Subject:      Re: LRH and I
From:         mayo@lightlink.com (Julie Mayo)
Date:         1996/04/20
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an557846@anon.penet.fi (David Cooke) wrote:

Only near the end does
>the covertly hostile tone really start to show in talk of "evil"
>and tantalising insinuations about "other things".  Naturally,
>every reader's reactive mind is expected to fill in the blank.

Actually, David, I thought I was being pretty upfront.  I hadn't considered the possibility that people would "fill in the blank". I was thinking about "dirty tricks" when I wrote "other things".  When I was on staff I didn't realize that the Guardian's Office under Mary Sue and LRH's guidance was performing dirty tricks. For instance, I would have been appalled to find out what was being done to Paulette Cooper.  To be fair, I think a lot of the Guardian's Office would have been dismayed about it too, had they been informed of the activities.  And, we were all so busy that few of us had time to contemplate what might be happening in a different part of the organization.

There is a policy letter or HCOB, that I don't have before me, but which you could probably look up in your OEC Volume and/or Tech Volumes.  It has to do with squirrels.  There are probably lots of policies about this, but the one I am thinking about is one that I first read when I got into Scientology and was doing the briefing course.  The issue told us that if people go off and "squirrel" that bad things happen to them.  The reason given was that squirrels cave themselves in by their own overts/misdeeds  

The scientology theory is that if a person does something wrong, he will get hit by a "motivator"; in other words, something bad is going to happen to the other person.  It gave some examples, which sounded pretty gruesome, but the issue made it clear that these things happened to the person because of "motivators".  It didn't say that dirty tricks were played on the person by other scientologists or by people hired by other scientologists.  I had no reason to doubt what I read.  When I was doing the briefing course at ASHO in 1971-72, things were pretty mellow.  Noone was mean to me and I really liked and enjoyed my fellow students and other scientologists that I knew.  I didn't think that there would ever be any reason for me to leave scientology.

When I left scientology in February 1983 I wasn't thinking about starting an alternative center.  It wasn't until a few months later that the idea was conceived.  After I left Scientology I got a job as a waitress in Huntington Beach and David got a job as a tile setter. A few ex-scientologists tracked us down and told us that hundreds of people had been kicked out of scientology or had left because of the "heavy-regging", high prices, or harshness -- yelling, swearing, intimidation.  People were being sec checked for having disagreements and being assigned lower "ethics conditions", which held harsh penalties, for talking about their disagreements.  "Non-enturbulation" orders were issued on people who talked about their bad experiences with other people.

I don't know if you were around scientology orgs in 1982, David, but it was a very upsetting time period. People started asking David Mayo and I if we would please start an alternative center so that they could continue on their spiritual journey -- but in an environment that was friendly, affordable, and fun.  It was in this environment that the Church of the New Civilization, AAC, was born in July of 1983.  

It was in Santa Barbara, California.  We started out from a rented home, and offered spiritual counseling and training in a field auditor's home, who kindly helped us out.  Within weeks people arrived from all over the world.  It was exhilarating.  One Sunday afternoon in August of 1983, some people came over for a hamburger, and asked David to give a talk.  

Word got out and more and more people started to arrive.  It was completely unexpected.  The next Sunday we had another barbeque and so on.  Hundreds of people started arriving -- for free hamburgers, talks, friendship.  Everyone had a war story to tell and the "ARC" was incredible.  Real relief.  

By September of 1983 we had grown so much that we needed more space. We leased a really nice building on 1280 Coast Village Road. It was a dream come true for many, many people. To this day people tell me how this period of time, when they were part of the AAC in Santa Barbara, was the high point of their lives.  It was fun, it was exciting, there was freedom, and there was hope.

And, I'm just now getting tears in my eyes as I write this because the AAC was destroyed.  And it was destroyed by evil, David, very specific evil which I am going to tell you about in great detail in another post -- just so people don't have to "fill in the blank". Some of the people involved are still around bothering other people to this day:  Eugene Ingram, Kurt Weiland ... and others.

But what does LRH have to do with this, you ask?  Well, according to a deposition testimony of Vicki Aznaran, President of RTC during 1983-1987: Lyman Spurlock, (then an executive of ASI, trustee of RTC, and working on a special project "C" having to do with scientology corporations), wrote to LRH concerning the AAC.  LRH wrote back in the margins, in his own handwriting:  "Smash Mayo like a cockroach."

 Yes, I still am emotional about this because the harassment has continued up until this year and the injustice has yet to be set straight.  Is emotion bad?  I think there are times when it is appropriate.  Does that mean that I hate you, or David Miscavige, or LRH?  No.  What do I think needs to be done about this?  Exposure.  Hopefully followed by reformation.

You could help by finding out the real facts for yourself and proposing changes.  I would, if I were you.  In fact, I have some interesting stories along that line that I am saving for another post.

>But be careful, Julie!  If you undermine L. Ron Hubbard, you're
>also undermining David Mayo and his Church of the New
>Civilization.

I think your logic is flawed here. The Church of the New Civilization was a reformation movement -- of scientology and the tech.  Hubbard himself didn't think the tech was perfect.  In fact, in a lengthy dispatch of April 1982, he wrote to David and suggested that David start up his own corporation and continue researching the tech -- LRH was passing on all his technical hats to David. It would be intersting if COST preserved this letter from LRH.  Why not ask them?  It would be interesting to see how selective they are being at preserving the works of L. Ron Hubbard, who is choosing what should be preserved and on what basis.

>
>
>Bear with me, dear critics, while I quote some lines by T.S.
>Eliot that might have been written just for David and Julie Mayo:
>
>	In the small circle of pain within the skull
>	You still shall tramp and tread one endless round
>	Of thought, to justify your action to yourselves,
>	Weaving a fiction which unravels as you weave,
>	Pacing forever in the hell of make-believe
>	Which never is belief...
>

Thank you, my dear critic. I'm looking forward to more posts from you.  Are you an "Aussie bleeder"?  Just curious... 

>David Cooke
>cooke.david@pi.sa.gov.au

Julie