He might have also have been "hypersensitive" to radiation with the BTs still suffering the after effects from being blown up in volcanoes with nuclear bombs. I posted this on another thread but I might as well repost it here.Hubbard received a gift of a bed and complained about the metal nails in the bed. He had some kind of allergic reaction to the metal nails, at least in his mind.
He was bothered by tiny dust particles in the air and by smells no one else could perceive.
He was bothered by what he thought was the odor of soap. He ordered his child servants to scrub his clothes, by hand, in a bucket, and rinse his clothes, in 13 separate buckets.
But, somehow, he couldn't have a super sensitivity to the current of an e-meter?
There are people who used an e-meter - interacting with its electrical current - for decades. It can become a habit. Extreme sensitivities can occur.
Towards the end of his life, Hubbard demanded that an e-meter, with increased current, be made, especially for him. It was interpreted as a death wish, but was it? Hubbard expressed a need for more electrical current.
Edit: Link added.
Link to "Basically run a weak current through two moist electrodes" thread.
I knew a woman at the Las Vegas Org who said she and her ex husband, a bigwig at the org, had invited Hubbard to spend some time with them in Vegas. He declined saying Vegas was "still too hot with radiation" from the atomic bomb testing in the 1950s. Maybe at that time Hubbard hadn't yet rid himself of all his BTs and didn't want to get them all stirred up. Or maybe just like many other people he worried about long term effects from residual radiation but several tests at the time showed the radiation levels were not high enough to cause physical damage.
Take your pick.
Last edited: