I just said “hi” to Nancy and your behalf and she said to return the same to you and that it is nice to hear from you.

Yep DeoMorto was my handle in those days. 🙂

You have been doing a great job since you got out, Chuck. just awesome.

Great story. Janet Weiland, gees, she’s still there.

Also, she’s the lady who has climbed up the mast in that one big group well deck photo of the Apollo with LRH in the white MC suit, she’s up the pole that’s her.

Wow, she’s a diehard, and she’s mentioned even in one of the academic’s recent books, “Among the Scientologists” which is so hard to read and take at all seriously, but she’s doing her duty telling Hubbard BS fibs. A true diehard she is.

Janet also was the one who chased Tory through LAX, that day Tory Christman was flying to Clearwater to join up with the LMT.

My gosh, Janet could be the “mule” (a Lawrence Wright word) meaning a core person around which to write a huge long “pro” (nutty to the core) view of a diehard Sea Org OSA PR person, for Hubbard, for Scientology.

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Thanks again Mick, you’re posting on ARS was pivotal, when I learned you were you, I think you used to post as Deo Moto or something, when I learned it was you, that just boosted my faith in the ex’s who were posting on ARS way back. Say hi to Nancy and son.

I do not know how many members of Christian Science there but there are enough of them to support an extensive network of Retirement homes – I know a couple of people who work in that environment.

A fact that most ignore about Christian Science is that the “true believers” are as bad as Scientologists when it comes down to disconnection.

This is form personal experience. One of our good friends here in Denver was the mother of two children, the elder a boy was in good health and the younger daughter called Hayley who had this fatal condition where she just did not grow. Hayley was a wonderful little girl and her brother doted on her.

Their grandparents had NEVER been to see them since Hayley was born. They would have nothing at all to do with them. When Hayley died there were a lot of people at her funeral – including us of course, she was a well loved child. The grandparents never attended and had not even called.

Christian Science is the “nice” thing people think it is.

Great points indeed. It was my vocal unappreciation of Hubbard fatuous Battlefield Earth that ran me into trouble in the SO. Janet Weiland was PPRO EU IIRC – she was fairly new to the job and was rushing around gushing about what the genius Hubbard had produced with this turgid tome of his. We were in some sort of briefing pr meeting She mde the mistake of asking what people thought of the book and made the mistake of of picking me out to answer – I was CO AOSH EU and, IIRC I was the only native English speaker in the group of AOSJ EU staff. I just said that I thought it was childish rubbish and that you could tell the LRH had been left behind by Sci-Fi writing and development – what he wrote back in his pulp fiction was of the same level as the others. But they had carried on writing and Sci Fi had moved on.

Personally I figure HUbbard was still a pulp writer and he figured the more words he used the more he would get paid.

Next thing I know I got a KR from Janet. Which I just laughed at.

Mike this was the incident that got me interested in exposing Scientology as a never-in. It was the first story in Bent Corydon’s book, which I stumbled upon at a Tower Records. From there, it was on to the internet and down the rabbit hole.

Good comparison. Also bear in mind that, while psychiatric abuses were common a century ago modern psychiatry is more toward actual cure and not the horrid monster Scientology makes it out to be.

So how LRH sold this “unique” idea to Moracaan Royalty to use religious artifact as lie detector ?

Is it their side business ,off the books activity ?

Did they pulled it alone ?

It’s opening a new and sinster chapter of cold War era , the Golden period of Cults in Western world.

Hubbard had a grand plan to bring sec checking “tech” to the King’s security forces so they could weed out threats.

When there was an attempted coup shortly thereafter, the Apollo was escorted out of Moroccan waters by the Navy, never to return.

I once had a fictional intelligence officer torture folks by making them listen to Yoko Ono.

https://freelancetraveller.com/features/stories/fihp/fihp10.html

Now that the Chauchat was in Jumpspace, Daevagh needed to speak to Dennis. He knocked on the Captain’s Cabin door.

“It can wait.” Said Daevagh as he slowly backed out of the Captain’s Cabin.