Part 19 (1/2)

[>] ”For some, ... Scientology's conflict”: Wallis, The Road to Total Freedom, p. 214.

[>] ”From that moment on”: Hubbard, ”Keeping Scientology Working,” HCO Policy Letter, February 7, 1965.

4. The Bridge to Total Freedom A great deal of this chapter relies on the recollections of Jeff Hawkins, a member and official of the Church of Scientology for close to forty years. To tell the story of Jeff's growing involvement in Scientology in the 1960s, and of Scientology's overall evolution and cultural outlook during the 1960s, I relied primarily on four lengthy in-person interviews with Hawkins in the spring of 2007, as well as numerous follow-up phone calls and well over two hundred e-mail exchanges through the summer of 2010. Other essential sources of information on Scientology in the 1960s were Nancy and Chris Many, Jim Dinalci, Mike Henderson, and Dan Koon, all of whom I interviewed personally, and with whom I also conducted subsequent, and lengthy, e-mail exchanges.

For a less subjective view on the era, I referred primarily to Paulette Cooper's The Scandal of Scientology, George Malko's Scientology: The Now Religion, Stephen Kent's From Slogans to Mantras, Roy Wallis's The Road to Total Freedom, and L. Ron Hubbard's own copious writing and taped lectures, notably his policy letters and executive directives. As in prior chapters, biographical and narrative history pertaining to Hubbard and his adventures was drawn from A Piece of Blue Sky and Barefaced Messiah, among other sources.

The description of Scientology's attempted takeover of the National a.s.sociation of Mental Health is drawn primarily from C. H. Rolph's Believe What You Like, as well as Wallis's The Road to Total Freedom.

[>] ”Wherever you go”: Malko, Scientology: The Now Religion, p. 7.

[>] STEP INTO THE WORLD: Cooper, The Scandal of Scientology, p. 47.

[>] ”drugless psychedelic”: Malko, Scientology: The Now Religion, p. 9.

[>] ”After drugs comes Scientology”: Recollection by the ex-Scientologist Jim Dinalci of a poster he saw near the University of California, Berkeley, circa 1969, told to me in an interview, September 20, 2007.

[>] ”be a member of Scientology”: Wallis, The Road to Total Freedom, p. 162.

[>] ”raw meat”: Hubbard, HCO Bulletin, January 16, 1968.

[>] ”Beautiful”: Cooper, The Scandal of Scientology, p. 14, and interviews with Hawkins, Many, and others.

[>] ”step into the exciting world”: Cooper, The Scandal of Scientology, p. 13; Malko, Scientology: The Now Religion, p. 7.

[>] More recently, the Kabbalah: Ruth La Ferla, ”Objects of Jewish Devotion Evolve into a Fas.h.i.+on Fad,” New York Times, June 29, 2004.

[>] Leonard Cohen, Ca.s.s Elliot: Malko, Scientology: The Now Religion, p. 6.

[>]even Jim Morrison: Ibid., p. 7.

[>] ”Scientology can do more”: William Burroughs, Naked Scientology, p. 72, citing a statement made in the Los Angeles Free Press, March 6, 1970.

[>] Charles Manson, for one: Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders, pp. 17678, 318, 610.

[>] At the close of 1967: The $1 million figure is an approximation taken from what Atack, in A Piece of Blue Sky (p. 170), writes was a sum of 457,277 for the year ending April 1967 (or roughly 9,000 per week).