Really? *facepalm*
I think he'd go "Dianetics is a steaming pile of mind-fuck. Too bad so many have tried to make it work."
GBS was not an idiot, suspecting what he might have thought is sort of meh imho.
(and yes, I have waded my way through a goodly portion of Hubbard's turd-fest~
hey!
the best thing i got out of that ship of fools was my own hindquarters
but...
no, i am not about to deny the very real value and virtue of proper training and application.
i think my experience with scn and dn is different largely by reason of my very firm judeo-christian sensibilities. a religious tradition which did give europe the dark ages,
five million heretics burned at the stake, the dungeons of torquemada, and was undeniably complicit in the ovens of auschwitz historic realities which somewhat more than dwarf rpf and overboarding. also i grokked the first ten amendments on sight in fifth grade was enthralled by them with a passion greater than my love of my own life which i affirm as a veteran of The United States Army and perhaps some readers of this thread will recall that when obergruppenfuhrer wisner challenged my personal integrity in this regard i spun him around "like i was a hillbilly moonshiner ditching revenuers with a bootlegger turn on a moonlit smoky mountain backroad and he was a stroked and bored '39 plymouth with a jerryrigged tank full of white lightning." and i also produced a readable piece of fiction unequivocally expressing my sentiments concerning what was apparently a GO return stroke. and i also was well innoculated against some of the common diseases of metaphysical inquiry by deropp's seven syndromes elucidated in "the master game"
i would not and did not drink the koolaid when i was active and i remain unabashed in stating there is a wine worth the fermentation and the savoring.
but...
beware...
i cannot affirm the letter of mystic's contention mr elray is the conjured entity of vampiric entities of a lower astral realm but personal experience does affirm the existence or tangibly apparent existence of such a degree of malign and maleficent spiritual forces.
happy hallowe'en sugarplums