The World’s First Clear Presentation: When Hubbard Met Sonya Bianchi at the Shrine Auditorium
On August 10, 1950, L. Ron Hubbard presented to a crowd of 6,000 in Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium the first “clear” in the history of Dianetics, a college student called Sonya Bianchi. Anti-Scientology literature insists that the event was a fiasco, Bianchi behaved stra...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2019]
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The journal of CESNUR
Year: 2019, Volume: 3, Issue: 3, Pages: 18-52 |
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Hubbard, L. Ron 1911-1986
/ Bianchi, Sonya 1927-2020
/ Dianetics
/ Presentation
/ Los Angeles, Calif.
/ Geschichte 1950
/ Eye-witness account
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AE Psychology of religion AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements |
| Further subjects: | B
L. Ron Hubbard
B Scientology B Richard de Mille B Ann Singer B Dianetics B Arthur Jean Cox B Cy Endfield B Forrest J. Ackerman B Sonya Bianchi B Fake News B Shrine Auditorium |
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| Summary: | On August 10, 1950, L. Ron Hubbard presented to a crowd of 6,000 in Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium the first “clear” in the history of Dianetics, a college student called Sonya Bianchi. Anti-Scientology literature insists that the event was a fiasco, Bianchi behaved strangely, and the crowd left ridiculing Hubbard. This tale has been passed from one Scientology critic to another. However, it is not supported by contemporary evidence, from which the opposite conclusion may be reached. The event at the Shrine Auditorium was successful, and in the following weeks the sales of Dianetics and the interest in Hubbard’s theories continued to grow. |
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| ISSN: | 2532-2990 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of CESNUR
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.26338/tjoc.2019.3.3.2 |