Scientology—Then and Now

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Patricia Krenik

Each person has their own “then and now” regarding Scientology. For me, then was 1951 when I read DMSMH. It started me on a new path. The book was well known, and it wasn’t hard to find others in the small community on Vashon Island, WA who also had read “1st book”. Co-auditing began.
Jump to “now” and you find me here in Elma, WA a small town 30 miles west of Olympia, WA the capitol of this Northwest State. Here, my husband Raymond J. Krenik, Jr. and I are handling students and preclears through the entire bridge without any connection to the COS.
Roll back to about 1953 where meetings and group auditing were held in Seattle WA. Already OT abilities were being demonstrated. One fellow would stand on a bathroom scale and we would note where the weight registered. Then he proceeded to mock up mass until the scale went up five pounds!
The excitement was palpable in those early days. It was all so new. Some people had Dianetic Auditors Certificates from having been trained by LRH. Ed Clark, whom I never met, taught Dianetics in Seattle, Audrey Robbins practiced in Tacoma out of her home. She had a large basement she used for meetings.
Co-auditing went well. My auditor was J. Fred MacLean who took me through my major this lifetime engrams including sodium pentothal surgery where I flipped into the infamous “body in pawn” incident and ran that out. He also ran me on a whole track secondary and I cried for half an hour over the theft and loss of my beautiful asteroid. Things were very real.
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THE STORY OF CELEBRITY CENTRE’S FOUNDING

NOW TOLD FOR THE FIRST TIME ON THE INTERNET OR IN PRINT As promised by Lakey 3 weeks ago, his vast world wide research department has  unearthed the exciting story of how Celebrity Centre came to be!! Now for the first ime anywhere – I encourage you to make a cup of java or a pot of tea and prepare to read a previously untold story. HERE IT IS, THE STORY OF THE DECADE: SIT DOWN, RELAX AND ENJOY!

RETURN WITH US NOW TO THOSE THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR WHEN OUT OF THE PAST AND ON TO YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN COME THE THUNDERING DEEDS OF THE GREAT S.O. MEMBER YVONNE AND HER LOYAL SIDEKICK “MYSTERY CRACKERJACK AUDITOR” The year is 1969, the place is Los Angeles, California, USA: After a brief message from our sponsor the story will begin…..Eat Wheaties, the Breakfast of Chamnpions, the favorite breakfast food of 3 out of 4 Olympic Medal Winners…and now on to our exciting story.
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Aboard the Apollo 1973 – Prequel Part 2

I signed up for the HAS course for $50 and was told to report for class the next night. I went there in the evening and routed on. The course room was well attended, perhaps 25 to 30 students on HAS and the Supervisor was Bill Fosdick. I was put onto TR 0 since they did not have OT TR 0 at that time. Fosdick went over the materials with me and spot checked me. He asked me what “anaten” (a Scientology word for doping off) meant. I told him it sounded like the word attenuate which was to lessen in intensity or fade out. I knew this from working in aerospace. He was extremely impressed that I knew this.

There was one minor confrontation. My Brother and I could not show up for course the second night due to an earlier engagement we had. When we showed up the next night, we were scolded for not attending course and challenged as to where we had gone. I flashed back to the Supervisor, “Am I taking the Course or is the Course taking me?” I was sent to Ethics where I received a slap on the wrist and was told to always be on time to course. This incident does not seem like much but really it was very important. Control of my life and my time was starting to be taken away from me.

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Don’t mess with my kids

In 1999 I was approaching 60 years old and I had been suffering from high blood pressure since 1986 and an enlarged prostate gland. I remember discussing with my Mom in the mid 70′s that I was a Dianetic completion and I had received 300 hours of expanded Dianetics, a brand new technology at that time. I told Mom that I did not believe I would age but that I could keep my body youthful indefinitely. My Mom just laughed and said, “You are going to age, you’ll see.” She was right! It is true I was a bit different than most in that I looked about 10 years younger, I had a lightning quick memory and a very youthful voice and attitude and my years in C of S were probably the reason for these benefits. I would talk to someone on the phone and they would think I was in my 20′s or 30′s. Anyhow, my weight had balooned to 240and my blood pressure situation was becoming critical so I went to a WOG doctor and they gave me about 5 various pills to take. These bills brought down my blood pressure but they had a devastating effect on my mind. The razor sharp memory I was so proud of was knocked out by the drugs. Taking them, it was like I was walking in a vapor, I could not remember names, faces, where I put my keys, what appointments I had been on yesterday. In the meantime, I was on course at my local Org. There were two Flag registrars there and I talked to them and of course they insisted that I go to Flag to get the siruation handled.

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The Old Days 1990′s

I want to say one thing about the $65,000 package, specifically the $12,000 that went to WISE to boost my business. WISE did work with me and they did generate a product but it did not have much of an impact on my business. First of all, they were billing on a very high hourly rate, and the $12,000 went down like water through a seive. For example, say their fee was $150 per hour and they sent a two man team to my office for one 8 hour day, that would burn up $2,400. I do not remember the exact fee but it was something in that range. All they did was develop an Org Board for my business and provide hat packs for each post. The products were good as far as they went. I had about 6 employees, 3 salesmen, 1 secretary, 1 job superintendent and a purchasing officer. No one except the secretary would agree to read the pack for his or her hat. The WISE $12,000 did not improve the company.

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The $65,000 Reg Cycle

After returning from my Oct 1977 stay at Flag, I pretty much concentrated on my business for a few months trying to restore money back into our Reserve Account. I felt I was out exchange in using my Dad’s half of the reserves for Flag. Things remained quiet for 6 or 7 months and then I received a phone call from one of the head registrars, David Light. David said that my L11 auditor Alex Sibersky had been declared an SP and was off loaded and that Flag was calling back all his PC’s to do the level again. I protested that I thought Alex did a great job on me and I attained the EP of L11 and besides I did not have any money at this time. David said that under the circumstances, FLAG WAS GOING TO RE AUDIT ME ON L11 AT THEIR OWN COST!

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Leaving the Apollo

I returned to Los Angeles in December 1973. My Dad picked my up at the airport. He had a small business and his partner and he had recently broken up and I offered to come in as his partner. He loved the idea and I moved back home until I could save enough from this new business to get my own place. I took it easy over the weekend and on Monday morning I drove over to see the Ethics guy at FOLO, Peter Alvet. I worked up from Confusion, through Treason, and up to Doubt right at his office and then he told me to go home and work through doubt and then come back and let him see my Doubt Formula. I gave him $50 as a flow to start paying my freeloader debt.
I had not been billed yet so I did not know how much I owed. I owed bills at CCLA, The Excalibur/ Bolivar in San Pedro Harbor and the Apollo. I was worried about the Apollo because the retail price of the Data Evaluators Course was currently $5,000. I think that is the only course I officially took at the Apollo and I was only on the course for 3 weeks until I was busted.
Don’t forget, $5000 in ’73 is about $25,000 today.

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Aboard the Apollo-1973- EPF

After being removed from the post of Programs Chief CCLA by LRH via a messenger’s visit, I was assigned to the EPF, this turned out to be the best part of my 2 month tenure at Flag. The Sea Org had two training ships docked at San Pedro in the Los Angeles area, the Excalibur and the Bolivar. They were submarine chasers from World War II. Where The Apollo was about 350 feet long, these 2 ships were about half that length and they were much narrower than the Apollo. I had been down to train on them twice, doing my Able Bodied Seaman Course and a Hygiene Course. I enjoyed my stints there and learned a lot.

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The Prequel

Personal Background – I was born into a middle class family in Los Angeles and attended schools there. In grade school I was one of the top students and got straight A’s. I had a very very happy childhood, took piano lessons, was in the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts and was very popular with the other kids. I had one younger brother and my parents were kind hearted people who were very responsible parents, though a little overly protective. They were just really good people, kind, caring and fun.

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