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TONY ORTEGA
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[L. Ron Hubbard, horndog]
In 1952, science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard realized that he’d backed himself into a bit of a continuity problem with the yarns he was spinning.
A couple of years before, he’d lucked into a huge success with his turgid tome Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, and had a brief fad on his hands with readers actually taking his claims in the book seriously, that he had found a way for them to remember their time in the womb and to re-experience childbirth.
The point of doing that, he told them, was to recall traumas they had been through because mom and dad were randy and had rough sex, and things dad shouted while he was getting athletic with mom while you were in the oven had stuck with you and were holding you back decades later.
Hubbard’s notion of “prenatal engrams” — negative memories stored away while you were a fetus in the womb — proved to be a profitable one for a brief time.
A year later, by 1951, the boom was over, Hubbard’s Dianetic centers were bankrupt, his second marriage had fallen apart, and he had even absconded to Cuba at one point. But in 1952, Hubbard gamely attempted a comeback, this time by calling his science of the mind “Scientology.”
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Excerpt:
[L. Ron Hubbard, horndog]
In 1952, science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard realized that he’d backed himself into a bit of a continuity problem with the yarns he was spinning.
A couple of years before, he’d lucked into a huge success with his turgid tome Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, and had a brief fad on his hands with readers actually taking his claims in the book seriously, that he had found a way for them to remember their time in the womb and to re-experience childbirth.
The point of doing that, he told them, was to recall traumas they had been through because mom and dad were randy and had rough sex, and things dad shouted while he was getting athletic with mom while you were in the oven had stuck with you and were holding you back decades later.
Hubbard’s notion of “prenatal engrams” — negative memories stored away while you were a fetus in the womb — proved to be a profitable one for a brief time.
A year later, by 1951, the boom was over, Hubbard’s Dianetic centers were bankrupt, his second marriage had fallen apart, and he had even absconded to Cuba at one point. But in 1952, Hubbard gamely attempted a comeback, this time by calling his science of the mind “Scientology.”
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Scientology teaches that your life was ruined by your oversexed parents
In 1952, science fiction writer L.
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