Word: mentalism
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...become what she did without Rodin, who fostered her gifts and then, perhaps, overwhelmed them. What she became, for a while, was a sculptor of some consequence. After that she devolved into an increasingly erratic talent, struggling to escape from Rodin's shadow and eventually ending up in a mental hospital. Their romantic misery can't be blamed for all of Claudel's mental difficulties, but it surely played its part. Sharing a bed with genius is an adventure. And adventures can be dangerous things...
...common myth claims that L. Ron Hubbard started Scientology on a bet with Kurt Vonnegut. In fact, Hubbard established Scientology in 1952 as an alternative to psychotherapy. The religion uses the techniques Hubbard describes in his 1950 book “Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.” He later characterized the religion as an “applied religious philosophy...
...sure why I decided to pursue Scientology as a kind of pet project. But I spent a week perusing internet sites with hyperbolic accounts of the religion’s dangers and benefits, even checking L. Ron Hubbard’s “Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health” —the book that started the religion some 50 years ago—out of Lamont. I’d spent my school year studying abstract critical theory (I’m an English concentrator), and now I wanted to study abstract religious hucksterism...
...achievement of power and self-control. Sure, I felt that there was a lot of pseudo-science. But there was also the promise of actual superpowers. Follow his steps, Hubbard wrote, and you will not only achieve increased happiness and stress relief, but also telekinesis, extrasensory perception, and mental telepathy...
...love Ann Rule [the leading true-crime writer, with some 20 New York Times bestsellers]. I like that she makes these people real. I'm not somebody who believes in evil. I think that people do things for a reason-that we have mental illness, that we have genetic wiring that can get triggered by certain environmental factors. I think that it's important to understand how that occurs. Just to put a blanket term on it, and say, 'Well, they're evil'-that doesn't really explain what happens. The fact is real people are committing these crimes...