Dan Garvin
Former scientologist, 25 years in the Sea Org, 10 years in OSA.
«I began to
think -- and got carried away!» — Dan Garvin,
"The Amazing Meeting".
«Dan Garvin's presentation, called
"Adventures in Scientology", was a bit of a shocker. He began
(say Randi's biographical notes) as a Christian Scientist, and
grew up believing the physical world was illusory. Searching for
answers which he felt his Christian Science was not addressing
to his satisfaction, Dan discovered the highly seductive
philosophy of Scientology. He eventually joined the
Sea
Org. Here he spent the next 25 years in almost total
isolation from the outside world. Then Dan Garvin began
listening clandestinely to radio talk shows in his truck (as a
traveling electrician within the cult). He told us, "I began to
think -- and got carried away!" He eventually managed to break
away from Scientology, and he is now a free man. I have to say,
that after hearing Dan Garvin's incredible story, the word
“free” is the most beautiful four-letter word in the English
language. Dan is now a full time college student, pursuing a
degree in physics.» — Larry Thornton,
"The Amazing Meeting".
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"I started thinking, and I got carried away" Except it wasn't.
In my recalcitrant frame
of mind, I was no longer glossing over or explaining away all
the inconsistencies, self-contradictions, and outright horseshit
in the material I was listening to. Where I could accept
it, I did, but some things were just too outrageous, even for
me. Those things are not the things that make most people go,
"Huh???" at Scientology, or fall into fits of hysterical
laughter. I had no problem swallowing whole track, space opera,
clams and sloths and photon converters, oh my!, all that. What
stuck in my throat were the logical and factual impossibilities
concerning the immediate world: How he'd seen it mathematically
"proven" that the brain could only hold 3 months' worth of
memories (math, my ass: Hubbard couldn't even add water) [...]
My experience with OSA litigation Operations Although nothing came of that "investigation,"
the fact remains that
the "Church" of Scientology had a covert operative employed in a
law firm against which the Church was litigating. This
operative undoubtedly had access to
attorney-client-privileged information. This is also
somewhere around the time COS used Interpol to get David
Mayo's home surrounded by police and searched, and himself
taken at machine-gun point to a disgustingly unsanitary
Dominican Republic jail, where he was held without food or
water before being interrogated and eventually released.
So I got tired of moping and headed back to the condo. The
execs and OSA guys were there; I don't remember which ones but
probably most of the ones who normally worked or attended
conferences there. Nobody was saying much; it looked like
everybody else hadn't finished moping yet. So I took a hint and
resumed moping. Every once in a while somebody would wonder what
the hell we were going to do, or what went wrong, and speculate
about how bad it was going to be. After a while, the
CO OSA
Int, Mike Sutter,
spoke up. He said (paraphrasing), "I don't care if she thinks she won. That bitch is never going to see one single
cent. I'll kill her first. I don't care if I get the chair — it's worth it. It's just one lifetime."
One of the
remarkable
characteristics of a Church of Scientology apparatchik is the
compulsion to lie even when no lie is necessary, when the
unembellished truth would have been adequate to the purpose.
Compulsive lying is a trait ordinarily associated with a
certain mental instability, but these are people who,
outside office hours, would seem pretty normal. I knew Alex;
he knew me. Even accounting for the possibility that some of
the lies were fed to him by others, he knows that at least
some of what he wrote here is false.
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Dan Garvin letter to James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) My point here is that in this radio show I
first heard about your million-dollar challenge. I was
already starting to think, but it got me thinking just that
little bit more: How come some
Scientologist doesn't claim this prize? After all, we are
the ones who really can do these things. There are
prohibitions against showing off in public " don't frighten
the natives, you know " but that came from back when New Age
wasn't cool. In today's world, Scientology is actively
promoting their wares to New Age adherents of all stripes "
what a surprise! " and a demonstrated proof of mystical
powers would give us a great big whomping mojo and get tons
of people and money pouring in. Even if no official
Scientology church would allow it, there's a tremendous body
of people who've left the church but still believe in the
tech
Dan Garvin on WISE's Information Letter on Reed Slatkin And so,
in a shining example of
Scientology justice, the WISE EO is assigned to the
RPF.
I do hope this information gets to as many WISE members and ex-members and other Scientologist businesspersons as possible. This is how WISE is looking out for your interests and protecting you from being taken advantage of. |
