Scientology, How The Trick is Done
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In 1995 I got a tremendous amount of media after posting scientology’s core secrets to the internet. (note1) about the story of XENU and the Space Cooties. This same material was illustrated 10 years later in cartoon form, in South Park’s major Scientology episode titled “In The Closet”
Now, because of that media, people would call me, and some tell what they knew about Hubbard and Dianetics. One of those callers was an elderly man, with a distinctly cultivated voice, as if he had spoken professionally for thousands of hours.
I asked him who he was and he declined saying that he was “too old to deal with those nutballs”, not wishing to risk being involved, but he asked me if I would like to know where Hubbard got the ideas for Dianetics..
I said I would love to know, so the distinguished voice continued saying that::
When Hubbard was in the Navy Hospital, a visiting clinician was passing out copies of his paper to the patients and asking for their opinions. It was that paper that was used primarily for Dianetics.
I pressed him for more but he demurred, indicating that he had said enough, thanked me again for my courage and then hung up.
At this time I knew little about intelligence methods, and I could kick myself for not noticing the following for almost a decade:
His statement begs the question, how would he have known this? (note2)
A Thank You to Ms. Ida Camburn,
A brilliant lady who was a member of the first anti-cult group in America, The Citizens Freedom Foundation, and later The Cult Awareness Network. Ms Ida Camburn gave me her copy of a book titled “Battle for the Mind” by Dr William Sargant. Dr. Sargant was the head of psychiatry in the UK during WWII. I was astounded by his book, and noted that his little book described in succession several topics that I had recalled encountering in only one other publication – Dianetics by Hubbard.
I then read the fine print at the beginning of his book and noted that he described himself as “A Clinician”… even the chaptering and index layout had a notably similar look and feel as “Book One” in Dianetics. I then recalled that telephone call from that older gentleman a decade previously!
A bit of digging was able to document that Dr WIlliam Sargant was a “Visiting Professor” at a North Carolina university not too far from Hampton Roads Naval Station near Norfolk, where there was a Naval Hospital, and he did this towards the end of WWII.
I now knew where Hubbard stole his ideas for Dianetics, The fact that he used a book from the head of Psychiatry in the UK during WWII alone would shake up and perhaps help wake up true believers. Hubbard used the same ideas after turning them upon their head, inverting the intent and meaning as used by Dr Sargant’s book about mind control to make up a compelling storyline.
He substituted synonyms for the simple, easy to understand words used by Dr Sargant, His version of Sargant’s stories were reworded, and became, perhaps due to the rewording and the need to use of synonyms, more difficult to understand than Battle for the Mind.
This generated confusion, but confusion itself is a covert method that makes you more suggestible! When you read something that does not make sense, uses uncommon words, or perhaps is just plain gibberish the mind grows a bit frantic, becoming more an more desperate to understand and perhaps out of that desperation itself, will seize upon whatever simple thing is stated just after the confusing passage. This is a very important concept, even I have to read this again from time to time.
And that simple statement it seized upon out of desperation for meaning will be accepted, to a degree as true!(Note3)
This is one trick he used when he wrote Dianetics,and he used many, and some are individually described on my blog pages and web site.
He demonized psychiatrists and psychiatry viciously, so that anyone who believed his words to be true would never dare read a book by a psychiatrist. and then, perhaps, notice the plagarism. This programming prevent my reading his book for many years, and I too, have been demonized by Scientology, and for the same motive. (note4)
Dianetics is a compelling and exciting storyline, with lurid and intense emotional content in which are used all the tricks of persuasive writing, fallacious argument, hard sell methods, implication, suggestion, repetition, the confusion technique and then the clincher, he uses fear. (Note 6)
These are all methods of covert suggestion or hypnotism. Dianetics was a story, a shore story to coerce the reader into parting with his money to Hubbard’s string of Dianetics Centers, to rid himself of something terrible but something he never had in the first place, before reading Hubbard’s book. It is something entirely fictitious, and imaginary, something called the Reactive Mind!
Thank you for reading, save this page and use it to help wake up scientologists
Arnie Lerma.
Notes:
Note: Here is a link to front page of The Washington Post’s Outlook Section that was run on Christmas Day 1994, http://www.lermanet.com/scientologynews/washingtonpost/lermaraid091995.html and here a 1995 cover story from The Jurist, of the American University Law School http://www.lermanet.com/scientologynews/amjurist1195.html
Note2: After an interview with the son of the President of GWU, I determined in 2005 that The voice who called was Hubbard’s psychology Professor at George Washington University Dr Mosel, who in 1950 was the head of psychology department and was retired. He passed away a year or two after that telephone call.
Note3: google The Confusion Technique
Note4: https://arnielerma.wordpress.com/2015/10/09/demonization-for-profit/
Note5: https://arnielerma.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/one-method-of-covert-hypnosis/
Note6: https://arnielerma.wordpress.com/2016/07/23/more-secrets-of-dianetics/
Ida Camburn’s story: http://lermanet.com/idacamburn/
Image: Screen shot from South Park’s In The Closet segment
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L Ron Hubbard was a science fiction writer. He apparently told a friend that he could invent a religion that would ensnare (my word) millions of people. He did just that. I am wondering, also about his name, L. Ron Hubbard. The way he uses his first initial and middle name makes it sound very “elfish,” i.e. as in Elrond, the elf king in the Hobbit tales. The Hobbit books had not been out too long before Hubbard came on the scene. Just musing.
That story was included in the first article about this writer in the Washington Post, on Christmas Day 1994
http://www.lermanet.com/cos/lerma.html
Excerpt: ” I admit that Scientology’s version of truth
and my own findings rarely correspond. Con-
sider one example, taken from the new me-
dia guide.
Question: Did L. Ron Hubbard state that
the way to make money was to start a religion?
Answer… No. , This is an unfounded rumor.
The rumor got started in 1948; according to the
church, when “one individual” claimed
he heard Hubbard make such a comment
during a lecture. “The only two people who
could be found who attended the very lec-
ture in 1948 denied that Mr. Hubbard ever
made the statement,” says the media guide?
But the man who invited Hubbard to
speak, Sam Moskowitz, a 74-year-old sci-
ence fiction editor in Newark, swears to this
day that Hubbard made the remark in front
of 23 members of the Eastern Science Fic-
tion Association, most of whom are now
dead.
The church also ignores a 1983 book by
Lloyd Arthur Eshbach, ‘Over My Shoulder.
Reflections of the Science Fiction Era.”
Eshbach recounts a 1948 meeting with Hubbard
and two others in New York-
“The incident is stamped indelibly in my
mind because of one statement that Ron
Hubbard made. What led him to say what he
did I can’t recall-But in so many words
Hubbard said- -’I'd like to start a religion,
That’s where the money is”
Two other Hubbard contemporaries quote
him similarly in the unauthorized 1987 biog-
raphy “Bare-Faced Messiah.” And two sci-
ence fiction experts contacted for this story
confirm -that Hubbard made such remarks
before be wrote his treatise on Dianetics,
which was first published in the magazine
Astounding Science Fiction. But church offi-
cials maintain that these people are sorely
confused. The church says another famous
writer said the exact same thing—-George
Orwell, who wrote to a friend in 1938 that
there might be a lot of cash in starting a
new religion-
“It seems that Orwell’s comment has been
misattributed to Mr. Hubbard,” the church
media guide tells reporters.
Only one problem: The Scientology opera-
tive who says he came up with the Orwell
explanation is Robert Vaughn Young, who
quit the central church in 1989 after 20
years as a spokesman. While researching the
life of the Founder, Young says he talked to
three Hubbard associates from the fiction days
who remembered Hubbard talking about
getting out of the penny-a-word
game for the more lucrative field of religion.
Young ignored those comments, of course.
and by a stroke of luck came up with the
Orwell quote.
The irony is beyond Orwellian. But the
man ‘who wrote ’1984″ would certainly relish
the scenario. The Hubbard quote gets sent
down the memory tube, replaced by another,
more suitable source. Over time, as Orwell
understood. a lie can become the truth. Who
will dispute it?