How heavily was LRH into hypnosis, drugs, pain and the S/M scene? Apparently a lot more than he admitted to his followers. Look at what his oldest son had to say about this:
[begin quote] There has been a great vocal suppression of hypnosis, because that is an entrance point to the Magick which my father used a great deal of, clear up through the fifties and clear up to the point he died.
I'll give you another clue: Hypnosis used properly actually puts the body to sleep, not the thetan, not the being, and without pain and drugs is quite harmless. Go back to good old Dianetics by the way, and examine the term and condition of reverie. That's a hypnotic trance.
If one is not allowed to go into a trance then of course one cannot find the doors now, can one? The trance state is used for an entirely different purpose than one would imagine hypnosis being used for. Of course though, Dad was in a hell of a hurry so he got into the whole drug, pain, S/M scene very heavily.
[end quote] spbill