Link to 1977.
That was the year after prices started rising monthly, and the year of the HCOB
LSD, Years after they have come off of, and the Sweat Program
, and the HCOB
Jokers and Degraders.
Then came the redefinition
down of Clear, with "Dianetic Clear,"
Link to David Mayo's 1989 article on Clear, and the butchering of the middle Grade Chart, followed by the elimination of the recycled Rosicrucianism upper levels, and their replacement with yet more levels preoccupied with "fleas."
The year you got in is the year I got out, although I didn't formally resign my membership until 1983.
What did you think when Senior Case Supervisor, David Mayo, was declared an SP?
Soon after I first visited the New York Org in 1969, I learned that the world's first real Clear, John McMaster, had just been declared an SP.
I should have suspected something was wrong immediately, but I was impressed with Hubbard's books, and with the Incredible String Band being members, so I just slid over it.
Performed just before the ISB's Scientology involvement
Involvement with Scientology, at first, helped the Incredible String Band,
then began to harm them, as they started self-censoring ideas and lyrics, concerned that they might be "mixing practices" or "restimulating implants." They have since become ex Scientologists.