I was stuck in the middle of my FPRD Basic list for 8 years.
I was floundering around trying to get the money to get into the HGC to finish it. It was probably going to be $28,000 at $4,000 an intensive to be able to complete. (I know, what can I say? I have such a high responsibility level that EVERY QUESTION READ on that list
.)
Anyway....
In some kind of desparate attempt to "get closer to Source" as a handling, I join staff at a little mission in South Pasadena. It was me and just one other person, the mission holder, who was an un-interned Class 4 who was afraid to audit.
I ran the course room. No money, of course, but my wife had a good job, and I had worked before while she was on staff. So it was barely workable.
Over time, a friend and very good Class 8 field auditor, Melanie Murray, pops up and tells me that there is a little known issue on Vol 5 OEC that says that contracted staff can get auditing at greatly reduced prices.
So she agrees to finish my FPRD Basic list for $500 per intensive. The mission needs WDAHS, so we write invoices for each intensive thru the mission so it can use the SSO stats, and the mission holder can look like she is auditing.
I'm wailing away on the FPRD. Excellent auditing and SUCH a relief to be out from under all that introverted "I wonder if everything I think is an evil purpose" type inner situation I had been under so long.
And then, I get a divorce, and I need to find a job that pays money now. So I find a way to become a course sup and actually get paid for it! But it requires that I transfer to the San Fernando Valley mission from the South Pasadena Mission.
I write up a CSW and it, of course, is DISAPPROVED.
So then I start the Leaving Staff Routing Form and start searching for my replacement. Well, I am, of course BLOWING STAFF and I will need to pay a $48,000 freeloader's debt if I am ever to get service again.
How's that?
Well, since it took
12 Intensives for me to complete
, then that will all be charged to me at full prices, even though the mission did not do anything to deliver it at all but invoice me.
I told the mission holder that it was just a control mechanism and she knew it. She knew there was no justice or even ethics in that tactic. She had been told to do this handling on me by the CO SMI WUS. She looked very distressed that she had done this kind of thing to me.
A few weeks later, she signs a contract to work at LA Day to get them to go "Saint Hill Size", and Ray Mithoff regged her for it, knowing that she was a sitting mission holder. She takes the post at LA Day and stops showing up at the mission.
So now it is just me at the mission, running everything by myself, and getting yelled at for not "making it go right", while being held there under threat of a $48,000 freeloader's debt.
I had to take a shitty job during the day to make ends meet. I was living in a hovel near the complex in Hollywood, barely scraping by and working, literally, 6 days per week, from 7am to 11:30pm Mon thru Friday, all day Saturday, and on course, of course, all day Sunday.
I was on course on the BC one day and I looked up the word "
Slavery" in the Encyclopedia Britannica. One sub-heading under Slavery was "
Indentured Servitude".
I read it carefully, looking up and clearing every word. I demoed things out, I drew pictures of stick people on pieces of paper. I squinted my eyes and I thought and thought....
And then, I and had a huge cognition.
I had been enslaved by the Church of Scientology!
But the winner has to be course sups were throwing a football in the course room at break and the ball hit somebody's meter and broke the stand. The sup then looked at the meter and told the upset owner the meter was almost in need of being re-certed and so the stand was weaker and that's why it broke.
This person is now a class IX auditor.
