See, lurkers, this is typical Scientology for you. You are injured by them and they declare you to be the "supressive" one. What a pathetic joke they are.

Bastards.

Phineas Fogg




>Chip Gallo <cgallo@deletethisnewsguy.com> wrote in message news:9lraqg0305t@enews1.newsguy.com...
> In 1990, I was sent to LA from Washington, DC to attend a "4 to 6 week
> course" called Key to Life. This was held at the so-called International
> Training Org, diminutively referred to as ITO and housed on the sixth floor
> of the Hollywood Guarantee Building in downtown Hollywood.
>
> Staff from all over the planet (!) were selected for their orgs' KTK
> delivery teams and sent to take this training. At one time or another I was
> "twinned" with an OTVIII from Germany, a high official of "Gold" and several
> OT staff from local orgs in Los Angeles. And me a mere Clear ...
>
> When we arrived, we had to "route in," which in my case took over 6 weeks.
> This routing in period was known about by everyone associated with the KTL
> training but never communicated to those of us making plans for how to
> survive while on full-time training in LA. It instantly doubled the length
> of my stay in LA, but wait! I also needed to do the Life Orientation Course,
> which added 4 to 6 more weeks. And there was KTL course delivery training,
> and training to be an auditor, supervisor or Case Supervisor because the
> KTL/LOC required their own version of each of these. I could easily have
> been there over a year, with no source of income because you can't work a
> "wog" job while on training at ITO.
>
> After I completed the KTL/LOC courses, I started Level 0 training. For this
> I was supposed to purchase a Mark VI meter, books, etc. I had been away from
> home for around 6 months and knew that I couldn't go on with no income.
> After I routed on to the Level 0 checksheet, I tried to see the right people
> to get sent home. At this point I was in no mood to spend weeks or months
> "routing out" so one night, on impulse, I escaped from LA. I told people I
> was moving from the crowded berthing in the Complex to private quarters at
> the Manor. Jumping in a cab, I raced to the Greyhound Bus Station and
> purchased a one-way ticket back to DC.
>
> Nobody figured out that I was "blowing" until my escape was underway. In the
> bus station in Texas, my name was announced as having a phone call. It was
> the DC org ethics officer, trying to get me to go back to LA. When I
> refused, she promised to meet me at the bus station in DC.
>
> I never returned to staff and was declared SP a year later. In truth I had
> not been org staff, but rather an off-lines person who was called in to be
> "cleaned up." They must have been very desperate to send me to ITO in the
> first place. I never would have gone if they had been truthful about how
> long it would take, and I never would have stayed as long as I did if they
> had disclosed everything I needed to know at ITO. The game was to get me
> involved and away from home, and then keep me there for their purposes.
> Students did much of the work at ITO, running the auditing lines and other
> delivery chores. The more students that they could keep there under any
> pretense, the better it was for ITO. And of course now I get a billing from
> Flag every so often, trying to collect $10,000 for these courses.
>
> It seems to me that the KTL/LOC fills a similar need at the orgs. It is a
> lengthy but cheap course to deliver, keeping students in the building where
> they can be regged for other services. The overall effect is mind numbing,
> looking at simplistic pictures all day and defining hundreds of words from a
> simple dictionary. Several of us believed that we experienced telepathic
> powers with other KTL students and I even had people from DC telling me that
> they somehow "knew" things that were going on with me in LA. These effects,
> delusionary or not, were above and beyond the stated claims of the KTL but
> illustrate the risk of being immersed so totally in any Hubbard
> "technology." You can lose touch, begin to believe or accept things with no
> rational explanation, etc.
>
> Moral of the story? Knowing how to know is knowing when to blow.
>
> Chip Gallo
> forgot my clear number
> Declared SP 1991

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