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an Art of Dying Fragment
Moonlighting (secondary jobs outside the organization in order to buy food and pay the rent) was a touchy issue. Our Prince detested it, decried the need for it with one hand, while with the other never allowing staff to earn enough to live on church income alone.
Two issues rear their ugly heads for me:
The workability of His Technology — delivering what He promised, for one; and, for two, His love of money.
I’ve covered the workability in other fragments, especially the fragment on Big League Sales, but I should restate that my conviction remains unsullied that if His Technology had indeed delivered what Our Prince so often promised, every org in the world would have made more than enough money to support staff working full-time without the need to moonlight. As I have said elsewhere, people would have been beating down our doors for it, or more of it. We would not have been able to keep people away.
Also, as I put it in the Dashing Hopes fragment: The terrible and tragic truth is that Scientology has never worked as promised. Yes, it provides relief at its lower levels (much like psychotherapy provides relief, or confessing to your priest provides relief), but the vast spiritual realms forecast and promised at the upper (OT) levels were all but empty dreams, yet clung to by so many, so many.
