MY NINE LIVES

IN SCIENTOLOGY

Content.

Introduction

How involved I was.

Bait.

Mission.

My father tries to intervene.

Mind control techniques – the first months.

Alienation from the outside world.

I am taking the first steps on the "Bridge to Total Freedom".

My first contact with the Sea Org.

Rigid technical specifications.

FROM III.

Maritime Organization.

The Apollo flagship.

Flag Auditor Internship.

The Commodore arrives.

ODA.

Personal thanks to LRH.

Mission to New York.

Rock concert.

Rollercoaster again.

Lesson of ODP.

I am starting a new life.

Introduction

Below is an account of my life in Scientology, in a group in which I was involved from December 1970 to August 1976—about five years and nine months. From 1973 to 1975, I lived aboard the flagship Apollo (Flag), the home of L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Dianetics and Scientology. I trained as an auditor (Scientology consultant) on Flag. My life on Flag has been a continuous series of ups and downs. Today I receive a personal thank you from Hubbard and set myself up as an example of what a Flag auditor should be, and then, a month later, Hubbard takes all my certificates and sends me to the Scientology Prison for an auditing mistake I didn't even make. On Flag, as auditors, we were under constant pressure to be perfect, with the standard of perfection being the whim of L. Ron Hubbard.

Many have undoubtedly read the horrors of what happened on Flag, and I can personally attest to the fact of their authenticity. This may cause confusion as to why anyone would join such a group at all. How could such injustice be tolerated? In writing this testimony, I hope to make it easier to understand the answer to this question. The fact is that I didn't enter Scientology to be pushed around, and I don't know anyone for whom that would be a motive. The group that the eighteen-year-old idealist joined was nothing like what Scientology really turned out to be and what it still is today.

When I found Scientology, I thought I had found all the answers to life's great mysteries; I found the Truth as I thought. Little did I know at the time that I was involved in a destructive cult that uses deception in conjunction with subtle but highly effective mind control techniques.