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So even as soon as the late 1960's there were LRH busts? I wondered when goofball shit like that became "normal". Busts of LaFatty, the Hip Hip Hooray three cheers for LRH stuff, "Source" and other assorted nuttiness.
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There were Hubbard bronze busts by 1963. I'm not sure when they were introduced. Here's Hubbard instructing Scientologists on the consequences of improper disrespectful treatment of a Hubbard bronze bust:
Excerpt from HCOPL 27 December 1963.
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This final bit is added not out of any pride or conceit or bid for loyalty. It has been consistently observed by many observers that when a place seems to be critical of or in disagreement with Ron or cool toward his plans, the public falls rapidly away. No squirrel has ever survived. Treat a bust or a personal office of mine with disrespect and the public falls away. Apologize for my policies and the public stays off in droves. There's nothing of superstition about this. The public wants Scientology Ron's brand and they don't buy other brands. In thirteen years, every squirrel or disaffected or critical office has miserably failed. The 'we agree in most things with Ron but' sees the coat tails of the public, not their faces."
This was several years after the introduction of Security Checking, which included the question, "
Have you ever had any unkind thoughts about L. Ron Hubbard?" In a lecture from 1961, Hubbard explained that the reason for the question, and any others like it, was that if a person has overts and withholds against the source of Scientology, the person will not get gains.
Hi Hollybush
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I don't know whether you've seen any of these items, so here they are. Each concerns Scientology during the late 1960s, and/or St. Hill.
William Burroughs was involved with Scientology in the 1960s, and wrote about his experiences, including about his time at St. Hill in 1968.
His 1972 book, 'Naked Scientology', is somewhat rambling, but also provides a look at St.Hill around the time you note. Most of what became 'Naked Scientology' was derived from an article by Burroughs in the 'Los Angeles Free Press' of March 1970. His insights, for the time, are pretty remarkable, and he's not entirely negative about the subject, although he definitely does not recommend it.
Burroughs begins, writing in early 1970:
In view of the fact that my articles and statements on Scientology may have influenced young people to associate with the so called Church of Scientology, I feel an obligation to make my present views on the subject quite clear.
Naked Scientology:
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/Naked Scientology.pdf
A few excerpts re. Sec Checking:
I remember some old biddy dragging me into a broom closet... and asking me on the e-meter, "Do you have any unkind thoughts about L. Ron Hubbard? ... That reads. What do you consider that means?"
"He's so beautiful he dazzles me. I can't help resenting it sometimes."
In the words of Celine - "All this time I felt my self respect slipping away and finally completely gone. As it were, officially removed..."
Like an anthropologist who has, after unspeakable indignities, penetrated a savage tribe, I was determined to hang on and get the big medicine...
...I was ordered for a Joberg [Security Check] because I rockslammed [a type of 'read' on the e-meter] on a question, "What would have to happen before Scientology worked on everybody?" (I couldn't confront it.) The [1961] Joberg http://www.xenu.net/archive/books/isd/isd-5i.htm ...is published for the first time in Inside Scientology http://www.xenu.net/archive/books/isd/isd.htm [1972]...
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The below BBC program about Scientology at St. Hill was made in 1967:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhsRe-szfSk&feature=uploademailC1lI
The program, 'The Shrinking World of L. Ron Hubbard', followed in 1968:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_w-YWwC1lI