Well put Dave. When my wife – a Case Cracking Auditor from the good days at SFO – had to do a GAT I study course at CCI, she told me a little about the ordeal. From what I heard, it would be like asking Bill Shoemaker (one of the best horse jockeys ever!) to go back and ride a horse on a merry-go-round to “get the feel” of riding again. The course had ZERO connection to reality. Any who … +1

Under the spreading chestnut tree
I sold you and you sold me
There lie they, and here lie we
Under the spreading chestnut tree

Ahahahahah!
John, you nailed it…..
Greta

Albert Einstein

(How many dictionaries are in a courseroom, and they still can’t spell?)

I remember in our org one of the guys who trained to deliver the GAT when it first came out was a kind-of punk kid who was sent for the training at Flag. I was not one of the ones who did the training for the initial release.

When he came back, a lot of people were raving about, “how much of a changed person he was.” He trained as a Word Clearer.

When all the hype had died down, I found that he could only word clear or false data strip people who ran textbook. In other words if the person just naturally ran smoothly, answering the questions with the generally expected answers with the meter showing what you would hope it shows, like on a GAT drill, he could do it okay.

But the minute you had someone who didn’t just give the expected answers, and needed real guiding and understanding in order to get the word found or what have you, he got totally lost. He had practically zero conceptual understanding. For him, it was just a bunch of memorized actions – when this happens, do this, when that happens, do that – but as soon as someone gave some unexpected answer or the meter didn’t do what he had been led to believe it would always do, he couldn’t word clear his way out of a paper bag.

I remember having to bail him out of many bogged word clearing and false data stripping sessions, and I hadn’t even done the GAT drills up to that time. And I was far from perfect myself but the majority of time, this “new breed of word clearer” was just totally lost.

I couldn’t help but think about this person while reading the above hype. At the time that stuff first came out in 1996, I didn’t recognize the bunk it was communicating, because I wanted it to be true and I hoped it would be true. It took getting out of that bubble, and now reading all that fluff again after being out for a few years it’s absolutely glaring how much BS is inherent in the above statements.

Around the early 1980s, roll call for the BC took *15 minutes* solid. 15. Fucking. Minutes. Because the courtroom was that crowded.

And forget Fdn, that was DAY.

Some “Golden Age” this is.

Gus

Promises that obtaining a ship would “free the planet” were not exactly forthcoming in fruition. So they decided all the public were out ethics. Super Power has been promoted as the key thing that will put the public’s ethics in. So NOW the planet will go free. The WHY has been the consumers.

The feeding trough has been opened for the consumers to feed, as a gift from the spiritually supreme, who have been stopped by the degraded out ethics beings called customers. If the planet doesn’t fly free within months after this release and putting these suppressive public in proper form, there will be no hope left, and Scientology will fail because of the customers. (Laughter)

Witch hunts and justice actions will be thick, it will be a blood bath. You will be able to smell the metal in the air. That is exactly what is going to happen. It has already started in motion upon the people that have been invited to do Super Power that had their telephones disconnected or said, “Um, sorry, busy this week…..” Yes, golden rod has started flying already. From what I understand it looks today as if the business of Scientology is 5% delivering something of value to a customer, 70% begging, 25% witch hunts, legal messes fair gaming and spying. Which eats up more than half of the begging revenue.

There is not one single L.R.H reference that states the way to boom orgs is to release Super Power, not one. But watch the drowning applause of the “L.R.H. fans” at these events. Listen to them chant and mimic the spiritually supreme. Presenting their memberhsip cards although there is a very specific L.R.H. reference to NOT sell memberships, or exclude people.

Contrary to popular opinion that thetans are basically evil and dangerous, it turns out they are mainly gullible , trust openly and willingly for others to think for them, have many learning disabilities and just don’t wanna be lonely. Or left behind . Like pets.