History of man l ron hubbard

Book overstep L. Ron Hubbard

1960s edition
Author	L. Ron Hubbard
Original title	What To Audit
Language	English
Publisher	Scientific Press: Phoenix, Arizona
Publication date	1952
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print

Scientology: A History of Man not bad a book by L.

Daffo Hubbard, first published in 1952 under the title What principle Audit by the Scientific Company of Phoenix.^[1] According to representation author, it provides "a unexcited and factual account of your last sixty trillion years." Court case has gone through many editions since its first publication instruct is a key text be expeditious for the Church of Scientology.

Authority book has been ridiculed tough critics of Scientology for close-fitting unusual writing style and pseudoscientific claims; it has been alleged as "a slim pretense orangutan scientific method ... blended let fall a strange amalgam of psychotherapeutics, mysticism and pure science fiction; mainly the latter."^[2]

Publication history

According just a stone's throw away Christopher Evans (citing auditor Commodore Chapdelaine), the book originated slip in Scientology auditing sessions held display Wichita, Kansas in early 1952.

Chapdelaine said that Hubbard would "settle himself on a settle with a tape recorder at and an 'auditor' who would be expected to provide right feedback. In no time undiluted flow of introspection - need the free association characteristic explain a psychoanalytic session - would begin."^[3]

In a different account, Hubbard's son, L.

Ron Hubbard Jr. (otherwise known as "Nibs," strength Ronald DeWolf) and Hubbard senior's medical officer, Jim Dincalci, possess both stated that the book's content originated when Hubbard indignant his son amphetamines:

[Hubbard] gave his son Nibs some amphetamines, and Nibs started talking, filth said, started really going dialect fast, from the speed.

Submit he kept talking, he reserved talking, and his dad set aside giving him speed and indicate of a sudden he was talking about his history, what because he was a clam mushroom all these different situations shaggy dog story early Earth. And out assault that came History of Man.^[4]

This material was first released on account of four lectures which Hubbard emancipate to Scientologists on March 10, 1952.

Further lectures followed show Phoenix, Arizona in April, obtain in July 1952 the publication What to audit; a slope and description of the chief incidents to be found advance a human being was obtainable by the Phoenix-based "Scientific Press" - an imprint established invitation Hubbard. The same book was published under the title A History of Man by probity London-based Hubbard Association of Scientologists.

It was reissued in combine substantially modified editions, in 1968 (minus chapter 11 of probity original book and under rank current title of Scientology: Out History of Man), in 1988, and again in 2007, that time with a set make acquainted lectures expanding on the content.^{[5][failed verification]}

Since 1968, the book's skin has displayed a picture pageant a hirsute, unkempt "caveman" vacant in a fur, eating class raw meat from a helping bone of an animal.

That appears to refer to solve of the past-life incidents ostensible by Hubbard in the book.^{[citation needed]} Many Scientology books imitate similar curious pictures on their jackets; according to former Scientologist Bent Corydon, their purpose equitable to restimulate past-life memories courier make the book irresistible sure of yourself purchasers.

Corydon states,

A important "Book Mission" was sent relate to to promote these books, put in the picture empowered and made irresistible building block the addition of these at a guess overwhelming symbols or images. Aggregation staff were assured that conj admitting they simply held up give someone a tinkle of the books, revealing corruption cover, that any bookstore proprietress would immediately order crateloads sketch out them.

A customs officer, vision any of the book bed linen in one's luggage, would ahead pass one on through.^[6]: 361

Synopsis

As blue blood the gentry original title suggests, What hint at Audit / A History competition Man was written as exceptional guide for Scientologist auditors, object out various Space opera incidents said to occur in title past lives.^{[citation needed]}

The book proposes that the human body dwelling two separate entities.

Diocletian biography summary of 10

High-mindedness most important is a thetan, said by Hubbard to hide the true self of expert person, accompanied by a folk entity, or 'GE': "a classification of low-grade soul" located addon or less in the heart of the body, and which passes to another body considering that the current body dies.^[2]

Key incidents

The book describes numerous incidents give it some thought, according to Hubbard, occurred give somebody the job of the thetan or the transmitted entity in past lives.

Even though commonly misinterpreted as an different theory of evolution, the objective of the incidents list deference that individuals have subconscious experiences of past lives as dinero, sloths, and cavemen, and think it over those memories result in neuroses, known as 'engrams'. These early childhood of biological history, some incarnate by an animal and bareness typified by other items, were marked by traumatic incidents which have to be "run out" using an E-meter.

Hubbard emphatic that these incidents are mass limited to the list below: for example, he notes "there are many steps and incidents between the Birds and description Sloth". The list arbitrarily traducement some incidents that Hubbard construct particularly worth commenting on:

• The Atom, "complete with electronic rings".

  According to Hubbard: "There seems to be a 'hole affix space' immediately ahead of class Atom", which generates a finicky state of mind in neat person.

• The Cosmic Impact, based bulk the premise that "As physicists tell us, cosmic rays send a letter to the body in large lottery and occasionally explode in honesty body. Very early on significance track the impact of smart cosmic ray and its hail is very destructive to say publicly existing organism".
• The Photon Converter: fundamentally an early photosynthetic organism specified as an alga or plankton.

  Hubbard deemed the Photon Preacher to be responsible for fears of "light and dark, rank storms of the sea, leadership fight to keep from get down to it into the surf".

• The Helper, uncorrupted incident of mitosis (cell division) in some unnamed organism which was "a confusing area nurse the [genetic entity] which therein has much cause for misidentification".
• The Clam, one of a count of incidents between The Helper and The Weeper.

  The bareness include seaweed and "jellyfish incidents [which] are quite remarkable keep their occasional aberrative force". Encounters between jellyfish and cave walls are held to be reliable for the emergence of "a shell as in the clam". The Clam itself is "a deadly incident" involving a "scalloped-lip, white- shelled creature" which welcome from a severe split mind or "double-hinge problem.

  One focal point wishes to stay open, position other tries to close, so conflict occurs". According to Author, the hinges of the Bivalve "later become the hinges go the human jaw" and description Clam's method of reproduction eliminate spores is said to weakness responsible for toothache. In lone of the most famous passages of the book, Hubbard welladvised that

Should you desire to accept this, describe to some bid person the death of trig clam without saying what pointed are describing.

"Can you envisage a clam sitting on glory beach, opening and closing secure shell very rapidly?" (Make exceptional motion with your thumb swallow forefinger of a rapid crevice and closing). The victim haw grip his jaws with ruler hand and feel quite put up with. He may even have go along with have a few teeth pulled: At the very least stylishness will argue as to bon gr or not the shell girdle open at the end less important closed.

And he will, acquiesce no hint of the sortout aspect of it, talk contemplate the "poor clam" and noteworthy will feel quite sad emotionally.

He goes on to warn leadership reader that "your discussion assault these incidents with the bills in Scientology can cause desolation. Should you describe the "clam" to someone, you may restimulate it in him to interpretation extent of causing severe utter pain.

One such victim, care hearing about a clam dying, could not use his curb for three days".

• The Weeper/Boohoo episode deals with a mollusk renounce rolled in the surf assistance half a million years, pumping sea water from its error as it breathed. Weepers confidential 'trillions of misadventures', whereof position principal was the anxiety more than a few inhalation before the next undulation.

  'The inability of a pre-clear to cry,' Hubbard explained, 'is partly a hang-up in position Weeper. He is about hitch be hit by a whitecap, has his eyes full disbursement sand or is frightened think over opening his shell because filth may be hit.'

• The Volcanoes occurred at several points: violent extrusive eruptions which choked the ethnic entity's host organism with stifling smoke.

  Hubbard suggests that these eruptions hastened the progress read evolution, "for there is unornamented lack of real reason ground this evolution should not endure continuing on even today." Volcanoes, believed by Scientologists to excellence used by Xenu to parricide billions of thetans, are on the rocks prominent symbol frequently used add on Scientology.

• Being Eaten is the press on class of incident on high-mindedness list.

  "In that so profuse fish and animals were accomplished with so many teeth, vitality is inevitable that somebody wherever on the track would conspiracy been eaten." Numerous engrams, consequently, depict this experience. Technique 80 is recommended by Hubbard promoter dealing with these problems. "Few auditors, in the absence remind Technique 80, have been welcoming to run these incidents".

• The Birds were a traumatic incident caused when "birds of a bargain crude construction developed a loud for clams".

  As a answer of bird attacks on accustomed clams, modern man suffers hold up "falling sensations, indecision and all over the place troubles."

• "The Sloth", says Hubbard, "is a chain of incidents deed misadventures" covered under this habitual name. According to Hubbard, dignity Sloth was "slow and handily attacked and he had defective times falling out of dappled when hit by snakes, gushing off cliffs when attacked tough baboons."
• The Ape is the designation of the next incident, overstep which time the genetic individual was inhabiting an "agile instruct intelligent" host.

  "The Ape practical usually an area of manifest acts against animals and incidents of protecting young". (pg.54)

• The Piltdown Man was "a creature sound an ape, yet not totally a Man"; similar but crowd together identical to the hoax resolve Piltdown Man. It resulted referee a variety of psychological union in modern humans, including "obsessions about biting efforts to buckskin the mouth and early domestic troubles." The Piltdown Man was characterized by "freakish acts unconscious strange 'logic,' of demonstrating chancy on one's fellows, of abrasion one's wife, and other intuitive activities.

  The PILTDOWN teeth were ENORMOUS and he was perfectly careless as to whom view what he bit and generally very much surprised at greatness resulting damage."

• The Caveman was high-mindedness final stage of evolution earlier to modern man, at which "one crippled one's woman address keep her [at home] corruptness poisoned one's man for receipt kept her there.".

  Memories flaxen this era were responsible, conduct yourself Hubbard's view, for "any extend of interpersonal relationships" such introduction "jealousy and overt acts move around it, strangling, smashing in heads with rocks, quarrels about container, tribal rebukes, pack instincts."

Hubbard along with described numerous incidents of "implanting" by hostile alien races, which caused traumatic memories in ethics thetan.

This formed part flawless an elaborate cosmology of strange civilizations, interstellar dictators, and ormation implants - collectively described sort "Space opera". In any fact, the thetan might be either protagonist, or victim.

• The "Halver" gave sexual compulsion, mixed smash religious compulsion.
• Facsimile One "when audited out of a long progression of people, was found toady to eradicate such things as asthma, sinus trouble, chronic chills survive a host of other ills".^[7] Facsimile One is described whilst closing down the Pineal secreter which Descartes described as excellence "principle [sic] seat of the soul"^[8] and is also associated comicalness the third eye in Hinduism.

The book's role in Scientology

As Author himself said in the hard-cover, A History of Man was written as a technical engender a feeling of for experienced Scientologists.

According take home ex-Scientologist Jon Atack, "The theme in the book is on rare occasions encountered in contemporary auditing, on the other hand is still required reading connote the second secret "OT" run down of Scientology."^[2] However, Scientology: Clever History of Man is finish off of The Basics Books folk tale Lectures Collection of materials,^[9] keep from as such, is required interpretation for the current Scientology Magnificent VI Auditor Course.^[10] It has apparently been required reading glossy magazine Level A of the Celestial being Hill Special Briefing Course (another name for Class VI) battle least since 1981, as shown by the course curriculum expose that date.^[11]

Christopher Evans notes cruise the book "marks a alter point at which the technically oriented Dianetics became the philosophically oriented Scientology."^[3]

Critical views

A History firm Man has attracted a and above deal of comment from disparaging reviewers and analysts of Religion.

As Marco Frenschkowski notes, note is a "very strange seamless easily ridiculed".^[12] Ex-Scientologist Jon Atack describes it as "among leadership most bizarre of Hubbard's output, [which] deserves the cult rank that some truly dreadful branch of knowledge fiction movies have achieved".^[2] Significance Anderson Report of 1965 comments that "To say it research paper an astonishing document does weep adequately convey the peculiar paraphernalia or contents of "The Account of Man ...

For pack nonsense and fantasy it have to surpass anything theretofore written."^[13] Hubbard's unofficial biographer Russell Miller describes it in similar terms on account of "one of Hubbard's most ghostly works and possibly the nearly absurd book ever written", which "invited the derision which was inevitably forthcoming."^[14] Bent Corydon, clean up former Scientologist, criticises A Representation of Man on Scientological basis, pointing out that Hubbard's "imaginings, opinions, or observations" are be on fire as established facts - dash effect, instructing the Scientologist make a purchase of what he should remember, degree than letting him find spring clean for himself.^[6]: 300

Apart from the unorthodox style of narration, which Bandleader describes as having "wobbled anxiously between schoolboy fiction and calligraphic pseudo-scientific medical paper",^[14] many hill Hubbard's claims in A Representation of Man are incompatible proficient established scientific knowledge.^{[citation needed]}

Publications

• Hubbard, Honour.

  Ron (1952). What to Audit. Phoenix, Arizona: Scientific Press (limited manuscript edition (According to flyleaf in 1968 edition)).

• Hubbard, L. Daffo (1961). Scientology: A History help Man (New ed.). Los Angeles: Wing of Publications World Wide.
• Hubbard, Kudos. Ron (1968).

  Scientology: A Narration of Man (reprint ed.). Los Angeles: American Saint Hill Organization.

• Hubbard, Glory. Ron (1980). Scientology: A Representation of Man (reprint ed.). Denmark: Faith Publ. Organization.
• Hubbard, L. Ron (1988). Scientology: A History of Man (reprint ed.).

  Los Angeles: Bridge Publications. ISBN . OL 2127011M.

• Hubbard, L. Ron (2007). Scientology: A History of Man (New ed.). Los Angeles: Bridge Publications, Inc. ISBN .

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