You're taking this a wee bit too seriously.
Yes, I saw Jon Atack's comments on McMaster. He described McMaster as "horrible" person. He must have a very low bar for what constitutes "horrible."
I first saw McMaster on American TV, as high school kid, around 1967. He was on the Less Crane interview show. McMaster created a good impression.
It had similarities to Ingo Swann's conversation with the James Randi.
By accident, on a car radio, I once heard Ingo debate James Randi (the debunker of psychics, faith healers, etc.), and it was a very friendly encounter. Randi like Ingo.
Years later, Randi described his experience of Hubbard during the late 1940s.
The first 60% of the video is a Scientologist trying to convert Randi.
The last 40% is a non-Scientologist asking Randi about Hubbard.
One of Ingo's favorite items of Hubbard's writing was a thin black booklet titled, if I recall correctly,
Control and mechanics of 8-C. It was about "good (effortless) control" and not having (mental) "ridges." It was one of several things that Hubbard's editor, John Sanborn, had liked, and had showcased, just as he had liked parts of the Phoenix Lectures and showcased that in the (now out of print) book titled the
Phoenix Lectures.
The outlook expressed in this thin black booklet was 180 degrees in opposition to the prevailing reality in Scientology at the time which consisted of "effort," screaming, yelling, being "unreasonable," being "ruthless," but Ingo, being Ingo, floated above it all. (It also helped that he, as an artist, etc. was a semi-celebrity.)
Sanborn was publishing what he regarded as (in his words) the (1950s) "peak brilliance" of Hubbard's work, even though Hubbard had, by then, recreated himself as the "Commodore," and created Xenu and the Sea Org - and the staff at the Advanced Org in Los Angeles were dressing up as "whole track implanters" to "re-stimulate" the "wogs" just enough to make them compliant to Scientology body routers, recruiters, and registrars, and get them on the "Bridge to Total Freedom."
During early 1973, I had a long conversation with Ingo Swann, and none of it had anything to do with Scientology, but, while we were talking, someone interrupted and asked if he was a Scientologist, and he answered "yes." Ingo was not pleased to have been asked that question. He did not want to be known as a Scientologist outside of Scientology circles.
After quitting Scientology in '82/'83. Ingo, (from what I have heard) was briefly involved with David Mayo's Advanced Ability Center and, then, got into (ex Elmira, New York Mission Holder) Harry Palmer's Avatar. (Palmer became quite the cult leader, just as Franklin Jones, a.k.a. Bubba Free John, Adi Da, Da Avadhoota, etc. etc., had also established his own cult. Link to
Franklin Jones on Scientology.)
Ingo actually did Harry Palmer's Avatar program.
He had also participated in other Self Help and New Age subjects/movements prior to his involvement with Scientology.
He, from accounts, after leaving Scientology Inc., when he could speak freely, thought that doing the introductory portions of Scientology had undone the negative effects of his time in the military. Ingo stated that he had natural psychic sensitivities and abilities as a child, and had lost those sensitivities and abilities as a young adult during his time serving in the military in Korea.
He described Scientology's OT levels as "disappointing."
But I digress.
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I
never stated that Scientology produced "Bodhisattvas. Please don't misunderstand.
Please see above.
Back to Jon Atack and John McMaster: I never met McMaster but, as I mentioned, saw him on TV, and observed him at other times via recorded video, and, once, listened to a phone interview with him.
He wasn't crazy or "horrible."
That said, he was, unfortunately, a casualty of Hubbard and Scientology. Hubbard mind-gamed McMaster, and McMaster even described some of this mind-gaming (mind manipulation), that Hubbard had done on him and on others, but it still affected him. He became an alcoholic.
I'm not inclined to describe, as "horrible," people who were damaged by Scientology, but that's just me.
In any event, I am
not saying that Scientology made Bodhisattvas!
