By Stanley Clarke

"When I got into Scientology I was very close to becoming a serious drug addict. I could always get a jump on things when things were going a little to the left. Since I was very young I was always someone who would pull the plug on something before it went over the line.

I was not at a good place. I was not feeling good physically and I was too young not to be feeling good physically. I recognized that so when I got into the rehab program my drug thing got handled and I never ever went back after that.

Than I started getting into Dianetics which is a different portion of Scientology. I had to get myself a little straight.

I grew up with a fairly normal life for a kid. I had issues with lots of things, music, rascism, poverty, family stuff. Normal stuff that a black kid or African American Kid would have if he's really going to inspect his life and how he's growing up.

I got into Scientology and that took care of everything for me. Lots of times a person may have a lot of problems but when you really look at them their specific and specific subjects and sometimes it's difficult to deal with specific subjects that bother you as specifics. Usually by the time it gets you it feels like you got a damn elephant on your shoulders. They all converge together and you have this big pile of mud in your universe. What is it? I feel so bad. Maybe it's this, maybe it's that. Am I playing good?

There was a time when I was really shy. It was something I wasn't really happy with because I had thoughts and feelings and I wanted those things to come out. I wanted people to understand what is in my head.

Through the work I did in Scientology I was able to talk to people about these other things. If your ability to communicate is down it's a little difficult. We as humans we don't really have the ESP thing down that strong yet.

There are much higher planes to reach that are outside the realm of physicality. Anything that's physical is physical, sex, drugs, eating a sandwich. There are other states of being that one can reach that have nothing to do with physical things and the physical universe.

I used to experience this with RTF. The first RTF with Chick, Myself, Flora, Airto, Joe Farrell. I had out of body experiences with that band. It was amazing.....

We started out with that first band, me and Chick. You couldn't get any more honest than that. No one cared about us really. We were trying and surviving. Trying to take our message to people.

We were playing music that was really heartfelt. Chick wrote some beautiful, beautiful stuff. We were all really compatible. When you play music like that with people that you really feel a connection. It's not only music, you could have been a conversation with four people that are really together and they leave space for the other guy. In normal conversation when your with people with a high amount of respect for each other. There's a high degree of acknowledgment of each other. When you play music like that it's the easiest way to leave the physical plane. If your fortunate enough to have a musical experience where everything is just going right. For some reason everybody's tracking and there's a degree of spirituality that's there that's connected with music that you can't get with anything. There's no drug, no amount of money, there's no sexual favor all the Aphrodisiacs on couldn't match that."