Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief Page #4

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to produce the antichrist.

She and jack

eventually got married.

That happened after hubbard

ran off with jack's girlfriend,

Sara northrup.

Scientology

and hubbard

Would later refuse

to acknowledge

His relationship

with sara.

But we uncovered

sara's own recollections

Of her time with hubbard.

He was 13 years older

than i was.

I thought

he was a great war hero,

A captain of a ship

that had been downed

in the pacific.

And he was weeks

on a raft,

And he'd been blinded

by the sun,

And his back

had been broken.

All these things

were complete lies,

But i didn't know it

at the time.

I believed

every word of it.

If only sara had seen

hubbard's military records.

In a 900-page file,

Hubbard's activities are laid

out in extraordinary detail.

Hubbard told people

that he had been blinded

and crippled

During the war,

and the practices

that would form

The basis of scientology

had cured him.

But his records show

that his only wounds

Were mild arthritis

and conjunctivitis.

We had this terrible fight,

And he told me he was going

to commit suicide

If i didn't marry him.

I really believed him,

So we got married.

We spent the winter

in that lighthouse on the lake

in the poconos.

I remember one awful night,

When i was asleep

and he was out typing...

and he hit me

across the side of the head

With a .45...

Because i was smiling

in my sleep,

And he said i was thinking

about somebody else.

I got up,

left the house,

And walked

on the ice of the lake.

I was terrified.

He always said

that he would kill me

Rather than

let me leave him.

The only good thing

i got from ron

Was my baby.

We moved

to elizabeth, new jersey,

And he started

writing "dianetics."

The book was conceived

And he started

working on it in 1950.

He said many times

that the only way to make

any real money

Was to have a religion.

That's essentially

what he was trying to do

with "dianetics"--

Get a religion where

he could have an income

And the government wouldn't

take it away from him

In the form of taxes.

"dianetics" was

an immense success.

From the moment

it was published in 1950,

It swept through america

and other countries

around the world.

This book--

that's the background

of all of this.

That's what started

all the trouble.

We expected this to sell

about 6,000 copies,

And it hit the top

of the bestseller list

of "the new york times"

And just stayed there,

month in, month out.

It was like

i started an avalanche.

The modern science

of mental health"

Is considered to be

the fundamental text,

Which is the foundation

upon which all else is built.

One of the theories

of "dianetics"

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