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TONY ORTEGA
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[Alex Barnes-Ross and the new Dianetics]
In May, Scientology leader David Miscavige held a special event in Clearwater, Florida in order to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health — the 1950 book by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard that marked the beginning of what would become the Scientology movement — and Miscavige announced that a new 75th anniversary edition of Hubbard’s famous tome would be released.
“Book One,” Scientologists call it, marking it out as the essential text that started everything, and it was followed by many more books, lectures, and thousands of written policies and edicts by Hubbard as he led the Church of Scientology until his death in 1986. (If you’re curious about what’s in Dianetics but not ready to slog through the book yourself, we blogged it for you.)
Since Hubbard’s death Miscavige has assumed control, but Scientologists still insist that they are following Hubbard’s writings to the letter, and that his policies cannot be changed. Miscavige has come out with new editions of Dianetics in the past, however. The last one was issued in 2007 along with other reprints of Hubbard books (“The Basics”) which Miscavige claimed had been corrected according to Hubbard’s original manuscripts.
All of this is to say that Miscavige, knowing how the membership feels about the sacrosanct nature of Hubbard’s “scripture,” takes a risk any time he changes a word in any existing Scientology text.
And this is Dianetics, the granddaddy of them all, and the most important. So we were especially interested to see what the new 75th anniversary edition would contain when Miscavige announced it at the event in May.
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In May, Scientology leader David Miscavige held a special event in Clearwater, Florida in order to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health — the 1950 book by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard that marked the beginning of what would become the Scientology movement — and Miscavige announced that a new 75th anniversary edition of Hubbard’s famous tome would be released.
“Book One,” Scientologists call it, marking it out as the essential text that started everything, and it was followed by many more books, lectures, and thousands of written policies and edicts by Hubbard as he led the Church of Scientology until his death in 1986. (If you’re curious about what’s in Dianetics but not ready to slog through the book yourself, we blogged it for you.)
Since Hubbard’s death Miscavige has assumed control, but Scientologists still insist that they are following Hubbard’s writings to the letter, and that his policies cannot be changed. Miscavige has come out with new editions of Dianetics in the past, however. The last one was issued in 2007 along with other reprints of Hubbard books (“The Basics”) which Miscavige claimed had been corrected according to Hubbard’s original manuscripts.
All of this is to say that Miscavige, knowing how the membership feels about the sacrosanct nature of Hubbard’s “scripture,” takes a risk any time he changes a word in any existing Scientology text.
And this is Dianetics, the granddaddy of them all, and the most important. So we were especially interested to see what the new 75th anniversary edition would contain when Miscavige announced it at the event in May.
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We have the new 75th anniversary 'Dianetics' — and it contains surprises!
In May, Scientology leader David Miscavige held a special event in Clearwater, Florida in order to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health — the 1950 book by science fiction writer L.
tonyortega.substack.com
