Word: hubbards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This hidden source, according to its discoverer, science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, is the "engram," "a moment of 'unconsciousness' containing physical pain or painful emotion." during this moment of "unconsciousness" the individual's "reactive mind" records all nearby utterances. No matter what their import, the "moronic" reactive mind misconstrues the words to be commands, and they influence the individual's later behavior like post-hypnotic suggestions...
Complete cures, or "clears," depend on erasing the very earliest engrams on the time track. The first time a patient relived his own birth "seemed a remarkable day for dianeties." After this, it was no shock for Hubbard to uncover engrams formed in the womb, the first at the moment of conception. "Most patients . . . sooner or later startle themselves by finding themselves swimming up a channel or waiting to be connected with." Sooner or later, the most phlegmatic patent is bound to be startled; cases are common "with the patient yet unborn discovering himself at his parents' wedding...
...womb is wet, uncomfortable, and unprotected." All in all, the first nine months are the hardest. "Mama sneezes, baby gets knocked 'unconscious.' Papa hits Mama, baby gets an engram. Junior bounces on Mama's lap, baby gets an engram. And so it goes." Besides these normal hazards, all Hubbard's patients have a pre-natal history of beatings by the father and attempted abortions by the mother. Small wonder that the child emerges punchy...
...Harvie-Watt off a New Zealand-bound liner, were flying him back from Gibraltar. Outside the House of Commons, hundreds watched the arrival of the invalids. Labor's Sir Stafford Cripps and Hugh Dalton were brought back from rest cures, R. W. G. Mackay from a hospital. Thomas Hubbard, awaiting an operation, turned up, pale and haggard, with two attending doctors. J. P. W. Mallalieu, who had been suffering from shingles, afterwards wrote: "Medical science is wonderful. First it was deep X rays. Then it was penicillin. Now it's divisions in the House of Commons." The sound...
...several months the lists of bestselling books have offered multiple proof of man's incurable yearning for marvels. Near the top of the "nonfiction" section stood Immanuel Velikovsky's scientifically preposterous Worlds in Collision (astronomy based on hashed-up mythology). Close below was L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics (psychiatric home-treatment practiced as a sort of parlor game...