Mark A. Baker
Sponsor
Believe me, I think it was harder for me to watch than most anyone I know! Can you imagine the shame I felt knowing what I now know of the techniques then being used and who and why came up with them? The embarrassment I felt when I know I could have walked a different path had I gone on to university and become a research physicist? I read a book I had managed to borrow when I was 14 years of age by Moller, a Danish Professor of physics at Copenhagen university, on Einsteins General Theory of Relativity. Yet I abandoned that because ... I was naive and thought I could do more for mankind by joining this New Age group whose leader promised all.
But didn't almost everyone here? We dreamed the dream and woke with a headache. Let's move on.
David
PS And I welcome replies both kindly and ascerbic. I have been through enough to no longer be thin skinned. Tell it like is or even how it seems.
David, had other methods been used doubtless different results would have occurred. Nonetheless, at the time there were not readily available to society the great variety of mental/spiritual practices which are prevalent now. Times have change considerably in the last 60 years. Now there are effective alternatives, many of these influenced by the achievements of early scientologists. Your work has been a part of that, even where it is not fully credited.
Many received a great deal of personal benefit from using the tech as it was, and the assistance that you provided. Much of that benefit remains. Not all was correct with the subject, but it contained many ideas which were simple to use, yet could powerfully aid an individual in transforming his life for the better. Much benefit was attained, and it has been attained by thousands of individuals.
Due to Hubbard's personal flaws and the institutions he created in order to facilitate his control, many have been hurt through their unwarranted trust of Hubbard & the practices he ordered. That is the great tragedy lying behind the man & the subject. How much more could have been achieved without the encumbrance of Hubbard's need for absolute control.
You & Julie were among those who worked hardest at accomplishing what was helpful and warding off what was harmful. Many of the others with whom you were associated were outstanding individuals who, like yourselves, contributed greatly to the well being of the others around them. The best thing is to take what has been learned and to improve upon it.
Mark A. Baker
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