So you're basically asking for evidence of a tangible paper trail right?
Paper trail, a witness that knows where Art Barker received his Synanon training, or any other credible evidence linking Art back to the synanon. Art Claimed in the press that he had 13 years working with juveniles and alcoholics..but no one will say where. Given Artie's penchant for bullshit and self promotion no one even knows if it was true.
The hard connection from the synanon to the Seed, and then to the Seed spinoffs like Straight, Inc. has NEVER been made. We from the early days of this 'movement' have tried but the connection is still only circumstantial.
I personally have tried. I have researched, interviewed former staff, disquised myself as a former syanonite and infiltrated their web forum and posed the question and no one remembers Art.
So if Art got direct synanon training I believe it was in a Syanonon spinoff. There are other theories that Ginger and I have kicked around. One of them that seems credible is this:
When Art started getting federal funding the person in charge of the federal grant, Robert Dupont, had a connection back to the synanon. Also, around this time the Seed drastically changed into a lock down synanon style 'rehab'. When Art started getting his funding pulled, the seed started morphing back into the less harsh but always wacky personality cult. The harsh days of the Seed lasted roughly from 1972 to 1977, with the real harsh times being 72,73,74...interestingly the exact years of the involvement with Dupont. In later years under oath Dupont said that "it all started at the synanon". This is intriquing, No?
The theory basically developed by Ginger and I bantering around ideas is that Dupont, upon Granting Art Barker funds, also sent some Synonite staff member to help him 'develop' his program. Before this the Seed was located in a house, and people came and went as they pleased. Imagine that!
I was theres in the early days (1973) after the voluntary seed during its heyday and remember some older, harsher staffers that didn't seem to have come up thru the ranks like all the other staff members. I distincly remember one of them with a new york accent telling us about some other place that 'this all came from' and that we 'had no idea'. This was in a day rap during my first 14 days, but I can't remember the name of the place as this was Some 35 years ago.
So, that is the Theory. There are no hard facts. That chart needs to be, at least, show a broken line down to the Seed along with a notation. The Seed, to the best of my knowledge was not decended from Phoenix house. Of course, it is possible that Art was connected to PH, but this is unsubstantiated and to date I have not even seen anybody claim it to be even rumoured to be true.
hope this helps or in some way is interesting to whomever had to drudge thru it.