OLD MOTHER L. RON HUBBARD...

HISTORY OF SCIENTOLOGY AND L. RON HUBBARD

In 1940, L. Ron Hubbard was living a hand-to-mouth existence in New York City, writing penny-a-word pulp fiction stories. While there, he apparently had an argument with a German steward a hotel at which he was staying. He promptly got revenge by writing crazy and cryptic letters to the FBI telling them he was "a menace to the state".

This was, it seems, the first contact he had had with the FBI and began what became a long tradition for him of his infamous letters to the FBI about the he disliked. It also emphasized his “Germanophobia”, and is still visible today in the Church of Scientology's campaign against the Federal Republic.

Needless to say, the allegations were baseless and the FBI took no action.

HERE IS ONE OF MANY LETTERS HE WROTE TO THE FBI

May 16, 1940

243 Riverside Drive
New York City

To: Federal Bureau of Investigation Department of Justice Washington, D.C.


Gentlemen;

May I bring to your attention an individual whose Nazi activities, in time of national emergency if not at present, might constitute him a menace to the state?

The name is [CENSORED] a German whose sister is a member of the Gestapo in Germany. His anti-American discourses concern in the main what he would do in case we went to war with Germany, and he never speaks for publication along this line but only privately.

As steward of the [CENSORED] he supports an almost entirely German staff, discouraging the employment of Americans. He entered this country illegally, according to his private statement. In my opinion he is definitely "fifth column". He can be found at the [CENSORED] [CENSORED] in NYC.

My interest in this is impersonal, though possibly shaded by the feeling of dislike which he always inspires in me for he is the last man in the world I would trust. And I fear that all too soon we will have need of every precaution to safeguard our country.

Sincerely,

L. Ron Hubbard

ACUTAL FBI REPORTS KEPT ON L. RON HUBBARD

This investigation is based upon a letter received at the Bureau from L. RON HUBBARD dated May 16, 1940 which sets out that [CENSORED] is a German whose sister is a member of the Gestapo in Germany and that in times of national emergency he might constitute a menace to this country.

Subject is reported to be anti-American in his discourses which are not for publication but among friends in private. He is a steward at the [CENSORED] [CENSORED] New York City, and said hotel is reported to support an almost entirely Germany staff.

Subject was reported to have entered the country illegally and in the opinion of the informant, he is definitely "fifth column."

Ron believes "they" are after him. In May 1951, L. Ron Hubbard's paranoia reached a fever pitch and by mid-1951, his Dianetics Foundation was overwhelmed from creditors.

He criticized the media and medical profession for its "quackery" and he was under scrutiny for being a "psycho-sexual racket" (sic).

He believed that a sinister Communist conspiracy was behind his troubles.

At the time, he was having a sporadically passionate affair with a pretty 20-year-old Dianeticist, Barbara Kaye, with whom he was planning to elope. She soon realized that Ron was, in her own words, "disturbed".

In a 1986 interview, she said: He was highly paranoid and would be rushing along the street with me and I would say, "Why are you walking so fast?"

He'd look over his shoulder and say "Don't you know what it's like to be a target?" At all times he thought the American Psychological Association and the AMA and CIA had hit men after him... he thought everyone was after him. This was long before the IRS was after him. No one was after him at that time, but he certainly had delusions.
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THE LAWS OF SCIENTOLOGY

Belief in Deity: (in other words, belief in God. They like to use big words.) Scientology considers the belief in a God or gods as something personal and therefore offers no specific system of belief. (But they consider scientology a religion? Sounds like they just contradicted themselves right off the bat…) The nature of the Supreme Being is revealed personally through each individual as s/he becomes more conscious and spiritually aware. There exists a life energy or force (Theta) beyond and within all.


Incarnations: There are no particular human incarnations of God as the universal life force (Theta) is inherent in all. (In other words, no one is God and the “life force”—whatever that is, is in everyone.) All humans are immortal spiritual beings (thetans) capable of realizing a nearly godlike state through Scientology practices. (They just said that no one is a God, but if you practice Scientology you can defy these rules and be “Godlike”? Thank God for those loopholes!)


Origin of universe/life: All is manifestation of the universal spirit, which is all that actually exists. (That just made absolutely no sense to me)


After death: Rebirths continue until one consciously confronts all pre-birth, current life, and previous life traumas and realizes one's true nature as a "thetan," immortal spirit -- transcending matter, energy, space, and time. (And how would you go about doing that? Do you have any past-life psychics you recommend?) Achieving this state (Getting in touch with you long lost past life must be really easy to do! What if you were Lassie? Sorry, I don't think I can communicate and confront Lassie--the language barrier poses a problem) enables the spirit to escape the cycle of birth and death, to operate independently of the physical universe, and become one with God. (Sounds like someone is getting ripped off, here. It reminds me of spending $50 for a psychic who told me nothing but she certainly acted very authentic with those psychadelic scarves, incense and groovy candles.)


Why evil? Painful experiences and harmful acts in one's pre-birth, current, and past lives become imprinted in the reactive mind and lead to irrational behavior. Departures from rational thought and untrue ideas ("aberrations") can result in wrongdoing. (Basically, if you don’t pay out the ass for that past-life psychic, you are destined to be a psycho or “the wrong-doing”criminal. Hmmm… Okay…)


Salvation: Salvation is achieved through the practices and techniques of Scientology, the ultimate goal of which is to realize one's true nature as an immortal spirit, a thetan. The path to salvation, or enlightenment, includes achieving states of increasingly greater mental awareness -- Pre-Clear, Clear, and ultimately Operating Thetan. An Operating Thetan is a spirit who can control matter, energy, space, time, thought and life. (Is this a new “X Men” character I don’t know about?)



Practitioners ("Auditors") are regarded as ministers and counselors who assist others to achieve self-enlightenment. Auditors help others to identify their pre-birth, current, and past life disturbances, which are obstacles to happiness and spiritual enlightenment. (Are these the same over priced “psychics”? I’m calling the IRS on this one…you don't they don't report their income)



Undeserved suffering: Suffering occurs as part of the spirit's entrapment here in the physical universe. Only when the individual is aware of his spiritual nature can he identify his barriers within the universe and overcome them, rising out of a lower state and into a higher state of happiness and freedom. (In other words, you will evitably suffer on earth as long as you live on this stinking planet. If you want to avoid that you just need to “think positive”! Sounds like a really bad therapist I once had…)




Contemporary Issues: Based on the belief that you cannot free yourself spiritually without working to free others,

(What? Volunteering? Public Service? Forget it, I don’t to deal with other people’s problems? This sounds like too much work for my schedule. I think I’m quitting now.)


Scientology strongly favors the use of their methodology for spiritual/mental healing over the use of conventional treatment.

(Like I said before, I can hear that shitty therapist whining, “And how did that make you feel? Hmmm….sounds like you need to take charge of your life and have the determination to be happy. Snap out of it! Have you ever considered watching Dr. Phil? I have great self help books, too. I don’t recognize actual mental illnesses…it’s just like I’m a midwife, but never a doctor. I couldn’t pass the GMAT…)

MORE STUPID FACTS ON HUBBARD

In 1939 Street & Smith launch a second new magazine, Unknown, and it was soon filled with Ron’s fantasy writings which could not be accommodated in normal publications.

His first story in this genre appeared in the April 1939 issue. Many more L. Ron Hubbard fiction works appear for the first time in Unknown including such legendary stories as Fear, Death’s Deputy, Typewriter in the Sky and Slaves of Sleep. These stories are subsequently released as books in their own right. (Don’t these titles give you a ‘warning sign’?)

THE FIRST ‘SELF-HELP’ BOOK?

The story of Scientology began in 1950 (did you notice they said “story”?) with the publication of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health by L. Ron Hubbard.

This remarkable book offered something that was never before available—a workable technology of the mind that could be used to improve anyone’s life and to enable him to better understand himself and others. (Aaah…the birth of many useless self-help books I always see displaced in that single old lady neighbor’s home.)

Important outstanding questions remained. What was man? (A human with a penis and unusable nipples?) L. Ron Hubbard preached that a person is neither a body nor a mind, but a spiritual being, independent of both. (Again, this makes no sense… nope, not a word.)

Scientology is a religion (But isn’t is stated in the first rule that Scientology offers no specific system of belief?). It consists of a vast body of technology (technology meaning what? Electro shock therapy? Dropping some LSD while reading Hubbard’s books? Sticking my head in the microvave so I can feel the nuclear waves emitting from my microwave?) which can be applied by an individual to improve himself or herself and the conditions of life. More importantly, it provides a route to personal salvation and true spiritual freedom. Despite its enormous scope, the fundamental principles of Scientology are simple and direct. (Isn’t that an oxymoron? Enormous scope, but yet simple and direct?)

What is the Scientology view on drugs?

Scientologists use medical drugs when physically ill and also rely on the advice and treatment of medical doctors. Scientologists do not take street drugs or mind-altering psychiatric drugs of any kind.

Scientologists believe that psychotropic or street drugs damage a person physically, mentally and spiritually. They decrease awareness and hinder abilities. They are a “solution” to some other problem and themselves become a problem. (Only if the psychotropic drugs are monitored by a psychiatrist and not abused. The rest is not NEW news, people…)

Hubbard’s Version of Rehab—Can you Purify in 28 days?

Someone Call Betty Ford for the News!

What is the Purification Rundown? The Purification Rundown is a carefully designed combination of exercise, vitamins, nutrition and sauna use (Oh yes, doesn’t everyone have a sauna these days?) which dislodges drug residues and other toxins from the fatty tissues so that these substances can then be eliminated from the body.

While the Purification Rundown rids one of the biochemical residues that reactivate past drug experience, (so you’re saying f I take a sauna, will I have a flashback of a mind-altered evening I had? Sounds fun to me!) it is but the first step to a full resolution to the spiritual devastation caused by drug, medicine and alcohol abuse.

We are a chemical-oriented society. Virtually everyone is subjected daily to the intake of food preservatives, pesticides, atmospheric poisons and the like. Add to this the wide assortment of medical and street drugs consumed in our society and the magnitude of the problem becomes obvious. (Check out that picture, looks like he's on some 'chemicals'.)

How are Churches of Scientology supported financially?

By Their Rich Celebrity Freak Followers, who else?! Why do these flaky over-paid celebrities give money to this "Church"? 'But of course!' Charity write-offs and other tax benefits!

These contributions by Scientologists are the primary source of financial support for the Church and fund all the religious and social betterment activities the Church engages in. (Isn’t always fun to throw a party when someone else foots the bill? Kind of sounds like the government, doesn’t it? I.E., Bush throwing huge Inaugural balls, while we are in the mist of a freakin' war. How tacky is that?)

Scientology does not have hundreds of years of accumulated wealth and property like other religions - it must make its way in the world according to the economics of today’s society. (Boo hoo… See my little violin playing for you?)

When one considers the cost of ministering even one hour of auditing, requiring extensively trained specialists, and the overhead costs of maintaining church premises, the necessity of donations become clear. (Oh my! What ever shall we do??)

Why is Scientology opposed to psychiatric abuse?

Psychiatry and psychology, by inaugurating the theory of eugenics, provided the philosophical basis for the wholesale slaughter of human beings in World Wars I and II. Psychiatry uses electric shock, brain-mutilating psychosurgery and mind-damaging drugs to destroy a person and make him “docile and quiet” in the name of “treatment.” (Those practices are LONG of the past, stupid.)

Psychiatric methods involving the butchering of human beings and their sanity are condemned by the Church. Scientologists are trying to create a world without war, insanity and criminality. Psychiatry is seeking to create a world were man is reduced to a robotized or drugged, vegetable-like state so that he can be controlled. (Sounds like a George Orwell Book, or the weird book "A Clockwork Orange")

Scientologists do not believe that psychiatrists should tell their patients what they think is wrong with them. This interjects lies or ideas which are not true for the individual himself, thereby violating his basic integrity.

Scientologists believe that one should find out for himself the source of his troubles since this gives him the ability to improve conditions in his own life and environment. Scientology and psychiatry will always be working at cross-purposes. Scientology is a religion and recognizes that man is a spiritual being. Psychiatrists view man as an animal.

Psychiatry is strongly opposed to all religions as it does not even recognize that man is a spiritual being. Scientologists disagree with the enforced and harmful psychiatric methods of involuntary commitment, forced and heavy drugging, electroconvulsive shock treatment, lobotomy and other psychosurgical operations.

By the Creed of the Church of Scientology, the healing of mentally caused ills should not be condoned in nonreligious fields. The reason for this is that violent psychiatric therapies cause spiritual trauma. At best, psychiatry suppresses life’s problems; at worst, it causes severe damage, irreversible setbacks in a person’s life and even death.

One cannot overestimate the threat that Dianetics posed to that medical/psychiatric establishment, both in terms of its inherent message and its unprecedented popularity with the American public; for suddenly here was a work that effectively ripped away their pretense of authority.

The response was immediate and considerable. Less than a month after the publication of Dianetics, psychiatrists on government payrolls were denigrating the book as a hoax, while admitting in the same breath that they had never even read it. (And they would read that, why???)

A handful of influential psychiatrists used their government connections to spread lies and false reports through media and government files, escalating into an all-out attempt to close down the Dianetics foundations which had sprung up across the country and later, after its formation in 1954, the Church of Scientology.

The issue was clearly financial: how long could psychiatrists continue to convince the American taxpayer to foot the bill for multimillion dollar psychiatric appropriations when Dianetics provided a means to greater happiness and ability for only the price of a book?

This Sounds Like a Great Idea for a Science Fiction Movie!

In his 1951 book, Science of Survival, he wrote: “There is another form of hypnotism ... This form of hypnotism has been a carefully guarded secret of certain military and intelligence organizations. It is a vicious war weapon and may be of considerably more use in conquering a society than the atomic bomb. This is no exaggeration.

The extensiveness of the use of this form of hypnotism in espionage work is so wide today that it is long past the time when people should have become alarmed about it. The attacks intensified after 1951, the year Mr. Hubbard published Science of Survival.

In that book, Mr. Hubbard publicly exposed, for the first time, government-funded mind-control experiments in which psychiatrists administered drugs and electric shock to unsuspecting human guinea pigs who were then implanted, while unconscious, with hypnotic commands.

Decades later, victims would receive government compensation for the injuries they suffered from such experiments. But at the time these matters were among the best-kept secrets of the U.S. intelligence and psychiatric communities.