Cringe.
Saint Louis Scientologist Jill Baell-Casto was the one most likely handing out those stupid pamphlets. She drinks the koolaid heavily and is enrolling her grandkids into the cult after getting her kids into it – all but 1
It is a very sad and pathetic life she has lived supporting this evil cult that has robbed her of any normal and fulfilling life.
She thinks she pulls all bad things that happen to her…in
and anything good that happens to her – is due to Scientology
Nothing good happens to her
She is basically a nice person and I hope she gets out of the cult to know the truth even though it may kill her – she deserves to know she was in a cult that scammed her out of her entire adult life

Glad you’re out!!

https://www2.colliers.com/en/Properties/redevelopment-opportunity-in-historic-lafayette-square/USA-2345-lafayette-avenye-st-louis-mo-63104/USA1053322

Like a similar white elephant property that the Boston org bought long ago and has been trying to unload more recently, any deal may be contingent on a the buyer being able to come up with a redevelopment plan and get city approval, which can drag out for years.

The org has switched its “ideal” org plan to renovating and adding a large addition to their existing building, instead. However, in a recent post to another of the old topics about St. Louis, someone reports that they’re not even using the top floor of that building:

http://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-real-state-of-scientology-st-louis-style/#comment-267593

That’s got to make it an extra hard sell to the locals.

I don’t remember seeing it. A dawn to dusk time lapse would be “ideal.”

That would be the point of doing it of course. To show the embarrassing inactivity.

“burning fire of imminent kerSPLAT! (It’s a train coming at them called “Aftermath”.

I agree, that metaphor was WAY too tortured and deserved to be put out of its misery.

Hy Levy goes over how the SO registrars make money in his segment of The Truth R/D by St Pete Times. Registrars made more money than most at the org and if their stats were up made monetary bonuses and stuff, which the other staff didn’t. Hy made enough money to buy his wife nice jewelry and other things.

It was both a dawn, and a boom-bust phenomenon.

The jump in use of the term “astral projection” leveled off and held steady for decades, presumably because of continued interest in what could generally be termed the “new age.”

However, prevalence of the term “scientology” spiked from 1967 to 1974, but then took a precipitous drop until about 1982, when it leveled off at about about a third of its peak – and only a bit more than double what it had been in the 1950s – and then continued on more or less at the reduced level through the end of the century. That basically follows the trajectory of the rise and fall of the baby boom youth movement, and I think illustrates the backdrop against which the orgs and missions were struggling over a shrinking pie, heading for an inevitable reckoning with reality – and we know how that turned out.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=scientology&year_start=1950&year_end=2018&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cscientology%3B%2Cc0

“. . . with a typical big jump in the late 1960s and into the mid 1970s.”

Yep. It was the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius with many people joining in from the anti-war, anti-establishment and psychedelic “revolutions”. Elron wasn’t yet maintaining dictatorial control over all of the orgs and missions even with all of his internal control mechanisms already built into the subject.

I think astral planing was accomplished by maintaining a silver string attached to your body while tooling around the cosmos. Mr. Hubbard tool it a step further and said that no silver string was necessary. That sounds like a good way to get “Lost in Space”. (joke)

There was no shortage of “possibilities” presented.