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Dianetics began losing popularity after the initial excitement caused by the book in 1950. Hubbard shrewdly chose to shift the emphasis from psychomatic healing (more fitting the mood of the 50's) to spiritual elevation, the obsession of a more spaced-out age. So in 1952, he renamed his movement Scientology. It was a wise decision, because the "truths" of Scientology are even less accessible to objective scrutiny than were the techniques of Dianetics. Now Hubbard flatly declares that Dianetics is merely training, a preparation for the cosmic quest of Thetanship, and Scientology...
READING the literature of Scientology, one appreciates the grandeur and intricacy of Hubbard's worldview. No longer is he offering a theory of electromagnetic memory units, complete with pseudo-scientific jargon. Now-now, we are tantalized by visions of super-beings who can perform miracles, travel without regard for space or time, direct energy flows of colossal potency, and who act out an inter-galactic drama complete with telepathy, wave guns, force fields, treachery, annihilation, and enslavement of entire planets and species...
...element of paranoia here is an integral facet of Scientology consciousness. We have the answer. They're trying to suppress us. (Anyone opposed to Scientology is a Suppressive Person.) L. Ron Hubbard's breakthroughs in the field of electronic wave theory must be kept secret, for once the vital wave lengths of the Thetans are known, any despot could jam the signal, so to speak...
Most despised by Hubbard of all are psychotherapy and Communism, actually one and the same. The International Edition No. 1 of Freedom Scientology, an 8-page newspaper, is devoted entirely to attacks upon psychotherapy. Again, Hubbard says, "The psychiatrist and his front groups operate straight out of terrorist textbooks. The Mafia looks like a convention of Sunday School teachers compared to these terrorist groups. Setting himself up as a terror symbol, the psychiatrist kidnaps, tortures and murders without any slightest police interference... Instead, these forces attack churches and peaceful, decent social groups under the direct orders of these terrorists...
...About Radiation (1957), Hubbard discusses brainwashing, psychiatry, and Russia in a revealing way. "Russia gave the Anglo-American world all that the U. S. and Great Britain use in the field of psychiatry, a Russian German science. Germany gave our culture all it used of psychology, a German science. Austria contributed psychoanalysis. Until Scientology, there was no Anglo-American thinking about the mind. It was all Russian, German, and Austrian. Now you don't suppose these three countries gave America and England total sciences, do you? No. They held out on us. Thus Anglo-American knowledge of the mind...