Declaration of Independence
It all came to a head in the Comm Ev. The first thing I found out was how wrong I’ve been all along. I found out that you can only do one 10 Aug on a pc. I found out that you have to be a Data Series Evaluator to do a Trouble Area Questionnaire on a pc. Or so I was informed. Who knew?
I did defend myself. I told them about my track in Scientology. I had majored in Philosophy and Religion in college, and had a particular interest in Eastern Religions and psychic research. When a friend of mine told me about Scientology, I bought all the basic books and read them cover to cover one week in late 1968.
I was so impressed. Here was not only a philosophy that was impressive in its own right, but there was also a therapy derived from it that was brilliant. I got my Grades, did my Academy levels, volunteer audited in Hawaii, moved to LA, did the BC, volunteer audited at the AO and then started field auditing in 1970. By 1971 I was a Class VIII.
I did two internships on the Apollo in ’75 under LRH, and another one at Flag in ’81. In the meantime, I was racking up 1000-1400 hours in the chair year after year. I audited Solo NOTs to EP and completed OT 8 in 1988. There were also trips to Nigeria, India and China where I helped start Dianetics groups.
In 2003 I finally bit the Golden Age of Tech bullet and went on course full time and finished my program. Meantime, I kept racking up 1000-1400 hours a year in the chair. Any time IHELP kept comparative stats on field auditors, I was always in the top three in total production, and I was #1 in many categories every year. The only times that IHELP Int ever kept worldwide stats, I was #1 in tithes both times. By the time of my Comm Ev, I had logged over 36,000 hours in the chair, I had over 110 people that had either gone Clear on my lines, or who had gone onto their OT levels from my practice. I gave them the names of 283 people I had recovered to the orgs. I submitted a large stack of success stories and commendations.
I told them all of this in my Comm Ev.
They responded loudly and in unison:
“WE DON’T CARE.”
Four months later, one Saturday night, I was auditing when there was a loud knock on the front door. I then heard people walking around in my living room. I finished auditing the pc and went to see what was going on. What was going on was that I got my burn notice. They then proceeded to take all my certs off the wall and haul them away. Then they rounded up all the folders I had around the house and carted them off too. All they left were blank spots on the wall and paperclips on the floor where my auditing practice used to be.
Well it was traumatic, no doubt, but the one thing I didn’t expect was the sense of freedom and relief that I felt to be no longer under the thumb of the Church. Over the next six months, I talked to many people and read a lot of people’s stories in order to sort things out. I took a good look at the top of my own admin scale, recognized my true importances and loyalties, and realized that I just needed to get back on purpose and do what I’ve always done, audit.
I heard about Pierre Ethier, a Class XII in the Freezone, and arranged to get some auditing from him. He delivered L11 to me, and that really handled any charge that had gotten stirred up by the cycle. He also generously offered to train me on how to audit the Ls. I then got my L12 and L10 from him as well as the Ls training. I also learned how to audit NOTs and Super Power!
I quickly got as busy as I’d ever been. I’ve never looked back. Since then I’ve delivered over 1000 hours of auditing, including hundreds of hours of Ls auditing. My purpose is to give the opportunity, to those that want it, to finish what they started in Scientology. Several of my pcs were pleasantly surprised to discover that there were no IAS reges on my couch waiting for them after session. As one of them told me, “What a difference being audited in a non-oppressive environment!”
Here is how I think about what happened: It is kind of like if you were Russian and you grew up in that system. Let’s say you were fairly successful, and you more or less toed the line and got along. You applauded the Potemkin Villages like everyone else. But at some point you got on the bad side of one of the Commissars and so you got exiled to Tahiti. You might have some hurt feelings at first. After all, it is not that pleasant to get booted out from someplace. But then you look around and think, “Well that wasn’t a very sociable thing to do. But hey, after all, this is TAHITI!”
I can honestly say that I have never been happier in my life.
Love,
Trey Lotz
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