As there have been several strange and incorrect posts regarding Patricia Greenway, and this newsgroup is occasionally archived and made available to search engines, please allow me to set the record straight on this subject.
I have known Patricia Greenway for close to five years now.
The first thing she did upon coming to the Totally Fun Company in late October, 1996 is to give my business a shot in the arm. At that time, we were a WISE (Scientology) business and some clients and key personnel had been driven away because they did not want to be associated with the cult of Scientology.
Patricia, with her excellent marketing skills, turned things around and "got our stats up" right away.
Patricia, who at first had no opinion about Scientology, began to notice some very strange things regarding the cult. One day, a member of the local OT Committee burst into our busy Totally Fun Office, and despite being told by the receptionist that he needed to have an appointment to see me, brushed past Patricia with a glazed look in his eyes and stormed into my office, demanding that I attend the OT Committee meeting. This guy, whose name I don't know to this day, looked and acted like a completely hypnotized robot, and I had to admit: he was scary in his insanity.
Next, the Church required that I settle my divorce with my ex-wife through a Scientology WISE arbitration, which was a disaster in every way. Patricia began to wonder: what was this Scientology that could turn people into robots and ruin businesses?
She started doing research on the internet. She found this newsgroup, and other websites which showed the true nature of the evil of this cult.
Although I had been a public member of Scientology for twenty years, I knew nothing of the crimes of the cult. When Patricia first brought me evidence, I became angry with her. Finally, she showed me government documents about L.
Ron Hubbard: these proved he had not been a World War II Naval hero who had cured himself of war injuries with Dianetics as stated by the Church. In reality, the person I referred to as "my hero" was an incompetent blowhard who, after screwing up in every position the Navy had placed him, had tried to con the Veteran's Administration out of an undeserved pension. I knew that good things do not come from evil people, so I began to look at Scientology more closely.
Even though, at this point, I knew L. Ron Hubbard was a con man, I still thought Scientology worked. I recalled how I had enjoyed the euphoric "high" I got from "auditing" myself on the OT7 level. One day, Patricia discovered on the internet that L. Ron Hubbard believed in "body thetans." Body thetans are little beings who are supposed to be stuck to you-and the Scientology "tech"
teaches that by "blowing off" these "body thetans" you can attain spiritual freedom. This thought seemed so ridiculous to Patricia that she took her hand and stuck it in a napkin and moved the napkin around like a hand puppet, saying, "Look, I'm a body thetan. Look, I'm stuck on you!"
I laugh at that memory now, but at the time I became very, very angry. I had been taught never to "joke or degrade" about the tech. When I calmed down, I had to admit that I, myself, had never believed this "body thetan" story, and didn't really understand what I was doing to myself on OT7. I decided to stop "auditing," and almost instantly felt a cloud lifting from my mind.
I have to say in retrospect that no one, and I mean no one, would have risked offending me and presenting the truth about Scientology to me, other than Patricia Greenway. She has the ability to get right in someone's face and tell them the truth, regardless of the consequences, regardless of how upset they get, regardless of what they say to her, regardless of the personal harm it may do her.
Some time ago, Patricia learned that if she connects up with the truth, and follows it in an unswerving manner, regardless of personal danger, her life will go right no matter what.
So that's what she does.
This connection with the truth, strangely enough, gives Patricia some of the "OT" powers: the same powers Scientologists think they can obtain by paying the cult.
One of these powers is that she is a lightning rod for good and evil, good intentions and bad intentions, sanity and insanity. By definition, if you have evil intentions, or you are going off the deep end mentally, you do not like Patricia Greenway. She can see you for exactly, and I mean exactly, who you are, with unfailing, and I mean unfailing, accuracy. On the other hand, if you are a good soul who is on the right track, you love, and I mean LOVE Patricia Greenway.
So, what I have learned over the years, is that whenever someone attacks Patricia Greenway, they are either having mental problems or they have bad intentions, or they are being lead astray by someone who is in one or the other condition. This is not, in my observation, a subject for debate: it is merely an observation of an invariable fact.
I do not air personal grievances, nor do I feel it is appropriate to discuss business matters over the internet, but I thought some of you-the good souls who are on the right track for themselves-would enjoy reading the truth about Patricia Greenway.
Now, for those gutless, anonymous OSA posters who say I am duped on this subject, let me make one thing clear: since I have left Scientology, I haven't been duped on anything. I see things clearly now, and for those of you who know me, you know I cut no one any slack, including Patricia. I call it as I see it, and I see things exactly as they are.
Now, if you want to see things exactly as they really are, see our new film, "The Profit." You can get a glimpse of what this is all about by going to our website www.theprofit.org.
Sincerely, Peter N. Alexander