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...Scientology, a study of the mind which supposedly can free one of all conflicts and psychosomatic illnesses. Scientology is the philosophy, or rather the cosmology, formulated for the multitudes of new beings cleared by Dianetics procession. Both systems are the product of the mind of one "man," L. Ron Hubbard...
...cult began after a close friend of mine became disturbingly fanatic about it and began spewing forth a most incredible stream of theories and arcane terminology. All of which are purportedly based upon painstaking "scientific" research. "Thus, along with science, Scientology can achieve positive invariable results," writes L. Ron Hubbard. "Scientology can change intelligence upward at the rate of one point per hour." Hubbard continues, "The amount of benefit to be gained from Dianetics exceeded anything that Man had ever been able to do for anybody in the history of the human race." Finally, "Scientology is the most vital movement...
These claims struck me as extravagant. I realized that L. Ron Hubbard must be either an extraordinary scientist or a flaming charlatan. Let me say now that I lean toward the latter view; but nevertheless, the L. Ron Hubbard trip is both a fantastic personal story and a sobering barometer of our society's fragmentation. For a person must have a desperate sense of alienation and powerlessness to subordinate himself to such an ultra chauvinist, pyramidal organization, such an elitist hierarchy with Hubbard at the summit...
...faculty group created a publicity committee chaired by William R. H. Alexander '60, assistant professor of English and a planning committee chaired by Dr. Ruth Hubbard Wald, lecturer and research associate in Biology...
...jazz for the connoiseur." It was actually more of a jazz potpourri. It began a bit slowly with George Benson and Sunny Murray (or so I was told; the rain and the traffic on Route 128 kept me from getting there on time), but picked up with Freddie Hubbard and his group (unfortunately, so did the rain). It's hard to classify Hubbard's sound; maybe "slight futuristic soul-jazz" comes closest. Two of his pieces--the best two--called "Space Drive" and "Eclipse," are on the group's new album, Black Pearl. It should be worth looking...