Male voice: I've heard a lot of fabulous stories about the book "Excalibur." Could you tell us a little about that? It still - it still exists. I got a carbon copy of it. The original's been stolen. Male voice: Will you ever put it in print, Ron? The original... No. The original was stolen by the Russians a long time ago. They offered me a hundred thousand dollars to go to Russia and work exclusively in Russia - all laboratory facilities - and actually offered me any facility and pay … [Read more...] about Lecture: Case Analysis – Rock Hunting – Q & A Period (3) (1958)
Dr. Ivan Pavlov
Manual: Scientology Clear Procedure Issue One (1) (1957)
I have been at work for seven years to produce a series of techniques which any well trained auditor can use to clear people. We now have them. I am truly sorry that this took seven years. Actually, it took more than twenty-five. Under other “systems of research” it could not have been done. It was financed at first by my writings and expeditions. Some 15,000,000 words of fact and fiction articles ranging from political articles to westerns were consumed in a large part by this research-but … [Read more...] about Manual: Scientology Clear Procedure Issue One (1) (1957)
Book: All About Radiation: Brainwashing (1957)
Brainwashing — a Political Weapon How much further has man gone? In 1927 or 1928 he developed a political weapon called “brainwashing.” A Russian by the name of Pavlov, who had been experimenting with the reactions and conditioning of dogs, was brought to the Kremlin by Stalin. He was put in a separate room and was asked to write everything he knew concerning the conditioning and actions of animals as it might apply to the human being. He wrote a 400-page manuscript which since that day has … [Read more...] about Book: All About Radiation: Brainwashing (1957)
Lecture: The Effectiveness of Brainwashing (3) (1956)
Pavlov talks about making a dog insane. I'd like to shake the paw of a dog the techniques contained in his book would make insane. These learned experiments by which we reduce a circle to a square and reduce a square to a circle while ringing gongs and dah-dah bells and feeding the dog and beating the dog–oh, bah. I had a malamute once, he was a tough dog. The only way he could accept an acknowledgment was if you took a stick of firewood and hit him between the ears. My mother, who is a … [Read more...] about Lecture: The Effectiveness of Brainwashing (3) (1956)
Lecture: The Effectiveness of Brainwashing (2) (1956)
But the finding is a very, very interesting finding and a strange commentary on a line in Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, a very strange commentary. It said, "Man is basically good." The duress required to make man worse is so tremendous that I do not believe there is known to the communist today, as he operated in the Korean War, any technique that would have worsened the IQ or actual ability of a human being.[1. Hubbard claimed that he used Dianetics on Korean POWs in 1954 to … [Read more...] about Lecture: The Effectiveness of Brainwashing (2) (1956)
Lecture: Auditing Positions (August, 1956)
Series: Hubbard Professional Course Lectures, London
There was a punk by the name of Pavlov who had a bunch of dogs and after a great many years of study he found out they barked. And this-it's all very well, I shouldn't be this impolite, but there's been so much smoke made about this fellow Pavlov that when I, at length, uncovered a secret manuscript of his, I expected really to find something, you know? And it was about as informative as a comic strip. He gave people the idea, however, of driving people's attention inward. And if he'd said … [Read more...] about Lecture: Auditing Positions (August, 1956)