Saturday, November 2, 2013

Global Drug Binge Part One: Amsterdam's Church of Scientology

In 2004 I found myself living in Amsterdam in the middle of a serious Global Drug Binge which led me all the way to Krakow, Poland with nothing but my charming personality, a bag of speed, and a bag filled with my drug induced drawings and writings (which will someday be published).

While in Amsterdam, I was staying across the street from the Amsterdam Church of Scientology, it was the first storefront that I saw when I climbed out of my hole under the bridge. I would start my day by smoking some really great marijuana and drinking a few vials of Hollands liquid cocaine, which is only available in Amsterdam (they also have liquid heroin and liquid speed which you could buy at this vending machine in front of a well known coffee shop near the park where they handed out free needles) and then I would walk (although it felt like I was ice skating) into the Church of Scientology and they would lead me to a dark cozy room where I would watch these videos about the "reactive mind" and I was really high. I would take notes and draw pictures in my journal while watching these videos and sometimes I would see a room full of people at the end of a hall wearing white button down shirts and blue slacks and black dress shoes stomping on their feet and clapping their hands and I became very intrigued. I was audited, I held on to these metal cans that had wires coming out of them and it was something they call the E meter which has a needle going up and down as they asked me questions like (in a Dutch accent), "do you laugh when you hear something funny do you eat when you are hungry" and so on and so forth. My last name is of Dutch origin by the way, and I saw HANDELSMAN on buildings and even a billboard in Amsterdam.

there were also these rooms with glass walls where students would be taking colorful beads and marbles out of cups and placing them into different bowls, but I wasn't really allowed to look into those rooms, I was getting very into the idea of this morning habit that I had acquired on a daily basis. I would wander around beautiful amsterdam over the bridges and around all the canals and down into the beautiful urban areas and past a windmill, and amsterdam is 1 of the most beautiful cities I have ever been to.

I was sitting in a park 1 day on some form of hallucinogenic and I looked up into the sky and I saw these birds that looked exactly like an MC Escher painting and a woman came up to me and started telling me how MC Escher was born in Amsterdam as well as vincent Van Gogh and and other great artists I wandered into the amsterdam museum of arts.  but this is about scientology and my relationship to scientology. I was staying high and just being lured into the Church of Scientology buy a statue of L Ron Hubbard I would go inside and watch these very interesting videos about the reactive mind however I was also quite interested n driving my car at this very moment I became interested and I try to read Dianetics.

I got into this fight in the red light district with this guy that threatened to stab me. I was able to smoke weed and snort cocaine while talking to Amsterdam policemen Thank you Jesus. Before Amsterdam, I spent some time in London taking hallucinogenics and wandering around the Grand Freemason Lodge. We'll get to that later. I guess that I was searching for something.

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