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Ron the Magus Lecture: Self-Determined Effort Processing
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Hubbard associates Dianetics with black magic and discusses the idea of using Dianetics for a money-making scam.
One of the most interesting things that we have run into at times is the fact that probably all of us, with the knowledge which has been accumulated and the push buttons’ which were suddenly summed up not very long ago and which we now have to hand, could put on black cowls, look grim and mysterious about the whole thing, button up all communication lines about Dianetics—that is to say, not let on about any axioms or anything like that—and just start practicing what apparently would be black magic. We could bring people in off the streets and have them walk down the hall and stop in Office 1 where a little sign says, “Glasses removed here.”1 We wouldn’t have any couches or anything cluttering the place up like that, and we could just walk them around the hall and at each station there would be another auditor and he would just ask standard questions. The people coming in would walk all the way around and then out on the street again. Of course, they would stop at the desk before they went out and write out a check for the equivalent amount of medical treatment, which would come to $8,687,962.05!2 There is some slight possibility that we may be at that stage.3 I don’t want to over evaluate anything, however. I sort of feel like a man who has been pretty sure all the way along the line that there was a button someplace and that if one pushed the button something horrendous would happen. The trouble was, there were enormous numbers of buttons that one could push. — L. Ron Hubbard Lecture 01 October 1951: Self-Determined Effort Processing 1 Perry Chapdelaine, a research assistant at the Wichita Foundation ca 1951 is quoted in Russell Miller's Barefaced Messiah : "The problem for many people involved in Dianetics was that they accepted every word Hubbard said as literal truth, rather than a framework around which you could do things. I remember at a lecture one night he told people if they did this or that they would no longer need to wear glasses and that they would be able to throw them away forever. He pointed to a big bowl at the bottom of the steps leading up to the rostrum and at the end of the lecture people were throwing their glasses into this bowl. Don Purcell was one of them. 2 Fascinatingly, Scientology wrote out a check to Lawrence Wollersheim in 2002 for almost that amount ($8,674, 843) for damages which the tech caused and which required medical treatment.'Hubbard thought it was a great joke. He told me about it afterwards, making a snide remark about Purcell and describing how to took off his glasses, threw them into the bowl and groped his way out of the lecture hall. Hubbard was laughing that people would do something like that just because of what he said. Of course, it didn't work. Like everyone else, Purcell had a new pair of glasses in a couple of days. 'There was no question Hubbard had an extraordinary ability to transmit to people. He audited me once in his front room in Wichita and it was the one and only time in my life I had a perfect perception of being in embryo. I'll never forget it, it was the most amazing experience of my whole life. (BFM p. 196) 3 Hubbard may well have considered peddling his psychological therapy to students of magic. A number of prominent magicians recommend their students undergo psychotherapy as an adjunct to their magical training. On the date of this lecture, "the FBI Office in Kansas City asked the FBI in Washington for information on L. Ron Hubbard in Wichita. (BFM p. 198) |
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