Found this over on OCMB.
This is a blog of a person that went to Stonehawk.
http://the-spackler.livejournal.com/2964.html "SCIENTOLOGY IS NOT GOOD AND NARCONON IS NOTHING MORE THAN A RECRUITMENT TOOL. BEFORE YOU JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS ON HOW I KNOW THIS LET ME SAY, I SPENT OVER 100 DAYS IN A NARCONON FACILITY IN BATTLE CREEK MICHIGAN KNOWN AS "NARCONON STONEHAWK". I DID THESE "TRAINING ROUTINES" FOR HOURS AT A TIME FOR WEEKS ON END. TO PASS THE EXERCISE I HAD TO DO EACH OF THESE "TR'S" FOR TWO HOURS STAIGHT WITHOUT INTERUPTION, DISTRACTION OR SHOW OF EMOTION. YOU COULD GET AN HOUR AND FIFTY MINUTES INTO IT AND YAWN AND THE AUDITOR/CS (COURSE SUPERVISOR) WILL FLUNK YOU ON THE EXERCISE AND YOU START THE TWO HOURS ALL OVER AGAIN... THINK I'M KIDDING! I LIVED IT FOR THREE AND A HALF MONTHS!!! I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO ADD THAT NARCONON STONEHAWK WAS LEFT IN CHARGE OF SOME OF MY PERSONAL BELONGINGS THAT WERE TO BE SHIPPED BACK TO WASHINGTON WHEN I LEFT THE CENTER AND THEY NEVER DID IT... THIS INCLUDED MY BRAND NEW GUITAR, MY NORTHFACE WINTER SNOWBOARDING JACKET, ALL OF MY COURSE BOOKS THAT I PAID FOR, ALL OF MY PERSONAL BOOKS, CD'S, CLOTHING AND OTHER PERSONAL ITEMS. ALL IN ALL IT WAS ABOUT TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH OF STUFF THEY KEPT...
I WAS AT ONE TIME A HEROIN ADDICT. A FRIEND OF MINE WHO ALSO WAS A HEROIN ADDICT WENT TO NARCONON. HE WAS GONE FOR OVER SIX MONTHS BEFORE I HEARD FROM HIM. WHEN I DID HERE FROM HIM HE HAD GONE FROM A HEROIN ADDICT TO BEING THE "ETHICS OFFICER" FOR NARCONON STONEHAWK IN BATTLE CREEK MICHIGAN.
HE BASICALLY DUPED ME INTO COMING OUT, NOT BECAUSE HE WAS CONCERNED ABOUT MY HEALTH BUT BECAUSE NARCONON PAYS HIM A TEN PERCENT "HEAD HUNTING FEE"... IN OTHER WORDS ONCE YOU'VE BEEN THROUGH THE PROGRAM THEY PUT YOU TO WORK THEN PAY YOU TO GET MORE PEOPLE INTO THE CENTER... I THINK I LUCKED OUT ONLY HAVING TO PAY TEN GRAND WHICH MY "FRIEND" GOT $1000.00 FOR GETTING ME TO COME TO THE CENTER... I WAS THERE FOR OVER 100 DAYS, JUST OVER THREE MONTHS AND THESE ARE THE BRAINWASHING TECHNIQUES THAT SCIENTOLOGY USES.
NARCONON SAYS THEY ARE NOT CONNECTED TO SCIENTOLOGY, THEY JUST USE SOME OF THE METHODS AND TECHNOLOGY. THIS IS A LIE. THE TREATMENT CENTER I WAS IN HAD WEEKLY TRIPS TO THE LOCAL SCIENTOLOGY ORG IN BATTLE CREEK, PHOTOS OF L ROM HUBBARD ON EVERY WALL AND ALL OF THE STAFF SPOKE IN ABREVIATIONS AND WEIRD CATCH PHRASES...
WHAT THEY DO IS TAKE PEOPLE AT THE MOST VULNERABLE TIMES IN THIER LIVES, BUILD THEM UP, GET EM CLEAN AND BRAINWASHED, TAKE EM TO THE ORG AND TELL THEM SCIENTOLOGY AND L RON'S METHODS SAVED THEM AND WOULDNT IT BE GREAT TO BE A PART OF THAT... I COULD HAVE AND WAS ACTUALLY EXPECTED TO STAY AND OR COME BACK AND WORK... I WAS GUARANTEED A JOB, ROOM AND BOARD - BUT - I'M SURE IT WOULD HAVE LED TO PLACES AND THINGS THAT COULDN'T (AND STILL WOULDN'T) BE GOOD...
SO THE NEXT TIME SOMEONE TRIES CONVINCING YOU THAT SCIENTOLOGY IS HARMLESS, LAUGH AND TELL THEM YOU HAVE SEEN THE TRAINING ROUTINES AND THAT XENU ISN'T FOR YOU... YOU WILL SEE THE CHANGE IN THIER FACE GO FROM BLANK THOUSAND MILE STARE TO DISBELIEF AND FEAR THAT YOU ALREADY KNOW ABOUT THIER METHODS... THIS IS BRAINWASHING AND DESENSITIZATION PURE AND SIMPLE. TOM CRUISE IS A FUCKING ROBOT AND THESE ARE THE BRAINWASHING TECHNIQUES THAT DID IT..."
I thought the 10% finders fee paid to employees really sickening.