An Endless Controversy: L. Ron Hubbard’s "Affirmations"
During a court case in 1984, disgruntled ex-Scientologist Gerry Armstrong mentioned a document nicknamed “Affirmations,” including several handwritten notes by L. Ron Hubbard he had bound together while working at a biography of Scientology’s founder to be written by British author Omar Garrison. Ar...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2021
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The journal of CESNUR
Year: 2021, Volume: 5, Issue: 6, Pages: 53-69 |
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Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Summary: | During a court case in 1984, disgruntled ex-Scientologist Gerry Armstrong mentioned a document nicknamed “Affirmations,” including several handwritten notes by L. Ron Hubbard he had bound together while working at a biography of Scientology’s founder to be written by British author Omar Garrison. Armstrong claimed these were “commands” Hubbard had written to himself for experiments in self-hypnosis. The document as such disappeared, but portions had been read into the court record. A new, allegedly complete, text was published by Armstrong in 2000, and was quoted by journalists and scholars as a significant document for understanding Hubbard’s early ideas. The article argues that the 2000 text is, in all likelihood, false, and that the scarce portions that surfaced earlier are neither surely authentic nor particularly significant for an assessment of Hubbard and Scientology. |
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| ISSN: | 2532-2990 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of CESNUR
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.26338/tjoc.2021.5.6.4 |
