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I don't know what was happening with the marriage. I spent a weekend with him in some motel at
Malibu and on the way back in to LA he stopped to buy a bouquet of flowers for his wife. He said
she had said to him, because he was feeling down in the dumps, "Why don't you go and spend the
weekend with a pretty girl?"
He told me how he met Sara - I never knew what to believe. He said he went to a party and got
drunk and when he woke up in the morning he found Sara was in bed with him.
I accompanied him on a lecture tour in San Francisco and we were at the home of an attorney
doing some legal work for Ron, and someone's wife at the party enticed him into the kitchen, and I
came upon them in the kitchen in an embrace. He was a womaniser. every attractive woman was
fair game to him.
Some of things he told me were really bizarre, I didn't believe half of them. I believe the engrams he
was running were 90% fantasy. He told me his mother was a lesbian and he had found her in bed
with another woman, that he was an attempted abortion - he was running all these engrams but I
attributed them to his paranoia.
I didn't think he had ever done much research except for reading this book on psychology. He read
a German journal in which an engram was mentioned in 1916-17, he knew that someone had
written about an engram. Joseph Wolpie came up with idea that repetition was an effective way of
reducing tension on heavily charged incident. Desensitisation was what Ron was doing in
Dianetics without knowing he was doing it. I think he stumbled across the material by accident and
intuition.
He wasn't widely read - he made no bones about it. He had a wild imagination, he was
tremendously creative person.
My feeling was that he got a medical discharge from the Navy and I think it was because they knew
he was crazy. I think they tried to give him electric shock in the hospital because he had very strong
feelings against that treatment and I felt it had a personal reference. He must have been
recognised at one time as a disturbed individual.
I think he probably made up a lot of the case histories in the first Dianetics book. He was not
academic and never did any research.
I was very infatuated with him and I said to my room mate - we had an apartment in Beverly Hills - "If
I ever tell you I am marrying this guy, I want you to tie me up and not let me out the door, because
he's a lunatic." But I didn't trust myself, because I was so enchanted by him I felt I would go ahead
and do it. He was very magical, delightful fascinating man. He talked all the time and was
interesting, a great raconteur, very bright, amusing and dynamic.
He dominated at parties - everyone would listen to him, he loved to be the centre of attention.
I was going with him and one morning I get a telegram saying I was fired and, "I suggest you leave
the organisation". I was in shock, here was this man I was having a great love affair with and then I
was fired.
Much later he explained and said that I had called his home asking for him and he got the
impression from Sara that I had told her about our affair. Of course I never had. That's why he sent
the telegram.