Parsons' pursuit of Hubbard had been closely followed by Hubbard's fellow science fiction writers. For L. Sprague de Camp, a Caltech graduate in aeronautical engineering and now one of the most popular science fiction and fantasy writers of the day, the events confirmed his already low opinion of Hubbard. In a letter to Isaac Asimov, he wrote: The more complete story of Hubbard is that he is now in Fla. living on his yacht with a man-eating tigress named Betty-alias-Sarah, another of the same … [Read more...] about Book: Strange Angel (2005)
L. Sprague de Camp
Article: Jack Parsons JPL’s Sorcerous Scientist: Sub-Figura vel Liber Babalon (ca. 1998)
Jack Parsons JPL's Sorcerous Scientist[1. V.H. Fra. B.R.H., B:.B:. (n.d. ). Liber Babalon Liber VI Publication in Class B An Holy Observer of the Babalon Bunch©. www.brotherblue.org. Retrieved 8 July 2010 from http://web.archive.org/web/19980424201950/http://www.brotherblue.org/brethren/parsons3.htm] "The [Babalon] Working began in 1945-46, a few months before Crowley's death in 1947, and just prior to the wave of unexplained aerial phenomena now recalled as the 'Great Flying Saucer … [Read more...] about Article: Jack Parsons JPL’s Sorcerous Scientist: Sub-Figura vel Liber Babalon (ca. 1998)
News: The Man Behind The Religion (1990)
LA TIMES: The Mind Behind the Religion From a life haunted by emotional and financial troubles, L. Ron Hubbard brought forth Scientology. He achieved godlike status among his followers, and his death has not deterred the church's efforts to reach deeper into society. By Joel Sappell and Robert W. Welkos, Times Staff Writers[1. Retrieved from: http://www.latimes.com/la-scientology062490,0,7104164,full.story] June 24, 1990 Hubbard's intense curiosity about the mind's power led him … [Read more...] about News: The Man Behind The Religion (1990)
Lecture: PreHav Scales and Lists (1962)
In this 1962 lecture, Hubbard mentions one of his archenemies, Sprague de Camp as an example of someone who develops a psychosomatic reaction to a "wrong item" concerning some aspect of his case. Apparently de Camp was allergic to cats, which Hubbard found amusing and found satisfaction in using against him. All of a sudden I hit this level on the Prehav Scale[1. Hitting a level on a Prehav Scale: Discussing a type of auditing in which the auditor uses the E-Meter to test a series of … [Read more...] about Lecture: PreHav Scales and Lists (1962)
Lecture: Games Conditions (1961)
In this 1961 lecture, Hubbard uses the case of Sprague de Camp as an example of someone who is way down scale, i.e., not able to influence his own mind. Elsewhere Hubbard described de Camp as "one of my archenemies in writing." A little kid who was just trying to rehabilitate himself in the next lifetime, you see, and you give him an alarm clock. And he might have been a watchmaker at some time, but that doesn’t prevent him from wrecking the alarm flock. His ability to reach the alarm clock is … [Read more...] about Lecture: Games Conditions (1961)
Web article: Robert A. Heinlein: Naval Academy (ca. 1939)
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Heinlein had been following the war news from Europe with increasing unease: the lights of democracy were going out all over Europe and Asia (to both fascism and communism, which Heinlein, regarded as equally evil). A year and a half earlier he had written a short-short for a fanzine that tried, unsuccessfully, to waken science fiction fans to the Nazi extermination camps. Now the U.S. was involved in the war, and he immediately applied for active duty, but was rejected for medical reasons -- … [Read more...] about Web article: Robert A. Heinlein: Naval Academy (ca. 1939)