Karen#1
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TONY ORTEGA
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Ever since we posted a photo of Tom Cruise and John Travolta in the front row at Scientology’s celebration of L. Ron Hubbard’s birthday in March, giving David Miscavige a standing ovation as the church leader unveiled a new initiative aimed at kids, the “Golden Age for the New Generation,” we’ve been curious about what’s in these new books.
Most of them seem to be illustrated kids’ versions of basic Scientology concepts, like the A-R-C triangle and such. But one of them, which a reader got their hands on, is a children’s version of Scientology’s longtime sop to the public, The Way to Happiness.
The Way to Happiness is a 1980 pamphlet that then-leader L. Ron Hubbard put out at a crucial time. After a 1977 FBI raid had resulted in the prosecutions of 11 top Scientology executives (including Hubbard’s own wife, Mary Sue), newspapers in 1978 and 1979 had been filled with wild stories about how Scientology had run a sophisticated international intelligence operation that had not only broken into government offices around the world, but had also targeted enemies with destruction in complex dirty tricks schemes.
This “church” seemed to believe in nothing but espionage and cruelty, judging by what readers were seeing in the media. So Hubbard hurriedly put together an anodyne collection of 21 basic moral precepts — treat others well, take care of yourself, etc. — and called it The Way to Happiness, offering it as a guide to what Scientologists really stood for.
Of course, none of it had anything to do with what actually goes on in Scientology, which is an increasingly expensive regimen of past-life therapy designed to recover memories of your trillion years as a godlike creature called a “thetan.” None of that appeared in the booklet, which Scientology to this day hands out by the truckload.
And now, it has a version for kids. It’s a couple of hundred pages long, so we’ve just pulled out a small portion of it as a Fair Use representation, looking at the title pages of the 21 precepts.
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[/td]The Way to Happiness is a 1980 pamphlet that then-leader L. Ron Hubbard put out at a crucial time. After a 1977 FBI raid had resulted in the prosecutions of 11 top Scientology executives (including Hubbard’s own wife, Mary Sue), newspapers in 1978 and 1979 had been filled with wild stories about how Scientology had run a sophisticated international intelligence operation that had not only broken into government offices around the world, but had also targeted enemies with destruction in complex dirty tricks schemes.
This “church” seemed to believe in nothing but espionage and cruelty, judging by what readers were seeing in the media. So Hubbard hurriedly put together an anodyne collection of 21 basic moral precepts — treat others well, take care of yourself, etc. — and called it The Way to Happiness, offering it as a guide to what Scientologists really stood for.
Of course, none of it had anything to do with what actually goes on in Scientology, which is an increasingly expensive regimen of past-life therapy designed to recover memories of your trillion years as a godlike creature called a “thetan.” None of that appeared in the booklet, which Scientology to this day hands out by the truckload.
And now, it has a version for kids. It’s a couple of hundred pages long, so we’ve just pulled out a small portion of it as a Fair Use representation, looking at the title pages of the 21 precepts.
READ MORE
Scientology's new initiative for kids: A peek inside
Ever since we posted a photo of Tom Cruise and John Travolta in the front row at Scientology’s celebration of L.
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