This is what the genius came up with after years of research.

By the way, his own teeth were rotting, since he was afraid of dentists.

Besides obviously just not even thinking things through, Hubbard also failed to consider how humans are inherently wired in ways that strongly influence us – something increasingly being revealed by modern scientific research – and also have all sorts of below-consciousness and involuntary mechanisms at work as well. Not only are our brains and minds not simply computers, as his model implies, but his notions about thetans then get into what can be categorized as magical thinking.

Funny you should ask Zee…

Here is a link to another Hubbard who was active back in the 50’s as an LSD pioneer although with a bit of a shadowy background. He actually did help people and his work (along with others) is being revived today. Check out ‘How to Change Your Mind’ by Michael Pollan. It’s interesting if nothing else. It certainly holds more promise than ANYTH:ING scientology has to offer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Matthew_Hubbard

SILVIA, the real revelation in ‘Science of Survival’ is on the dedication page of the early editions before they were cleaned up and disappeared. It would be fun to pull out one of these historical volumes and show it to any current scientologist, staff or public, and ask “who is Alexis?” Even though there are no semi-colons involved that one is sure to baffle even the most foolproof cultie.

Yes, Hubbard’s glibness was often just overt ignorance. His so called knowledge was merely ideas he pulled out of his rear end and arrogantly called science.

In regard to Aristotle, he wrote “Poetics,” a treatise on dramatic and literary theory that’s still studied today. Professional writers for stage and screen continue to use those theories, just as creative writers did back in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

It’s ironic that Hubbard’s fiction writing might have achieved a respectable level of quality had he studied Aristotle. Of course, it’s possible that he did read Poetics and passed it on as his own work.

All of the promotion had me hooked on wanting what it said it would give me.

I remember being sat down alone by one of Craig Jensen’s executives to “enlighten”me on what L11 was and how I would benefit.

They were doing the ‘ruin’ drill on me and when I realized it I did my best to decline and avoid but still be employed because I had no other job experience or world experience and did not believe I could actually survive outside of the scientology bubble.

That money went to pay rent, help my mom who was hit by a drunk driver (PTS Rundown), pay for baby sitting, food, etc.

Specific: Science of Survival, towards the beginning of the book, LRH states Aristoteles was never a scientist and his philosophy lacked that view; LRH was of course also adding that Scientology was the very first science of knowledge.

Yet, if you review Aristoteles life and philosophy, you will find he is considered to be a great scientist and, of course, his philosophy affected many fields that still use some of his basic studies and findings.