Wow Alan,
""During the 1964 period there was a steady loss of early Scio's - who were sick and tired of Hubbards behavior.""
Hubbard's behaviour,?... can you give more specific examples to to help me visualize him in action?
""Hubbard deliberately put a false bridge there to stall and confuse those who were leaving.""
Again, although sometimes hard to explain/show "deliberate", please more detail so I don't have to dub in.
Also would it make sense to attribute, this behaviour and deliberate attempts to stall and confuse, to the as I so far understand it, to his megalomaniac character which comes through in his 1940' affirmations?
I sometimes wonder if Hubbard wasn't on some kind of "mission" of his own creation or as a part of a greater dark force, to entice,bind, dub, entrap, and divert and drive into apathy beings of greater benevolent motives!!
There does seem to be some plausible veracity appurtenant to the results. Or do you see it as otherwise, perhaps more circumstantial?