My story, in a nutshell, was I read Dianetics in 1969---in a hospital
after being a Hippie in Height Ashbury, doing many different drugs,
looking for freedom. I finally hit up Heroin once, got sick from it,
my parents flew me back to Chicago. While in the hospital---these 2 kids
brought in a book, "Dianetics" and told me it was an "Applied Philosophy".
I'd been studying Buddhism---but found it very hard to apply: When I got
pissed at someone, *I* was pissed. It was VERY hard to keep loving them.
So this "Applied Philosophy" was right up my alley.
After getting well, my parents pitched me back into college, again, and I ended up in a fight, on the phone, with my Dad. He was always a freak about
"You have to be in by____". Now I'm in college, and he's telling me" Tory,
you HAVE to be in bed by 10:30". I was a notorious night owl---and 10:30?
DUH! He finally said, "Our morals, or No school". I hung up on him,
pulled down my shade in my dorm room and wrote in red lipstick:
YOUR MORALS OR NO SCHOOL? SCREW YOU!
All I ever wanted to do was help other people, and helping people get "Clear" SOUNDED super good. (30 years later I realized it doesn't really work, at all---but then it sounded quite good).
I packed my bag----and literally hitchhiked from Chicago to Los Angeles!
((Hey! the back of Dianetics said "St. Hill Manor in England OR
American Saint Hill in Los Angeles---I was on my way ))
Weeks later I arrived at ASHO (American St. Hill Organization).
What a beginning that was!
30 years later I literally escaped out---in 2000.
Tory/Magoo~~Happy to be free of all of that
www.youtube.com/ToryMagoo44
Disclaimer: I don't recommend doing drugs--it's a dead end street,
and I stopped doing them the day I got into Scientology. That was one of the two stable gains I got from Scientology.(And it wasn't due to "The tech"---it was just the group agreement of "no Drugs" that got me to stop. I wasn't really a big druggie---more of someone looking for higher powers, willing to try anything).
Also
Please---if you're in college---finish. If you're not trained in anything,
PICK SOMETHING You can make $$$ at, that you enjoy doing and get trained in it.