Chuck is big on history documentation and getting proper scholars to work at it. The piles of folders of Hubbard's solo-audited "research" are legitimate documentation, even if all they contain is illegible scribblings with big numbers and drawings of genitalia in the margins.
Chuck isn't interested in CBR's writings about CBR's research, as far as I know.
Paul
Yes, first really, if one is trying to give Hubbard the benefit of the doubt, yes, look at his actual stuff.
And CBR, well, I'm ultra open minded, and CBR is a unique type of splinter off Hubbard.
CBR had a lot of charisma all his own, depending on your gullibility quotient, mine was pretty high, so CBR when I met him the few times in person, he's kinda a "big" acting person, cheery, sort of drizzle in the edges of his mouth, he is sort of talking lecturing to the universe on auto pilot, type of demeanor.
I like all the significant splinter groups, and his Ron's Org is completely underestimated by me, I'll admit.
I think Pat Broeker's pleas, at LRH's funeral, about "there is only one source" was aimed at CBR's influence specifically, since at the time of that funeral, Mayo was knocked out of the splinter Scientology competition, leaving the Ron's Org as the largest group, likely, that's stuck it out in continuous splinter group history.
I mean, a scholar would even grant Ron's Org people are Scientologists, in the wide definition of Scientologists, even though their "upper OT levels" are CBR edited and added to.
I'm doubting anyone is going to really care, of the people who are competent to judge the efficacy of whether CBR's processes or LRH's processes are "better" therapy or better mind expanding.
In an encyclopedia summary, CBR and Ron's Org will be lumped in as a Scientology splinter faction with some staying power.
I applaud them for their decency when they recently visited the Int Base, I was impressed that they did that group circle "prayer" of "positive postulates" for the Int Base Scientologists! That was a religious like group behavior of interesting and noteworthy good human well wishing for their Scientology brethren confined behind those razor wire fences that keep the Int Base staff on lockdown.
