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thanks for this. digging into the history, CoS stats began a long downturn starting around '69, as documented in the 1979 ‘World out of Communication (WOOC)’ evaluation. i figured the primary cause was the fizzling out of the counterculture movement, which is considered to have peaked in...

maybe the original audience in the '50s, who from what i can tell were more often around Hubbard's age. but by the mid '60s was it mostly young baby boomers -- 2 generations younger -- who as 'seekers' might have read newer works like Siddhartha or Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, but...

thanks for that. i points to one of the things that i find very interesting when i can hear from old timers or dig through their accounts, that there were some reasons for what started out as conflict between LRH and the mission holders beginning the '70s -- it wasn't all just DM making up...

i suspect that is an early case of celebs getting kid glove treatment and tolerance that are the absolute reverse of what general 'public' are subject to. and thanks for the perspective of what it was like back then, particularly at the missions. i wonder if some of the changes in location had...

one of the things i find interesting about his history, is wasn't he one of the first mission holders to get 'massacred' -- but several years before the early 1980s event where DM was the public face of the CoS corporations, and thus more obviously at the behest of LRH himself? his description...