Dave

Awareness...that Mel Porter quote is a hoot. I didn't know you were so tight with RK. He never called me and asked me to come to Anaheim. Been a long time since you and I spoke. Hope you are doing well. Interesting stuff you and VoiceintheWilderness gave regarding the history of the Church in Detroit. I am sure you know that I brought in a bunch of my relatives to the Detroit church who then all migrated to Ft. Lauderdale and are dispersed all over the place now although most of them or their children are friends on facebook. I always thought Harry was the sane one of the bunch whereas the other two were a little spacey. They were certainly obsessed with WL and his teachings. I remember when I first met Tim and he told me he had been directly trained by WL which gave him certain inside knowledge that the rest of us lacked.

Didn't realize they tried to reclaim Detroit a couple times until they finally did in 1979. The Ft. Lauderdale experience was a disaster and I moved to Miami which wasn't much better. Everything seemed like it was going downhill at that time. There were just so many things going on in Anaheim with the RV business having gone down the tubes with people having donated money to it etc.

The LC was certainly in some upheaval in the late 70s but I think it started with the Revelation training which I attended. Basically because of the notion of the overcomers and unless you were in the top echelon you were short of achieving this superior state. You needed to do more and more to arrive at some spiritual pinnacle. Otherwise you would end up in some kind of purgatory. Kind of like reaching for perfection that the Buddhists try to achieve to get out of the six cycles of ghosts, semi-gods etc.