Only in Scientology do former LSD zombies write success stories.
It's not surprising that exercise and sweating, then taking a hot shower and getting nice and clean, makes person feel "clean."
I'm curious if there are any wins, specifically, from taking a tablespoon of vegetable oil daily. Or perhaps the quantity of oil and the frequency are other than I remember it.
There's a remarkable amount of pseudo-science attached to the simple action and exercising and sweating.
Some background:
Aldous Huxley, longtime proponent of psychedelic drugs, was audited by Hubbard in 1950.
Huxley, it seems, was a "Resistive case." Of course, at that time there was no Purification RD, so Aldous Huxley, unfortunately for his "next endless trillions," and his "eternity," did not have "case gain." He later wrote: "...
I have proved to be completely resistant - there is no way of getting me onto the time track or of making the subconscious produce engrams..."
[video=youtube;5BzvC2t_LeI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BzvC2t_LeI[/video]
Huxley later died, confirming Hubbard's warnings, in writings such as his 1959 Justice Manual and his 1966 'What is Greatness?' essay, about how those who refuse his help have a way of dying.
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The Purification RD is the more marketable re-make of the original sweat program, which required everyone who had taken LSD to wear rubber suits and run around sweating out the "LSD crystals."
As far as I know, the first mention of LSD, by Hubbard, was in the 'Professional Auditors Bulletin' of 30 September 1955:
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I could tell you about long strings of psychotics run in on the Foundation and the Association, sent in to us by psychiatrists who then, using LSD and pain-drug-hypnosis, spun them and told everyone that Dianetics and Scientology drove people insane. I could tell you about the strange politics and ambitions of psychiatry, so well covered in the book Psychopolitics [Note: Hubbard's hoax Russian textbook, which he had just secretly authored and was not yet published] , and give you a proper riddle as to why we, a small group, the only ANGLO-SAXON DEVELOPMENT IN THE FIELD OF THE MIND AND SPIRIT [sic], have been subjected to so much attack and finance... But I am not telling you stories or being dramatic. I am inviting your cooperation in your own future security..."
As for dealing with those whose behavior became erratic or an embarrassment after Scientology processing, Hubbard wrote, in the same 'PAB':
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You'll find the family physician or psychiatrist was called in midway in processing... You'll find there is a vested interest somewhere in the insanity of the person. An so testify that you suspect it. We will have on hand lots of literature on LSD..."
Sixteen years later, Hubbard would write a similar policy, although this one doesn't mention LSD and is more to the point. It has the simple title 'Confidential', and is dated 29 June 1971:
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Policy is that we assign any case or upset in Scientology to past damage and interference with the person by medicine or psychiatry. They were sent into us after medicine or psychiatry had already destroyed them. We cannot be blamed for psychiatric or medical failures."
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During 1977 the Sweat Program was introduced.
Also, in February 1977, came the
HCOB 'Jokers and Degraders', followed by the March 1977
HCOB, 'The Gambler' (Here's a rare photo of LRH doing research into gambling):
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HCOB 'LSD, Years after they have come off of', of May 1977, announced the "Sweat program."
The formal "Sweat program" was further described in the
HCOB 'LSD and the Sweat program' of February 1978.
From the May 1977
'LSD, Years after they have come off of' (two months before the July 1977 FBI raids):
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Apparently they have become some sort of vegetable or zombie to a greater or lesser degree.."
To place this in historical context, it had only been one year earlier, from his temporary residence in Washington DC, in April 1976, that Hubbard personally oversaw part 2 of the (1972) 'Operation Dynamite' - then renamed 'Operation Freak Out' - covert Operation to "terminately handle" author Paulette Cooper, by having her set up/framed and, "sent to prison or a mental institution." It didn't matter that Cooper's book was, by then, out of print, 'Operation Dynamite' had come so close to "working," that Hubbard couldn't resist a second try.
That's what Hubbard was thinking about at the time (along with the other covert Ops he was supervising), that, and LSD having made people - often the most productive and creative people in Scientology - into "
vegetables or zombies to a greater or lesser degree."
Eventually, the "Sweat Program" became the more marketable "Purification Rundown," with the "Purif" meant for
everyone.
Remember the hype for the Purif? "
Only Scientologists who've done the Purif will survive World War III."
It was promoted along with the book, 'All About Radiation', which was "written by a nuclear physicist and a medical doctor," with Hubbard being the nuclear physicist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1-6I-d4jK0
Dr. Hubbard explains to the Scientologists that, as an officer in the United States Navy, he had been asked several times to work on the secret Manhattan Project to build an atomic bomb,
and that he had refused and, as punishment for his refusal, had, each time, been sent into a dangerous combat theater in the Japanese infested Pacific.
'All About Radiation' was first published in 1957.
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'Cowboy' is a former Commodore's Messenger: a former child-servant for "Commodore" Hubbard. From 'Cowboy's ESMB post of 22 July 2012:
"...Hubbard developed the Purification RD based on unsound medical principals, that result in deaths. He felt he knew the body, medicine, etc. There was no such thing as research. The principles had to be true, because he was espousing them and he... was Hubbard!
"The purif started with a heavy set individual who was to be an expert in an area in which Hubbard was pushing for outside experts to be recruited. So, a recruiter found him and recruited him to work at SU. [Special Unit] The only trouble was he had a history of drug abuse. Hubbard decided to make him burn his fat and release past stored drugs with heavy exercise. He donned a plastic exercise suit and ran through the heat of the desert of La Quinta. Hubbard developed other principles that became the Purif RD.
"The only trouble was, the old man wasn't a doc. The principles of the purif weren't all sound and were physically dangerous. We see the results of that now in the deaths..."