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5 “There is a different feel to”: O’Brien, Dianetics in Limbo, p. 14.
6 “I literally shuddered”: Ibid., p. 20.
7 about twenty percent of the population: Hubbard, Scientology: A New Slant on
Life, p. 192.
8 “A Suppressive Person will”: Hubbard, Introduction to Scientology Ethics, p. 171.
9 “The artist in particular”: Hubbard, Scientology: A New Slant on Life, p. 195.
10 Imitators and competitors came: Cf. Wallis, The Road to Total Freedom, pp. 80 ff.
11 “I’d like to start a religion”: Eshbach, Over My Shoulder, p. 125. Hubbard
allegedly made this remark in 1948 or 1949. Arnie Lerma, a former Scientologist
who maintains an anti-Scientology website, compiled a list of nine witnesses who
said that they heard Hubbard make similar claims;
www.lermanet.com/reference/hubbard-start-a-religion.htm. Hubbard’s son, L. Ron
Hubbard, Jr., said, “He told me and a lot of other people that the way to make a
million was to start a religion.” Allan Sonnenschein, “Inside the Church of
Scientology: An Exclusive Interview with L. Ron Hubbard, Jr.,” Penthouse, June
1983. Sara Northrup recalled that Hubbard “kept saying ‘If you want to make any
money the only way to do it is to make a religion so the government wouldn’t take
it all.’ So he thought he could make a religion out of Dianetics.” Sara Elizabeth
Hollister (formerly Sara Northrup Hubbard) tapes, Stephen A. Kent Collection on
Alternative Religions.
12 “To keep a person on”: Revised Declaration of Hana Whitfield, Church of
Scientology vs. Steven Fishman and Uwe Geertz, US District Court, Central District of
California, Apr. 4, 1994.
13 “Perhaps we could call”: Hubbard letter to Helen O’Brien, “RE CLINIC, HAS,”
Apr. 10, 1953.
14 Hubbard incorporated three different churches: Wallis, The Road to Total
Freedom, p. 128.
15 The Church of Scientology of California: Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, pp. 220–21.
16 “many, many reasons”: Jas. Phelan, “Have You Ever Been a Boo-Hoo?” Saturday
Evening Post, Mar. 21, 1964.
17 “The goal of Dianetics”: Hubbard, Science of Survival, p. xxxviii.
18 “injected entities”: Hubbard, Scientology: A History of Man, p. 20.
19 “In the bivalve state”:” Ibid., pp. 40–42.
20 “pragmatic, cold, cunning”: Hal Holmes, personal communication.
21 She had flinty blue eyes: Ken Urquhart, “Friendly Recollections of Mary Sue
Hubbard,” marysuehubbard.com/ken.shtml.
22 Hubbard was prospering once again: Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, pp. 226–27.
23 “so knock off the idolizing.”: Interview with Philip Spickler.