Bare-Faced Messiah (PDF) - Apologetics Index

wife. People were supposed to pretend I hadn't gone anywhere. In LA I was met at the airport by
someone who knew me. I got in the car at night, was driven to a parking lot and switched cars - this
happened 2-3 times in LA in case we were being followed. Then in the last car I was blindfolded
and told that I wasn't allowed to know where we were going. I'd asked everyone what it was about
but they said they didn't know. The last driver told me LRH was sick and that's why I was there.
I was given his PC [preclear] folders and told to solve it. I started looking through folders and
started auditing him the next day and audited him from then on. Can auditing cure illness? In the
Scientological environment that existed in La Quinta the answer would be 100% yes. For legal
reasons the answer was no. They deny it is intended as a physical cure, whereas in the First Book
[Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, pub. 1950] Hubbard claimed it would cure
everything from diabetes to psychosomatic illness. Hubbard considered the cause of illness to be
some bad auditing he'd had just prior, so the idea was to find out what had gone wrong in the
auditing and correct that - it would be a spiritual cure. Denk said, when I arrived, that he thought he
was close to death; he didn't know whether to move him to hospital. His concern was that the ride
in ambulance would finish him off. He was getting ready to restart his heart with an electric pulse
thing and started moving some medical equipment in there.
The Messengers who were looking after him figured they had to get an auditor there. Paulette
Cohen had been auditing him but he got dissatisfied and upset with her and wanted someone
else. They wanted to get Jeff Walker, and I was senior case supervisor at Flag and they didn't think
they could take me away. Jeff Walker started on the route but Hubbard heard and said, "no way,
send Mayo," so they sent me. Walker arrived in LA and was on his way back by the time I was on
the way.
Initially I gave him assist auditing to help him recover. We had several short sessions a day until he
recovered about a month later.
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His personality was initially pretty much the same, alternating between extreme violence and angry
and being quite cheerful and pleasant. On one occasion he was in a good mood and decided I
should have the use of his private swimming pool. He yelled at one of the crew members to get into
a car, go into town and buy me some swimming shorts. I was presented with them as gift from him
and was more or less ordered to swim in his pool. If he bellowed an order to go to town, it had to
be done instantly.
He was trying to start in the movie business and the org was called Cine, the Cine Org, and they
were supposed to make films. He was writing scripts, but the crew could never do anything right. It
was a very, very violent period for the people working for Cine. They'd have to stay up all day and
night trying to do something and him being dissatisfied. He would walk around with electric
bullhorn to yell orders through, even if the person was only a few feet away. He'd tell them to build
the set, describe the set. They'd build the set and were going to shoot. He'd arrive, decided he didn't
like it, scream that they had altered it, he wanted it blue, not green! Some of the crew would be sent
to the RPF [labour force] and others were running round quickly, trying to find blue paint. Then he'd
want to know why it was blue, not yellow.
One of the main reasons why he got sick, I think, was that he had so many failures and so much
frustration and was so upset over the movies that that's what he broke down and collapsed on.
That seemed the most highly charged area.