Martin+Prentiss+Choate

Martin Prentiss Choate I got my MA in RE from PSR in 1960 with the intention that I would then go to Starr King and get my BD. But by then I was involved with Scientology and went off to get professionally trained in that. Though I have worked on several Scientology staffs, I never promoted it into a remunerative vocation. Instead I went to work for Muni Railway in San Francisco, working there 30 years until I retired. When I was at PSR I was pretty much an agnostic-humanist, but this cracked when I went to New York in 1958, was introduced to psychedelics, and discovered how spiritual the universe really was. Since then it has been a gradual progress toward the Christian mainstream. I was baptized in the Holy Spirit in a Catholic Charismatic prayer group about 1980, and currently attend a Lutheran church in Hollywood. In 1976 I became president of Berkeley Area Interfaith Council, the first totally inclusive local church council in the world, I believe. (It was originally the Berkeley Area Council of Churches.) Then I was secretary of Americans Preserving Religious Liberty, editing its national newsletter. My wife and I moved to Hollywood to pursue our studies in Scientology. Martin Prentiss Choate