Kat offered:
“This is just sad. I’m also a little confused as to what the lure is. It definitely wouldn’t be something I’d want to spend 300,000.00 or more to maybe get to do once or twice…,”

Yes, It IS/was SAD.
But there were smaller carrots early in the con, each just a bit further of a reach, so spending so much wasn’t knowable right at the start. The Pro TRs course was my first step, and “going exterior” while trying to pass that damned 2-hour stare was billed as a ‘taste’ of what we could eventually expect to experience. What *I* wanted was to be able to invisibly invade the school’s girls’ locker room at will.
NEVER.GOING.TO. HAPPEN, I finally realized,
though THAT hasn’t fully sunk in, yet.
Wishful/magical thinking is in our genes, I believe, so is tough to overcome.

Aquamarine offered:
“I can only speak for myself, but I didn’t get into Scientology wanting or expecting super powers. My goals were quite earthly and pedestrian. They still are.”

As well, my goals were pedestrian & Earthy: just the Clear and OT powers that Ron Promised so many times, in so many ways. I figured that humans had had them at ONE time, since so many old-time stories/legends spoke of them (and magic) as being ‘real’, so there was a chance scn could deliver the goods. Little did I know, Ron’s real intent was to enslave everyone lured into his trap by those outrageous claims.

I enjoyed it, quite a lot, in fact. Never mind Foolscap. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

Peabody, if we ever get to meet in person, I’d gladly take you up on that. I’d like to compare the experience to what I’ve been doing on my own since I was 8 or so. It would be instructive.

I’m a never-in and am never going to get sucked in, so no fear.

F***ing awesome!!!

OSD,

This is President Trump. It isn’t necessary for you to hear what Regraded Being’s take on me is even though I know he thinks very highly of me and whatever he would tell you would be flattering.

But because it would him too long to cover how great Trump is and why – I mean, RB and I go back a VERY long way, OK? And he knows every wonderful thing there is to know about Trump. And by the way he might even get mad at me for not giving him the chance to compile the full list himself – all the qualities he and everyone in America, Europe and world except the Fake News Media love and admire about me. He might even get mad at me for taking his thunder away like this. But RB is my good friend and an extremely busy guy with hardly any executive time, so take my word that everything he’ll tell you about me will add up to Trump being terrific in every way, OK? Here it is in a nutshell: Trump = Terrific.

OK, so I bet you didn’t know POTUS follows this blog. Well, it a fact, and do you know why? Its because Trump loves all ex-Scientologists and all ex-Scientologists love Trump. Good luck hearing THAT from the Fake News Media! UNFAIR!

Well, I know how flattered you must be by this attention, and how interesting it is for you, and all uneducated people like you, when I talk about myself like this, OK?

But fair is fair.

Its your turn now.

Now, YOU talk about me.

Yes, dg! Perhaps it would be best to not generalize about exteriorization. What for some could be nice exteriorization experiences could for others be totally ill advised nightmares with lasting, harmful repercussions.

Thanks, dg 🙂

Great post, Peabody. Terrific in every way, seriously.