Samara, November 20, Interfax — The Samara city court has banned work of Dianetics Center as its staff-members worked without license and practiced hypnotherapy and Ron Hubbard teaching. The Samara Region Prosecutor’s Office reported that staff-members of the Dianetics Center lectured at seminars and courses on dianetics and scientology without having special licenses. “These educational courses allegedly aimed at forming world outlook and life style based on priority of human values. They … [Read more...] about News: Hubbard Center closed up in Samara (2008)
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Article: The True Story of Scientology (2007)
From an often-quoted article by L. Ron Hubbard: THE TRUE STORY of Scientology is simple, concise and direct. It is quickly told: 1. A philosopher developed a philosophy about life and death. 2. People find it interesting. 3. People find it works. 4. People pass it along to others. 5. It grows. When we examine this extremely accurate and very brief account, we see that there must be in our civilization some very disturbing elements for anything else to be believed about … [Read more...] about Article: The True Story of Scientology (2007)
Book: Magick Liber Aba Book Four (1997)
Publication: Magick Liber Aba Book Four (Second revised edition) (pp. 68, 69)
The most powerful weapon in the hand of the student is the Vow of Holy Obedience[1. Cf. Scientology's billion year Sea Org contract]; and many will wish that they had the opportunity of putting themselves under a holy guru. Let them take heart —for any being capable of giving commands is an efficient guru for the purpose of this Vow, provided that he is not too amiable and lazy. The only reason for choosing a guru who has himself attained is that he will aid the vigilance of the sleepy … [Read more...] about Book: Magick Liber Aba Book Four (1997)
Book: Steve Hassan on “Unfreezing” (1988)
Leah Remini promoted Steve Hassan's book[1. Hassan, S. (1988) Combating Cult Mind Control. Park Street Press] on Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath (Season 1, Episode 8). THE THREE STEPS TO GAINING CONTROL OF THE MIND [...] On the surface, the three-step process to gaining control of the mind seems quite simple. These three steps are unfreezing, changing, and refreezing. Unfreezing To ready a person for radical change, his reality must first be shaken up. His indoctrinators … [Read more...] about Book: Steve Hassan on “Unfreezing” (1988)
Book: Studies on Hysteria (1974)
Josef Breuer (1842-1925) was a pioneer in the use of hypnotism as a method of treatment for hysteria, a method which formed the basis for his collaboration with Freud in the early 1890s. [...] First and foremost, Freud was the discoverer of the first instrument for the scientific examination of the human mind. Creative writers of genius had had fragmentary insight into mental processes, but no systematic method of investigation existed before Freud. It was only gradually that he perfected the … [Read more...] about Book: Studies on Hysteria (1974)
Letter: [?] to FDA (ca. January, 1963)
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