Friday, 28th November, 2008 02:46:17am [----RECORD_BREAK----]

Name or Alias: Paul David Schofield
Training and/or processing level: Cl V/FPRD Auditor, Cl IV/KTL & LOC C/S, Staff Status IV, Exec Status ONe, Professor
Org or location: Sydney Australia (mostly)
Time involved in the Church of Scientology: Almost 30 years
Recommended Website - ESMB

1. How did you first become acquainted with the Church of Scientology?

I was body-routed into Sydney org and did a personality test.

2. What initially appealed to you about scientology?

The person who went over my personality test with me seemed to know what she was talking about and she was confident that scientology would help. I thought I had nothing to lose by trying it out so I gave her a small sum of money for some'co-audit' course.

3. Were there problems in your life that you thought scientology would address?

Drugs, communication inabilities.

4. Did you see, experience, or hear about things that didn't seem right while you were in the Church of Scientology? What were they, and what convinced you to set aside your feelings?

Low staff pay, Nazis at the top of the org, constantly declining stats, injustices masquerading as justice, general blindness among Scientologists as to what was really happening around them - I tried to ignore it as it would all be OK once 'we' had the planet 'Cleared'

5. Why did you choose to stay in the Church of Scientology?

The promise of 'Total Freedom' at the top of the Bridge and the dream of a sane planet.

6. Were you staff or public? If staff, was it at a mission or an org? Were you ever in the Sea Org or OSA? Which unit? If not on staff, did you ever volunteer to 'help out'?

Syd F staff '79 - 2000. Narconon intermittently 2002 - 2008

7. Why did you leave the Church of Scientology? Was there a "final straw"?

Finding out that the Basics Books Donations campaign was either a spectacular failure or a slimy con-job. Australia was supposed to have a set in every public library - when I checked the national library database, there were only 177 books spread over 850-odd libraries. Nothing ccould explain that anomaly in any way but stupid or criminal.

8. Do you think the Church of Scientology needs to change some of its practices? If so, what should be changed? How did those practices affect your life?

It needs a total overhaul - something it is incapable of.

9. If the items you listed in the previous question were changed, would you consider rejoining or staying in the Church of Scientology? If so, why?

No - it is locked into the insanities of its Hubbard dictates.

10. Any additional comments you would like to make?

I still feel bitterness that I spent the majority of my life slaving for a dream that ultimately was a con. I would love to see this idiocy dismantled and all the slaves freed.