Harold#1
A VERY STABLE SUPER GENIUS!!
In the photo LRH is checking out a Honeywell Pentax, Spotmatic II camera with at least one Takumar lens and other accessories. The photo is said to be taken in 1972 or 1973 in the room LRH was renting in New York.I am going to defend Ron here. Hear me out: I'll be defending Ron as he was then - a man in his 70s, ill and surrounded by people with bad intentions who wanted to take advantage of him.
First and foremost: People get old and die. Scientologists also get old and die - good ones and bad ones, those who are out ethics and those who are not. I'm sure we all know great, kind, loving people who were devoted scientologists and died of cancer. They weren't out-ethics, they were not PTS, they used standard tech. Nothing protects from death, neither scientology tech, nor modern medicine, nor any other means known to man.
I cannot with full certainty say what illness did Ron have. But I think we can all agree that the photo below shows a man who is old and ill:
I think Ron might have been suffering from dementia, or maybe alzheimer disease. Or maybe even it was some drug that the people around him gave him. But in the 1980s he wasn't well and the advice that was supposedly coming from him did not align with what he was writing before.
I think we have no other option but to conclude that Ron was taken advantage of and that people like Dave Miscavige or Pat Broeker were manipulating some of his communication while fabricating others. By the time Ron died, he must have been out of touch with the world around him and the people who took power brought him down to "being objects". If you want to use scientology terms: He really was surrounded by SPs who had evil intentions.
That's why the new management was not properly hatted, because they prevented Ron from passing the mantle to the people he intended to. Regardless if you think Ron was a bad or good leader, the people who came next were not the ones he would have proposed. We can argue all day if Mayo would have been better worse or the same. But one thing is certain - Dave wouldn't be leading the church now if Hubbard got to decide.
To sum it up: I don't think Ron willingly took vistaril. By that time, Ron wasn't making decisions for himself anymore. Others were using him and then threw him away like an old rag when he was no longer needed. These are the same people who now hang his portraits everywhere and who now hide behind his policies.
Coincidentally, these people are still throwing away SO members like old rags whenever they age, get ill or no longer can perform their duties. Old habits die hard I guess.
Do I feel sorry for Ron, the man who designed the system I used to be a part of, when he was in his 70s and reduced to a piece of furniture to be shoved about by Pat and Dave? Yes, I do feel sorry for him. I guess I'm just 0.9 like that.
From Tony Ortega:
"Jim Dincalci has continued to be a valuable resource. We talk to him on occasion, and he provided Russell Miller with key information for his great biography of Hubbard, Bare-Faced Messiah. And it’s interesting to see him here, talking in particular about what it was like to live with Hubbard while the man was hiding out in Queens, New York from December 1972 to October 1973 while the yacht Apollo was in drydock back in Lisbon.
Dincalci gave up medical school to join Scientology, and ended up serving as Hubbard’s assistant medical officer on the Apollo as Hubbard ran Scientology from the ship in the Mediterranean, Atlantic, and Caribbean.
He relates a couple of Hubbard’s medical situations — and how it surprised him that the “enlightened being” who was master of “mass, energy, space, and time” needed painkillers and other medicines.
Like others, Dincalci found himself being screamed at by Hubbard, and he said that the man had a serious lack of self-esteem and assumed that everyone else was out to attack him.
Dincalci describes the December 1972 arrival in New York, which is also described in Miller’s Bare-Faced Messiah. Hubbard was stopped in customs with about $100,000 in various currencies. In the book, Dincalci explained that a customs agent who recognized Hubbard was a fan of his fiction and let him enter the country with the money.
Hubbard had been convicted of fraud in France, and while French agents were looking for him in Morocco and Portugal, he hid out with Dincalci and a bodyguard in Queens, spending most of his time watching television. (He hadn’t been in the US in about 14 years, and he was fascinated by how much had changed between 1959 and 1973.)
Dincalci says on a typical day, Hubbard would tell stories from his past lives, or told tall tales from his war years. And there was the fun canard that his pre-Dianetics manuscript, “Excalibur,” had been stolen by the Russians. Dincalci seems to get a kick out of that one.
The most important thing Hubbard got done during his months in Queens was writing up the plan for the Snow White Program, which he finished in April. Within a few years, his “Guardian’s Office,” following those instructions, would be well into the single largest infiltration of the US federal government in this country’s history.
But Dincalci says that Hubbard was depressed, and paranoid, and he never exhibited the traits of being “Clear.” Hubbard admitted to him that he’d never been exteriorized — out of his body, the hallmark of an upper-level Scientologist — during the nine years they knew each other.
He also describes Hubbard’s 1974 motorcycle accident in the Canary Islands after returning to the ship. Hubbard cracked a couple of ribs, and other witnesses, like Kima Douglas, his nurse, say Hubbard was never the same after that.
Give it a look and let us know what other details you find interesting…"
More from Tony Ortega:
"Levin had become well known to Scientologists in 1968 when he and his band People! — made up of all Scientologists — had a hit record, “I Love You.” In 1969, the group joined the Sea Org after getting a handwritten note from Hubbard approving the idea. “We were the first entertainers in the Sea Org,” Robbie tells us. In the mid-1970s, Levin traded music for his burgeoning clothing business, and by 1980, he had quietly left the church when Kima came to stay with him.
She told him that in 1975 Hubbard had suffered a pulmonary embolism in Curaçao and had been taken to a hospital, and then was very sick again at La Quinta, California in 1977 but he made her promise not to call an ambulance. Dincalci and Kima had been caring for him for years, but neither of them had medical degrees. So she called in a physician who was a Scientologist, Gene Denk, who would treat Hubbard for the rest of his life.
Levin says Kima told him that Denk gave Hubbard several pads of blank prescriptions that he’d pre-signed. “Hubbard was self-prescribing drugs for himself. A lot were oral, but some were by needle,” Levin says Kima told him. “Kima was afraid to talk about it because they were declaring people,” he says, referring to Scientology’s version of excommunication, “declaring” someone a “suppressive person.” She told Levin that Hubbard was dying. “He was so wacked out because of all the drugs. He’s going to die soon, and guess who’s going to take the fall,” she told him.
Dincalci says that’s what he saw, too.
“Yes, Denk pre-signed the pads,” he says. “I would write them up and go get them.”
Dincalci says that during the Gerry Armstrong litigation in 1983, he was deposed by church attorneys, who asked him about the allegation. “I said, ‘I still have those pads from Denk,’ and then the deposition was over. They didn’t want to hear anymore,” he says.
Kima Douglas, 1942-2013 | The Underground Bunker
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