I was a nerd 1975-2003 in the L. Ron Hubbard staff writings category.
So Janis' much anticipated book (s), intertwined with Hubbard's writings of the same period she writes about in her two books, just helped rewrite and revise that history in my mind.
Hubbard turns out to be a big cry baby. Janis just lays down irrefutable first hand, day by day, stories of his life, when she was one of his Commodore's Messengers.
The only "OT" (supernatural event) she witnessed was one time he quietly did a sort of mind telekinetic concentration to project (supposedly) his will over a long distance, to ameliorate some ongoing tragedy occuring elsewhere on earth.
Hubbard never soul-fly, never in the day to day events of her years at Hubbard's beck and call, waiting in the hall outside his office, to carry messages for him, never did she witness by him or anyone else, any obviously supernatural event. Coincidences here and there, of course, but no soul-flying, no mind over matter, no ashtrays flying around for Hubbard to tap his KOOL cigarette ashes into, no, the Commodore's Messengers had to carry the ashtrays for Hubbard to tap his ashes into. He was unable to move a single ashtray with his mind. (This is somewhat of an ongoing inside joke, when it has been long revealed the Commodorie's Messengers had to carry Hubbard's ashtrays, since the beginner Scientologists on one of their training levels do a training drill called "TR-8" which they shout at ashtrays and demand the ashtrays rise into the air, but in reality, no one of course ever makes the ashtrays physically rise my their mind power).
The biggest lesson of Janis' books to me, a long term hopeful dupe of the Scientology movement, was that Hubbard displayed no supernatural powers, never, not once.
The book was truly sobering and history revisionism in a positive way.
Thankyou eternally Janis Grady Gillham.
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Some Real History About L. Ron Hubbard
The Church of Scientology refuses to issue a full biography about L. Ron Hubbard, even though commissioning just that, at least twice. They sought to portray Hubbard as a saint, but in the end were simply unable to go beyond issuing a select encyclopedia of feel-good photos and articles.Unauthorized biographies have sought to demonize Hubbard and portray him at his worst, based mostly on a disparate variety of limited accounts.This is the first author who brings years of personal and up-close experience, with a thorough attention to detail and avoidance of personal judgements except for occasional, appropriate expressions of what it was like for her at the time and how she felt.This is a highly valuable work continuing from the first book, and giving a real sense of the personality and life of the movement's leader and guru during the critical, formative years of Scientology on the high seas, where the Sea Organization was launched to serve and protect the fast-growing religion from its enemies - both real and imagined - continually evading them using Hubbard's knowledge gained serving in the U.S. Navy - including intelligence and counter-intelligence methods.For those who served this movement in any capacity, the book fills in huge gaping holes that could only have been filled with imagination guided by sharply limited facts. But even for those who did not take part in the Scientology experience, it gives an account of adventures, daring and heroism of ordinary and extraordinary members, rare in modern life outside of war and revolution.Readers are left to form their own conclusions about one of the most controversial movements of our time, but to do so with plenty of wide-ranging episodes, first-hand accounts and detailed information to draw from.Highly recommended.
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The Church of Scientology refuses to issue a full biography about L. Ron Hubbard, even though commissioning just that, at least twice. They sought to portray Hubbard as a saint, but in the end were simply unable to go beyond issuing a select encyclopedia of feel-good photos and articles.Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2018
Unauthorized biographies have sought to demonize Hubbard and portray him at his worst, based mostly on a disparate variety of limited accounts.
This is the first author who brings years of personal and up-close experience, with a thorough attention to detail and avoidance of personal judgements except for occasional, appropriate expressions of what it was like for her at the time and how she felt.
This is a highly valuable work continuing from the first book, and giving a real sense of the personality and life of the movement's leader and guru during the critical, formative years of Scientology on the high seas, where the Sea Organization was launched to serve and protect the fast-growing religion from its enemies - both real and imagined - continually evading them using Hubbard's knowledge gained serving in the U.S. Navy - including intelligence and counter-intelligence methods.
For those who served this movement in any capacity, the book fills in huge gaping holes that could only have been filled with imagination guided by sharply limited facts. But even for those who did not take part in the Scientology experience, it gives an account of adventures, daring and heroism of ordinary and extraordinary members, rare in modern life outside of war and revolution.
Readers are left to form their own conclusions about one of the most controversial movements of our time, but to do so with plenty of wide-ranging episodes, first-hand accounts and detailed information to draw from.
Highly recommended.
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