Actually 400 people routed off Solo OT7 within 6 months
About a year after I left and turned in my OT7 materials, two Class 9s from Flag
showed up to try to salvage me. (Long story.) They revealed I was the 400th
OT7 person they had visited at home. At the time I had no idea how many other
Solos Nots people had left, since I lived in a remote region. I wasn't the only one
after all, I learned.
I wouldn't let them in the house, but chatted with them outside. Told them that when
OT 8&9 were released and people began getting the "magical abilities" Ron had promised
us and I could confirm it with my own eyes, they were welcome to get back in touch with
me. They said that would be about a year away. I said, OK. We're done for now. That was '96.
Never heard from them again.
The real reason for cancelling the original OT7 package
I was told in confidence by my FSM that he had attended a closed-door briefing, where
he was told by upper SO management that one of the main motivations for scrapping the
current non-GAT Solo Nots course and inventing a new GAT one -- with a different name
-- was that the original course included all CSing for life. That's the original package as
it was sold. I had bought it and held onto it for a long time, until I was ready for it. So did
many other folks . . . the early adopters, if you will.
SO management wanted to bump all these people off that original course and put them
on the new GAT course, which included a hefty $1250 CS fee every six months. They
did this by renaming the course and cancelling the original one. Put the early adopters
on a "paying basis," if you will.
I realized the COS was being run at the very top by financial crooks. I was furious.
I wrote a scathing two-page letter to my CS and Flag and attached all my OT7 materials
I was keeping at home to audit with. Mailed it all in. End of story for me, LOL.