: To: Alan Walter

To: Alan Walter
From: "John Alexander"  <Alexandex@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: To:  Alan Walter
Date: 1998/02/03
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Dear Alan:

I have found your postings on A.C.T to be consistently informative and enlightening.

One of my areas of curiosity is the history of the evolution of processing technology which occurred during the early to mid sixties, some of which you have touched upon in your postings on BPC handling and in other areas.

I have studied Jack Horner's handwritten notes of Hubbard's lectures (both from tapes and live lectures) from St. Hill during part of that period, but they are somewhat abbreviated, and pretty hard to decipher.  It is quite apparent from the notes that there was a great deal of change in a short space of time.  Jack's notes end in about mid 1964, and it appears that the GPM technology at that point had gotton pretty close to what Jack taught his students in the 70's, although Jack's notes leave many questions.

I got tremendous benefit from Jack's teaching of  that material,  as did many others I knew then, and I have always been rather mystified that the materials have seemed to drop off the edge of the earth.  For example, even in the "Pilot's" Super Scio, the chapter on "actual GPMs" seems to be written in complete ignorance of what GPMs had become in maybe the last year or two of their research.

Further, I have not been able to identify any continuity between that material and the Clearing Course which I believe came out right afterwards, in about 1965.  Just to try to develop some personal reality on the subject I did finally run the CC a few passes through this last summer - it ran OK , but I didn't get anywhere the level of insight, gains etc. that I got from running GPMs or, for that matter, running Clean Slate on the Knowledgism glossary terms.   In my experience, running the CC was more like running the telephone directory.

If you'd like to help clarify or comment on any of these topics, I'd be most interested and appreciative.

BTW, I ran across the following reference to your name in a taped lecture Jack gave in 1975 on the subject of indicators:


"The English have strange ideas of what constitutes central heating ? they circulate warm water through pipes in the wall, into large areas of metal, and that's called central heating, and their idea of a really hot room is about 70 or maybe 68 degrees. And we used to start by warming up the cans, it was so damp and so cold in that part of England that it was literally true, that the considerate ? at that time ? "auditor" would put his cans on the radiator and have them warm and keep them there until the guy sat down and say "Here are the cans" ? to keep them warm, because otherwise it felt like you were picking up a corpse. Seldom had frost on the cans, but they were quite cold and damp, so we used to warm up the cans for somebody. And under those conditions, in running GPMs, we used to sit around ? I used to work with a fellow named Alan Walter, and we used to swap back and forth in running that kind of stuff, in that original form which wasn't ideal but it was somewhat effective, and we'd sit around in our undershirts running this stuff in a room that was about fifty degrees, feeling very hot, perspiring."

True story?.

John