In case you didn't get it from the FARK article: some blogger has noticed that the description of the Super Power exercises in Rob Farley's recent SP Times article

http://www.sptimes.com/2006/05/06/Tampabay/Scientology_nearly_re.shtml/

are rather similar to the "Doc Savage Method of Self-Development", described in a series of 1930s era science fiction stories about the adventures of Doc Savage, "The Man of Bronze":

http://hometown.aol.com/the86floor/novels/method.html

Here's the blog entry:

http://tenser.typepad.com/tenser_said_the_tensor/2006/05/docs_exercises.html

It appears that Hubbard's "Super Power" is just a ripoff of an idea from a much more popular science fiction series. Here's the Wikipedia entry on Doc Savage:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_savage

Tell your friends.

-- Dave Touretzky: "Evildoers beware." http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Secrets

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