The thread topic is the so-called "deprogramming" of Scientologists, not an detailed inventory of Mike Hobson's non-Scientology studies.
How about an on-topic response to my first comment on this thread instead of changing the subject, Gib?
Michael A. Hobson
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actually, I thought having a conversation with you fits in nicely with the tread tropic.
Before my involvement with scientology, I am the opposite of your education. I knew nothing of
psychology, spiritualism, behaviorism, philosophies, parapsychology, religion(s), mythologies, history; but I did know of science and technology. I was a clean slate to write upon and I read all the scientology basic books and listened to a lot of the lectures including the pdc's.
When I left, I read Napoleon Hill, Dale Carnegie, Autobiography of Ben Franklin, The Story of Philosophy Will Durant, a little of Aristole and Plato, a little of Mein Kampf, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Letters by Hugh Blair, A Philosophical Inquiry Into Our Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful by Edmund Burke, some English Rhetoric by Dean Wilbur, Le Bon's two books The Crowd & The Psychology of Revolution a few others I can't remember now and lots of websites.
oh, and A piece of Blue Sky, Madman or Messiah, Ruthless, Troublemaker, Counterfeit Dreams, some of Jenna's book, scobee's, wright's, and reitman.
I have to tell yah, that book by Burke and Blair are just fantastic once I got my wits around Sublime, I could not quite get it at first. IMHO, anybody that is a writer or in Hollywood should read those books.
I read all the above in 3 years time, not to brag or anything like that, I just got into, gung ho, from the POV I wanted to read others since I had only read Hubbard and I wanted to compare and see how Hubbard trapped us, or programmed us if you will.