One of the about half a dozen former Int Base staff, who want to write their experiences in the future, are currently in the same predicament that I was in.

When you route out of the Int Base or via the PAC RPF, like I did, you really have NO initial clue about the whole anti-Scn community, and no idea who to trust, who is an OSA accomplice, and there's an adequate amount of paranoia to prevent you from contacting people "on the other side".

I waited a whole year, and moved to another city, I "safepointed" all my relatives, briefed them that the movement might attack me back. I did all this for months, and over a whole year, I took it slow, building up the reality of my family, so they would not be shocked if Scn came after me in the known ways they have harrassed their former staff and critics in the past (again I must thank ALL who have put the info on the internet, it historically is a powerful help, and the dozens of good people who have put good info on it about LRH and Scn).

But still the problem, how to defect, how to leave one's Scn friends one is in with, who to hook up with people in the anti-Scn side of things, how not to incur the wrath of one's Scn boss, how not to offend blatantly one's Scn friend's feelings, since to me I realized I'd be creating a string of ARC breaks, because I know how I felt when the great former people in the Scn movement were ousted or ejected, it is a disappointment to see people drift out. Even if anyone remembers LRH's voice when he discussed in the 1959 Individuation tape lecture, people know that LRH was even, in those earlier years, emotionally sad to lose good people. LRH even uses the word good, in describing those people, who today, with the later rules, we know, these same people are unfortunately labelled SPs. (To me this LRH tape, when I re-listened to it, which I did about 20 times in my 7 years on the RPF, this tape is proof that people are in fact good, and the SP labels are simply labels, and the SP label is just evolved rules. People are still blowing, and those people are still good people. And not only are the people blowing good, I would argue that LRH to me, in that 1959 lecture, himself, was demonstrating a huge amount of compassion, which over the years, due to his own hampering accumulating rules, his own goodness showed itself in other ways, and he unfortunately left the Scn movement with rules prohibiting them exhibiting compassion he himself earlier did. This to me is truly a sad longer range developement, which I think probably is similarly true in all the weirdnesses that the movement exhibits. My view is they will have to figure their way back out of those rules that shut down their inate humanness.)

Anyways, back to the point. I have people contacting me, with questions how to move out, how to get good jobs, how to find a safe location to speak their stories which they have concluded that the official Scn movement would harrass them were they to tell their lives!

1) Help getting jobs outside the Scn jobs they are already in.

2) Places to move to, they can afford, outside the Scn community they are currently in.

Good useful advice on these 2 points, will later on result in some people getting in positions to speak out.

(I chose working by high principled wog businesses or groups, I chose the Sierra Club, and activist groups, and newspapers, as good people to work for. Working with intelligent wogs, is to me, the best defense from official and unofficial Scn movement harrassing tactics.)

I'd like to hear people's years of good experience and opinions in dealing with these two initial problems that people coming out of the Sea Org, after having been in and round the top parts of the Sea Org for decades, what good suggestions people have.

Thanks, Chuck Beatty

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