Great info Dan!

You have a good memory!

The Messenger TRs can be mis-coached, depending on what the coach expects! Some messengers were upper toned, and didn’t act the total jerks that other messengers did!

You can read of some of the funny stories Janis Grady tells, if you are ex Sea Org, and go to the XSO chat site, and read Janis’ funny stories.

One messenger story sticks out, where LRH was super pissed, ordered the cook (Arden Hansen, I think) to the RPF for “poisening” or making him sick, and Janis got that order, and Janis went to the late Cathy Cariotaki, who was CO Household Unit and Arden’s boss, and Janis and Cathy figured out how NOT to RPF Arden! Janis and Cathy knew Arden was NOT trying to poison LRH, and they acted so as to keep Arden on post!

Typical of good people, who have done their posts all up and down the whole Sea Org crazy ladder all through Sea Org history.

I myself, I almost never wrote KRs, instead I kept a little scoreboard in my head of those staff who DID write KRs, and tried to meliorate those points in their KRs that I saw. “Chit wars” or KR wars are a juvenile losing game for everyone, and it struck me as totalitarian (I ws a cold war military brat, and knew of the East Germans being in that sickening mode of turncoats on themselves, as pressured on them by their extremist totalitarian communist society, and it is just wrong, better to NOT write KRs, and just later try to directly advise the erring staff member of their mistakes privately in an upbeat way).

There’s just no generalizations that will always ring true.

But I’m no longterm supporter of the Scientology movement, I think it’s overladen with too many pitfalls and it frankly does not attrack and keep enough smart people to run the place, and it’s only strengths are those few positive things Hubbard left in the works that aren’t totally countermanded by the other things Hubbard wrote, that frankly ought NOT be church policy (disconnection needs to go, OSA needs to go and all OSA’s dirty work needs to end).

I guess these new islands of friendly trained Scientologists, inspired and feeling safe enough to set up pretty good group setups, are the way of the future. Just carry on and do it, and with the internet, people leaving Scientology’s bilking machine can find these new alternative Scientology setups.

Thank goodness for the internet!

I enjoy all your posts Dan!

And to Terry, I send this link to new religion scholars to further contact you Terry, and hopefully this saner trend of Scientology practice gets more notice.

(I’m still an utra critic and skeptic, but those thoughts I hold for other forums.)

I love hearing stories like this and hearing of wins with standard scientology. This is how scientology is supposed to be delivered – on a help flow with exchange in abundance! Very, Very Well Done to all who have contributed to making this wonderful service available.

Congrats on your wins Terry and VVVWD to John Aaron Williams for putting the courseroom there and making it in tech.

as others have stated, The Co$ is dead and therefore can only produce death.

And so we work to carry on LRH’s legacy and to keep the light of promise and hope of what Scientology means to us burning bright in the Indie Field!

THANK YOU MIKE FOR POSTING THESE “LIFE IS GOOD” STORIES!
My life is good, they make it even better!

Dear Hallie Jane, Please have your people get in touch with John right away. They will be well treated and I have no doubt they will receive a standard Bridge. It’s exciting to see people able to move on up, safely and per LRH.

I won’t go into great detail but let me just say …Great…Great…Great!!!
We about half way in with tremendous wins and I think we are just setting up for the heavy fireworks ahead! The NOT’s tech is amazing and I will add that it is not a “metaphor” for anything. It is exactly as it appears to be.

met•a•phor
Noun
1.A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
2.A thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, esp. something abstract.

John was in CMO PAC at the same time as when I worked in various other orgs there, mainly the ASHOs. Many of the CMO crew there would let their status go to their heads, I think. I remember hearing that there were “Messenger TRs” that they were trained on, but I never got a chance to study these, so I don’t know what sort of an indoctrination they may have brought about. If these TRs were what was responsible for making most of these kids act like arrogant demanding know-bests, I am happy to say that, with John Aaron Williams, those TRs were very “out”.

John’s TRs were of the auditory variety: friendly and helpful. His attitude as he moved around the base was fun and flippant: always bright and granting beingness, even to those not in his echelon of management. What a relief!

And he maintained that attitude, I am sure, under some quite stressful environments.

So I am confident that The Courseroom will be an ongoing success. That’s just what people at 4.0 and above on the tone scale do: make successes out of themselves, their environments, and the people around them.

Nice to hear from Terry Brawley too. Whenever we talked, it was ALWAYs friendly and full of beingness granted. Kayaking and stained glass??? That’s good shifting gears since being out. Great to hear this good news.

And then to read in your comments that Randy and Kaye Smith and Tim Swanson are unfolding their wings in LA!

These are definitely “islands of friendliness”!

One of my most favorite posts so far, Mike Rinder, and I am sure there are many more stories like these you will be bringing us. For me, posts celebrating the success of the Independent world of Scientology are far more encouraging than the posts regarding the slow asphyxiation of the corporate church: the latter bring me close to tears; the former inspires.

Hi Christopher, Good to hear from you! I got that you resent the misleadership of the church. I do too.
You worked with some pretty fine people, and leaving the SO can be quite a change. What are you up to now?

I am glad you did this write up. I live in NC not so far from the courseroom and wanted to get the rest of my bridge done. This really helps.