Mark Jones - Revision history

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AntPhillips: /* Introduction Anonymous */ (found and added source)

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‎Introduction Anonymous: (found and added source)

AntPhillips: (Heading Introduction Anon, will try and find out who wrote it)

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 <small>''Taken from Ex Scientologist Message Board ([http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?7122-Memorials-Thread-RIP-sad&p=198576&highlight=dark+days+1982#post198576 http://www.forum.exscn.net/]''</small>
-Mark was beloved by many. Alan [Walter] and I once had a discussion about states of case of folks we knew, and Mark was the one person we could agree merited recognition as as An Ascended Being.
+Mark was beloved by many. Alan [Walter] and I once had a discussion about states of case of folks we knew, and Mark was the one person we could agree merited recognition as An Ascended Being.
-Those who knew him, know what colossal integrity he had. What colossal commitment to truth he exhibited, and what colossal love for his fellows he had.
+Those who knew him know what colossal integrity he had. What colossal commitment to truth he exhibited, and what colossal love for his fellows he had.
-He, perhaps more than any other held the field together in the dark days after 1982 when the church began demonstrating just how mad it had become. It was Mark with the ''Free Spirit'' (later entitled ''Free Spirit Journal'') he created that kept the tech alive for many, and helped hold folks true to their belief they could optimize their condition and recover their true, full spirituality and innate powers.  Mark suffered from Alzheimer's for many years, and during his final years had very poor memory.
+He, perhaps more than any other, held the field together in the dark days after 1982 when the church began demonstrating just how mad it had become. It was Mark with the ''Free Spirit'' (later entitled ''Free Spirit Journal'') he created that kept the tech alive for many, and helped hold folks true to their belief they could optimize their condition and recover their true, full spirituality and innate powers.  Mark suffered from Alzheimer's for many years, and during his final years had very poor memory.
 == Remembering Mark Jones <small>by Hank Levin. USA</small>  ==
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 === 1984 ===
-In 1984 I had been thrown out of the "Church" in March 1983, and a group of people still officially "in" the "Church" met at my flat weekly on a Copenhagen suburb to discuss goings on in the "Church". Three or four of the members of the group had contacts in various parts of the world, and we exchanged news and articles received from these people.  We heard of Mark Jones and his Council for Spiritual Integrity and ''Free Spirit'' magazine with a certain perplexity. What on earth was this? Was it inside the Church of Scientology? But it could not be, could it? It would have to have had Issue Authority, and they would never give Issue Authority to something like that. And who would imagine they could reform the Church with a magazine?
+In 1984 I had been thrown out of the "Church" in March 1983, and a group of people still officially "in" the "Church" met at my flat weekly on a Copenhagen suburb to discuss goings on in the "Church". Three or four of the members of the group had contacts in various parts of the world, and we exchanged news and articles received from these people.  We heard of Mark Jones and his Council for Spiritual Integrity and ''Free Spirit'' magazine with a certain perplexity. What on earth was this? Was it inside the Church of Scientology? But it could not be, could it? It would have to have had Issue Authority, and they would never give Issue Authority to something like that. And who would imagine they could reform the Church with a magazine? <small> Issue Authority = official authority to issue by Scientology.</small>
 Understand that at that time there was a great deal of turmoil, uncertainty and conflicting data. One of our members came, at almost every meeting, with the remark in the direction of  "Next week, I think the Church will have fallen". We were very much concerned about what was happening to Scientology.

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	Looking at it now, I am amazed at the amount of work that must have gone into getting that magazine out (also by Hank Levin, who took it over).		Looking at it now, I am amazed at the amount of work that must have gone into getting that magazine out (also by Hank Levin, who took it over).
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		+	=== Writing Books ===
		+	[[File:Realising_Our_Dreams_cover.jpg\|right\|borderless\|200x400px]]
		+	After leaving the Church Mark also wrote some books and he sent me an example of one ''Realising Our Dreams'' which he wrote in collaboration with Patricia Collette. This is 100 page book divided into four parts: part one – creating our reality and experiences, part two – limiting beliefs, part three – creating the future, part four – appendixes which was a section on identifying limiting beliefs in 13 specific areas.

	=== Slight Disappointment ===		=== Slight Disappointment ===

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 == Introduction <small>Roger Boswarva</small> ==
 <small>''Taken from Ex Scientologist Message Board ([http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?7122-Memorials-Thread-RIP-sad&p=198576&highlight=dark+days+1982#post198576 http://www.forum.exscn.net/]''</small>
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 It could be that there are others who have reminiscences and date about Mark Jones and Ellen Jones and would like to pass them on. Please do so.  Scientolipedia is build on Wiki principles, were both the common man/woman as well as those who think a lot of themselves (and all on the many gradients between) can contribute.  Contact us/me if in doubt.

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 == Introduction <small>Roger Boswarva</small> ==
 <small>''Taken from Ex Scientologist Message Board ([http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?7122-Memorials-Thread-RIP-sad&p=198576&highlight=dark+days+1982#post198576 http://www.forum.exscn.net/]''</small>
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 It could be that there are others who have reminiscences and date about Mark Jones and Ellen Jones and would like to pass them on. Please do so.  Scientolipedia is build on Wiki principles, were both the common man/woman as well as those who think a lot of themselves (and all on the many gradients between) can contribute.  Contact us/me if in doubt.

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 == Introduction <small>Roger Boswarva</small> ==
 <small>''Taken from Ex Scientologist Message Board ([http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?7122-Memorials-Thread-RIP-sad&p=198576&highlight=dark+days+1982#post198576 http://www.forum.exscn.net/]''</small>
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 It could be that there are others who have reminiscences and date about Mark Jones and Ellen Jones and would like to pass them on. Please do so.  Scientolipedia is build on Wiki principles, were both the common man/woman as well as those who think a lot of themselves (and all on the many gradients between) can contribute.  Contact us/me if in doubt.

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 He did his undergraduate work at the University of Oklahoma and got his M.S. degree from MIT<sup>3</sup> . In addition, he studied industrial management at the University of Minnesota, journalism and psychology at George Washington University and counseling at Saint Hill in England. Mark subsequently held many key managerial positions successfully. He owned and ran a motion picture theatre. He served as the Program Manager of Fighter Aircraft Armament Systems for the U.S. Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, Program Manager of Fighter Aircraft Programs, and Program Manager for the Navy's Advanced Airborne Missile Systems in the Bureau of Naval Weapons.
-[[File:Mark Jones-2.PNG|frame|left|250x300px| The photo shows Mark embracing his two children upon returning home from a one year tour of duty in the Mediterranean as the commanding officer of an all-weather fighter squadron of F4D Skyrays. The first supersonic jets, this plane was capable of climbing from sea level to 40,000 feet in three minutes! The squadron Mark commanded won the Marine Corps Commandant's Trophy for top combat efficiency in 1959.]]
+[[File:Mark Jones-2.PNG|border|left|250x300px| The photo shows Mark embracing his two children upon returning home from a one year tour of duty in the Mediterranean as the commanding officer of an all-weather fighter squadron of F4D Skyrays. The first supersonic jets, this plane was capable of climbing from sea level to 40,000 feet in three minutes! The squadron Mark commanded won the Marine Corps Commandant's Trophy for top combat efficiency in 1959.]]
 Mark served in the Marine Corps as a pilot in WWII, China and Korea. During the Korean war he was also in charge of aircraft maintenance for the Marine Wing. On his last active tour he commanded one of the early jet squadrons, operating off a carrier in the Mediterranean. At the end of this tour the squadron was selected by the Commandant as the top fighter squadron in the Marine Corps for combat effectiveness.
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 Mark returned to Los Angeles in 1979, where he remained active in the field until 1983. In 1984 Mark founded the Council for Spiritual Integrity and ''The Free Spirit'' magazine, in an effort to effect reforms of organizational inequities within the Scientology organizations. Finding this impossible, he resigned from Scientology and continued '' The Free Spirit'' as a free and ethical forum for other independent users of the technology.
-[[File:Mark Jones-3.PNG|frame|left|447×362px|Mark Jones in 1984 at the Holistic Clearing Center, with director Thea Greenberg and her two proteges, Hank Levin (editor of ''The Free Spirit Journal'') and Tim Ryan (founder and CEO of M-audio Corp., who became her successor at the Center)]]
+[[File:Mark Jones-3.PNG|border|left|447×362px|Mark Jones in 1984 at the Holistic Clearing Center, with director Thea Greenberg and her two proteges, Hank Levin (editor of ''The Free Spirit Journal'') and Tim Ryan (founder and CEO of M-audio Corp., who became her successor at the Center)]]
 After he had turned the editorship of '' The Free Spirit'' over to me in 1989, Mark continued to be active as an associate editor, organizing the printing and making numerous contributions of articles and commentaries. He also served as mentor to me and to ''The Free Spirit'', with invaluable help with financial and editorial policy, subscription and advertising concerns, and other issues. His advice was always full of insight and wisdom.
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 === ''Free Spirit'' Contents ===
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+[[File:Free Spirit-2.jpg|right|borderless|200x400px]]
 As time went on ''The Free Spirit'' came out, I established a communication line with Mark, and made some effort to collect subscriptions for him in this area. I still have a number of those early issues. For us, the exciting thing about it was that it carried a Legal Review.  Here in Volume X Spring '93  Issue 1 I see the following headlines "Mayo Decision Upheld; Counter-suit Begins" and "Suit filed by Scientology Church is Dismissed".