I was recently given a copy of a Hubbard letter dated January 13,
1949, which I also had in the biography project archive in 1980 and
81.
Hubbard is writing from Savanah, Georgia to Forest Ackerman, his
literary agent..
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Wanted to tell you that Sara is beating out her wits on
fiction and is having to do this DARK SWORD - cause and cure of
nervious (sic) tension - properly - THE SCIENCE OF MIND, really
EXCALIBUR - in fits, so far, however she has recovered easily from
each fit. It will be considerably delayed because of this. Good as my
word, however, I shall ship it along as soon as decent. Then you can
rape women without their knowing it, communicate suicide messages to
your enemies as they sleep, sell the Arroyo Seco parkway to the mayor
for cash, evolve the best way of protecting or destroying communism,
and other handy house hold hints. If you go crazy, remember you were
warned.
Good publishing trick, by the way, is to have the bookseller
make the buyer sign a release releasing the author of all
responsibilities if the reader goes nuts.
Scanning it to insert a few case histories I'd come across
here and there, I got interested again and have not decieded (sic)
whether to destroy the Catholic church or merely start a new one. And
I grow restless when I think of all the charming ladies and young boys
who walk around without the slightest taste for LIFE.
Thought of some interesting publicity angles on it. I might
post a ten thousand dollar bond to be paid to anyone who can attain
equal results with any known field of knowledge. A reprint of the
preface, however, is about all one needs to bring in orders like a
snow storm. This has more selling and publicity angles than any book
of which I have ever heard, I think, and may very well be able to
support them without much effort.
Looking over its project, I find a son of a luckless
millionaire here has taken to drink and the millionaire wants him
cured bad. Might undertake it for ten grand some afternoon.
Don't know why I suddenly got the nerve to go into this again
and let it loose. It's probably either a great love or an enormous
hatred of humanity. Just a few months ago I would now and then decide
[to] use it and start right in to apply and I would lose my nerve. But
lo! courage rose and the book is going out before it sinks again.
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Excalibur, which developed into _Dianetics the Modern "Science" of
"Mental" "Health"_, originated in Hubbard's mind while he was drugged
with nitrous oxide for a tooth extraction in 1938.
(c) Gerry Armstrong
> Excalibur, which developed into _Dianetics the Modern "Science" of
> "Mental" "Health"_, originated in Hubbard's mind while he was drugged
> with nitrous oxide for a tooth extraction in 1938.
> (c) Gerry Armstrong
Wow, "dianetics, the modern ~science~ of mental health" . . .
the product of a rotting tooth!!
How . . . . . appropriate!
Beverly
Yes, to quote Charles Dickens, "there's more of incisor than insight about
it."
If he'd have done the whole cylinder we might have ended up with a new
form of Christianity.
Roland
--
"I notice that we all believe that Venus has a methane atmosphere and
is unlivable. I almost got run down by a freight locomotive the other
day -- didn't look very uncivilized to me." - L. Ron Hubbard,
"Between Lives Implants" lecture, SHSBC #317. 23 July 1963.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~xemu/rams/Venusloc.ram
Oddly enough, the only one who went mad was Hubbard!
--
barb
"No clears, no OT's, no research, no understanding, and trying to
conduct intellectual warfare with no ammunition. I was right,
Scientology just
doesn't get any good help anymore."
-retiredcap
Shades of "The King In Yellow" by Howard.
LR
>Oddly enough, the only one who went mad was Hubbard!
Jay Ingram was interviewed on Vision TV recently and talked about
how temporal lobe epilepsy can account for religious delusions,
and wait for it, hypergraphia! Now, who does that sound like?
He was discussing Joan of Arc.
--
Cogito, ergo sum. http://scientologysucks.lron.com
Watch Xenu TV: http://www.xenutv.com
Go to a protest in your area: http://www.xenu.net/picket/
The premier Scientology webpage: www.xenu.net
Mr. Hamra said, "The Church of Scientology now had a database
of information on every subscriber which included names, credit
card info., credit reports, telephone info., computer info.,
who had referred them to Earthlink and who were their previous
ISP providers." Mr. Hamra told me about the "other Earthlink
building" which was next door on New York Avenue in Pasadena.
Mr. Hamra told me that the other building was high security and
is where Earthlink and the Church of Scientology did all the
monitoring of the internet. - DECLARATION OF ROBERT J. CIPRIANO.
This is GREAT!! There are a couple of things that I hope you have realized in
this Scientology affair. For one, they are going to make your life miserable no
matter if you post LRH's material or not. Second, I hope you keep his writings
safe and available, just in case something happens to you -- God forbid. An easy
way would be for you to put his material on a couple of floppies encrypted. If
anything happens to you, then the people who you gave the floppies to would be
sent the password.
Just some thoughts. You never know what Scientology is up to.
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