I think that whenever he wrote about suppresive beings, he was mainly talking about himself, or his hero's. Read the Affirmations.
I highly recommend carefully reading, and possibly re-reading ALL of the long list of books and papers on Scientology.
Look up Professor Dave Touretzky's Carnegie Mellon University site, where he has the online printed versions of most of the great critical books.
My pick of the best scholars' books are "Renunciation and Reformulation" by Harriet Whitehead, cheaply acquired on Amazon for less than 10 bucks. And my all time favorite is "The Road to Total Freedom" by the deceased but brilliant Roy Wallis, which is hard to find and about 100 bucks on Amazon, but worth it, if you want to really see a topnotch intellectual take on Hubbard Scientology.
IN summary, after all my reading, I was and still am a heavily infected Hubbard policy wonk nerd (me in my "heyday" --
http://tinyurl.com/295khy ), my summary view of how to quickly accurately define current official Scientology is:
Scientology is science fictionesque Hinduism Gnosticism Freudian type (one on one, and one to oneself) high volume dead space alien exorcism therapy.
It's a dead alien exorcism therapy religion in it's purest highest practiced religious practice format.
And if there is "any" genius to Hubbard, it's his overwhelming output that smothers people from correctly characterizing what Scientology is and what it has become.
It's also in the church structures, it's turned into a Stalinist totalitarian 1984 operation at the Sea Org management echelon.
Whether it slowly "normalizes" in the decades to come, once David Miscavige, current Stalin dictator of Scientology management, as David exits the stage, it will be seen if the two top councils whom Hubbard in his final years wrote SHOULD be managing the church, regain their managerial "coordinating committee" leadership control, and replace this dictatorial period that Miscavige personally has driven the Sea Org top management to currently in the last 25ish years into, it IS to be seen what the next round of Scientology Sea Org "top management" do.
I hope, as a former trainer of church execs, that they get back to the more benign Hubbard administrative scriptural executive policies that were focused on by a training course that Greg Wilhere once compiled in the late 1970s, called the "Special Executive Briefing Course."
Greg, then the Commanding Officer of the original Int Training Org, in 1978, at Clearwater when it was formed, Greg compiled a checksheet that focused on some of LRH's wiser (?) more benign executive policies of the pre 1965 period. For instance the one where LRH said only "call on the carpet" one's subordinates in private.
Greg, when he compiled that checksheet, was even then conscious of the good and bad executiving going on in even up to then, 1978, Sea Org history.
That checksheet was quickly blasted, and so was Greg, for it.
Greg's since become the other "right hand man" to Miscavige in the intervening years, and today, my hope is Greg just MIGHT be sufficiently punished by Miscavige, and pushed to stand UP to Miscavige.
If somehow we get message to Greg, that we want HIM to stand up to, and stand DOWN Miscavige, I know this is so unlikely.
But Greg's background has a fair amount of regular world history that MIGHT be still there down in Greg's soul (I'm an atheist, I speak figuratively here).
Greg WAS quarterback for Villanova Univ. He was Commanding Officer and successfully, of DC Org. He was Commanding Officer of the Flag Service Org. He was CO ITO (Int Training Org). He was ASI staff, he's a Class 12, he was the Inspector General when there was a triad IG office setup for RTC in the late 1980s, Greg being IG, Marty being IG Ethics, Marc Yager being IG Admin, and Ray Mitoff being IG Tech).
I've heard though, that Greg's got serious skeletons in the closet from some pretty BAD transgressions he committed at David Miscavige's Statinesque direction, which likely will hinder and keep Greg in his advanced Stockholm syndrome mindset fauningly propitiative to David Miscavige.
But, history proves that those that Miscavige DUMPS on too heavily, finally say enough, and turn on Miscavige.
My hope is Greg does the same.
will he?
I've hoped this same hope, and wrote it up several years ago, I think on Clambake or on ARS.
I'm hoping it again.
