AUTHOR'S NOTE: The following article originally appeared In the Los Angeles Science-Fantasy Society Journal, Shangri-La for May, 1950. It was composed on stencil at the time of publication and deliberately padded to flesh out the Issue. The editors of Inside have offered me this opportunity to revise the article much as I would have done in 1950 had I had the time. I have therefore cut much verbiage from the original and added a number of observations. Including a few based on events which took … [Read more...] about Magazine article: Pipsqueak Prometheus: Some Remarks on the writings of L. Ron Hubbard (1962)
Excalibur
Article: Yes, There Was a Book Called “Excalibur” by L. Ron Hubbard (1961)
Yes, There Was a Book Called "Excalibur" by L. Ron HUBBARD By ARTHUR J. BURKS From "The Aberee", Dec 1961[1. Burks, A. (1961, December). Yes, There Was a Book Called "Excalibur" by L. Ron Hubbard. wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de. Retrieved 8 July 2010 from http://web.archive.org/web/20020607204602/wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/~cowen/essays/burks.html] EDITOR'S NOTE -- One of the Dianetic "ghosts" that has haunted auditing and training rooms is rumors of a super-super book by the author of … [Read more...] about Article: Yes, There Was a Book Called “Excalibur” by L. Ron Hubbard (1961)
Lecture: Case Analysis – Rock Hunting – Q & A Period (3) (1958)
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)
Lecture: Laughter in Processing (1954)
So if the sanity of your preclear could be said to depend upon any self determinism, could be said to depend upon the ratio of his own dangerousness compared to the dangerousness of his environment. When the environment is total danger, and an individual is no danger, you have somebody who is in very bad shape indeed. A badness of shape which is impossible to conceive, even to an auditor. Simply because it's never totally existed. It's an absolute. And let's get the other extreme - an … [Read more...] about Lecture: Laughter in Processing (1954)
Letter: Hubbard to Forrest Ackerman (1949)
Box 1796 Savanah, Georgia Jan. 13, 1949 Dear 4E: (Proper name should be in capitals) I have been meaning to back up the last note of Sara's but didn't, been powerful busy trying to nail down a stack of copy. Been using an old dictaphone arangement which was on the verge of driving me stark staring.Finally today managed to get my big paws on a new Audiograph setup. They were used by the airforce in planes in the war and transcribe or record in any position with a minimum of breakdown. … [Read more...] about Letter: Hubbard to Forrest Ackerman (1949)
Minutes: Shangri-La (Excerpt) (1948)
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second [small] rocket flight aside by that organisation. He said that the flights were very successful; the society fairly coined the money. Currency flowed in from even such remote parts of the Earth as Texas. However, they had a little trouble with the postmaster of a Los Angeles Suburb; it seems the guy says they look too much like counterfeit or something. They had to contact Washington to get them through. Forrest J. Sees All Knows All Tells Even More Ackerman told us that L. Ron Hubbard … [Read more...] about Minutes: Shangri-La (Excerpt) (1948)