Years
ago, about 1964; the time of the Victorian Government Royal Commission into Scientology in
Australia, the Scientology organisation in Australia was quite small with members
numbering around 3 to 5 thousand. A rather small proportion of them were actually active
members, participating in public events or attending courses or having Auditing (personal
one to one counselling services). Many I would never see. I worked on the central files,
writing letters to a lot of people. That was my job. I had to handle upset people. I had a
skill in doing that. in 1965 I took on the posts of Letter Registrar and ARC Break Letter
Registrar.
People who were out of communication with the organisation for some time usually had
some kind of upset...
WELL BULLY. NOW I REALLY KNOW WHY!!
Because of the "upset field" and the recent Inquiry that I knew VERY little
about at the time, there was a great deal of emphasis on security. As a member I was told
that spies and other undesirables might try to infiltrate the organisation and try to mess
it up or even steal vital information of some kind.
I assumed the Guardian Office was keeping us all safe by having the goods on the
Government and other SPs who they were keeping at arms length while us good Scientologist
had our processing and auditor training to get up the Bridge!!
A counselling procedure was applied to cases that didn't respond to normal auditing and
were perhaps troubling cases. They were most likely either SPs or were connected to one
... or they were committing crimes and had withhold and other deep secrets. Agents from
the CIA might come in. Well we all now know they did now, but at the time a Security Check
was just an auditing procedure an auditor would run on a person perhaps to just find
things the person was keeping even from themselves. Perhaps the preclear couldn't remember
some overt act (misdeed) he committed when very young that was blocking his progress.
Perhaps something he did in a past life. A crime or some misdemenor against the Church at
some time this lifetime or some other.
The mind boggles.
At around 1966 there were rules to follow when giving a sec check. I had one myself....
to a floating needle. I felt clean and clearer after it. I saw a lot of very changed
people have it. Changed in a very positive way too. I never heard of anyone having trouble
with one. After all, to me it was just a very tight series of questions that amounted to
thorough confessional.
That was the aim of Scientologist then... to cough up the misdeeds of the past. To be
free of conscience and worry. To confess in private to a minister familiar with and
trained to understand and be, a spiritual father, or mother to one's desire to be relieved
of guilt or conscience. The procedure was, to me, a more focused application of the
confessional procedures of the Roman Catholic Church.
The Auditor's Code and the many Ethics codes and Policies (Laws) of the
"Church" carried the power and guarantee of confidentiality and honest
application of the procedure for one's benefit.
So of course it was only criminals or bad cases that had trouble with it then.... But
what about after 1972-73.... after I left the Sea Org?
At around 7 years of age, 1984, Claire was
given over to the custody of her Mother, a Sea
Organisation Member, (contracted for One billion years into the cult of
Scientology's Sea Organisation) by the Family Law Court of NSW, and
I, her Father, was granted access rights for a half a day per week which was increased to
one day per week after I protested.
As Janine and I were in a de facto
marriage for 6 years and never legally married, the
law in New South Wales, (at the time,) referred to Claire as an Ex-Nuptial child. Upon the breakdown of our de facto
relationship, under NSW Law, as her Father, I had no rights or claim to our child born
"out of marriage". I would have to plead in a court for "Access", and
the whole process took over 18 months during which time I was completely separated from my
little girl.
I had not seen Claire even for
one cuddle in all that time, and she had not seen me, though I had not been out of her
sight more than a few hours since she was born, before she was stolen from me. We were
"a unit". The "Church" knew this and plotted the most evil act of
separating us.
In
the courtroom, here was no mention of the ultimatum that had been dished out to me, like
many other ex-scientologist fathers... "If you don't rejoin the
"Church", you will never see your daughter again."
