Word: mentality
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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...
...Claudel, who became increasingly paranoid, produced no new work after 1913, when her family had her committed to a mental hospital. The following year she was transferred to another asylum, where she remained until her death almost three decades later. Rodin would die in 1917, one year after the faithful Beuret, whom he had finally married just weeks before her death. Toward the end he was also still secretly sending money to ensure Claudel's comfort at the asylum. If it wasn't an ideal romance, it was in its way an enduring one, and it left some lasting treasures...
...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...