Absolutely! The reel to reel tapes have thus the history of WHO was even on the course, and when, that is so excellent for posterity dating things.
But Hubbard, he himself carved people out of the movement's history telling, so Hubbard to me, is always "source" of who gets the blame.
But, if the quackery just did something supernatural, but it never did, so from now 20 years out of the cult, I think more every day the whole thing is quackery, and deep study of the history, other than to reminisce, is futile. The quackery's never going to go anywhere, it can't.
Jon Atack wrote an article called something like "The likely origins of Dianetics and Scientology" that traces back every one of Hubbard's ideas to earlier writings.
Sometimes it seems like Hubbard just read the Reader's Digest and repeated random articles from the Science section.
There is something to all of it, it's not purely random maunderings, but it is never what Hubbard thought it was or could be. The dream of a world free of criminals, insanity or war was always really a nightmare of pure Hubbard domination. Like the Pax Romana (Roman Peace) or the mutually assured destruction doctrines of our age, it was a dream of peace based on ultraviolence.
Absolutely! The reel to reel tapes have thus the history of WHO was even on the course, and when, that is so excellent for posterity dating things.
But Hubbard, he himself carved people out of the movement's history telling, so Hubbard to me, is always "source" of who gets the blame.
But, if the quackery just did something supernatural, but it never did, so from now 20 years out of the cult, I think more every day the whole thing is quackery, and deep study of the history, other than to reminisce, is futile. The quackery's never going to go anywhere, it can't.
Jon Atack wrote an article called something like "The likely origins of Dianetics and Scientology" that traces back every one of Hubbard's ideas to earlier writings.
Sometimes it seems like Hubbard just read the Reader's Digest and repeated random articles from the Science section.
There is something to all of it, it's not purely random maunderings, but it is never what Hubbard thought it was or could be. The dream of a world free of criminals, insanity or war was always really a nightmare of pure Hubbard domination. Like the Pax Romana (Roman Peace) or the mutually assured destruction doctrines of our age, it was a dream of peace based on ultraviolence.