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Scientology Discreates Us – Mission: Clear Planet ²

For the first time by the exact decoding of the numerous Scientology technologies an easily understandable nature trail (and a methodological approach) offers you to glance behind the glittering facade of Scientology and shows you in detail how dangerous this organization really is.

Part One – The Scientology-Lie Experienced (Die Scientolüge erlebt) – is the rather unusual description of the experiences of the author during his apprenticeship and journeyman years in Scientology. It is a detailed log of the gradual enslavement and extremely painful re-liberation of a soul in the technological age, told with irony and sarcasm. By sharing his (yes, sometimes intimate) experiences the author wants to prevent his fellow man from falling prey to the Scientology manipulation techniques.

Part Two – The Scientology-Lie Decoded (Die Scientolüge decodiert): by scratching away layer by layer the PR-paint the author exposes the globally working economic group of Scientology, who allegedly sells  “life improvement techniques”, as a military-cybernetic organization and an intelligence-gathering secret service. Hubbard’s hidden conditioning techniques mold a new fighting human machine (”Kampfmensch”) – the “Homo Novis” ³ – who is used by the management along strategic networks against every enemy of Scientology. The attacks are financed from a bulging “war chest”.

The reader learns step by step that Scientology is not only unconstitutional but also represents a hidden form of political extremism. The absolute binding Scientology policies contain both selection and killing instructions. The selection rules are already used today in every Scientology organization and by any Scientologist.

By using the extreme example of “Scientology” the author shows in minute detail where our society could steer, if it continues to be dominated by amoral economic interests and intelligence-gathering and statistically-oriented management technologies. Numerous quotes from the original “scriptures” of Hubbard and carefully selected materials of Ex-Scientologists and critics – including the winner of an Oscar – support the findings and judgments of the author.

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Notes

All right. Now, radiation is a 1957-type problem, and it is here with magnitude. I don’t say that we have a magnitude of radiative particles around, so much as the problem itself has great magnitude, in that to realize that men could be so suicidal or so foolish they could go on playing with a weapon which is not a weapon and which is not useful in war. And they still go on playing with it. To realize that men can get into that condition is to realize that they go further south and still walk than we realize.

Do you know that no police force in the world would arm itself, by the way — no police force would arm itself — with fifty-caliber machine guns. You realize that? No civic police force. You could make them a present of fifty-caliber machine guns, and they would do nothing with them. A fifty-caliber machine gun fires a slug, you see, as big as my thumbnail. It is a huge slug with an enormous charge of powder. And the guns are big and they’re unwieldy, and they are not good antipersonnel weapons. See? They’re not good weapons; they just aren’t functional.

And if you can imagine that the weapon a cop would have as he walked down the street would be a fifty-caliber machine gun (which is easily picked up by two men!) strapped on to his side, you’ll get the reason why. But the main reason is not its portability, but the fact that the thing is not a good antipersonnel weapon and is not useful on citizens. It’s too big a weapon to use on citizens. It would not keep citizens in line. It would actually inhibit law enforcement to such a degree that no law enforcement could take place. Nobody ever dared use a fifty-caliber machine gun in a city street. You see? It’s just not something that you could set up and fire after a speeder. You know, the way they pull out their popguns and shoot at a speeder. You know? They do that — and kill innocent bystanders. But they still do that.

But they know that a weapon can be so large as to be useless. This is a principle which is well known. It has been with man since way before catapults. Even in the days of the broadsword and so forth, why, a gentleman wanted to be armed. And he was going to carry one of these two-handed, armor-piercing broadswords, you know, that was half as tall as his horse, you know? A great big, doggone thing — try to wield one in a drawing room. It just doesn’t work, see? You get it tangled in the draperies and so forth. And so we had to have a short weapon in company with it. And after a while, shorter and smaller and more agile weapons entirely took its place. It isn’t even around anymore. It was an awful lot of weapon. On a battlefield, against an armored knight, in the hands of a strong man, a broadsword had some use. It would cut through a casque and a helm and a skull and a breastplate as far as that’s concerned — clank! But as I say, it just didn’t work as, for instance, a weapon for the Praetorian Guard or a weapon for the Queen’s Own, or something of the sort. Just what would they be doing with that? I suppose they could lock broadswords point-to-hilt, or something like that, and press back the populace — if their arms didn’t drop off trying to hold it up that long. But it’d be an extreme and stupid use.

And here they’ve developed a weapon which is too much weapon, which is not useful either in keeping the peace or in waging war. And why they want to test it, I wouldn’t know. I am not an unqualified authority on this subject, I assure you. I’ve studied war, and it’s something that you just wouldn’t use. What would you use it for? You mean you’re going to set up the whole area so your troops can’t penetrate it? You mean you’re going to pollute the atmosphere to such a degree that your own people are going to be knocked off if you ever dared wage war? Well, why is anybody testing it?

Now, that’s merely a comment on sanity for only this reason (I’m not giving you a propaganda series because everything I’m saying to you, you undoubtedly have more or less added up yourselves, watching this program): People become obsessed with these particles. Got it? They become obsessed with the particles, and they lose the idea of terminals.

Hubbard, L. R. (1957, 31 January). Auditing Techniques: Solids. Sixteenth American Advanced Clinical Course,  (5701C31). Lecture conducted from Washington, D.C.

Notes

I have just completed a Congress in London and was in communication with Members of Parliament through a HASI representative on the subject of radiation. It was clearly and cleanly stated by an authoritative Member of the British Government that Russia was making full use of the hysteria factors inherent in radiation in order to stop England from constructing H-bombs and to impede her defenses in other ways. He had incontrovertible proof that the hysteria campaign being conducted by Russia inside England and the United States was totally an effort to impede their national defense.

Russian campaigns you must understand are of the mental, brainwashing type. Radiation is tailor-made to their agent provocateur tactics.

When I returned to America two things became very obvious. The first of these was that only the press of Russia and the United States did not report my remarks made at the Nuclear Radiation and Health Congress at the Royal Empire Society Hall in London. Other newspapers the world around carried the remarks as headline news. These remarks were to the effect that the greatest danger of radiation was hysteria. At the Congress I said that the H-bomb was not a weapon because it was far too powerful, it would not coerce obedience but only terror. These remarks are more or less complete in a book now being published called All About Radiation, for the British market only.

Another thing that happened is that I remembered why I left the Author’s League of America some years ago. Its Board had begun to offer prizes to deify minorities and it was taking other party-line data and trying to foist it off on American writers. The Newspaper Guild, so far as I know, is not entirely clear of this influence.

The other thing I did was to take a Geiger counter and make a test of Washington. A little earlier this Geiger counter had been giving false evidence because the stick used with the counter, as will happen, evidently had some uranium stuck to it. But with the counter in good operating order and clean, it was discovered that the background count of Washington, D.C., was the same as it was in 1932 when I was going to George Washington University and studying radiation. In other words, there has apparently been no general increase of count in London or Washington because of bomb testing. I did more than this. I made a calculation of the amount of gamma and cosmic rays which fall on Earth’s surface daily and compared this to the amount of test radiation waste which would be thrown into the atmosphere yearly. The figures do not compare. The added man-made radiation will probably never add up to your luminous dial watch.

On the whole track¹, radiation was dangerous for the good reason that there was more radiation in those times that could be exploded. However, radiation is a half-life matter and the older the universe gets the less radiation there is available to throw at people. And a good thing, too.

While we have no doubt whatsoever of the actual dangers of a bomb dropping on a city, we are now in a position to doubt rather thoroughly the vaunted harm from test bombing which is being sold the populations of Earth, evidently by the Communist propagandists.

The U.S. population is being stampeded by Russia toward leaving the U.S. defenseless. Already this has accomplished a defective U.S. civil defense and is gaining momentum toward a public demand for no bombs. This is how Russia works. Russia works on the population imagination. Russia uses any knowledge of the mind she has to instill fear and bring about destruction. She is an unworthy purveyor of scientific information.

Russia has already succeeded rather well in this field of seizing control of the mind. There is no essential difference between dialectic materialism and Wundtian psychology. Yet, Wundtian psychology is taught in all the universities of the United States. England, being an older and more mature government than the United States Government, has already awakened to this and is taking active government steps to halt this matter of public panic. England, for instance, is not buying Wundtian psychology. England is buying Scientology in rather large amounts. But this is not yet true of the United States. That it will come about in the future is more or less a certain thing, but that it does not exist at the time is a fact. Only the better IQs of the U.S. as yet buy Scientology.

We can be assured on the score of fallout—it isn’t dangerous at this time. It does not compare to the amount of “natural radiation” with which we are being bombarded. If you went down to Florida to live you would increase your radiation count much more than it would be increased if you stayed well North and the government blew off ten thousand more test bombs. In other words, just exposure to a clearer view of the sun will give you more radiation than you could be hit with in the near future because of test bombs. It’s just a fact that there isn’t enough uranium around to actually thoroughly contaminate the atmosphere at this time. I know that this is in controversy to my own statements on the subject—which is very interesting. My own statements were made in the light of our earlier experience. We had experienced test fallout in Phoenix and I had not made further tests or calculations. In other words, I myself had been swept up in this campaign to frighten the populace half to death.

The reaction to radiation is thus entirely, completely, and wholly mental!

Dianazene² depends for its reaction upon whole-track radiation incidents, and x-ray and sunburn in the current life. By taking away the engram which can react to the worry about radiation, worry about radiation is then made non-painful.

If you add all this up you will clearly see that scare talk about radiation is the source of radiation sickness in our present world. The Atom Bomb is too powerful a weapon to be used for control of human beings and is therefore not a weapon. But it does promise the population no future, and so promising, it damps out efforts toward survival. This itself can bring on sickness.

But we should not delude ourselves in thinking that actual radiation in dangerous quantities is adrift in this atmosphere at this time. It is not. All I invite you to do is to get a Scintillometer or Geiger counter and test around.

There is probably an ionospheric flash which gives a tiny sudden shock of radiation for the briefest instant of time—less than the amount you would get from a simple x-ray—and this acts as a restimulator to whole-track incidents. But it isn’t true that radiation is drifting around biting you at this time.

On the subject of strontium-90 it is interesting to note that a sufficient intake of calcium renders a person completely immuned to any effects of strontium-90. A child should be made to drink more milk and probably should have his diet fortified a little bit with calcium if anybody is truly worried about it.

This fight, then, is in the propaganda field. It is not in the field of actual science. I am extremely surprised at some of the scientists who are saying that radiation is dangerous. These men professionally should know their business and they are not expressing the true data. On the other hand, neither is the government making actual data available. The government is seeking to convince the public on the score of opinion. Opinion has no validity in science. If you want to know about radiation, why, go and look for some radiation in the atmosphere and if you cannot find more than the usual background count then you must assume that there isn’t any extra radiation in the atmosphere. I am not saying that the scientists who have been beating the drum on the dangers of radiation are Communist-inspired. I am not saying that these men are Communists. I am merely saying that they are aiding and assisting a Communist campaign.

We will not assist Commie propaganda aimed at stampeding the U.S. public into revolt against U.S. defense. The U.S. can bargain her way out of this. I am very hopeful that a general control of radiation the world around will be achieved and I am sure that if it is not achieved, national governments are dead. I am also fairly sure that there will never be such a thing as an atomic war. I have looked this over rather carefully and I personally don’t believe that national governments will last long enough at their present rate of non-survival activity.

Our cue is to make nothing out of radiation, if we mention it at all. People who are worried about radiation are worried because enough talk about it has thrown enough engrams into restimulation to make them actually quite ill. We can do something about restimulation. But we have no business aiding this public hysteria in any way. We are the people who take care of hysteria and not the people who stir it up. What we are doing is a bit bigger than one of Man’s new destructive toys.

Our campaign is to sell Scientology. If we sell it well, psychiatry and psychology will collapse. [...]

Hubbard, L. R. (1957). The Radiation Picture and Scientology. The Technical Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology (First printing, 1976 ed., Vol. III, pp. 44-48). Los Angeles: Church of Scientology of California.

Notes

The  main  thing–the  main  thing  I’m  saying  is,  that  an  organization which has a multiple, not-apparent purpose would probably be very successful. You get a business manager, he’s a pretty good promoter. He hires a few salesmen around town to go around evenings, and they simply sell memberships and back up the hearse–or whatever else they do to sell memberships–and they get names on the Survival Club pledges and the USA clubs are sold to them and–the membership–and they’ll get out from  under in case of atomic war or something like this. You’re not trying to sell them religion or getting better or you’re not trying to sell them anything but self-preservation which is usually easy to sell. And it doesn’t cost any fabulous amount and your finances on the thing tend to work themselves out one way or the other. Furthermore, the organization here  will have  this  in its  literature  pretty well  codified  and  organized. You’re not exactly sailing out into the blue.

Now you mayor may not know this, and it probably isn’t important anyway:  I  was  a  member of Naval  Civil Affairs  at the end of the  last war and they sent me to the Princeton School of Government. Well they had to get a four-year  education  done  in  a  few  months  and  they  were  actually  doing  a pretty good job because all they were trying to do was smarten some guys up so they wouldn’t lay too big an egg when they got out amongst disaster populaces. Therefore, my interest in the subject of disaster relief has been greater  perhaps than it would have been otherwise having been educated in this subject. I was once, by the way, a field executive with the American Red Cross in the  Puerto  Rico  hurricane  disaster.  And  these  things  have  some  reality  to me, you know. I mean it isn’t very unreal and the thing that I have the greatest reality  on is  it’s  awfully easy–it’s awfully easy  to  form  groups  to  take care of disasters. And why civil defense is unable to recruit people to do this, I wouldn’t have a clue unless their program is so lousy that the people that they’re trying to recruit see through it at once,  as a  fraud  or something.  It must be a  terribly bad program. Nobody’s signing up for civil defense these days. They’ve deserted this sphere.

Well disaster relief, or organizations to lead toward the survival of peoples are not very complicated organizations for this reason. The people themselves each one have  some desire or some knowingness on the  subject.  You get the idea? You’re using native talent. Now you’ll understand better when I say an auditor has to be, really, to get good results, has to be trained as an auditor. You got that? Well, a couple of mechanics and a filling station operator don’t need very much  education to be your transportation officials. You got that? So  all you have  to do  is throw them the idea,  how’re  we going to get–how’re we  going to get three thousand survivors transported from  the city out to this evacuation area. Why sit around and jam your wheels with it, see? You  find  some  guys  that know  something  about  wheels,  and  you  say, “Heh, it’s your baby. It’s your baby. Now you’re in charge and you make sure it’s done and we’ll hold you liable for it and you give us a report every meeting on  what you’ve  done  in order to  organize  this  thing.” You  see  that.  In other  words,  you’re  dealing  with  something  where  you  have  tremendous quantities of native ability. Where you don’t have to do a great deal of education. You can pick and choose.

Now the mistake would be to just do everything for the people and set up a service that does everything for the people and that’s that. No, you’re going to  be  a  slicker-because  remember  basically,  even  if this  is  known  only to you, this is a therapeutic operation. You shove the responsibility at them. You shove them the problems. Soundly enough organized, basically, in the organization so there’s some way they can do something about the problems if they think of an answer. You put them into communication with one another with regard to these problems and you get them tremendously interested in it.

All right, we have a Survival Club team, and it has–it has twenty basic offices,  and  that doesn’t  care  whether we’re  getting in recreation  or whether we’re working about inflation or whether we’re working about atomic disaster or what we’re working on, there are twenty offices. We’re going to have a picnic, let me assure you that you’ve got to have all of these officers at a picnic, even the medical. See, they’ve all got to be present at the picnic just as they would be at the disaster. Just make sure that they have countless assistants so that they get so busy trying to keep their assistants busy that they never have any time to be critical of what you’re doing.

Now, it’s quite interesting–it’s quite interesting but you’re adding goals and purposes to people. And you’re taking a  society which is relatively purposeless and you’re putting purposes into their heads. We don’t care what the purpose is. The purpose is every few weeks we’ll have a picnic. Every Saturday night we will have a dance. We’ll own a piece of property that has a big barn.  The  thing by  the  way has  to  be  even  about thirty-five  to  filly  miles away from town in order to be in a safe area outside an atomic fallout.

Even then it might be a little dangerous, but you have provisions against that.If-you’ve  got  programs  you  know.  And  if the programs  aren’t  going right and the members aren’t turning up, blame the members and ask them for  suggestions  and  get  them  all  together  to  remedy  this  horrible  thing.

They’ll come up with ways and means of doing it. If they’re inefficient, if the club isn’t running efficiently, all you have to do is tell them to run it better.

When I  say you tell them,  you wouldn’t even have to be  an officer. It’s just propaganda that you put around.

The art and skill of being an executive is being an expert agent provocateur.  That’s  being  an  executive.  Some  people  think  it’s  being  an organizational expert. No. It’s just provoking people until they’ll organize. The capitalist failed because he got them to organize against him. That wasn’t smart.

Now  here  then is  a  Survival  Club idea:  United  Survival Action  Clubs. The reason they’re called that is just so you can say USA Club. But the loose term is Survival Club. You want a group, you want people you can talk with, you’ll find these people take quite a while-with another purpose, together–before you could talk to them about anything like Scientology or better IQs or anything else.  But if they are performing their job well, they will be getting better and you will be making a country and a government possible.

You want a group, don’t try to form them on the basis of Scientology just per se and as such. All you want is to get some bodies together and I’m giving you an idea of how you get some bodies together. Put the bodies together, even  though  it’s  apparently  quite  distant from  what  you’re  doing.  Because there will be a group of bodies which will become a group which will become itself a body that you can communicate with to the society at large. And you can’t talk worth a nickel without a body.  I know, I’ve  processed some of you. Get you up in the middle of the room, whatcha do you do, squeak.

Well now, you’re doing that with society at large right now. You have not accumulated a body to talk with. You understand that? Well don’t think Scientology couldn’t talk loud and long if you all, those of you who are interested in  this,  did  your job  well  in  organizing  Survival  Clubs  or  many  Survival Clubs in your area and these were  all united together under a  central club that fed  literature  and  coordinated ideas  and activities  and  published club news and interchanged it all.  Don’t think Scientology wouldn’t have a voice. You would be able to talk.

Now I dare say that this idea will not get there and prevent an atomic war.  I  dare  say that it’s  not  probable.  Well  when  these  people back up  the hearse  to  you  about  atomic  war,  remember one  thing:  That there’ll be tremendous numbers  of people left alive.  Just be one of them,  that’s the trick. Actually,  in even a heavily bombed area,  about fifty percent of the populace directly under the bombs still lived. Now what are you going to do about these people?

Hubbard, L. R. (1957, 30 December). Creating a Third Dynamic. Ability Congress,  (5712C30B). Lecture conducted from Washington, DC.

Notes

And man today is in a state of having developed something it cannot confront: atomic fission. It can’t confront it. You go into a theater, they show the motion pictures of Bikini or something of the sort, and you will find people toward the rear will sneak out of their seats and will walk out into the lobby. You find other people will duck their heads. Interesting phenomenon.

I had to study this phenomenon because I wanted to know whether or not it’d do any good to release a manual on civil defense. And we found out that there was no point in it. Nobody would have read it. In other words, at that time we were interested mainly in the dissemination of Scientology, and we wished civil defense to front for us a little bit on some of the things we could do. (That was only two or three years ago.) But we did not publish the manual.

The manual was a very factual manual of material taken out of the technologies used by military governments in war-torn areas. A very realistic view of the situation. It isn’t all going to be the way they say it’s going to be in the civil-defense (quote) “manuals” (unquote) which are issued by the government. These civil-defense manuals of today start this way, “You will have to get used to the idea that after the dropping of an atomic bomb, you will be on your own. There will be nobody to help you.”

Well then, who’s – what they sitting there for? What is this thing? Oh, I get it. It’s some sort of a racket by which you can collect some salary from the government before the bombs go off. Must be, because their manuals are…

Now, you think I’m just kidding you now, drawing a longbow. I’ve had people tell me many  times  that  they  thought  I  was  drawing  a  longbow  and  being  very  exaggerated  or something of the sort.

One chap who went over to Ireland told me this. And he said, “You know… you know, all through my HCA Course I thought you were exaggerating things a little bit. But you know the other day I looked up this fellow Wundt.” And he said, “That’s impossible, but  it’s true!” He said, “I didn’t think such a man existed. I just thought that was one of your jokes.” Mr. Wundt did invent animal physical psychology in 1879 in Leipzig, Germany, and threw away all earlier psychologies. And this HCA student thought this was just my way of saying that it was kind of bad and we ought to do something about it.

So when I’m saying that we laid aside the civil-defense program or when I say the civil-defense program of the United States is not realistic, I’m actually not telling you a joke.

And when I tell you that they start their civil-defense manuals by saying “This is all very well up to the moment a bomb is dropped, but after that you’re on your own, ’cause nobody’s going to help you.” And if this is the basic, primary statement of civil defense, it says at once that there isn’t any. Because civil defense would be the prevention of ultimate disaster to a civil populace by reason of a bomb having dropped. This would be the only reason you’d have civil defense, you see? So if they say there’s nobody going to help you, they say they aren’t even there.

Well, I read in this morning’s paper about a multibillion-dollar program. It was the most beautiful headline I ever saw. It just… boy, was it meaningful! I said, “Man, somebody’s got  on  the  ball  here.  Somebody’s  going  to  get  in  and  pitch.  Somebody’s  right there.”  A multibillion-dollar  program  proposed  by  Icky…  Ike,  pardon  me.  I  gave  him  the  Russian pronunciation. And he says he’s going to have shelters. They’re going to have civil-defense shelters built all over the country, and they’ve lately been taking all sorts of surveys amongst industrialists to find out if they had enough concrete and iron and reinforcing materials, and so on, to build these shelters. And Icky – Ike is going to ask the Congress for a multibillion-dollar bill or appropriation in order to start this air-raid program.

And I thought it was the most wonderful thing. And I read down the line: “Next year,” it said, “only a few million dollars would be expended, more or less piloting the project. Just how long it would take this project to get under way, of course, is a matter for future decision. But many government experts believe this, and many government experts believe that…” An expert in what? What are these experts?

Well, they must be experts in being unaware, because if anybody is going to start on a civil-defense-shelter program that is only going to spend a few million dollars next year to find out how to build them, these boys aren’t living in the world of today. I’m not saying the atomic war is going to happen at all. But I’m saying that from a government viewpoint to leave a target wide open is to invite an attack. At no time when you’re boxing do you ever – particularly in championship fights – drop your gloves to your sides and say, “You see, I can’t hit back. Got a broken arm,” you know? At that moment your opponent says, “No kidding?” Pow! See?

So, to leave a country wide open with no planning, no adequate status for the populace if there is an enemy attack, is to ask the enemy to make an attack. The least they could do is to advertise the selection of another city as a second capital, a second command post. Instead of that they’re burrowing into the West Virginia hills. There’s a government department here and a government department there.

I was out on a long trail one day, and I came to a, you know, sort of dead end. And beyond  that  there  were  a  couple  of  foxholes  and  so  forth.  And  it  said,  “Defense  Area.”  I thought this is an interesting place to be until I realized that I was probably looking at a new government  department.  They’re  being  scattered  down  the  length  and  breadth  of  the Appalachians and probably up and down the Rockies. You will see, undoubtedly, within a few months, some senator present a bill to get an emergency Senate, possibly in the Senate and House of Representatives. And he will propose that it be stashed away in Vermont or someplace.

This  government  is  not  acting  to  provide  itself  with  a  second  command  post.  It  is dispersing. And we have enough trouble in Scientology trying to keep communication up  between  downtown  and  the  Distribution  Center  out  in  Silver  Spring  to  realize  quite adequately that if you were to put the White House someplace around West Virginia… There’s two or three towns down there that are very, very good places for the White House. One of them is Harlan County. Harlan County. That’s a very good place – they shoot everybody. And you have the White House there and the State Department is stashed up around Pittsburgh someplace, and then the communications office of the War Department is down in Georgia, and so on.

This will then be a government? Huh-huh! No, indeed. Couldn’t possibly. There isn’t enough communication centralization there in order to maintain its command of any given situation.

Hubbard, L. R. (1956, 29 November). Hope. Organization Series,  (5611C29A). Lecture conducted from Washington, DC.

Notes

All right, air-raid warning. In come these old, obsolete five-hundred-mile-an-hour planes. These things come in, the air raid warning system goes up, everybody grabs their helmets, they grab their first-aid kits, they walk out into the street, the people powder their noses a second time, go out of the nightclub in an orderly fashion. They walk down the steps into the shelters, the air-raid siren is finally sounded again. And they run the trucks out and they get the ladders all fixed and they get their hoses set up and so forth. And then boom! Somebody drops a bomb and blows up an apartment building and kills a few hundred people. Boom! —  another bomb. Boom-boom! — two more. People go around and clean up the debris of dead, wounded and so forth. They think they are being bombed.

And by the way, U.S. Civil Defense is using this as its sole model of operation. I have been looking over their operation lately, and they just don’t have any concept of this that I am telling you about. Maybe people didn’t know about this. Or maybe they just belong to the government or something. This civil-defense gag — something has got to be done about it, because this country can’t sit here like a sitting duck ready to be plastered into oblivion with all of its culture destroyed just because some government worker kept telling everybody, “Well, we have it all in hand. We have it all in hand. We have it all in hand,” and nothing happens. Civil defense is in a pretty bad state in this country.

You know, there are lots of disasters civil defense can be organized for. There is such a thing as an atomic bombing. Well, atomic bombing is just one type of disaster. There is general economic collapse; there is government by alteration. Alteration of  government is a disaster: a sudden revolution, something of that sort; subversive groups suddenly taking over things or even gradually taking them over. Bacterial warfare — very insidious. The U.S. Department of Defense has some stuff sitting down there on bacterial warfare that wouldn’t turn your hair gray, but it would make you awful dead awfully quick. You take all types of disasters that can hit the country: there has to be a civil defense for them. You take any of those I have named (or the election of General Eisenhower!): in other words, civil defense has got to exist because almost anything can happen to this country.

Now, the village is going along just fine and the air-raid warning is heard and so on, and it does a curve and comes down, and “All clear!”

This village gets bombed and bombed and bombed, a lot of ample warning, and where do they go? A little bit further down the tone scale each time, you see, till they get to a good, solid 1.5, and they say, “The government was right. Now we have to fight that enemy to the death. We are now confirmedly behind every operation of this government to destroy this other nation. We’ll even pay the taxes! “ In other words, this is a way to make a people back up the warlike moves of its government. That is what is done by dribble-bombing.

It has happened in Madrid. You would never have gotten the Spanish revolutionaries to have held out, except the boys bombed them and bombed them and bombed them and bombed them. And finally everybody in Madrid became convinced that there was a war going on and they said, “Well, let’s get in the front lines and fight those dogs, those dirty blankety-blank blankety-blanks!” They were all set. The same thing happened in London.The incidence of psychosis goes to zero under dribble-bombing, you see? It is just this: The volume of bad news is not enough to drive the curve down fast enough to make it stick at the bottom.

You take one atom bomb, hits one town — a three-thousand-mile-an-hour missile: Here is Joe, the air-raid warden out there, and he has got his helmet on one side of his head and he is dozing along, looking around and so forth. He sees a speck of blue up there and he wonders whether or not it is a star. And all of a sudden his air-raid screen says pip-pip-pip-pip-pip-pip. “Oh,” he says, “I wonder if that is the TWA liner? No, it’s not a TWA airliner; it is probably a Continental airliner. No, it is probably off course. I guess it must be something else. Well, I had better fix the siren and sound it anyway, just to be on the safe “ Boom ! There he is gone, the town is gone, and that is that. Three thousand miles an hour, these things will come in.

There is no sense in going out and finding the helmet and the first-aid kit and telling everybody to go down into the shelter.

Anybody that is on the outskirts or hears about this, goes — this is in terms of days — way down here in apathy, and they will stay there.

Japan is still in apathy! Take MacArthur’s old organizational directives (which I have read myself; I know this type of directive): at the base of every one of them there’s an apathy. Japan, by just having two cities knocked out several days apart, went Wahoo! Let’s quit.” The damage — the aggregate damage — was not as great as the amount of damage which we had exerted against Japan with bombing planes over a long period of time. All of a sudden, one night — boom! —  Hiroshima disappears. The whole center of it was gone. What happened?

Now, the Russian plan of attack (unless there are Russians that organized this plan of attack and thought of it) probably consists of twenty-one American cities (the major cities of America) with a nice, heavy atomic charge against every city, and they will probably hit all in the same minute as best as they can. That will vary about fifteen minutes either way. Crunch! Here goes America. There is no time to go rehearsing the bombing of London. Twenty-one American cities — it is bad news too fast! The country will go into a paralysis if that occurs.

Unless everything is built to be followed according to rote, to take place on the worst kind of disaster imaginable, nobody is going to be capable of doing anything. And if they have got a rote plan all figured out and drilled into them, they will actually move as automatons for a short period of time after this, and by so moving they can get up the line again.

Now, you get an idea of what bad news or impact is worth. Therefore, there is no comparison between TNT bombs and atom bombs.

The only reason I am bringing this up is partly to abreact my hostility toward what the government is not doing for this country in terms of civil defense, and just as a clear, academic demonstration that you can see graphically.

If somebody stepped in the door and told you the major cities of America were gone . . . Remember Pearl Harbor? People wandered around for two or three hours after they heard the first news of this thing and they were just kind of in a daze, asking each other, talking to each other. They weren’t being emotional about it; they were dazed — well, that is a form of apathy — for a little while, and then all of a sudden they started up the line again.

But that was Pearl Harbor, and it was clear out there twenty-four hundred miles off the mainland of the United States. Supposing it were Chicago, Denver, St. Louis, New York, Charleston, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco — you get the idea? Therefore, the emotional curve has an awful lot to do with how long a people will stay at a low position on the tone scale.

Hubbard, L. R. (1952, 14 January). The Emotional Curve. Professional Course Lectures,  (5201C14). Lecture conducted from Wichita, Kansas.

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We have another project going, and we’re ready to cut loose on this project just as soon as we can. Los Angeles is probably going to hit Arizona in an atom bombing. The Southwest is probably a part of the country to which many people will drift (after an atom bombing). There’s no reason why Arizona should suddenly have to roll up its sleeves and start working to support everybody who drifts in on Arizona.

H. G. Wells in Things to Come solved this problem merely by shooting all these wayfarers who came down the highway. (audience laughter) But we can make it more or less  pointless if we could do something like this – we have this  already in the mills – we have some very key personnel in civil defense alerted on this and very, very interested.

Organize an organization called “The Samaritans, Incorporated.” And we issue them a card. We sell them, if you please, food, clothing and shelter on their arrival in this area, and we try to make it possible for – after a short period of time – for there to be some kind of work or activity here which could keep them eating in the event of an atom bombing. Fairly sensible solution to this.

By the way, I’m not terribly foreign to this, because I’m a graduate of the Princeton military school of government on civil affairs, which is the naval version of civil defense. It was highly specialized. And it’s going to be a big problem. We’d just be inundated by people in Arizona if they aren’t very much on the ball about doing something about it.

Well, what happens is we can sell this. We can sell a card that says, “This entitles you to food, clothing and shelter, and it’s got your thumbprint on it. All you have to bring is your thumb. And you report in on this area …”  Particularly between here and Los Angeles you can put in some gasoline and water stations. And you start making a storage – that is to say, a dump, actually, of supplies. This card isn’t cheap. But it’s going to take a lot of people to get this organization – keep it rolling, and work with it and stay with it.

And it’s not too far out of line with Dianetic goals. One of the main reasons I thought about this is auditors in this area. We need things to do, we need something that produces income, and I’ve been trying to solve this problem any way I could. I, for some reason or other, feel responsible on it.

Hubbard, L. R. (1952, 15 April). The Success of Dianetics. LRH Recorded Lectures, (5204C15). Lecture conducted from Phoenix, Arizona.¹

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If you  cannot  fix  up  a  civilization  so  that  it will  dispose  of its man-killing weapons, then the next step would be to fix up the civilization so that it would be defended against such things.  But if you can’t do that and both of these things have failed, then the next best thing to do would be to fix up its population and the food supply so that it wasn’t too allergic to atomic radiation. And if you couldn’t do  that, let’s at least cure some of the burns which have occurred. Well, we can do that; we’re on safe ground there. People who would probably die within twenty days, something like that, could  probably  be  saved  rather  uniformly  with  some  good  auditing.  We  do have the only known cure for atomic fission.

Well,  it  may  be  the  only  cure  but it’s  not  good  enough;  it’s  not  good enough. Too many people go up in smoke when these  bombs hit. There aren’t enough auditors around to  patch them all up right at once,  so it’s  not very good unless we got on an all-out program and squared it around. It’s almost easier to go out on a  program which actually takes care of the bomb itself, which insists on international control in a sensible wise, and straightens out this mad tangle. Nevertheless, it’s a very good thing to have a cure.

All right, we are — a book* is in composition right at this moment, by the way, which informs the public as to the exact status of atomic radiation warfare and burns and situations-a factual book which is not any flight of fancy.  It’s merely a fast rundown on what it is and what could be done for it-a practical book, not something by, you know, “It is said that there’s atomic radiation, and molecules and atoms and they all wiggle …” Something … What this  book takes up is-for about three-quarters  of its  length-is simply the cause and prevention of radiation difficulties. And the last third of the book, or a little less, takes up how you solve the  serious-or less serious burns with  Scientology  processes.  This  book is  in composition  at this  time and probably will be written-completely written in a  few months,  since my part of it has to be written after the other part is finished. It’s a composite of practically all  of the  books  on  radiation  that have  been  written,  but more importantly  it’s  a  composite  of armed  forces  courses  on  the  subject  of the prevention of radiation.  But that book will be out in a few months and we’ll at least have  this  little  bit and  piece in the  bookstores  for  people to  read, because there is nothing else for them there on the subject.

The US Government Civil Defense Programⁱ says the first thing you have to know about civil defense: “That in the event of an attack by enemy atomic bombs, you’re on your own.  There’s nobody going to help you.” That’s right.

That’s the first  paragraph of their  book-you think  I’m joking.  “Nobody is going to help you. You’re on your own.” In other words, the country is gone the moment an A-bomb goes boom. That is as far as I can figure  out. That may not be their program but I have been given to understand that it is, by their own literature. They should write their literature a little bit better. Well,  this  book-this  book  will  be  of interest  to  you  because  it  will attract attention to you.

*[Editor's Note: The book discussed here was subsequently published in 1957 and is entitled All About Radiation.]¹

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ⁱ US  Government  Civil  Defense  program: the  plan  or  procedure  of the United States Office of Civil Defense which is to be used to protect the citizens of the United States against enemy attack. At the time of this lecture, this included public education, training schools, stockpiling vital supplies  and  an  attack  warning  system.  The   US  Government  Civil Defense  program  says  the  first  thing  you  have  to  know  about  civil defense:  “That in  the event of an attack  by enemy atomic  bombs, you’re on your own.” -  Universe (1 Sept. 56) ²

Hubbard, L. R. (1956, 1 September). Universe. Games Congress,  (5609C01). Lecture conducted from Washington, D.C.

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You walk into a government agency and you give them any problem that is related to that agency but is not exactly right in the middle of the paragraph that tells it what it could do and it won’t have a single thing to do with it. So you go over to another agency and they look in the middle of the paragraph which tells them what they can do, and if your problem isn’t in the middle of that paragraph – and maybe your problem lies dead between these two agencies – it’ll never be done.

You know that civil defense is being conducted as a different organization than atomic energy in this country? That’s impossible, but it is. And the information in atomic energy is so secure that nobody in civil defense could find out about it. They’re very individualistic. Well, where – where would you think this would lead in terms of war, hm? Hm? Where would this go in terms of war? That would finish a nation which got involved in an atomic war. All right, there’s only one little sign of that.

About all you’ve got in this universe is a game. And the only way you can fall out of contact or get really buried and dulled in this universe, would be to fall away from playing a game. And if you can be driven far enough out of playing a game, you’re done. That’s all he got, is a game. That’s all a government is, is a game. That’s all people are, is a game. Well, it gets to be very interesting to watch a country fall apart and become ineffective and inefficient to the degree that its individual citizens can no longer play a game.

Hubbard, L. R. (1955, 30 August). Rugged Individualism. Conquest of Chaos/Academy Lecture Series. Lecture conducted from Washington, DC.

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Of course, you get these ideas about what a Clear should be and they’re actually based on what you have been told a Clear should be. And that basing is back at five, four, three B.C. Gautama Siddhartha rewritten. And naturally, the way you would pin down a whole race would be to take them out of motion so that they made the ideal, a person who was in no motion of any kind whatsoever. That was the ideal. And now if somebody was going to feel good and be able and so on, you naturally would have to take him out of the category that absolutely mauled a complete race, see?

Psychologist today is cooperating in this. Don’t think that this is a stray datum that only a person in the field of theosophy or something would know. It isn’t. Psychology dramatizes this a hundred percent today. They even wrote in civil defense . . their additions for civil defense. The only condition under which they’re going to incarcerate somebody during a civil defense disaster is if the person is in motion. If they find a person going around trying to organize things, they are supposed to put him at once in an institution. I read this carefully. I got their definitions for it. I couldn’t believe it.

In other words, if anybody’s going to do anything about the disaster that just occurred at all, why he’s by definition . . not by any stretch of the imagination, you know, I mean not me making too much out of a definition.

“Well, yeah, yeah. Well, who’s supposed to do something then?” you say.

“Well, the civil defense workers, you see and the government workers are supposed to do something.”

And you say, “Well, what if they were all in the wrong building?”

“Oh, well, that’s a chance you’d have to take.”

Well, man, you can take that chance, but after this ruddy country’s blown off the face of the Earth by atomic bombs, I can tell you the first thing that will be apparent, is that it has no government. Now, what are you going to do? Well, you depend on the civil defense workers. Ah . . .

Of course, I’m not now talking about a field I don’t know anything about. I’m talking about a field I know a great deal about. And the only people . . the only time some order comes out of chaos is with . . some guys get together and decide to put it right. And they’ll be the guys on the ground, not the guys with the badges, you see? They’ve had nothing to do with that. And this is any time anything works or works out and so forth. It’s because the people are there who are trying to do something. And you get all of these areas where just the guys with the badges can operate and only the guy with the badge can operate and under no circumstances can anybody else operate and you have the present Arab situation.

You know, these Arabs who were driven out of Palestine and you know they’re there yet. you know? They’re just a mob. And they just won’t do anything and they won’t lift their finger and they’re just in complete apathy and there’s never been any recovery of that particular group of people. And they’ve evidently followed out some kind of a basis that if any one of them got up and said, “All right, the rest of you guys, now let’s go out here and carve up a few acres, and let’s raise some khatinkas,” or whatever they raise, “and cabbages.”

They apparently said, “Well, that man is being too active, you know. He’s trying to do something.” So doingness has been divorced from being Clear. I want to make that very, very, very clear there. It’s a booby trap, see. That’s the basic and primary booby trap of Buddhism. That’s the basic . . that if you’re in good shape, you’ll be sitting still. Mmm-mmm. If you’re in good shape, you can sit still.

I used to upset people no end by going out and sitting under a tree. And they’d say, “Where’s the book? What are you going to do?”

And I’d say, “Nothing.”

It’d drive them nuts, you know. Just sit there and do nothing for an hour or two. They’d go bezeeeh.

How could you possibly do that? Well, a person wouldn’t be able to do that.

At the same time, I’d get the same objections from a person, “You know, I think you’re working too hard. you know. Don’t you think you ought to take a rest? You know, you really ought to take a rest. I think you’re working much too hard.” Although you couldn’t confront somebody being totally motionless, they at the same time couldn’t confront somebody in motion. So they just couldn’t confront.

But that’s the basic tenet and one that we must be very careful of in Scientology that we don’t give this thing much credence because apparently every Clear we have made to date has all of a sudden gotten busy and that is without exception. They’ve gotten busy. And they don’t believe in being MEST. They’re very alive. And they get in people’s hair. People get upset about them, you know? And they sometimes have opinions that are not true but they have them just because they believe them. And they argue and they’re not necessarily totally a hundred percent right every five minutes, you know? They make mistakes, you know? But boy they sure make them on a grand scale. One has to give them 100 for trying. But they’re in motion and they do get things done. And a Homo sap alongside of a Clear looks like a snail crawling along the road, you know. That’s the way he looks to a Clear too, apparently. From their viewpoint, you know?

Hubbard, L. R. (1961, 9 August). Question and Answer Period: Goals Search. Saint Hill Special Briefing Course,  (6108C09). Lecture conducted from East Grinstead, Sussex.

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