David Mayo plays a very controversial role in the history of Scientology: For some (CoS) he was the bad scapegoat, an SP and a squirrel, and for others (Free Zone) he was the only true “Senior C/S Int” and the personal auditor of LRH and his technical successor.
I would like to gather a bit of data and show what kind of person he really is.
David Mayo was a class XII auditor of the second generation. This means he was not one of the eight auditors personally trained by LRH in 1971 but was later trained by one of those original class XII auditors.((The landing page of Pierre Ethier’s (class XII) website shows the complete list of all class XII trainees (as of 1998) and divides those into three generations of class XIIs: Download of July 4, 2005 from www.angelfire.com/pro/class12/ – also see my FSB 9. August 2004 FSB 20040809R The Three Generations of Class XIIs))
Since 1978, he belonged to the top tech terminals who revised and consolidated the tech and published a lot of new HCOBs in Ron’s name. There was only a telex line “to Ron” which apparently separated the wheat from the chaff. From today’s view – knowing that Ron never showed up again and could not have personally authorized these telexes after the fact – we know that this telex line was already introducing a hidden line of data back then, which RTC still refers to today in new publications as source. The HCOBs since 1978 are just as implausible as the ones since 1986. And David Mayo was one of the top people working on the changes of the bridge.((Proof: email from Julie Gillespie Mayo (his wife) from April 1996 and the solemn affirmation by David Mayo on May 1, 1987, as published on the Internet. ))
In January 1982, the RTC was founded in order to get the copyrights of LRH under control for the government. According to the judicial deed of foundation, the founding members are: “Terri Gamboa, David Miscavige, Norman Starkey, Phoebe Maurer, Lyman Spurlock, Julia Watson, and David Mayo“!!!((Source: The history of the takeover of the Scientology Church, called “The Criminal Time Track of Scientology”, completed and published on the Internet by ex-guardian office worker Mike McClaughry (New OT 7). This large collection of data of over 1000 pages, which is well worth the read, used to be published in several places on the WWW. – One version is found on the homepage of the FreeZone e.V. Munich: http://www.freezone.de/english/timetrack/tt-index.htm ))
Then Mayo claims to have been made “Senior C/S Int” by LRH in 1982 and writes:
“In April of 1982, I received a long and detailed letter from LRH. It assigned me the full responsibility for the tech and for his technical hats for the next 20 to 25 years. (After the passage of this 20-25 years, he stated that he would return in his next lifetime to reassume his tech hats).”((Source: “An Open Letter to All Scientologists From David Mayo”, from around 1985. Published numerous times on the Internet, i.e. here http://www.wiseoldgoat.com/papers-scientology/hubbard_story_of_mayo.html – The reincarnated LRH did not show up 2007 as announced here by Mayo, any dupes may still be waiting for him 😉 ))
In the following, I’m quoting „An Open Letter to All Scientologists From David Mayo“ with my commentary in the foot notes (please hoover over them with your mouse, then they pop up):
An Open Letter to All Scientologists
From David Mayo
(July 1983)
Hello dear friends,
I am extremely happy to be able to openly communicate to you once again. It has been a long time; an overly long and somewhat difficult period for many of us. Those of you who know me may have wondered what I have been doing over the past year, so I am grateful to have this space to let you know of my activities and future plans.
I believe it is important to provide a background to all of this. It is important so that you can share my reality on the depth of my commitment to the tech and to you.((Here Mayo describes the reason for this letter: To inform the Free Scientologists that he is their highest tech terminal. ))
It begins in 1957, when I first contacted Dianetics and Scientology. Like many of you, I read LRH’s books and began auditing friends and acquaintances. I was so immediately impressed with the results that I moved to be near an Org and receive professional training (Hubbard Professional Auditor and Bachelor of Scientology, 1959). These were relatively simple, uncomplicated and exciting days.
After working in a Mission for a few months, I joined staff at the Auckland Org in late ’59 and worked there for eight years, mainly as the HCO Sec, but always “double-hatted” on technical posts such as auditor, supervisor, case supervisor, etc. We attended Congresses, went to LRH tape plays, studied and did various courses, gave and received auditing and became part of the excitement that was being engendered by LRH and this new religion called Scientology.
In 1962, I did the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course under Ron and Mary Sue, graduating with honors. After this, I became even more involved with technical posts and my love of the tech developed. This devotion to the tech has been a profound and guiding motivation for me to this present day.
In January 1968, I joined the Sea Org and continued my tech training, frequently working and studying under LRH; e.g., I did my technical internships under LRH, audited under LRH as the Case Supervisor and later worked as a Case Supervisor under LRH, as the Senior C/S.
In September 1973, LRH appointed me as the Senior C/S Flag((This we have to (?) believe him since I could not find anything from LRH in writing about this. The title “Snr C/S Flag” for David Mayo first shows up in the following BTBs: BTB 10 April 1977 PSYCHOSIS RESEARCH CASE 1, BTB 11 April 1977 PSYCHOSIS RESEARCH CASE 2, BTB 12 April 1977 PSYCHOSIS RESEARCH CASE 3, BTB 13 April 1977 PSYCHOSIS RESEARCH CASE 4, BTB 14 April 1977 PSYCHOSIS RESEARCH CASE 5, BTB 15 April 1977 PSYCHOSIS RESEARCH CASE 6, etc.
These are all references from the expanded dianetics pack of May 1977, which had been signed responsibly by David Mayo and the class 12 auditor John Eastment. John Eastment is the only class 12 of the second generation who has remained in the Church until today (no one from the first generation) and taken over the Snr C/S Int position on November 10, 1989 under the RTC. So the first time we found written proof of the claimed Snr C/S Flag position in the bulletins (including the LRH EDs!) was after Ron’s disappearance. I don’t want to question that Mayo was the Snr C/S of Flag during this time, I am simply disputing that Ron gave him that position until there is proof. )) and during this period I also became the C/S for LRH’s auditing((For that I also don’t know of any proof except for his claim. )), until 1975, when he moved to a different location.
In September 1978, I was called from the Flag Service Org to California to audit LRH and there I stayed on, as his auditor((This claim cannot be proved by anything except his claim. At the same time, this claim answers the big question that was going around among Scientologists: “Where exactly is Ron”, he had not been seen in public at least since 1976! )). In October 1978, LRH appointed me to the post of Senior C/S International((Only with the HCOB 13. Dez. 1978R revised 24 SEPTEMBER 1979 PC SET-UPS AND C/S 53, the position of Snr C/S Int is mentioned for the first time in the red Volumes with the abbreviation DM. Then again in the HCO B 4 SEPTEMBER 1979 FYING RUDS IN CRAMMING and HCO B 21 DECEMBER 1979 AUDITOR ASSIGNMENT POLICIES, CRAMMING ASSIGNMENT POLICIES, as author in both of these HCOBs. However, there is no LRH reference in which Mayo is made Snr C/S Int or in which you can find an explanation on what the rights and duties of an Snr C/S are even supposed to be, since it didn’t exist until then. )). I remained in California auditing LRH on audited NOTs until he advanced onto Solo NOTS. In mid-1979, I assisted him with technical research and with the export and training of the first auditors and C/Ses on new tech((This we also have to believe him. There are no witnesses that he audited Ron in 1978 or that Ron had authorized NOTs. In fact, in his huge NOTs copyright trial against the Church, Mayo was able to claim, without objections (!), that he was the author of NOTs. The Church won this trial but not due to the appeal of Ron’s contribution to NOTs but because Mayo used to write down NOTs in the name of the Church as a paid staff member, and according to US copyright law, the copyright belongs to the client! – In the FSB 25.03.2005R How squirrel tech has been made acceptable – NOTs revealed, I have explained in detail that NOTs is a squirrel tech that helped to remove the original OT levels. This FSB should be read in context with this because it clearly shows Mayo’s character: A leader of the takeover team under contract of the government. )). Apart from some return visits to Flag (and other Orgs) to handle out-tech, I remained on the post of Senior C/S International in California from 1978. Throughout that period, I was being trained and briefed by LRH on current tech and on his research of new tech, as yet unreleased((During his life, Ron had always immediately finished his cycles (see the HCOPL 19. Aug. 1959 III How to Handle Work) and published all scientific data. He had a secretary with him for that who typed everything on the same day and put it into distribution. RTC still claims today that there is a huge amount of unpublished materials from which they have been able to take information for their new HCOB’s since Ron’s official day of death. Therefore, no churchie is surprised that more LRH tech has been published in the 1990s and since 2000 as well. The Free Scientologists are skeptical for a reason. But Mayo wants to palm the same oppressive datum off on the independend Scientologists: Because the “unpublished data” make up a hidden data line which Ron clearly commented on in the HCOB 1 SEPTEMBER 1971 A C/S AS A TRAINING OFFICER – A PROGRAM FOR FLUBLESS AUDITING: „A “Hidden Data Line” is a pretense that certain data exists outside of HCO Bs, books and tapes. It can include “data in HCO Bs is conflicting” and “nowhere does it say how to _______ “. This is deadly and a C/S should work hard to stamp it out.” – For an Snr C/S, such an introduction of a hidden line of data is a real felony and it clearly shows the true side of D. Mayo. )).
Tech hat assigned for the next 20-25 years
In April of 1982, I received a long and detailed letter from LRH((About the date of May 16, 1982, so one month later, the already quoted “Criminal Time Track” notes: “Religious Technology Center (RTC) incorporated. L. Ron Hubbard donated all trademarks of Dianetics and Scientology to RTC.“ Two graphologic expertises doubt the authenticity of LRH’s signature. Was the letter of appointment of Mayo to come from the same pen? Did he know about it and didn’t publish it for that reason? )). It assigned me the full responsibility for the tech and for his technical hats for the next 20 to 25 years.((Despite urgent cries of many independend Scientologists, Mayo never published this letter and even denied its existence later on. Thus, he is exposed as a liar. In fact, he did a huge fraud. After all, he claims a position that is not due to him and claims support by LRH that he never received. This is significant for the entire role he played during the takeover. The date is also interesting: It was after the disempowerment of the ED Int Bill Franks, the mission holders, the thousands of SP Declares. )) (After the passage of this 20-25 years, he stated that he would return in his next lifetime to reassume his tech hats)((This outlook on a reincarnation of LRH on planet Earth contradicts LRH’s announcement in “The Hymn of Asia” in which he clarified that he would not come back after this mission. Thus, a fatal attitude is created in the readership: You don’t need to do anything except wait considering the downfall of Scientology: because at some point, the “old man” comes back and puts everything right. But Ron has done his job and given a tech to humanity with which it can free itself. Whether or not we take this chance or miss it due to negligence and inactivity is simply up to us: „the price of freedom: constant alertness and the willingness to fight back.“ – By the way: the announced time 20-25 years later was up in 2007 and LRH did not show up.)). As I sought to carry out this assigned responsibility for the tech, it became increasingly obvious that there were points that must be corrected in the area of International Management of the Church of Scientology so that the purity of the tech could be safeguarded.((Thus, the fox put itself in charge of the henhouse: It was Mayo who twisted the tech and now “takes on full responsibility” to keep it clean and authentic. We already know this game from the RTC: They are also the guards of the KSW steps 1 to 10. When such a powerful organization guards the cleanliness of the tech, then little Scientologist me doesn’t need to watch out any more. This assumption by Mayo and RTC, however, contradicts the HCOPL Keeping Scientology Working: every one is responsible for KSW or Scientology will falter.)) Indeed, correction was mandatory to even keep the tech in existence at all! My efforts to bring about these corrections of Management resulted in hostilities and the cutting of my communication line to LRH((“His communication line to LRH” is a hidden line of data. Because we have to believe him that he had one, that RTC had one. Factually, there was no communication line from the Scientologists to LRH or from LRH to the Scientologists: since 1973. And at least this is the time of takeover: January 1977. Since then, the law firm Stephen and Sherman Lenske (now special directors of CST, parent organisation to RTC) rules over Scientology. )). This severance of my line to LRH was done covertly by others. This was in August of 1982((This is what I call “directing of attention”. The fact that a takeover of the Church had taken place could not be overlooked any more. It was unclear when it happened. The takeover team, which of course also controls the Free Zone according to the Marchiavelli principle of “divide and conquer” (ideally, you master both parts of the split), preaches 1982 as takeover date! – This is the point in time when the entire technical alter-is had been completed: The clearing course was eliminated, releases were attested as clears, the OT levels had been replaced by NOTs. The power processes and R6EW bridge steps as an “alternative route” were kept from most and dianetics was hidden behind the grades and forbidden for “Clears and OTs”. – Now David Mayo had fulfilled his main task of destructing the bridge, and this had to be secured from the independend Scientologists so no one would get back to the original bridge from Ron’s era! – So the “highest technical authority” was stamped as martyr (one shall read Mayo’s unbelievable story about his RPF in the desert) and he changed to the Free Zone as a hero and also took on – with this writing – the highest tech position over the Free Zone. )). Ultimately, these hostilities culminated in my removal from post by others who had established themselves in a position of control over LRH’s comm lines. This was a period of shock, horror and very real atrocity not only for me, but for many, many high calibre, long-standing Scientology executives of proven ability. There were literally hundreds removed during this lengthy political purge((Today we know there were thousands. All close friends of LRH, almost all highly trained auditors (take a look at the list of class XIIs that I showed in the FSB 9. August 2004 The three Generations of Class XIIs, almost no one remained on post, especially none of the oldtimers. )). While I do not wish to go into the details of that here, suffice it to say that after all my efforts to rectify matters internally, I left in February 1983((So comparatively late. Most Scientologists had to choose in 1982 on which side they wanted to be. In my opinion, Mayo’s switch to the Free Zone was the takeover team’s attempt to also keep the Free Zone under their control. And they did not save any staff and even put their own „Snr C/S Int“ into the game. )).
The next few months were spent recovering my physical health and taking precautions to handle various threats against me and my friends((Justifies his “commlag”, his delayed appearance. )).
Having accomplished these two things, I am very pleased to let you know that I am again fully available to help and to serve.
My very real concern is for the purity and the standardness of the tech. And I know how important it is to all of you, and to the future.
There have been an increasing number of reported instances of out-tech today; even what appears to be a deliberate corruption of the tech. I know that this is of great concern to you, too.((Of course this would be of importance. But he didn’t do it. Like the “best C/Ss” of the Church, he used his position to eradicate any resorts to old, functioning tech of the early 70s and to enforce the new, useless tech since 1978. ))
Thus, I am offering my services, internationally, and I am fortunate to have the support and help of a group of very fine Scientologists.
I am convinced that we can avoid the enormous errors of the past. Indeed, we must. We do have the extraordinary advantage of several points of guidance:
1. Your open, unsuppressed communication,
2. The tech itself, unyielding and senior to any and all political turmoil, and
3. A viewpoint of understanding as to what is behind us, and to what surely lies ahead.
There is a story of an ancient statesman who survived the collapse and self-destruction of a great civilization. Years later, when asked by historians how he had accomplished this, he stated:
“I stood above others, on higher ground, and when they were washed away by flood and ruination, I simply carried on.”
It is, I believe, as simple as that.
Please get in touch. We are here for you.
With great love,
David Mayo – Advanced Ability Center
Suite 243, 1187 Coast Village Rd. #l, Montecito, CA 93108 , Phone: (805) 969-3422
In fact, the establishment of a high tech position such as the Snr C/S Int is an important part of the takeover strategy: Originally, this position did not exist under LRH, and it was not even needed because every Org assured on their own with the Orgboard (especially Ethics, Qual and LRH-Comm) that the LRH tech was used loyally and purely on source.
Of course there may be differences in interpretation so that the Orgs interpret and apply the tech differently. But as long as there is no distinct LRH reference for application, diversity must be possible. Then the better one would be able to prove himself in practice through his successes and the inferior one could learn and catch up. But an authoritarian clearing of any technical differences had always been denied by Ron. That is why he developed the cramming tech where the auditor comes to seeing sense or remaining on his point of view either by word clearing or wrong-data-drawing. By introducing a Snr C/S Int, the takeover team received the possibility to slowly introduce technical changes and stipulate and impose interpretations. In the 90s, there was an issue of dispute in the CoS whether someone who had gone clear before finishing all grades on the lower bridge had to finish them first or was allowed to continue to the OT levels right away.((This question had never been asked before 1977: Back then, every grade (and each process on every grade) was audited before someone was able to start on the clearing course. And when one had reached its EP, one achieved Clear. There was no shortcut on this solid and functioning way. )) This question was at first answered by the Snr C/S Int in one way and then by David Miscavige in another way by decree because it could not be solved on the basis of LRH bulletins. What speaks against letting every Org deal with it according to their reality and letting statistics speak for themselves? – No, that would be a scientific approach and contradicts the authoritarian principle and the possibility of fully twisting the tech.
And the contribution of Mayo in the Free Zone does not bear witness of the significance of an LRH representative on earth that he claimed to have. After a legal battle with the Church, he stopped his Scientology work. An immense violation of integrity should he have been a Scientologist. However, it is a well-deserved life of a retiree from the view point of a member of the takeover team.
During an interview with David Mayo on August 28, 1986((See http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/miller/interviews/mayo.htm )) in Palo Alto, California, he talked in such a bad way about LRH and the tech that I was lost for words. This defamation and abasement of not only Hubbard but also his tech, should ARC-break every scientological reader. But one should compare Hubbard’s tech with Mayo’s tech and decide then whom to trust more. Mayo is a sleazy fraud and liar and you should consider the “data” (LRH was severely ill and Mayo had to develop NOTs in order to save him) distributed by him as wrong. Max from Ron’s Org Switzerland even justified that as “understandable resentment” and would defend Mayo by all means.
After all this data you can tell that Mayo was a deliberate part of the takeover strategy. He is too well trained to have overlooked all the alter-is in the “new tech”, as he called it above. And it was him who wrote it.
It is astonishing, however, that the CoS, lead by RTC, distances itself very harshly from Mayo (calling him “squirrel”, “suppressor” etc.) while keeping all the tech developed by him, instead of removing all the changes of the bridge that he introduced. But it’s only astonishing then if you don’t presume that Mayo and Miscavige actually belong to one team.
However, we will not get the run-around and rehabilitate the original LRH bridge the way it existed until 1972 and is completely published in the old Red Volumes up to volume VIII.
Among others, the following changes of tech can be ascribed to Mayo and his team:
1. Redefinition of the bridge and the goal of Scientology.((See my FSB 19. February 2005R Bridge to total freedom – a no-game Condition))
2. Redefinition of Clear so that Releases can attest the condition without the clearing course.((See my FSB 24.02.2004 You can only become Clear on the Clearing-Course and FSB 18. May 2005 There is no natural clear and FSB 2. March 2004 Clears, Clearing-Course and OTs))
3. Forbidding Dianetics for Clears and OTs so that they are left alone with their body troubles and cannot get through OT III either.((See my FSB 14. Apr 2005R Basis for PCs, auditors and case supervisors – Dianetics))
4. Changing of Standard Dianetics to NED where the PC is sent on a gradient way too steep, and is utterly overwhelmed at the end.((See my FSB 17. January 2006 NED Criticism – Rehab Standard Dianetics and also FSB 30. January 2005R Issue I Forget NED! Rehab the Standard Dianetics’ Pattern))
5. Removal of the old, efficient OT levels OT IV to VII and replacement by the dull NOTs.((See my FSB 31. March 2005R The Directing of Attention – It’s more blessed to give than receive)) ((See my FSB 25. March 2005R How squirrel tech has been made acceptable – NOTs revealed))
6. Replacement of many Dianetics based processes and Rundowns by dull keyout versions: Drug RD, Int RD, Service Fac Handling etc.
7. Introduction of a moral code with “Way to Happiness” in Scientology despite Ron explicitly opposing such.
8. Dianetics has been shoved behind the grades which Ron explicitly called a rough mistake.((This and a lot more in the FSB 18. Jan. 2002RB Bridge Changes since 1972))
9. Changing of the GPM platens for CC and OT II so that they hardly work.
10. Introduction of the Purif as a new mandatory step of the bridge (which was previously only intended for LSD druggies) and, therefore, preprogrammed losses at the beginning of the bridge because the EP is not attainable for some.
11. Replacement of the HAS co-audit course by a dull comm-course on which simply “TRs” are trained “for life” instead of co-auditing taking place.
12. Reintroduction of the quicky grades on which all grade processes must be checked for reads, otherwise they shall not be audited. Plus the instruction to end the grade processes “when reaching the EP grade” instead of holding onto the LRH rule that all processes of the grades must be audited.
13. People are – even though they are not really clear yet – allowed onto the OT levels. When their release condition gets lost, severe illness or psychosis threatens.((See my FSB 18. January 2006 How a black bridge is built))
14. Destruction of class VI training by virtual elimination of appropriate application, degradation of course data to “a knowledge of the historic background”.((See my FSB 3. May 2004 Squirrel-Warning about the SHSBC Briefing Course.))
If my explanations about David Mayo so far have not convinced you yet, then get ahold of the dozen FSBs just mentioned in the footnotes and study them carefully. The out-tech introduced in 1978 is explained in detail therein. A turn of Scientology by 180º happened from 1978 to 1982. All these changes took place under the control of David Mayo and they are the basis of the technical delivery not only in the Church but also in the Ron’s Org/Free Zone.
This doesn’t need to be the case.
Andreas Gross
for the
Independent Scientologists
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