That is to say, I can wear a good swami hat and I like these bath towels and ten–cent–store diamonds; it’s just really marvelous. Go to a party and wrap a bath towel around your head and put a Woolworth diamond on the front of the bath towel and tell people’s fortunes. That used to be one of my biggest gags, and so forth, only I’d tell them what I saw in their banks.[1. Define: bank], [1. Hubbard, L. R. (1964, 3 November). Programs. Saint Hill Special Briefing Course, (SHSBC-408). Lecture … [Read more...] about Lecture: Programs (1964)
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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 … [Read more...] about Lecture: Story of Dianetics and Scientology (2) (1958)
Lecture: Address of Auditor to Preclear – Saturday Evening Course (2) (1950)
I had a dear old lady one time who was perfectly willing to be treated by me up to the moment when she found out I wasn’t a chiropractor. And at that moment I was a dog because I had misrepresented myself. Nobody had ever said I was a chiropractor as far as I could find out. So I sold her on the idea that I wasn’t a chiropractor, I was a swami, and she bought this okay. She would be treated by a swami. I don’t think she had any idea what a swami was, but it was something mysterious. Her … [Read more...] about Lecture: Address of Auditor to Preclear – Saturday Evening Course (2) (1950)
Lecture: Dianetics: First Lecture of Saturday Course (5) (1950)
Several years ago when research was very intense, I learned this the hard way on a young man who maintained that he could run his own engrams. He kept insisting on it. He wanted all his engrams up in present time where he could run them himself. So finally I swamied him into a deep trance and said, "You can remember everything you’ve ever felt, heard or seen in present time. You can remember all these things in present time." That’s it, just you can remember—permission. There was enough … [Read more...] about Lecture: Dianetics: First Lecture of Saturday Course (5) (1950)