Part 17 (1/2)

[>] ”I became a Dianetic preclear”: Ibid., p. 12.

[>] ”It nearly floored my auditor”: Ibid., p. 15.

[>] ”The violence of that sight”: Ibid., pp. 1920.

[>] ”I never was the same again”: Ibid., p. 20.

[>] Sara Hubbard would later estimate: Sara Northrup Hubbard v. L. Ron Hubbard, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, April 23, 1951.

[>] One official of the Elizabeth: O'Brien, Dianetics in Limbo, p. 27.

[>] By the end of 1950: Atack, A Piece of Blue Sky, p. 118.

[>] ”The tidal wave of popular interest”: O'Brien, Dianetics in Limbo, p. vii.

[>] ”The only thing I ever saw”: Ibid., p. 33.

[>] The New Jersey Board: Bulletin of the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, Elizabeth, NJ, January 1951; Elizabeth Daily Journal, January 15, 1951, and March 28, 1951.

[>] the head of the famous Menninger: In the Look article, which compared ”dianetic hocus-pocus” to voodoo, Dr. Will Menninger said of Dianetics: ”It can potentially do a great deal of harm. It is obvious that the mathematician-writer has oversimplified the human personality, both as to its structure and function. He has made inordinate and very exaggerated claims in his results.” In addition, Dr. Jack A. Dunagin, of the Menninger Foundation, made the point that while patients may experience some temporary relief, ”the greatest harm to a person would come, not because of the vicious nature of dianetic therapy, but because ... it will lead them away from treatment which they may badly need.”

[>] resigned from the foundation: Another reason Winter resigned was his frustration that no research was being done at the foundation. Ceppos joined him as support. Campbell, however, did seem to cite money as a key concern. According to Russell Miller (Barefaced Messiah, p. 181), ”In Campbell's view, Hubbard had become impossible to work with and was responsible for the ruinous finances and complete disorganization throughout the Dianetics movement.”