I well recall a conversation I had with a Dr. Center in Savannah,* Georgia, in 1949. It well expresses the arrogance and complete contempt for law and order of the psychiatrist. A man had just called to inquire after his wife who was “under treatment” in Center’s hospital. Center asked him, “Do you have the […]
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Article: Chronicle 1941-1945
1941-1945: On 29 March 1941 L. Ron Hubbard receives his Master of Sail Vessel license for “Any Ocean.” On 2 July 1941 he is commissioned as Lieutenant (jg) of the United States Navy Reserve. With the outbreak of war in December 1941, Mr. Hubbard is ordered to Australia where he coordinates intelligence activities. Returning to […]
Article: Letters from the Birth of Dianetics
Those familiar with the life of L. Ron Hubbard as recounted in issues of the Ron Series will recall repeated references to the LRH trail of research through the latter 1940s. Generally touched upon are his 1945 endocrinological studies at an Oak Knoll naval hospital near San Francisco, his 1946 examination of narcosynthesis at a […]
Article: In Pursuit of the Answers to the Mind (continued)
Traveling east in 1948, Ron spent three months helping deeply disturbed inmates in a Savannah, Georgia mental hospital. “I worked with some of these,” he recalled, “interviewing and helping out as what they call a lay practitioner, which means a volunteer. This gave me some insight into the social problems of insanity and gave me […]
Lecture: On Auditing: How to Succeed/Fail, Assess
The Genetic Entity1 has come up in terms of races. There’s the yaller race and the white race and… and the green race, and so forth. The number of races that have come up the track — we don’t care about these races. If… the fact that somebody is trying to tell people that these […]
Lecture: An Analysis of Memory Part 1
The point is that as you start to drift down toward death, you get into these automatic response mechanisms. Way down at 2.0 you start to get into anger and so forth where your survival is badly threatened, and you try to destroy. Then you become afraid, and then you decide you have lost it […]