The Church of Scientology as the Cult of Electropsychometry Ron Hubbard’s great sleight of hand was to superimpose his metaphysical-psychotherapy Dianetics model upon a natural phenomenon, i.e. changes in galvanic skin resistance. […]
As discussed in our previous installment, Ron Hubbard claimed that his 1955 discovery of the “comm lag” eliminated the need for the e-meter in Scientology. However, in typical Hubbardian fashion, Scientology’s Founder […]
L. RON HUBBARD REBOOTS IN PHOENIX When Ron Hubbard lost Dianetics to Don Purcell in bankruptcy, he suddenly had no income. However, he still had plenty of cash stashed away that he […]
SIGMUND FREUD & VOLNEY MATHISON: THE MAIN SOURCES OF FIRST GENERATION SCIENTOLOGY Having discussed Sigmund Freud and Volney Mathison in our previous installments, we produce a remarkable document later in this in […]
WHEN DID L. RON HUBBARD & VOLNEY MATHISON FIRST MEET? Volney Mathison met L. Ron Hubbard in 1950 in California during a series of lectures Hubbard gave. Mathison wrote of the meeting […]
