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for the last five
She has been a minister in
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an emotional tone scale.
The latter she described as
It was a personal tragedy
that brought Beth Fordyce into
the Scientology movement. She
had read the book on dianetics
shortly after its publication,
"I was pretty well-drained
od of helping another find his
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husband, Maurice, have a seven-
three, and she and her second
now married and mother of
did not get results because he
data," she said.
withheld
"Someone shoUld hal.* realiz-
"The writer, who visited Scientology leaders in another city,
day of each month.
volVed is not satisfied. New
courses begin the first Tues-
the first training up to $150
for what the movement calls
"processing," and that these
are returned if the person in-
Scientology courses, $20 .for
She said there are fees for
it wouldn't be incompatible with
my work with Scientology."
ber of another church," Mrs.
Fordyce said, "but if I were,
"I've never been a mem-
on an article on Scientology year-old daughter, Lyn Ella.
printed in a national magazine Fordyce is a Ford Motor Co.
engineer and a Presbyterian.
last summer.
MRS. FORDYCE commented
proble ms.
felt I needed help, so went
"It is rather simple--we just back to the dianetics book. Affind the misunderstood word or ter long study and training, I
idea which is, in fact, prior now can speak easily of my
to the contlised area. I can daughter and her death.
help both children and adults
"I wish I had studied Sciin this, ind it is not a long, entology earlier. I feel I would
drawn-out affair at all."
have been able to help her."
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She added that she has had
MRS. FORDYCE has another
considerable success in working with children with reading daughter by her first marriage,
trouble spot when studying some
subject.
after that," she said, "and
suffering from Hodgkins disease for two years.
said. "We have a special meth-
help from us," Beth Fordyce
and we get it when people seek until her daughter died after
"We work toward a result but did not study it seriously
something about it.
havior and can learn to do
"a scale whereby one can predict human emotions and be-
MICHIGAN
of state of individuals," and
ing the mental state and change
electrometer, which she explains as an "aid for measur-
Mrs. Fordyce, like Other Scientology leaders, uses specialized equipment, including a
or body.
spirit rather than either mind
Science of Modern Health."
It became a religious movement and changed to its pres-1
ent name, she added, when Hubbard concluded that his studies
showed he was dealing with the
titled "Dianetics, the Modern
L. Ron Hubbard in a 1950 book
Fordyce said, as a study called dianetics and described by
SCIENTOLOGY began, Beth
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and now conducts Tuesday evening services in the Bond
School for about 100 members
in the northern suburbs.
ership to others a year ago
located at 12 North, Highland
Park, she turned over its lead-
Founder in the Church of
Scienttilogy in Michigan, now
Farmington,
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years.
scientology
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conditions."
ogy,
a movement defined by
its founders and followers as
ran applied philosophy, the
technology of how to change
'Years in, the study of Scientol-
irernhill, has spent about ten
The Rev. Beth Fordyce, 29823
td
. An
Observer Newspapers
Wednesday, January 1, 1969
SCIENTOLOGY EQUIPMENT-- Rev, Beth Fordyce, of Farmington,
,
sets up some of the equipment she uSes in her work as a niinister in the
(Evert photo)
Church of Scientology.
'
Lady Minister. Is Spokesman For Scientology
articulate Farmington
y is head of Scientology
hapel Northwest, a religious
ovement relatively new to this
area.
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HAVING BEEN
AUDITED
IN
E
Has Scientology any
role in medicine?
MEDICINE and Scientology occupy two
separate fields. Obviously, medicine operates
in the field of healing. Scientology, specifically,
is not in the field of healing.
Dr. S. W. JARVIS, 8
member of this controversial
The relationship between medicine and
Scientology is mutual, in that they are both
concerned with the continued and better
survival of the whole human race. This is the
link between medicine, Scientology, and every
group gives you a chance to
judge for yourselves
human being, all of whom have a basic goal
survival. Medicine works toward fighting
diseases, discovering new methods to do so,
developing new and more skilled surgical
GP
techniques, and generally aiming at improved
and better methods in the whole field of healing, resulting in an improved survival
potenfial for the whole human race.
Scientology, by stated policy, has nothing
to do with healing, which is regarded as
JANUARY 3, 1969
totally the field of the medical profession.
Scientology is concerned with making able
people more able, by helping them to increase
their ability to handle every aspect of their
lives. It is doing this in increasing numbers.
7
VFW:,
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Scientology's founder and father figure, Lafayette Ron Hubbard, denonstrating the &Meter
an dectronic unit designed to measure changes of resistance in the human body.
GP
JANUARY 3, 1969
This may be confirmed by perusal of the
many personally-written su cc es s stories
readily available at any Scientology organisation.
The true story of Scientology is simple,
concise and direct. It is quickly told:
1. L. Ron Hubbard develops a philosophy
about life and death;
2. People find it interesting;
3. People find it works;
4. People pass it along to others;
5. It growsand continues to grow.
Until earlier this year I was in general
practice in Auckland, New Zealand. I qualified MB, ChB in 1951 after having served
in the RAF in Britain during World War H,
and then spent many years in country practice,
plus some years as a hospital visiting anaes-
thetist. For the last nine years I have conducted a general practice in Auckland.
Throughout the whole of my time as a
doctor I became more and more interested
in the mind and its relationship to the state
of well-being and sickness of human beings.
It is generally recognised that psychosomatic
disease concerns 7045 per cent of the disorders and upsets seen daily by general prac-
titioners. Some authorities put this figure
higher. Four to five years ago at the Mount
Ida Hospital, New York, an investigation
was made on 1,000 patients over an extended
period. It was concluded that 80.2 per cent
of the disorders and illnesses were psychosomatic in origin. Sedatives and tranquillisers
are used by the ton all over the world, but
the most successful therapy so far in medicine
has been the understanding family doctor
who makes time to listen.
Under the National Health Service the good
old understanding GP is hard pressed to make
importance of these and other discoveries by
L Ron Hubbard Ill be realised on reading
his works.
The goal in Scientology for the individual
is Total Freedom. The component parts of
Freedom are: Affinity (lilting), Reality (agreement), and Communication, which summate
into Understanding. Onc,... unclo-octndi,-",
attained, Freedom is obtainable for the
individuaL
The opposite of Freedom is Entrapment
A person who is not free is entrapped. He
may be trapped by an idea, he may be
'Hubbard has
made a tremendous
breakthrough'
trapped by his thoughts towards his motherin-law and develop a duodenal ulcer; he may
be trapped by jealous thoughts about his wife
and be unable to sleep at nights; he may be
trapped by considerations of not having
enough timg he may be trapped like a miser
by his decisions and thoughts about money.
The more thoroughly a person is trapped,
the less free he is. He cannot change, he cannot move, he cannot communicate, he cannot
feel affinity and reality. Unreality begins to
move in on him. Death itself could be said
to be man's ultimate in entrapment; for when
a man is totally entrapped he is dead.
For the individual who is thoroughly
snarled in the mechanics of entrapment, it is
necessary to restore to him sufficient communi-
cation to permit his ascendance into a higher
state of understanding. Once this has been
'Known truths
contained
in Scientology'
accomplished his entrapment is ended.
It is obvious to thinking people that it is
more difficult for a person to have to think
his way out of difficulties and problems that
have caused his headaches or helped to form
the background for his duodenal ulcer, if he is
taking sedative and tranquilliser drugs which
make him
or find -enough time to do as much listening
as he would like. With Psychorelating to the
Spirit, and Somatic, relating to the bodyit
is here that there is a definite link between
medicine and Scientology, because Scientology
is concerned with the Spirit of man. To any
thinking person it becomes evident that man
is a spirit operating a body. A well person
physically is permitted and encouraged
through Scientology training, to enjoy life to
the full in all its aspects. Anyone with a
physical illness or disability is specifically
directed to see his own doctor regarding treatment before entering Scientology. When this
has been given and the person restored to
normal health, then Scientology courses are
leas
sclentoiogy dots
nut train or audit anyone
who th taking drugs.
The whole subject of psychosomatic medicine and disease needs reviewing and looking
into by the medical profession. Who better
than the representative general practitioners
who have so much first hand knowledge of
these conditions ? When a decision is made to
'Story of Scientology
is simple, concise
and direct'
available to him.
It became clearer and clearer to me over
the years that the psychosomatic diseases and
conditions have become revealed as the real
stumbling block in medical practice. It has
been clear for years that so much more needs
to be known about the mind. Imagine my
astonishment and disbelief when I read in
Dianetics, the Modern Science of Mental
Health by L. Ron Hubbard, that the whole
mechanism of the mind relating to psychosomatic diseases had been discovered and
worked out While medicine is an art it is
review the subject it will be impossible to do
so unless the works of eL. Ron Hubbard are
looked at For in these works lie the answers.
With the advent of Scientology into the
:world the medical doctor can become less and
less hampered in his daily work by the trivia
resulting from worries and domestic and
general upsets. He will be freer to concentrate
on the areas of healing where his skills are
most effective. He will achieve a higher and
also a science. A science advances by looking
at new discoveries, evaluating them and then
higher level of success in everything he does.
This will ensure greater respect for individual
cided to look into this fantastic claim of
whole. Whether we, as doctors, like it or not,
embracing them or casting them aside. I de-
Dianetics which I found to be the precursor
of Scientology.
I have found that all the claims in the
book are true. Every medical doctor should
read this book and decide for himself on the
interest and value of its contents.
I first discovered Scientology in 1961, and
have attended study courses and I have had
auditingthe application of Scientology tech-
nology to the individual. I have found all
claims made
to be true.
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The far reaching nature and tremendous
dodors and for the medical profession as a
the fact is that the mechanism of psychosomatics has been discovered. Such a truth
cannot be swept under the carpet or pushed
out of sight
As members of the medical profession we
must not make a similar mistake in respect
of known truths contained in Scientology.
Each and every one of us must look and
decide for ourselves as to the merits of this
new and very exact philosophy which is
becoming increasingly sought after all over
the 'free' world.
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ON GUARD FOR 137 YEARS
Vol. 138No. 273
Sunday, February 2, 1969
Action Line solves problems, gets answers, cuts
red tape, stands up for your rights. Write
Action Line, Box 881, Detroit, Mich. 48231.
Or dial 222-6464 between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30
p.m. Monday through Friday.
My son, who goes to U of M, is caught up in something called "Scientology." To go any further with it,
he has to sign a contract which to me sounds like he'll
have to pay them anything they ask. He also has to
take something called an "E-Meter" test. Can you tell
me something about this so-called religion?R. S.,
Warren.
Food and Drug Administration is confiscating all
E-Meters (to record obstructions to clear thinking, and
detect Communists). IRS is fighting their suit seeking
tax exemption as a religious group. A reporter started
to study Scientology, discovered it could cost him
$15,000 to complete the course. Founder of the "reli-
gion" was banned from England, floats around the
Mediterranean on a 320-foot ship. Dr. Paul Lowinger,
psychiatrist at Lafayette Clinic, says people with any
emotional hangups should stay away from it. As for
the contract, lawyer Action Line asked to study it said,
"Don't sign. It's too vague."
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CHICAGO- TRIBUNE,4111DAY, FEBRUARY-I, -1969 '
IL S.
SCIENTOLOGY LS A
REAL RELIGION
Wuhingtan, Feb. $ IWO--Tbe
United States Conti of Appeals
has ruled -that the Fowling
Mulch of Scientology in Washington is la bona, fide religion
and the governmenewas wroog
wino it confiscated 100 lit detedor-type "confessional"
chines at, the church.
The machines were
cated by the food and drug
ministration. la 1963. The agency
said the church claimed the
machines were "confessional
devices" which could cure nervous disorders and xarious
psychosomatic illnesses, including the common cold. The gov-
ernment alleged that the devices could not do these things.
In 1967, a federal District
court jury sided with the government. The Appeals court,
in a 24 decision, yesterday,
said the church validly made a
case that it is a bona fide religion and said the machines
were
part vf the
"general
theory of scientoltly", as a
religious doctrine.
It,
How to Confront in Scientology
Sunday, March 16, 1969
Thirty Cents
Page 2, Section B
Notebook
John S. Knight's
It began one evening at 6:15. Scientology headquarters opens to the public at
6 o'clock every weekday evening.
Tamara, in a purple dress, beckoned
ner ... three feet apart
face to face with a part.
"We were told to sit
...
recruit than it had a week ago.
tion."
I quit.
She was young, perhaps 20, with dark
and look at each other
For several weeks I endured indoc- hair and a pleasant face, but I was
Irination as a novice in the faith at aware of something odd about the way for two hours."
Michigan's struggling, scruffy "org," at she looked and moved.
the intersection of North and Hamilton
For one thing Tamara's eyes had a
Streets in Highland Park. ("Org" is Scien- strange no-blink quality. They fixed on was no eyebrow arching, nose wriggling,
tologist jargon for organization.)
none of the tiny facial movements people
me leech-like and never let go.
I didn't enjoy it and I still can't beHer face expressed no emotion except employ spontaneously and unconsciously.
Her movements were slow and deliblieve some of what I saw and heard. for an occasional small smile. There
has a cash register for an altar, a lie
detector for a confessor and one less from behind a desk marked "recep-
The Church of Scientology of Michigan
Fre* Press Staff Writer
BY GLENNA McWHIRTER
Turn to Page 14A, Column 4
array, all written by Scientology founder
L. Ron Hubbard.
She told me the best way to begin a
study of Scientology was to buy some
books. I was led to a large wall display
and she chose several volumes from the
I later learned Tamara was performing
all the recommended Scientologist techniques for "confronting." I just didn't
get the message.
crate. The total effect was unsettling. It
was as if she were some sort of robot,
an android, perfect but not human.
Can You Stare for 2 Hours and Not Blink?
Tol. 138No. 315
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1969
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Recruit Dislikes Life at 'Org'
Continued from Page 1A
She mentioned "org," "auditing" and several other Se-entologist terms, and when I
allowed I was very interested
in learning more, she said:
"Beautiful!"
Beautiful is a Scientologist
expletive.
I bought the books, signed
the visitors' log and left.
A WEEK LATER I called
the org and told Tamara I
"Or you can devote yourself
to the study of the techrsilogy
and become an_auditor," she
if Larry's suspicious, I'll flunk.
that's really best."
flunked if I blink? At least I
said. "Or you can do both,
the unemployed man were
ly aware of me or anything
7:30.
Tamara had given me a ticket when I bought the books,
"Scientology, The Road to
Total Freedom!" it said.
Okay. Why not?
The
Scientology
complex
consists of three side-by-side
old store buildings. Lectures
are held in the middle building of the three.
The room is small, dirty,
badly in need of paint and
repair. The street door end
adjacent store windows are
covered with burlap.
The lecture was in progress
when I arrived, but I was
surprised to find only one
other person attending it: A
young man dressed in blue
slouched in a chair
near the wall. There were
about two dozen folding
jeans,
chairs arranged in rows facing a small movie screen set
up in front of the buriapped
windows.
ON THE SCREEN a blackand-white, out-of-focus sound
film was in progress. Founder
L. Ron Hubbard, looking fit,
prosperous and pleasant was
being interviewed by a young
man with a British accent.
The questions were framed
to give Hubbard a chance to '
explain basic Scientology
principles and to extol the
virtues of studying and work-
big in the faith.
Hubbard assured his interviewer that many CLEARS
have been produced.
(A CLEAR is an optimum
individual.
Scientolo-
around him.
For 30 seconds or more at a
crack he stared at something
in the middle distance that
only he could see, then he
came back to what he was do-
ing, apparently unaware that
he had been "gone."
I have seen people in deep
grief behave that way.
After the forms were completed, I paid Linda the oaahier, ;15, and promised to return on Saturday for the first
of two five-hour sessiones as
an apprentice in the faith.
LARRY IS short, blond, energetic, devoted to Scientology
and somewhat of an expert,
although has not progressed
above Grade IV. He was my
teacher in the Hubbard Apprentice Scientology course.
Lary lives in Akron and
drives to the Highland Park
org every weekend to teach
the course. There is no org in
Akron, he said, "and I like to
keep in touch."
I was sitting with my classmates, this time on the second
floor of one of the old build-
more able," Hubbard
con-
eluded. "Scientology worker.,
The film was over, the lights
°erne on, and a pretty young
girl emerged from behind the
movie projector. She introduced herself as Gail.
She produced a chart cut
up into squares, black lines,
arrows, full of exotic phrases.
I was reminded of the periodic table of elements that
used to hang in my chemistry
classes.
Using the chart she explained how it is possible to
bring the reactive mind
(something like Freud's unconsciotis mind) under control
sense out of the movements
of the needle on the E-meter,
but I didn't ask any questions.
confronting like crazy, doing
another exercise, called TR 3.
"Do fish swim?" he said.
"Yes," she said.
"Good. Do fish swim?"
"You have gorgeous eyes,"
"That's how it worksit is
a valuable tool," Larry told us.
"You can't fool the meter!"
LARRY TOLD me that after
the Apprentice course I could
take the Hubbard Qualified
Scientologist course MO; and
then I could start auditing
she bubbled.
"Okay, I'll repeat the auditing question. Do fish swim?"
"I'm getting passionate.
pre-CLEARS.
-Let's lie down on Abe floor."
"Good. I'll repeat the .
Larry assured me that in-
. .
what did you SAY?"
"FLUNK!" she squealed in
pure delight.
Larry pronounced the effort
good, and it was repeated
again and again and again.
The student in this exercise
is to keep going, confronting,
with no show of emotion, repeating the same stupid ques-
experienced auditors would -he
supervised, "providing 100 per-
"good" or something similar
when he gets a direct answer,
was babbling about her aller-
cent standard tech" for every.
one in processing. I remembered seeing signs ground the
org boasting, "100 percent
standard tech."
I suddenly remembered Tom.
I thought of him auditing
someone else.
The girl in the bell-bottoms
tion, responding with either
gies and Larry told her:
and repeating the auditing
question if he gets no direct
"Sometimes you have a rash
or something and you think
maybe if you eat less fried
answer.
Partners took turna playing
student and coach. Larry su-
foods or get more sleep or
something it will go away.
pervised. Every once in a
while
someone would yell,
"Flunk!" and I would blink.
I
Well, it won't. The thing to
do is find the engram (emotional reaction) that's caus-
where students read lines from
Alice in Wonderland trying to
gumfoozle the "auditor."
She was confronting, accepting, 100 percent standard tech
dressed man presently unemployed, and a pretty girl
ingly, confronting got to be
named Mike who wore cowboy
boots and levis; a young well-
dressed in fur-trimmed black
bell-bottom slacks, who bubbled and gushed pleasantly.
Now we were going to learn
to CONFRONT, Larry said.
Larry explained it is impor-
tant for people to be able to
be with each other without
apart. We were told to sit and
action time quickens, illnesses
disappear. "We make the able
more times and for the life
of me I couldn't make any
WHILE THIS misery was in
progress, the girl in black and
thy and Gar; a motorcyclist
enjoy
nevertheless
great benefits: IQs rise, re-
We nodded.
He commanded Mike to remember the pinch teveral
ing the problem and work on
that."
gists claim CLEARs have total recall, no inappropriate
emotional responses, and are
perfectly logical at all times.
Their 1Qs are higher, ton,
after Scientology "processing.")
nacle
The needle bounced. "See
I hoped Larry wouldn't notice.
ings.
The class consisted of a middle-aged married couple, Doro-
speaking, fidgeting, being
embanrassed, being startled or
Even students who don't
progress to the CLEAR pin-
that?" Larry asked excitedly.
He seemed only peripheral-
ed to begin
Lectures are conducted
could change the angle of my
head if I had to give him the
old android while he's on the
floor. That's if I am capable
of moving at all any more.
tologist.
every week night at
If Gar passes out, will I be
"Remember that PINCH!"
Larry commanded. Mike remembered; he was startled.
TOM, YOUNG, slim pale,
with long hair and short fingernails, was my "registrar".
He filled in the blanks on
applications for me to become
a Hubbard Apprentice Solon-
had read the books and wantprocessing. I
wasn't looking forward to a
lecture series, but I went.
I'm not supposed to think;
There were other Ms. One
AFTER 'A WHILE, surpris-
p6ssible, then easy. All that's
necessary is to stop reacting
as a human being.
By and by Larry hauled an
E-meter out of another room.
He volunteered to show us how
it worked.
(An E-meter is a battery-
o pe ra t e d galvanometer or
crude lie-detector device used
by auditors to process pre-
passing out. Passing out!?
"It's called going anaten,"
Larry said calmly.
CLEA R S. The pre-CLEAR
holds) two tin cans attached to
HE INSTRUCTED us to sit
watches a needle on a dial. As
the auditor asks questions and
the pre-CLEAR responds, the
E-meter reflects slight changes
in the pre-CLEAR's body, un-
face to face with a partner
(mine was Gar), three feet
look at each other for two
hours.
Twitches blink s, coughs,
the meter, and the auditor
covering the emotional reactions.)
sighs, giggles would constitUte
Mike took hold of the two
hours.
Gar had a beard. 1 inspected
tin cans and Larry said: "Now
I'm going to pinch you." And
he did.
Larry explained that the
a "flunk. ' For two hours . . .
miserable, agonizing, terrible
it strand by strand. Gray eyes
hazeJ, I suppose. My eyes
itched. Don't blink. My back
ached. Don't move. My throat
was dry. Don't swallow.
Gar looked sick, really pale.
He was trying very hard.
Think of something
the
old movie on TV last night,
what you'll fix for dinner, the
novel you're going to write
some day, the kids, ANY' THING.
by going through processing.
pinch would cause an Olio-
tional reaction.
We watched the needle on
the E-meter float in the middle range of the dial.
"Now, remember that
pinch," Larry commanded.
Mike remembered. The needle
continued to float.
"Did you see it jump?"
Larry asked. We had seen
nothing.
SOLD. I had to get out fast.
1.1-A Sunday, March 16, '69
DETROIT FREE PRESS
Ex-Science Fiction Writer
yped Out Scientology Plan
BY GLENNA McWHIRTER
and Chicago,
Dianetics be-
faith.
are substantial numbers of
practitioners in New York and
wealthy.
Washington as well.
Hubbard formed a foundaAn unknown number of
tion to train auditors and to "franchise" operations exist.
provide processing. He churned These are small groups, someOut sequels to his first book. times consisting of only one
sell Hubbard
M'CORDING TO one ac- person,andwho
offer limited servcount, Hubbard wrote with the books
to the faithful. They
speed of summer lightning, on ices
kickback a percent of the
a special electric typewriter gross
to the headquarter org
with single keys for common granting
the franchise.
,
nuclear physicist. True be-
continuous roll to eliminate
Free P-ess Staff Writer
The corn plex jungle of
Scientology language, theory,
mechanics and philosophy is
the brain fruit of Lafayette
Ronald Hubbard, 58, a large,
energetic man who Mee was
a prolific science fiction
writer.
Scientologists call him Ron
or Elron. It's a fetish of the
He is usually identified as
a physicist, sometimes as a
lievers insist that Hubbard is
a man of great education and
scientific achievement.
He is neither, but he has
managed to accumulate great
personal wealth (one estimate
is $7 million, stashed in Swiss
banks) and to initiate worldwide
controversy with
theories of mental health.
his
HUBBARD was born in Tilden, Neb., in 1911. He attended
George Washington University
Engineering School for 18
months, but never graduated.
His other academic credential
is a Ph.D. degree from
Sequoia University in CaliforMa. an establishment offering
fancy diplomas to all corners,
for a fee.
Hubbard apparently knocked
around the world a good
came a fashionable cult of the
words such as "the", "and",
"but", and with paper on a
the time it takes to change
single paper sheets.
But fads fads quickly, and
within
two years, Hubbard
HUBBARD RETIRED from
active leadership of the move-
ment two years ago when he
sold his "goodwill" and name,
allegedly for $240,000.
He also vacated Saint Hill
had come on hard times.
has since been living
In 1951 he was divorced by and
his 3,300-ton yacht, the
his third wife, who called him aboard
Royal Scot Man, cruising the
a paranoid schizophrenic and Mediterranean.
stated that doctors had con-
cluded Hubbard was "hope-
He keeps in touch with In-
lessly insane."
ternational Scientology Head-
His Dianetic Foundation (offering 36 hours of therapy for
$5001 was bankrupt.
His books mouldered Unsold
on bookstore shelves.
Threatened with obscurity
and perhaps poverty, Hubbard
found his personal salvation in
records and films lectures for
distribution to orgs through-
1952.
He announced formation of
the ChurCh of Scientology. It
incorporates Dianetic therapy
as a sacrament and Hub-
quarters by radio; he tape
out the world, and he trains
special students in Scientology
theory
and technology
aboard his ship -- presumably for a generous fee.
This elite priesthood claims
membership in the "Sea Org".
Some of its members travel
around to lesser orgs offering
consultations on difficult
"cases," again presumably
deal as a young man, financing his adventures by writing bard's writings as litany.
for substantial fees.
pulp science fiction, much of As "pope," Hubbard could
THE TOTAL cost in time
money of making CLEAR
everything. Churches enjoy and
of achieving the top techtax advantages. Faith does or
nological grade as an auditor
ing World War II, and for a not demand proofs. There is almost impossible to calcuwere
myriad
advantages.
while he played the banjo and
late.
sang on a California radio
In the decade that followed
There are eight grades bestation.
Hubbard established InternaCLEAR, and some of
Hubbard's theories of men- tional Scientology Headquar- low
have divisions within
tal processes surfaced first in ters at Saint Hill, a 30-room these
Each step up costs
1950, under the name Diane- Georgian manor house at them.
than the one before.
tics. He claimed to have spent East Grinstead, Sussex, Eng- more
The top four grades usually
12 years researching them,
land, where he surrounded require in-residence training
but science fiction writers himself with a small, loyal or processing at a big org,
who knew him claimed he had band of the faithful.
such as the one in Los Anhatched the theories shortly
geles.
it published in "Astounding
Science Fiction" magazine.
He was a naval officer dur-
before they were published.
"Astounding Science Fiction" published a Hubbard
article outlining the basics,
and a few weeks later Her-
expact a financial cut of
RECENTLY, Scientology be-
gan to flourish. The best es-
(A brochure in the Highland
timates are that the move- Park org ballyhooed "Eight
ment has tripled or quad- sections of the (Yr course" of-
mitage House published his
rupled its membership within fered by the Los Angeles org,
the past three years.
for "only $3,800.00".)
Modern Science
Healing".
Mental
centers in six
countries. Scientology claims
The same hook, now titled
"Dianeties: The Modern Se-erwe of Mental Health", is
wide, and although the actual
first book,
"Dianetics: The
of
There are now 22 major
Scientology
15
million followers
world-
figure is probably nearer 3
A Scientologist who recently
quit after going to Saint Hill
estimated the total cost of
making CLEAR for him would
have been $15,000.
To finance their own training and processing, Seientologisis often quit other jobs
and go to work for their
quarters," including the org" home org. They get a cutrate,
began holding Dianetics par- in Highland Park. The largest in return for work and for reties. In Hollywood, New York is in Las Angeles, and there cruiting new members.
the basic Scientology
reader.
Dianetics became an instant
best-seller. College students
i4 1 ill
million, several hundred thousand of those are in the
United States.
There are 10 U.S. "head-
14-A Sunday, March 16, '69
DETROIT FREE PRESS
"i'
Free Press Photo
Scientology headquarters at North and Hamilton in Highland Park
What the Words Mean
The language of Scientology
mind where they are mistak-
Founder L. Ron Hubbard invented it, and the Words contribute significantly to the Scientology mystique. They have
duces inappropirate emotion-
is pure science fiction.
en for valid data. This pro-
al response, psychosomatic illnesses, .psychoses, neuroses,
compulsions, repressions and
all apparent deviation from
healthy, rational behavior.
dramatic impact and a fresh
sound compared with traditional religious phrases or
Erase: To cause an engram
musty Freudian Terminology. to vanish entirely by discovSome of the important words ering it completely and reand their Hubbard definitions counting it again and again.
are these:
It is then filed ,as memory
Dianetics: Hubbard's tech- and experience.
nonogy and therapy.
Auditor: A Scientologist,
Analytical Mind: The rough trained in dianetic therapy,
equivalent of the Freudian who searches for engrams in
"conscious" mind. It contains others and helps to erase
all the knowledge and consci- them.
ous memories of the individProcessing: The dia net ic
ual.
-
The
analytic-al
t echnique of erasing engrains.
Pre-CLEAR: An individual
who has entered dia.netic ther-
mMd
makes value judgments and
works hke a computer. It is
infallibly accurate, as long as
it is fed valid data.
Reactive Mind: Something
like Freud's "unconscious"
mind. The reactive mind
also called the "moron"does
not make value judgment or
compute. It collects literal recordings of everything that
happens to an individual during moments of "unconsciousness", when the analytical
apy. Pre-CLEARS are processed by auditors. Also called
a PC.
CLEAR: A person who has
had all his engrams erased.
Scientologists claim CLEARs
have total recall and no in-
appropriate
emotional responses. There are only a few
!
!
mind Is not functioning. If
these unconscious moments
contain pain or emotional suffering, an engram i. produced.
Engrain: A literal record-
ing of all the conversation,
smells, sounds, feelings, other
sensations that accompany an
incident of pain suffered dur-
ing a time when the analytical mind is not working. These
recordings have the capacity
to be keyed into- the analytical
hundred CLEARS in the world
--all given registration numbers like automobile engines.
E-Meter: A battery-operated
galvanometer or crude liedetector device used by auditors to process pre-CLEARs.
The PC holds two tin cans
attached to the meter and the
auditor watches a needle on
a dial. As the auditor asks
questions and
the PC re-
sponds, the E-meter reflects
slight changes in electrical
conductivity through the PC's
body, uncovering emotional reactions which indicate the
presence of engrams.
Thetan: The spirit or soul
or an individual, The Thetan
is inhibited by engramatic
ti v it y.
Org: Jargon for organization.
Release:
What
ha ppens
when an engram or a whole
bank of related engrams, is
erased. There are eight grades
of releasefrom sub-0 up
through Grade VIII or Operating Thetan -- leading to
CLEAR.
CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY OF MICHIGAN PRESS RELEASE
MARCH 20*- 1969
*NEVER PUBLISHED
OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER
- DET
The carefully planned and muckraking attack on the Church of
Scientology by the Detroit Free Press was simply an enlargement of the
Communist-inspired moveriwnt to discredit all religions.
That was the point of vlev. taken 1y the Scientologists this week
after Glenna McWhirter, a Free Press staffer, enrol'ed under the false pretenses to become a one-day "expert" on the world'sEastest growing religion.
"Miss McWhirter built most of her story from clipping files,"
said Rev. Eric Barnes, Public Relations Chief for the Eastern U:S. "The
visit to the Church was merely to gloss over the fact that she really knows
nothing about Scientology."
The Scientologists, recently affirmed as a religious body by a U.S.
Appeals Court in Washington, D.C., have no anger for Miss McWhirter,
"She's just another employee following the orders of her employers,"
said Rev.. Barnes:
The dynamic young church group has indicated that the source of
the attack is the paper's owner, John Knight, whom the Scientologists refer to
as a "death carrier"
"Judging by the deaths and tragedies occurring around his family,
he's one of those people who can't bear to have things alive around him " concluded the young minister
30
ITHE TIMES WEDNESDAY MARCH 19 1969
OVER.SEA S NEWS
Greeks expel
'scientology
group
'.Frcint Our Correspondent
Athens. March 18
The Greek regime has ordered
the exPulsion of a group of about
200 scientidogists who, with their
' American kader, Mr. I,. R. Hubbard, have bccn l&ine on board
two ships docked in Corfu harbour
'since, last Aupst.
The expulsion order., issued by
the Ministry of trie Interior, gave
the coup 24 hours to kave Greek
waters in ,thcir ships Apollo (formcrly the 3.300-ton Royal Scotsmcin) and the trawler Athena (Avon
River). The ultimatum, served on
the scientologists by the civilian
davernoF of Corfu. was to expire at
8 p.m. torkght. but it was later ex-
tended hy 24 hours after Mr.
Hubbard reported engine trouble.
'Greek. officials refused to state
!tie reasons for the sudden
;decision. elcept that the scientolngids had been declared " undesiraides.7.
It is understood that
the Greek .Orthodox Church in
Corfu ;ook exception to the
presence: thcre of a group wbich
is
registered is a church in the
United
Stales.
Wellington., March 18.A corn-
megsion of inquiry opened here to-
.
day to hear claims that the Icientology milvement has cau-sed
estrangement of families and
exerted pressure on former mem.
bers., The commission comprise.
Sir Guv Poles, the New Zealand
Ombitd"sman,
and
Mr.
Eric
Dumbleton, a former editor of the
Auckland Sta.r.Reuter.
The Detroit News
Weclneclay. Much
1069 THE DETR OIT NEWS-1 9.A
Greece orders
cult's founder,
followers away
CORFU, Greece(Reuters)
Lafayette Ron Hubbard, American founder of the Scientology
cult, and 200 of his followers
aboard a ship docked off this
Ionian island received Greek
government orders last night
to leave the island.
Hubbard, who started
the
movement which is considered
psychothcrapy with religious
overtones, dainwd his ship is
unseaworthy. A Corfu spokes-
man said "the ship requires
some minor repairs which can
he done within a fcw hours."
The controversial movement
has been banned in several
countries. Most. of those on the
ship are U.S. citizens but the
group includes Britons, Aus.
tralians and New Zealanders.
,
',NATIONAL
E
Vol. 43, No. 31, April 6, 1969
whose churches permit them
to drink.
But, if ministers themselves
are emotionally troubled by the
INZ church spokesman countered:
"It's hanky-panky, leftist
and destructive,
a toxic :
thought pumped into the
arteries of the church by
kids just out of college with
big ideas."
While the theological debate rages, the ordinary
people who make up the
congregations in churches
across the country are con-
fused by both sides. A common result is that they lose
their faith entirely, and turn
upheaval in the church, mil-
lions of ordinary churchgoers
are even more disturbed.
Vast numbers are turning to
cults in search of a religion
with meaning.
The "religion" of Scientology,
with 11 churches in the U.S.
and Canada, and an estimated
20,000 members in California
alone, is one of the largest and
fastest-growing
of
the
new
"substitute" religions.
Established by a onetime
science-fiction writer named L.
Ron Hubbard. Scientology is a
crazy-quilt combination of phil-
PRIEST holds his collar which was ripped off when cops osophies ranging from Budtook him into custody during on anti-war demonstration. dhism to Freud.
both versions of it.
Anton Szandoi.
"I am alarmed at what is happening nuns desert their religious duties every
Francisco's self-appointed "high priest
in the church today," said Dr. George month.
of the devil" uses a sword and a nude
R. Davis, pastor of the First National "Everytime the Pope makes an
an- "witch" atop his altar to chant demonic
City Christian Church in Washington,
where President Johnson used to at- nouncement, we have a wave of in- incantations at his "First Satonic
quiries from the ministry," said Pa- Church."
tend services.
Roy, national director of the or- Similar colonies of devil-worshippers
"I think we have taken a turn to- tricia
ganization.
ward gimmickry. I believe that the "Up until the fall of 1967, we had only als,o flourish in New York City's Greenchurch must look to its membership for a trickle of people applying for our wich Village.
And Timothy Leary, former psycholosupport and stability.
but that turned into a flood. gist at Harvard, has founded what he
"When the membership sees a minori- services,
"We had a lot when the Pope con- calls the "League for Spiritual Discovty closing divinity schools, using church- firmed
stand on the birth control ery," based on "visions" of God derived
es as centers for marches and demon- pill and his
another
when he made his re- through the use of LSD and other "mindstrations, I believe we are in trouble." cent announcement
that priests still expanding drugs.
Dr. Kenneth F. McKinley, professor couldn't marry."
of Bible at LeTourneau College at Long- Indeed, the Roman Catholic priest who Many practical church leaders are
seriously concerned about the future.
view, Tex., added:
marries is no longer an oddity. For
"People want the churches 'to set a every priest whose wedding makes the Dr. W.A. Criswell, pastor of the
standard, to have something solid to newspapers, there are a dozen more world's largest Baptist congregation, the
First Baptist Church of Dallas, predicts
cling to when all the world is in revo- that go unreported.
that Christianity may be virtually exlution.
So many priests are leaving the Cath- tinct by the year 2000.
"We mustn't lower our standards by olic
church for so many
that Dr. Harold Lindsell, editor of the
having jazz bands in church, condoning some church leaders fear areasons
shortage of magazine "Christianity Today," says
homosexuality and letting ministers lead priests may affect the whole
future of the church is at bay, beseiged by enedraft-caril burnings.
mies on all sides.
"We have to
"The church's crisis togive
people something
to
day," he said "is due tO
look up to."
the knowledge explosion in
Said a - disgusted
physical and social
Philadelphia parish-
their backs on the church
/Today if
a man wants to talk
to his m mister, he s got to
go down to jail to find h'im./
ioner:
"I've got nothing
against a minister
Worrying about his fellow man, but he the church. According to John Cardinal
ought to do the job he's being paid to Krol, archbishop of Philadelphia, the
do, too. Today if a man wants to talk number of priests and nuns in his archto his minister, he's got to go down diocese dropped from 803 in 1964 to 432
to jail tO find him."
in 1967.
Both sides in the theological dispute "We are now faced with the imposblame each other for alienating people sibility of adequate staffing of our parfrom the church. But both agree that ishes," he said.
th6 influence of the established church Many of the pastors who quit Protesappears to be declining.
tant churches do so because of low salConscientious and dedicated ministers, aries, according to Miss Roy, but the
torn by inner conflict, are quitting the increasing instability of the church is
church completely by the thousands and another important factor.
going into other lines of work.
"A lot of Protestant ministers are leavAccording to a spokesman for Bear- ing their posts to save their marriages,"
ings for Re-Establishment, Inc., a multi- she said, citing the frustrations that pile
faith organization that helps people leav- up on preachers.
ing lhe -ministry to adjust to their new The number of alcoholics has inlivesi,About
AOPDF
ministers,
priests go
andto ThePaperlessOffice.org
creased drastically among ministers
For info
on OCR and
Compression
.
ences. Some scientists
have not hesitated to
weigh the Bible on the
scales of science, and they
have found it wanting. '
If the church is to survive much beyond the "Sick Sixties" that have done
so much to undermine it, it must find
a compromise between the "immovable
object" of the fundamentalists and the
"irresistible force" of those who de-
mand a brand-new God.
As Frank Morriss, an executive of the
Catholic Laymen of America, summed
up the present threat to the Christian
faith: "It's like a man who invites everybody to go for a ride, but when you get
in the car, you find out he's a madman
and the car has no brakes."
For the church, it's not so much
"where do we go from here," but "how
do we stop when we get there?"
BILL SLOAN
,1N,001
-
DETROIT FREE PRESS
.2-B Friday, August 1, '69
HE WAS IN 'BEN-HUR'
Screen Star Stephen Boyd,
Since That Chariot Race
- BY BRUCE VILANCH
thing big for Stephen Boyd's
Free Press Staff Writer
For a man who made his
name getting dragged
,
'
through the mud, Stephen
Boyd is surprisingly clean.
7
His teeth really sparkle, his
eyes shine bright, he appears
to have full power in all four
Elizabeth Taylor, with Rouben
Mamoulian directing, but Eliz-
This will assure the thous, ands who became concerned
when Boyd spent the better
part of 15 minutes under the
hoofs of eight galloping stal-
abeth got sick and everything
stopped.
"I WAS outside the hospital
door that day with Eddie (Miss
Taylor's fourth husband, sing-
lions pulling his chariot to ob. nylon in "Ben-Hur."
A sizeable portion of skin
er Eddie Fisher) when the
doctors came out and told us
and bone was sliced off the
she had one hour to live. It
Boyd body during that scene,
all so Chariton Heston could
: go on to victory in Rome and
an Oscar in California.
Undaunted, Boyd picked up
his pieces and headed for
was one of the saddest, most
pathetic moments I can re-
call. But somehow she pulled
4,
wait around until they decided
Roman Empire," "The Caper of the Golden Bulls" and
America's trash classic, "The
' Oscar."
He married (a whirlwind
union of 23 days), divorced,
and was quoted as proclaiming "the only difference be-
out in favor of spectacle. So
I left. They gave my part to
a fellow named Richard Burton. They even gave him my
and to
"The whole idea of moral obligation and responsibility
for one's fellow man, as well as responsibility to oneself
fills up a great deal of Boyd's conversation."
Voyage" (in which he plunged
"He doesn't even mention
In an attempt to find his
"Civil rights 100 years from
now should not be discussed," own mind amidst such goings- my chest." Stephen Boyd says,
"Civil rights of today is what on, Boyd has turned to sci- with that serene scientologist's
is important. I joined the civil entology, a voguish new faith smile. olasommimerIs
into "Jumbo" (in
which he shared billing withan elephant) and "Fantastic
the lymph gland rapids with
Raquel Welch).
He even played the heavy
in "Genghis Khan."
It has not been a dull life
for Stephen Boyd.
THE NEW BOYD, minus
the blue eyes (they were contact lenses) and the massive
shoulders (that was padding),
sta.nds over six feet tall and
is dashingly handsome, but in
a decidedly un-Hollywood, non
glamour-boy way. He is finished with Biblical pictures,
gladiator spectacles and- other
trappings of imperial majesty
and, in his latest film, plays
an enigmatic, yet evil planta-
tion owner in Mississippi circa
1850.
The picture, "Slaves" and
was ehot on whit in movies
they
wall "a alhoestring"
(small fortune.) Boyd says no
one would back "Slaves" un-
til he signed on as fts star.
"That helped them raise at
least some of the money," he
se.ys.
"No one would back 'Staves'
becauxe It is about an explosive situation whidh Is explosive only because no one underI
to shoot. The script was be-
ing rewritten, there was a new
director, the whole Shaw and
Shakespeare concept of a personal drama was being thrown
hair styles."
He walked out of "Cleopat-
ra" and
,
throughnothing ever stops
her when she wants some=
thing.
"Unfortunately, I couldn't
"Hollywood, an Irish hearthrobin-a-toga, to star in such treasures as "The Fall of the
tween Doris Day, Sophia Loren and Brigitte Bardot is their'
away from the moat expensive movie of all time.
"It was in the original version of 'Cleopatra,' the one to
be shot in London. I was to
play Marc Antony opposite
4.4
limbshe's in great shape.
career. This he knows and
accepts, as he has accepted
everything since he walked
stands it."
The picture tries to make a
statement all about Now and
how voices in the black coinv.:unity clamor alternately for
wood and quiet. Stephen Boyd
thinks this is the value of
"Slaves."
rights movement years ago," whose speakers turn up reg-
the former British subject, ularly on college campuses to
now American citizen mays, lecture for 82.50 a throw.
"I don't think anything
"I gave my word years ago
to help. Now I want to find ehould be suspect because it
ottt if their programs are get- °was money," he says. He
ting to the people they're sup- calls ecientology "a process
used to make you capable of
posed to be getting to."
picture like learning."
"Scientology is nothing. It
'Slaves,' which addresses itself to some of America's cur- means only what you want it
rent problems, is something to. It is not a church that
of a moral obligation for me. you go to to pray, but a
As soon as I have fulfilled church that you go to to learn.
unless you apply
some of my moral obliga- Itft.isItnoI. good
the application."
tions, I can begin making
money doing other things so
Basically, scientologI can have time to fulfill some ista meditate, usually in the
presence of a, spiritual super.
more."
visor, teaching themselves to
THE WHOLE idea of moral be open in order to learn.
obligation and responsibility One who has truly opened
for one's fellow man, as well himself can be elevated to the
as responsibility to oneself, position of Clear. Stephen
fills up a great deal of Boyd's Boyd has elevated himself to
conversation. He speaks of co- OC 6, a position beneath that
workers as if they were close of Clear. It took him nine
relatives, not just contractual months.
partners.
"Slaves" did not take him
"I was a guest on one of quite
so long to accomplish,
those New York radio panel
hopefully, it will give him
shows and they were talking and,
equal peace-of-mind. What it
about Judy Garland," he says,
certtainly will not do is any"one fellow, I won't mention
"I feel a
his name it's so sickening,
was carrying on about how
,
I ...wwwmqwwwww
she was a no-talent, a faggot
h e r o. It's disgusting what
some people will say. in pub-
costume,
this day,
every time he ssees me, he
says 'Jesus, you've got big
feet!' "
Coe Augeies gimes
SUNDAY, AUGUST 3, 1969
RELIGION OR BUSINESS?
Pradkes of Scientology
Being Investigated Again
BY JOHN DART
Times Rene Ise Writer
Jy
The mimeographed notice looked
more like a secret police commti;
nique than a church message.
It informed "those concerned" that
a certain 20-year-old girl "is hereby
declared a Suppressive Person and
assigned a condition of Enemy for
the following reason:
"Demanding a refund of money
for services rendered."
The menacing note signed by two
Form of Lie Detector
"ethics officers" went on to say "she
has taken herself off the only road to
FDA scientists claim the E-meter
Total Freedom for Mankind."
a galvanometer with two tin cans
The communication was from the attachedis a crude form of Re
Church of Scientology of California, detector which measures the reaca growing organization being tested tions of skin when a person holding
.in the courts as to whether it is the tin cans is questioned.
The instrument, however, is indisprimarily a business or a religion.
The state attorney general's office, pensible to Scientology.
With it, Scientology "auditors"
it has been learned, is investigating
the Los Angeles-based church, one employ a kind of psychoanalysis to
of the three Scientology organiza- bring initiates along alleged levels of
tions guided by writer L. Ron self-understanding to the state of
;;.44,44./.1,
,
,
YOUNG INITIATES
The Rev. Robert Bobo talks with two
children who are taking Scientology courses. The photo on the
wall is of the founder of the worldwide group, L Ron Hubbard.
Hubbard from his yacht cruising the
Mediterranean Sea.
Combination of Complaints
"clear." (In recent months, Scientologists have been speaking of "pastoral counselors" instead of "audi-
The investigation was prompted
"by a combination of complaints
analysis are now called "parishion-
from members of the public and
tors." And those undergoing the
ers.")
The steps to "clear" cost anywhere
inquiries by other law enforcement from $2,500 to $5,000, according to
agencies," according to Larry Tap- Maren. The final steps to clear are
per of the attorney general's chari- administered by the American Saint
table trust division. He did not Hill Organization, 2723 W. Temple
indicate whether any charges would St.
be made.
If one wants an "understanding of
Arthur Maren, a spokesman for the universe," the cost of courses
Scientology in the Western states, given by the Advanced Organizasaid there have been investigations tion, 916 S. Westlake Ave., can run
many times before, "but it still more than $3,000.
surprises me when we bear of
another."
Scientologists claim they are sub-
Scientology officials stoutly main-
tain that anyone dissatisfied will
jected to unwarranted persecution
receive prompt refunds.
On the other hand, the 20-year-old
agencies, especially the U.S. Food
ceived
by the press and by government
and Drug Administration.
Under a 3963 court order. the FDA
has authorized seizure of Scientologv's E-meters "anytime we can find
them," according to Joshua Zatman,
assistant FDA commissioner for
education and information in Washington.
Southern California girl who rein her mail the notice
labeling her an enemy of Scientolo-
gy said in an interview she found
she could regain the $812 she spent
in three months Only with persistence.
The girl, a Harbor College student
Please Turn to Page 2, Col. 1
2 sec. BSun., Aug. 3, 1969
tad 2Ingtlt d tfiiit
California Investigates
Scientology Practices
Continued from First Page
who asked that her name
not be used, said she became interested in Scientology when she read Hubbard's "Dianetics," published in 1950 and contain-
ing many of the concepts
of what was later called
Scientology.
Take Courses
She began taking courthe Church of
Scientology, 2003 W. 9th
ses at
last December, and
St.,
later started "processing"
with an auditor and the Ein e ter.
''At first 1 thought it was
gl.eat and got a lot out of
she said. "Then a
month later 1 began to feel
it hadn't helped."
When she wrote a letter
it,"
a skin g for her money
,t
back, she was asked by an
USE OF E-METER
ethics officer to come to
t e church build in g.
The Rev. Michael Miller
demonstrates Scientology's use of E-meter with
Rev. Robert Bobo holding tin cans. Scientologists
use device as kind of lie detector in questioning
initiates about their past and other problems in
what organization calls "pastoral counseling."
Thum Oates by Fitzgerald Whitney
Claiming it was inconcei-
vable that anyone would
not get. anything from
"processing," an ethics officer persuaded her to take
a $100 review course without charge to find out
Cognizant that the terminology and styles of
operation have presented
a militaristic aura to outsiders, -Scientology leaders
have instituted reforms
ho was suppressing
her."
Same Old Things
"It seemed like we went
over the last 12 months.
. she recalle d.
which
"disconnection"
.was to urge a new Scientologist to sever relation-
Discarded have been such
things as the practice of
back over the same old
thin as,"
"Then I decided the
processing w a s utterly
ships with any objecting
worthless."
;. family members.
Two more trips to the
church headquarters and
For a while, Advanced
members
two more attempts to dis- .; Organization
wore
white
uniforms
with
suade her, and she evenwhite helmets and boots
tually received her refund.
but a spokesman said the
The girl, who said nearly
garb was abandoned a few
everyone she met in Scienmonths ago. However, a
tology was "friendly and
newsman
reported talking
happy," received the supto several uniform ed
pressive person declaramembers recently.
tion in the mail several
Scientology still hisirrdays later.
own "navy," though. UniA newsman questioned a
formed members of the
S c i entology representative about the incident
Organization of the Sea
and within two weeks the
m a n Scientology's s i x
1
representative said the
practice was canceled by
7 world headquarters.
"The practice had been
under review but the
.
d i s enchanted Scientolo-
: gists back into the fold.
'One official said 60 to 65%
would return.
U.S. and Canadian cities
as well as centers in other
English - speaking c o u ntries.
Staff Expansion
Although expansion of
the Scientology staffs and
adherents
especially in
Los Angelesis evident,
detailed membership fi-
gures are difficult to ob-
tain:
Gordon -Mustain,
relations chief for the
Western United States,
said the U.S. membership
is 5 million. Earlier this
year other spokesmen had
estimated the U.S. membership at 3.5 to 4 million
nas. They also serve as
supervisors for
some advanced courses.
Stung by a Life magazine article last fall and a
later Today's Health article (w hich described
Scientology as a serious
threat to health and a cult
as a technique to bring
was a "smear."
Scientology has its world
headquarters in Sussex,
Eng., a dozen churches in
Southern California mari-
inquiry about the case,"
At one time, Scientologists designated many persons as suppressive, partly
who claimed the expose
sometimes docked at
"ethics"
said the spokesman.
Return to Fold
thing," said A spokesman
yachts, two of which are
change probably gained
velocity because of the
"We figure if we could
survive the Life article,
we could survive any-
fic terms and rites), the
organization's
leaders
found that their growth
rate was not significantly
deterred.
income and zeal.
South African John Mc-
Masters, the first person
to be declared "clear" and
a personal representative
of L. Ron Hubbard, said
money received by the
world headquarters rose
from an average $10.000
weekly in January, 1968 to
$140,000 weekly six
months later. McMasters
said he did not have any
more recent figures on
income.
$140 E-Meters
Scientology publications
are filled with order forms
for books, courses and the
$140 E-meters.
Hundreds of Scientolo-
gists have purchased Emeters and other materials to operate their own
low -1 e v e 1
"franchises,"
now called "missions."
and that Southern California had about 20,000 Scientologists although the
fact that Southern California has one of the largest
followings makes the figures appear paradoxical.
A consistently agreed
upon number is the 2,000
persons worldwide who
The "mother church" in
England derives certain
"clear" and constitute the
a Scientology lectur e.
have been designated
couched in pseudoscienti-
For what it may lack in
numbers, it makes up in
hard-core membership.
"tithes" from the missions,
according to Mrs. Tenni
Oman, another public relations representative.
The zeal shows up in
their enthusiastic telephone mail followups with
anyone who has ever
bought a book or attended
lig Migetto
3
lilles
T,
SECTION B
SUNDAY, AUG. 3, 1969
Some persons claim they decision July 16 in Washington, the court avoided
ruling on the IRS' conten-
cannot get off the Scientology mailing list once they
are put on, but the organi-
ability to cope with their
personal and professional
livesrather than
spiri-
tion that the Church of tual understanding or ful-
zation's officials claim Scientology is a commerci- fillment.
people are put off the list
if they request.
In a counteroffensive
Actress Carolyn Judd,
ed the IRS' claim that a daughter of former Con-
al enterprise but support-
a ga i nst the "establish- portion of the church's net
ment," Scientologists are earnings went to private
waging a "human rights"
crusade in their publica-
tions and news releases
against national mental
health organizations and
psychiatry in gen er a l,
claiming there are wide-
spread abuses with electrical shock treatment, hypnosis, lobotomy and other
practices.
Australia Protest
More than 500 Sciento-
logists appeared Monday
at the Australian Trade
Commission offices in Los
Angeles, protesting what
th ey called antireligion
laws in three Australian
states. An Australian consulate official in San Francisco said the three states
had banned Scientology in
gressman Walter Judd, in-
tcrviewed after a few
months of experience with
individuals and therefore Scientolou said she could
was not eligible to be tax handle roles she couldn't
before and was suddenly
exempt.
Court of Claims Judge able to read music.
"What Scientology does
Linton M. Collins wrote in
the decision: "What emerges from these facts is the
is put you in an environ-
ings."
nology."
ment where you underinference that the Hub- stand what you're doing
bard family was entitled that's limiting your own
to make ready, personal ability. It hands you a tool
use of the corporate earn- not a belief. It's a techLegal Front
On another legal front,
the FDA claimed in 1963
that Scientology had made
misle ading statements
about the E-meter's healing powers and a federal
jury agreed.
flowever, Judge J. Skelly Wright of the U.S.
Court of Appeals said last
Miss Judd, as, who
played the blind girl in
"W a i t Until D a r k" on
Broadway a n d on t h e
road, was given Scientology processing free, but she
added, "It would cost incredibly less than what I
paid in psychoanalysis for
two years.'"
Scientologists have in-
recent years because of February that unless the creased their attempt to
the organization's practi- FDA can show Scientolo- appeal to persons in the
ces. The laws do not apply gy is not a religion, the entertainment f i e 1 d. A
to other churches, the organization would be new location for Scientolospokesman said.
protected by law.
The Church of Sciento-
gy's three-month-old Cele-
plete with black suits and
brity Centre was dedicated July 15 at the corner of
Burlington Ave. and 8th
came under press scrutiny
funerals.
duled seven nights a week,
the practices constituted a
danger to mental health.
Scientologists claim that
not to be used, seri-dons
geles.
a British consulate official
not solemnity.
Those attracted to
Scientology often have an
interest fn the occult
should dress in a way that
does not upset the accept-
Walter, a Hollywood psy-
Great Britain has prohibited foreign Scientologists from entering the
logy has its clergycom-
country since July 1968 collarto perform church St. Music, films and Scienw he n th e organization services, weddings a n d tology lectures are sche-
and a warning by thenThe handbook for sometimes with special inMinister of Health Ken- church ceremonies in- vitations to the cast of a
neth Robinson, who said structs that prayers are play showing in Los Anshould be always on some
phase of Scientology and
Robinson was later dis- services should be concharged for his views but ducted with dignity, but
said Robinson was not.
"the powers of your mind"
Also, 1/The minister religionssays
Dr. Sidney
Robinson was appointed
minister of planning and
land when the health mi- ed stable data of what a
nistry was merged with minister looks like."
the department of social
Churek Functions
security.
public scrutiny of its practices and of its claim to be
a church organization.
Tax Status Revoked
tax-exempt st a tu s July
,18, 1967, according to Je-
rome Hollander, an IRS
spokesman in Los Angeles.
T h e revocation w a s
based on an IRS claim that
Ron Hubbard's founding
chur c h in Washington,
D.C., was not a church, but
a profit-making, commercial enterprise.
In a U.S. Court of Claims
"W h a t Scientology is
basically saying is, 'If you
could clear your mind of
problems, you'd be happy." said Dr. Walter.
at a Scientology confer-
"S c ientology provides
exercises to condition your
ence in the Hollywood
P all ad him. McMasters
commented, "There is not
much here that indicates
it's religious
but by
The Internal Revenue whose
standards?"
Service revoked the
Church of Scientology's
chologist.
After conducting a wed-
Scientology still has its ding ceranony (in which
own problems in the Unit- God was not mentioned)
ed States because of the
Interest in Occult
mind to eavesdrop on the
past," he said. "That part
is not really bad. Anytime
you can teach a person to
be less inhibited, it helps."
The danger, he
said,
tht
comes when a mentally
Scientolou are secondary.
But he maintained: "The
way we can most honestly
describe ourselves to mankind is as a religious
the 100cO guaranteed re-
McMasters hinted
the church functions in disturbed person believes
group, because our purpose is to bring spiritual
freedom to oneself and to
the rest of mankind."
Testimonials by persons
u n d ergoing Scientology
processing, however, inva-
riably describe increastd
sults claimed by Scientolo-
gy and finds he cannot
achieve what he thinks he
should. Dr. Walter said he
had a patient three years
ago who attempted suicide
after believing that he
failed in Scientology
where others could succeed.
If Scientology appears to
have a mystical, almost
1,
4
RELIGION OR BUSINESS?
Practices of Scientology
Being Investigated Again
science-fiction sound to it, refer to him is still doing
it shouldn't be too surpris- research on the last two
ing.
The dianetics-scientology concepts of the Nebras-
levels.
"Ron is his own guinea
ka - born Hubbard first pig," said McMasters. "As
found themselves in print soon as he is quite sure
in the May, 1950, issue of about it, he'll put it out for
Astounding Science Fic- the rest of us," he added
tion.
.
confidently.
"He's a tremendous man.
He's not interested in
being the glorious Ron
to the place where you
hope to get something
more out of it than you
have, and you keep
goin g." Any grievances
about the system, he
claimed, "are merely ac-
knowledged and put down
as a problem in your case."
The best description of
Beyond his basic tenet
the frustration that some
that a person has an
initiates have, according
analytic mind and a reactive mind, the latter being Hubbard. He's interested to the public relations
the root of one's irrational in freeing people," said man, was from another exScientologist:
behavior, the 58-year-old M cM a sters.
A Los Angeles public
"It's as if Ron Hubbard
leader has developed a
jargon peculiar to Sciento- relations man who spent was digging a tunnel deep$1,300 in eight months of er and deeper into a
logy with terms such as processing
before drop- mountain and everybody
"engram," "ARC break"
ping out said:
and "Operating Thetan."
The advanced, or Oper-
ating Thetan, courses are
"You keep paying money
to get deeper and deeper
following the light was
going farther and farther
from the outside."
divided into eight steps
with prices listed for each
level.
0T3, for instance, is
described in a handbook
as "the band or wall of fire
that L. Ron Hu bb a r d
single-handedly confronted and found a completely
safe way through for you."
Hubbard Quote
On 0T3, Hubbard is
quoted: "It is very true
that a great catastrophe
occurred on this planet
and in the other 75 planets
which form this confederacy 75 million years
ago. It has since that time
been a desert."
Explains the handbook:
"0T3 is the full revelation
of what happened and its
resolution. At the level of
0T3 the barriers that obscure the ultimate truth of
the universe are blown."
While pushing aside
barriers to "the ultimate
truth of the universe".
might seem about as far as
one could go, there's more.
0T4 provides the "final
polish" and 0T5 enables
one to look "at the fabric
of the mest (matter, ener-
gy, space and time) universe and understand its
simplicity." At OTO,
there's a return to "basic
drills."
More than 200 persons.
including actor Stephen
Boyd, have reached OTG
the highest level obtai-
nable so far. Ron, as
ni e in hers affectionately'
SECTION B
SUNDAY, AUG. 3, 1969
Tfrancisco Thronicle
lutethIDAY_ AUGUST 2S_ MO
Scientolo
4k,
Boo---
4
A Disputed
Religion's
Growth
L
By Donovan Bess
Cog...v.16kt. 1969
O. Th. Chrowirla Pada.kins Co.
Today and tonight I
hundreds
perhaps thousands
of Californians
will sit down in pairs and
sl are at one another.
One of them will give the
other commands such as
**Tell me something you
wouldn't mind forgethng."
The one who is command-
ed will hold two tin cans at-
I ached by wires to an
E-meter. a device that meacures electrical resistance in
the body. The commander
will watch a needle on the
device's circuit board in the
belief that it measures emotional charge.
These people are doing
"processing" in the Church
of Scientology. which has de-
cided this is its biggest year
throughout the world. Today
it has twice as many members in California as it had a
rear ago and it's all out to
tAke over the whole State.
It grows in spite of persistent legal actions against it by
various governments. It now
nas a major church here and
missions in Berkeley. Pato
Alto and Santa Clara.
Scientology is being investigated by the British govern-
ment. which last year issued
an order banning foreigners
trom coming to the island to
study at the church's world
headquarters at East Grinstead, Sussex. The investiga-
tors want to know if it's socially harmful.
SCIENTOLOGY 'MISSIONAIRE' JOHN McMASTER
The E-meter at work, measuring emotional energy
They also gather a sense of once been shot in the head. A
surety by following the pre- church spokesman said the
cise drills laid out for them headaches cleared up.
in writing by L. Ron Hub-
bard, the founder of the
TRAINING
The auditor tries not to feel
church and author of a book emotion as he processes his
which gave the world, in novitiate. He keeps a sharp
1950, a book on -Dianetics" eye on the E-meter needle.
that is the basis of the move- If the needle jumps, you're
supposed to be battling painment.
PROCESSING.
ful memories. When the neeWith Scientology, Hubbard dle "floats free," near the
has blended the "mental center of the circuit board,
health" theories in Dianetics you're supposed to get a "reinto a theology through iease." So you're passed to
which he is venerated as a die next grade.
In "training," you learn
In the church's buildings, how to become an auditor by
In the United States the large, blown-up photographs practicing on other church
momvetnent has been up to of Hubbard are placed in members.
When you make your iirst
its hips in litigation. The In- commanding positions on the
inquiry at your local Scienternal Revenue Service has walls.
"Processing" takes you tology church or missio n,
contended it's not a church
but a money-maker in the through seven "grades of re- you're assured that if you
tree-enterprise tradition. The lease" during sessions with head up "the whole track"
an "auditor" who gives you toward "Clear" you'll win
courts don't agree.
The Australian st ate of
Victoria has banned Scientology outright.
E-METER
The Food and Drug Admini
.rat ion has been upset
about the E -rn e t e r, which
Scientologists rely on to measure their efforts to "flat-
ten- problems. The courts
have not upheld the FDA.
The E-meter is the piece of
hardware that gives the people in "training" and
-processing" a dramatic
feeling of being psychological
engineers.
potential world savior.
commands a n d repeatedly friends, influence people, and
asks you questions. The ob- probably get more money.
ject is to lure you into uncovLEVELS
ering incidents repressed As a Clear, you're officialinto your subconscious mind. ly beyond the personal, emoExample: a young man re- tional troubles that blighted
cently came to the San Fran- your life before you were
cisco church at 414 Mason converted.
street with a history of headClear used to be the top.
aches. By pounding away But Hubbard keeps inventing
with commands and ques- new levels. Now there are six
tions from a Hubbard man- grades of Operating Thetan
ual, the auditor got the young (OT) levels above Clear.
man to remember he had
An OT has "total cause
See Bock Pape
San Aeancisco Ciponicle
24 uraaüsto groakk
Mort , Aug. 25, 1969
Controversial Religion
Scientology's Boom
the church's Advanced
ganization in Los Angeles
Erom Page I
over matter, energy. space,
PRICES
and thought" and -is
Scientiogists estimate the
not in a body," the Scientolotime
gy Abridged Dictionary says.
Cost of getting Clear at $4000
to $5000. In the San Francis-
Hubbard has written that an
irl' conceives of himself as
co church, you can get the
first four grades of processing for a package price of
-some distance kom the
body."
$617.50 if you pay in advance.
People on the road to Clear
and beyond tell how they've
If you want a carreer in
the church, you go in tor
experimented with off-beat
religions, drugs or yoga and
concluded that Scientology
training. To become a Huh.
bard Advanced Auditor, the
package price is $1300. Ut
offers just as much salva-
$1235 if you pay in advance.
tion, but does it faster.
But on June 1 Hubbard put
out a $500 quickie course by
BOAT
which you can get on thr
staff as an auditor in two
Testimonials are passed
out by your Success Director.
You learn, for instance, how
months.
Alan. Albert. director of
training for the Pale Alto
actor Stephen Boyd got
processed to OT-6. "I guess.'
Scientology mission, said he
made $17,500 last year as a
Philco-Ford executive. H e
he has concluded. "that is
about six steps above Nitvana.-
quit this job after spending
These days Hubbard is
750 hours in Scientology auand, he reported. he
diting
makes "about the same" sal-
cruising in the Mediterranean on the Apollo. a 5000-ton
former British ferryboat recently fitted out with thick,
deep-blue carpeting. It's the
ary MU'.
Top officials of the church
in Los Angeles said, hou ever, that's an unusually lucrative situation.
(Tomorrow: It's the l'rue
Way. say the young con-
flagship of Scientology's mys-
terious -Sea Organization."
On board Hubbard is doing
research on two n e w OT
levels.
This 58-year-old native of
Nebraska is a likeable man
who first won fame as the
author of science fiction with
an "Arabian Nights" flavor.
Early this year he issueW
verts.1
A portrait of L. Ron Hubbard dominates a room in
the Los Angeles Scientology headquarters
directives that 1969 is to be a a week in January, 1968. hui
boom year for his church He rose to $140,000 in the suchas set up a system of assur- ceeding six months.
Scientology is in Saint
11111
Manor House, a 30-room, baronial mansion in Sussex oc-
The American church cupied by the Maharajah ol
ing religious productivity claims
250.000 members in Jaipur before Ii ii bbard
that would be env ied by RobCalifornia,
two and a half bought it .
ert McNamara
Americans heading tor
times more than a year ago
And there are three churches Clear had to go there to get
Ilubbard's personal "nits- and nine missions in South- it. But with the British resionaire," J o hn McMaster, ern California.
strictions on foreigners. Clear
INCOME
says the income to the worldwide church was only $10.000
The land headquarter: at and OT grades are offered at
0
(El
331.
rn
ALLEN KAPULER
Allen Kapuler, director of current or past illnesses,
Scientology and Dianetics in disabilities,
perception
a
the Washoe area became difficulties, unwanted
interested in the subjects sensations, fatigue, chronic
professionally fourteen years fears and worries, pain,
ago when he was a national weight problems, etc. will
chain department store vanish as the cause is
executive and personnel erradicated. The original
director.
impact upon the individual
Opening the first
Scientology office in Nevada,
at Las Vegas in 1964, he and
his wife, Virginia, gave private
counseling and taught courses
to executives and employees
of Las Vegas Strip hotels and
real estate corporations,
developing the largest
practice in their field in the
world.
In 1968 the Kapulers
opened a second office in the
state in Washoe County,
rn
that is the basis of the illness
is erased leaving the person
free thereafter from its
effects.
rn
"No, we are not in any
conflict with the field of
medicine. On the contrary,
we advocate medical
examinations and treatment
as standard policy. If the
ailment can be resolved by
standard medical means we
insist that it be so treated.
Our field is not medical
which quickly grew to be healing, and the medical
larger than the Las Vegas practitioner's field is not
office, delivering counseling psychosomatic predisposition
service and couises to or chronic persistance. There
individuals who came from as is no intention to usurp
far away as Latin America medical treatment; we
and Europe.
augment physical treatment.
Mr. Kapuler has recently
techniques used, both
completed an advance in "The
training and in practice, are
research project and lecture precise and produce a
tour on the continent, and predictable result. People get
upon returning to the states better. They are healthy and
has twice been a guest happy people."
lecturer at Stanford In addition to the office in
University on such subjects as our area Mr. Kapuler has
psychosomatic illness,
at the South Shore of
emotional problems and offices
Lake Tahoe, Sacramento,
marital relations.
Santa Clara, San Mateo and
The following is an extract Palo Alto.
from a recent lecture by Mr.
He is a member of the
Kapuler:
'The subjects
Sn
rn
r.7
Sparks Chamber of
of Commerce and
is on its
Advisory Council. Besides his
activity of directing the
expanded around the world expanding counseling offices
for over nineteen years. It has he is President of Optimum
been developed and refined Techniqu es, Incorporated,
Scientology
and Dianetic
Counseling have endured and
consistently over the years building an office building
and is better and more used complex on new Rock
than ever before.
Boulevard in Sparks, for local
Journals of the American attorneys, real
estate and
Medical Association quote
insurance companies. Also, he
statistics that indicate over is an executive in a toy firm
70% of man' ills are brought and a commercial explosive
about or persist due to corporation.
emotional trauma, bringing
He even finds some spare services of one of my own
about psychosomatic ills.
time to give boxing lessons to
Dianetics is simply a precise City Councilman Pete
method of removing the
Lemberes' son, Vince. After
trauma that brought about or
last two-hour workout in
holds the psychosomatic the
90
degree
with
ailment in persistance. The the six foottemperature
teenager he told
rapid end
offices."
Recently Scientology of
Sparks and Reno sponsored a
classical piano recital at the
Pioneer Theatre AUditoriurn.
The
guest artist was
results of this Pete, "If the boy gets any
internationally
famous Mario
procedure is a well and happy better I'll either have to stop
The entire proceeds
human being who remains the lessons or seek the, Feninger.
of the concern went to the
that wav. The effect of
Sparks Y.M.C.A. Numerous
local service clubs assisted the
promotion and ticket sales.
Also, Mr. Kapuler is active in
the membership drive of the
Washoe Community Concert
Amociation.
He
is highly
interested in the civic aspects
of the Sparks, Reno
community.
THE SUNDAY TIMES, 5 OCTOBER 1969
SCIENTOLOGY
Revealed for the first time...
\
\
R
SPECTRUM,
odd beginning of
Hubbard's career
'
JOHN WHITESIDE Parsons,
a brilliant rocket fuel scientist,
joined the American branch of
Crowley's cult in 1939. He
In
(left),
struck up earnest correspondence with " The Beast 666," as
Crowley was known by his
followers, and soon became his
outstanding protege in the
United States. By January,
1946, Parsons was impatient to
break new frontiers in the
occult world. He decided to
-Ai
mystit whose dabblings in
black magic earned him the
title The Wickedest Man in
new
which we have examined.
The
man
Lafayette
in
question
is
Ron Hubbard
(right), head of the now
notorious
Scientology.
guided him through his life described in Parsons' diary as
arid saved him many times." Conjuration of Air, Invocation.
He concluded almost
Ran. I cared fur her rather
;::eply but I have no desire to
ci.ntrol her emotions." As if to
v:::ent their loyaltiec Parsons,
a
a former admirer of Crowley,
experience and understanding in
preparations for
the field. Ron appears to have theMeanwhile
mystical mission were well
.-.)tne sort of highly developed under way. From January
4 to
astral vision. He describes his 15, 1946, Parsons and Hubbard
angel as a beautiful winged engaged in a nightly ritual of
woman w!th red hair whom he
talisman-waving and
calls the Empress and who has . incantation,
other black magic faithfully
tr:trsferred her sexual affection
found
are described in a vast collection of papers owned by
I !Ohara
Parsons wrote to ('rowley at
the beginnmg ni 1946, " He
(Hubbard) is a gentleman, red
hair, green eyes., honest and
intelligent and ue have become
great friends. although he has
no formal training in magic he
has an extraordinary amount of
Arute to Crowley, "She has
and
new and enthusiastic disciple
liabalon. During his magical
preparations for this incarnation
Parsons found himself overwhelmed with assistance from a
novitiate named Ron
But within two months the
sorcerer
one of his occult communities in California. The extraordinary activities of this
in the astral (spiritual) world.
If this part of the fixture went
successfully Parsons would be
able to call down the spiritual
baby and direct it to a human
womb. When born, this child
would incarnate the forces of
bonds of friendship were under
some strain: Ron claimed
Parsons' girl-friend, Betty. With
alrrnrable restraint Parsons
Crowley
disciple and welcomed him to
vest it in a human being.
But to carry out this intricate
mission Parsons needed a,female
sexual partner to create his child
ecstatic-
the
the World,
take the spirit of Babalon, the
" whore of Babylon," and in-
ally. " Ile is in complete accord
with our own principles. I have
found a staunch companion and
cumrade in Ron."
Aleister
1946
of Wand and Consecration of
Air Dagger. With a Prokofiev
violin concerto blaring away the
tWo of them pleaded with tbe
spiriti for " an elemental mate"
a girt willing to go through
sexual
rites to incarnate
Rabalon in the spirit world.
Parsons mentions that windalarms occurred on a couple of
nights and one night the power
supply failed. But nothing seriously responsive until January
14, when Ron was struck on the
right dioulder and had a candle
out of his hand. ".He
.
IluhLarcl and Betty decided to call
e." Parsons wrote, " and
1,e-.01 their finance's and form a we observed
a brownish yellow
bus!ness partnership.
tight about seven feet high. I
brandished a magical sword and
it disappeared. Ron's right arm
was paralysed for the rest of the
night"
The following night was *even
portentious. Hubbard
more
apparently saw a vision of one
of Parsons' enemies. Parsons
wrote, " Ile attacked the figure
and pinned it to the door with
four throwing knives with which
Church
of
/4.1
'as
'4
r
THE SUNDAY TIMM 5 OCTOMM 1.0611
SCIENTOLOGY
Revealed for the first time...
%SPECTRUM,
'
he is expert." For Tour days
Parsons and Hubbard, vere in a
state of tension. Then, on
mind. Thou art a god. Behave Hubbard and his newly :woo !
at this altar as one god het ore girl friend, betty, botwii!
yacht. A report to the lied,.
another.l'
On the third day the ritual the American liranch by atm!
negan four hours before davo. cult member says, " Rim
Ron tells his companion, " l.ay Belly have their boat at Alri.
out a white sheet. Place upon Florida, and are living Ow
it blood of birth. Envision her tif Riley. while Brother .1.
January 18, Parsons turned to
Ron and said, " It is done." lie
added, " I returned home and
found a young woman answering the requirements waiting
.
for me."
The incarnation ritual set out
in Parsons' manuscript, The
Book of' Babalon, is difficult
reading for the unconfirmed
spiritualist, Broadly interpreted,
Parsons and Hubbard con-
approaching thee. Think upon (Parsons) Is living at r,
the lewd, lascivious things thou bottom and I mean 7,
roulds't do. All is good to botionC
Babalon. All. Preserve the
n a more sinister st ay
material basis. 'The lust is hers, report added, " Let us eonsi,
the passion yours. Consider thus matter of the triagiral ch
thou the Beast raping.", These which Jack Parsons Ie. huppo:
invocations along with other to turn loose on the world
passages in the rttual indicates nine months (now seven). TI
that Parsons had collected speci- the Seer, was the guy who I.
mens of his own sperm and the down the main ideas, tech;
girl's menstrual fluid.
(sic), etc., of said operation."
The climax of the ceremony
reading Parsons's accow
occurred the following day with ofOn
the ceremony and the repo.
structed an altar and Hubbard
acted as high priest during a
series of ceremonies in which
Parsons and the girl shared sex.
The owner of the documents,
who is an expert on Crowley's
magic, says that Parsons at this
stage was completely under
Ron at the altar working his
two subjects into a sexual from branch headquarters
frenzy. Over Racbmaninoff he America, Crowley cabled les
office on May 22: " Suspect R,
intoned such genii as:
playing confidence trick----Ja
Her --mouth is red and .her Parsons weak fooinhviü
Hubbard's domination. How else
can one explain Hubbard's role
as High priest in the rites after
only a fe..w weeks in the trade?
For the first of the birth ceremonies which began on March 1
Hubbard wore white and
breasts are fair and her loins victim prowling swindlers."
a letter a few clays later he sa'
And her lust is strong as a " It seems to me on the inforn
man is strong in the heat of tion of our brethren
her desire.
California that Parsons has k
An exalted Parsons wrote the an illumination in which be h
next day, " Babalon is incarnate all his personal independen.
upon the earth today awaiting From our brother's account
the proper hour of her mantles- has given away both hy;
tation...
and his money. Apparently it
work will be accomplished anti' -.the bed( tliffreb1111 ti i`k- It' i L71(..
are full of fire,
carried a lamp while Parsons
:10-74's
I shall be blown gway .upon the
A nineh-chastemNi
breath of the father even as it wrote
Crowle,y on July
is prophecied." (In fact, Parsons " Here to
I am in Miami porsoi
was " blown away ". in a rocket
,
Children of my folly. I ho
fuel explosion at his experimen- the
them well tied UP. They .r.ann
tal laboratory in Pasadena in move
without going -i-e la
1952.)
However, I am afraid that ni
Unable to contain
his joy, of the money has already lit
Parsons decided to tell Crowley spent. I will be lucky to A
what had happened. On March vage 3,000 to 5,000 dollars." Ju
6 he wrote, " I can hardly tell how Parsons managed to caret:
you or deoide how much to the errant lovers is in keepl:
write. I am under command with the other extraordina:
PARSONS. " the AntiChrist "
was cloaked in a black, hooded
garment carrying a cup and
dagger. At Hubbard's suggestion
they played Rachmaninoff's Isle
of the Dead as background
music.
of extreme secrecy. I have had
the most important, devastating
experience of my life." Crowley
was dumbfounded by the news
of the incarnation ceremony. He
wrote back, " You have me coin! pletely puzzled by your remarks,
I thought I had ,the Most morbid
;
imagination but it seems I have
not. .1 cannot form tho slightest
chapters of thls story. "
attempted to escape
)
j
Idea' what yob can
um
Parsons wrote, " by sailing
5 p.m, and performed a ft
invocation to Bartzabel with;
the circle at 8 p.m. (a curse'
At the same time, however,
ship was struck by a suddi .
squall off the coast which riper
off his sails and forced him bat
possibly to port where I took the boat
Parsons' account of the start mean,"
of the birth ritual is as follows:
With a distinct note of con.
" The Scribe (Hubbard) said, cern
he dashed off a letter on
' The year of Babalon is 4063. the mune day to the head of his
She is the flame of life, power American cult saying, " Amur.
of darkness, she. destroys with ently Parsons or Hubbard or
a glance, she may take thy soul. somebody is producing a Moon.
She feeds upon the death of child. I get fairly franticwhen
men. Beautifulhorrible.' The I contemplate
the idiocy of these
scribe, now pale and sweating, louts." (This acid rebuko
rested awhile, then continued." comes from a man whose act!.
There are two possible reasons vities were once summed up by
why Hubbard showed anxiety at- jud Iike this: " I have never
this stage of the ceremony, the heard such dreadful, horrible,
custody."
.
Parsons recovered finanetall:
and possibly as a backlash t
his experience with Hubby;
he took the Oath of the Ant.
Christ in 1048 and changed hi
name to Belarion Armiluss
Dajjal AntiChrist. In his setei
tology publications Ilubbar
says of the period. " Cripple:
and blinded at the end of tb
war I resumed studies of philo
sophy and by my discoverie:
owner of the papers says. He blasphemous and abominable recovered so fully that J wa
was either deeply moved by the
spiritual depth of the ceremony
or he couldn't think what to say
next.
4 Hubbard further instructed
Parsons: " Display thyself to
our lady; dedicate thy organs
to her: dedicate thy heart to
her; display thy mind to her;
dedicate thy soul to her, for
she shall absorb thee. Retire
from human contact until noon
.
.
Stuff as that Which has been pro- reclassified in 1949 for fun com
duced by the man who describes bat duty."
himself as the greatest living
poet.")
By May that same year
Crowley was not only concerned
about Papons's spiritual well.
being. There was a small matter
of certain moneys. When the
trio formed their business enter.
prise, Persons is believed to
have putf in 11,000 dollars,
Hubbard claims that inOrt
than two dozen thinkers
prophets and psychologists iv
flueneed scientology (which he
I
aunched in
1951): everyone
from Plato, Jesus of Nararett
t u Sigmund Freud whom hi
a nye
.
he studied under in Vienna
The record can now be rightee
with the inclusion of Aleistm
tomorrow. Speak not of this Ilubbaril about 1,000 dollars and
ritual. Discuss nothing of it. Betty nothing, Using about Crowley, the Beast 660.
Consult no book but thine own 10,0010 dollars of the money
Alexander Mitchel?
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1969
NATIONAL ENQUIRER
9 NOV. 1969
How profitable Scientology
has become is one of the organization's most closely
guarded secrets, but estimates of the personal worth
of founder L. Ron Hubbard
have ranged up to $7 mil-
SCIENTOLOGY Cult With Iffillions
Of Followers Led by Mon Who Claims
church earned more than
He's Visited Heaven
lion. In 1963 the Internal
Revenue Service claimed the
$750,000
in
the
United
ice
States from 1955 through
1959,
the
year
Hubbard
moved international headquarters from Washington,
D.C., to England. There, ac-
cording to the Los Angeles
Times, world receipts rose to
$140,000 weekly in 1968.
By RALPH LEE SMITH
In New York City, a seriously dis-
turbed woman who was receiving
psychotherapy heard about a wonderful new way to solve emotional
problems. It was called Scientology.
.0
DR. WILLIAM MENNINGER
"Step into the exciting world of
the totally free!" Scientology leaflets read. "Scientology processing
releases you smoothly and swiftly
Said that Scientology can do harm
officials testified that Hubbard enter-
ed school in 1930, took
from the tensions, oppositions, frustrations and problems that sap your
vigor and inhibit your abilities . . .
Your
ly." gains will come quickly, easi-
after his second, and received no degree.
In the 1930's, Hubbard became a
writer of science fiction and novels,
using such hairy-chested pen names
The woman went to a Scientology
center, was impressed by the sales
pitch, signed a contract to be "processed," and informed her analyst
that she was abandoning therapy.
"As you know," the enthusiastic
new convert said, "Scientology and
as Winchester Remington Colt
In 1938, he finished the manuscript
of a book called "Excalibur," contaming the ideas that he later amplified into the concepts of Dianetics and
Scientology
psychoanalysis don't mix."
In Washington, D.C.,
In World War II he served in the
a man of
Navy. After he left the service in
modest means, living with his wife
and family in a suburban home, fell
1947, he went back to work on his
under the Scientology spell. So far he
has spent $5,000 being processed.
"The only difference in him," ob-
served a neighbor, "is that he has lost
his sense of humor, constantly talks a
language of gibberish that no one can
understand, and is letting his family
drift slowly into bankruptcy."
A Los Angeles housewife told a district attorney that she had spent $4,000
on Scientology processing, on assurances that it would help her to overcome frigidity. The net result of her
investment was that her husband divorced her.
Scientology is a cult which thrives
on glowing promises that are heady
stuff for the lonely, the weak, the con-
and flunked
physics, was placed on probation
after his first year, never returned
SCIENTOLOGY FOUNDER L. Ronald Hubbard uses cult's "electro-
meter" to find out if a tomato with a nail stuck in it feels pain.
foreign countries. From its interna- cent a year in the U.S. Another enthutional headquarters in England, the siast states that the total memberorganization oversees active groups in ship already is "in the millions."
Australia, New Zealand, South Africa
and Canada.
In this country, Scientology centers
are operating in major cities including New York, Los Angeles, Washington, Detroit, Minneapolis, Miami, San
Francisco, Seattle, Austin and Hono-
Whatever the actual figures may be,
theories
Dianetics, the fruit of his reflections,
was given to the world in an article in
the May 1950 sissue of Astounding
Science Fiction
Soon thereafter he published a book
entitled "Dianetics. The Modern
Science of Mental Health," which be-
came a surprise best seller. He subsequently made a few additions to
his system and re-christened it Scientology, although the term Dianetics
is still used.
His basic ideas are simple. The
it is clear that large numbers of per- mind,
he says, is divided into the
sons are responding to Scientology's
promise of a quick, easy road to men- analytical mind (which is similar to
tal and emotional health.
the conscious mind of psychology) and
reactive mind (which roughly corUnfortunately for many, the road the
responds to the unconscious). The an-.
may lead not to health, but to tragedy alytical mind is rational; it perceives,
and disaster for themselves and their reasons, figures things out.
The head of this activity is a solidly The reactive mind, under certain
built, broad-faced, ruddy-complexion- stimuli, takes over, shorts out the
mind, and causes irrational
ed American named L. (for Lafayette) analytical
Ron (for Ronald) Hubbard. Hubbard, behavior.
tology."
The
object
of Scientology is to bring
Believers have established a firm One Scientology source says that the 58, the inventor of Scientology and its the reactive mind under the full conpredecessor,
Dianetics,
ruled
over
the
foothold in the U.S. and in a number of cult is growing at the rate of 250 perof the analytical mind, thus achievworld-wide organization until recently trol
ing "total freedom" from nutty be-
fused, the ineffectual, and the mentally or emotionally ill. For a healthy
fee, Scientology claims it can "help
people do something about the upsets
and travails of life. Hope and happiness can return again through Scien-
lulu.
On street corners and college campuses, eager Scientologists press their
literature into the hands of passersby.
Widely advertised free lectures, films,
and parties are given almost continuously at Scientology centers.
families.
from Saint Hill, a magnificent 18th havior.
Century manor house near London. A person who has achieved this state
Now he keeps in touch with the group is called a "clear."
from his private yacht, which cruises Hubbard, and Hubbard alone, has
endlessly in warm seas, since he "re- discovered how people can be "cleartired" in 1966 and sold the goodwill ed." Scientology, and Scientology
of his name to the movement for
alone, is the avenue through which it
$240,000.
can be accomplished.
Hubbard's smile, gentle voice, silken- According to Hubbard, the reactive
gloved iron hand and easy assurance mind stores "engrams." These are imbefits a man who claims that he has pressions made on the mind by an
been up on the Van Allen radiation
emotional shock or pain. When
belts, has dropped in on the planet acute
some incident in the present has eleVenus and has visited heaven twice.
Hubbard was born in Tilden, Nebr.,
on March 13, 1911. Scientology literature claims that he graduated with a
B.S. in civil engineering from George
Washington University and was "train-
so
MANSION ot Saint Hill near London is headquarters and training
center for Hubbard's world-wide Scientology organization.
ments that resemble some painful past
experience, the appropriate engram is
"keyed in." The reactive mind prompt-
ly takes charge of the person's be-
havior and causes him to act irration-
ed as one of the first nuclear physi- ally.
A third entity in the theory is called
cists."
In a tax case involving a Scientology
center in Washington, D.C., university
(Continued on next page)
Reprinted from TODAY'S HEALTH, published bp
the American Medical Assn.
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(Continued from preceding page)
mounted in a small housing. In the sesthe auditor and preclear sit
sponds to the spirit. A person's thetan, facing each other across a small table.
the "thetan," which roughly corre-
"Vw.M11.0,1,,P;
sions,
says Hubbard, is immortal, and has The E-meter is placed on the table
lived in countless bodies, human and with its face visible to the auditor
animal, on this and other planets, only. The preclear is given two tin
since the beginning of time. In its wan- cans to hold in his hands. The cans
derings, it has picked up engrams like are attached to the E-meter by wires.
barnacles. To be cleared, a person As the preclear answers the quesmust be released, not only from en- tions, the auditor watches the meter's
grams created by traumas in his own needle. Certain movements of the
life, but from all the engrams that needle supposedly mean that the prehis thetan has picked up since time clear is suppressing something_ The
began.
"listens, computes, and comA person who arrives on the door- auditor
mands," closing in relentlessly until
step of a Scientology center is called a the preclear comes up with the "sup"preclear."
pressed information."
Processing involves regular sessions
with an instructor, known in Scientology as an "auditor." The preclear
is quoted a blanket price for a serie
of sessions that will bring him up to
certain specified levels, and he is required to sign a contract for the full
When the preclear is eager to cooperate, is fully under the sway of
the auditor's will and the apparently
scientific verdict of the E-meter, he
accepts the auditor's statement that
he is suppressing something, even if
amount. The price works out to about he can't remember anything.
$30 for each one-hour session. A course Sooner or later he begins to exhibit
resembling those of schizothat will carry the person up through symptoms
These symptoms are
the first four stages of release costs phrenia.
encouraged;
the preclear is
about $1,000. Completion of all courses
BRAINWASH: Scientology student auditors practice method of breaking down followers' wills on other students at Saint Hill.
a paragon of wisdom and
- knowledge. He also experiences what he believes are
and levels offered by Scientology costs given to believe that the hallu-
he is experiencing
several thousand dollars. Police rec- cinations
are factual incidents of his
sweeping
"insights," and
feels thRt he is making dramatic progress.
ords cite the case of one wealthy thetan's past, and that his
Floridian who spent some $28,000 on
Scientology processing.
discovery of them is the high
From the time that the Astounding road to health and freedom.
Science Fiction article appeared, dis- Hubbard has published
turbed persons have been beating a numerous stories that prepath to Hubbard's door to press their clears have told in Scientology
money into his willing hands. Few have auditing sessions about their
heeded the warning of the American thetans' past histories.
Psychological Assn. that Hubbard's One preclear said that his
claims are "not supported by empiri- thetan had inhabited the body
cal evidence." They ignore the state- of a doll on the planet Mars,
One of the many fundamental differences between Scien-
, tology and psychotherapy is
that a genuine therapist or
analyst knows that these feel-
ings are illusory, and that
they must be transcended by
the patient on his way to real
emotional health.
The analyst is not a god, a
lawgiver, or a great discover-er, but a fallible human being. Genuine insight comes
ment by the late Dr. William Men- 469,476,600 years ago.
ninger, one of the founders of the Another preclear recalled
famed Menninger Clinic of Topeka, that he had been Mark AnKans., that Hubbard's system and thony.
ideas "can potentially do a great deal A woman patient rememof harm."
bered that she had once been
In 1955, Hubbard and his third wife,
Mary Sue, set up the "Founding
Church of Scientology" in Washington,
D.C. Three-week intensive processing
courses were offered for $1,250.
v"
In the four-year period from June
1955 to June 1959, the center brought
in $758,982. It denied that it owed any
federal taxes on this amount since it
was a church. The Internal Revenue
Service began an investigation.
In March 1959, Ron and Mary Sue
moved to England to preside over the
expansion of Scientology from Saint
Hill Manor.
What goes on in Scientology auditing
sessions? Preclears won't tell you
they are forbidden to discuss their
experience with anyone.
However, the procedures used in
Scientology auditing are easily obtain-
ed without imperiling any preclears.
Hubbard goes into them in detail in
his books.
The first step is to get a preclear
"securely under the auditor's command." The preclear is required to
answer very simple questions over and
over again, or is ordered to move a
with painful slowness, and'
feelings of swift progress are
nearly always an illusion.
By contrast, Scientology
keeps the patient in this illusory state and exploits it for
profit. Instead of being total.
a male lion that had gotten an
engram by eating its keeper.
This enlightening discovery,
fays Hubbard, cured her psychosis.
ly free, a clear is a person
As each trauma in the the-
tan's past is "discovered,"
the auditor pushes the preclear for all the details he
who believes totally in Scien-
tology and who totally re-
veres Ron Hubbard. The clear
feels, with happy certainty,
can supply. The event is then
that he now relates to the
discussed until the preclear`
no longer reacts to it emotion-
ally, and until there is no
STAGES
of release from Scientology problems are shared by the world. To his
movement on the needle of
the E-meter. The engram explained to two newcomers by instructor using family and friends, the permockup
of
cloy f igures.
son who enters ever more
caused by the event is then
deeply into Scientology seems
considered "flattened," or erased.
sold to Scientology auditors for prices to drift further and further from realiTo anyone but a Scientologist, it need ranging from $125 to $144.
to live more and more in the
hardly be said that the E-meter cannot Scientology makes an active attempt ty and in-group
world that Scientology
register, record, or assist the memory to lure people away from psycho- special
has created.
in recalling incidents of one's past.
therapy and psychoanalysis.
Communication between the converts
Far from being a triumphant prod- Scientologists are amused. by the and
the rest of the world lapses and
uct of space-age science, the E-meter idea
that
differeiit
kinds
of
problems
fails.
is simply a Wheatstone bridge, a cir- may require different kinds of treatcuit that has been used in quack medi- ment. "We use exactly the same pro- The Scientologist believes that he
cal devices for decades. All its wig- cess for each person," the Scientology is privy to exclusive truth, while everyone else suspects that he has gone over
gling needle registers is the body's auditor told me. "It is a science."
varying resistance to a current pro- In fact, such sessions with nonpro- the deep edge.
In the summer of 1968 a furor arose
vided by a small battery. In its tax
case against the Founding Church of fessional personnel are likely to fur- in Great Britain about the ever-swellther
confuse
rather
than
help
a
psying flood of Americans coming to Saint
Scientology, the government said that
small object around a table, starting it,
stopping it, and changing its direction
at the auditor's command. These exerchologically disturbed person.
cises are carried on until the preclear E-meters cost $12.50 to build, and were In Australia, a government board of
responds to all questions and cominquiry listened with dismay in an
mands "quickly and accurately and
adjoining room as a Scientology audiwithout protest."
tor processed an emotionally upset
The auditor then begins to ask cerwoman. She floundered her way
tain rather oddly worded questions,
through the nightmarish session, then
such as "Tell me something real," or
feebly said she felt it had helped her.
"Can you not-know something about
Nine days later she was committed to
that person?" Following this confusing
a mental hospital. The investigators
concept of "not-knowing," the preclear
discovered that other Scientology
is led to deny the existence of objects
clients also had been turned over to
around him.
mental institutions after processing.
"The auditor should not be startled
In my visits to Scientology centers
when, for the preclear, large chunks
I encountered many enthusiastic perof the environment start to disap-
Hill to be cleared. The British Ministry
of Health received some 65 letters of
complaint from disillusioned former
Scientologists and from relatives and
friends of persons who were actively
involved in the cult.
While the authorities had no power
to close down the operation, they barred Americans from coming to Britain
on student visas to study at Saint Hill.
Scientology, warned British Health
Minister Kenneth Robinson, is "social-
ly harmful ... Its authoritarian principles and practices are a potential menace to the personality of those so deluded as to become followers."
Unfortunately, the numbers of those
"so deluded" apparently are increasing. Before it finally goes the way of
sons who evinced total belief in the
system. Their attitudes toward their
auditors, toward persons running the
Scientology centers, and above all,
toward Ron Hubbard, bordered on all cults, Scientology may leave bereverence.
hind a legacy of tragedy unmatched
Such attitudes are familiar to every in the annals of fads and fallacies in
pear," Hubbard advised his auditors.
This mind-numbing questioning is
"continued for 25 hours or even 50 or
75 hours."
Instead of discussing present reality,
the auditor wishes to push the preclear
into a world of fantasy. To help him,
he uses a device called an E-meter,
which consists of a meter and knobs
world with complete success.
But this view usually is not
-
KENNETH ROBINSON
British Health Minister
psychotherapist and psychoanalyst. In mental health.
the early stages of treatment, the
patient usually regards his analyst as
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Marching gainst Psychtatry
Protesting comMunity mental health
programs as "violation of the Constitu-
tion and the Bill of Bights" and part
of a communist plot hatched in the
1930s, these two pickets and 12 others
from the American Community Fellowship paraded in a chilly rain Tuesday before the Lafayette Clinic, 951 E.
Lafayette. Similar demonstrations
were being carried out in other cities.
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British Court Rejects
Scientologists' Chapel
LONDON UP1The High chapel at the cult's headCourt rejected Friday an quarters in East Grinapplication by Scientologists in Britain to set up a stead, Sussex, was not a
legally recognized chapel place of worship.
for their cult.
Justice John Percy Ashworth said in the Queen's
Bench Divisional Court:
"While Scientology may
be wholly admirable I
find it difficult to reach
the conclusion that it is a
religion."
"The idea presented to
my mind is of an organiza-
tion serving as a meeting
point or clearing house for
persons of all religious
The Scientologists made
their applidation, because
under British law if more
than 20 persons assemble
to worship, the meeting
place must be registered
with the registrar-general.
Scientology calls itself
"the largest mental- health
organization iu tlid.
and "a practical religious
philosophy interested in
ability .And "Increasing
. . -the niost vital philos-
beliefs through which phic movement on the
people may better appreci-
ate their spiritual character," the justice said.
The jud3e ruled that the
planet . . . the freeing of
the soul of wisdom.' It
claims to have millions of
members around t h e
Church of Scientology world.
The Washington Daily News, Friday, November 21, 1969
Washington
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By LOUISE LAGUE
Some 30 pickets smiled in
a freezing wind yesterday
noon as they marched outside
the Shoreham Hotel to protest
the methods of the World Federation for Mental Health and
the National Association of
Mental Health, which were
meeting inside.
The pickets, members of
the Church of Scientology,
The
church group, which
sponsored its own conference
on mental health quackery in
the Forum Room of the Shore-
professional psychiatrists to
make the same guarantee.
Some of the WFMH and
NAMH delegates stopped at
ham on Monday, asked for the:picket line to discuss'pracand was denied permission to ,
address the joint WFMH and: ticeiilib the Rev, Mr.. WhitNAMA cbnference. They. have 't mari*ti,
been picketing. at the hotel for' .- a i
the imst three days and were
to r et u rn agaip today for
"mime ',picketing and othen:
surprises."
The stateinent issued by the
ing to Rev. Keeneth J. Whitman, the church's minister of Scientologists yesterday Tead,
public relations for the eastern in part: "We do not attack
United States, "we are a hap- psychiatrists or the infant adpy and enthusiastic group en- ence of psychiatry, we do,
however, as a Church, and
gaged in self-help."
cognizant cd the spiritual nawere smiling because; accord-
This principle, they charged,
ture of man, abhor as inhu-
is counter to the WFMH and mane and degrading, violent
NAMH practices of "electric physical treatment for spiritushock, sterilization, and en- ally. or mentally caused ills,"
forced commitment, which is
The Church of ScientolOgy
a viOlation of every God-given offers help to disturbed perright."
sons thru "two-day communication and free spiritual counselling. "There is a charge
however, for training courses
"learn about life" and a
mone y back guarantee for
those who do not feel they
to
have been helped.
A MENACE
. In . their statement yester-
day, the scientologists asked
Ann Ursprung,
gnatdian Of the
Church of Scientology of the
eastern United States.
Inside the Shoreham, the
Conference's press office was
issuing reprints from "To-
day's Health" which called the
Church of Scientology "a dan-
gerous cult" and a "menace
to mental hP'alth."
'"
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 26, 19.69
imes
Toloonotto
Police Seek to Link 3rd Slaying
to Murder of Two Cult Members,
Detective Claims Scientologist Church Blocks Efforts,to
Make Connection Between Nov. 16 and Saturday Crimei
BY JERRY COHEN
Times Staff Writer
Police said Tuesday the slayings of
two young Scientologists may be
linked to a third murder but that
police have been blocked in an effort
to establish a connection by leaders
of the religious, cult.
Close parallels exist, said Det. Lt.
Earl A. Deemer, between the Friday
.
night killings of James Sharp, 15,
't and Doreen Gaul, 19, and the
murder of a young woman found
stabbed to death Nov. 16.
The latter still is unidentified, but
Deemer said he would like to find
out whether she, too, was a member
of the Church of Scientology, whose
leaders originally had cooperated in
the investigation into the deaths of
Sharp and Miss Gaul.
But Deemer said when he asked to
see church membership lists, in an
attempt to establish the identity of
4, the Nov. 16 victim, the cult leaders
balked.
Court Order Sought
Deemer said he would seek a court
order requiring that membership
:
rolls be made available to investigators.
Deemer said he also said he would
like to question L. Ron Hubbard,
; founder of the mystical, quasi, scientific organization, about its
' membership.
However, he said he had learned
Mulholland Drive between Laurel;
and Coldwater canyons:
I
All three
victirnS had beett;
stabbed repeatedly , and t he i r;
wounds appeared to be the work of a
"fanatic."
All Slain Elsewhere
None of ,the three was slain
where the bodies were found.
The "Jane Doe" of the previous;
killing wort hippie-like attire which`
resembled that in which Miss Gaul,
had been seen and which is favored
by many young females in the
organization.
Both Miss Gaul and "Jane Doe"
were recently arrived here. The .
former had been here about six'
months. Absence of traces of smog
in the unidentified victim's lungs
established that she was a recent
arrival, the coroner's office stated.
The unidentified woman, tall and
slender, was clad in a blue jacket,
blue denims and riding boots, all
well worn. Her throat had been cut
and she had been stabbed numerous
times in the upper torso. She had
not been sexually molested.
Miss Gaul, nude except for a string
of Indian beads when her body was
found nearS Sharp's in an alley
between Arapahoe St. and Magnolia
Ave., south of llth St., had been
an autopsy established Tues. that Hubbard is cruising in his raped,
7 yacht off England and may be day.
'
reluctant to return to this country
- because of income tax difficulties.
Deemer said he had been struck by
°
,
The autopsy also showed that both
she and the youth had been stabbed
between 50 and 60 times, and, in her
these parallels between the Friday
night murders and that of the still
unidentified young woman whose
case, 17 of the wounds had been
body was found on the south side of
Please Turn to Page 5, Col. 1
inflicted
,
directly over the heart. i
Both their right eyes had been cut
.
;
CULT MURDERS
. Continued from First Page
ot
S. Bonnie Brae,
older Scientolcigy 4rk et
The youth had (-come
Miss Gaul had moved
only last week into one f here early last summer
t.the cult's hippie-like com- from Crestwood, Mo., a St
munes, which bound in Louis suburb. Miss Gaul
AlVarado- Westlake dis- was a native of .A.lbany,
trict, where Scientology's N.Y. '
tchurches and administraIt was learned that Miss
Itive buildings are located. Gaul planned to have an
t She was working as - a "auditing," or counseling,
:cook for her room and session, Friday night with
board in the 14 - room young Sharp, who had
Theatan Manor at 1032 S. reached a higher rung
Bonnie Brae. Sharp lived
, about a block away, at 921
than she on the Scientology ladder of achievement.
3* too gingtle0 rittlt5
Wed., Nov. 26, 1969Part I
Slayings of Two
Cultists May Be
Linked to Thfrd
Police Charge Leaders of
Scientology Church Try
to Block Investigation
BY JERRY COHEN
Times Staff Writer
The slayings of two young Scien-
None of the three was slain
tologists may be linked to a third
where the bodies were found.
murder, but leaders of the religious
cult have blocked detectives' efforts
to establish a connection, police said
-
The "Jane Doe" of the previous
killing wore hippie-like attire which
resembled that in which Miss Gaul
had been seen and which is favored
by many young females in the
organization.
Tuesday.
Det. Lt. Earl A. Deemer said close
parallels exist between the Friday
night killings of James Sharp, 15,
and Doreen Gaul, 19, and the
murder of a young woman found
Both Miss Gaul and "Jane Doe"
recently arrived here. The
had
former had been here about six
months. Absence of traces of smog
in the unidentified victim's lungs
established that she was a recent
stabbed to death Nov. 16.
The latter still is unidentified, but
arrival, the coroner's office said.
Please Turn to Page 17, Col.
Deemer said he would like to find
out whether the earlier victim, too,
was a member of the Church of Scientology. Church leaders originally
had cooperated in the investigation
into the deaths of Sharp and Miss
1
I
MURDERS
Continued from Third Page
T h e unidentified wo-
Gaul.
man, tall and slender, was
clad in a blue jacket, blue
denims and riding boots,
all well worn. Her throat
had been cut and she had
been stabbed numerous
But Deemer said when he asked to
see church membership lists, in an
attempt to establish the identity of
the Nov. 16 victim, the cult leaders
balked.
Deemer said he would seek a court
times in the upper torso.
She had not been sexually
order requiring that membership
rolls be made available to investigators.
molested.
However, in a statement issued
several hours later, a Scientologist
beads when her body was
Miss Gaul, nude except
for a string of Indian
found near Sharp's in an
alley between Arapahoe
St. and Magnolia Ave.,
spokesman said:
"Within a matter of hours after we
were asked for a list of membership,
south of 11th St., had been
raped, an autopsy estab-
the police had the first part of that
list in their possession and the rest
had been promised within 12 hours.
lished Tuesday.
The autopsy also showed
that both she and the
youth had been stabbed
We will continue to cooperate to the
fullest of our capabilities."
Deemer said he also would like to
question L. Ron Hubbard, founder of
the mystical, quasi-scientific organization, about its membership.
All Slain Elsewhere
However, he said he had learned
between 50 and 60 times,
and, in her case, 17 of the
wounds had been inflicted
directly over the heart.
Both their right eyes had
been cut out.
that Hubbard is cruising in his
yacht off England and may be
reluctant to return to this country
,
because of income tax difficulties.
Deemer said he had been struck by
these parallels between the Frklay
night murders and that of the stiil
unidentified young woman whose
body was found on the south side of
Mulholland Drive between Laurel
and Coldwater canyons:
All three victims had been
stabbed repeatedly, and their
wounds appeared to be the work of a
"fanatic."
VOL. 56NO. 50
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1969
PRESS
Los Angeles police
S. Magnolia Ave., early
teenagers
of
15-year-old
Magnolia Avenue.
with knives and then dumped
their bodies in the alleyway
near Arapahoe Street and
killers mutilated their faces
living near the downtown section of Los Angeles.
Police said their killer or
from out of state but were
Both of the two teens were
spirit.
sect that believes man is a
Saint-Hill organization, a local
James Sharp was found nearby. He was fully dressed.
But authorities discovered a
bracelet identifying him as a
member of the American
Doreen Gaul.
The body
Only a thin string of multicolored beads was found on
the body of 19-year-old Miss
interchange.
whose bodies were found in
an alleyway near the Harbor
and Santa Monica Freeways
grounds of t w o
Police said they have only
three solid hints to the back-
Saturday.
11:38
found
two
whose bodies were
in an alley behind
type" slaying of
youths
tion
are investigating the "execu-
(CNS)
Two Teenagers
For Slayer of
Police Search
Wednesday, 'Dec. 14,- 1969 THE DETROIT NEWSI9-4
Tate link
sought in 2
other deaths
By JERRY COHEN
(Copyright. 1965. Los Angeles Times)
LOS ANGELES
Detectives are investigating possible
ties between the recent slayings of two young scientologists and the seven murders
linked to the alleged killers of
actress Sharon Tate, it was
learned yesterday.
Parallels among the savage
crimes are philosophical as
well as physical.
As a result, investigators
are dipping into the lore of
cabals which practice black
magic and glorify sexual excess.
Under particular scrutiny is
a cult which is fiercely antiEstablishment and whose beliefs include Satan-worship. It
is an offshoot of scientology
but is disavowed by practitioners of that mystical,
quasiscientific order.
, THE OUTLAW CULT is
known both as "The Process"
and the Final Church of Judg-
ment. Its members are nicknamed "mind benders" and
they claim to be in direct con-
The investigation into their
deaths fell to a team of deectives headed by Lt. Earl
Deemer, who immediately
was intrigued by the selection
of the scientologists as victims.
Deemer, who had worked
on the Tate case, noted these
circumstances which later
gave rise to speculation their
deaths might be related
to
the other killings:
Like all but one victim of
the two-day murder orgy in
August, the young man and
had been
stabbed repeatedly. Each bore
young
woman
between 50 and 60 wounds.
The November victims
lived in a neighborhood with
a large hippie population,
much of it mystically inclined.
Miss Gaul resided in a scientology commune whose residents dressed in Hippie style.
Many
of
the neighbor-
hood's inhabitants use "soft"
drugs
marijuana and LSD
are promiscuous and are
tact with both Lucifer and
nomadic,
clan.
Detectives have been struck
by the similarites between its
philosphies and the occultism
THE FINAL CHURCH of
Judgment is headquartered in
mansion in Londons posh
Mayfair district. It is run by
Christ.
of Charles Manson and five
of his followers indicted for
the other murders.
The "Process" cult is based
in London, where English au-
thorities, despite great pressure, have recognized it as a
legitimate church.
But it has staged major recruiting drives in the United
States, which' suggests the
possibility of cross-fertilization
between The "Process" and
the Manson cult.
Manson and five members
of his clan were indicted Mon-
day far the murders of Miss
Tate and four others Aug. 9
and or the murders of a Los
Angeles couple the following
night. Both crimes had over-
tones of dark ritualism and
anti-affluence.
MANSON IS KNOWN to
have dabbled in scientology,
then to have gone on to more
eccentric cultism which appar-
ently included the power to
order the execution of those
he marked unworthy to live.
The slayings of the two
young scientologists appear as
the
like
Shanghai-born, bearded, longhaired Robert Degrimston, 34,
who. attended Cambridge Uni-
versity and later took up scientology.
AFTER COMPLETING a
course in the mystical philos-
ophy, he decided to start his
own cult, which took a sharp
turn away from scientology.
The "church" proclaimed
its "dedication to the elimi-
'nation of the gray forces"
the 'affluent establishment.
One issue of its journal,
ent.
Other issues
De Grimston is known as
"the Christ of C ar n a by
Street."
MANSON'S
FOLLOWERS
called him "Jesus," "God"
and "Satan." Members of the
"Process" Wear black ap-
black,
according
and
dumped
in the
alley, only a few blocks from
their respective residences.
advocated
black masses, described marriage as "an abomination"
and offered ideas to stimulate
sexual perversion, even rape.
Voityck
where
Christopher Jesus, 20, also
known as "Zero," was found
dead on a bed in the beach
community of Venice, Calif.,
a gun beside him and a bullet wound in his head.
A YOUNG WOMAN said he-
had been playing "Russian
roulette" and the death formally was listed as a suicide.
"But I've never been satisfied with' that whole thing,"
said Detective Sgt. Art Hansbrough,
who
revealed
the
death still is under investigation.
Not a single fingerprint was
found on the gun.
Other cultists who had been
living at the residence scattered shortly afterward.
One who did, a slight young
man who held Christopher
Jesus' head as he lay dying,
sa,LI he is convinced the death
was not a suicide.
MANSON, meanwhile, was
jailed here last night on murder-conspiracy charges in the
Tate and La Bianca deaths.
The 35-year-old Manson ar-
rived here after a five-hour
hutomobile trip from the Inyo
County Jail at Independence,
Calif.,
where he had been
buckskin clothing, his long,
reddish-brown hair in disar-
"alliance of God and Lucifer"
Folger,
15,
Nov. 5.
to rid the world of the afflu-
and James Sharp,
were found Nov. 5 in an alley
near downtown Los Angeles.
They had been murdered else-
-
At least one of them was
present at the strange death
of another Manson culti st
The Process, called for an
parel.
19,
describing connections
among the scientology murders, lhe Tate killings and the
murders of Leno and Rosemary La Bianca the next day
as anything more than a
"possibility" at this stage.
But he wants to question at
least two young male members of the Manson cult.
held on charges of arson and
receiving stolen property.
Dressed in fringe-trimmed
lacking in motive as did the
other two slaughters when
first discovered.
The bodies of Doreen Gaul,
Manson
Deemer declines to go neyond
The slayers who stole onto
the Tate estate and killed the
actress, Jay Sebring, Abigail
Frykowsky
and Steven Parent wore
to
Susan
Atkins, who said she was a
participant in the murderous
raid.
ray, the prisoner was escorted
into Central Police Headquarterf between two plainclothesmen.
Manson's hands were handcuffed behind him.
THE SUNDAY TIMES, DECEMBER 28, 1969
LONDON
Scientology: New Light on Crowle
ON 5 OCTOBER, 1969,
located at
Spec-
trum published an article " The
odd beginning of Ron Hubbard's
Career." The Church of Scientology has sent us the following
information.
el: Hubbard broke up black
magic in America: Dr Jack
Parsons of Pasadena, California,
was
America's Number One
solid fuel rocket expert. He was
involved with the infamous
English black magician Aleister
Cruwley who called himself
" The Beast 668." Crowley ran
an organisation called the Order
Templars Orientalis over the
100 Orange Grove
Avenue, Pasadena, California.
This was a huge house which
had paying guests who were
the If S A nuclear
physicists
working at Cal. Tech. Certain
agencies objected to nuclear
physicists being housed under
the same roof.
L. Ron Hubbard was still an
officer of the U S Navy because
he was well known as a writer
and a philosopher and had
friends amongst the physicists,
he was sent in to handle the
situation. He went to live at
house and investigated the
world which had savage and the
ac
magic rites and the
brow! rites. Dr Parsons was general
situation and found
of the American branch
them very bad.
Parsons wrote to Crowley in
England about Hubbard. Crowley " The Beast 666 " evidently
detected an enemy and warned
Parsons. This is all proven by
thu correspondence unearthed
by the Sunday Times. Hubbard's
mission was siuccessful far
beyond anyone's expectations.
The house was torn down.
Hubbard rescued a girl they
were using. The black magic
group was dispersed and
destroyed and has never
recovered. The physicists included many of the 64 top US
scientists who were
later
declared insecure and dismissed
from government service
with so much publicity.

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