Lecture #10, October 3, 1968, Class VIII Course
Question answered by honorarykid in Scientology
Anonymous asked this question on 10/9/2000:
I have a question about Lecture #10, 1968. In extreme
extract, and at the very beginning, Ron says:
Class VIII Course
You are going to run into this character starts going round and
round and round and they say "the helicopter's going to
cra-ash, it's going to cra-ash" and you're looking for a
helicopter action. What the hell it's R6 boy and nothin' else.
And I don't know, I think for about a day or two it takes this
helicopter to crash in R6. Err, there's no helicopter there, the
guy's frozen in alcohol and glycol, and sitting in a
block, being given a big 3D Cecil B. De Milles special motion
picture.
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I'm curious. Was Hubbard positivly insane?
honorarykid gave this response on 10/9/2000:
According to to cosmology of Scientology as written by L.
Ron Hubbard, this helicopter crash imagery comes from the
'R6' incident, which is one of the brainwashing "routines"
allegedly run on us all, 75 million years ago (we're all
immortal spirit beings) when we were being held captive in
frozen glycol by the evil alien galactic ruler, Xenu.
As a Scientologist, one learns about this aspect of the
religion at the course level called Operation Thetan 3. It
requires many years of "training" and perhaps as much as
$350,000.00(US) to reach the OT-3 level. The Church of
Scientology never wanted any non-Scientologists to know
the OT-3 story, but the cat is out of the bag, and there'll
likely be no putting it back. It truly is a bizarre and fanciful
story.
Hubbard's life and personality would probably make an
interesting case study for some psychiatric or sociological
dissertation.
From my reading of Jon Atack's "A Piece of Blue Sky" and
Russell Miller's "Bare-Faced Messiah" it would appear that
Hubbard grew up with sociopathic tendencies, lying,
exaggerating, manipulating others. But he also seemed to
need very much the approval of others (or at least he
dreaded the disapproval of others), which is, according to
my understanding, not typical of sociopaths.
Many people who knew him say that in the early years of
Scientology and Dianetics, he was quite cynical, and
showed a lot of contempt for his followers, which would
indicate that he didn't think very highly of them.
But when I listen to some of the tape excerpts, it seems to
me that he is willing to believe the gobbledygook stuff he is
saying, even as he knows he's making it up out of whole
cloth. He definitely seems to be getting some ego stroking
from having a captive, sycophantic audience hanging on his
every word.
LRH was also extremely sensitive about odors and scents,
and with the presence of soaps in his clothing, perhaps
indicating that he had some form of obssessive/compulsive
disorder, phobia, or acute allergies or even some mild form
of epilepsy.
He was definitely a megalomaniacal individual, with
anti-social tendencies.
Near the end of his life, when he was frail and his health
was not good, he really did believe that he was covered in
Body Thetans (or BTS - BTs are the spirit beings of others
who are stuck to us and our bodies). Hubbard did seem to
really believe that David Mayo was auditing out of his Body
Thetans and improving his health in the process.
Perhaps we can opine that LRH was a bizarre, badly
deluded, eccentric sociopath. I'm not sure if that means he
was insane. It seems he was always aware of, and able to
look after his own narrow self-interests, such as in the late
70s, when he let Mary Sue alone take the rap for their
combined misbehaviors in Operation Snow White.
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Lecture #10
October 3, 1968
By L. Ron Hubbard®
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