1950s:
Pat Krenik started in Scientology with the initial publishing of Dianetics, and has written a fine essay detailing her experiences during the formative stages of Scientology. Pat is still auditing and Case Supervising in Washington State.
She says about the ‘50’s: "The 50’s were a very exciting time in my life. A whole new adventure had opened up to this bored housewife, and the desire to go clear changed my life. I read books, co-audited books, attended lectures, and was turned down by Wing Angell in 1954 for the H.D.A. course he and the Farrells were teaching in Seattle because I didn’t have a prior certificate. That was terribly disappointing, because I knew I was as good an auditor as any in the group."
"So I studied for the H.D.A course on my own and challenged the test. I was checked out by Richard Steves from D.C. Qual, passed and eventually was given my Certificate. I was on the Board of the Church of Scientology of Bremerton and the Church of Scientology of WA before they revamped it and turned it into the Church of Scientology of WA State."
"My then husband, Ron Arnold and I, sent the kids to relatives and attended the Clearing Course A.C.C., #19 in 1958. Ron Hubbard, Nibs and the Halperns taught it, and it was very intensive. Half the students went clear on Step-Six, the other half did not. Even though LRH gave personal exams for Clear and even though Ron Arnold and I both were permitted Clear Bracelets, this all went by the wayside, but LRH really wanted something that would work for everyone."
"I returned to Seattle where we ran a Mission for two years, supervising lots of co-audit courses and doing professional auditing. Unfortunately, these were early days in tech development, and while I was clear and flying and winning a serious auditor mistake spun me in, ruined my life, and it took me years, and years to get that corrected. Remember, these were the days before corrections lists!!"
1960s:
"For the next two years, my auditor tried to repair the damage, but the tools just weren’t there to do it. Objectives didn’t touch it and 200 hours later I was still in a spin. My first relief from case chaos was with Smokey Angell as my auditor, and she said, 'What is going on?' And I said, 'I think I’m stuck in a mind', and she said 'OK…now, just what part of that mind could you confront.'"
"As a result of the spin, I broke up my marriage, and wound up in N. J. and visited LRH again in Wash D.C. in 1961."
"In 1965 came the beginnings of Ethics in Seattle, and I was back then in my home state of WA. There were S & D’s and endless lists, and Ethics declares (seventeen of the most active members in Seattle were declared SP) and none if this was very helpful."
"I want to go to Saint Hill, but had too many kids and no money so I kept postulating it anyway. In 1968 my then husband, Ralph decided he’d go to Texas and do carpentry for his brother, and we packed all the belongings and the kids in a truck, and headed out. The truck broked down in LA, and we wound up in my childhood home, which had been boarded up. Within three months the American St. Hill was put within walking distance of our house!! Postulates do work, if in funny ways. I did most certainly send to LRH, 'thanks' telepathically."
1970s:
" In the 70’s I graduated from the S.H.S.B.C., the O.E.C., and went on to do the H.S.D.C. and the OT levels. I divorced again in 1972. I worked for the Riverside Mission for awhile as an auditor, and then went to Oregon to the Delphi for a couple of months in 1974. Returning to LA I worked as an FESer at ASHO, then married Raymond J. Krenik Jr. We have been married for 33 years now."
"I worked for LA Org as Qual Sec and the Ethics Officer after doing the Ethics Specialist Course in 1978. We moved to WA and Ray worked as a book one auditor at the Seattle org doing a thousand hours of book auditing."
1980s:
80’s. I got it in my mind that I wanted to join Sea Org, and drove from Seattle to LA to be an auditor at AOLA. That didn’t last long. I paid for an intensive of auditing, and was sent to Ethics because I had listened to a David Mayo tape with a friend (who was in good standing)
The E.O. wanted me to disconnect from my friend, and of course that didn’t work. I looked at the future of what would occur if I stayed in the Sea Org and didn’t comply, and it was rather dismal, ending up in R.P.F. Not desiring the RPF and realizing that I couldn’t compromise with my reality about disconnection, I left quietly in the middle of the night.
Later I went to the AAC (David Mayo’s Group) for auditing, and of course there was a lot going on at that time. I was told about 600 people, mostly auditors, left the COS in the early 80’s after David Mayo was declared.
Consider, for you who may have joined Scientology much later, that David Mayo was the Senior C/S International, trained under LRH, and highly respected for his technical approach. When he was declared there was a mass exodus from the COS.
In the 80’s I had started NOTs with the AAC, and later did the solo course with Jeannie Hansen in Seattle Freezone, and David Mayo started me on my solo auditing of NOTs. Without Internet it was much too slow, but I found before long that I could audit NOTs, and did so for fourteen years. Ray and I also had a small Ability Center NW in the Grovesnor House in Seattle for a year.
1990s:
Quiet as far as group activity in the 90’s. Daily solo auditing on NOTs.
2000s:
Well, the Internet became a way of life, and we started connecting with other former Scientologists. Tommy Thompson, Ralph Hilton and I, and BB of course, made the first International group, called FZIONT at the time. There were varies disagreements, mainly that if it was International it shouldn’t be under Tommy’s personal group, it should be the other way around. Tommy and Ralph split over something (don’t remember) and Ralph had the group and BB still had his list at that time. Eventually the group disbanded and Ray and I became interested in auditing locally and having a classroom.
We have continued this group called FZ Elma, for several years. So far, declared ten Clears, made a few auditors, and did lots of auditing.
It is an enjoyable life that fulfills my purpose, and if anyone wants auditing or training, Elma is still the best place to come to!!
