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Apr 4, 1980
Suit: Church promised much, delivered little — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Nov 29, 1979
FBI file questions mental state of L. Ron Hubbard — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Apr 4, 1976
Scientology: the 'Astounding' fiction that became fact — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Jan 29, 1976
What is this Church of Scientology? — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Mar 5, 1974
A system of engrams and thetans [third of a series] — St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri)
Type: Press
Author(s):
James E. Adams ,
Elaine Viets Source:
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) From 10 a.m. to midnight almost any day of the week, there is constant activity at 4225 Lindell Boulevard, the headquarters of the Missouri church of SCientology. The St. Louis office is one of about 300 branches of what has become one of the most controversial of all contemporary religious movements. The center resembles a vocational training school more than a traditional church. There are books, charts, diagrams, desks with headphone sets for listening to tape recordings, small instructional cubicles and ...
Jul 19, 1973
Review // The soul washers — New ScientistMore: books.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Donald Gould Source:
New Scientist Inside Scientology by Robert Kaufman Olympia Press, pp 279, £2.25 An American musician called Robert Kaufman spent several years dallying with Scientology, finally submitting himself to a period of full time indoctrination at this strange cult's international headquarters at Saint Hill Manor, Sussex, before recovering from the experience in an American psychiatric hospital. Now he has written a book telling of his experiences. Inside Scientology, or How I Joined Scientology and Became Superhuman, describes in a lambent fashion the basic metaphysics ...
May 6, 1973
Scientologists making impact on West Side // Church largest and fastest growing of its kind in the area — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
John H. Hall Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Despite a 10-year running battle with the Food and Drug Administration and the American Medical Assn., Scientology appears to have finally arrived on the West Side. Aided by a 1971 federal district court decision, the Church of Scientology is not only a recognized religious science but the largest and fastest-growing pandenominational church in this area. And the greatest concentration of its members may well be here. There are 75,000 Scientologists in Los Angeles, according to the Rev. Glenn A. Malkin, executive ...
Aug 28, 1971
Miami Scientologists seek drug programs in prisons — Miami NewsMore: news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Bob Wilcox Source:
Miami News Representatives of the Miami Scientology Church, aderents of a controversial but growing religion, are to meet with state drug abuse officials soon. They want to put a Scientology rehabilitation program into the state's prisons. The subject of much criticism since its founding in the 1950s, the church has recently gained official status as a religion from the courts, and along with it permission to use a crude lie-detector device in its psychiatric counseling. Counseling is at the heart of Scientology. Scientologists ...
Jan 1, 1971
The Scandal of Scientology - 03 Life and Sex in the Womb — Tower Publications, Inc.
Jan 1, 1971
The Scandal of Scientology - 17 The Secret Scientology Sessions — Tower Publications, Inc.
Nov 9, 1969
Scientology -- Cult with millions of followers led by man who claims he's visited heaven twice — National EnquirerMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ralph Lee Smith Source:
National Enquirer How profitable Scientology has become is one of the organization's most closely guarded secrets, but estimates of the personal worth of founder L. Ron Hubbard have ranged up to $7 million. In 1963 the Internal Revenue Service claimed the church earned more than $750,000 in the United States from 1955 through 1959, the year Hubbard moved international headquarters from Washington, D.C., to England. There, according to the Los Angeles Times, world receipts rose to $140,000 weekly in 1968. —– In New ...
Jun 1, 1969
The Dangerous New Cult of Scientology — Parents' MagazineMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Arlene Eisenberg ,
Howard Eisenberg Source:
Parents' Magazine When ministers of the Founding Church of Scientology told a Falls Church, Virginia couple that could teach the couple's defective son to talk and raise his IQ at same time, the man and wife, understandably in search of a miracle, willingly paid—in advance—the sum of $3,000 as a "contribution for spiritual guidance." The husband cashed a life insurance policy, sold some bonds, added the proceeds of a small bequest and "scraped around in various places." And then his son Paul's "processing" ...
Mar 16, 1969
What the words mean — Detroit Free Press
Feb 1, 1969
The Secret of Scientology: An Examination Of The Controversial Religious-Psychological-Pseudoscientific cult — Winnipeg Free Press
Feb 1, 1969
The storm over Dianetics: Is it science or is it swindle? — Coronet (New York)More: link
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Coronet (New York) Individuals have attacked its "church," governments have barred its believers. Few ideas in modern time have provoked such passions Last summer, England locked its rock-ribbed coast to the pilgrims who had come from all over the world to attend a dianetics conference on British soil. It was only the latest skirmish in the storm-ridden history of dianetics (dia , through; noos , mind) and scientology (scio , truth; ology , study). Few ideas in our time have aroused such passions. "It's the key to mental ...
Dec 1, 1968
SCIENTOLOGY – Menace to Mental health — Today's HealthMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ralph Lee Smith Source:
Today's Health Couched in pseudoscientific terms and rites, this dangerous cult claims to help mentally or emotionally disturbed persons—for sizable fees. Scientology has grown into a very profitable worldwide enterprise . . . and a serious threat to health. [Picture / Caption: L. Ronald Hubbard, Scientology's founder.] [Picture / Caption: Bust of Hubbard flanks "altar" in Scientology "church" near London. Among his accomplishments, Hubbard claims to have been dead and recovered, to have visited Venus and heaven. ] LAST SUMMER in New York City, ...
Nov 15, 1968
Scientology: A growing cult reaches dangerously into the mind — Life MagazineMore: blog.modernmechanix.com , lermanet.com
Dec 11, 1966
Scientology as it is practiced in its Detroit temple — Detroit Free Press
Aug 22, 1966
Is this the happiest man in the world? — MacleansMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Wendy Michener Source:
Macleans His name is John McMaster. Once he was a mess like the rest of us. Now he's a "clear", one of the saints of a new cult called Scientology — without a single "engram" left to bug him. SOMETHING VERY ODD is going on in Toronto. People are leaving the country, changing their occupations, giving up their children, leaving their husbands, wives, or lovers, changing their whole lives. All in the name of something called Scientology. The whole thing got started ...
Mar 25, 1960
I was a male, born of space parents... — East Grinstead Courier (UK)
Mar 27, 1953
Arrest gives pair fine new engrams — Detroit Free Press
Aug 1, 1951
Boiled Engrams — American Mercury
Type: Press
Author(s):
Willard Beecher ,
Calder Willingham Source:
American Mercury In May of last year, from the modest little town of Elizabeth, New Jersey, came a voice that promised complete salvation for mankind on this earth. That in itself is nothing new, but this particular voice was a powerful roar, worth at least a footnote in any account of our troubled age. It was the voice of a man by the name of L. Ron Hubbard. Until this moment, Hubbard had been known as a writer of science fiction fantasies. But ...
Aug 1, 1951
Dianetics // A critical appraisal of a best-selling book that originated in the realm of science-fiction and became the basis for a new cult — Consumer Reports
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Consumer Reports Dianetics is the title of a book (and a "science") which, for many months, held its place as a best seller in the non-fiction field. According to its originator and to thousands of dianetics adherents, it is "the new Modern Science of Mental Health." Dianetic research institutes have been founded in many cities, with the dual purpose of studying mental and psychosomatic ills in the light of dianetic theories, and of training potential practitioners or "auditors" to treat sick people by ...
Apr 1, 1951
Dianetics. L Ron Hubbard, 452 pages. Hermitage House, New York, 1950, $4.00 [review] — American Journal of Digestive DiseasesMore: link
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American Journal of Digestive Diseases DIANETICS. L. Ron Hubbard, 452 pages. Hermitage House, New York, 1950, $4.-00. Because a considerable mass of non-medical people have been puzzled by this book, and some of them seek the opinion of physicians with respect to its value, it might be an advantage if the physician could have it appraised without being forced to read it. This review, made for that purpose, takes the attitude that Hubbard has not produced any scientific proof to support his theories, and consequently "dianetics ...
Mar 30, 1951
Zilboorg denounces 'Dianetics' at forum — New York TimesMore: link
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New York Times The practice of "dianetics," a theory for the treatment of psychosomatic and other ills, was attacked as "dangerous" last night by Dr. Gregory Zilboorg, psychiatrist, at a meeting held under the auspices of the Physicians' Forum at the New York Academy of Medicine, 2 East 103d Street. The attack on "dianetics," the theories of which are expounded in a best-selling book of that name by L. Ron Hubbard, was said by a spokesman for the Physicians' Forum to have been the ...
Sep 3, 1950
'Dianetics' - For seekers of prefabricated happiness — Herald TribuneMore: erich-fromm.de
Type: Press
Author(s):
Erich Fromm Source:
Herald Tribune Never have people been more interested in psychology and the art of living than today. The appeal which books dealing with these subjects have is a symptom of a serious concern with the human rather than with the material aspects of living. But among these books are some which satisfy the need for rational guidance and others appealing to readers who look for prefabricated happiness and miracle cures. Dianetics is the latest in this series of books and the author uses ...
Aug 14, 1950
The Dianetics craze — The New RepublicMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Martin Gumpert Source:
The New Republic It is not so much the content of this book which deserves analysis as its effect on the average reader's mind. Dianetics has been steadily climbing on the best-seller list since its publication, and, next to the spectacular success of the Velikovsky book, its popularity is the most frightening proof of the confusion of the contemporary mind and its tendency to fall prey to pseudo-scientific concepts. The book opens with the statement: "The creation of dianetics is a milestone for Man ...
Aug 5, 1950
A cure for all ills — The NationMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Milton R. Sapirstein Source:
The Nation DIANETICS: THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH . By L. Ron Hubbard. Hermitage House. $4. ORDINARILY, a new book which offers a generalized cure for all the ills of mankind — guaranteed, within twenty hours — would not be reviewed in these columns. This new book on "Dianetics," by L. Ron Hubbard, however, is in a class by itself. In the first place, the author seems honestly to believe what he has written. His own powerful conviction, in turn, seems to have ...
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