Karen#1
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TONY ORTEGA
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[L. Ron Hubbard, charmer]
We’ve enjoyed some fun dives into early Scientology history lately, with a look at founder L. Ron Hubbard’s solution for a continuity problem in his cosmology (1952), and the harsh policies he laid down for dealing with perceived enemies (1959).
Our helpers have also been digging up some pretty interesting stuff for us that goes right back to the beginning of things, in the weeks and months after Hubbard first published Dianetics in May 1950 and kicked off this movement.
If you really want to immerse yourself in those days, we highly recommend that you review Russell Miller’s Bare-Faced Messiah, the essential biography of Hubbard that was published in 1987. We were looking at those chapters again recently, and they are just astonishing in their sourcing and the rich material that lays out Hubbard’s movements practically week by week.
But we still do try to add footnotes to the incredible work by Russell, and we have a few things that our helpers have brought us we wanted to share with you.
Our friend who dives into old newspaper archives brought us something rather different this time. Keeping in mind that Hubbard was already a well-known figure to science fiction fandom when Dianetics came out, our helper wondered what kind of an impact the new “science of the mind” had on these devotees of sci-fi. Hubbard and Astounding editor John W. Campbell had previewed Dianetics in the magazine before the book version had come out, and many of the first dianeticists were recruited from these readers of Hubbard’s fiction.
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We’ve enjoyed some fun dives into early Scientology history lately, with a look at founder L. Ron Hubbard’s solution for a continuity problem in his cosmology (1952), and the harsh policies he laid down for dealing with perceived enemies (1959).
Our helpers have also been digging up some pretty interesting stuff for us that goes right back to the beginning of things, in the weeks and months after Hubbard first published Dianetics in May 1950 and kicked off this movement.
If you really want to immerse yourself in those days, we highly recommend that you review Russell Miller’s Bare-Faced Messiah, the essential biography of Hubbard that was published in 1987. We were looking at those chapters again recently, and they are just astonishing in their sourcing and the rich material that lays out Hubbard’s movements practically week by week.
But we still do try to add footnotes to the incredible work by Russell, and we have a few things that our helpers have brought us we wanted to share with you.
Our friend who dives into old newspaper archives brought us something rather different this time. Keeping in mind that Hubbard was already a well-known figure to science fiction fandom when Dianetics came out, our helper wondered what kind of an impact the new “science of the mind” had on these devotees of sci-fi. Hubbard and Astounding editor John W. Campbell had previewed Dianetics in the magazine before the book version had come out, and many of the first dianeticists were recruited from these readers of Hubbard’s fiction.
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New documents reveal Scientology's earliest battles against naysayers
We’ve enjoyed some fun dives into early Scientology history lately, with a look at founder L.
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