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by Arthur J.
Burks
SCIENTOLOGY -- L. RON HUBBARD'S
INCORRIGIBLE BRAINCHILD
Excalibur Revisited
-- The Akashic Book of Truth, by Geoffrey C. Filbert
From "The Aberee",
Dec 1961
I'M GOING to try
to tell something of "Excalibur" - as much as I remember, without having
the manuscript by me. If its author, L. Ron Hubbard, told me the truth,
I am the first person to read "Excalibur". If it is true that the first
half dozen who read it went crazy, then I've been crazy for a long time
and I just haven't gotten caught at it. There is some question as to
whether there was such a manuscript, but I assure you there was, and
probably still is, somewhere. It was a source of considerable
disappointment to Ron Hubbard that he didn't get it published.
I think the time
was about mid-1938 - maybe a little earlier, May or June. I had known
Ron off and on for six or seven years. We 'd gone thru part of the
depression together; he came to New York from his home near Seattle,
Wash. I had met his first wife, Polly, and both his parents.
I 'd read a lot of
material by Ron, and didn't especially like it - and he'd read a lot of
material by me and didn't particularly like it. I wouldn't say we were
very close friends, but I knew him, I guess, as well as anybody. For
instance, I knew Ron was a night owl - he'd sleep all day and work all
night - and didn't pay any attention to your working hours at all He was
apt to call you at 4 o'clock in the morning and hold you in conversation
for an hour or more until you felt like you could break his neck. Then
he'd pull down all the curtains and sleep all day.
Ron called me one
day - the strange thing about this was that he called during the day -
and said, "I want to see you right away. I have written THE book." I
never saw anybody so worked up - and he was disturbed over a lot of
angles. Apparently, he started to write the book, and had written it
without sleeping, eating, or anything else - and had himself literally
worked to a frazzle.
He was so sure he
had something "away out and beyond" anything else that he had sent
telegrams to several book publishers, telling them that he had written
"THE book" and that they were to meet him at Penn Station, and he would
discuss it with them and go with whomever gave him the best offer.
Whether he
actually did this or not, I don't know, but it is right in line with
something he would do. For example, Ron would send stories to various
magazines without a return address (and if you know anything about the
publishing business you could know how this would irritate people), and
then call up and ask for a report on it.
He used very heavy
paper, which made it very expensive to mail stuff, and he'd mail his
manuscripts, not in professional envelopes, but say in a light blue one
so that it would stand out from the others.
Also, he was a
little careless occasionally - and his stuff needed editing, but he
didn't want anybody to edit it. He had a lot of odd ideas about writing.
For example, he didn't feel he had to write a certain stint, so when he
would do a manuscript, he wouldn't number the pages - just pile them up
beside his typewriter. Thus he couldn't see how much he had done so
might kid himself into doing 13 pages when he only intended to do 10.
He didn't number
the pages until he finished, and then he'd number them in pencil.
Going back to "The
Book", I don't remember how long it was. It probably was under 70,000,
which is considered an average book.
He told me what he
wanted to do with it - it was going to revolutionize everything: the
world, people's attitudes toward one another. He thought it was somewhat
more important, and would have a greater impact upon people, than the
Bible.
After I'd read the
manuscript, we got to arguing over different titles. I asked him what he
wanted to accomplish. He wanted to make changes. He wanted to reach
inside people and really work them over, and he had to have a title that
would be attractive. I am the one who suggested "Excalibur", because
Excalibur was King Arthur's sword. This had a certain mystical meaning
that suited Ron, and so "The Book" became "Excalibur".
As I remember
"Excalibur", it started - in the introduction only - with a king who got
all his wise men together and told them to prepare and bring to him all
the wisdom of the world contained in 500 books. In the course of time,
they succeeded, and the king was very pleased and said so. Then he told
them to go away and cut down these 500 books into 100 books. It took
them a bit longer this time, but they did it and came back and insisted
all the wisdom of the world was contained in these 100 books. He said,
"Now, do it over again, and bring it to me in one book."
This was quite a
trick, but they did it, and came back some years later and they had,
indeed, reduced all the wisdom of the world into one book.
Then he really
gave them an assignment. He said, "Now go away and bring to me all the
wisdom of the world in one word."
What was the one
word? I don 't know how many times we argued, Ron and I, to discover
what this one word was. It may have been the creative fiat, it might
have just been the word "Be", it might have been the word "Survive". I
don't think we ever settled it. But the book "Excalibur" from there on
had to do with survival.
I'll try to
remember some of it, chapter by chapter, and to explain why it was so
squirmy. For example, he started with the very first life - the very
first cells - how they struggled for survival - how they tried to be and
be "it" the whole time. I'm order to do it, gradually thru the ages they
associated with other cells, one with another, and they reached the
place where they could divide so they would become bigger. This is
strictly science as far as it's gone.
After awhile, this
conglomeration of cells that would reach down a stream of warm water,
would bend its way back in order to catch more - it would extend across
the stream, or across a little rill or something like that - and all the
time it was gaining more sensitivity and ways of the world in which it
finds itself. It finds out that by working together, it can accomplish a
great deal more: it can find more to eat - it can eat more and grow
faster. So the idea is to survive and reproduce - and this is what the
early cell does.
He'd begin to
picture the ocean and the seas and ponds as having the life cells
growing on them like scum. These are ourselves, our beginnings, our own
beginnings because in the womb we start in this very way.
Away back then, we
began to develop motives for things. Now, it is seldom that what we tell
somebody our motive is, is the real one - and this is where you start to
squirm. Somebody will say, "Well, I'd like to do a certain thing," "I
would like to do this with you," or something or other, and you look at
this person and realize, "I wonder why he's doing that." And you look
into yourself and think if you were doing that, what would your motive
be and whether you would hide it. You think that perhaps he's hiding his
real motive and trying to get you to do something because he's giving
you to understand that his motive is thus and so because that appeals to
your vanity - and of course this makes you look at yourself to see about
this business of vanity - and why you 're likely to do that. All the
time, looking at this other person, you can see squirmy things in him.
You can see squirmy things in him that make him look like an entity
peering at you thru gauze, or around a corner. You don 't see all of
him. He's like the iceberg that's seven-eighths submerged - you can' t
tell anything about him.
As these things
are pointed out to you by Ron in the first chapter, or thereabouts, you
begin to see that the cells in any body that you're looking at are all
endowed with this ability to survive - a determination to survive - and
with motives to survive that are sometimes extremely questionable. When
you look at a person, the lips may say one thing, the eyes may say
something else, or nothing, and the flesh may say something entirely
different. Literally, your right hand doesn't know what your left hand
is doing. You shake hands, and this is a friendly gesture, but behind
your back you may be holding a knife to plunge into him and he may be
holding one for you. You can't tell just by looking at people. One of
the things Ron intended to do with "Excalibur" was to make it possible
to see and look into this, Other things I remember is Ron's explanation
as to why there is no such thing as a crowd - that a group of people
actually still consisted of individuals - but a crowd could get out of
hand and do things other people wouldn't. He showed how that could
happen by explaining the relationship of people to each other in the
same way that he explained the relation of cells to each other before
they were people away back when life was developing into different
shapes. He would take two persons, for example, and put them side by
side, and show how the two of them were both less and more than one
person, and yet each one was an individual. Each individual could think
of himself as being individual, but being somewhat "crutched", as it
were, or held up by the other person. These two people were very wary of
each other, like a couple of bantam roosters running around waiting to
get in a thrust, but they knew that they needed each other, and each one
felt that he needed the other more and that he didn't wish to be taken
advantage of, and so there was always this pulling and hauling between
two people that kept them at razor's edge all the time.
Each one, to some
extent, gradually - a little bit at a time - gave away some of his
sovereignty to the other. In other words, he let the other fellow lean,
provided the other fellow would let him lean, and the two people became
somewhat less than they would have been if they had stayed apart. The
relationship between the two people became something that would really
get you.
Then he moved in
with these two people a third person - could be of the same sex - and
you still have all the difficulties, all the problems, and all the
squirminess - the questioning as to motive and everything, and wondering
why, for example, three males would get together, or three women. If you
have a person of the other sex come in on two who were together, you
begin to see where the problems are. Of course, he went into this
business of sexual attraction to a considerable extent in a way that
just made you wonder whether or not your attitude toward sex was
reasonable or wrong, whether it was a horrible thing or a beautiful
thing spiritual or whatever. I think perhaps it would make you think
about it to the point where you'd be almost afraid to perpetrate the act
of sex, even with someone you loved tremendously.
Probably the part
of the book that has stuck with me the most thru this period of time was
the story of the lynch mob going to the prison to take out somebody to
be lynched. He puts you with the person who is waiting to be lynched.
The warden comes and looks at the person and says, "Well, they're coming
for you, Bud. I don't know whether I'm going to be able to stop them,
but I'll tell you one thing, it's not going to cost me my life to do it.
If they come in and get you, they'll get you." The warden just looked
and sort of gloated over the person who couldn't get away. He enjoyed
the sadistic feeling of seeing a person who was bound and hog-tied and
couldn't get away. He goes on with this to the place where you were both
the warden and the person in the cell, and you really get to feel pretty
terrible for everybody connected with it.
Then you take a
look at the stiff-legged march of the lynch mob.
This is something
I'll never forget. I don't remember a single word Ron used, but he
started back from there with showing how a lynch mob started - somebody
got up and said something, and somebody pulled others together - and as
soon as they were together, the person who had started it might or might
not lead, but the chances were that he would vanish into the mob that he
had started in order not to be responsible.
Each person knew that very
dreadful things were going to be done, but he scarcely would be
responsible. He would be there but he wouldn't actually do much
taking part in it.
Each one felt he
was going along for the ride, so to speak, but he walks just as
stiff-legged as the other fellow.
Ron has them
marching down the street at night, blazing torches to show the way. And
when the mutter, or the growl, of this crowd comes to you, it's
something that just simply makes the shivers move up your back from your
heels to the top of your head. It really ate into you. Not one of these
persons was real if you looked at him from the outside as an observer,
yet when he'd take you into the heart of each one, you'd find each
person going along because the others were going to do it, and he had to
go and see.
If you would go
into each person's mind this way, you'd find each had exactly the same
idea. Yet they were moved along by something and they went and, I
suppose, got the guy out and lynched him. I don't remember whether they
did or not - all I remember actually is the march.
I was so impressed
with the book I wanted to publish it. I was interested in a small
publishing company called Egmont Press. I took it to my associates. I
took it to my managing editor, who sat down and started to glance thru
it. When he realized he couldn't get any place by thumbing thru it, he
went back and read a little of it. I could see a strange look come into
his face as he read it. Then he passed it on to a reader, and after
awhile, there were several people involved in it, and it was being
passed, page by page, to others, and they were having all kinds of
results. It was a squirmy thing - and I watched it. I watched, in fact,
until that manuscript was scattered all over East 41st Street in New
York.
The upshot of it
was that they were afraid to publish it. Ron was angry, and threatened:
"You will publish this book and I will have a half-interest in the
company that publishes it or we'll know the reason why." But it never
came to that. Ron did something that he's frequently done: he went sour
on the idea and went back to Seattle I don't believe "Excalibur" ever
would have sent anybody insane - altho you can't be sure. I have the
feeling that, unquestionably, if "Excalibur" were in the hands of every
person in the world, the world would be that many times different than
it is right now. But whether it would make it worse or better, I have no
way of knowing.
Some persons are
so intent in looking "over the border", they can't see the boredom.
The History
of Excalibur
by lerma.net
PROLOGUE:
Gustave Le Bon
1841-1931 is most likely source for Excalibur
Author of "The Psychology of Crowds" French edition 1895
"THE CROWD" -- English Edition Macmillan and Co 1896
Republished by Viking press New York 1960
Paperback edition 1969
---
(Perhaps a related
book) THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SUGGESTION by Boris Sidis 1898 New York, D
Appleton and co.
Brief teaser:
Gustave Le Bon,
founder of social psychology Father of collective behavior theory, THE
CROWD gives the basic principles of manipulating crowds into servile
flocks, a "group mind" concept.
"I have heard that
Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, [Mussolini] and deGaulle were at one time or
another, all close students of Le Bon's work.
THE CROWD has
probably had as much practical influence on modern political behavior as
any single document, including THE PRINCE"
p-353
An inside, aside:
"Imagine my
delight in finding the dynamic duo of the rules of mayhem merged in one
sentence, married to one concept and under the umbrella of Lenin,
Hitler, and Stalin. I sez to me, "This is the stuff of EXCALIBUR." "This
is the inspirational, practical, and spiritual, "source" of "Excalibur".
THE CROWD, the
bible of "brainwashing", is the technical handbook of manipulative
persuasion.
"Outcomes of
persuasion center on the stimulation of beliefs, attitudes, opinions and
actions that run on a scale from "no response" to "conversion", passing
through points of limited modification and shifts in dispositions, as
well as the introduction of the wedge of doubt, a critically important
result of crowd persuasion in certain instances."
P-365
1. Collective
Behavior by Richard A. Berk WM. C. Brown Co Pub. 1974 Chapter 3
"Outdated views of collective behavior - Le Bon, Freud and Blumer"
2. Persuasion, The
Theory and practice of manipulative communication By George N Gorden,
Hastings House, Pub. NY 1971
Chapter 19 "The
Crowd" revisited
An awesome
558-page book of brutal insights that shoots high on the top ten books
list. The other chapters which I have just scanned but not read, like,
"The Power of Power" and "Merchants of God" are equally brilliant. The
above quotes are taken from this book.
** Go right to the
13 Principles of Le Bon pages 352-353 as an intro to this man.
GUSTAVE LE BON THE
MAN AND HIS WORKS by Alice Widener, Liberty Press 1979
A must read book.
Four stars, gives a sampling of Le Bon’s other works.
Contents of
Excalibur
Q & A talk to a
person who read the manuscripts, from notes, some verbatim
There are three
versions of Excalibur manuscripts in archives.
The title of one
manuscript is "THE ONE COMMAND."
One manuscript is
typewritten, about 300 pages on 8 ½ x 14 paper.
Another seems to
be pieces of the above
Another manuscript
is a carbon copy (no master) and is different from the above version
Q: Is there any
real difference in content between the two versions?
A: No! The are
essentially the same
The introductions
change somewhat. In one version LRH states that while in a dental
operation he was given a drug, Narco_____? And went under. While he was
under LRH went into a vortex and was exposed to a tremendous amount of
knowledge. There was a command given while he was under that, "you will
forget all this". When he came out of the operation he didn’t forget.
After the dental
operation he went to his cabin in Port Orchard [The cabin is adjacent to
the main house on the property] and stayed up six days and six nights
writing Excalibur. LRH did not eat but was drinking beer.
Q. Is there
any OT data in Excalibur" Are there any references to NOTS beings?
A. No OT
data in Excalibur. No reference to NOTS beings that I can recall. [see
end note 1 for source used by Hubbard]
Q. What is
Excalibur about?
A.
Essentially the theme is "SURVIVE"
It describes how every aspect of life traces back to survival.
Cells = survive
Family = survive
Groups = survive
Etc.
Q. Is Excalibur
based on any other school of thought?
A. Not that
I can recall.
Q. The person is
"THE ABERREE 1961 DEC with the article, "Excalibur , by L. RON HUBBARD"
by Arthur J. Burks and reads it for the first time, He is then asked if
this is similar to the original?
A. Pretty
much so. I don’t recall a lot of the specifics.
The person said
that LRH commented on Excalibur at length in a 1943 NAVY DIARY.
In discussing the MOTIVES OF LRH this person said something not in
context to EXCALIBUR that seems important now. He said:
"FEAR – NO FEAR,
TWO STATES, YOU ARE EITHER IN OR OUT
From another
source – A Sea Org Member
"LRH has left
orders that EXCALIBUR is never to be published.
The reason being
is that it "HAS MIS-DIRECTORS IN THE WAY THE TECH SHOULD GO."
Time Track Summary
April, 1938
LRH writes
Excalibur almost nonstop in a log cabin in Port Orchard Washington
State. The grounds and the cabin have been purchased by the sea Org as a
national shrine.
May 2 1938
Hubbard writes
letter to Simon and Shuster regarding Excalibur
May-June 1938
Arthur J. Burks is
first person to read EXCALIBUR, is so impressed with the book that he
wants to publish it. Burks takes the book to a small publishing company
called Egmont Press on East 44th Street in NY and it was read by the
managing editor and others. The upshot of it was they were afraid to
publish it. Ron was angry
Around same period
as above
Presumably Ron
"had sent telegrams to several book publishers, telling them that he had
written "THE BOOK" and that they were to meet him at Penn Station, and
he would discuss it with them and go with whomever gave him the best
offer.
Whether he
actually did this or not, I don’t know, but its right in line with
something he would do (From "ABERREE" 1961 Dec)
No date 1938
Burks writes a two
page BIOGRAPHY of L Ron Hubbard, apparently for inclusion in Hubbard’s
unpublished philosophical work EXCALIBUR. The biography was part of a PR
pack that was on display at AOLA about 1982. It has since been moved.
June 1938 TRUE
EXPERIENCES pulp magazine
TRUE EXPERIENCES,
a pulp magazine contains a story called EXCALIBUR. The authors name is
not L. Ron Hubbard however, it may be a pseudonym.
August 1938
MARVEL SCIENCE
STORIES, a science fiction pulp magazine has a story by Arthur J. Burks
called "SURVIVAL"
Data from a person who read LRH’s letters to his wife during this period
says that LRH was quite upset at Burks for lifting this idea and using
it. Something to that effect.
This sequel to "SURVIVAL" appears in MARVEL SCIENCE STORIES 1938 Nov and
is called, "EXODUS".
August 1938 SKIPPER LETTER excerpts:
"Foolishly
perhaps, but determined none the less, I have high hopes of smashing
my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form
even if all the books are destroyed. That goal is the real goal as
far as I’m concerned. Things which stand too consistently in its way
may be nervous. It’s a pretty big job. In a hundred years Roosevelt
will have been forgotten – which gives some idea of the magnitude of
my attempt."
"When I wrote
it I gave myself an education which outranks that of anyone else. I
don’t know but it might seem that it takes terrific brain work to
get that thing assembled and useable in the head. I do know that I
could formulate a political platform, for instance, which would
encompass the support of the unemployed, the industrialist and the
clerk and day laborer all at one and the same time. And enthusiastic
support it would be."
"I seem to
have a sort of personal awareness which only begins to come alive
when I begin to believe in a destiny. And then a strange force stirs
in me and seem completely aloof and wholly invincible."
"Psychiatrists, reaching the high of a dusty desk, tell us that
Alexander and Jenghiz Khan and Napoleon were madmen. I know they
were maligning some very intelligent gentlemen. So anybody who dares
say that maybe he’s going to cut things up considerably is
immediately branded as a egomaniac or something equally ridiculous
so that little men can still save their hides in the face of
possible fury. It'’ one thing to go nutty and state, "I’m Napoleon,
nobody dares touch me," and quite another to say, "If I watch my
step and don’t let anything stop me, I can make Napoleon look like a
punk! That’s the difference."
"It’s a big
joke, this living. God was feeling sardonic the day he created the
universe. So its rather up to at least one man every few centuries
to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter
as possible."
"I’m thirty
percent showman after all because I instinctively dive toward
popular huzzahs."
1938 [no month]
THE GREAT AMEN
by Arthur J Burks, Egmont press NY 1938
A fiction work
about George Carter, a red headed, full blooded giant of a man with
all the consuming appetites and weaknesses of every robust male.
Although killed in action in France (1917), he has returned, by an
extraordinary twist of fate, to America as the most famous man in
the world.
Famous because
HE CAME BACK FROM THE DEAD!
George Carter,
the living ghost, returned to the United States with one burning and
tremendous purpose."
"Employing
press, platform and radio, he started something which affected the
thinking of every nation, and in his lusty, violent,
hell-for-leather way, he managed to SEAR HIS MEMORY INTO THE ETERNAL
CONSCIOUSNESS OF CIVILIZATION. He because the terror of presidents
and dictators, the idol of women, and children's greatest friend.
Invincible, certain of success by the promise in his miraculous
rebirth, he pronounced a NEW SCHEME OF THINGS WHICH MADE HIM AT ONCE
THE MOST HATED AND BEST LOVED HUMAN IN THE WORLD."
(Taken off
dust jacket)
1938 – Russians
want to buy manuscript
Commissar Galinsky
of American-Russian trading company, Amtorg, meets LRH at the Explorers
Club. This representative of the Soviet government offers LRH $200,000
and Pavlov’s laboratories and expenses for further researches into how
the mind works. [EXCALIBUR findings ] LRH refuses.
The Genus of
Dianetics and Scientology tape 1960 Dec 31 (Also CAUSE magazine #100
1981) also THE FINDINGS ON THE U.S. FOOD AND DRUG AGENCY 1968 (This was
a publication by Scientology)
Also FBI Document
#883,883A,883B
Saturday Evening
Post writer James Phelan taped 1st mention 1955 July 23 LRH letter from
Silver Spring Maryland to the FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Communist
Activities Division
1942
[EXCALIBUR
MANUSCRIPT STOLEN] "In 1942 the first manuscript of the work was stolen
in Miami, Florida."
A letter to
President John F. Kennedy
13 August 1962 The
Findings of the U.S. FDA
1942 Nov 2 to 1943
Jan 2 Lt., U.S. Naval reserve, L Ron Hubbard stationed in Miami,
Florida. Duties are officially "under instruction".
Dept of the Navy
records
THE FREE SPIRIT
VOL III Issue 1 January 1986
Saturday Evening
Post writer James Phelan interview with LRH circa 1963 Nov 11-12
Dr. Hubbard:
.."And so we turned him [Amtorg rep] down and by a year later my
apartment was blasted open and that manuscript went the way of all flesh
and it has never seen the light of day since."
Mr. Phelan: "Is
this the basic manuscript?"
Dr. Hubbard:
"That’s the basic manuscript"
Mr. Phelan: "The
one out of which…?"
Dr. Hubbard: "Yes
but of course this one has never been published. It has been read
by a handful of people."
Mr. Phelan: "There
was only one copy?"
Dr. Hubbard:
"There was only one copy. There were actually two copies, the other copy
was destroyed by accident. But that is the original work on this…
(transcript ends
here)
THE GENUS OF
DIANETICS AND SCIENTOLOGY 1960 Dec 31 {SHSBC Course tape}
"About two
years later [after Amtorg offer to buy Excalibur], they broke into
my quarters or some unkown people did. Something on the order of two
or three years later, and stole the original manuscript of this. I
have a flimsy copy of the first manuscript of this subject which has
never been published. It’s not however complete. I’ve had witholds
on you. The Russians have got the original."
1948 [Perhaps
first mention of Excalibur since 1938]
Forrest J.
Akerman, LRH’s literary agent takes Ron "to see two would be
publishers and they are interested in taking two or three of his
serials or novels and put them in hardcovers for him. Well he stayed
up there quite late! And he had this old rattle trap car at the
time. Would have been 1948-1949 I guess. So he drove me home. My
recollection is it was 4:00 in the morning. He began telling me this
remarkable story."
"He said that
during the war, that he had been on an operating table and that he
had died. And directly after he died he found himself in spirit form
and he kind of looked back at the body he’d been in there, but then
he shrugged his incaporial shoulders and said well, where do we go
from here I wonder? And he said that his attention was attracted to
what was sort of like a great wall of china with a fantastic wacking
great ornate gate over there and he thought well, that looks
interesting, I believe I’ll waft over there and investigate that. So
he got over to the gate and as it happens in all the mystery movies,
why, it opened without any human agency and he drifted through and
my god! There on the other side of this gate spread out like an
intellectual smorgasbord as the SUM TOTAL OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE!"
[After
absorbing much knowledge he returns to his body ]
"And the
spirit went back and laid down in the body and he opens his eyes and
looked at the nurse and said "Ah, I was dead wasn’t I?" Just as the
surgeon walked in the room. And if looks could have killed ah….. the
surgeon you know… [said to] the nurse, "What did you tell this man
he died for? He’s gonna have a heart attack now, he really will
die." "No, no, no, that’s alright," he said, "it doesn’t disturb me…
I know… She didn’t tell me, I know I died there for a moment or so,
and ah.." And then he thought…"I often do wake up and I’ve had a
wonderful dream and I want to recapture it, and according to him, I
don’t know what kind of an operation he could have had that he
bounced off the operating table and over to his quonset hut and got
a couple of reems of paper and a couple gallons of scalding hot
black coffee and sat down at his magic typewriter and a couple of
million words flew out of his fingers in the next few days called "X
CALIBUR" or "The Dark Sword". So he said, when he got out of the
…rid of the war, I don’t know whether… I guess he was in the Navy.
You know, he got out of the Navy. He begot himself of this magic
manuscript and he shopped it around to some publishers in New York.
And he kept
getting turned down because they said, oh my god, this is .. this is
too revolutionary! If you just had a small advance on Freud or Adler
or _?___. But this just wipes out ..the slate clean and starts all
over again and it’s just too much to absorb.
Umm, the only
clue he ever gave me about it, which I didn’t understand, he said it
would eliminate all fear from a human being."…
From Interview
with Forrest J. Ackerman Transcript done after 29 April 1980
probably by Francis Schier.
Jan 29 1948 -
First Public Talk on Excalibur Done By Ackerman And Not LRH
"Forrest J
Ackerman (sole owner of the ACKERMAN AUTHOR’S AGENCY) is agenting
some stories for L. Ron Hubbard, of whom all of you have heard.
Forrest had spent most of the previous night with that gentleman and
had picked up a lot of biographical information from him."
"It seems that
Hubbard had quite a few remarkable experiences at which his stories
have only hinted, and one of them is that DURING AN OPERATION BEING
PERFORMED ON HIM FOR CERTAIN INJURIES RECEIVED IN THE SERVICE HE WAS
ACTUALLY DEAD FOR EIGHT MINUTES!"
SHANGRI-LA
1948 MARCH – APRIL NUMBER 5
"JUST A MINUTE" by
Jean Cox Page 9
(record of minutes
of previous meetings)
[Hubbard’s
Official Navy records do not support his grandiose claims, when he was
discharged it he was described as merely suffering from a urethral
discharge, and the same bad eyesight he had when he entered the service,
and never saw combat, and was considered "UNFIT FOR COMMAND"]
January
29th; 425th Consecutive Meeting:
Forrest J
Ackerman (sole owner of the ACKERMAN AUTHOR’S AGENCY) is agenting
some stories for L. Ron Hubbard, of whom all of you have heard.
Forrest had spent most of the previous night with that gentleman and
had picked up a lot of biographical information from him. It
seems that Hubbard had quite a few remarkable experiences at which
his stories have only hinted, and one of them is that during an
operation being performed on him for certain injuries received in
the service he was actually dead for eight minutes!
The astounded
pause was well timed for in that moment who should walk in but Rex
Ward and Roger Phillips Graham -- the Rog Phillips of AMAZING
STORIES!
The incredible
thing is -- during the discussion that followed, it was not Forrest
who carried the ball forward into the enemy but Dale Hart. It
was mostly a quiet argument, though. Very few derogatory
remarks were made from AMAZING'S corner or form ours. No
personal remarks were exchanged.
Mr. Phillips
let out quite a few definite statement, among them the following:
"There isn't
going to be any more Shaver Mystery two issues from now. On
March 10, the April issue of Amazing will be on the stands and it
will contain the summation of the Shaver Mystery, the proof
of the Shaver Mystery, complete with photographs, letters, and so
forth. Palmer's editorial will go something like this:
'We have definitely proved that the Shaver Mystery is the truth
and since this magazine is devoted to fiction, rather than fact, we
must discontinue it.'" And, among other things, he stated that
the letter which was sent to Forrest was 'news' of Palmer's insanity
was Hamling and Palmer's idea of a joke. "My fan column will
have nothing to do with Shaver," he concluded. When he left,
Phillips announced that he had been favorably impressed with Forrest
and the club.
NOTE: "The Shaver
Mystery" and "DIANETICS" are the lead subjects of discussion in THE
VISUAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCI-FI by Brian Ash (1977) in the section called
"FRINGE CULTS". In AMAZING STORIES of 1945 March, Richard Shaver submits
a very bizarre theory in the form of a TRUE EXPERIENCE (fact not
fiction) story. The result was a TEN FOLD READER’S LETTER RESPONSE AND
AN UNPRECEDENTED RISE IN CIRCULATION. This response and demand was so
great that articles appeared in AMAZING STORIES for years. In 1947 July
an entire issue was devoted to the "SHAVER MYSTERY". When the "SHAVER
MYSTERIES" were ordered to be stopped, the editor, Ray Plamer, left and
started a new magazine called, FATE.
January 1948 -
Another Account of the Excalibur Story as told to the Science Fiction
Fantasy Group
Text reproduced
below of pages 6 & 7 of the SCIENCE FICTION ADVERTISER July 1952 from
the article, "Deus Ex Machina: A Study of A.E. Van Voght"
The first
thing I discovered was that dianetics was invented by the science
fiction writer, L. Ron Hubbard. I was somewhat surprised at
this. Hubbard -- to fill in the background briefly -- was
prominent in Los Angeles science fiction fan circles in 1948.
He first showed up on January of that year. At that time, he
told us a story more remarkable than most of his printed pieces:
It seems 'that during an operation being performed on him for
certain injuries received in the service he was actually dead for
eight minutes.' While dead, he went toiling up a long hill;
voices ahead were calling him -- then, something pulled him back.
He woke up on the 'white mule' being wheeled out of the surgery.
'I was dead, wasn't I?' he said to the nurse. 'She looked
startled.' The doctor came over 'I was dead, wasn't I?' he said to
the doctor. 'The doctor gave the nurse a dirty look for having
told me.' Hubbard realized that while he was dead, he had
received a tremendous inspiration, a great Message which he must
impart to others. He sat at his typewriter for six days and
nights and nothing came out -- then 'Excalibur' emerged.
'Excalibur' contains the basic metaphysical secrets of the Universe.
He sent it around to some publishers; they all hastily rejected it.
In all, twelve people read it. Four of them went insane, the
other eight were seriously disturbed. Finally, he realized
that 'Excalibur' was too potent. He locked it away in a bank
vault. But then, later, he informed us that he would try
publishing a 'diluted' version of it.
Shortly
after this, it was mentioned in an article on him in Writers'
Markets and Methods that he was writing a book entitled 'Traumatic
Psychology'. Now, of course, 'traumatic psychology' has
emerged as 'dianetics.' Dianetics, I was recently told by a
friend of Hubbard's, is based upon one chapter of 'Excalibur'.
MAY-JUNE 1948 –
SHANGRL-LA the official publication of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy
Society appears
bi-monthly - This issue is not available
April 29 1948
First Talk by LRH on Near Death Experience
SHANGRL-LA 1948
Jul-Aug Number 7 gives a summary of LRH’s talk on page 11 and
corrections on page 4, This is from JUST A MINUTE by Jean Cox. Both
Pages are reproduced below.
-
A repeat
mention of Hubbard being dead for eight minutes.
-
Hubbard
studies medical aspects during his convalescence
-
"IMORTALITY"
statement by Hubbard
-
"After months
of research, and a lifetime of picking up odd bits of knowledge,
Hubbard has become convinced that man can be made to live a very
long time. In fact, he is convinced that only a half-dozen
prescriptions, if administered regularly and constantly CAN PRODUCE
IMMORTALITY."
-
"It’s the
bio-chemist who’s going to lengthen our life. If chemists and
biologists are not interfered with, they will give to the world many
cheap and easy ways to produce "limited immortality."
EXCALIBUR -
Page 7
JUST A MINUTE
by JEAN COX
April 29th:
438th Consecutive Meeting:
This meeting,
we had a guest speaker, L. Ron Hubbard.
His untitled
talk was about "...the future immediately before us ..." He
said: "During the last two or three years, several things have
happened that enable us to see quite a chunk of eternity."
Hubbard served
as an officer in the United States Navy during the war. He was
injured and had to receive treatment for his wounds. As has
been recorded before, he was dead for eight minutes by the surgical
clock, and was brought back to life by the use of several emergency
measures.
Hubbard
stressed the difficulty of obtaining books on medical subjects.
Many of them cost as much as $25, and the best ones are all but
unavailable. The layman, therefore, has a lot of trouble in
satisfying his curiosity on matters medical, if he has such a
curiosity. Hubbard had a consuming curiosity. He
satisfied it only through perseverance and stratagem. Even
then, he wouldn't have found out much, had he not had lots of time
on his hands during a period of convalescence.
After months
of research, and a lifetime of picking up odd bits of knowledge,
Hubbard has become convinced that man can be made to live a very
long time. In fact, he is convinced that only a half-dozen
prescriptions, if administered regularly and constantly, can produce
"immortality."
He mentioned
the anti-reticular serum which the Russians are supposed to have.
"Russia does have it, but they do not have testosterone in any
appreciable quantities." He emphasized: "I want to point
out that there is one man in the world today who is not getting any
younger and that there is one nation that is not getting any softer.
It is not getting any softer because its leaders are not getting any
softer. That man is Joseph Stalin and that country is Russia
..."
Hubbard places
great faith in the twenty-three amino acids. Too, he thinks
testosterone very efficacious. He admits that some ways of
introducing it into the body are inefficient, but declares that the
stuff, if permitted to exercise its full effect, produces a very
salutary reaction.
"It's the
bio-chemist who's going to lengthen our life. If chemists and
biologists are not interfered with, they will give to the world many
cheap and easy ways to produce 'limited immortality.'"
He concluded:
"By necessity, the doctor is only a practitioner, not a scientist.
Therefore, there is a need for greater cooperation between the
fields of medicine and the scientific fields."
Ackerman told
us the the Elmer Rice play, THE ADDING MACHINE, a fantasy, was
showing at the Circle Theatre. He recommended it, and
suggested that the club get up a party and go to see it. The
idea was accepted, of course. ((Ed's Note: About 15 of
us enjoyed seeing the play.))
FLASH:
The editor has just read the Minutes of Jean Cox, and He notices a
terrific misquotation. L. Ron Hubbard did not say that Joe
Stalin is not getting any younger; he said that Joe Stalin is
not getting any older. -- He does look youthful in the
newsreels ...
May 6 1948
LRH attends
the LASF’s meeting not as a guest speaker but two of his
contributions to the meeting are recorded. One on the subject of
Edgar Allen Poe not being a drunkard and dope fiend and the
incredulous story of Sax Rohmer creator of the insidious Dr. Fu
Manchu refusing a SATURDAY EVENING POST offer of $75,000 to write a
new Fu Manchu story.
From SHANGRL-LA
1948 Jul-Aug
May 11 1948
Perhaps this is the meeting WHERE LRH HYPNOTIZES VARIOUS MEMBERS
May 11th;
440th Consecutive Meeting:
"Nothing
happenned at all at this meeting; at least nothing I’m allowed to
put in the minutes. L Ron Hubbard amused us for hours but they tell
me to be very discreet in mentioning it so I can’t put it in the
minutes."
Arthur J. Cox’s
Story of LRH’s Stage Type Hypnotism, Science-Fiction Advertiser July
1952, Pages 7 & 8 are reproduced below:
Much of the
discussion dealt with Hubbard's activities when he was in Los
Angeles. Van Vogt had been more impressed with Hubbard than
most of us. Hubbard, it seems, had never told him the story of
his death and resurrection. In fact, Hubbard had never told
him much of anything; my impression is that he had mostly listened
while van Vogt talked.
When Hubbard
had been there, both he and van Vogt had been interested in
hypnosis. Their approaches to the subject, however, were at
opposite poles. Van Vogt's interest seemed to be speculative,
experimenatl. He used what is sometimes called 'the laboratory
technique' in hypnosis, characterized by its calm, scholarly
approach, dependent upon a maximum of co-operation from the subject,
and having as its end some definite goal. Hubbard used 'the
stage technique'. He delighted in having his subjects sing
'God Bless America', seemingly under the impression that their
listeners were entranced, view cavorting kangaroos through water
glasses and be forced to take off their shoes 'because of the heat'.
Hubbard seemed to be the more adept of the two, though he, despite
his statements to the contrary, was obviously just learning
hypnosis. He showed his usual social ease and command in
handling it, but his work was often slip-shod -- he'd forget to
bring his subject out of hypnosis, for instance, after he'd finished
with him.
Van Vogt
seemed to feel that Hubbard had done some mysterious things while he
was in Los Angeles. It seemed to him that at least one person
whom Hubbard had hypnotized had much improved -- that there had been
a change in his personality for the better. This person,
though, had no memories of any extra-curricular activities on the
part of Hubbard in their hypnosis sessions. It was true that
he had once gone to Hubbard for advice about some emotional
difficulties but all Hubbard had done (as he recalled) was to
recommend that he read Dale Carnegie's 'How to Win Friends and
Influence People'. But this didn't necessarily mean anything
as, after this hypothetical dianeticoid-hypnoid session, amnesia
might have introduced. I informed van Vogt that this person
was amenable to hypnotic investigation to see if Hubbard had done
anything with him of which he wasn't conscious and van Vogt was
interested, but somehow it never came off. However, other
efforts were made along that line: Another person who had been
hypnotized by Hubbard once was willing, and a group of us journeyed
over to his place for some hypnotic detective work. Nothing
was discovered from him, but -- almost incidentally -- Cooke, who
was doing the actual work, decided to 'warm up' on my brother, who
is a deep-trance subject. And it was discovered that Hubbard
had given him a post-hypnotic suggestion to meet him one day on a
certain street corner. Hubbard had then, apparently, had him
do various little tricks such as being 'forced' to hold his hands on
a 'red hot' wooden railing, then had patted him on the shoulder,
laughing, and told him he could go home. Nothing very
dramatic.
May 11th 1948
continued Arthur Cox’s Account of LRH Stage Hypnosis Tech
-
What is
significant is that LRH hypnotized a person and BETTERED HIM with a
change in his personality.
-
Ron used a
post-hypnotic command on Arthur Cox’s brother without his knowledge.
This was discovered when Arthur Cox and Charles Edward Cooke (a
psychologist), did some hypnotic detective work on Cox’s brother. It
was discovered that Ron had Cox’s brother meet him on a certain day
on a certain street corner and had him do various little tricks such
as being "forced" to hold his hands on a "red hot" wooden railing.
FORREST J.
ACKERMAN INTERVIEW after 29 April 1980 LRH STAGE HYPNOSIS ACCOUNT
(sections reproduced below from the transcript)
Well, 45 years
ago there was established a Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society.
I'm a charter member. I was at the very first meeting and I've
been to 1500 meetings off and on in between. IT was a period
when Ron came around to our club. He was living in Los
Angeles. And what I particularly remember about his
appearances there was an evening of spectacular hypotism when he
hypnotized just about every kid in the club. I remember he
gave one young man a ... what would you call it ... In any event,
the boy was convinced that cupped in his hand, he had a little tiny
Kangaroo that was hopping around and I remember he came over and
showed the Kangaroo to me. And ah, one by one Ron was
hypnotizing everybody in the club. He gave one boy a post
hypnotic suggestion, he said now ah, I'll snap my fingers and bring
you out of it and about 3 minutes from now you're gonna hear the
telephone ring and you'll go over and someone will be making you a
fantastic offer ah ... on a brand new automobile. But your
gonna resist no matter how great the offer, your gonna come up with
some reason that you can't accept it. So we were all trying to
keep straight faces and see what was gonna happen and carring on in
a natural fashion and then this boy with the post hypnotic
suggestion looked kind of puzzled and looked over at the phone which
of course wasn't ringing and he went over and he took it off the
hook and seemed to be listening to a voice in his mind for a few
minutes, oh, well really, a brand new Cad, never! ... only driven
one mile? Only $500.00! Yea, gee that certainly is a
bargain but gee, I only have $350.00 in the bank. Oh, you'd
shave off a $150.00! I could have it for $350.00, well, well
the only problem is taht that $350.00 is earmarked for a present for
my mother. Well yea, I suppose my mother would, would think I
should have a brand new Cadillac instead of a present for her, that
would make her happy but ... and you know .... but, but, but.
Then he got it down to where the invisible voice was gonna give it
away. He was, well, well, ah ... My teacher taught me never to
except a gift unless you can return, or what ever it was you know,
he kept coming up with all, all ... We were all standing around
holding our sides trying to keep from being hysterical and then Ron
told one other boy, he said well now I'm gonna bring you out of
this. At some point I'm just going to scratch the tip of my
nose and (snap) you'll go instantly asleep. Well everybody was
so fasinated by Ron's performance, that they clustered around him.
Ahd ah ... one mad moment his nose actually itched you know, and
he'd forgotten all about the special command. He kind of
scratched his nose. I happened to be standing right behind
this boy. Instantly limp, he fell right into my arms (laugh).
Well, lets
see, Ron wise. Well, I'm his agent and it's to Ron's advantage
and mine to know all his names, ah ... he's ... far as I know those
are it. Now ah ... there are people who believe that he wrote
under the name of Fredrick K. Inglehart I belive. So I queried
Ron cause I says gee, this is news to me and lets sell your Fredrick
Inglehart stories if thats so, but he said no, that was not one of
his names. I know no reason that he wouldn't tell me all his
names because he's anxious for me to keep his work in print.
The only two I know are Kurt Van Rachen and ah, Rene LaFayette.
Q. What
kind of impression did he make on you when you first met him?
A. As he
came around the club and entertained us nightly. I've
forgotten the details of it, but I recall some story he told about,
I think when he was with a Science fiction author or so, possibly
with L. Sprage DeCamp and there was something or other going on up
north around one of the poles, you know, some confrontation between
him and a Polar bear I think, where Ron won 2 falls out of 3 or
something like that.
My main early
memory of him is as a consumite story teller. He kept
everybody fascinated. As I'm talking, more and more things are
coming back to me.
Lets see, I
guess in any biograph it isn't all sweetness and light and as a
matter of fact, a ...
June 3 1948 L
Ron Hubbard Currently Ill in Bed
"Eph
Koenisgsberg thought it would be nice if we could buy some little
gift for L. Ron Hubbard, currently ill in bed, Louise Lupeir
testified that he had a sweet tooth so a box of candy was bought –
and a card. The card was a birth announcement, humorosly done up
(sic), in commemoration of the publishing of "FINAL BLACKOUT"
Mike Scoles
announced that Hubbard is doing a dissertation on a part of the
first chapter of his mysterious book book, "EXCALIBUR," and that he
will permit us to read it. He is writing a book along the same
lines, to be entitled TRAUMATIC PSYCHOLOGY.
(Forrest
denies this; he says the title is to be, DON’t BE MAD BECAUSE YOUR
CRAZY.)
(From LASF’s
meeting minutes …SHANGRL_LA 1948 Jul-Aug page 15)
August 17 1948
LRH Arrested – San Luis Obispo County Sheriffs Office
-
Date of Arrest
8-17-48
-
Crime Petty
Theft (checks) arrested for L.A. County
-
Disposition
released on bond Ref 3596 544 on fingerprint sheet
-
Report from
Sheriff’s Office San Luis Obispo County
-
Document
submitted by the church lawyers at the Riverside Trial
-
RONALD DE
WOLFE (L. Ron Hubbard Jr. VS ESTATE Circa 1982 November 10
-
Further Data –
Document from Ronald De Wolfe trial Exhibit #C III Pg 91
-
Has date "84"
at top and ends with "REFER CHAMBERLIN
-
SO SAN LUIS
OBISPO SLS BJ UM # 16117J"
-
"SUBJECT [ L.
RON HUBBARD ] WAS ARRESTED 8-17-48 ON SECTION 454
-
PC FOR LOS
ANGELES COUNTY AND WAS RELEASED SAME DATE ON $500.00
-
BAIL WAS TO
APPEAR IN SAN GABRIAL JUSTICE COURT."
Sept 12 1948
LRH IS SPEAKER AT SCIENCE FICTION CONCLAVE IN NEW YORK CITY
"And on 12
September, in New York City, about 100 fans attended a Science
Fiction Conclave, sponsored by the QSFL [Queens Science Fiction
League]. F. Orlin Tremaine, former Astounding and Comet editor, was
guest of honor, and among the speakers were Leo Margulies, Sam
merwin. Jr., L Ron Hubbard, Ray Van Houten, Alvin R. Brown, and
chairman Will Sykora.
FANTASY ANNUAL
1948 Pub. By Forrest J. Ackerman 1949 Summer Pages 14 & 15
November 194? -
LRH Guest Speaker at Eastern Science Fiction Association Newark N.J.
"November: L
Ron Hubbard at bat. Mr. Hubbard’s theme concerned itself with
immortality. He outlined the acreage necessary to feed a human being
with relationship to the fast-increasing population of the globe,
and painted a bleak picture insofar as survival is concerned in the
near future. Mr. Hubbard explained the prospects of fast diminishing
arable land and the drain upon the remaining land should increased
longevity of the race be realized Alex Osheroff, Treasurer"
(from FANTASY
ANNUAL 1948 page 54)
November 1948
Sam Moscowitz’s account of LRH’s talk
"….Faced in
1951 with legal difficulties, he [Hubbard proceeded, as his
ex-associate, science-fiction writer and editor John Campbell, Jr.
put it, "to get religion"—and the tax advantages in church status."
"Hubbard’s
decision came as no shock ro Sam Moscowitz, science-fiction editor
and author. "Three years earlier," he recalls, "Hubbard spoke before
the Eastern Science-Fiction Association in Newark, new Jersey. I
don’t recall his exact words but in effect, he told us:
THAT
WRITING SCIENCE-FICTION FOR A PENNY A WORD WAS NO WAY TO MAKE A
LIVING. IF YOU REALLY WANT TO MAKE A MILLION, HE SAID, THE QUICKEST
WAY IS TO START YOUR OWN RELIGION."
"Hubbard named
his religion Scientology and gave it spirituality by adding the
notion of an IMMORTAL SOUL, or "thetan".
Parents
Magazine 1969 June, "The Dangerous New Cult of Scientology" by
Arlene and Howard Eisenberg Page 82
The Second
Invitation to go to Russia
LRH states in a
letter to the FBI, Communist Activities division July 29, 1955:
"This is my
third invitation to go to Russia. The first was extended to me by a
member of Amtorg in New York in 1938 who knew of my work in the
field of the mind. The second occurred less directly in 1948 after
some personal difficulty. This third has come when the Pheonix
organization has been collapsed…"
Dec 28th 1948
LRH Mailing address is Savannah Georgia
Addendum to
1948
L Ron Hubbard
Pronounced Dead Twice
"Crippled and
blinded at the end of the war, he resumed his studies of philosophy
and by his discoveries recovered so fully that he was reclassified
in 1949 for full combat duty. It is a matter of record that he has
twice been pronounced dead and that in 1950 he was given a perfect
score on mental fitness reports."
Scientology
Field Staff Member Magazine Vol 1, No 1 1968 L Ron Hubbard Biography
Page 7
***
1949 LRH
writing a book on Psychology
A magazine
reports that LRH's "present projects include ... A book of
psychology."
It also states
that LRH is a member of the gerentological Society.
From "Writers
Markets and Methods" Steps in the right direction by Walton Willens
Jan 13 1949 LRH
Letter from Savannah Georgia
"Wanted to
tell you that Sara is beating her wits on fiction and is having to
do this DARK SWORD - cause and cure of nervous tension - properly -
The Science of Mind, really EXCALIBUR - in fits, so far, however she
has recovered easily from each fir. It will be considerably delayed
because of this. Good as my work, however, I shall ship it along
just as soon as decent. Then you can rape women without their
knowing it, communicate suicide messages to your enemies as they
sleep, sell the Arroyo Seco Parkway to the mayor for cash, evolve
the best way of protecting or destroying communism, and other
household hints. If you go crazy, remember you were warned."
"GOOD
PUBLISHING TRICK, BY THE WAY, IS TO HAVE THE BOOKSELLER MAKE BUYER
SIGN A RELEASE RELEASING THE AUTHOR OF ALL RESPONSIBILITIES IF THE
READER GOES NUTS."
"Scanning
it to insert a few case histories I'd come across here and there, I
got interested again and HAVE NOT DECIDED WHETHER TO DESTROY THE
CATHOLIC CHURCH OR MERELY START A NEW ONE."...
"Though of
some interesting publicity angles on it. I might post a ten thousand
dollar bond to be paid to anyone who can attain equal results with
any known field of knowledge. A reprint of the preface, however, is
about all one needs to bring orders like a snow storm.
THIS HAS MORE
SELLING AND PUBLICITY ANGLES THAN ANY BOOK OF WHICH I HAVE EVER
HEARD, I THINK, AND MAY VERY WELL BE ABLE TO SUPPORT THEM WITHOUT
MUCH EFFORT."
..."Don't know
why I suddenly got the nerve to go into this again and let loose.
It's probably a great love or an enormous hatred of humanity."
"Love and
Kisses, Ron "
"P.s. This
here epistle is confidential, pard."
April 1949 LRH
writes Gerontological Society, APA & others and offers "Abnormal
Dianetics". There is no response. [ It is doubtful that the word "Dianetics"
is coined at this time.
1949
THE KINGSLAYER
1949 fiction books by LRH says on the dust jacket,
"Mr. Hubbard
has written a non-fiction work entitled FUTURE PSYCHOLOGY, which
concerns the calculated know-how necessary to make expeditions and
space travel possible without incurring insanity on the part the
members. The work also explains how to found psychologically perfect
governments and how to cure neuroses and insanities as well as
create the super brain."
1949 Hubbard
the Hypnotist
"TRITON" a 1949
fiction book by LRH states on the dust jacket the following:
…"HIS LEISURE
HOURS ARE DEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF HYPNOTISM"
from the dust
jacket of "DEATH’S DEPUTY" 1948
"soon to be
published in book form by Fantasy Publishing Company in his
delightful story from the magazine UNKNOWN, THE INDEGESTIBLE TRITON.
Also scheduled for future release by FPCI in an heretofore
unpublished story, THE KINGSLAYERS."
Dec 15 1949 LRH
Bio in Who-and-What Among Authorities-Experts-and the specially Informed
by the A.N. Marquis CO. 1949
15
HUBBARD, LaFayette Ronald. Expedition organization and
psychology. b'11. BS '34 (George Washington U); Student
'45 (Sch Mil Govt, Princeton). Commander Caribbean Motion
Picture Expedition and West Indies Minerals Expedition '35, Alaskan
Radio Experimental Expedition '40; studies on prevention psychic
break-down and handling of men under stress of expedition
conditions. Author: Expedition Personnel; Fear; The
Anatomy of Madness; Man Under Stress, and others; also articles in
field. Author since '30, explorer since '34; master motor and
sailing vessels. Lt. USNR '41-46 comdg escort vessels and
navigator in all theaters. Explorer's Club, 10 W. 72nd St.,
NYC.
[No books or
monographs have ever been located for the following titles listed in the
bio. EXPEDITION PERSONNEL; FEAR (Yes, but a FICTION work and not in this
context of a scholarly work): THE ANATOMY OF MADNESS; MAN UNDER STRESS,
nor did LRH actually graduate from
GW university, in fact he attended briefly and had very poor grades]
1950 Excalibur
Stolen Again – Perhaps in Russian Library on Scientology
"1950 –
remaining copy of L. Ron Hubbard’s first manuscript [EXCALIBUR]
stolen, in Los Angeles. These thefts apparently connected with 1938
Russian offer."
Page 6 of THE
FINDINGS ON THE U.S. FOOD AND DRUG AGENCY
"In 1942 the
first manuscript of the work was stolen in Miami, Florida, in 1950
the only other copy vanished by theft, in Los Angeles. I feel sure
there exists a growing library on Scientology in Russia."
From LRH’s letter
to JFK page 17 of FINDINGS ON US FDA..
[No manuscript
left according to the Phelan/LRH interview from 1942 theft]
[No police report made of the 1950 theft or on any of the thefts]
April 25 1952
Excalibur for Sale for $1500 and signed release
After April
1952 FIRST OFFER TO BUY EXCALIBUR REFUSED
Alphia Hart
comments from ABERREE 1961 December page 7 below:
EXCALIBUR by
L. Ron Hubbard The unpulished first work of all that followed.
Not the thesis. Mr. Hubbard wrote this work in 1938.
When four of the first fifteen people who read it went insane, Mr.
Hubbard withdrew it and placed it in a vault where it remained until
now. Copies to selected readers only and then on signature.
Released only on sworn statement not to permit other readers to read
it. Contains data not to be otherwise released during Mr.
Hubbard's stay on Earth. The complete fast formula of
clearing. The secret not even Dianetics disclosed.
Facsimile of original individually typed for manuscript buyer.
Gold bound and locked. Signed by author. Very limited.
Per copy ..... $1,500.00
THE OFFICE OF
L. RON HUBBARD
1405 N. Central Avenue
Phoenix Arizona
April 25, 1952
My dear
friend;
As this goes
out I am advised of two data: a fellow in Wichita now states
he has five hundred thousand to devote to destroying Dianetics; and
my bank account is $0.02. I know you will help even this
situation a little.
The closing of
Hubbard College in Wichita seems inevitable and the books there are
lost.
1952 SECOND
OFFER REFUSED
Conversation with Helen O’Brien 6 February 1987, A bonifide offer to
purchase EXCALIBUR arrived in Phoenix on letterhead stationary from a
millionaire in St. Louis or New Orleans. Hellen showed the letter to LRH
and he refused the offer.
One of the
Dianetic "ghosts" that has haunted auditing and training rooms is
rumors of a super-super book by the author of "Dianetics", which, in
the telling, gained such monumental proportions that at one time,
the unpublished manuscript was offered to anyone anxious to satiate
their curiosity for $1,500 - specially printed, bound, and boxed,
with a key to protect its precious contents. There were many
inquiries, but no takers, and the Editor knows of only one bargain
seeker who thought his rights as an "Associate Member" entitled him
to buy "Excalibur" for half price, as he could other books in the
Hubbard word factory.
But the sale
never was made, and the would-be purchaser was advised that if he
was seeking "data", more could be found in "8-80" than in the
"mystery book", and we know of none other wishing to risk $1,500 -
or even $750 - to see if they, too, would "go insane" as rumor
claimed happened to the first halfdozen who read the manuscript on
"Excalibur".
Actually, we
began to discount the existence of any manuscript by this name,
classifying it with the many claimed "clears" whose actuality and/or
identity have been and still are as transient as the seasons. We
didn't DENY its existence - we just remained skeptical. And there is
a difference.
That
skepticism now has been punctured by the accompanying story, written
from a tape made by our trusted writer, Arthur J. Burks, which he
sent to another skeptic, Art Coulter, and which was forwarded to us.
Since Mr. Burks edited the manuscript when it still was "hot" from
the typewriter, we feel that his analysis and report are more
acceptable than the 99, 867,234½ rumors which have been more or less
in existence for the past decade.
We have no
illusions that publication of this data will stop the deftly-planted
rumors concerning "Excalibur", since those most susceptible to the
"mystery" are not ABERREE fans or subscribers. But for posterity's
sake, we offer this evidence that there actually WAS a book called
"Excalibur", and that ALL of the first six persons thru whose hands
the manuscript moved didn't have happen to them what rumor says
happened to them.
Winter of
1952/3 Excalibur for Sale offer is printed in the New Yorker Magazine
Slant No 7, 1952/3
Winter. A sci-fi fan magazine has an article between pages 56 and
57 called, "MIGHTY LIKE A ROSICRUCIAN" dealing with LRH’s dying
between the war and getting privy to all the knowledge of the universe
and writing EXCALIBUR
"He [Hubbard]
hauled it round various publishing houses, but none of them could
take it. In fact their readers kept committing suicide, their minds
giving way under the impact of these transcendental ideas. On the
last occasion, according to Elron, he was present in the publishing
office when the Reader entered, laid the MS on the desk, and left
the room again by way of the window. Since the window was on the
40th floor neither the Reader or Elron ever recovered from this
experience"
The article
mentioned that you can now purchase EXCALIBUR for $1,000 and sign a
waiver.
"The NEW
YORKER called this the biggest Little Book Bargain of the Month."
[Of course, the
New Yorker magazine’s exact date has not been located]
Sep 20 1967 -
Ron Journal 1967 – OTIII –or- EXCALIBUR REVISITED
In RON’s Journal
1967 or from UP magazine #1, 1968 the following is stated.
"The Story
of Grade III OT by L Ron Hubbard, called "The Wall of Fire" by
Hubbard in this tape]
"The
mystery of this universe and this particular area of the universe
has been so far as its track is concerned completely occluded. No
one has ever been able to make any breakthrough and come off with it
and know what happened.
As a matter
of fact it is so occluded that if anyone tried to penetrate it as
I’m sure many have, THEY DIED. THE MATERIAL INVOLVED IN THIS SECTOR
IS SO VICIOUS THAT IT IS CAREFULLY ARRANGED TO KILL ANYONE IF HE
DISCOVERS THE EXACT TRUTH ABOUT IT."
It cost many tens
of thousands of dollars to get access to these materials until they
showed up on the Internet in 1995.
[I just had to
include all these similarities of MYSTERY, SO VICIOUS THAT IT CAN KILL,
AND BIG BUCKS all around these items from 1952 or 1968. In 1995 after
OTIII was made available to the world on the Internet, the NY Times
closed a story about the posting with:
"However, no
epidemic has been reported"
June 11 1952
A.E. Van Vogt relates Excalibur Story to Dianetic Conference
In Wichita Van
Vogt tells the EXCALIBUR story and adds the following:
"In Excalibur,
Dianetics is one chapter. I asked Hubbard in 1950, "Is this true?"
And he said, "Yes it is a book called Excalibur, and Dianetics is a
Chapter in it."
Page 113 DIANETIC
AUDITORS BULLETIN VOL III No. 1 July 1952 [Mr. Van Vogt’s association
with the movement was brief]
October 1955
Arthur J. Burks speaks on Excalibur for first time since 1938
"You're poking
a lot of fun at my old friend L. Ron Hubbard, whom I know for 20
years before Dianetics. I was the first man to read his
EXCALIBUR. He says the first half dozen went crazy, and he may
be right. In any event my MONITORS (by name for what the
Church calls Guardian Angels) partially explains LRH, though not by
name. It starts serially in October in CRION Magazine, Ural R.
Murphy, editor, 521 Central Ave., Charlotte, N.C. I want the
world to know for several reasons, two anyway: MONITORS is
reassuring and I'm leveling with it, and the proceeds go to
medically supervised research into what lies behind disease." --
Arthur J. Burks, Paradise, Penn.
ABERREE 1955
October page 15 (A letter to the editor)
End Note 1 - It is
apparent that the great charlatan L Ron Hubbard wanted you to think
OTIII and the NOTS, NEDS and other secret upper levels came from
Excalibur. However, the true source is from a book also published around
the turn of the last century, © 1882 by John Ballou called "OHASPE",
notable is that OHASPE was claimed to have been written by "automatic
writing" mentioned by Hubbard in Dianetics. The concepts use to describe
the condition the OT levels are a cure for is in this book. The dense,
esoteric, nomenclature does not make for easy reading of OHASPE or of
Dianetics.
On the "OT
Levels" is where you get rid of infestations of body thetans
drujas is word
used for evil spirit or hubbard's "body" "thetan")
" A knot was
bound upon me: foul smelling slaves were clinched upon me, millions
of them, tens of millions; and the shafts of their curses pierced my
soul: I was as one lacerated and bound with salt" page 490 P. 21
"Oh that I
could be freed from them" page 491 P.24
"2. Gessica
had the vessels constructed with walls of fire around the margins,
to prevent the drujas escaping. And there were built in all four
hundred vessels. Each capable of carrying one hundred million
drujias.
"the ethereans
drove the drujas into the vessels, whereupon the door way in the
wall of the ship closed. And then the workers of the ship put it
under way…
In the first
year, Gessica delivered five thousand million drujias, in the
second, he delivered thirty five thousand million drujias
Page 497 P 2 -
498 P 4
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