Well, let us sort this out for you.
Your first reaction that it was shite is the same as the large majority of those who enrolled.
Having paid a chunk of cash for the level and being in a rather Ethically dominated envorinment, dissent is discouraged. So, rather speak up and end up in Ethics, the general step was to buy into the story and take it on board as your own track.
This is where the suggestion part comes in. Again, the stuff about it being "dangerous", freewleeling, cannot sleep for 36 days is all BS, designed to add mystique to it and make it more desirable to the faithful.
At the AO we had a lad, David Gwillam, who claimed he was "feeewheeling", couldn't sleep etc. He had got himself into a real state.
So I got an empty pill bottle with a label stating the contents were a strong sleeping tablet. I filled it with Vitamin B1 tablets. I told David that these were strong sleeping tablets and he was to take ONE only, but is sleep-less-ness persisted he could take ONE more.
David took one and went to sleep. Slept like a baby for about 16 hours. He awoke refreshed and pronounced himself "cured"
As for Jimmy and Quinten, yes I knew them. Jimmy was very much like his side-kick, Frank McCall; semi delusional, Jimmy believed that if he got rid of beings around him he would recover his "OT" powers. In short, that he would be able to fly.
So, one day he had a session, opened his upper dloor window and tried to fly.
I was closely involved in recovering his materials and covering things up before the police got involved.
Quinten was married to Joan
If you had ever been married to her, I think you would have hanged youself also.
Clearly you have had some gains from going through the procedures of OT 3. That is fine, but they should be viewed alongside the realities of the level.
Dart