Ok, I think you know a lot more about it than I do. I haven't actually read any of Hubbard's work, although I did watch Battlefield Earth last year. Seemed like a good premise but with really poor implementation. Not sure how much of that was the bad acting and how much was Hubbard's work just being a flop. When you start digging into their psyches, Hubbard's a really just a twisted version of Crowley.
I remember seeing an interview with his son, where his son accuses his father and his father's cult of secretly being involved in black magic and devil worship. It sounded like a strange thing to say, considering all of the more legitimate critiques one could give of Scientology. But if Hubbard was really borrowing a lot from Crowley perhaps it makes at least *half* sense. Although it's strange that he would have imitated Crowley but hated the esoteric. Not sure how to make sense of that one. =)
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Date: 2010-03-09 07:39 pm (UTC)When you start digging into their psyches, Hubbard's a really just a twisted version of Crowley.
I remember seeing an interview with his son, where his son accuses his father and his father's cult of secretly being involved in black magic and devil worship. It sounded like a strange thing to say, considering all of the more legitimate critiques one could give of Scientology. But if Hubbard was really borrowing a lot from Crowley perhaps it makes at least *half* sense. Although it's strange that he would have imitated Crowley but hated the esoteric. Not sure how to make sense of that one. =)