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Years ago, I wrote about Hubbard's confidential instructions to Scientologists that they use "aberrative" and "enemy tactics" on Scientology's enemies, and how Hubbard had, also, secretly, used "aberrative" and "enemy tactics" on Scientologists, and how these tactics had been incorporated into the doctrine of Scientology. Hubbard would often mention "enemy tactics" and, inevitably. present himself as the opponent of those tactics. This assured Scientologists that Hubbard would never use such tactics on them.
Hubbard's secret use on his own followers, of the ideas and methods of his 1955 hoax "Russian textbook on Psycho-politics" had been remarkably described in the mid 1960s in the Australian Anderson Report. 22 years later, an examination of this topic was published in the book, 'Messiah or Madman?' and, 14 years after that, an extensive examination was published in the e-book 'Brainwashing Manual Parallels'. Yet, the original piece in the mid 1960s Anderson Report stands out as an example of early and extraordinary insight. (And, by the way, it wasn't by Anderson, but by an unnamed contributor, whose contribution, Anderson, to his credit, recognized.)
And there are other examples of amazingly insightful early analyses of "what Hubbard was actually doing."
Volney Mathison's, in 1954, however, may be the earliest:
My only disagreement with Mathison above is that, IMO, amongst the deceit and manipulation, exist some bits and pieces of potentially beneficial information. I make a habit of alerting others to these bits and pieces, as these often are used to build confidence and trust, and as lead-in and "bait" for the Scientology trap.
Hubbard's secret use on his own followers, of the ideas and methods of his 1955 hoax "Russian textbook on Psycho-politics" had been remarkably described in the mid 1960s in the Australian Anderson Report. 22 years later, an examination of this topic was published in the book, 'Messiah or Madman?' and, 14 years after that, an extensive examination was published in the e-book 'Brainwashing Manual Parallels'. Yet, the original piece in the mid 1960s Anderson Report stands out as an example of early and extraordinary insight. (And, by the way, it wasn't by Anderson, but by an unnamed contributor, whose contribution, Anderson, to his credit, recognized.)
And there are other examples of amazingly insightful early analyses of "what Hubbard was actually doing."
Volney Mathison's, in 1954, however, may be the earliest:
My only disagreement with Mathison above is that, IMO, amongst the deceit and manipulation, exist some bits and pieces of potentially beneficial information. I make a habit of alerting others to these bits and pieces, as these often are used to build confidence and trust, and as lead-in and "bait" for the Scientology trap.