From: lindsay+@cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: S.F. Encyclopedia Entry
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Date: 26 Jul 91 02:30:06 GMT
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Consulting "The Science Fiction Encyclopedia" (Peter Nicholls,
copyright 1979, Doubleday), I find:

"Hubbard also taught that traumas could be pre-natal, and eventually
that they could have been suffered during previous incarnations.  A
"clear", one who had successfully rid himself of aberrations, would
possess, according to Hubbard, radically increased intelligence,
powers of telepathy, the ability to move outside his body, the
ability to control such somatic processes as growing new teeth, and a
photographic memory.  ... In 1952, after an organizational rift,
Hubbard left the Dianetic Foundation, and soon advertised his new
advance on Dianetics, Scientology."

...

"The worst setback scientology received was the result of the Board
of Inquiry set up in the state of Victoria, Australia, in 1963.  The
Anderson report which followed in 1965 found that "Scientology is
evil: its techniques are evil: its practice a serious threat to the
community, medically, morally, and socially: and its adherents sadly
deluded and often mentally ill." 151 witnesses had been examined
before this conclusion was reached. Scientology was then banned in
Victoria. A later disaster was the deportation of L. Ron Hubbard from
the UK as an undesirable alien in 1968. Scientolgy has since been
directed from the ships of Hubbard's fleet, usually found in the
Mediterranean. In 1978 he was sentenced, in his absence, to four
years' imprisonment in Paris after being found guilty of obtaining
money under false pretences through scientology."

I saw his ship in Hamilton Harbour when it berthed in Bermuda.
It was barely short of being a cruise liner.
-- 
Don		D.C.Lindsay 	Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute