Wednesday, February 27, 2008

All this is not really science, but only scientology.

Boing Boing posted a link here, showing a 1934 document written in german called "Scientology: Science of the constitution and usefulness of knowledge" by Dr. Anastasius Nordenholz. This is possibly where L. Ron Hubbard could have gathered the ideas that led to Scientology as we know it today, but it was not the first use of the word. Allen Upward coined the term in his self-published book "The New Word" written in 1908, published 1910. His use of the word however was quite the opposite of both Nordenholz and Hubbard's. Upward used the term to describe "science elevated to unquestioning doctrine".

"All this is not really science, but only scientology." - The New Word.






















Scientology Wikipedia
here.
The Prophet and Profit of Scientology by Richard Behar here.
From the article by Behar: "Even though his fall guys insulated Hubbard from jail that time, he knew he was in trouble. "Hubbard told me at one time the biggest mistake we made was going religious and that we should have kept it straight as a business," says a former high "church" official who doesn't want his name used."

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