I still find my success with Dianetics a source of smiles and wonder. That such technology exists and can be so powerful!
I had been exposed in 2001 to industrial solvents at my job that left me with severe steroid-dependant occupational asthma. It got bad enough that the pulmonologist I’d been seeing ordered me to quit that job. It took months in our small town for me to find another job that wouldn’t set the asthma off as badly.
The steroids caused other problems, and I was on blood pressure medications, gaining weight, having joint problems, and was continually trying to control the asthma with other medications and inhalers to try to cut down on the steroid use. In April of 2006, I requested a leave of absence from my job to get knee surgery done. This coincided with a major asthma flare that put me in the hospital. I was fired from my job.
Now broke, overwhelmed, sick and in pain, my attitude and ability to pull out of the situation crashed.
My husband Lloyd, while a Scientologist, hadn’t been active in Dianetics & Scientology while we were married. He decided that he’d been off-lines quite long enough! He got in touch with a Dianetics Practicioner by the name of Chuck Bell that lived only forty miles from our little farm. Chuck came over to the house a couple times, had Lloyd go with him to do Dianetics seminars, and Lloyd went down to Chuck’s home several times.
I was initially distrustful of Chuck’s obvious happiness and enthusiasm, and told Lloyd so. (And yes, thinking of what my tone level was then gives me a smile now!) Chuck carefully coached Lloyd until when Lloyd suggested that I get some auditing from Chuck, I readily agreed.
My first Dianetics session was on the 7th of July, 2006. By the end of it, I could hardly wait for the next one. By the third, my asthma was completely GONE! By the end of the intensive, I knew that I wanted to learn to audit.
I started really reading Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, did the on-line Extension Course, started on a new job, and started helping Chuck with his Dianetics study group. I REALLY started winning, and I started reading more and more L. Ron Hubbard. I started listening to the Congress Lectures, The Special Course on Human Evaluation Lectures, and getting lots more certainty that I HAD to learn to audit!
Chuck said that he was planning on going to Dallas for a celebration. I asked if I could ride along, and was wondering aloud how I could possibly get trained as an Auditor. A couple days later Chuck suggested that I join staff at the local Scientology Organization. My reaction was heartfelt and instant — OF COURSE!! HOW ELEGANTLY OBVIOUS!!! YES!!!!
I told Lloyd what I wanted to do, and having been staff at Narconon [a non-profit drug rehabiliation organization] in the past, he agreed.
When I got to the organization, it was already well-know that I was to join Staff. When I called Lloyd from the organization, he had two questions: “Do you have some reality on an Org now?” and “Have you joined?” I told him yes to both.
I arrived on staff the 7th of October, 2006 — exactly three months from my first Dianetics session.
My thanks and my love to my husband Lloyd, who recognized that only L. Ron Hubbard’s tech could save me.
My thanks and my friendship to my first auditor, Chuck, whose application of LRH tech pulled me out of that tailspin of succumb.
And always, always, to L. Ron Hubbard, my unbounded thanks and admiration for this incredible gift of freedom.