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Johnny_Rotten wrote:

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1946 Miami - LRon Hubbard embezzling a yacht, cash and the girlfriend from the head of Aleister Crowley's US order in Hollywood.

Who also just happened to be the rocket scientist (non-Nazi version) founder of JPL and the inventor of the jet assisted takeoff. Jack Parsons penned this magikal little ditty in the 1940s

I hight Don Quixote, I live on Peyote,
marihuana, morphine and cocaine.
I never knew sadness but only a madness
that burns at the heart and brain,

—Excerpt from an untitled poem published in Parsons' ill-fated Oriflamme journal

Before the 60s, it sure was weirder then you think to catch a buzz

L Ron Hubbard: "I'm tired of working for two cents a word, I need something that I can make a fortune and not have to work hard for it."
Harlin Ellison: "Why don't you start your own religion."
(Apocryphal, sadly)

- Sara Elizabeth Northrup Hollister was an American occultist and second wife of Scientologist founder L. Ron Hubbard. She played a major role in creation of Dianetics

The key seems to be to have a good exit plan. Few properly prepare their golden parachute. Since you may be too sane to head up a religion, thus relegated to upper management you just know its all going to blow, one day or another, probably sooner than you think with all the  nutty people attracted like moths to the flame.

We don't all get to be popes. Maybe I should reconsider the catholic church, all the more a marvel for its staying power.

For his part, when Heinlein learned of “Allied Enterprises” (a company financed by Parsons with the stated purpose of buying small private vessels on the East Coast of the USA, and transporting them to California where they could be sold at a profit) he was seriously concerned. In a letter to John Arwine written in 1946 Heinlein wrote:

"I don’t understand Ron’s current activities. I am considerably disturbed by them – not angry but disturbed on his own account. I don’t think he is doing himself any good. As near as I can tell, at a distance he seems to be off on some sort of Big Operation tear, instead of straightening himself out and getting re-established in his profession."

The fact that he wrote to Arwine, that Hubbard being off an a  “Big Operation tear” (and capitalised “Big Operation”) suggests that Heinlein thought Hubbard was under the influence of the manic phase of his bipolar disorder, and no good would come of the project.

As usual Heinlein was too charitable. The company was a pretext for Hubbard to separate Parsons from his money.

a typical Hubbard fantasy whose content they found inappropriate. Heinlein wrote back:

"No, it was enticing a boy, a son of another veteran, to whom I had been left in locis parentis. When my sister-in-law called me – China –  knives – guns etc – your goose was cooked with me.

As a wounded veteran I am still obligated towards you and will help if  I find you down. and out, but I no longer trust you. You may show this letter to anyone you wish.

I think a lot of those ribbons on your chest, even if Polly doesn’t. You’re an authentic war hero, even though a phony gentleman. I’ll give you money to get you out of a jam, but I don’t want you in my home."

Hubbard had conned Heinlein into believing he was wounded and decorated for it.

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