Usually when I sit down to write it is about policy or tech. But tonight I am burning with another thought as I watch a friend make a decision about whether he believes the present church can be salvaged. .  .

I know that it is possible but it is also highly unlikely and this is why I am taking the route I am to ensure everyone gets a chance to learn about Ron and Scientology (More of this is forthcoming in later months).

My friend still believes that it is possible (as he has no first hand experience with the true problems that exist at the top of Scientology) and he wishes to give it a try. Though this breaks my heart (as I know it will soon break his) I will not nay say his decision as he must find out for himself. This is where he will find out what most of us have lost. It will become his loss as well.

Most of us joined the SO to assist Ron in his wish to make a sane and free planet by clearing the individuals that live on it and so attain the aims of Scientology. We worked diligently toward this goal.

Each of us had different posts and different ways in which we would do our part to bring this utopia about. But we agreed we would do it the way Ron wanted it done. That was important as that is what bound all of us individualist together. His purpose was ours.

His love for mankind we all shared. His view of man and man’s state we agreed with. And the way he had worked out to raise the state of man through communication we wished to practice. Each of us had a very personal understanding with Ron. He would lead us.

We were in Ron’s SO. It was amazing.

The actual changes after Ron left were many and came in stages. Gradually Ron’s love for mankind started to disappear from this SO. Income began to be requested without the exchange of raised state for the individual. Finally we noticed that the communication that Ron had laid out to handle the state of man had been altered and here we sat, In the SO, but it wasn’t Ron’s.

We were in some one else’s SO. It gave the illusion of Ron’s SO without the true feeling of it or the true purpose. We found ourselves living in this illusion or maybe delusion. From reading other’s stories and living mine it seems that most of us were somewhat upset (maybe an understatement). So we left.

So we all look back at that Journey to present time and ask ourselves, “What was lost?”

Ron’s not lost to us. We still have his work. We still have his reality of man. We still have the communication skill to change man’s state. Each of us still has a very personal understanding with Ron. He also left his policy here to lead us. So what was lost?

I realize now that it was the group purpose that somehow got lost. Not the words but the true love, care and devotion to mankind’s advancement to higher states of being that we admired in Ron and were inspired to bring about in ourselves and our fellows where possible.

This is what I joined the SO for. THE PURPOSE! The rest was just technical details.

So what now? Can we agree on Ron’s purpose again? Can we form at least a loose group and work together to reach Ron’s and OUR goal? I believe we can.

The future of Scientology in truth depends on all of us individuals staying on that purpose and using Ron’s policy and tech to accomplish it. We don’t need a new SO. What we need to do is work together on the same purpose. Each doing what he does so well. We need all the trained and untrained doing whatever they can. Even if that is just spreading the word that people have a choice.

Independents are a group of individuals and if you share this common purpose I look forward to working with you.

Written by Jimmy Rebel