Lecture: Control
Author: Hubbard, L. R.
Document date: 1957, 14 January
Document title: Control
Document type: lecture transcript
Event: Sixteenth American Advanced Clinical Course
Location: Washington, DC
Document ID: 16ACC-09
Description: Hubbard "levels with" his Advanced Clinical Course students about control; suggests that Scientology could set itself up as a black-cowled priesthood; claims that Scientology can brainwash someone in 20 seconds.
As I said, I’m leveling with you. This is an ACC. We can tell you all sorts of interesting ways to produce a tremendous number of effects. I could give you some formulas that would be so complex on the subject of control and how it controlled and to what you appealed and which you did when and where, that you would feel vastly edified. And you would wonder why in the name of common sense your preclears didn’t respond really well: Their habit patterns changed, and you got a little shift on their APAs1. Their IQ had a tendency to shift a little bit. But actually, for some reason or other…
We could set ourselves up as a black-cowled priesthood. The only reason we would do that is because we were fresh out of total game; we were in a position where we hated everybody, cared nothing for anything, totally out of communication in all directions. Yes, we could set up as a black-cowled priesthood with a tremendous number of mysteries, and boy, could we deal off the bottom of the mental deck! We can brainwash a man in twenty seconds. What more do you want? That’s enough technique to conquer the world.
Hubbard, L. R. (1957, 14 January). Control. Sixteenth American Advanced Clinical Course, (16ACC-09). Lecture conducted from Washington, DC.
Notes
- American Personality Analysis. ↩