![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After that experience, the visions kept arriving, leading to his 1950 self-help best-seller, Dianetics, which laid the groundwork for a “religion” where “thetans” (souls) are stymied by “engrams,” self-destructive suggestive impulses lodged in the brain (not a few of which were inflicted on mankind following an intergalactic war that took place 75 million years ago). Ron Hubbard, a manic-depressive, wannabe naval hero, sci-fi writer and self-styled shaman who “believed that the secrets of existence were accidentally revealed to him” after receiving a gas anesthetic in the dentist’s chair. It begins, of course, with the life of L. Wright has written about religion on several occasions ( Saints and Sinners, 1993 Remembering Satan, 1994) and received a Pulitzer Prize for his book on terrorism ( The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, 2006)-all of which clearly served as excellent training for this book. A devastating history-cum-exposé of the Church of Scientology. ![]()
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