What’s it take to be an Indie?

Why is it so hard to come out and announce being an Indie?  I recently came out after 8 months of Q&A and procrastination.  Linda and I were so worried about our kids and some of our friends who wouldn’t take it easily.  But I finally put my foot down and just did it.  And I paid a LOT of attention to what was going on around me while I came out.  It was a crazy adventure, and things happened as I thought they would.  But paying attention to it as it happened made it easier to as-is.

The first thing that happened is people all around me disconnected from me. And I wasn’t even declared! Even though I pointed out that it was not per policy to disconnect from me when I was not declared, they still went ahead and did it.  WTF was that?  Oh, OSA doing their thang.  

But there was more to it than just simply OSA. It was too easy for OSA.  The interesting thing was that a few of my acquaintances worked and are still working overtime to bury Linda and I.  I took note that these people are most likely suppressive.  

But why did our kids and best friends disconnect so fast?  This was interesting.  Why did they listen to OSA so easily?  It took a little research but I found it in the tech volumes. LRH always has the answer.  

The facts are this:  Most of the people in Scientology know there is something wrong. Our friends and kids all admitted that they knew there was something wrong, but they didn’t want us handling it. “Let someone else handle it” was what we got a lot.  This was the outpoint I followed up and led me to the situation:  “They aren’t worried about me, they are worried about themselves, what we are doing to them by coming out!”  It reminded me of the 70’s when my parents gave me grief for being IN Scientology: Same feeling.

HCOB 16 April 1982, LRH says; “PTS is a connection to an SP. That is true.  But what may be overlooked is that persons of the middle class (which is a culture, not an income bracket, to which belong all the puritan hypocritical mores of the cop and the get-a-job-be-a-moderate-plugging-success) frown very terribly on anything that at the least bit tries to make a better world. The middle class wants the world of a job and order and even hypocrisy and cops because they are AFRAID.  They hold their narrow views because any other views may disturb their twenty-year house mortgage, the store, the job. So when someone decides to make a better world, they look on him as a direct menace even though the dull middle-class world is a sort of slavery and suicide. It is the middle class that tries the hardest to keep the down-and-outer out and down, who go along with a cop America and hate support of anything not in their class. And nearly every PTS you have will be found one way or another to be PTS to the middle class. As a group, not as individuals, the middle-class parent world suppress anything different. So you have PTSes.”

People around me got mad at me for coming out because they are AFRAID. They admitted that there was something wrong with the Church, but they didn’t want me to do something to handle my church because it would upset their equilibrium with their society. They all told me that they had jobs in WISE companies and they would be forced to disconnect from me or lose their jobs. WTF is that??  Disconnect from the person you love so you don’t lose your beautiful house and jobs?  

It was then that I realized that I was PTS to the middle class. That’s all most of this crap is about.

We rebels like to shake things up. That’s why we are here. We’re not afraid to demand reform. We can look “declare” right in the eye and say “Make my day!”  But those around us are afraid we’ll mess up their precious environ.  But our friends and relatives are about to kills us for doing anything radical. We are going to upset their delicate state of mind.

“Many of them are caught up in the mystery of why they are snarled at and have no conception of the middle class as a formidable and jealous force that goes psychotic when it feels anyone may get away from the treadmill and threaten their uneasy and doomed lives.”

So if you are feeling CI to coming out and announcing your freedom as an Indie, realize you are connected to a very rabid middle-class. DM has built a middle class right inside Scientology.  And these people are the Puritans of Puritans. They will still snarl at us after DM is gone.  They’ve given a lot of money and they aren’t going to easily confront the fact that they threw that money away and got taken for a ride.  

But the rest of the middle class, the ones that work for WISE companies and have nice houses and nice cars and all of that are going to really give you a hard time. They will hate you for coming out. This is where the CI is.

Beat the CI and become free. It is PTS-less out here and that is a good feeling!!

ML Tom Martiniano
AKA Virgil Samms