I walked into the Valley Mission in August 1976, took the test, and signed up for the Communications course, followed by a fundamentals course. About three weeks in I realized there was a difference between the technology of Scientology and the culture. I was working to grow my business, so my interest was on how to communicate better and how to deal with people better.
One of the cultural aspects was this consideration that Scientologists were better people than the WOGS - a slang derogatory term for non-Scientologists. My clients were world class session musicians who worked on scoring movies and television shows. How could they be WOGS and be world class at what they do? That created distance between me and the culture. However, I was learning and getting better, so I stayed with it. I still use today much of what I learned in Scientology.
What got me about the movie was the Prison of Belief thing. I was having trouble one day while studying something and the course supervisor came to assist. After some discussion, he told me to never accept what was written, but to study it and work with it to understand it to get to the conceptual understanding of what the words were attempting to convey. I also ran across a piece by LRH on Personal Integrity that said: "Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation." LRH also said "All I am trying to do is get you to look." These were extremely valuable lessons that kept me from being influenced by the cult of Scientology and to remove myself from the cult of Christianity and the cults of conservatism and liberalism. I am not in a tribe. I am just me.
One of the cultural aspects was this consideration that Scientologists were better people than the WOGS - a slang derogatory term for non-Scientologists. My clients were world class session musicians who worked on scoring movies and television shows. How could they be WOGS and be world class at what they do? That created distance between me and the culture. However, I was learning and getting better, so I stayed with it. I still use today much of what I learned in Scientology.
What got me about the movie was the Prison of Belief thing. I was having trouble one day while studying something and the course supervisor came to assist. After some discussion, he told me to never accept what was written, but to study it and work with it to understand it to get to the conceptual understanding of what the words were attempting to convey. I also ran across a piece by LRH on Personal Integrity that said: "Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation." LRH also said "All I am trying to do is get you to look." These were extremely valuable lessons that kept me from being influenced by the cult of Scientology and to remove myself from the cult of Christianity and the cults of conservatism and liberalism. I am not in a tribe. I am just me.
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