A couple of weeks ago, in a bit of byplay with Larry T., I threatened to post Jane Kember's rant about 'religion' in response to the Anderson Inquiry in Melbourne in 1964.

Mike Gormez asked me to do so, so here it is...... except that it's *not* by Jane Kember, it's by Mary Sue Hubbard! Sorry about that. I still have my reactive mind.

It's a *long* rant. I faffed around for a while, trying to cut it up for sequential posting, but it's so hopelessly kooky it doesn't lend itself to any logical sequencing. So here it is, in the interests of public discussion, in it's entirety.

Your observations on the content: 'off-policy' claims; logical failures; grammatical infelicities; identification of DA passages inserted for the edification of the faithful; obvious direct interpolation by the Great Dead Fat Tub O'Lard; oblique references to the *real* guilty parties; ludicrous non-sequiturs; and anything else that takes your fancy, would be most welcome.

I know what *my* favourites are! :-)

Pheeee...ew! Have you ever had the feeling that you've been beaten into submission by a determined, repeated, application of a sockful of stale custard pie to the occiput?

Well... here it is.

From: 'Communication: the monthly journal of the Church of
Scientology' Vol. 6, no. 9, Sep 1964, pps. 15 - 24:

Begin Fair Use quote (all caps, grammar, and spelling as in the original - my comments in [ ])/

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THE TRUTH BEHIND THE ATTACK ON SCIENTOLOGY

by

Mary Sue Hubbard

Supplement to Volume 6 Number 9 September 1964 1/- [The '1/-' means 'one shilling', that is one-twentieth of one Australian Pound Sterling, for the purchase of the pamphlet]

Registered at the G.P.O. Melb. for transmission by post as a periodical.

[Page 16 is taken up with ads for LRH 'works'. Never pass up the chance to pick up a buck, eh?]

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THE TRUTH BEHIND THE ATTACK ON SCIENTOLOGY

by

Mary Sue Hubbard

First of all we must ask what is Scientology?

Scientology is a religion in the oldest sense of the word, a study of wisdom. Scientology is a study of man, as a spirit, in his relationship to life and the physical universe.

It is non-denominational. By that is meant that Scientology is open to people of all religious beliefs and in no way tries to persuade a person from his religion, but assists him to better understand that he is a spiritual being.

As a religion what does Scientology try to accomplish?

Scientology tries to help an individual realize his full spiritual potential in life. This is best done by helping the individual to gain a full understanding of himself as a spiritual being.

What is attacking Scientology?

Some private medical organisations and organised psychiatry, some vested interests and politicians and some Communists.

What is a private medical organisation?

A private medical organisation or group is aprivate trade union of the medical doctor.

Why do these private medical groups attack Scientology?

To prevent anyone from engaging in any actions which might in some way influence the healing of another person. It considers the body and its state of health to be the private and personal property of its trade union members. They want to prevent people people who are not trained members of their own medical unions from healing people, as the members of these unions would lose people to treat and, more importantly to them, lose the money received from such people.

An individual in gaining a better understanding of himself as a spiritual being in Scientology frequently achieves an improved state of health. Because people with Scientology do often attain improved health and because this represents a loss of income, these medical groups want the religion of Scientology prohibited and its members punished for 'practicing medicine without a licence.'

Do Scientologists practice medicine?

No. Scientologists do not practice medicine.

A Scientologist is a minister to the spiritual well- being of the individual who seeks his help. Scientologists prescribe no medicine, diagnose

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no illnesses, treat no physical ailments and use no drugs.

How is it then that people in Scientology achieve an improved state of health?

Illness is frequently caused by the pressures and tensions of modern living. When an individual gains a better understanding of himself as a spiritual being, the reasons behind the pressures and tensions being better understood, these pressures and tensions disappear.

Should these private medical groups be allowed to attack Scientology and to force legislation against Scientology?

No, it should not, for three reasons:

1. Scientology does not practice medicine.

2. Scientology is a religion. Any legislation against a religion would be contrary to the basic freedom and right of every individual to believe in and practice his religious beliefs. No religion and no individual in any religion would be safe in the future if such an example was set. Religious persecution should be a thing of the past in our civilized times.

3. No one would be safe from attack and the threat of imprisonment and prosecution from these private medical organisations.

Everyone, at some time in his life, has helped another individual to achieve a better state of health. The mother who cheers a sick child helps their child to improved health. Should she be punished and prohibited from doing so? Definitely not.

The priest in giving solace and prayers has helped many a persons [sic] to better health. Should he be punished and prohibited from doing so? Definitely not.

The Christian Scientist has records of many healings through faith in Jesus Christ. Should Christian Scientists be punished and prohibited from spiritual healing? Definitely not.

The wife, many times, by listening to her husband's problems and difficulties, helps him to feel better and more relaxed. Should she be jailed for practicing medicine without a licence? Definitely not.

Should physical culturists who, through exercise, help people to gain better physical health and energy be denounced and thretatened with extinction? Definitely not.

The faith healer of many different religions has helped and healed people. Should they all be thrown in jail? Definitely not.

Private medical unions must not be allowed to threaten with imprisonment every individual in the society because every individual has, at some-time, [sic] helped another person to better health. For their own vested interest and their own financial greed, these private medical groups should be stopped

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in their attacks against, not only Scientology, but everyone.

What is organised psychiatry?

Psychiatry is organised under private medical organisations because a psychiatrist has no legal standing as a practitioner and therefore has to be an M.D. and a member of a private medical union in order to practice.

Why does organised psychiatry attack Scientology?

As part of a private medical organisation, the psychiatrist also attacks Scientology because of the same reasons given, but also because some psychiatrists consider the mind of the individual to be their personal and private property just as some doctors consider the body and the state of its health to be their personal and private property.

If people are improved mentally, the psychiatrist would lose people to electric shock, people on whom to remove sections of the brain, and people on whom to analyse endlessly. In losing such people, the psychiatrist loses money.

In Scientology, an individual is mentally improved through understanding himself as a spiritual being.

Do Scientologists practice psychiatry?

Definitely not. As Scientologists we do not believe in the brutal treatment givenpeople [sic] in the form of electric shock, drug shock and the removal of sections of the brain. We feel this is a hang-over practice from ages past in which the individual with mental difficulties was shocked, chained, beaten and tortured.

In electric shock, the bones, spine and teeth of a person are frequently broken or seriously injured, with death resulting frequently enough to cause serious alarm.

In the removal of sections of the brain, a person merely becomes like a docile animal, if he does not die. Even if he does not die, his life expectancy is not very long, within two to five years. The removal of sections of the brain was a very popular operation during Hitler's reign of terror. Hitler had this operation perfomed upon 100,000 victims in order to procure slave farm labour.

So it is not unnatural that Scientologists do not believe in such inhuman practices.

Psychiatrists use the treatment of drug shock, electric shock, and removal of parts of the brain on people with mental health problems and difficulties. When they do not use such treatments, which is infrequent, the psychiatrist uses analysis. It is very difficult to say what analysis is used, as there are so many differing and varied schools. The most frequently used, however, is Freudian analysis. In this the psychiatrist often evaluates and suggests

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the person's problems and difficulties in life to jealousy of the father or fear of castration in the case of men, or jealousy of the mother or disappointment in not having been born a man in the case of women.

Scientologists do not do this. Scientologists do not believe that these methods are workable. Scientologists believe that these methods degrade and demoralize the individual. Scientologists believe that shock and de-braining are cruel methods which do not benefit anyone and which are in fact injurious and frequently fatal.

How is it then that people in Scientology are mentally improved?

Scientology assists the individual to understand and evaluate his own life as a spiritual being. The Scientologist never evaluates for the individual. The individual must understand himself and not be told what to understand about himself. In Scientology, through asking questions of the individual, listening to his answers, and acknowleging him, the individual comes to know himself.

The Scientologist never evaluates for the individual or tells him what is right or wrong with himself. The individual must understand himself and not be told what to understand about himself. Thusly, in Scientology the individual comes to understand himself as a spiritual being who cannot die and who is neither the brain nor the body, but an immortal being of the spirit.

Psychiatry considers man is only an animal. Scientology knows man is a spiritual being.

Should organised psychiatry be allowed to attack Scientology and to enforce legislation against Scientology?

No, certainly and positively not for the following four reasons:

1. Scientology does not and would never practice psychiatry.

2. Scientology is a religion.

3. Psychiatry as such is not a legal, authorized, nor recognized practice. It is a new and unorthodox practice in vogue since Freud. The only thing orthodox about psychiatry is that it continues the inhuman treatment of people with mental problems which is a dreadful and black stain in the history of the Western world. This is not the history of people with mental problems in the Eastern world, where man is recognised as a spiritual being and not the body, as medicine would have him, not the brain and the animal that psychiatry would have him.

The mind and the spirit historically has been the study of religion and philosophy.

Psychiatrists can hope to outlaw religion and philosophy making it a crime to do either, but in so doing it would have to outlaw and make criminal the right of everyone to have faith and to think. For such an unorthodox group, with no legal standing, to try to legislate anything is ridiculous in the extreme, but to try for its own profit motives to attack religion and philosophy and to try to gain recognised ownership of the mind for monetary purposes is insanity itself. The mind does not exist without the spirit and the spirit is not something anyone can grab and hold on to. It is not an

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object or a pound, the psychiatrist can never own it or bank it in his bank account.

To repeat, the mind and the spirit since the beginning of time has been the study of religion and philosophy; the medical doctor and the psychiatrist are newcomers in this field. They are the quacks, the mumbo-jumbo artists, the pseudo-scientists, the psychoquacks in *this* field. Philosophy and religion have not tried to outlaw their study of the mind or spirit. Everyone, even the medical doctor and the psychiatrist, has a mind and spirit to study, and no country in the world, unless that country or the world falls into the hands of a medical organisation, psychiatrists, or insane men, would ever pass laws regulating how one should study one's own mind or spirit, what one should believe about one's own mind or spirit, or who should help one's own mind or spirit.

All nations that have passed laws against religion have failed from the days of ancient Rome to modern Vietnam, whose government failed recently in trying to suppress Buddhism.

4. No one would be safe from attack, punishment or imprisonment from organized psychiatry.

As we have just seen, no one can help but study his own mind and spirit in his own fashion; no one can help but believe something about his own mind and spirit, and no one can really help his own mind and spirit but himslef.

The educator and the teacher all help the individual to improve his mind, show the way to do this and make a more ethical being of the individual. Should they have to become psychiatrists to do so or should they be punished and imprisoned for doing so? Certainly not.

Every individual tells his problems and difficulties to his parents, to his spouse, to his friend, to his clergyman, to his employer or to someone. He will feel better for doing so. Can you pass laws to prevent this or can you make it a criminal action to do so? Should every parent, spouse, friend, clergyman, or employer be fined or imprisoned who dares to listen to anyone's problems or difficulties? No, definitely not.

Should a movie, a vacation, a little nap, an entertaining book, a beautiful scene, a work of art, a prayer be outlawed unless the psychiatrist prescribes it? Ridiculous you might say. But do not forget that through all these actions a person experiences mental and spiritual relief and comfort, problems are less and difficulties are overcome. If only the psychiatrist is allowed to help someone mentally, all these things would have to be illegal unless prescribed by a psychiatrist.

For these reasons organized psychiatry should not be permitted to outlaw Scientology so that it can have more people to shock and to de-brain at exorbitant fees from the families of its poor victims. Organized psychiatry cannot and should not ever be allowed to prosecute or persecute anyone for helping another to a better mental and spiritual state. To do so would be to outlaw life.

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What are communists?

Communists are people who believe in *no* private or personal ownership. Everything and *everyone* is owned by the State.

Why do Communists attack Scientology?

Communists attack Scientology because we do not believe that the State can ownthe mind and body of man. Man has the right to do what he wants to do in life, to be what he wants to be in life, and to have what he wants to have in life and no State should be permitted to dictate to the individual in these respects.

If someone wants tostudy engineering, he should be permitted to do so and shouldn not be forced to become a farm labourer because there happens to be a shortage in farm labourers and that is what the State dictates.

If a man wants to be a policeman, he should be allowed to try to become one and not made to work on the road gang because some Commissar doesn't happen to like his face.

If an individualwants [sic] to own a home, he should be allowed to buy one to his own liking and not made to live in sterile, concrete barracks because the State does not allow anyone to own a home.

Also, to a Communist, man is an animal without a spirit. In Scientology an individual finds out he is a spirit and so this is contrary to the teachings of Communism.

Scientologists do not believe the Communists are 'after them'; they simply do not believe in Communism.

It is only the more radical elements of Communism which try to attack Scientology. It consists of people who are still fighting issues long since dead and of no importance in the modern world of today. The attack Scientology simply because it is a religion and because it does teach that man is a spirit.

Scientologists as a group do not advocate or espouse any political cause. Scientologists do, however, believe that the fight between capitallism and socialism is a dead political issue of the past and that both sides still fighting this battle are equally an anachronism.

Today is the time for the creation of new political ideals and aims and for new political philosophies.

What about the Public Enquiry on Scientology?

Scientologists asked for a public enquiry after libellous, defamatory, and false charges were made against them in the Victorian Parliament. The Enquiry was requested so that we could clear these charges.

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The Enquiry has become an over-protracted legal procedure. This is in no way a reflection on the Board, Mr. Anderson, who is an honourable person and a gentleman; however, instead of being able to answer the false charges made against Scientology and Scientologists, we are being made to explain our religious beliefs and to prove that our faith helps us and others to achieve ahigher and better spiritual state and well- being.

Even medicine would find it a difficult task to prove its workability. Physiology is well established. It can be proved that a body has a heart and that it pumps blood. (Harvey had a difficult time trying to prove the circulatory system to orthodox medicine in his day and was called by his fellow practitioners a humbug and a quack.) The body also has various other parts with various functions.

But can medicine really prove that it heals? No, it cannot. Who is to say whether the individual heals himself, whether nature does the healing, whether it is only the patients' faith in the doctor or the medicine which heals, or what?

It is a known and published fact that one of the leading clinics in the world in the United States has found thatmore [sic] than fifty percent of the people who die there were diagosed and treated for a disease which they did not, in actual fact, have, and that their death was caused by some entirely different, undiagnosed disease.

It is also known that during the war in North Africa, more soldiers came down with smallpox who had been vaccinated against it than did soldiers who were never vaccinated against it.

Further, iatrogenic illnesses are increasing alarmingly. By iatrogenic is meant illnesses which are caused by medicine. This means that a person treated by some drug can develop an illness which was caused by that same drug. So it would appear that in many cases medicine does not in actual fact heal, but generates disease and illness.

So medicine is not the perfect, reliable, all-knowing science which it pretends to be.

We won't even discuss whether psychiatry can prove its workability. After you have shocked someone or cut out a section of his brain, nothing can be proved. But it can be proved that people have suffered physical damage and even died from shock. Also it can be proved that cutting out sections of the brain has resulted in making an individual into a docile, living zombie, has killed many, and has shortened the life expectancy of those who survived.

Scientology can prove that man is a spirit, but why does it have to? We have seen that medicine is not infallible, that it frequently produces

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illnesses, and that no one can really prove who or what does the healing. We have seen that psychiatry can damage people. It might even be suggested that the reason mental hospitals are so over-crowded is that psychiatry cannot heal the mentally sick and so keeps collecting more and more people to confine.

So, in the light of all this, it certainly does seem ridiculous in the extreme that a religion must prove its beliefs and faith.

In fact, this is unprecedented in the history of man. No philosophy or religion has been required to do so.

Meetings have been held by organised psychiatry and others in order to agree on testimony against Scientology. A paper of suggested testimony has even been prepared and handed out amongst them. In any country this should be called collusion of witnesses, it should be denounced, and its perpetrartors fined for contempt of court.

Various groups, throughoutthe Enquiry, are trying to accomplish their own selfish ends and are, through their paid supporters, trying to manipulate the government to prosecute and prohibit a religion.

Please note that Scientology is not against medicine. Scientology is only against organised medical unions because of their disgraceful methods of trying to protect their vested interests.

No one can try a man for his religious faith and belief; no religion can be tried for its religious beliefs and teachings.

What can be done about all this?

The most dignified thing that can be done at this point is for the Government to censure those who have falsely tried to get it to legislate against religion and to, thereby, put an end to the whole thing.

If some legislation must be passed, it should be to re-affirm that anyone and everyone has the right to his own religious faith and beliefs.

What can you do to help?

You and your friends can ask the government to do the following:

1. Censure those who are falsely trying to legislate against religion. 2. Re-affirm the right of anyone to have his own religious faith and beliefs.

You don't have to believe in Scientology to do this, you only have to believe that you should be free to practice your own religion and to believe that others should have the same freedom.

Thank you,

MARY SUE HUBBARD \end Fair Use quote

hehehe. The thing ends with an ad for HASI membership... never miss a chance for a buck, eh?

tam

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