Today we sit down with ex-Scientologist and Youtuber Chris Shelton to discuss a brief history of Scientology - with a focus on parallels between Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and Mormon church founder Joseph Smith.
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Timecodes:
00:00 Introduction
10:24 L. Ron Hubbard (founder Scientology, LRH) youth
13:55 Making ways as a writer
18:24 Dental surgery, spiritual experience, writing Excalibur
23:01 Parallel: religion starting with someone writing a book
25:00 Serving in WW2
28:05 Injury, Bethesda hospital, gets out of the army
30:17 LRH goes to Pasadena, meets Jack Parsons, getting into the occult, OTO (Aleister Crowley)
35:30 Parallel: Joseph Smith finding mentors in different approaches
36:50 Hubbard learns to hypnotize
37:55 Parallel: Smith treasure hunting
45:10 Business deal with Parsons, LRH deceiving Parsons and taking Parsons' girlfriend Sarah
47:08 LRH bigamous marriage with Sarah
48:47 John Campbell, start of Dianetics (Terra Incognita of the mind)
52:55 Engrams
53:34 Parallal: the natural man
55:25 The reactive mind
1:00:16 Dianetics as hypnotism
1:04:25 Publication DMSMH (Dianetics, "Book 1"), clear
1:06:15 Sending manuscript to AMA, APA, going popular route, success and fame
