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January 1, 1968 by Caroline Letkeman

Book: Mission Into Time

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Many awards and honors were offered and conferred on L. Ron Hubbard. He did accept an honorary Doctor of Philosophy given in recognition of his outstanding work on Dianetics and “as an inspiration to the many people … who had been inspired by him to take up advanced studies in this field…”

Hubbard, L. R. (1968). L. Ron Hubbard Mission Into Time (First printing 1973 ed.). Los Angeles: American Saint Hill Organization.

Filed Under: Scientology scripture Tagged With: claims about Hubbard, Doctor of Philosophy, title doctor

February 14, 1966 by Caroline Letkeman

HCOPL: Doctor Title Abolished (1966)

In protest against the abuses and murders carried out under the title of “doctor” I abandon herewith all my rights and legitimate use of this title as the name has been disgraced.

I was a Ph.D., Sequoia’s University and therefore a perfectly valid doctor under the laws of the state of California.

My beloved grandfather was a doctor and was known as such throughout his life.1; 2

Notes

  1. Hubbard’s grandfather was a veterinarian. Ref. Miller, R., Barefaced Messiah. ↩
  2. Hubbard, L. R. (1966, 14 February) Doctor Title Abolished (Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter). The Organization Executive Course (1991 ed., Vol. 7, p. 1205). Los Angeles: Bridge Publications, Inc. ↩

Filed Under: Biographical, Scientology scripture Tagged With: claims about Hubbard, Sequoia University, title doctor

January 1, 1965 by Caroline Letkeman

Government Report: The Anderson Report

From the Anderson Report:

Report of the Board of Enquiry into Scientology
by Kevin Victor Anderson, Q.C.
Published 1965 by the State of Victoria, Australia1

The Anderson Report
CHAPTER 6
HUBBARD–THE FOUNDER OF SCIENTOLOGY

From 1930 to 1932 Hubbard was a student at the George Washington University where he claims to have studied engineering and to have been one of the first men to have studied nuclear physics. He has claimed, or allowed the claim to be made and repeated frequently without denial by him, that he is a graduate of that University in civil engineering, and he uses, and allows to be used in relation to himself, the letters “B.S.” and “C.E.”, intending to convey the impression that he has so graduated. In fact, he has no such qualification. He claims other academic distinctions also – “many degrees” it is said – but the only “university” degree which is identified is that of Doctor of Philosophy at the Sequoia University, Southern California. The Board caused inquiries to be made as to the identity of this university and was informed by the Australian Consul-General in San Francisco that the Sequoia University was a privately endowed institution which was not accredited, that is, not registered with the Western Association of Schools and colleges, which is the accrediting body for the west coast of America.

This somewhat suspect degree and a self-bestowed doctorate of scientology enable Hubbard to describe himself and be described as “Doctor” Hubbard. Though he writes extensively on medical matters, there is no basis for regarding him as a doctor in the medical sense.

Anderson, K. V., Q.C., (1965). Report of the Board of Enquiry into Scientology. (Published by the State of Victoria, Australia). Retrieved on 20 March 2010 from http://www.xenu.net/archive/audit/ar06.html

Notes

  1. Anderson Report TOC ↩

Filed Under: Essays and Articles Tagged With: B.S., C.E., claims about Hubbard, engineering, George Washington University, government report, nuclear physics, Sequoia University, title doctor

April 14, 1961 by Caroline Letkeman

HCO Information Letter: PE Handout (1961)

HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex

HCO INFORMATION LETTER OF 14 APRIL 19611

Do not re-mimeo
Print for PE2
Use in the Magazine
2 copies to each Central Org

PE HANDOUT

The following releases should be attractively letter-pressed on small individual sheets and are each one a part of the Auto Eval Packet, HCO Policy Letter March 2, 1961.

IMPORTANT: This is “What is Scientology?”, the release required to be given PE Test people as per HCO Policy Letter of March 2, 1961, No. 3 of eight items.

[…]

Newton, Sir James Jeans, Einstein, have all sought to find the exact laws of human behavior in order to help Mankind.

Developed by L. Ron Hubbard, C.E., Ph.D., a nuclear physicist, Scientology has demonstrably achieved this long-sought goal. Doctor Hubbard, educated in advanced physics and higher mathematics and also a student of Sigmund Freud and others, began his present researches thirty years ago at George Washington University. The dramatic result has been Scientology, the first major and complete breakthrough by the exact sciences into the field of the humanities. Although taken from the material sciences, Scientology is dedicated in the finest tradition of human dignity and freedom espoused by brilliant men in all periods of Man’s ascendancy over his relationship to the animal. The laws of this science proved to be startlingly simple when found, well within the grasp of the average person. It is a tenet of Scientology that this knowledge belongs to Man, not in the forbidding halls of learning. It is the science of the Man, the Woman and the Child in the street. It belongs to us, the People, not to any vested interest on Earth.

Scientology means the “study of knowledge”. Scio is knowing in the fullest sense of the word, and logos, study.

Scientology is today the only successfully validated psychotherapy in the world. Tens of thousands of completely documented cases exist in the files of the Hubbard Association of Scientologists International.

Scientology has many “firsts”. These include:

Scientology is a precision science. It is the first precision science in the field of the humanities. Yet it is sufficiently simple and rapid that where it requires twelve years to train a psychiatrist, eight weeks of heavy Scientology training can permit a person to achieve results. However, for a truly skilled Scientologist, the training period, for a doctorate in the subject, is usually not under five years and has been ten years.

Ample records exist to substantiate these firsts. Further, the results of Scientology are easily demonstrable claims that can be duplicated by competent practitioners at will using Scientology principles correctly.

The first axiomatic construction of the basic laws of thought and behavior in Man.

The first science to isolate the life unit that perceives and generates energy, a discovery comparable to the isolation of the nucleus in atomic physics.

The first science to prove that IQ and intelligence can be improved and are not inherent in a person.

The first science to discover and isolate the reactive or subconscious mind.

The first science to isolate and classify accurately the twenty-four parts of the human mind. Previous to Scientology only the brain, the body, Freud’s subconscious and Pavlov’s Stimulus-Response law were known. Scientology has clarified these four and has discovered an additional twenty parts, any one of them more important to Man in his efforts to bring peace and order to his environment and Earth.

The first science to determine accurately the honesty and potential character of people by invariable instrument means.

The first mental science to subject itself to the most severe validation tests.

The first science to establish a new state or condition for Man which exceeds earlier concepts of Man’s potential. This alone in Scientology remains expensive due to the skilled attention it requires but is usually a quarter the price of an analysis.

The first science to put the cost of psycho-therapy within the range of any person’s pocket book. A complete Freudian analysis cost three to five thousand pounds. Better results can be achieved in Scientology for ten pounds and, on a group basis, for shillings.

The first science to make whole classes of backward children averagely bright using only drills the teacher can do a few minutes each day.

The first science to determine the basic cause of disease.

The first science to contain exact technology to routinely alleviate physical illnesses with completely predictable success.

The first science of mind to prove conclusively that physical illness can stem from mental disturbance, a fact which Freud held only as a theory, and only seldom demonstrated.

[…]

The Code of a Scientologist, under which Scientologists practice, is the most severe ethical code known to physical or mental groups or practices. In addition to other points, a practitioner must return a patient’s fees if therapy is not considered successful. Only an average of one case in all the thousands treated in any year over the whole world ever requests a return of fees and these are immediately refunded.

[…]

The easiest and least expensive way to improve your life is to take a Personal Efficiency Course and then the HAS Co-Audit.

This is the lowest cost effective mental help on Earth.

It is very little trouble to put into effect.

You go five evenings the first week and only three evenings a week afterwards.

By giving help to another person like yourself and receiving help from him you improve your IQ and personality.

[…]

The quickest way to change your graph, raise your IQ and alter your future is to see the Consultant and procure Individual Processing.

A highly skilled and experienced Scientologist will give you fast intensive processing daily for a week or as long as you require.

[…]

It is more costly than the PE route but it is a thousand times faster.

Remember, only Scientology discovered IQ could be bettered, personality improved and one’s fate altered. And Individual Processing is the fastest, surest way.

[…]

– L. Ron Hubbard
(Please note: The article “What is Scientology?” has been entirely re-written by Ron, and this one should be used in preference to the original one which was written in Johannesburg and issued from there–HCO Sec WW)
[Note: Originally issued on 12 April 1961. The 14 April 1961 correction added paragraph 9 on page 196.]

Notes

  1. Hubbard, L. R. (1961, 14 April). PE Handout (Hubbard Communications Office Information Letter). The Technical Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology (1991 ed., Vol. VI, pp. 90-95). Los Angeles: Bridge Publications, Inc. ↩
  2. “PE” stands for “Personal Efficiency,” a Scientology course for beginners. ↩

Filed Under: Biographical, Scientology scripture Tagged With: auditing claims, C.E., claims about Hubbard, claims of science, George Washington University, HASI, humanities, IQ claims, nuclear physicists, title doctor

June 23, 1959 by Caroline Letkeman

HCOB: What is Scientology? (1959)

Scientology is the science of human ability and intelligence. It was developed over a third of a century by Doctor Hubbard, American nuclear physicist and leading world authority on the subject of life sources and mental energies and structures. The Hubbard Association of Scientologists International assists and forwards his work and is a charitable nonprofit organization with thousands of professionals […]

Scientology, in less than a decade, has become the world’s primary study of man and the mind and has today more offices and practitioners than all other nineteenth century practices combined. 1

Notes

  1. Hubbard, L. R. (1959, 23 June).   What Is Scientology? (Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin Issue I) The Technical Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology (1991 ed., Vol. V, p. 153). Los Angeles: Bridge Publications, Inc. ↩

Filed Under: Biographical, Scientology scripture Tagged With: claims about Hubbard, HASI, nuclear physicist, The Ability Angle, title doctor

October 18, 1958 by Caroline Letkeman

Lecture: Story of Dianetics and Scientology (2) (1958)

And during the war – during the war, I had some very interesting experiences on the subject of the mind. I was on one ship that had about seven hundred men on it, and we were getting two people a week going mad. Two people a week went mad on that ship. That’s an awful lot of people going mad. But in view of the fact that we had no replacements, they were simply left on duty for the most part.

We particularly contested taking off duty one chap who had had the bad taste to want shore leave in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and had come up to request it of the executive officer, and had found the executive officer in a shower. The executive officer was not well liked on this ship. And the executive officer, from the lather and spray of his shower, said something coarse and uncouth to this fellow. And this fellow whipped out a knife, dived into the shower, chased the executive officer out, and we had the wonderful view of the executive officer running round and round the deck with this madman behind him brandishing a knife. I remember stepping out of my cabin with the gunnery officer where we’d been playing cards or chess or something, and watching this pair go by on their first round.

And the gunnery officer said, “Here,” he says, “I’ve got a – I’ve got a gun. Let’s stop this.”

And I said – I said, “Why?”

About that time, why, two masters-at-arms entered the parade and it became very, very amusing. So we watched it go by. There hadn’t been any amusement for a very long time and we – Finally we got tired of it and the gunnery officer and I checked the madman by putting out a foot, and the crew wouldn’t speak to us for a week. But this fellow had to stay on duty.

The medical doctor of that ship and I had the same cabin. And I’d been studying the mind for quite a while, and the men in the crew would come up to get bandaged up or something like that at all hours of the day or night. When the medical officer was out, they would get me, you see. And I’d process them one way or the other. And when he was there, why, he’d give them pills and sew them up. So they had a good time of it.

And I had an awful lot of subjects matter to study. The medical officer turned it all over to me. He was kind of bored with it all anyway. He was on the verge himself. And at the end of the war I had the misfortune of standing in the wrong place. It’s always your fault, you know; you’re standing in the wrong place at the wrong moment and something else arrives and tries to occupy the same space. This is always embarrassing.

But the end of the war I spent about a year in the hospital recuperating from an accumulation of too much wartime Scotch and overdoses of lead and things like that, you know. Oddly enough, they gave me a psychiatric examination as they gave all veterans and found out… By the way, that scared me to death – scared me to death. I went in, took the psychiatric examination, and when he finished up – he was very pleasant – he started writing. And when he finished writing two pages worth – very interesting – he finished writing two pages worth. . You generally took your own records back to the ward. And I was watching this, you know, saying, “Well, have I – have I gone nuts after all?”

And he took these two pages worth and put them in my folder, and I said very smartly and happily – the way you get; you get to be an awful 1.11 after you’ve been around the armed services for a while – and I said, “Well, I’m going right back to my ward.

I’ll take the folder back.” He said, “Oh no, it will be taken back by a messenger.”

I didn’t sleep much that night. Next morning after breakfast I said to myself, “Hubbard, think.” So I thought for a while and all of a sudden realized that I had better cook up a toothache and get a dental appointment and have all of my records be given to me so I could take them over to the dental clinic. So they gave me all the records and I tucked them under my arm and I went out to the dental clinic – toward that direction. There was a nice little evergreen sitting outside the door. And it was out of public view, and as soon as I got near that evergreen, I just ducked, see, real quick and opened the records, you know. Oh, here it is, see. And this almost indecipherable scrawl goes on for two long, arduous pages. And I waded through these terrific technical terms, you know. I read it all very carefully and got to the last paragraph, and it said… Oh, there were words in it that long, and the page – and the page was only that wide. And I got to the end and it said, “In short, this officer has no neurotic or psychotic tendencies of any kind whatsoever.”

So I sat down weakly on a bench and said, “Well, I have evidently survived it, you know.”

And I was feeling very, very good, when at that moment a marine walked up to me, took me by the arm, and he says, “You have a dental appointment and I have been sent to find you.” So they took me down and filled a tooth. Well, that’s what you pay for curiosity.

But during that last year, I studied at the Oak Knoll Naval Hospital library. And I found out by the simple expedient of taking off one collar ornament I became an MD, you see – very simple. And they don’t let anybody in a medical library except doctors, you see, of the MD class. But by stepping up to the desk with only one collar ornament, you see, on the Left side – and for a couple of bucks having a marine on crutches come by and say, “Good morning, Doctor” – I was able to get in a year’s study at the medical library.

I studied the endocrine system and studied this and studied that and dreamed up a few experiments of one kind or another. I wrecked a whole research project, by the way. There was a doctor with the improbable name of Yankewitz, and Yankewitz was conducting a series of studies on prisoners of war who were being released by that time from German camps and from Japanese camps that had been overrun. And this Yankewitz was trying to fix them up with testosterone and other endocrine compounds. Well, I had all of his records available to me, because he and I were – we played dominoes and things together evenings. And all of his records were available and he was keeping very, very sharp metabolism tests and other things to show the results of endocrine fluids and extracts on prisoners, you see.

Well, it’s very simple. All I had to do was get the name of one of his series, take him out in the park, sit down and do some psychoanalysis and the beginnings of Dianetics and Scientology on him, pull the second dynamic apart and put it back together again, see, and then have him go in and take his metabolism test, you see – Yankewitz said to me one day, he says, “Good heavens!” he said, “Something has gone wrong with these records.” He said, “The cases just aren’t turning out right; some of these fellows are getting well.”

Well, I found out by those experiences that function monitors structure, that thought monitors matter and that matter does not monitor thought. Because those people who were given injections and treatment in the absence of psychotherapy didn’t recover; they went the same level. Was an interesting condemnation of the therapy; But those people that I had caught behind a tree or on a park bench and had slipped a few yards of Freud to – and a little bit of the beginnings of Dianetics and Scientology – would all of a sudden go up scale, you see.

In other words, by treating thought and thinkingness, I found out that I could monitor the experiences and the condition of the person, but I found out similarly that the drugs did not. And that is a very significant series of experiments, which are unfortunately not totally available to us, but are probably still on file in a folder with a great big question mark on it in the Navy Department in Washington, DC – because it was a failed project as far as Yankewitz was concerned.

Now, if – this was the first – the first broad test of it all. Thought was boss. Thought was king. Thought could change structure, but matter could not really change matter – but thought could change matter. Isn’t this fascinating? You could vary somebody’s weight by changing his thinkingness. If you could do that, then, what did we study? Did we study more structure to make man well, change his behavior pattern, follow it through? Did we go on studying the brain? No, No, never. Never. It would only be thought.

Well, a short time afterwards, the government decided to give me all of my back pay. And they’d been holding my back pay from me. I’d been on combat duty for a couple of years without being promotable. Every once in a while I’d receive a set of orders and it’d say, “Go to the front lines,” or the equivalent thereof you know, and I would say to the medical doctor, I’d say, “All right.” And I’d say to the personnel officer, I’d say, “I’ll go, but where’s my other stripe? You’re sending me to a job that requires an awful lot of gold lace, and if you inspect this carefully with a microscope you’ll find there isn’t very much on my sleeve.

And it isn’t the rank I worry about, but I’ve blown the fortune, you know, and that extra hundred or two dollars a month would come in handy.” And they would say to me, the equivalent of “Orders is orders, Hubbard. I know you’re not in fit condition to pass an examination for further advance in rank, but nobody said you weren’t in a fit condition to go out and fight for your country.”

So I went out and fought for the country. Got bored after a while with that, too. But all of a sudden at the end of the war they decided to change their mind. By that time I was out of the service, so that, of course, was the time to be very helpful and promote a fellow’s morale so that he would serve his country because he was no longer in the armed services. See how this works out? So they gave me a nice big thick sheaf of treasury checks. Well, in addition to that, I hadn’t had it too bad; I’d sold a movie – Dive Bomber – you may have seen the thing. Wallace Beery, so forth, way back. And I’d sold it right at the beginning of the war and I’d opened up a safe deposit box and I’d never told any of my relatives about it and I’d popped ten thousand dollars in one thousand dollar bills into it and closed the lock tight.

So when I got out of the war I didn’t take that for finance. I must confess to you that this subject “study of finance and advance” was not really by the sweat of the brow. I took that and bought a yacht and went down for a cruise in the West Indies when the war was over. But when that was gone I realized I had to have some money. So I collected my treasury checks and that was what financed the first of the research from which we benefit now. It’s very funny but that was what financed it.

I went right down in the middle of Hollywood, I rented an office, got ahold of a nurse, wrapped a towel around my head and became a swami. And I said – oddly enough, I gave nobody my name, I didn’t say what I was doing, and by 1947, I had achieved clearing.

I worked like mad. And in Los Angeles occasionally, the local operation there will once in a while, occasionally, receive a call saying, “You know, I’ve seen a picture of Dr. Hubbard, and there was somebody who looked quite like him that operated over in Hollywood years ago and that did something or other with me and I have been quite well and happy ever since. Is it the same man?” And, of course, they have orders to say no. They’d spoil the whole series.

Those people were never told anything, and yet some of them were Clears.

Now, those were the first Clears. And they were left there without further education or anything of the sort to act as a progressive series.

My office in Washington got turned upside down just a few weeks ago when I suddenly found out that the name and address of one of them had been lost. And there must have been something psychic about it all, because at the end of the week this person wrote in to me, not having written me for some years. Told me that they were fine, living a very successful life, everything was going along beautifully, gave me a full report on the case and so forth. And even my office started to look at me peculiarly.

But these people serve as the long series of cases, and they are not tampered with in any way; They were cleared; they’ve stayed that way – those that I’m still in contact with. Some of them have been lost in the shuffle.

One of them was a psychiatrist. When Dianetics was first published in the United States, this chap said, “You know, a fellow processed me to a state called Clear some years ago, so it must be a very ordinary thing. He was down in Hollywood at the time. Of course, I’ve never done any psychiatry as such since, but I don’t see what everybody’s so excited about. This fellow Hubbard undoubtedly learned from this fellow in Hollywood.” He was so right. Well, coming on up the track – coming on up the track, looking it over. Wrote a book finally in 1950 in the United States and put it out and the next thing you know it was a bestseller and it rode at the top of the list in the New York Times and everything was going along fine and it was a total boom and it was a tremendous success and it was sweeping]y, catastrophically successful – and I found out I had no administration, practically no organization, I had nothing. And the world fell in on our heads in the United States and we’d had it.

Dianetics became very well known overnight. Very well known. A lot of people pitched in and started helping. And from that time on up to now, these wonderful people have continued to help, and it’s stopped being a sort of an “only one” deal. There are lots of names in the hat now and a lot of people in the game. Makes one feel rather good, because they’re very good people. And what’s happened, simply, is there was a hole in man’s knowledge, you see. And somebody moved into the vacuum, you might say. But there were a lot of other people who became aware of the fact that there was a hole in man’s knowledge, too, and who saw that the vacuum was being partially filled and who pitched in and gave it a great big hand in finishing it up.2

Notes

  1. 1.1 is “Covert Hostility” on Hubbard’s tone scale. ↩
  2. Hubbard, L. R. (1958, 18 October). Story of Dianetics and Scientology.   London Clearing Congress,   (LCC-01). Lecture conducted from London. ↩

Filed Under: Biographical, Scientology scripture Tagged With: case histories, claims of research, Clear, Dive Bomber, Dr. Yankewitz, Hollywood research, Oak Knoll Naval Hospital, psychiatrists, psychiatry, swami, title doctor, violence, WWII

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