MORE than 1,000 unreleased recordings of lectures by Scientology charlatan L Ron Hubbard, plus reams of corresponding writings, have been unearthed in the culmination of a 25-year project to locate, restore and transcribe lost pieces of the lunatic’s work.
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Though sure to be derided by the church’s many critics, according to this report, its followers say the materials amount to an opportunity to deepen understanding of the ‘religion’ and to release the last known unpublished Hubbard works dealing with Scientology and Dianetics.
Said Tommy Davis, the church’s top spokesman:
It would be like discovering that Buddha, unbeknownst to anybody, had sat down and wrote down the entirety of his discoveries and it could be verified that he wrote it.
The new materials were announced in a New Year’s celebration at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles that was broadcast to churches around the world. They include 1,020 lectures and hundreds of corresponding booklets from courses and other sessions with Scientology ministers from 1953 to 1961. They also reveal discussions of how Hubbard arrived at the principles of Dianetics and his research on everything from decision-making to personal responsibility.
David added:
We’ve been able to restore lectures we literally never thought would be heard again.
The release marks the third and final batch of Hubbard works to be distributed as part of the decades-long project initiated by Hubbard himself but carried out after his 1986 death by the church’s current leader, David Miscavige. Releases in 2005 and 2007 included updated versions of 18 basic Scientology books to correct transcriptional errors, as well as hundreds of other lectures given by Hubbard.
Said Davis:
It’s so huge for our religion having these materials. It’s really a renaissance. It’s as if it’s a rediscovery of our own scriptures and what they hold and what they mean.
All the materials – contained on 970 compact discs and corresponding booklets in 57 binders – are being shipped out of a Los Angeles warehouse to Scientology churches worldwide … and will be available for sale to Scientology nuts at $7,500 a pop.
You’ve got to hand it to them Scientologists. When it comes to turning garbage into gold they beat all other cults hands down!
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January 11th, 2010 at 11:50 am
I had a flashback moment, and I thought I was reading the Daily Mash.
But I wasn’t, was I? This is horribly, and predictably real…
January 11th, 2010 at 12:28 pm
“…to correct transcriptional errors”? Hubbard must be spinning in his new body. While he was alive, anyone who alleged there were errors in the “tech”, transcriptional or otherwise, would have been keelhauled and spent the next billion years in the RPF.
I sense the hand of the power-crazed David Miscavidge (aka, to irreverent scientologists, David Miscarriage) in this. What’s the betting that the corrected “errors” will legitimise any of his pronouncements that conflict with Hubbard’s?
January 11th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
Oh I wouldn’t call L Ron Hubbard a lunatic (although one FBI agent, apparently, called him ‘mental’)!
He knew very well what he was up to saying, at a science-fiction group in Newark in the late 1940s, “Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wanted to make a million dollars, the best way to do it would be to start his own religion.”
January 11th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
I think he probably had an encounter with a genie:
Ron Hubbard = Hand Rub Orb!
January 11th, 2010 at 7:08 pm
I’d laugh if, towards the end, he realised it was all a load of absolute bollocks, & confided as much to his private journals.
His followers would presumably do what Lenin’s successors did, suppress his last testament. But it would bring the lulz nontheless.
January 11th, 2010 at 7:55 pm
I wonder how obviously a scam a religion would have to be to have no followers because it was so obviously a scam.
Some guy goes on US tv and just says “Jesus says that you have to send me all your money” and there are people watching who say “Oh well if Jesus says so we had better do it”. And then the TV guy openly just spends the money on himself but does the send me your money routine again and the sheep just empty their pockets all over again.
It must be simply impossible to invent a religion that is too stupid for at least some people to believe.
January 11th, 2010 at 11:29 pm
7500 bucks a pop? Im quitting my day job and starting a religion, fuck working for a living lol
January 12th, 2010 at 1:38 am
Sadly they’ll sell plenty, because people are just that effing stupid.
January 12th, 2010 at 7:31 am
Having read some of his work, both Sci-Fi and Danetics, I don’t believe he actually meant it to be a real belief system, more a philosophical life-style. Like Heinlein, he was a advocate of Renshawing and believed that self-hypnoses could aid against trauma.
I reckon that the “register it as a religion” bit was a tax scam.
January 12th, 2010 at 10:41 am
@gsw: How about all that nonsense about life on earth having been seeded by aliens? I reckon that, having invented his “religion”, he was so amazed at how easily he could dupe people that he just got completely carried away by the whole thing. A lot of his teachings (like those of the Bible – surprise, surprise) are self-contradictory, but that doesn’t seem to matter to his acolytes, who, as we have seen, are willing to part with more and more of their money in an effort to attain “higher levels” of knowledge, when they stupidly believe that everything is going to become clear!
January 13th, 2010 at 1:28 am
I LOVE Ron Hubbard!!!
He makes a bet with fellow writers? Succeeds beyond measure with a joke bet and a bunch of fancy fairy tales. Why? Because he exposed the ridiculousness of the american policies toward religion. If the US and other gov’mints would get their heads out of the collective dark place and treat ALL religions for what they are—BIG BUSINESS. Their so called charities should be regulated like any charity. ANY church with more then twice their operating costs (need to prove this as well) in the bank then they have PROFITS and tax them like anyone else. LRH showed how ridiculous the US policies are and they still let him get away with it!!! Good Show! The only people dumber then the gov’mint are the sorry souls that believe it.