Another hype-filled “press release” from scientology presents a completely false picture of scientology and L. Ron Hubbard.
They peg this announcement of a scientologyTV show about Joburg org to “the cradle of civilization” — making it seem that scientology actually aligns with this concept of evolution.
It goes on to explain how the new episode covers Johannesburg’s history, “including its singular distinction as “The Cradle of Humankind”—the place where humanity started.” It is little wonder they don’t mention what scientologists actually believe, described in Hubbard’s bizarre history of humanity recounted in his truly bonkers book A History of Man, which of course still includes the hoax “Piltdown Man” as part of human evolution (as nothing Hubbard wrote can be changed).
Also no mention of the Xenu Wall of Fire which offers a later, but no less bizarre, contradictory version of the history of man on this planet based on billions of beings transported 75 million years ago in space ships that looked like DC-8 airliners, dumped in volcanos and then blown up with H bombs. Not sure what all the thetans did while there were no human forms for tens of millions of years, but it’s not a question that is asked in scientology.
They weave in that they are humanitarians by claiming South Africa is “Imbued with the indomitable spirit of “Ubuntu”—the Zulu word for “humanity”—once dismal, gray industrial zones have been transformed with the introduction of hip new art galleries, colorful murals, theaters and museums.”
And of course “At the center of this vibrant cultural reawakening stands the Church of Scientology Johannesburg.”
This claim is of course completely absurd.
Despite omitting what Hubbard had to say about the history of man in the cradle of humankind, they do include this: “Founder L. Ron Hubbard’s history in South Africa and his efforts to bring to the people of this nation not only universal suffrage, but spiritual freedom as well.” Wow, this is a doozie. No mention of course of his support for the South African apartheid government and its policies or his incredibly racist views of the ‘bantu.”
Here are a few select excerpts of what he had to say:
“The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world — he is probably impossible by any human standard. Professional Auditors Bulletin No. 119, 1 September 1957, “The Big Auditing Problem.”
“The insanity rate per capita in South Africa is appalling. …it is easily seen that a primary requisite in any programme of the rehabilitation of the Bantu in South Africa would be mental health…” HCOB April 1960, “The Scientific Treatment of the Insane”
“A “black South African’s” withholds read not only on the needle [of the E-meter] alone but on the Tone Arm as well.” E-Meter Essentials, section I: “Meter Oddities”
“…the African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization.” Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought
“You’ll find in Africans a fantastic amount of heavy space opera and so on, going on … which makes the colored African very, very interesting to process because he doesn’t know why he goes through all these dances … and why he feels so barbarous ….” 1st Melbourne ACC, lecture “Principal Incidents on the Track”, 27 November 1959.
“The Zulu is only outside the bars of a madhouse because there are no madhouses provided by his tribe. … primitives are far more aberrated than civilized peoples. Their savageness, their unprogressiveness, their incidence of illness …” Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health
“The problem of South Africa is different than the world thinks. There is no native problem. The native worker gets more than white workers do in England! […] The South African government is not a police state. It’s easier on people than the United States government. HCOB 10 October 1960, “Current News”
“It is considered in England and the United States that the Government of South Africa is altogether too harsh with its native peoples. It is sadly humorous to notice that the native in South Africa, however, holds an exactly reverse opinion and the fault he finds with the South African Government is that it is far too lenient in its administration of laws throughout the native populace.” PAB No. 96, “Justice”, 15 September 1956
“Having viewed slum clearance projects in most major cities of the world may I state that you have conceived and created in the Johannesburg townships what is probably the most impressive and adequate resettlement activity in existence.” Letter to South African Prime Minister Verwoerd, 7 November 1960
As always with scientology, the truth is forgotten as they re-write history to try to make themselves look good.
The church sure tries to appear saintly, by only saying things in its promotions that make them look more respectable than almost any other organization. Any casual readers of these promos (who don’t know better) will think they are a truly holy and sacred group.
I have studied the SHSBC… and know how LRH defined GPM… and how he went on the way to define it as the grand problem… I do not know how he found BTs as the general problem of humans.., or as the generell problem of the universe… such a transfer of beings is practically basically impossibly… it means, if connected with a living being… every one of them would wake up to some degree… simply because of the havingness connected to… so OT 3 makes some sense… in sight of a GPM… but OT 4, 5, 6, 7 does not, only in one sight – namely that ist builds a never solveable GPM for everyone who believes in this stuff… it means – you will never found an invisible unconcious being… a being which has no havingness in any part – but you can have the idea of such beings… I called that once “Lost Souls”… which was an old religion on the track… and LRH idea about BTs may stem from there… but in the old books, Lost Souls are only in the mind of living beings… and the loss of them is what everybody did harm… and you can heal it only with more Love and which means the flow of love… but BTs as described are at first dangerous beings for you… Not true… surely not… BTs are only a build up GPM, also makes a Goal and a Problem… but a problem which can never be solved… because it is real not there… it is not there… something else is there… but is missed…
Certainly, besides thinking it, he said it to impress the South African government and a certain affluent class.
In my opinion, he was someone who had serious and convoluted issues relating to his self-concept. And all the “excavations” done on the ‘whole track’ and who knows what other “researches electonically tested” only worsened things even further.
He is presented as someone who studied the Vedic texts (in Sanskrit or translated?) and took inspiration from these to formulate scn. Really? He certainly didn’t understand anything as everything about scn goes in a direction totally opposite to the Vedas, starting from spiritualness and respect for others.
Hubbard’s first attempt at really influencing/taking over a government was in Rhodesia. Scientology was kicked out PDQ.
As was the case in Morocco, over ten years later.
However, they seem to have reached the goal in Clearwater, Florida, and that town in England.
He was a nasty and horrible racist that’s one thing for certain.
‘Nasty and horrible racist’: that is just standard-order wooden thinking, Hubbard deservers better invective than that.
His earlier two wives did it better, as did one of his side-flings: insane, paranoid, schizophrenic, sadist.
Our host, from my reading of the history, was from the ‘Commodore’s Messenger Organisation’, and while Pat and Annie Broeker had been awarded a special rank, which should have made Broeker the new leader, it didn’t work. Next in line should have been Mayo, as Elron’s personal auditor.
So, our host was part of the CMO cabal which brought Miscavige to power.
Hubbard’s death was in 1986, but from my reading, the cabal to enthrone Miscarriage was in place by 1982.
One may be sure that he regrets it, but I am yet to read anything on that point.
As a never-in, but sometime annoyer of Scn., I find it fascinating at times.
When the chanology protests were on, I went, but decided I didn’t want to stand and shout, so I just went and entered the Org., wandered about, spoke politely with a few members, marvelled at the Crowleyite satanic cross and the giant photo of fatty, looked around their lobby, flicked through some pamphlets, got bored, and left.
Encouraged a few Chanoligists who felt I’d been a traitor for entering the org and done nothlng detructive inside the lobby, mounted my bicycle, and just cycled home.
Fatty did write some great pulp fiction (not his later works like Battlefield Earth), so there is that.
I would recommend that everyone here read the novel Messiah by Gore Vidal.
It’s not at all meant as an analogy of Scn, but an inversion of Christianity, it’s a death cult.
The contrast with Scientology is interesting, in Vidal’s Messiah, the same basic group rides the rocket.
Scn is another matter, when our host and others decided to run the coup for David Miscarriage, it was a fourth or fifth generation of bosses.
Except for Fatty, all leaders from the earlier stages had left, been exiled, expelled, or sent to the RFP. Jentsch as one possible exception, but purely as a figurehead.
Even the e-meter is a fake, the original one was from an independent-minded man who wouldn’t hand over his patent, so there was suddenly no e-meter for three or four years until fatty found a couple of dupes who were smart enough to design a new version that didn’t infringe upon the patents of the earlier device.
Mayo was gone well before Hubbard shuffled off his mortal coil — in fact there is an issue written by Hubbard declaring him a “squirrel.”
I write about Miscavige’s assumption of power in my book.
Thank you. However, as I say, the gap between CMO ops supporting Miscarriage (1982) and the death of fatt(y 1986) is strange.
Broeker and his wife were appointed rulers of the cult.
He vanished, she was RFP until broken.
Mayo, personal auditor to fatty, Suppose that he’s dead of old age long ago.
I am a never in, however, I sincerely recommend Messiah by Gore Vidal, if you haven’t read it, it isn’t just his usual anti-Christian rants, as I said in an earlier post, all of the cast in the Vidal novel are first-gen. nuts, in Scn?
You would be fourth or fifth gen., as would be Miscarriage.
Not to say that I have any admiration for fatty, except for some of his pulp fiction.
Thank you very much Mr. Rinder. I had come across the fact that Mayo had been a ‘squirrel’ before, but assumed it was only after fatty was dead.
I do buy books, in fact too many, bought ‘Bare-Faced’ in hard-cover soon after its release. Have to consider buying yours. However, I am allergic to Amazon, never bought a book other than from a bookshop or other physical outlet.
Am serious about Vidal’s Messiah, it’s quite a good novel. The first-person character was next to the top of the new cult.
In the U.S.A., i am sure that you could get it through inter-library loan.
Any conversation about the Zulu Empire must include the 1964 epic war film “Zulu,” which depicted the Battle of Rorke’s Drift of 1879. 150 British soldiers held off 4,000 Zulu warriors over two days of fierce fighting. It was the Brits superior firepower that eventually forced the Zulus to retreat. Big Talk Hubbard would have soiled his pants at the first sight of the charging warriors.
In that case he would have blown his pants completely off and left a loonngg trail of brown smelly stuff as he bravely ran away after seeing the Rabbit of Caerbannog.
Wrong! Someone as theta as LRH would have single handed deployed the Holy Hand Grenade as he was the actual author of the Book of Armaments!
That is exagerrated, but fatty does seem to have avoided war service altogether, his medical complaints seem to exactly coincide with his assignment to a ship that may have met combat. LRH, the war hero, LOLLOLLOL!
You’ll enjoy this blog post: “We’ve invited L. Ron Hubbard to an interview with ChatGPT. Our topic of discussion is Scientology: A History of Man.”
ChatGPT: “The text you provided raises several points and observations, but it does not present solid evidence or logical reasoning to support its claims fully. Here are some flaws in the logic and claims made in the text.”
Yeah … it gets better.
https://tinyurl.com/yc5wxby8
You are right: I enjoyed it. Muchos thank you.
If no one from official Scientology is watching, they won’t notice the letters missing from the sign, and won’t fix them in a timely fashion.
Amazing the neglect and shoddiness for upkeeping their fascade of empty facilities.
Also amazing, more deeply, is their quackery just isn’t succeeding transforming the world to the world’s benefit.
The biggest reason never to do the Scientology quackery is this latter reason. Scientology’s quackery, no matter if the facade is upkept or not, the quackery fails them and the world.
Hubbard left an engulfing cult mess with somewhat adequately renovated new repurposed empty buildings which fight to keep themselves looking inviting.
Welcome to the Scientology cult! No thanks. Xenu’s body-thetans exorcism/soul-freeing is a tad too far fetched for me.
Re: “Despite omitting what Hubbard had to say about the history of man…”
Mike,
Here is what I thought of as I read that:
“Despite VOMITING what Hubbard had to say about the history of man…”
Fred
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The term insanity applies for any effort to follow the writings of Hubbard. He is all over the map, so to speak, and certainly disconnected from any civilized progression of humanity. With Hubbard, there is no “what you see is what you get.” On the contrary, what you see is whatever mad thought happened to cross his mind at the moment of typing, with almost complete disregard even for his own previous mental permbulations on the topic. This observation comes easily from an outsider parsing a few lines from Hubbard’s more spectacular attempts at making the world fit his own mental aberrations.
If you want to go crazy, there is no better way than to spend a few months trying to read, comprehend, and live as Hubbard says one must live to achieve something which he himself is never quite clear about. Just be sure to ignore the stuff about baby formula if you happen to be a parent, and the stuff about massive doses of vitamins. Hubb’s incorrect views about toxins, smoking, and radioactivity should also be ignored for one’s own good health.