Yes, Mick. Eloquently stated and 100% true.

PeaceMaker – The hypnotist trick was funny even though unpleasant for the poor woman. Oddly enough it gives SOME credence to Elron’s theory about the reactive mind, subconscious triggers causing irrational reactions. I’m NOT saying everyone has a Reactive Mind which needs to be erased. laughter

Jere- I should have added “being facetious” to my comment. Being silly or facetious sometimes doesn’t come across right on a blog and I’ve gotten into a couple of scrapes in the past for not indicating my intent – haha

As an experiment I only entered mikerindersblog.org in the website field to see if it goes through

R., I think that, like the prohibition on “other practices,” Hubbard was trying to prevent people from finding out that there were other paths to the same sort of altered-state experiences that Scientology provides, from the “high” of auditing and the feeling of personal growth, to the dissociative and out-of-body experiences of “exteriorization.” He probably also fell for the then-popular belief that you refer to, that LSD users could have “flashbacks,” which fit with the theory that the purif is based on about the body retaining drugs in fatty tissues (not original to him, either).

A seasoned commenter over at ESMB, recently posted that they knew people decades ago who became disillusioned with the OT levels, gave up on Scientology and went back to using drugs. That exemplifies the threat to Scientology, when people know that there are other routes to the same sort of experiences.

Also, I think Hubbard didn’t want people around, who might have understood how he had come to “rise above the bank,” which probably started with his 1938 experience on nitrous oxide (“whippets,” a dental anesthetic Hubbard was probably experimenting with as a recreational drug) that resulted in “Excalibur” (the description of which fits with a classic type of revelatory nitrous oxide high). And then if his son “Nibs” and other sources are correct, that was augmented by later psychedelic drug experimentation as well, along with his copious use of mood-altering drugs such as the stimulant benzedrine that he promoted early on, and the “pinks and grays” that he referred to.

Jere – I agree that the LSD prohibition is a good thing. Several people have commented that they took LSD on purpose when they were teenagers just so they could avoid being recruited. I think Elron ramped up sea org recruiting in the seventies as a priority but most of us were first generation and could brush off sea org recruiting. Incidentally, for a while the military was concerned that LSD users might freak out in combat and some people got draft deferments.

Richard, you seem to think the LSD prohibition was a BAD thing? IMO
, it was good in that some poor souls were excluded from that mindfcuk, so they couldn’t be used to lure others in or to keep their families trapped inside.

I found 5 years of the SO to be more than anyone should subject themselves to – – – And that was BEFORE dwarfenführer started squirreling things around.
BTW, Where IS shelly, Davey’s wife? ( I assume there’s no divorce since that’s a public record, easily discovered.[ As long as it’s done in an industrialized country.]

I think you have expressed this well, Omega. I agree that all of those personalities existed in him. And the last two particularly, in his later years.

As I think about this, I would say there were elements of another personality, one that craved approval and recognition from those he perceived as his equals or those higher socially than he.

And if he were dismissed by those he considered higher socially, it depressed him and enraged him and he would seek revenge.

Those who opposed him that he considered lower than he were targets of abuse or destruction, without any sense of remorse or empathy.