[Advertisement] L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman?
Date: Sunday, 9 August 1987
Publisher: Los Angeles Times (California)
Main source: link (72 KiB)
Date: Sunday, 9 August 1987
Publisher: Los Angeles Times (California)
Main source: link (72 KiB)
L. Ron Hubbard wrote the 1950 bestseller Dianetics, the Modern Science of Mental Health.
It inspired a layman-oriented mental health movement which developed
into Scientology, the most profitable of the money-making new religions.
Hubbard was a bigamist who masterminded Watergate-style break-ins. He
surrounded himself with adoring teenyboppers, uniformed in mini-skirts,
bikini tops and high-heeled boots.
He smoked opium and regarded himself
as the successor to Aleister Crowley, self-proclaimed "Beast 666."
These are but some of the facts about the man uncovered in this unusual biography.
Dianetics
is on the bestseller lists again. This, thanks to a massive advertising
blitz which uses television and thousands of billboards across the
country. Bestseller lists also usually include one or more of Hubbard's
science-fiction novels.
Are Hubbard s followers the
victims of a highly organized form of 'spiritual crazy glue?' Not if you
listen to them. There is no shortage of celebrities who claim that
Hubbard's teachings and counselling techniques have made them happier
and more successful. John Travolta, Priscilla Presley and Sonny Bono are
a sample trio of those who have stood and applauded, for minutes on
end, a giant photograph of "the man who exposed them to all the secrets
of life."
Yet it can be dangerous—even life-threatening—to
attempt to expose HIS secrets. Most of those people with firsthand
knowledge of the man have been silenced. Fortunately, Bent Corydon
conducted extensive interviews with many of them before they were pressured or paid not to talk.
L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman?
has survived several attempts to suppress its publication. For refusing
to show the manuscript to the Scientologists in advance of publication,
the Scientologists have sought to jail publisher Lyle Stuart!
Bent
Corydon was a pioneer among Scientology's leaders. When he recognized
the true nature of Scientology, he was among the first to broadly
publicize Hubbard's deceits. Corydon went public to expose to the world
the corruption and mind-control aspects of Scientology.
L.
Ron Hubbard, Jr., witnessed a very different man from the one known to
the rank and file of his fathers Church. He spent nearly a decade as his
father's confidant before breaking away.
Corydon, with an assist from Ron Hubbard, Jr., has written L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman?
with the pace and feel of a good novel: fact stranger than fiction! At
the same time its varied, strange and often shocking revelations are
packed with information to prevent the pursuit of happiness from
becoming a "weakness to be exploited."
This very much unauthorized biography of Lafayette Ronald Hubbard is a major blow to people-manipulating Scientologists.
The
Church of Scientology has spent heavily to fight this book. Both
Corydon and his publisher have been sued. They've been followed. They've
been harrassed. They've been threatened.
L Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman?
is for everyone concerned about the fate of America in the age of false
preachers who prey upon the innocent and the idealistic.
Just published! At book shops everywhere! Get your copy today!
Published by the house that courage built: Lyle Stuart
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