Bare-Faced Messiah (PDF) - Apologetics Index

destruction of the brain.
'A technique that gives any man a perfect, indelible, total memory, and perfect, errorless ability to
compute his problems.
'A basic answer, and a technique for curing - not alleviating - ulcers, arthritis, asthma, and many
other nongerm diseases.
'A totally new conception of the truly incredible ability and power of the human mind.
'Evidence that insanity is contagious, and is not hereditary.
'This is no wild theory. It is not mysticism. It is a coldly precise engineering description of how the
human mind operates, and how to go about restoring correct operation tested and used on some
250 cases. And it makes only one overall claim: the methods logically developed from that
description work. The memory stimulation technique is so powerful that, within 30 minutes of
entering therapy, must people will recall in full detail their own birth. I have observed it in action, and
used the techniques myself . . .
'It is not only a fact article of the highest importance; it is the story of the ultimate adventure - an
exploration in the strangest of all terra incognita; the human mind. No stranger adventure appeared
in The Arabian Nights than Hubbard's experience, using his new techniques, in plowing through
the strange jungle of distorted thoughts within a human mind. To find, beyond that zone of
madness, a computing mechanism of ultimate and incredible efficiency and perfection!'
Rarely can any editor have penned such a fulsome and glowing testimonial. The world, or at least
the world of science fiction, waited with bated breath.
1. Report of Physical Examination, VA file, 19 September 1946
2. Transcript - Church of Scientology v. Armstrong
3. Hubbard file, VA archives
4. Interview with Merwin, Los Angeles, August 1986
5. The John W. Campbell Letters, Vol. 1
6. Interview with Mrs Roberts
7. Interview with Ford
8. Interview with Forrest Ackerman, Hollywood, 30 July 1986
9. Hubbard file, VA archives
10. ibid.
11. Shangri-La, LASFAS club organ, No. 6, May-June 1948
12. Interview with Arthur Jean Cox, Los Angeles, 18 August 1986
13. Interview with A.E. van Vogt, Los Angeles, 22 July 1986
14. FBI memo, 13 April 1967
15. L.R. Hubbard navy record