184 “begun Jan. 12, ’50”: Hubbard letter to Robert and Virginia Heinlein, Mar. 28, 1950.
185 the Empress, had dictated: Atack, A Piece of Blue Sky, p. 101.
186 Sara read Korzybski: Sara Elizabeth Hollister (formerly Sara Northrup Hubbard) tapes, Stephen A. Kent Collection on Alternative Religions.
187 “Bob Heinlein sat down”: Hubbard, “Study of the Particle,” lecture, Oct. 29, 1953.
188 “This article is not a hoax”: Quoted in Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, p. 153.
189 “I know dianetics is”: Ibid, pp. 152–53.
190 Nobel Peace Prize: Alfred Bester, “Part 6 of Alfred Bester and Frederik Pohl—The Conversation,” recorded at The Tyneside, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, June 26, 1978.
191 “fifty thousand years”: What Is Scientology?, p. 106.
192 “with 18 million copies sold”: Ibid.
193 “Cells are evidently sentient”: Hubbard, Dianetics, p. 70.
194 “The operator then touches”: Ibid., pp. 55–56.
195 “handled like a marionette”: Ibid., p. xiii.
196 “many years of exact research”: Ibid., p. xxv.
197 “She is rendered”: Ibid., p. 60.
198 “This is not theory”: Ibid., p. 75.
199 “exact science”: Ibid., p. xviii.
200 “Dianetics deletes”: Ibid., p. xiii
201 “You will find many”: Ibid., p. xxv.
202 outnumbering those being treated: “Care of Mental Patients Remains Major Problem,” Associated Press, Apr. 29, 1949. Reitman, Inside Scientology, p. 26.
203 “in less than twenty hours”: Hubbard, Dianetics, p. ix.
204 “It was sweepingly”: Hubbard, “The Story of Dianetics and Scientology,” lecture, Oct. 10, 1958.
205 “This volume probably”: Isidor Isaac Rabi, “Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, by L. Ron Hubbard (review), Scientific American, January 1951, pp. 57–58
206 “expressive of a spirit”: Erich Fromm, “ ‘Dianetics’—For Seekers of Prefabricated Happiness,” The New York Herald Tribune Book Review, September 3, 1950, p. 7.
207 “The art consists”: S. I. Hayakawa, “From Science-fiction to Fiction-science,” Etc. 8, no. 4 (Summer 1951).
208 “While listening to Hubbard”: Winter, A Doctor’s Report on Dianetics, p. 11.
209 “When I count”: Hubbard, Dianetics, p. 201.
210 “He would hold hands”: Sara Elizabeth Hollister (formerly Sara Northrup Hubbard) tapes, Stephen A. Kent Collection on Alternative Religions.
211 “He has on a long”: Winter, A Doctor’s Report on Dianetics, pp. 15–16.
212 “Everything goes back”: Freud letter to Wilhelm Fliess, May 2, 1897.
213 “It seems to me”: Ibid., p. 461.
214 “The extreme achievement on these lines”: Freud, “The Paths to the Formations of Symptoms,” Lecture 23 in Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, trans. Jas. Strachey, p. 460. Whitehead comments on this passage: “To generalize from the experience of Freud and his colleagues and from later experiments in hypnotic age-regression, the further one pushes the subject back into the past, the more apt one is to provoke confabulation.” Whitehead, Renunciation and Reformulation, p. 80.
215 “had passed for ‘normal’ ”: Hubbard, Dianetics, pp. 299–300.
216 “It is a scientific”: Ibid., p. 132.
217 “Twenty or thirty abortion attempts”: Ibid., p. 158.
218 “However many billions”: Ibid., pp. 132–33.
219 “One I observed when”:” L. Ron Hubbard, Jr., testimony. City of Clearwater Commission Hearings Re: The Church of Scientology, May 5, 1982.
220 “I was born at six”: Allan Sonnenschein, “Inside the Church of Scientology: An Exclusive Interview with L. Ron Hubbard, Jr.,” Penthouse, June 1983. The church’s objections to Hubbard Jr.’s statements, based on his signed retraction, and his disavowal of the retraction, are noted above.
221 “but conceived despite all precautions”: “The Admissions of L. Ron Hubbard,” www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/ars/?ars-2000-03-11.html
222 Hubbard kicked her: Sara Elizabeth Hollister (formerly Sara Northrup Hubbard) tapes, Stephen A. Kent Collection on Alternative Religions.
223 Hubbard told one of his lovers: “Barbara Kaye,” quoted in Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, p. 168.
224 “Migraine headache”: Church of Scientology International, letter from L. Ron Hubbard to the American Psychological Association, Apr. 13, 1949, www.ronthephilosopher.org/phlspher/page16.htm.
225 In a similar letter: Letters and Journals: The Dianetics Letters, The Ron magazines, pp. 14–15.
226 When scientists tested: Ibid., p. 74.
227 “The psychiatrist and his front groups”: Hubbard, “Today’s Terrorists,” psychfraud.freedommag.org/page44.htm.
228 “had the power to torture”: Hubbard, Introduction to Scientology Ethics, p. 264.
229 “the sole cause of decline”: Hubbard, “Pain and Sex,” HCO Bulletin, Aug. 26, 1982.
230 “The money was just”: Corydon, L. Ron Hubbard, p. 307.
231 The people who were drawn: Wallis, The Road to Total Freedom, p. 56.
232 Through Dianetics, they hoped: Ibid., pp. 62–63.