Don't forget her internationally exporting flower business, all her awards, applying and getting jobs for which she is unqualified....etc. Just reading it makes me need a cup of tea and a bit of a lie down.
There is
ALWAYS SOMETHING MORE THAT CAN BE DONE!!!!
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http://www.mikerindersblog.org/lana-mitchell-i-did-not-lose-my-eternity-i-found-it/
Lana writes: (with a few icons added by DB)
".....In the first year (while carrying and then delivering my son), I launched my flower business – and in the Spring of 2006 I had my first harvest of commercial cut-wildflowers. I had to apply Data Series to resolve situations and get right whys. I had to use management technologies to develop a market, to establish a strategy and to write and execute programs to get things done. I had to use basic Scientology communication principles to develop industry networks and I was amazed at how easy it was.
In fact, while I was impatient with myself, or dissatisfied with progress – everyone around me was stunned at what was achieved in such a short period.
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And then the awards started coming in. I won an agricultural scholarship in 2007 – which got me $12,000 for specialist training, for a market development trip to Japan, and more. Then I won the Young Achievers Award in 2008 (when I would not consider myself young). My business expanded and I was exporting Australian wildflowers to Japan, to the USA, to Europe and London – as well as domestic markets in Australia. At the same time I had joined the national industry body for wildflowers and was playing an active role in building the young industry on the larger stage of commercial flowers in Australia. I had a young baby at home, and life was busy – and I was amazed that things just continued to go right.
How could this be? In the Sea Org I had constantly rollercoastered. I would get on a post, do my best, and then I would be busted for some confusing reason, and I would conclude each time that there was some failing of my own that was causing this. Yet here I was, in Australia, no longer connected to the Church and things just seemed to get better and better.
Then I won the a prestigious rural womens award, with a bursary of $10,000. I was featured in Australian Women’s Weekly, was awarded the Australian institute of Company Directors Course, and travelled to Israel, London and Europe to build the market for my flowers there. The press I received in 2010 and 2011 exceeded 3 inches. Every major newspaper, local rag, radio stations, etc. carried the story of my flowers. I can call the local radio station and mention my first name and they immediately ask me how the flowers are going. I became known as the Gundaroo Flower lady.
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This must be a fluke I thought. Things surely can’t continue to go so well… I am a declared SP. But they did.
My husband and I decided to build a home, got plans drawn up and approved, borrowed the needed money and built a beautiful home.
My first son, now almost 4 years old, was doing wonderfully – and I decided it was time for a sibling and immediately became pregnant again.
I had applied for a part time job editing an industry magazine and though I had no official qualifications for such, I got the job and edited the industry journal for two years. I then worked with 9 others to create a new rural industry organization and designed and edited a new magazine called Passion to Profit. My new communications role with this group became key and were tremendously successful. Over the next several years the magazine continued – first as a printed publication and then as an online mag. In the last 2 years it has had almost 200,000 views and it has been key in building and promoting new and emerging rural industries in Australia.
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It was in 2009 that I started to find attention going back to Scientology. Mysteries and confusions from the past kept surfacing. I was still having nightmares of being trapped at the Int base or on the PAC RPF and not being able to leave. I was still hung up in areas of the past and questions I had on what had occurred at Int were hanging me up.
So I started looking for other ex-Int base staff members, to see if I could get questions answered, and find out what had occurred since I left. And that was when I stumbled on Marty Rathbun, Mike Rinder and a whole slew of other former Int base staff. I found my dear friend Jackson, rehooked up with Dan Koon, Shannon Kimoto, Ulf Ollufson, John Horwich, Claire and Marc Headley and more.
I had to relook at my life and work out for myself – did I make gains from Scientology – did it work? And I realised, in looking at my wins (and particularly at my success since leaving) that the truth was I did have certainty that the tech works. I also came to see the source of suppression in the Church, the perversion and unmock of management and standard tech, and the corruption of The Bridge (aka David Miscavige).
I started to become vocal on the internet, and announced my independence in June of 2010. It was shortly after this that my husband demanded that I recant. He threatened that if I did not do so, then we would divorce me – and he went so far as to call in two former RTC staff to my home for 3 nights in a row to encourage that I cooperate. Confused and unsure I pretended to agree, feeling blackmailed and muzzled – but 3 months later I decided the violation of my integrity was more than I could handle. I got terribly sick and before that got out of control, I asked my husband to leave.
Since that time so many doors have opened and so much has changed, it is difficult to sum it up easily. With the assistance of two dear friends and standard tech terminals, I was gotten through my OT preps and onto my OT levels.
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I had been Clear since 1957 – so the relief on this was substantial. I have since completed through OT 3, as an independent Scientologist and I am now co-auditing on NOTs. My wins on these levels have been incredible. Just amazing. My every day existence has changed and my postulates just STICK. It is fantastic.
I found a new 2D – someone who is a dedicated Scientologist and is a caring, intelligent and funny man. Together we have been steadily re-establishing Scientology delivery in Australia – with 4 Clears made and a number of others now back onto the Bridge and winning, just since the beginning of this year. And people just keep on finding us and arriving on our doorstep which provides for fantastic company and conversation.
And an attack by my husband, through the courts, that was based on hostilities and resentment, has ended and I can just get on with the job of raising two cheeky, lively and wonderfully funny boys – now aged 7 and 3.
I started the iScientology blog in January – to present articles on the application of LRH tech, in life – and we are now at a steady 1000+ visitors a day. And it seems that so much is now possible as ever-increasing number of revitalized independent Scientologists link up and join forces. The future is not just certain – it is exciting.
So… in reflecting back on my last 8 years since leaving the Church – I have to say that I did not lose my eternity.
I FOUND it.
I have reaffirmed my love for standard LRH tech, I am moving up the Bridge, my dynamics are aligned, productive and expanding – and the future is bright.
I hope people find their way to this blog and that they read my story and the many others. Life in the big bad ‘wog” world is not that. In fact, there is a huge community of friends here ready to assist in any way they can. You are welcome to contact me at any time by email if you need assistance or support or just would like to have a chat. And I am just one of many......"
So what's a little baby-juggling to a high-achiever?
and perhaps he was over reacting a little. There was no doubt a seed of truth here and there in what he said, but perhaps he has bypassed charge on earlier similars that have nothing to do with Lana and is dramatizing that. Then again Lana might have tried to round up his body thetans for her sideshow and who knows what evil purps are going to come up with that? He needs a remedy and handle fast 'else he's going to alienate the field. Anyone can see the ser facs there!
