A psychiatric view with comments on the Admissions by Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (1947)
taken from Shy David's Scientology page

Scientology

  • From: "Orkeltatte aka Ulf Brettstam" <orkeltatte@hotmail.com>
    Subject: A psychiatric view with comments on the Admissions by Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (1947)
    Date: 13 Aug 2005 11:14:23 -0700
    Message-ID: <1123956863.633537.5600@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.c om>
    Thanks to Roger Gonnet who pointed me to this and of course a Big thanks to Gerry Armstrong who brought this confessional" writings to the public. George , you really knew what you were talking about in your foreword. I know understand why the "church" hates you and persecutes you and ultimatly fears you so much.
    http://www.holysmoke.org/ga/ga07.htm
    Lets go through the text one step at the time and I will make comments on the way from a psychiatrists perspective.
    THE ADMISSIONS OF L. RON HUBBARD
    Course I
    LRH: The purpose of this experiment is to re-establish the ambition, willpower, desire to survive, the talent and confidence of myself.



    UB: Hubbard finds himself in total despair. No strength, no will to live, talentless and without self-esteem. This indicates a moderate to severe depression. He seem honest and is trying to get a grip of himself and life as a whole.

    LRH: To accomplish the above the following fears must be removed

    UB: Making a to do list. Structured mind.

    LRH: Fear that I have written myself out by writing junk. I built certain psychoses in myself while living with my former wife as a means to protect my writing. I affirmed that my writing was hard work and took much labor. This was a lie. I was always anxious about people's opinion of me and was afraid I would bore them. This injected anxiety and careless speed into my work. I must be convinced that I can write skillfully and well, that I have no phobias about writing and no fears of it. People criticized my work bitterly at times. I must be convinced that such people were fools. I must be convinced that I can write far better than ever before, that a million people at least would be happy to see my stories. I must be convinced that I have succeeded in writing and with ease will regain my popularity, which actually was not small. I must also be convinced that I dictate stories to a dictaphone with ease.


    UB: He is constructing explanations and are trying to convince himself of having control of his life and lifeevents up till present time . His anxiety about other peoples opinions indicates that he at heart is a , perhaps overly sensitive individual. (The extreme of sensitivity is the paranoic state). He is also anxious of being rejected - fear of losing the primary love object - mother. He writes that anxiety has been injected, eg by an outer force or spirit. Between the lines this statement also says that he was flawless at start and that his present state is the result of others doing him wrong. The rest is a list of self suggestions he has to give himself in order to redress himself.


    LRH: (b) My service record was not too glorious. I must be convinced that I suffer no reaction from any minor disciplinary action, that all such were minor. My service was honorable, my initiative and ability high. I have nothing to fear from friends about my service. I can forget such things as Admiral Braystead. Such people are unworthy of my notice

    UB: Working hard with repression and denial of unpleasant memories. His statements about the naval experiences makes me spontaneously recall a great movie:

    The Caine Mutiny (1954) With Humphrey Bogart
    Plot Outline: When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.


    LRH: (c) I can have no doubts of my psychic powers. My magical ability is high and clear. I earned my titles and command.


    UB: Magical thinking is normal with children but can be pathological when found in adults with obsessive compulsive disorder , schizophrenia or personality disorders of the schizotypal or schizoid type.


    LRH: (d) Any distaste I may have for Jack Parsons originated in a psychic experiment. Such distaste is foolish. He is my friend and comrade-in-arms.


    UB: Alienating himself again from unwanted earlier behaviour and activities.


    LRH: e) Sexual feeling has been depressed by several things amounting to a major impasse. To cure ulcers of the stomach I was given testosterone and stilbesterol. These reduced my libido to nothing. While taking these drugs I fell in love with Sara. She can be most exciting sexually to me. Because of drugs as above and a hangover from my ex-wife Polly, I sometimes am unexcited by anything sexual. This depresses me.


    UB: Mourning his lost manhood and partly blaming his ex wife in the process. Steroids enhances sexual drive and can cause ulceration in the stomach, not the other way around as LRH thinks. His lack of sexual excitement and emotional drive, despite the steroids, is propably the early signs of anhedonia in the development of the schizophrenia he undoubtedly developed later.


    LRH: My wife left me while I was in a hospital with ulcers. Polly was quite cruel. She was never a woman for me. She was under-sexed and had bad sexual habits such as self-laceration done in private. She was no mate for me and yet I retained much affection for her. It was a terrible blow when she left me for I was ill and without prospects. I know, by this, she actually wanted no more than my ability to support her. This has had an effect of impotency upon me, has badly reduced my ego.


    UB: More blaming Polly. Rejection is a great fear with him . see above on losing the primary love-object.


    LRH: Polly was very bad for me sexually. Because of her coldness physically, the falsity of her pretensions, I believed myself a near eunuch between 1933 and 1936 or ? when I found I was attractive to other women. I had many affairs. But my failure to please Polly made me always pay so much attention to my momentary mate that I derived small pleasure myself. This was an anxiety neurosis which cut down my natural powers.


    UB: He is in desperate need of an explanation to his earlier shortcomings, not least in the sexual area, and it has to be an explanation that he can live with and that can give his strength back. His focus on the momentary mate on the expense of self pleasure nad self worth, is likely the product of self obliteration, wich is commenly seen with those having experienced emotional and psychological neglect in early childhood.

    LRH: In 1938-39 I met a girl in New York, Helen, who pleased me very much physically. I loved her and she me. The affair would have lasted had not Polly found out. Polly made things so miserable that I finally detested her and became detested by Helen, who two-timed me on my return to New York in 1941. This also reduced my libido. I have had Helen since but no longer want her. She does not excite me and I do not love her.


    UB: Blaming again, unable to perform a selfcritical "rundown",eg reflect of his personal contribution to the overall drama of shortcomings - bad prognosis. Narcissistic struck, no doubt.


    LRH: In 1942 - December 17th or thereabouts - while training in Miami, Florida, I met a girl named Ginger who excited me. She was a very loose person but pretended a great love for me. From her I received an infection of gonnohorea (sp?). I was terrified by it, the consequences of being discovered by my wife, the navy, my friends. I went to a private doctor who treated me with sulfa-thiazole and so forth. I thought I was cured but on a plane headed to Portland, Ore. I found I was not. I took to dosing myself with sulfa in such quantities that I was afraid I had affected my brain. My wife came to Portland. I took what precautions I could. I think actually that the disease was utterly cured very early. This fear further depressed my libido. My wife disliked the act anyway, I believe, even after she had a hysterectomy in 1938. (She was always terrified of childbirth but conceived despite all precautions seven times in five years resulting in five abortions and two children. I am quite fond of my children but my wife always tried to convince me that I hated them.)


    UB: Obsessed with his libido and sexual performance. Obviously lacking in judgement and exhibiting questionable moral behaviour in relationships with opposite sex. A mother trying to convince the father that he hates his children? No way! Mothers critizing fathers of emotional neglect towards the children? Yes ,quite common. This is likely the case with LRH, who also shows strong signs of being emotionally neglected himself.


    LRH: I carried this fear of the disease to sea with me. I was reprimanded in San Diego in mid-43 for firing on the Mexican coast and was removed from command of my ship. This on top of having sunk two Jap subs without credit, the way my crew lied for me at the Court of Inquiry, the insults of the High Command, all combined to put me in the hospital with ulcers.


    UB: Firing on the Mexican coast? To what purpose? Could very well indicate a short psychotic break with delusions and/or visual hallucinations. Did he or did he not sink any Jap sub? If not , he is still delusional. Not being credited for the alleged event and removed from the ship, indicates the latter . One would expect the US navy to have the facts and therefore the removal of LRH as a rational decision. Accusing the crew of lying and the High Command of insults , must be considered as evidence of his deteriorated mental state of paranoia.


    LRH: I returned to sea as navigator of a large ship and was subsequently selected for the Military Government School at Princeton whither I went in 1944-45 for three months. During my Princeton sojourn I was very tired and harrassed (sp?) and spent week-ends with a writer friend in Philadelphia. He almost forced me to sleep with his wife. Meanwhile I had a affair with a woman named Ferne. Somehow, perhaps because I had constantly wet feet and no sleep at Princeton, I contracted a staphloceus infection. I mistook it for gonnhorea and until I arrived at Monterey, believed my old illness had returned. I consulted a doctor there who reassured me. This affair again depressed my libido. The staphloceus infection has not entirely vanished, appearing as rheumatism which only small doses of stilbestrol will remove. The hormone further reduces my libido and I am nearly impotent.


    UB: His fatigue and perception of being harrassed in combination with hypochondria and reduced libido certainly strenghtens the suggestion of further development of his paranoic schizophrenia.


    LRH: Sara, my sweetheart, is young, beautiful, desirable. We are very gay companions. I please her physically until she weeps about any separation. I want her always. But I am 13 years older than she. She is heavily sexed. My libido is so low I hardly admire her naked.

    I mean to be constant to her. I love her very much. But to live with her I must regain my sexual powers, my stimulus.
    I must cease to take hormones. I must rebuild my feeling of excitement about things sexual.
    I have a very bad masturbatory history. I was taught when I was 11 and, despite guilt, fear of insanity, etc. etc. I persisted. At a physical examination at a Y when I was about 13, the examiner and the people with him called me out of the line because my testicles hung low and cautioned me about what would happen if I kept on masturbating. This "discovery" was a bad shock to me.
    I had to be so silent about it that now when a bedspring squeaks I lose all libido. I eventually found out I would not be insane, or injure myself but the scars remain.
    Polly pretended a hollow passion which disgusted me. But I am lingeringly fond of her even so. I am also nostalgic about Helen.


    UB: More evidence of his anhedonia - emotionally callousness. Obsessive and compulsive about sexual matters including masturbation, maybe due to his emotional disability. His constant obsessions of himself, his shortcomings and disabilities,his lack of libido and blaming this facts on others , and minimizing and reducing them to the point of disgust , is in fact highly narcissistic , another trait typically found in conjunction with schizophrenia.

    UB: The list below should be read as a list of LRH=B4s testimony of his disabilities and shortcomings, wich he with the help of selfhypnosis - selfsuggestions- is trying to overcome and cure. A temporary boost of selfconfidence by this method is likely , but a cure for his schizophrenia is not. Continuation of selfhypnosis , especially with regards to unreal suggestions, would constitute a serious risk of persistant lack of realitytesting - psychosis! Suggestions under (u),(x) and (y1) is psychotic in nature. Suggestions under (y),(b1) and (e1) indicates the presence of suicidal ideations and impulses.


    LRH: By eliminating certain fears by hypnosis, curing my rheumatism and laying off hormones, I hope to restore my former libido. I must! By hypnosis I must be convinced as follows:

    (a) I can write. I need not think commercially about writing.
    (b) My mind is still brilliant. My memory unaffected by drugs or experience.
    (c) That masturbation was no sin or crime and did not injure me. That no sexual practice has ever dulled me.
    (d) That things sexual thrill me. That I am now returned to the same feelings I had at 16 about sex where excitement is concerned. That naked women and pornography excite me greatly. That Sara excites me greatly and gives me much pleasure.
    (e) That I bear no physical aftermath of disease.
    (f) That I do not need to have ulcers any more.
    (g) That my eyes (which I used as an excuse to get out of school) are perfect and do not pain me ever.
    (h) That I love in Sara everything I loved in Polly or Helen and that such love is now transferred to Sara.
    (i) That I am fortunate in losing Polly and my parents, for they never meant well by me.
    (j) That I never need be jealous of Sara's past. That she loves me and is utterly faithful. That she thrills me more than Helen ever did.
    (k) That life is beautiful to me. That I want to live. That things taste and smell and look and feel wonderful to me.
    (l) That I wrote a great book in The One Command and that it removed all my fears even until now, except that my chapters on the mind do not affect my own mind. That I have will power and great mental control. That I need not associate anything unless I wish.
    (m) That I have only friendship for Jack Parsons.
    (n) That I feel no wish for vengeance toward anyone. That I love people and believe in honor and glory.
    (o) That I believe in my gods and spiritual things.
    (p) That nothing can halt my ambitions.
    (q) That I need not believe the criticism of anyone. That vicious criticism can be forgotten by me at will.
    (r) That I tell the truth and must tell the truth. That all past errors and lies are forgotten.
    (s) That I have started a new, free life. That the arts and beauties run strong in me and cannot be denied by anyone.
    (t) That I am well and that there is no advantage in appearing ill.
    (u) That my code is to be all things a "magus" must be, that I am those things. That I burn high and bright and will last as a potent and brilliant force until well after this century has run.
    (v) That I am not credulous or absorbent of other people's opinions.
    (w) That this hypnosis will not fade, but will increase in power as time advances.
    (x) That my magical work is powerful and effective.
    (y) That nothing can tarnish my love of life, my hours, my love of Sara. And I have the power of banishing anything which would seek to do so and that all things will seem wonderful and exciting to me all the rest of my days.
    (y1) That the numbers 7, 25 and 16 are not unlucky or evil for me. That no number is any different in its influence upon me than any other number. That the 7th, 16th and 25th are not unlucky or unfortunate days of the month for me. I have no bad connotations with these numbers.
    (z) That I need not subscribe to any moral code of sex anywhere. That I am constant to Sara. I have no terrors of sex or sexual conduct. Only pleasure and beauty are contained in it. That I may please myself with the act or be pleased with sexual things. That the sexual matters taught me by Flavia do not apply. My chastity lies in loving Sara.
    (a1) That I will not forget these things but will enjoin them with all related ideas as more powerful than any other ideas in my head.
    (b1) That all ideas to destroy myself are false, for I love life and I am a free and exuberant spirit in it.
    (c1) That I cannot associate any of my lacking libido with Sara. The blame lies elsewhere. Sara has enormous powers to thrill me. Hormones and fears, now gone, were at fault.
    (d1) Sexually I am as I was at 16, without any of the fears, with all of the powers, with all the knowledge I now possess turned to wonderful things.
    (d1) That I see and hear Raon clearly.
    (e1) That anything which impedes my zest for living is small and puny and will dwindle before the power of these statements. That nothing in me which is evil can have heard these statements and commands without disappearing.
    (f1) That I am not bad to look upon. That my posture is straight and excellent. That Sara likes my looks.
    (g1) That my endurance in any climate is wonderful and any "fact" otherwise is completely false.
    (h1) That I am not susceptible to colds.
    (i1) That I believe in myself and am poised and dignified whenever I wish to be.
    (j1) That I am not worn out in any way and never will be. That life is ever new, that I am strong.
    (k1) That Sara is always beautiful to me.
    (l1) That these words and commands are like fire and will sear themselves into every corner of my being, making me happy and well and confident forever!
    Note Much of the above may seem cryptic but if paraphrased as rendered will be enormously effective.
    - - - - - - oooOOOooo - - - - -

    UB: List below is the suggestions he used.

    Course II.
    LRH:

    You are asleep. You are not accountable for anything you say now. No one will think any less of you. People want to help you.
    In this one lesson you are going to learn several things. The first is the use of your beautiful new Soundscriber.
    The instrument is your aide and companion. It makes it possible for you to write ten times the stories you did before.
    You have no urge to talk about your navy life. You do not like to talk of it. You never illustrate your point with bogus stories. It is not necessary for you to lie to be amusing and witty.


    UB: He obviously does not want to spill the beans about his navy history. Also he has to give himself suggestions not to tell lies.

    LRH:

    You like to have your intimate friends approve of and love you for what you are. This desire to be loved does not amount to a psychosis, it is simply there and you enjoy their love.

    UB: He is aware of his psychotic symtoms but do not like to be.


    LRH: You can sing beautifully. Your voice can imitate any singer. Your tones are round and true. You have no superstitions about singing at any time. Your oratory is magnificent. Your voice tones perfect, your choice of words marvelous, your logic unassailable.


    UB: This is just funny and pathetic.


    LRH:Your psychology is good. You worked to darken your own children. This failure, with them, was only apparent. The evident lack of effectiveness was "ordered." The same psychology works perfectly on everyone else. You use it with great confidence.

    Nothing can intervene between you and your Guardian. She cannot be displaced because she is too powerful. She does not control you. She advises you. You may or may not take the advice. You are an adept and have a wonderful and brilliant mind of your own.


    UB: Psychotic magical thinking. Brilliant is not what first comes to my mind.


    LRH:Everything great and beautiful that ever happened to you or that you know is available to your conscious will to remember. You can only forget by conscious will or at command of your own voice.

    You recognize the evil or bad import of things that are evil and bad for you but their evilness cannot affect you or penetrate through your glowing and strong aura. You are light and you are good. You have the Wisdom of all and never doubt your wisdom.


    UB: Touching hybris.


    LRH: You have magnificent power but you are humble and calm and patient in that power. For you control all forces under you as you wish. The strength of your Guardian aids you always and can never depart or be repelled. Your faith in her and in God is unswerveable, blind, powerful and you never, never doubt their good intent toward you. They work with you. You help them exert their plans. They have faith unbounded in you.

    UB: Trying to not be afraid of his psychotic symtoms.

    LRH: You will never forget these incantations. They are holy and are now become an integral part of your nature. You enter the greatest phase yet of work and devotion and power and have perfect control without further fear.


    UB: Accepting the psychosis and trying to live with it. Involution of auditive hallucinations to be an integrated part of his personality and perception of self.


    LRH: Men's chains fall from you. Your head is high. Your back is straight. You can experience no evil or illness. You are wholly protected. You cannot guide yourself wrong for you are guided as a crown prince.


    UB: More of the fear battling.


    LRH: Material things are yours for the asking. Men are your slaves. Elemental spirits are your slaves. You are power among powers, light in the darkness, beauty in all.


    UB: Rising to a Godlike state.


    LRH: You are not sleepy or tired ever. You do not sleep unless you will it consciously. Sleep to you is a deep trance. Nothing can touch you in that trance because it would not dare. Your Guardian alone can talk to you as you sleep but she may not hypnotize you. Only you can hypnotize yourself.


    UB: More evident indications of being subjected to external powers and forces. Psychotic in nature.


    LRH: You never wonder about how you write, you never distrust your ideas or ability. You merely write and write wonderfully well. You like to copy your own material and work with it until it is perfect. But it is usually perfect the first time.

    The desires of other people have no hypnotic effect upon you. You are considerate of their desires because you are powerful. But you need never be dissuaded by their wishes about anything.
    Nothing, no one opposes your writing. Everyone is anxious that you write. You do not need certain conditions to write. You are so strong you can write anywhere on anything at any time. You can carry on a wild social life and still write one hundred thousand words a month or more. Your brain is so fixed that you can write at any time, anywhere. The mere beginning of writing is sufficient to put you in a happy mood, any high mood. Writing does not tire you. You said writing was hard work but that you knew was a lie. You know now it is easy, very easy. Writing puts you into an ecstatic state of mind almost as high as intercourse. You love to write. The Navy had no influence upon your writing. The Navy never stopped you writing. On the 422 what you wrote were not stories. You love to write. Your writing has a deep hypnotic effect on people and they are always pleased with what you write. Having a market is immaterial.


    UB: Navy memberings disturb him again, as does his indolence.


    LRH: You will make fortunes in writing. Any book you care to write now will sell high and well. You can dictate books. Words flow from you in a beautiful steady stream. Anything which goes through your fingers can come through your mouth. A dictaphone fills you with a desire to talk. You talk easily to a dictaphone and the copy is excellent. The copyist has no effect upon your work. You don't care what she reads.

    Your psychology is advanced and true and wonderful. It hypnotizes people. It predicts their emotions, for you are their ruler.
    You don't have to talk about all this. You know too well it is true. You never have to argue, all you need to do is sit back with a calm, kind smile and people will come to you with their opinions. You need never talk to fill silences in a group. You are an arbiter, a kindly one. You do not have to talk. But when you do talk you are amusing, witty, so personable no one can resist your charm. If they do not reply, it is because they are afraid of you.
    Your health is wonderful. You need but 6 hours sleep. Your eyes are fine.
    People dislike cripples. You need never be a cripple. You have never done anything for which you need feel guilty. You never need punish yourself about anything. You are in wonderful glowing health. You never have accidents because you are prudent and poised.



    UB: Getting rid of the last pieces of humanity and crap like a normal conscience.


    LRH: You will live to be 200 years old, both because you are calm and because of modern discoveries to be made in your lifetime.

    You will always look young. Your weight is 180 lbs. And you will attain and hold that weight.
    Your hair will always be its present color. It will be thick and beautiful all your life. Hair will grow out to replace what you have lost.


    UB: Vanity , pure and simple.


    LRH: Your body organs are in perfect harmony. Your Guardian keeps you in celestial time. Your organs work well, all of them. You grow stronger each day. No drug or medicine affects your mind more than a few hours. You can consciously stop pain.


    UB: Struggling with hypochondric ideas.


    LRH: You have no doubts about God. You never speculate about him. You are assured that whatever you do is right in his eyes. Your faith is so strong you could move mountains. You have deep trust and faith in God and have no fear of what he may do to you and your friends. He will never punish you. Some day you will merge with him and become part of the All when his bidding you have finished in these lives.

    You never speak ill of another because you are too powerful and may curse them. You love everyone. Even when you use force on people, you cannot hate them. You have no hate or jealousy in you. You are not in contest with anyone. God and your Guardian and your own power bring destruction on those who would injure you. But you never speak of this for you are kind. A sphere of light, invisible to others, surrounds you as a protecting globe. All forces bounce away from you off this.



    UB: LRH the allmighty! It is difficult not to feel sorry for the man.


    LRH: You are not a coward. Fist fighting had no bearing on your courage. You were ill when you were fought before. You did not understand the rules. You can whip anyone now and have no physical fear of hand to hand fighting. They who fought you before were knaves and fools. You would be merciless to them now. Nothing can stand up to your fighting now. You are strong and wonderful in combat. You never know fear or defeat. You refrain from fighting because you are too powerful.


    UB: Fighting cowardness and fear of physical harm inflicted by others. A very scared little man indeed.


    LRH: You are rich in wisdom. You are therefore dangerous beyond the claws of tigers. You never need speak of your dangerousness. Everyone knows you are and it scares them when you mention it. You are kind and soft-spoken always.


    UB: Huffing and puffing...


    LRH: Your eyes are getting progressively better. They became bad when you used them as an excuse to escape the naval academy. You have no reason to keep them bad and now they can get well and they will become eventually starting now as keen as an eagle's with clear whites and green pupils. Sunlight does not affect them. Lack of sleep does not affect them.


    UB: What is this about his eyes? Poor vision? Visual hallucinations?


    LRH: Your stomach trouble you used as an excuse to keep the Navy from punishing you. You are free of the Navy. You have no further reason to have a weak stomach. Your ulcers are all well and never bother you. You can eat anything.


    UB: Earlier he blamed the Navy and Polly for stomach ulcers.


    LRH: Your hip is a pose. You have a sound hip. It never hurts. Your shoulder never hurts.

    Your foot was an alibi. The injury is no longer needed. It is well. You have perfect and lovely feet.
    Your sinus trouble is nothing. It is not dangerous. It will vanish. A common cold amuses you. You are protected from further illness. Your cat fever has vanished forever and will never return.
    You do not have malaria. When you tell people you are ill it has no effect upon your health. In the Veterans examination you will tell them how sick you are. You will look sick when you take it. You will return to health one hour after the examination and laugh at them.

    UB: More hypochondric thoughts he wnats to get rid of. The more often he mentions a specific symtom or problem the greater the actual problem.

    LRH: No matter what lies you may tell others they have no physical effect on you of any kind. You never injure your health by saying it is bad. You cannot lie to yourself. Disgust not sympathy is generated in others by bad health. Injuries are not romantic. They are disgusting in you. You are a child of God. You are perfect. Health is a passport to friends. Women are not impressed by your injuries. Clear exuberant good health is your passport to their hearts. Adventure heroes may sound romantic when injured but it is really a bad comment on their expertness. The truly great adventurer is so expert he is never injured by anything. Dragging a wing is not romantic, it is silly. You will always be in wonderful health and well-being.

    UB: Vane and scared not to be accepted , especially by women. Trying to fight back impulses of selfpity.

    LRH: There is no veil between you and the world. You sense touch, color, music, poetry much better than anyone else. You never mention this superiority. But you show them the beauties of the world. You are not old or worn. You are young and experience is fresh and exciting. It will always be. Your brain is clear as a gong. No pressure sits on it or blinds you. Sulfa never affected it. Your speech is perfect. You are thrilled by music. You can engender any mood. You are an excellent judge of painting and sculpture and are thrilled by it in any one of its thousand moods.


    UB: Here is the anhedonia again - emotionally incapacitated.


    LRH: You can enter or leave any mood at will. You can engender any mood. You can write in any mood at will and with great honesty.

    You start your life anew. You need no excuses, no crutches. You need no apologies about what you have done or been. Your approach to work is wonderfully clear and fresh. No experience can daunt you. You can never be disappointed or morose for you know life for what it is and therefore are shielded against its suffering. You have suffered much and you are deep in understanding. But now you enter upon a long, long period of solemn joy.
    What people think of you does not matter. You know when you are right. Women especially love you and you fear no man.


    UB: His vanity in conflict with his low selfesteem.


    LRH: Testosterone blends easily with your own hormones. Your glands already make plenty of needed testosterone and by adding to that store you make yourself very thrilling and sexy. Testosterone increases your sexual interest and activity. It makes erections easier and harder and makes your own joy more intense. Stilbesterol in 5 mg doses makes you thrill more to music and color and makes you kinder. You have no fear of what any woman may think of your bed conduct. You know you are a master. You know they will be thrilled. You can come many times without weariness. The act does not reduce your vitality or brain power at all. You can come several times and still write. Intercourse does not hurt your chest or make you sore. Your arms are strong and do not ache in the act. Your own pleasure is not dependent on the woman's. You are interested only in your own sexual pleasure. If she gets any that is all right but not vital. Many women are not capable of pleasure in sex and anything adverse they say or do has no effect whatever upon your pleasure. Their bodies thrill you. If they repel you, it merely means they themselves are too frigid or prudish to be bothered with. They are unimportant in bed except as they thrill you. Your sexual power is magnificent and they know it. If they are afraid of it, that is their loss. You are not affected by it.


    UB: He must have been quite impotent , needing to reinforce suggestions on this topic over and over and over again.


    LRH: You have no fear if they conceive. What if they do? You do not care. Pour it into them and let fate decide.

    The slipperier they are the more you enjoy it because it means their mucous is running madly with pleasure.
    There is nothing wrong in the sex act. Nothing any woman may say can change your opinion. You are a master. You are as sensitive and sexy as Pan. Lord help women when you begin to fondle them. You are master of their bodies, master of their souls as you may consciously wish. You have no karma to pay for these acts. You cannot now accumulate karma for you are a master adept. Your voice is low and compelling to them. Singing to them, for you sing like a master, destroys their will to resist. You obey the conventions, you commit no crimes because you need not. You can be intelligently aware of their morals and the laws of the land and fit your campaign expertly within them.


    UB: Pulling further and furher away from fellow men and women and any normal human interaction.


    LRH: Jack is also an adept. You love and respect him as a friend. He cannot take offense at what you do. You will not wrong him because you love him.

    The most thrilling thing in your life is your love and consciousness of your Guardian. She materializes for you. You have no doubts of her. She is real. She is always with you. You love her very much. You trust her. You see and hear her. She is not your master. You have a mighty spiritual will of your own. She is an advisor and as such is respected by you. She is wise and worthy and never changes shape. Your faith in her as in God is blind and unshaken ever.

    UB: More evidence of visual and auditive hallucinations.


    She is interested in you and amused by you. She does not criticize you. She does not frown on your sexual acts but advises you on better game.


    UB: The auditive hallucinations in schizophrenia are either commentary or commanding in nature. Often negative and degrading in content and commands of selfharm, suicide or hurting others. Hubbards "inner voice" was obviously female.


    LRH: That she is with you always does not mean that she sees you as indecent ever. You cannot offend her. You cannot repel her. You are too good. You respect her and you love her and appreciate her advice. You are good always because you want her to feel good. This does not apply to sex. She has never and will never forbid you pleasures. She will never censure you. She is lovely and beautiful and radiant and part of your life. You can see her consciously whenever you wish. You are never startled by her because you are not afraid of her. You are partly in her plane, she partly in yours as you wish to see her. She has copper red hair, long braids, a lovely Venusian face, a white gown belted with jade squares. She wears gold slippers. Thus you see her.

    You can read with ease anything she cares to show you. You can talk with her and audibly hear her voice above all others.
    You and she are too powerful to permit any interference. You can work alone whenever you wish because she protects you. You and she are friends. You both have a higher master. She can teach you much. You love her. But she does not own your will, cannot affect your will and you are powerful enough to depend upon yourself. You do not consign will to her, ever. She advises. You do not have to take the advice. She cannot weaken your will. You have no fears of consequences if you fail to heed her. You can also be right for you know more of time than she does. She is wise and beautiful and powerful. Others may not see her, and you need not look at her or talk to her when others are around for they might not understand. You can talk to her "in your own mind" when others are near.


    UB: Trying to keep the distance and accepting his "inner" female voice. (Auditive hallucination)


    LRH: You need never be disappointed when material objects or people fail to move at your unspoken order. You can often control them. Not always. Leave this to your beloved Guardian.

    Your vocabulary consists of all the words you ever heard or read. They are at your conscious command always. Your authority over words is absolute. You are a grand master of words and you can do with them as you will. You know what they mean to others. You know how their meanings and melodies affect others. Your vocabulary is under your complete conscious dictatorship. You know what they mean. No other in the world has a finer vocabulary. You can speak them just as easily as you write them and in a beautiful style and formation.

    UB: Failing motor control of vocabulary is a common finding in schizophrenics . Speak becomes slurrish and unarticulated especially in the end of sentences. This symtom is due to the disturbed cognition ( thoughts ) and to a phenomena called deshabituation. Deshabituation is caused by an imbalance in dopamine neurons. ( What! There is a chemical imbalance?)

    LRH: You can speak to a dictaphone using punctuation symbols, spoken. You see before you the brilliant colored scene of your story and with any mood you consciously wish, describe that scene in magnificent prose. You have no inhibitions against fine writing. You know that is a meaningless phrase. Overwriting, underwriting these are not true. You pay no heed to these terms. You have no fears.

    You speak and understand all the French, Spanish and Japanese you ever studied and they remain wholly apart from each other and your English.
    You cannot forget words. It is impossible. You have them at your conscious command.
    You can do automatic writing whenever you wish. You do not care what comes out on the paper when your Guardian dictates. You can hear her easily and when you want her to write or talk dictation you have only to consciously will it and the result is written or spoken by yourself without any intrusions of your own thought. It is entirely automatic. It does not in the least affect or reduce your spiritual will. You may or may not believe what she dictates. That is part of your conscious will and judgment.
    UB: See comments above on hallucinations.

    LRH: Anything you were told about religion as a child you can forget or recall. It does not affect your present mighty faith.

    You are a calm and rational being with very fine judgment. You may collect facts, you need not believe them save as they appear true to you. You can remember an erroneous fact as an erroneous fact.
    You need not believe anything you read. Other writers are often in error and you have no great respect for their printed words. You can appreciate their quality without regard to your own. They cannot change your true self and thoughts. Their jeers in print and their criticisms have no weight on you. You know what is true. You don't even have to defend your beliefs. They are too powerful.
    Your memory is marvelous and reliable. You can remember perfectly in one reading or one speaking. Your brain capacity is infinite. You cannot hold too much consciously in your brain. You could cram ten billion new facts or scenes or impressions into your brain and remember them all with ease. You have no mental limit on memory or learning. You can remember a thing without accepting it as truth. You accept as truth only those things which you yourself believe after you consciously examine them. You accept all I say here as absolute fact however. You will reverance and believe everything here, consciously and forever. These words sink into your whole being. They remake your entire life. They are your code, belief, your guiding star.


    UB: Again, everything he needs to convince himself of with hypnotic suggestions , is him testifying of his incapabilities.


    LRH: You will know everything you ever knew in any life. You will feel no guilt or lack in yourself about any of your experiences. You can recall them all without pain. Your past was what it was. You cannot change it. But you had the whole right to use or help or hurt people and you are too powerful now to be more than amused by your folly.

    You can tell all the romantic tales you wish. You will remember them, you do remember them. But you know which ones were lies. You are so logical you will tell nothing which cannot be believed. But you are gallant and dashing and need tell no lies at all. You have enough real experience to make anecdotes forever. Stick to your true adventures. Tell nothing discreditable but tell them well. Or if you wish, as you will, tell adventures which happened to others. People accept them better. You can recall in detail tales of adventure from all you ever heard or read. You remember easily. You can quote for company or a book all the adventure poetry you ever read or heard. You can sing all the songs you ever heard, even once, and sing them well. You have no fear of forgetting or stumbling. You cannot forget stories, songs, tunes, skills and at will can call them consciously to mind.
    You can consciously banish any train of thought from your mind, any time, any song. You can recall words, speeches, whole books verbatim at will. You are not a victim of chance thoughts. You are in powerful and wise conscious control of all your thinking. You are a master without limits. Your brain has no limits, consciously, unconsciously or psychically. You can perform any mental trick or stunt consciously of which you have ever heard. You are in perfect poise, balance and control of your brain.
    You are punctual but never worry if you keep people waiting. You are a master adept and do not exist to serve people. You are kind. But you are not affected by the desires of others save out of the deep and graceful courtesy which you know so well and use.
    You are honest and proud of your honesty. You are too powerful to cheat.
    You have no fears of not being first. Because another comes out with an idea which you thought up is no cause for your sorrow. You are merely proud to be able to serve without gain, for your gain is of the spirit.
    Money will flood in upon you, for you are wise and able. You have no phobias about the rich. The rich are only people. You need not be offended or impressed by them. You can and will own large arms[?] of your own. You are wiser than the rich. Your money will exist to serve you. As you spend it, more will flood in for you will spend wisely if well. You have no fears about money. You will always make it. You do not care how much you have. Having money gives you a comfortable feeling. You do not worry if you do not have it. You just make more. You want to make and spent money. It is not a primary concern with you, you do it with such ease and have such boundless energy.
    You need never expose or betray any secret God or your Guardian wants kept. You can be trusted with vast knowledge and never give it away or use it with express authority. What you know is riches. When you give away all you know, you are poor. You can give out exactly as much as God desires people to know. You never try to make an impression with what you know. You don't care what people think of your mind. So long as you refrain from telling what you know, vast secrets can be entrusted to you with safety. You will guard your secrets. You can be trusted always by everyone.
    Vida does not resemble your mother. She looks like a wood nymph. You like her. You do not love her to desperation. You are not jealous of her. She thrills you physically and you enjoy her.
    Taking medicine to make you healthy sometimes makes you happier or sadder but you need have no fears about being synthetic, or experiencing synthetic reactions. Testosterone and stilbestrol makes your reactions real enough.
    Self pity and conceit are not wrong. Your mother was in error.
    Masturbation does not injure or make insane. Your parents were in error. Everyone masturbates.
    You need never be clumsy in parting from people. You have poise and part from them with ease and grace.
    Colds are nothing. You are not afraid of them. You can defeat them with ease. You can will yourself consciously to resist anything.
    The Book
    You are radiant like sunlight.
    Your poetry memory is wonderful.
    You can recall songs and poems which you have known before, line for line, word for word, tune for tune. You can quote anything you have read twice.
    You can read music.
    Criticism does not affect you emotionally.
    You are a magnificent writer who has thrilled millions.
    Nothing bars you from writing.
    Fears do not restrain you in any way in writing.
    You know you "convinced" yourself
    That writing is hard work. You know now that this "hard work" is a lie. Writing is easy to you and nothing interferes.
    Ability to drop into a trace state at will.
    Remember clearly what you read.
    Eyes and ulcers improving.
    Faith in power and its necessity.
    Ability to please women and have women.
    Faith in own judgment.
    Ability to dictate.
    Ability to write on mill.
    Ability to plot cleanly.
    Lack of necessity of following pulp pattern.
    You have no inertia which keeps you home or inactive.
    You did a fine job in the Navy. No one there is now "out to get you." You are through with its Navy and will utterly forget any derogatory instances.
    You are psychic. You do not need to "press" to receive communication. You can let "people" in any world talk to you while you are wide awake. You can see them clearly. You have no doubts of any kind about them. You are afraid of none of them but can cancel them out at will if they are evil to you.
    The voice of your holy Guardian is distinct from all the rest. It comes to you loud and clear. You can see her with brilliant clarity when you wish.
    You can read futures for people with ease. You are not much interested in your own. No enemy can stand against you.
    You are always calm, always in perfect possession of your social presence. Nothing discommodes you at all. Nothing embarrasses you.
    Your speech is musical and lovely. Your words are well chosen and beautifully rhythm'd. You never forget what you want to say. Nothing can prevail against your logic and choice of words. You have no speech or thought impediments.
    You will forget all derogatory criticism you have ever received. You cast it out. You know it is only a weapon used on you for others' gain.
    Desires of others do not affect you except as an appeal to your courtesy - and you are courteous and gentle.
    Merely by concentrating upon them, a thing you do with ease, you can change their minds and smooth whatever anger they may feel.
    The lot of humanity does not outrage you. Its government is merely amusing. You are a major adept and such considerations are far, far beneath you. You are not cynical or bitter about people. You have no jealousy in you of any kind for fellow craftsmen. You are not in competition with them for your work is infinitely superior and will sell quickly as you desire. Editorial desire does not affect you for you can write whatever they publish with ease, and any length.
    You understand all the workings of the minds of humans around you, for you are a doctor of minds, bodies and influences.
    You have no fears about working psychically for you are safe, always safe, protected by your Guardian as in a mighty fortress.
    You can recall at will all the plots and situations you ever thought up. You can create new plots and characterize people clearly and wonderfully. There is no rush about writing. It is immaterial to you if people are or are not amused. You write cleverly and your writings never fail to amuse.
    The two women you knew - Helen the Comrade and Polly the Skipper were not worth an instant of your time. You do not love them, they were not worthy. You won over them.
    The love of women is not necessary to your ego. You are above them. You know well that many women are mad about you, that you satisfy them perfectly. You will satisfy them easily. You do not care.
    Testosterone makes you sexy. It makes things beautiful and arouses you. But this is will. You can be aroused at will.
    Naked bodies and sexy allusion stimulate you wonderfully.
    You have forgotten the case histories of Havelock Ellis. They did not surfeit you. You have forgotten them.
    You do not masturbate. Masturbation cannot harm you in any way but you would rather have women. Your penis and erotic centers are very sensitive to women. You are not afraid that someone will catch you masturbating. No one knows or ever will know. Such discovery would be harmless. You do not masturbate. Only women thrill you and very deeply.
    You do not have to be a clown or a wit to be thought grand. People adore and respect you for your opinions and wisdom. You are always kind, always graceful, always courteous.
    You have no mental flaws which hinder you. You have nothing which hinders you. Everything helps you. You are crown prince of your portion of the universe. Everything does your bidding perfectly. All elementals and other dimensional things obey you with eagerness. All things love you and their love makes you strong. You are strong. You love with great force all things and your will controls them. You may use force and your will with utter impunity for all things obey.
    You do not know anger. Your patience is infinite. You are calm. Your patience never fails. Nothing can make you hate or be jealous or be small. You have all the time in the Universe of which you are crown prince. You waste none of it, but you do not fear for its passage. You employ time well. You are not lazy for there is nothing, no single thing in your universe to oppose you. You have no thoughts which oppose you.
    It is indifferent to you whether your work is accepted. You do not care if it sells. You are confident for it always has sold.
    The anger artist like people feel does not affect you in any way. You are always calm and patient. You understand they are weak and cannot batter through your calm. You are not influenced by them or their anger.
    To survive you need only do these things - be patient, calm, beautiful. Write what you yourself think is good and worthy, govern yourself as a powerful force. No human being has authority over you. No human being's opinion has weight with you.
    You are not possessive. You are not jealous because you are too strong. People are much afraid of what you think of them, what you may do to them, therefore you must be kind and courteous to them.
    You owe no debt for the kind things people do for you. This is your due as an adept. But you are always gallant, kind and considerate to people. You do not vary your own thoughts to be kind. Kindness need not impoverish or discriminate you.
    You are able to trance. No other human being can hypnotize you in any way. You can believe or disbelieve whatever you read at will. You cannot be hypnotized by any but yourself.
    Lies are not necessary. You have no need of lies for you are brave and can take any consequences.
    You are courageous. You fear nothing. Your prudence results from judgment, not emotions. You have no emotional fears.
    Snakes are not dangerous to you. There are no snakes in the bottom of your bed. Snakes are wise beings. They are your friends.
    You love the sounds of wind. The wind will not get you ever. It will drive your ships. The air is your friend and the wind its voice.
    Darkness is a cloak you may don. Your guardian and your own courage protect you utterly in darkness. You control anything you meet in darkness for that is part of your universe.
    You do not care how much work there is to do for you have all the time there is and can work forcefully and with patience. You can work whenever you please. Nothing obstructs you.
    There was no danger for you from government or navy. You are too big to be touched by their petty opinions and force. Your force and destiny is infinite power.
    You believe implicitly in God. You have no doubts of the All Powerful. You believe your Guardian perfectly. You hear her certainly and clearly.
    You are too strong, too big to be touched by mortal opinions.
    You are tolerant towards your mother and Father. You loved them. You have no respect for their opinions for you know much more. You are always kind to them. Their good opinion of you is assured. Their good opinion and praise mean nothing whatever to you. Only Flavia Julia and then the All Powerful have opinions worth inclining toward. You have always done right by your parents. You did your best. You have no worries about it. Your mother's theories on psychology were wrong. They do not now affect you.
    The opinions of your aunts and uncles are worthless. You are kind to them. They mean nothing to you.
    Music and color are beautiful to you. You sense them delicately. They affect you strongly.
    You are expert at modeling, drawing, painting. Nothing hinders you from painting magnificently. Mediums of art are your slaves. You have entire confidence in them as servants. You are powerful in the arts. Nothing opposes you. You create wonderful music. You do not care what people think of your art.
    Your penmanship is wonderful, beautiful. You control a pen like a great artist.
    You write wonderful poetry. Your guardian dictates it and she is all wise. People gasp and thrill to your poetry. You handle all forms superbly. You do not care what people think of your poetry. You have always written the most magnificent verse known because of your guardian.
    Your guardian can dictate stories, poems to you at will. You do not oppose them. You accept and write them easily. You are not eager. You cannot doubt.
    All objects are your friends. You can ask from and receive past history of any object. No part of that history affects you emotionally or psychically. The past of objects cannot harm you.
    You are in perfect harmony with the All Knowing. Your future does not alarm you. You understand and cheerfully accept your future. You are not afraid. You cannot feel fear. You are safe in the control over you of God. He is master of destiny and what he does must be.
    You are in control under God of the material objects and beings around you.
    You cannot think a fact into actuality. You can will a fact into being with ease. You are confident of your control over will. You have will power. You can consciously use it. Accidental thoughts of incidents do not create them.
    Your book the One Commandment applied only to the material. It is true. It freed you forever from the fears of the material world and gave you material control over people. There is no material will.
    The One Command applied but slightly to the spiritual world and other planes. There is psychic will power, possessed by a very few. You possess such will power and it is enormously strong and irresistible. You work it consciously. Those things you consciously state that you will come to be.
    The criticism of the One Command which was given to material things was not leveled at you. It was not worthy. It did not detract from the value of the book. It was from small people. You gave it no heed. It did not affect you.
    There was one error in that book and you have psychically willed it into nothing. It was the electronic theory of the workings of the human mind. Human, material minds do work this way and you were right. Your own mind does not work this way. You have great spiritual strength. Your mind is not material. It does not react like any human mind. Whatever is fed to your mind can be sorted out. You can forget at will. Men's facts fed to you need not affect your thought if they are a part of the lives and mores and morals of men. Your thought processes do not warp on facts which are fed to you. You can receive sense messages and remember them but you need not add them into your own thought processes.
    You use the minds of men. They do not use your mind or affect it in any way. You have a sacred spiritual mind, too strong, too high to be touched. Your league with Higher Beings, your mighty Guardian and the All Powerful, renders you beyond all human criticism.
    You can distinguish between your doubts and what is said to you. You have no doubts because you have no fear. You are kind and considerate to all because you are so powerful. You need never defend your motives to anyone because your motives are right. You have never done wrong and need never apologize to anyone. You never justify or explain your acts because you are careful that these acts are good and kind.
    You can be merciless when your will is crossed and you have the right to be merciless.
    You are eternal. You are satisfied to live within God. Human death is not your death. You will never die. Your personal memory is not important but you will retain it.
    You recall all your past times on earth. You have and will live forever. You are part of God. You are the crown prince of your small section of the Universe.
    You are just and kind. You are merciless to any who cross your rule but they do not affect you emotionally. You have no fear of anyone for everyone in your own Universe is under your dominion. You will never tell them, never explain. They know.
    You observe their rules of conduct outwardly. You do this because you are kind. You never say why you do this, that you do this. You are kind and love everything even when you force it to your will.
    You have no inhibition about sexual intercourse. You respect how other people feel about it but you are not bound by that respect. You conduct yourself with great courtesy.


    UB: SUMMARY

    There is little question about LRH suffering from paranoic schizophrenia at the time he wrote the above. Predominant symtoms are auditive and likely visual hallucinations together with numbed emotions , suicidal thoughts , extremely low selfworth, impotence , thought disturbances and problems with articulation and memory. His fatigue and indolence together with the anhedonia is the typical low energy , low vigilance and numbed emotions found in the domaine of so called negative symtoms in this disease . He is fighting a hard battle with inner psychological conflicts, balancing between the depressed state with suicidal thoughts and the Godlike, allmighty powerful "chosen" one with special gifts and blessed with an inner "Guardian". The Church of Scientology and its methods is merely the reflection of this seriously sick mans inner world. Constantly on guard against percieved critique and attacks from the hostile surrounding environments. Obsessed with money , not only as a mean of survival but as an instrument of power and evidence of success.
    Ulf Brettstam Senior psychiatrist

    The organization clearly is schizophrenic and paranoid, and this bizarre combination seems to be a reflection of its founder [ Ron Hubbard]. The evidence portrays a man who has been virtually a pathological liar when it comes to his history, background and achievements. The writings and documents in evidence additionally reflect his egoism, greed, avarice, lust for power, and vindictiveness and aggressiveness against persons perceived by him to be disloyal or hostile."

    -- Judge Paul G. Breckenridge, Jr., 6/20/84 (Scientology v. Armstrong, affirmed on appeal 232 Cal.App.3rd 1060, 283 Cal.Rptr. 917.)


    Go Back to Shy David's Scientology Page.