What did LRH mean by this?

[Hatshepsut]

Holy Toledo!!!!

I thought those images were just 'spoofing' the original Aberree issues. I kinda am in a rut thinking....."Say it ain't so, Joe."

The devil images spooked me in particular, as just last week, I was looking at the obits of some old timers. The two who wrote up the first HASI charter in Pheonix actually look like the devil from the Aberree, and also resembled LRH very much in 1954. I feel like I'm watching Rosemary's Baby and wondering, who actually IS a worshiper of the 'Lightbringer'?

These guys from Phoenix in 1954 actually were sincere and helpful in the 70s. But, I had to laugh looking at Veda's supplied image above, and then remembering the feelings I got about them at the time. I entertained notions that they were all secretly witches.... back in the early 70s. LOL. The Masonic organizations were so common in their heyday. Nobody would think that LRH had been involved in anything having to do with Aliester Crowely or that the earliest practicioners had any occult leanings; not at the time of the local missions anyway.

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Hrrrmmph.....I deleted their pics out of respect for the families who provided the old Scientology photos as part of their memorials online. Interesting old pics though with comments about early Scientology. Oh well.

 

[Hatshepsut]

Wait a minute. I don't think I understand what the Aberree is. I thought it was a Scientology publication from the early 50s. Not so?

I am trying to google what it is. Is there a different original spelling or something?


OK, I see it's an anti-dianetics publication.

https://www.aberree.com/who/index.html

https://www.aberree.com/v06/n02p07.html

https://www.aberree.com/editions/volume-12/issue-1.html

 

[pineapple]

I was curious about this picture of "a once-widely-known Dianeticist" with CO2 cylinder. Found this very interesting account. Excerpt:
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Doctor Joe Winters and CO2 Therapy​

Well, Doctor Winters was quite interested in testing O2/CO2 mixtures in conjunction with dianetic engram running. So he offered me the opportunity to try some. I agreed and lay down on an examining table in his office and when we were ready, he put a breathing mask on my face and I began to breathe in the O2/CO2 mixture from a steel medical oxygen cylinder.​

http://freezoneearth.org/ivy/35/ross1.html​

 

[pineapple]

I looked at my copy of "A Doctor's Report on Dianetics" and found that Winter (there's no "s" on the end) describes experiments with CO2 therapy on pgs 186-188 (in my 1951 copy of the book). He says

I made about 25 or 30 observations of this method, giving the patient five or ten breaths, noting the report of altered sensation, then asking for a phrase which might be associated with the strongest sensation.... My general impression of this CO2 technique is that it seems useful, especially in cases where the patient finds it difficult to re-experience pain.

Later he says

I did not pursue this course of investigation longer but deferred further investigation until I had re-examined some of the basic tenets of dianetics.

 

[pineapple]

In describing his CO2 experiments, Winter mentions someone named "Meduna." I looked up Meduna and found that he was the originator of carboxygen therapy, which was "very useful for revealing previously unconscious fears." However, he's better known as the father of convulsive therapy. Meduna started out inducing seizures with drugs, but by the mid-1940's electricity had become the preferred method.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislas_J._Meduna

 

[Hatshepsut]

>snipped
In the mean time, Hubbard surrounded himself with those excited about his much advertised vision of a better world, and excited about the full releasing of spiritual ability.

Hubbard liked to write and he liked to lecture, and he had a knack as a practical psychologist. He drew on the ideas and innovations of the most creative of those around him, and drew on his own knowledge of abreaction (catharsis, "get it [buried thoughts and emotions] off your chest") therapy, Korzybski's General Semantics with its "earlier similars" etc,, and Aleister Crowley's Magic(k). He re-worked the (four 'letters' - ingredients - of the) Kabbalistic 'tetragrammaton', and it became his 'Four Conditions of Existence'. Hubbard rewrote Crowley's 'Naples Arrangement' and it became his 'The Factors'. He borrowed Crowley's idea of a multiplicity of infinite minds and further excited Scientologists with that notion. None of these were original with Crowley, who was as much a relay point as was Hubbard. Yet, unlike Crowley, Hubbard would eventually incorporate the methods of psychological warfare into his system, and use those methods, not only on his perceived enemies, but on his own followers.
And when he finally - in the 1960s - unleashed, fully, yet covertly, the psychological warfare methods of his secretly authored 1955 hoax "Russian Textbook" on Scientologists, he also returned to fully utilizing those ideas he had briefly tested more than a decade earlier. He gave them a past, he gave them a future, he told them the contents of their own minds, and made it plain that only HE knew and others were going to be told.

Hubbard had written confidentially of the importance of "using enemy tactics," and would use those "enemy tactics" on his own loyal and unsuspecting followers.

During the first few minutes, Peter Levenda hits the nail on the head talking about how the military also got into the woo of the 40s and 50s in their endeavors to control the mind. They brought pain and misery to many souls during their experiments. War is Hell and all is fair in the name of investigative science I guess?