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« on: January 06, 2024, 04:37:20 pm »
I understand why you wrote what you did. Dennis did not want anyone to distribute interpretations or abbreviated versions of his book as he was worried that his subject would be lost.
I only wish Dennis were still alive so I could run all of what I do by him. But I can't.
But I do know this--
The original manual in its original format is very difficult reading, even for Ex-Scientologists. It's nearly impossible for the layman.
In 45 years of TROM, the subject never really took off. It's because most people are going to give up reading the book somewhere around where Dennis introduces his chart. If you know anything about Study Tech, you will see that introducing the Postulate Failure Cycle in the very first chapter is VERY out-gradient.
The revision we've done of the TROM manual contains every word of the original text, just put in a more logical order of easiest to most complex so the reader has a chance of getting the data. We've also put in footnotes, a glossary, and even illustrations. But nothing is missing. It's all there, just arranged in a more reader-friendly order.
Another mistake in the original manual is that how to run level five is explained very poorly. So poorly Dennis had to send his friend Judith a cassette lecture on how to do it. An adaptation of that lecture is included in the newly revised version called "TROM 2023".
I could go on and on about how the original manual just does not cut it as far as getting people to understand TROM, but I'll end off by asking you to consider this:
In nine years of this forum, there are 79 members. In just a little over a year of my YouTube channel, I have 160 subscribers.
I get comments on my videos of people saying things like, "I finally get it now" and I get thank-you notes by email from time to time from people who tried reading the original manual, gave up on it, but because of my videos they are now doing TROM exercises.
Dennis was a great researcher. But he did not have a clue as to how to properly communicate his subject to common people. That's where I come in. And I am a former auditor and course supervisor, and I did TROM for years and studied it to death before engaging on my project.
If you ever catch me saying something inaccurate about TROM, you can bring it to my attention. Other than that, I can care less about the purist attitude of quoting Dennis verbatim on everything.