Shiona Fox-Ness' 1984 video of the AAC Santa Barbara.
With acknowledgement to XENUTV, Mark Bunker for keeping it up there all these years
Advanced Ability Center-Shiona Fox-Ness
Shiona Fox-Ness' 1984 video of the AAC Santa Barbara.
With acknowledgement to XENUTV, Mark Bunker for keeping it up there all these years
http://www.cirp.org/library/psych/vanderkolk/
"With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world."
-Dalai Lama
I watched it last night. I loved it and strongly recommend it to others. It definitely captures something of the 'spirit of the age'.Originally Posted by AnonKat
Mark A. Baker
And it shows how very naive we were.
It's kind of hard to watch.
at 0:46 David Mayo speaksIt's kind of hard to watch.
http://www.cirp.org/library/psych/vanderkolk/
"With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world."
-Dalai Lama
Yes. I saw that. I remember those years as a true believer. It's hard to watch.
How naive we were
Yes, Veda. We were all naive. I was. You must have been too, if you were there, as were the all the others with happy smiles on their faces and looking so alive!
Yes, we were so naive. We thought we had "the tech".
We were naive about so much, especially me. I am still naive about many things. BUt ...
Was that all fake? No way. It was real. Real people, with real smiles.
Would I use the same techniques today? Not at all.
I have learned so much since then. From experience, from studying psychology --and believe it or not from studying basics of physics and maths. But by far the most I have learned has been from people. I listen to people. I empathize with people, I really like almost all of the people I have known. When I was a toddler I knew almost nothing. But I wanted to learn everything I could. I am not alone. I know so many people on this ESMB who also want to learn all they can, who want to be all they can be. You, perhaps above all, want that too.
Watching that video again yesterday brought tears to my eyes. Not because I lost the AAC. Not because I was squashed. Not because I failed. No, it is because that venture showed what could be done, despite our "false data" despite our indoctrination, because
we all wanted to help people.
And we did.
End of story.
Thank you Veda for helping me to see so much more than I had,
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It just looks very sad to me. They all look very lost and needy. That's Scientology, underneath the makeup.
"Your Freezone stinks."
- Steve Hall
"It is true that the term FZ includes many varients of Scn, and some may be inadequate. Or even wrong headed."
- Terril Park
To Mark Bunker, thank you!
This video, which I have not had a copy for 25 years, shows what a small group of keen people can do when they set out to help people
a) with high quality services,
b) delivered in a friendly environment
c) at affordable prices --or no charge for needy people.
Thank you for keeping this alive XENUTV and Mark Bunker. My copies of the original video "vanished" around the time when the AAC SB's life was ended.
Look at those people, look at those faces, are they happy or what?
And my heart felt thanks and gratitude to Shiona Fox-Ness who worked so hard on the making of that video and did such a wonderful job! And I also want to thank the anonymous professional TV technicians who shot and edited the whole video in their own time, without compensation because they wanted to help.
There are so many good and wonderful people in the world who want to make it a better place. I salute them!
L,
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Kat, thanks for posting that. Some of the reactions about control freakery in the CofS in the early-to-mid 80s really rang true for me. I was offlines during the mission holder fiasco time, and when I came back (and went on staff shortly thereafter), everything felt more solid. Sadly, I thought it was good solid, not bad solid. There was one moment I could really relate to: only being willing to give up what the CofS could have in session. That's what eventually got me: if you're not willing to really talk to your auditor (or therapist of any sort) about anything, then you are in the wrong place talking to the wrong person. When I'd been through too many pain cycles associated with giving things up, I became less willing to talk. To that extent, my case gain grew less and less as my time in the CofS passed.
I guess this explains some of the stories of churchies on NOTs, especially those who said you couldn't even think certain thoughts lest it be picked up in a confessional and a multi-month ethics cycle would begin.
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