Article: The Radiation Picture and Scientology
February 4, 2012 by admin
Filed under The Angles
Author: Hubbard, L. R.
Document title: The Radiation Picture and Scientology
Document date: 1957, ca. mid-May
Document type: magazine article
Publication: Ability
Publication issue: 47
Book title: The Technical Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology
Edition: 1976
Volume: III
Page(s): 44-48
Location: Los Angeles
Publisher: Church of Scientology of California
Description: Hubbard discusses Scientology's position on radiation; says their campaign is to sell Scientology, and to cause the collapse of psychiatry and psychology; announces Scientology's new campaign. Claims Scientology cures hysteria.
The country has become very involved with radiation in the past year or so and as we in Scientology have achieved a much clearer understanding of this I think I owe you a rundown on Scientology and radiation.
At the outset let me assure you that our total interests in radiation at this time are two only: that radiation can create hysteria, and Scientology handles hysteria, and secondly that hysteria, because of radiation, puts people in rather poor condition and Scientology can rehabilitate them. We have no political or international interest in radiation.
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Our cue is to make nothing out of radiation, if we mention it at all. People who are worried about radiation are worried because enough talk about it has thrown enough engrams into restimulation to make them actually quite ill. We can do something about restimulation. But we have no business aiding this public hysteria in any way. We are the people who take care of hysteria and not the people who stir it up. What we are doing is a bit bigger than one of Man’s new destructive toys.
Our campaign is to sell Scientology. If we sell it well, psychiatry and psychology will collapse. For instance, one of the most unfortunate things that psychiatry and psychology have ever engaged upon has been this mental health campaign of this spring. These people are not capable of withstanding public scrutiny. Their general activities are sufficiently harmful to their patients that if they stick their head up just a little bit further, even people in the government will be able to see that there is a swindle involved there. I expect within the next two or three years to see a complete and thorough congressional investigation of “charity rackets” and would expect to see psychiatry and psychology leading the van in those who are being investigated.
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I invite your cooperation in this new campaign of ours—a brand-new campaign:
To sell Scientology, sanity and survival to the individuals alive on Earth today. Thank you.
Hubbard, L. R. (1957, ca. mid-May). The Radiation Picture and Scientology. The Technical Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology (First printing, 1976 ed., Vol. III, pp. 44-48). Los Angeles: Church of Scientology of California.