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Those already familiar with the Purification program who are reading this, please bear with me as I explain some basics about it, then we will get to the point of the article a bit further into the article.

During the 90’s one of my jobs as a Case Supervisor was overseeing and instructing all parishioners participating in the Purification Rundown at Hollywood’s Celebrity Centre.

The Case Supervisor is the highest authority within an organization as regards to technical matters (as in: the Scientology proper procedures as stated by Hubbard), and the instructions must be adhered to.

Even though we used the same bulletins written by Hubbard, they were sometimes interpreted differently.

For a long time, anyone reaching the stated end phenomena of the Purification program was allowed to be recognized as complete, no matter what level of niacin they had gotten to.

However, the Hubbard bulletin regarding niacin did give ratios up to 5000 mg of niacin, which, at the time that I oversaw the program, was required in order to be considered completed on the program. And so that was the instructions that I followed.

Everyone had to get to 5000 mg before even being considered close to completing the program.

The general idea was at the start of the program, a person would be started at 100 mg of niacin and continue at 100 mg until no longer having a reaction, then move to 200, then 300, 400, 500 and then the levels jump to 1000, 1500, 2000, 2500, all the way up to 5000 mg, with other vitamins increasing to keep in balance. As well, the calmag was increased, cold pressed oil increased, and so on.

So, one day I am sitting in my office when I get told that Dr Denk was down in the Purif area and he wanted to talk to me.

Um, unusual, but ok.

I went down to meet him. I’d known and worked with him for years when I was over staff medical so we were kinda pretty friendly already.

He had a paper in his hand, which he handed for me to read. It was from the Senior Case Supervisor International, Ray Mithoff.

He was asking Dr Denk, as a doctor, if niacin levels COULD be increased and tolerated over 5000 mg.

Wow, I thought. Who could possibly need more niacin? But apparently someone from one of the orgs around the world was having trouble getting people complete in the program even when they had reached 5000 mg.

That was insane. Insane as of unheard of.

It was something that had simply never crossed my mind. We never ever went higher than the 5000.

And yet there were some who were stuck and not achieving the required end result (which is freedom from the harmful effects of drugs and toxins).

I told Dr Denk no, no way would I go over 5000 mg. So he wanted to know what I would do if someone was grinding at 5000. Grinding is just not moving forward, not getting results.

And so I instructed him on how we addressed it. We just backed the niacin dosage up to where the person stopped getting reactions and moved back up to 5000 from there.

Backing up and reducing the niacin always got more reactions. I don’t have any idea about the scientific efficacy of this method, but it did achieve the desired result.

I left the conversation completely shocked. Mithoff and Denk were both authorities on the Purif program. Who was I? I was a minion. A small part of a giant cogwheel, who just followed the technical instructions I had been given.

This was one of the first cracks I encountered in the “standard tech” system.

Why were there possible variables at all? There shouldn’t be. Hubbard was dead and the works were all published.