Hi Steve,
        Congratulations!!!!:)

  May I web and post this below?
Presumably signed Steve Tustin?

     bb


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Success Story.  Solo Nots completion.


On Sunday I had a really good time. Ralph doesn't
start till 2pm on Sunday so I took my assigned Time
Track of Theta tapes, circa 1952, rode the gondola up
to the ski lodge, (picture below), then climbed the
observation tower that you can see the square shadow
of, in the foreground. Listening to the tapes, about
an hour after I took this picture, I had a significant
shift in viewpoint. Now I own and have listened to
these tapes maybe 8 or 10 times before. This time I
really understood what he was trying to communicate.
Sad but true. What I got this time was that LRH had
the awareness characteristic of a solo NOTs completion
in 1952. So, apparently, do I, by the way.

Anyway, it has forced me to reconsider some
assumptions. I always knew the bridge was developed
backwards but I never realized that LRH was that far
out ahead of the rest of us. What took me 26 years
with a pretty well paved road under me took him a very
few, maybe a couple of years, with no tech except that
which he ad-libbed as he went along. Rather
extraordinary. And this, coming from a guy who doesn't
like taking directions, would rather figure it out for
himself, and never really liked clapping at busts and
saying 'hip hip hurray'. I guess we all have to drop a
little of our conceit and accept some help if we
expect to make it.