him up into the final months of his life. That is per Sarge, that is in the priceless interview Lawrence Wright did with Sarge. People who avoid listening to this info from Sarge, are denying themselves quite important info that LRH told Sarge, about LRH’s case. There is logically more, we don’t have LRH’s final solo “case folders” to look through, but apparantly two persons, Pat Broeker and Ray Mithoff, have seen and probably have tried wrapping their heads around LRH’s final case status himself, and know of LRH’s troubles exorcising these final “body-thetans” off himself.

Hubbard had a convient explanation, which is stated by Hubbard several points in the non confidential “tech” (quackery) writings. Hubbard said some cases are “bypassed cases” which means superficially deep and NOT self reflecting enough to dig deep like Hubbard (as he states in Keeping Scientology Working, where Hubbard briefly mentions himself rising above the reactive mind far in greater degree than anyone else in earth history). So, the Hubbard self concept is that Hubbard dug deep, and others will try to follow.

And if Hubbard was having trouble with some additional “body-thetans” at the end of his life, per Hubbard’s logic, others would also. Thus everyone needs to do the thorough searching for their lingering “body-thetans” and thus that’s why so much exorcism, and why OT 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 are necessary, to really get people digging deep enough to find and exorcise all their “body-thetans’.

All the normal citizen criticism and skepticism, of course, that is valid, and this is all just advanced megalomania and egomania on Hubbard’s part. He was delusionally self absorbed in his spiritual superiority to “rise above the reactive mind” himself, and charge deep into his spiritual past lives, etc, etc.

And package and sell this to others, I needn’t have even tried to give his further justifications for his quackery snipe hunting exorcism, and for sure, whatever reason a person decides to quit the Hubbard quackery and exorcism, the sooner the better and any reason to quit it, good for that person’s choice to quit the crap.

Freezoners who routinely skip the overdoing of the exorcism OT levels, that’d be a wise move, the less exorcism you force yourself to do, the better, since it’s all bogus anyways.

Thanks, Skyler 🙂

Oh, Aqua. I sure do hope that you will accept my explanation. I am Canadian and I truly do believe that you are just exactly what you said you are and that you will be just whatever is said. I sure do wish we could have this talk in private. But it is really not all that important. I am happy to say to you whatever I want to say – be that in public or in private. Aqua, you really do mean a lot to me and I don’t care who knows that.

Aqua, if you ever plan to come to Canada, please let me know so that I can meet you and greet you and arrange for your satisfactory accomodation while you’re here. I would love to meet you.

OK and anyway. I just would not ever have guessed that. Please oh please do try to forgive and forget me. This is just something which I feel that I would never ever ever be able to explain. But, I do not ever think that I ever could have explained this at all. Not at all.

Aqua.

Oy! (that is a special Canadian expression Canadians reserve and use only for other Canadians who are close friends). You are a special lady and I am very proud and grateful to think you might consider yourself to be my friend.

Oh well, I was saying that I strongly empathize with Mike because it seems to me this blog is using a rather old blogging system and Mike is almost certainly not a programmer or analyst or anything like that. So, it must be difficult for him to manage upgrading his blog to use the latest version of his blog software and to keep on top of where he can get any better systems that make it possible for him to use the best software with the latest security to keep us all safe.

I would really love to have a few modern features in this blog, such as the ability for us to send private messages to each other or the ability for us to send some email addresses to selected people so that we can communicate publicly with email and have a relatively safe way to store our email addresses.

There are several other capabilities that would be very useful – especially text editing capabilities. The software that supports this blog is rather simple and easy to learn. But it would be so useful to have some additional capabilities – especially some new text editing capabilities. By “easy to learn”, I mean it is easy to learn for Mike – not how we use it to write posts. It must be 20 times more difficult for Mike because he has to stay on top of all its features and much more ….

If you wanted to create your own blog, you would have to find some existing system (probably one that is also free) that you can install on your PC and then make it available to the public. You would have to learn and understand all of its features and capabilities so that when people have problems, you will be able to help them. You would need to have some good communication with the people who created that system and who I assume would maintain it. That must not be very easy if the system you choose is free for you to use. In fact, it must be extremely difficult. For most people who host their own blogs, I would guess they have to spend an awful lot of time dealing with problems and reading and learning about how their system works. Can you imagine how much time Mike has to spend dealing with his blogging system and how little time he has left to write his daily blog? I must say that I cannot imagine how he finds the time. I would guess he must spend at least 40 hours per day working on his blog. That must be a real problem because, as you almost certainly know, there are only 23 hours in the day.

OK. I can see this is not going to be as humorous or entertaining as I would like it to be. So, I better go back to sleep and I will just say, “Please stay safe and be well and please forgive me for writing such silly stuff. I will try to do better when I get some sleep.”