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When the Golden Age of Tech was announced I was thrilled, and I remember a friend of mine and I embraced excitedly believing we now could become the auditors we wanted to be. I always had uncertainty about HOW to drill and GAT gives a very definite procedure both on how to drill and for how long. I went up through OT IV during Tech's so-called Golden Age. And I did have wins both in the drilling (when you get through each drill, it is a win) and in auditing on the OT levels. But in retrospect, I realized that the GAT drills are a way of getting around the real understanding of what you are doing. My perception, from review auditing and an intensive I got at AO in 2013, auditing has become more rote and robotic, which is not surprising considering that you drill a scripted drill over and over. The drills are also presented at the reference instead of going back to the original LRH materials.

When I was on lines at the Orange County org, in 2010-2012, there were 2 people, a married couple, on the levels. OC used to be a booming org. GAT is another example, I think the biggest example, of Miscavige trying to position himself as Source.

I was a good candidate to take the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course. I was already an HSDC (and later NED) auditor and Class IV auditor (no certs due to no internship), trained in the 1970’s.

I started this training with gusto and I believe I only slowed slightly on Level D, which had the e-meter drills. But after coming out the other side of that small speed bump, I sailed through the levels E through N.

I completed each level, A through N, in the 3-4 weeks checksheet time. I believe my total time on study at that point, with occasional extra time off between levels, was 1 ½ years.

My carrot, the one thing I sought by doing the SHSBC, was to audit. That carrot was to be achieved on Level O, the first level out of 16 total where the student would audit a pc.

It was when I was on Level N that GAT was introduced. Never mind the carrot of auditing pc’s on Level 0; I had to do the Study Certainty Course first and then go back to Level A for certainty drills. Never mind I had a couple pc’s already lined up for auditing on Level 0. GAT prevailed.

There was simply no recourse to the extended training lineup and that’s when I ended off on the SHSBC. I asked a supervisor how he thought they were going to get any products with that method of implementation of GAT and he simply shrugged his shoulders.

GAT helped me a lot and allowed me to get through my Ot Levels. I am critical of many things DM did and eventually he is the one who decided to kick me out. Yet on this one, I can only thank him

but almost all of it is delaying your progress towards being an academy auditor

All that Dan Koon wrote in his article here and the reviews attached are all totally correct. There is another aspect that is not generally included in what is known as the "Golden Age of Tech", but it was very much connected to and GAT was the predominately accepted predecessor that allowed the next vicious attack against standard LRH Tech to succeed. That next step was the "Golden Age of OT" introduced on the Freewinds in the Summer of 2000. Every single New OT VII and New OT VIII were summarily invalidated on their state of case, told they had not attained it and had done it all wrong. Every Technically trained person at the FSO and FSSO were told at the same time that they had mis-programmed and mis-audited every single OT and pre-OT, told that they did not know their tech and did not know the Grade Chart. At that time all the Registration (Div 2 and Div 6) and Call-In staff were told the same thing about about their respective posts. In one fell swoop, David Miscavige invalidated every single individual Sea Org Member who had anything to do with getting in public and getting them serviced and up the Grade Chart.

GAT was supposed to bring auditor training to a whole new level of perfection. What David Miscavige succeeded in doing was shutting down the making of auditors to a trickle. The worst aspects of GAT were 1) its implementation which acted as a blanket invalidation of all auditors worldwide, 2) the new Student Hat Course, which was put in strict chronological sequence that put the Study Tapes before the HCOBs on Study Tech and thereby lengthened the course unnecessarily to fit Shelly Miscavige's ideological bent, 3) the Pro Metering Course, which was riddled with arbitrariness such as EM 22 and 25, which are utterly unneeded by an auditor trainee on the Academy Levels and lengthened the training runway, sometimes by years. In my experience, once a person got onto the Academy Levels, the rest of it went fairly quickly, but DM put so many barriers in front of Level 0 that the flow of newly made auditors has nearly dried up. Since I had MUCH to do with assembling GAT, I am making up the damage by assembling auditor training checksheets based on the RTRC 1987 checksheets which were proven to make auditors in a decent amount of time. No Pro Metering Course. No five times through the meter drills. No arbitraries on Pro TRs or Upper Indoc TRs. No suppressive implementation programs. And these Independent checksheets make auditors who can and will audit. As I said, after 16 years, the stats are in and GAT is a failure any way you look at it, despite being based on exact LRH auditors. David Miscavige has the reverse Midas Touch. Everything he touches turns to crap.

I had just completed training to Class IV and had started my Class IV Internship when this happened and was forced to start over. What I actually needed was to audit PCs. Instead I was back in the classroom again. Never did finish the Class IV Internship and never became an auditor. What a waste!

The GAT (Golden Age of Tech) invalidated auditors who were good, who were getting good, even stellar products on their preclears (one on the road to Clear). And I have seen many spin out and fail on the Professional Metering Course. Those that finaly somehow did make it, it took them years to do. I know one auditor on an internship even now who has been on her internship for over 6 years trying to get through it with these added arbitraries in it.