And I say $cientology is best summed up by this image of an otherwise innocent tomato hooked up to an electronic convulsive therapy machine and with a spike driven into it, being tortured by the demonic flounder of the 'Church' Of $cientology who couldn't stop jacking off despite fear of insanity, etc.
And this was the man who wanted to sell me a bridge. Right.
Let's assume for a moment that instead of DMSMH, Hubbard had written a "scientific" book that claimed technology that could turn a garden-variety
TOMATO into an advanced OT (Operating Tomato). And, further, that Hubbard guaranteed that a tomato could use his techniques to "rise above" its degraded state of Solanum Lycopersicum and become a Solanum Novis--capable of not only looking and tasting exactly like an
APPLE---but capable of achieving "eternity" by living forever. Well, real scientists and botanists would have laughed themselves to tears, assuming it was some kind of parody on cults.
If Hubbard had done that everyone would have said it was totally absurd and unbelievable and ridiculous.
Yet, humans paid upwards of $500,000 for a book claiming even more ludicrously miraculous things.
The part that is entirely and endlessly fascinating to me is why nobody ever asked Hubbard--in fact demanded--that he demonstrate any single one of his magical claims. That's the true mojo of Scientology that kept it alive for the past 68 years; that Scientologists are terrified to ask for even one (1) simple demonstration of any of Hubbard's ten million words of utter bullshit.
I think that's the part of Scientology that "works". And, that's the part that Hubbard was fanatically driven to "Keep" working as in--KSW.
What gets it working and keeps it working is the utter and complete erasure of that portion of the reactive mind known as "due diligence".
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