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CH:
No, I don’t think so, or, of course I’m not exactly sure. I think there was a
center in Dallas, and I think, it was a place where she went and yeah, I think it was more like classes.

SF:
And did they have an instructor, or something of that nature? You don’t
know? Okay, all right, so then what do you recaII after that point? Any contact?

CH:
Urn, I don’t remember how much contact we had over the next few years
urn, but I do remember the next thing that I ,that had to do with Scientology, was after she divorced her first husband the second time, and they had had a real rocky time. He was difficult, as a matter of fact, I think at one point he tried to kill her.

JO:
Abusive?
CH:
He was very abusive, and uh, yeah, I think he literally tried to kill her and
that’s when she decided to divorce him, so it may have been after they separated, to be honest, I’m not sure on that but she was engaged to Gene, and they were in Dallas and I, I went to Dallas and I met with, as a matter of fact, we went to see a film, and we went to dinner, and I had very little knowledge, probably a little bit more at that time, I don’t remember if I had heard of Dianetics, the book, or if I had read the first part of it at that point, but I was aware of it more and what he explained to me was that Scientology was a process through which all of the things that had happened in your life and later, you know, you find out, past lives as well, had a tendency to make you overreact to things, in other words, what happened in the current would trigger all of these occurrences that were similar

JO:
Past emotions?
OH:
Past emotions, and that, and that was a problem, and so the idea with it
then would be to go through these auditing sessions, which is what she, or they, referred to them as, and so one of the counselors, or auditors I guess, would take you back through each of the occurrences of these, whatever, events, and when you got to the root event, you could clear it away. You would retain it as a memory, but you wouldn’t have, it wouldn’t have the emotional charge, therefore, you get to a situation where you’re reacting to the current situation only, and not reactivity to this, whatever the old stuff was.

SF:
As you are a culmination of all your experiences. They’re saying that that’s
why you react certain ways.

OH:
Well, what they’re saying is that urn, as I understand it today, I don’t know
how much I understood at the time, but, what I believe they’re saying is that we can have an event that happens early in our !ife that is traumatic or somehow is

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