Eulogy For Captain Bill
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| Author | Flemming Funch |
| Type of Article | Category:Biography |
| Website | http://scientolipedia.org/info/Bill_Robertson |
- Eulogy for Bill Robertson (Captain Bill) written for Ivy Magazine, Issue 3, November 1991. [1]
There are few people who have been involved with auditingThe application of Scientology processes and procedures to someone by a trained auditor. (Dianetics & Scientology Technical Dictionary (C) 1975)
or with Scientology who never heard of Captain Bill. He was one of those real big names who always appeared at the forefront of what was going on. Over the years he has been intimately involved with many different parts of the subject in many different ways. He leaves be hind a lot of friends, and probably also a few
opponents here and there.
I am happy to have been a friend of his for the last few years, I wouldn’t want to have missed that.
Bill was a very colourful character and there was always something going on where he was. Always thinking and acting in a big manner, he wasn't the person to let details get in his way.
scientology experience
Bill entered Scientology in the beginning of the ‘60s. He did the Briefing Course on Saint HillThe name of LRH's home in East Grinstead, Sussex, England. (BTB 12 Apr 72R) in 1965 and became a staff member there. He went on to the Sea Organization when it was formed in ‘67 and was intimately involved with many of its
operations until ‘81. He became very successful as a missionaireThe name missionaire implies someone going out to handle admin, tech, ethics or PR. He goes off to get an org or ship straightened up. (FO 2494) in many different areas. In Europe he was probably best known for the year he was the Commanding OfficerThe org is commanded by the Commanding Officer (SO orgs). (HCO PL 7 Mar 72) ''Abbr.'' CO on FOLOFlag Operations Liaison Office in Copenhagen. He was in very good favour with Hubbard because of his continued ability to get things done against impossible odds. Over a number of years he was captain on the flagship
Apollo. LRHL. Ron Hubbard awarded him the rank of Captain, the only person besides Mary Sue Hubbard at the time who got that title. He had the exclusive honor of being known widely from then on as simply “Captain Bill”.
The first time I personally saw Bill was in 1980 when I was the QualQualifications: the division on many Scientology organization boards that certified the correctness of products (including auditing levels gained) and corrected outnesses and bad products from other divisions. [[User:AntPhillips|Antony A Phillips]] 23:17, May 9, 2014 (MDT) Sec in the Denmark Day orgShort for organization. (HCO PL 8 Sept 69). Everybody in the org was very honored that a VIP like Captain Bill was going to visit, so the whole place had to be shiney and ready for a “white glove” inspection.
We worked all day to clean up, and my colleague from the evening shift and I had decided to overhaul the whole office. We had everything turned upside down when Bill arrived early for the tour and I was in the middle of carrying out the trash. He just grinned and shook our hands, but we were rather embarrassed.
galactic patrol
The next year, in ‘81, his SPSuppressive Person: 2. a person who rewards only down statistics and never rewards an up statistic. He goofs up or vilifies any effort to help anybody and particularly knifes with violence anything calculated to make human beings more powerful or intelligent. A suppressive automatically and immediately will curve any betterment activity into something evil or bad...More declare arrived in my in-basketAll personnel assigned a desk and a specific stationary working space are to have a stack of three baskets. The top basket, labelled "in", should contain those items and dispatches still to be looked at.. It said that he and a bunch of other Sea OrgAbbreviation for Sea Organization. (Modern Management Technology Defined (C) 1976). notables were claiming to be representatives from the Galactic Patrol professing to be on a mission to save this planet. The issue was sup
posed to ridicule the idea, of course.
But, I thought: “Gee! Wow! The Galactic Patrol!?! Of course, where do I join up”? It didn’t say anything in the ethics1. The rules or standards governing the conduct of the members of a profession. (HCO PL 3 May 72). 2. A system of removing the counter-effort to the forward push. (6711C18SO) order about where to join, so I didn’t think much about it before a couple of years later.
I had in the meantime been declared myself and had sort of realized that something was fishy with the old organization. Various materials had started circulating, and some of the first materials we ran into were some many times copied “Sec tor Operations Bulletins” written by Captain Bill.
They put the big perspective into a lot of things, and also provided the kind of revitalized game that many of us had been looking for. Here was obviously a guy who was willing to do whatever it took to straighten things out.
rtc plants
In late ‘83 I got an invitation to an “International OTOperating Thetan - 7. this state of being is attained by drills and familiarity after the state of Clear has been obtained. A real OT has no reactive bank, is cause over matter, energy, space, time and thought and is completely free. (HCOB 12 Jul 65)...More Committee Conference” with Bill and others in southern Spain. Without much hesitation I went there with my family and several other friends from Copenhagen. We were very impressed with Bill and with the game plan that he presented at the meeting. And in good style the meeting wasn’t without adventure either.
The church had sent in a guy under false pretense to go crazy and disturb the meeting. The poor guy had hardly started attacking and abusing one of the other speakers before Bill shouted “HCOHubbard Communications Office (HCO PL 7 Jul 71), bring order!”
Most ex-staff members recognize this as a signal to remove a disturbing person from the area. During the course of about half a
minute a bunch of the participants carried a kick ing and screaming RTCReligious Technology Center operative out and dumped him on the parking lot. After which the meeting continued as before with hardly a comma skipped.
Bill moved from Spain to Germany in 1985 and started concentrating more on techAbbreviation for technology. The methods of application of an art or science as opposed to mere knowledge of the science or art itself. (HCOB 13 Sep 65). He felt it was needed for the independent field to have a better quality of techAbbreviation for technology. The methods of application of an art or science as opposed to mere knowledge of the science or art itself. (HCOB 13 Sep 65) delivery.
What started as a corrective action gradually developed into a large scale research project to develop and teach further advanced levels.
Bill developed a series of new advanced levels numbered from OT8 to OT16 and beyond, he wrote an impressive amount of technical issues, taped numerous technical briefings, and gave lectures of various kinds. He also trained about 50 upper level C/SesAbbreviation for Case Supervisor. (Modern Management Technology Defined (C) 1976). and was instrumental in getting many new centers and delivery terminals started mostly across Europe. In all this he was unswerving in his dedication to the basics of Standard Tech and he continuously gave LRHL. Ron Hubbard credit for making it all possible.
how he worked
I myself have had the pleasure on several occasions to spend a few weeks with Bill doing advanced levels and C/S2. the C/S is the case supervisor. He has to be an accomplished and properly certified auditor and a person trained additionally to supervise cases...MORE training courses. Bill had a certain unique style of running the show. He would zip around on his motorcycle between centers and students and would spend hours per sonally with each student going over technical issues and C/SingA case supervisor direction of what to audit on a pc. (HCOB 23 Aug 71) matters.
I miss the many hours I've spent with Bill over a cup of coffee and a cigarette going over technical points or matters of the world. Talking with him was always a very rewarding experience and he would happily go on until everything had been put in place.
I have seen him on at least one occasion when he was with his closest friends spend two straight days talking non-stop. I have seen people get the impression from Bill’s writings that he would be hard-nosed and inflexible to deal with. No so at all. I have several times arrived with a long list of challenges and disagreements for him. To my surprise I found every time that he was willing to talk about everything and that he already had given it a lot of thought and had an answer ready. I must admit there are still important technical points I differ with him on. However, I have never had any reason to doubt his technical competence and dedication to the truth.
last years
The last few years Bill was living quietly in his secluded mountain home with his communicator and companion Maria Maloney. He occasionally travelled around to deliver seminars, but otherwise concentrated on training of C/SesAbbreviation for Case Supervisor. (Modern Management Technology Defined (C) 1976). and on his music. Bill was an accomplished musical composer. He had an impressive studio in his home where he created music with his computer.
He produced a total of 19 albums. My favorite is the one with an original tune for each of the star systems in the old galactic confederation.
Maria will still be working as his communicator and will continue to distribute his works, including the Sector 9 and Teegeeack books and the many taped lectures.
Captain Bill will be sorely missed by the many people who knew him well or who benefited from his work. I hope he will continue pursuing his ideals vigorously wherever he is.
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