Scientology is infamous for its “library campaigns” where they pressure people into giving money to buy L. Ron Hubbard books to ship to libraries.
This is a program I initiated when I was L. Ron Hubbard Personal Public Relations Officer International (LRH PPRO Int). It started out as a relatively benign activity, but has morphed into something that has resulted in millions in revenue for the sale of the books, and tens of thousands or more Hubbard books thrown in the dumpster by libraries who do not want unsolicited books. There are numerous stories from librarians who have said they didn’t even open the boxes when they saw who they were from, and didn’t put them on the tables for their sales of used books as they knew nobody would buy them.
That’s the scientology way.
A reader, after some success with her local library, suggested we could do a NEW library campaign.
The procedure is simple. Go to your local library, or go onto their website, and ask if they have A Billion Years available. If they don’t, request they get a copy.
The more libraries that have the book, the more people who may get the message.
The same can be done for other important books:
Troublemaker
Going Clear
Bare-faced Messiah
Blown For Good
Abuse at the Top
A Piece of Blue Sky
And any other of your favorite books on the topic.
The person who wrote to me said her library had ordered A Billion Years and it was now on the shelf. Let’s spread the word and get the truth about scientology into the libraries of the world. They will be far more receptive to this campaign than getting multiple copies of History of Man and Scientology 8 -8008.
Your blog about getting scientology exposés into our public libraries got me to purchase two that I haven’t read yet:
Bare-Faced Messiah by Russell Miller.
Inside Scientology by Janet Reitman.
Thanks!
LRH ought to have just stuck to writing the “tech” and never engaged in controlling how people did the “tech”.
He should have just left training and delivery up to readers of his “tech.”
“Library Campaigns” are just promotional efforts when Hubbard the manager, which he ought never have been the framework builder/manager of Scientology.
He should have stuck with his “tech” practices period, and let people do the “tech” as they saw fit. Meaning let “squirreling” just go on.
It’s ingrained in all modern Scientologists that LRH’s management of the movement “administrative” writings are part and parcel of what the practice of Scientology is.
It isn’t though. It’s all in a person’s mind what the “full” definition of Scientology is. I snip the whole “admin” writings part of Scientology by Hubbard out of what Scientology is. To me all really what Scientology is is the Hubbard “tech” writings for procedures to delve into a person’s soul memories and alleviate the bad memories basically, and then upper Scientology has the massive amount of exorcism of surplus spirits that by telekinesis supposedly leak their bad memories onto us, so doing OT 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 alleviates that leakage from debilitating us.
All anyone needs to do Scientology is read a bit on the internet and figure out how one wishes to do this pseudo-therapy and exorcism, with another person, or solo, but it’s up to the person to decide whether to do this crap or not and how.
Subject Vol 3’s contents are on the internet free, and that’s all the commands to get to Clear. And then the “OT red volume” with the bulk of the rest of the stuff, and the exorcism steps, is on the internet too.
I don’t think anyone should do this stuff, but it’s there if someone wishes to do it all by themselves.
“New Slant On Life” book has the one chapter that says “SECRETS. SECRETS, SECRETS” and the proceeds not to give very enlightening “secrets”, that little section of that book pretty much sums up what your experience will be in Scientology.
Promises of secrets, and then no secrets.
Scientology is the pseudo-therapy and exorcism to supposedly alleviate one’s “case” and alleviate the “case” leaking from the surplus spirits that infest a person by exorcising those surplus spirits away from oneself.
The “Library Campaigns” are just feeble faulty Hubbard marketing sub campaigns. The LRH books don’t even give you the full layout of what you need to do Scientology on your own, you’d still have to obtain Subject Vol 3 and the “OT red volume” which has most of the upper levels of Scientology.
No one wants to do this, it’s too tedious even also. The runway Hubbard laid out is ridiculously long to get through all the Hubbard pseudo-therapy and exorcism steps, even if you had the time to do it free on your own.
And the people coming off the end of this official Scientology assembly line are no great shakes improved. It’s too subjective, it’s not that great.
I have yet to read a more insane statement than this one for this idiot.
If you apply his weird idea (MU’s of course) then you do not follow the surgeons procedure you just cut and hack as you see fit.
I never realised the true nature of an SP until I read this guys lunacy.
I left the COS 30 years ago, but to be honest, I never saw any insanity to compare to this evil idiot.
I hope he has been vaccinated many, many times for all the weird strains of all virus claimed to exist, and will go soon.
What’d you think of Hubbard’s exorcism OT 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 steps?
How would you define Scientology in terms of what kind of practice it is, and what does it address?
I’d be happy to offload my set of Basic Books and Lectures.
Do you have Subject Vol 3 of the red volumes?
If you have the red volumes, either edition, but the 1991 edition have more LRH HCOBs in it, but the first edition red volumes does have a bunch of the BTBs in it for history purpooses, but I found the subject Vol 3 of the red volumes is useful to have on hand to pretty much summarize what are the actual “commands” to reach “Clear” if you believe in this stuff.
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Thanks. No, I don’t have the red vols.
This seems incredibly wasteful of “parishioner’s” money. Though maybe the difference between what they are charged, and low printing and shipping costs, is so large that it’s still a relatively efficient way to get money out of them for the CofS’ coffers, even if the materials have virtually no impact on the general public and mostly just get trashed.
Another great example of what Scientology does with a good idea.
The term ‘auto-destruct’ doesn’t even come close to describe the viciousness generated by greed within that management system concerning the complete disregard of their own future. Money comes first and is the only thing that matters. It feeds veraciously on their own members and to hell with the consequences.
The order – “Get your stats up!” is akin to a suicide mission the way they go about it.
Yes, I got my library to buy ABY a few months ago already. They were happy to. All it took was filling out an online form.
As an aside, I got my very first cult education from a book I stumbled upon at the library, Going Clear. Before that I thought scn was greedy, crazy but harmless. No longer
Seems to me one of the main reasons that people were duped into joining this criminal cult in the 1950s but are no longer duped in the 2020s is the difference in the public mindset.
People had very different mindsets in the 1950s than they do these days. Hand in hand with that idea is that there has been a huge amount of public awareness about this cult during the past 20 years.
But as far as shipping books to libraries goes, these books could still be burned during the winter months to provide heat for people – specifically thinking about The Ukraine and how so many people suffered freezing temperatures this past winter.
Another idea that may have some merit concerns using the books to create some kinds of weapons – like fireballs.
Humans have used almost everything on earth to create weapons. Don’t you think the Ukranians could find a way to make use of these books in “fire based” weapons to fire back at their enemies?
My library has Billion Year Contract, Troublemaker, Blown For Good, Going Clear, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely . . . I was feeling good about that until I found out we had nine books by Hubbard including Introduction to Scientology Ethics.
My next task is to leave reviews, which might be hard because I only looked at Dianetics 40 years ago and couldn’t get through it, which is a review in itself. Someone reviewed the Ethics book by suggesting that people ask Lisa McPherson.
I don’t know which library book was more fun to review. – A Billion Years of Scientology Ethics. Of course for those truly curious about the latter should read ABY.
My Library at Maricopa County in Gilbert, Arizona has 5 hardback copies of “A Billion Years,” also 6 e-audio and 4 e-books … all currently checked out. Woo hoo!
I often wonder, as I pass by a “little library” on my block, if any scientologists try to leave Hubbard’s books in these informal neighborhood libraries.
A gal I knew worked for the Chief Probation Officer at a county government in CA. She showed me a load of boxes filled with scamtology books that had been given as part of the campaign you mention here. Only one box had been opened and it and all the others were collecting dust in a closet in the Chief’s office. So the money members paid just went nowhere. But hey! That is true whether its for books or services. Nothing in the cult works. Nothing.
Two decades ago when I still wore the hat of a scientologist, I went to a monthly booksale held at the Richard Riordan downtown branch of the Los Angeles Public Library. There I found a brand new, sealed copy of a book from Hubbard’s Classic Fiction Series.
I grabbed it for $1.00. One dollar! Just imagine how valuable that book would be to a still-in scientologist (especially when it retails for much, much more).
Hmm. Looking back on this, all I see is a SEAL-ed copy of a book by a raving lunatic conman bought by a trained SEAL.
A Head Librarian told me just a couple of months ago that there’s an unspoken agreement amongst librarians (at least local librarians) having to do with any books by L. Ron Hubbard. If a library receives books by him, they do NOT go on the shelves and DO end up in the dumpster.
The local library system has two copies of the book, A Billion Years. They also have copies of Troublemaker, Going Clear, Bare-Faced Messiah, A Piece of Blue Sky, Inside Scientology, Beyond Belief, Flunk Start and Ruthless.
I will tell them about Blown for Good and Abuse at the Top and find out what needs to be done to get these added to the shelves. They might want to add more copies of the books they already have for their other branches.
I volunteered for a while at a warehouse which sorted donations to a chain of UK charity shops. My job was to root out texts that were worth good money, and see them put on eBay.
On the first day, I noticed a poster on the wall. It emphasised that Reader’s Digests, Gideon Bibles and anything by L Ron Hubbard should be right into a very big cardboard box, designed to be handled by a fork-lift truck.
I asked why. It turned out the filled boxes were sold to a company who pulped the books. They were worth £8 a tonne.
All books that didn’t sell in the shops were put in there, but Ron’s went right in, because they had learned his books never sold. That was all there was to it. They took up valuable shelf space and didn’t sell.
It’s wonderful that Ron began as an author for pulp magazines, and his works are gradually returning to pulp 🙂
Scicrit,
The ultimate in recycling, scientology-style!
My library system has your book. Both print and download. I had an 8 week wait to get it.
There are ZERO sciobot organizations in my state. I was surprised the library had it and that there was a wait list. Will check for the others – had read them because friends had sent to me.