mystical

Question answered by honorarykid in Scientology

poetry82 asked this question on 8/29/2000:

why cant i find anything on mystical people and plases

honorarykid gave this response on 8/31/2000:

Well, you came to the right place. L. Ron Hubbard, the megalomaniacal founder of the cult we today know as Scientology, claimed to have been a "mystical" person.

In his early years, before Scientology came into being, Hubbard wrote trashy, shallow pulp science fiction stories. He was a ne'er do well, who always seemed to be able to lie his way out of the jams (such as marriage) he found himself in. According to his rather lurid diaries, Hubbard came to believe that he had a Guardian Angel, who's sole purpose was to look out for him amd protect him.

Later, in the late 40s, Hubbard explored this "magic" more fully, taking part in OTO sex ritual ceremonies with Jack Parsons (the main West Coast devotee of Alistair Crowley), in an attempt to incarnate the Whore of Babylon!

Hubbard appears to have had different motives than did Parsons and Crowley. Whereas Crowley appeared to have viewed the Whore as an object of worship and reverence, beyond human control and understanding, Hubbard (in his inimically arrogant style) thought to control "her" and the magical power he was trying to conjure.

He never succeeded, obviously, or else it would probably have made the papers. But he did make off with Jack Parsons girlfriend and $10K of Parsons' money.

Scientology came along in the mid to late 50s. During the creation of Scientology "technology," Hubbard pretended to have delved into mystical, never before discovered areas of supernatural research. That was pretty much a lie. Critics (myself included) say that Hubbard didn't so much "discover" anything new and mystical, so much as he just continued doing what he had done before Scientology, which was writing bad science fiction.

But LRH did honestly study hypnosis and brainwashing literature of the time, even writing the U.S. Army's manual on brainwashing. Hubbard's genious came not from anything mystical, but from the way he incorporated the bizarre and idiotic science fiction stories into a program of hypnosis and self-hypnosis, building a set of techniques he knew could control certain types of people who desperately needed to believe in "magical" powers. Many people to this day make themselves vulnerable to con-men and scam artists in their quest for magic bullets and magic powers with which to end the world's (or is that just their own?) problems. I think Hubbard understood full well, that to such people, self-induced hypnotic delusions would be indistiguishable from magic.

Anyway, after Scientology was well established, and it's totalitarian principles firmly implanted via conditioning and hypnosis drills into the mindsets of Hubbard's growing number of followers, Hubbard would created a group called the "Guardians Office" whose job it was to protect and defend Scientology from "attackers. He probably thought that was a clever name.

Hubbard's third wife, Mary Sue, was head of the Guardians when the FBI raided Scientology orgs in the late 70s. She, and 10 other high ranking "Guardians" of Scientology were convicted of Federal felonies, mostly theft of documents. Mary Sue went to prison. LRH went into hiding, never again to be seen publicly.

Hubbard died in 1986, and old, pathetic, lonely (yet rich and powerful) man. Scientologists just say he has "dropped his body" and his soul (Thetan) is still traveling around the stars.

In Scientology, today the GO exists under the name of "Office of Special Affairs."

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