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Departure in Dianetics

Title: Departure in Dianetics
Date: Monday, 3 September 1951
Publisher: TIME Magazine
Main source: time.com

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The cult of dianetics, which was going strong a year ago (TIME, July 24, 1950), has some of the features of a new religion. Its founder, 'Science-Fictioneer L. Ron Hubbard, claimed that his "science of the mind" could cure all mental and most bodily ills, make supermen of truly devoted converts. Today, dianetics is suffering the standard fate of the cult: one of its earliest adherents has broken away and is accusing Hubbard of having strayed from the true faith. ... [Read the rest at time.com]