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Sep 29, 1969
Scientology: Total freedom and beyond — The NationMore: link
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Author(s):
Donovan Bess Source:
The Nation DONOVAN BESS Mr. Bess is on the staff of the San Francisco Chronicle. San Francisco This is the year of
Apollo 11 . It is also the year in which that psychological sophisticate,
Richard Alpert , came back from his guru in India to reap a big following of inner-space explorers with his story of spiritual conversion. It is a lime of burgeoning meditation societies on the college campuses, and of passionate rebellion against the amorality of our technology. Thus it ...
Aug 3, 1969
Religion or business? // Practices of Scientology being investigated again — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link , pqasb.pqarchiver.com
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Author(s):
John Dart Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) RELIGION OR BUSINESS? Practices of Scientology Being Investigated Again By John Dart Times Religion Writer [Picture / Caption: YOUNG INITIATES — The Rev. Robert Bobo talks with two children who are taking Scientology courses. The photo on the wall is of the founder of the worldwide group, L. Ron Hubbard.] The mimeographed notice looked more like a secret police communique than a church message. It informed "those concerned" that a certain 20-year-old girl "is hereby declared a Suppressive Person and assigned ...
Jun 1, 1969
The Dangerous New Cult of Scientology — Parents' MagazineMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Arlene Eisenberg ,
Howard Eisenberg Source:
Parents' Magazine When ministers of the Founding Church of Scientology told a Falls Church, Virginia couple that could teach the couple's defective son to talk and raise his IQ at same time, the man and wife, understandably in search of a miracle, willingly paid—in advance—the sum of $3,000 as a "contribution for spiritual guidance." The husband cashed a life insurance policy, sold some bonds, added the proceeds of a small bequest and "scraped around in various places." And then his son Paul's "processing" ...
Aug 11, 1968
Dollar cult // Scientology 'sets an income record' — Sunday Mirror (UK)More: link
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Sunday Mirror (UK) A former "recruiting director" for the Church of Scientology in Britain claimed yesterday that their income had reached £30,000 a week. Art student Nick Robinson of Reading Berks, added: "The organisation has a graph showing weekly income at their headquarters, St Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex. Millionaire Mr. Robinson, 21, said he was the cult's recruiting director until April, when he was declared a "suppressive person." He added that the cult had more than 8,000 salesmen in Britain —- about 2,000 ...
Aug 1, 1968
Ethics officers in cult 'look after staff' — Evening News (Edinburgh)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Logan Robertson ,
Nigel Hawkins Source:
Evening News (Edinburgh) We called at the Thistle Street Lane premises of Scientology last night and interviewed Mrs Judy Ziff, deputy director of Scientology's publications organisation in Edinburgh. The accommodation now occupied there by Scientology comprises former warehouse premises which a have been converted in about five weeks into extensive office accommodation, in which Scientology publications are redistributed to countries in many parts of the world. At 11.30 p.m., when we left, many members of the staff were still at work. We put a ...
Jul 27, 1968
Scientology prophet silent as 'orgs' dig in — The Scotsman (UK)More: link
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The Scotsman (UK) The main Edinburgh practitioner, it seems, is a Mr Ernest Saren, and at the appointments he produces a personality "graph" showing the questionnaire results on ten "personality dimensions" such as happy-depressed and capable-inhibited. The final column on the capacity analysis chart gives an I.Q. figure. Saren's qualifications for discussing people's problems on the basis of this questionnaire, according to a H.A.P.I. spokesman, are scientology qualifications only. One of those tested in the H.A.P.I. building this week, a 19-year-old apprentice who had ...
Jul 25, 1968
Talking points... // We are growing tired of their antics — East Grinstead ObserverMore: link
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East Grinstead Observer WHEN we want the Scientologists to run East Grinstead we will let them know . . . They seem blissfully Ignorant of the fact that the residents of the town are growing a little tired of their antics such at issuing a list of places which they have decided to put out of bounds to their members. They include cafes, shops, public houses, and even a professional man, a solicitor, is named. Just who do the Scientologists think they are to ...
Jan 1, 1968
The Shrinking World of L. Ron Hubbard (TV) — Granada Television (UK)More: transcript
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