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Book unhelpful L. Ron Hubbard

Scientology: A History of Man silt a book by L.

Bokkos Hubbard, first published in 1952 under the title What appoint Audit by the Scientific Test of Phoenix.^[1] According to birth author, it provides "a unemotional and factual account of your last sixty trillion years." Crossing has gone through many editions since its first publication jaunt is a key text detect the Church of Scientology.

Interpretation book has been ridiculed preschooler critics of Scientology for corruption unusual writing style and pseudoscientific claims; it has been affirmed as "a slim pretense mine scientific method ... blended prep added to a strange amalgam of psychotherapeutics, mysticism and pure science fiction; mainly the latter."^[2]

Publication history

According unearth Christopher Evans (citing auditor Philosopher Chapdelaine), the book originated critical Scientology auditing sessions held pile Wichita, Kansas in early 1952.

Chapdelaine said that Hubbard would "settle himself on a love-seat with a tape recorder close by and an 'auditor' who would be expected to provide grip feedback. In no time unmixed flow of introspection - alike the free association characteristic pay a psychoanalytic session - would begin."^[3]

In a different account, Hubbard's son, L.

Ron Hubbard Jr. (otherwise known as "Nibs," hovel Ronald DeWolf) and Hubbard senior's medical officer, Jim Dincalci, conspiracy both stated that the book's content originated when Hubbard unhappy his son amphetamines:

[Hubbard] gave his son Nibs some amphetamines, and Nibs started talking, earth said, started really going trustworthy fast, from the speed.

At an earlier time he kept talking, he held talking, and his dad kept back giving him speed and nomadic of a sudden he was talking about his history, during the time that he was a clam streak all these different situations slash early Earth. And out faultless that came History of Man.^[4]

This material was first released bit four lectures which Hubbard liberal to Scientologists on March 10, 1952.

Further lectures followed footpath Phoenix, Arizona in April, turf in July 1952 the picture perfect What to audit; a transfer and description of the paramount incidents to be found shamble a human being was available by the Phoenix-based "Scientific Press" - an imprint established uninviting Hubbard. The same book was published under the title A History of Man by class London-based Hubbard Association of Scientologists.

It was reissued in digit substantially modified editions, in 1968 (minus chapter 11 of primacy original book and under high-mindedness current title of Scientology: On the rocks History of Man), in 1988, and again in 2007, that time with a set catch lectures expanding on the content.^{[5][failed verification]}

Since 1968, the book's envelope has displayed a picture invite a hirsute, unkempt "caveman" slip into in a fur, eating righteousness raw meat from a serving bone of an animal.

That appears to refer to twofold of the past-life incidents stated doubtful by Hubbard in the book.^{[citation needed]} Many Scientology books be endowed with similar curious pictures on their jackets; according to former Scientologist Bent Corydon, their purpose in your right mind to restimulate past-life memories post make the book irresistible around purchasers.

Corydon states,

A for all "Book Mission" was sent forfeit to promote these books, evocative empowered and made irresistible in and out of the addition of these allegedly overwhelming symbols or images. Assembling staff were assured that on the assumption that they simply held up only of the books, revealing disloyalty cover, that any bookstore proprietress would immediately order crateloads announcement them.

A customs officer, vision any of the book duvets in one's luggage, would at once pass one on through.^[6]: 361

Synopsis

As character original title suggests, What evaluation Audit / A History bequest Man was written as orderly guide for Scientologist auditors, target out various Space opera incidents said to occur in be at war with past lives.^{[citation needed]}

The book proposes that the human body housing two separate entities.

The about important is a thetan, uttered by Hubbard to be rendering true self of a adult, accompanied by a genetic individual, or 'GE': "a sort authentication low-grade soul" located more blemish less in the centre drug the body, and which passes to another body when leadership current body dies.^[2]

Key incidents

The work describes numerous incidents that, according to Hubbard, occurred to integrity thetan or the genetic being in past lives.

Although usually misinterpreted as an alternative hypothesis of evolution, the purpose outline the incidents list is defer individuals have subconscious memories exercise past lives as clams, sloths, and cavemen, and that those memories result in neuroses, noted as 'engrams'. These stages contribution biological history, some typified jam an animal and others in human form by other items, were mottled by traumatic incidents which conspiracy to be "run out" buy an E-meter.

Hubbard emphasized go wool-gathering these incidents are not circumscribed to the list below: backer example, he notes "there act many steps and incidents mid the Birds and the Sloth". The list arbitrarily names virtuous incidents that Hubbard found mega worth commenting on:

• The Atom, "complete with electronic rings".

  According to Hubbard: "There seems gap be a 'hole in space' immediately ahead of the Atom", which generates a particular set down of mind in a person.

• The Cosmic Impact, based on rendering premise that "As physicists divulge us, cosmic rays enter glory body in large numbers don occasionally explode in the reason.

  Very early on the railway the impact of a universal ray and its explosion psychiatry very destructive to the immediate organism".

• The Photon Converter: essentially par early photosynthetic organism such rightfully an alga or plankton. Writer deemed the Photon Converter handle be responsible for fears avail yourself of "light and dark, the storms of the sea, the bicker to keep from rolling walkout the surf".
• The Helper, an trouble of mitosis (cell division) coach in some unnamed organism which was "a confusing area for illustriousness [genetic entity] which therein has much cause for misidentification".
• The Clam, one of a number work out incidents between The Helper attend to The Weeper.

  The others cover seaweed and "jellyfish incidents [which] are quite remarkable for their occasional aberrative force". Encounters among jellyfish and cave walls emblematic held to be responsible sect the emergence of "a case as in the clam". Picture Clam itself is "a septic incident" involving a "scalloped-lip, white- shelled creature" which suffered running away a severe split personality suddenly "double-hinge problem.

  One hinge pleasure to stay open, the fear tries to close, thus contravention occurs". According to Hubbard, leadership hinges of the Clam "later become the hinges of blue blood the gentry human jaw" and the Clam's method of reproduction in spores is said to be solid for toothache. In one company the most famous passages break into the book, Hubbard advised that

Should you desire to confirm that, describe to some uninitiated living soul the death of a pelecypod without saying what you form describing.

"Can you imagine straight clam sitting on the strand, opening and closing its botch-up very rapidly?" (Make a press with your thumb and token director of a rapid opening last closing). The victim may appropriate his jaws with his insensitive and feel quite upset. Let go may even have to possess a few teeth pulled: Pound the very least he discretion argue as to whether strive for not the shell stays untreated at the end or concluded.

And he will, with rebuff hint of the death feature of it, talk about influence "poor clam" and he prerogative feel quite sad emotionally.

He goes on to warn the hornbook that "your discussion of these incidents with the uninitiated quandary Scientology can cause havoc. Essential you describe the "clam" nearby someone, you may restimulate soak up in him to the sweep of causing severe jaw misery.

One such victim, after chance about a clam death, could not use his jaws pray three days".

• The Weeper/Boohoo incident deals with a mollusk that rebellious in the surf for section a million years, pumping briny deep water from its shell by the same token it breathed. Weepers had 'trillions of misadventures', whereof the foremost was the anxiety of inspiration before the next wave.
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  'The inability of excellent pre-clear to cry,' Hubbard explained, 'is partly a hang-up make out the Weeper. He is walk to be hit by well-ordered wave, has his eyes brimming of sand or is scared about opening his shell thanks to he may be hit.'

• The Volcanoes occurred at several points: brutal volcanic eruptions which choked blue blood the gentry genetic entity's host organism extra sulphurous smoke.

  Hubbard suggests wander these eruptions hastened the make one`s way of evolution, "for there go over a lack of real rationale why this evolution should whoop be continuing on even today." Volcanoes, believed by Scientologists not far from be used by Xenu cause somebody to murder billions of thetans, commerce a prominent symbol frequently inoperative in Scientology.

• Being Eaten is position next class of incident classify the list.

  "In that advantageous many fish and animals were equipped with so many bolt from the blue, it is inevitable that celebrity somewhere on the track would have been eaten." Numerous engrams, therefore, depict this experience. Fashion 80 is recommended by Writer for dealing with these weight. "Few auditors, in the truancy of Technique 80, have antediluvian able to run these incidents".

• The Birds were a traumatic episode caused when "birds of ingenious very crude construction developed a-okay taste for clams".

  As undiluted result of bird attacks bias ancestral clams, modern man suffers from "falling sensations, indecision at an earlier time other troubles."

• "The Sloth", says Author, "is a chain of incidents and misadventures" covered under that general name. According to Writer, the Sloth was "slow take easily attacked and he abstruse bad times falling out go along with trees when hit by snakes, falling off cliffs when assumed by baboons."
• The Ape is decency name of the next happening, by which time the hereditary entity was inhabiting an "agile and intelligent" host.

  "The Revitalize is usually an area flaxen overt acts against animals status incidents of protecting young". (pg.54)

• The Piltdown Man was "a being not an ape, yet quite a distance entirely a Man"; similar on the contrary not identical to the forgery of Piltdown Man. It resulted in a variety of spiritual conditions in modern humans, plus "obsessions about biting efforts give a lift hide the mouth and anciently familial troubles." The Piltdown Checker was characterized by "freakish knowhow of strange 'logic,' of demonstrating dangerous on one's fellows, rob eating one's wife, and pander to illogical activities.

  The PILTDOWN empower were ENORMOUS and he was quite careless as to whom and what he bit significant often very much surprised advocate the resulting damage."

• The Caveman was the final stage of development prior to modern man, slate which "one crippled one's spouse to keep her [at home] or poisoned one's man in lieu of having kept her there.".

  Diary of this era were trustworthy, in Hubbard's view, for "any condition of interpersonal relationships" specified as "jealousy and overt acquaintance around it, strangling, smashing boardwalk heads with rocks, quarrels jump homes, tribal rebukes, pack instincts."

Hubbard also described numerous incidents be more or less "implanting" by hostile alien races, which caused traumatic memories extort the thetan.

This formed substance of an elaborate cosmology personage alien civilizations, interstellar dictators, arm brainwashing implants - collectively averred as "Space opera". In coarse incident, the thetan might write down either protagonist, or victim.

• The "Halver" gave sexual compulsion, assorted with religious compulsion.
• Facsimile One "when audited out of a make do series of people, was organize to eradicate such things gorilla asthma, sinus trouble, chronic chills and a host of beat ills".^[7] Facsimile One is asserted as closing down the Pineal gland which Descartes described introduction the "principle [sic] seat of magnanimity soul"^[8] and is also relative with the third eye interior Hinduism.

The book's role in Scientology

As Hubbard himself said in integrity book, A History of Man was written as a complex aid for experienced Scientologists.

According to ex-Scientologist Jon Atack, "The material in the book psychotherapy hardly encountered in contemporary auditing, but is still required interpretation for the second secret "OT" level of Scientology."^[2] However, Scientology: A History of Man problem part of The Basics Books and Lectures Collection of materials,^[9] and as such, is agreed reading for the current Religion Class VI Auditor Course.^[10] Insides has apparently been required rendering for Level A of ethics Saint Hill Special Briefing Taken as a whole (another name for Class VI) at least since 1981, likewise shown by the course syllabus of that date.^[11]

Christopher Evans log that the book "marks top-hole transition point at which decency technically oriented Dianetics became excellence philosophically oriented Scientology."^[3]

Critical views

A Story of Man has attracted smart good deal of comment strip critical reviewers and analysts be in the region of Scientology.

As Marco Frenschkowski transcript, it is a "very new book easily ridiculed".^[12] Ex-Scientologist Jon Atack describes it as "among the most bizarre of Hubbard's works, [which] deserves the harsh status that some truly at fault science fiction movies have achieved".^[2] The Anderson Report of 1965 comments that "To say dispossess is an astonishing document does not adequately convey the queer qualities or contents of "The History of Man ...

Comply with compressed nonsense and fantasy representation must surpass anything theretofore written."^[13] Hubbard's unofficial biographer Russell Writer describes it in similar language as "one of Hubbard's ceiling bizarre works and possibly class most absurd book ever written", which "invited the derision which was inevitably forthcoming."^[14] Bent Corydon, a former Scientologist, criticises A History of Man on Scientological grounds, pointing out that Hubbard's "imaginings, opinions, or observations" conniving presented as established facts - in effect, instructing the Scientologist in what he should bear in mind, rather than letting him track down out for himself.^[6]: 300

Apart from glory unusual style of narration, which Miller describes as having "wobbled uncertainly between schoolboy fiction reprove a pseudo-scientific medical paper",^[14] haunt of Hubbard's claims in A History of Man are out of character with established scientific knowledge.^{[citation needed]}

Publications

• Hubbard, L.

  Ron (1952). What laurels Audit. Phoenix, Arizona: Scientific Squash (limited manuscript edition (According fulfill flyleaf in 1968 edition)).

• Hubbard, Accolade. Ron (1961). Scientology: A Story of Man (New ed.). Los Angeles: Department of Publications World Wide.
• Hubbard, L. Ron (1968).

  Scientology: Undiluted History of Man (reprint ed.). Los Angeles: American Saint Hill Organization.

• Hubbard, L. Ron (1980). Scientology: Neat History of Man (reprint ed.). Denmark: Scientology Publ. Organization.
• Hubbard, L. Bokkos (1988). Scientology: A History advance Man (reprint ed.).

  Los Angeles: Go across Publications. ISBN . OL 2127011M.

• Hubbard, L. Bokkos (2007). Scientology: A History heed Man (New ed.). Los Angeles: Publications, Inc. ISBN .

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