In 1946 he was at a VA hospital in Oakland, from which some cutsey folksy stories about a fellow convalescent named Yankiwitz evolved. The fact was that LRH was a rather ordinary writer of inferior adventure stories, 'The Buckskin Brigade,' etc. In '47 he became a devotee of Alister Crowley, but was still rather average, apart from his weird Bahomet beliefs...but then this malaprop suddenly comes out with Dianetics: the Original Thesis. This would be the equivalent of Joe Biden writing Einstein's Theory of Relativity. What happened between 1946-47-and 48? Who intervened to make this jackass capable of publishing the above named book? I knew John Galusha in Denver. John was Hubbard's righthand man at one time, and was the first President of the CofS when it was founded in 1955. One thing about John Galusha, his ethics were so clean, that when he and Mike Goldstein were called on the carpet to the Ft. Harrison in the early eighties, the ogres went limp in Galusha's presence. They couldn't attack. John wouldn't pick up a penny from the street if he were starving. One day he told me that he and Haskell Cook, had been given a packet from LRH, and they were to rendezvous at a place in the country, where E.T.'s would come and take up the parcel.
John said that there wasn't a doubt in his mind, that E.T.'s would come. Only it rained that evening and the mission was aborted. I for one think that Hubbard was a puppet of E.T.'s at one point. He had to have gotten all that high flown space crap from somebody. He may have gone off the deep end at some later date, but his behaviour toward his wives and children, and his firm belief in "Do as thou will", (paraphrasing), from Crowley, show that the capability of sheer evil was always there. His thinking himself to be Satan would be in keeping with 666, which wasn't his room number at Bellevue.
Fascinating stuff, this rendezvous with ETs.
If it's true the Hubbard gave such a parcel and instructions to John, it has to mean one of the following:
a) Hubbard was in communication with Extra Terrestrials.
b) Hubbard mistakenly believed he was in communication with Extra Terrestrials.
c) Hubbard didn't believe this but wanted John (and others) to believe he was in communication with Extra Terrestrials.
d) Hubbard mistakenly believed he was in communication with Extra Terrestrials AND he wanted others to know about it.
If it was "a" all bets are off and the world of Scientology is far different than anyone imagines.
If it was "b" that would make Hubbard self-deluded and a good candidate to be institutionalized as dangerous to himself and/or others.
It it was "c" this would be consistent with all the other knowingly false claims Hubbard made about Clear and OT and a bridge to total freedom.
If it was "d" it would mean that to some unknown degree, Hubbard really believed he had discovered (
or was close to discovering) a "tech" of inestimable value to mankind.
Piecing together all that I know of Hubbard from my own experience and that of others, if I had to make a wager on it, I'd take the extremely likely scenario of "c". Occam's razor.
Supporting the conjecture that Hubbard KNEW he was defrauding others is a vast amount of non-working tech that Hubbard continued to sell at lavish prices, long after he realized it did not work. Examples abound, but to name but one, in the late 1950's he admitted during a filmed lecture that DMSMH did NOT produce a Clear. But that did not stop him from reaping hundreds of millions of dollars from it from 1958 thru 1986 by conning people worldwide.
A very possible scenario also has Hubbard PROMOTING & COLLECTING MONEY FIRST (his successful actions as described in the Emergency Formula materials) and then TRYING TO FIND SOME WAY TO DELIVER A PRODUCT LATER. Ron called this advanced technology or holy scripture. Wogs call it fraud.
Final note: Hubbard may well have been delusional enough to think that he was a messiah from another planet (as he claimed) and as such, he wouldn't have had to worry about guilt for leading all his cult followers thru countless dead ends--because he was arrogant, greedy, heartless and crazy enough to believe in his divinity and that he could ultimately find the Holy Grail of spiritual freedom.
There is real madness surrounding the world of L. Ron Hubbard and his cult members and it is not easy to see thru the layers of his secrecy to know what he was actually thinking.
But, regardless of what he thought, his actions were egregiously harmful to countless numbers, not the least of which is the stealing of their money, time and hope under false pretenses. For that alone, Hubbard should have been in prison and then he could have arranged to have the ETs come and meet him, if that is what he actually thought.
If you're in the Cof S congratulations. You just went free!
