Oh, wow. I had no idea what the "Excalibur revisited" really was. I thought it was going to be more OTIII shit, which I've lost interest in, so I was going to make it one of the last downloads I read. I'm glad you told me about it, thanks.
It
is "more OT 3 shit," and a bunch of other stuff, mostly from Filbert's notes from listening to Hubbard's lectures, plus some occasional (sometimes pretty bizarre) self-hype by Filbert.
'Excalibur Revisited' was noteworthy 25 years ago, as it was presentation of Scientology counseling tech, and the "Bridge," complete with extensive notes from Hubbard's early 1952 lectures (concurrent with the book, 'History of Man') on "Space Opera Whole Track," Implants and Implanters, and entities galore. It does not examine the "dark side" of Scientology in any detail, and there's not much understanding of how Scientology - as a complete subject, "Ethics, Tech, Admin," etc. was designed. But then again, it was written before Filbert had a chance to examine much information that was - in the early 1980s - only just then becoming available.
[Hubbard touched upon what is sometimes (sarcastically) called "Implantology" in early 1952, in a big way, then put it in the background for about a decade, then brought it out again as his ("Auditor Code violating," ie., a giant "evaluation") "confidential and deadly, and your survival depends on it" "upper levels." Almost everything that Hubbard would later use to mislead, manipulate, "assert and maintain dominion" over Scientologists (and others) in later years (mid 1960s and beyond), was touched upon in the early 1950s in some way, then abandoned for a while (that while, being the so called "saner years" from about 1953 - 1964), only to be brought back as official and enforced "tech" and "policy."
This would include not only "Implantology," but also emphasis on the e-meter as a "truth detector," the "SP Doctrine": "No rights of any kind," etc., can be found as early as 1950/51, then was neglected for a while, and brought back with a vengeance in the mid 1960s. Hubbard's 'Brainwashing Manual', concocted - in 1955 - as a black propaganda gimmick to attack psychiatry, contained many of the manipulation/domination "basics" that he would later (1960s and beyond) incorporate into the subject - ETC.]
Filbert also believed (believes, still?) that the Nazis have a secret submarine base at Antarctica - so, suggest taking 'Excalibur Revisited' with a grain of salt, or an entire salt shaker.
The name itself is based on the idea (false) that Hubbard's 1938 'Excalibur' contained what was to become, years later, the Scientology "Bridge," and that Scientology had been derived from the "Akashic records" by Hubbard.
Good to look over, but not to take too seriously.
