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Subject: THE MIND & L. RON HUBBARD:FOUNDER OF SCIENTOLOGY
Date: 1 Nov 1996 02:30:32 GMT
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Many falsehoods and inaccurate statements regarding several aspects
of the religion of Scientology have been observed on ars.
The purpose of this message is to give you a sample of the true data
from the book 'What is Scientology?' and show you where you can look
to get the full contents of this book.

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In an attempt to resolve this problem, Navy physicians were
administering testosterone, a male hormone. This medical treatment,
however, was not getting effective results on all patients, and
Mr. Hubbard utilized the opportunity to not only help his fellow
servicemen, but to test a theory he had developed in application.

"All I was trying to establish," he wrote, "was whether or not the
mind regulated the body or the body regulated the mind. Therefore,
if on some of these patients hormones did not work and on some of
them they did, there might be a mental reason. If those patients
on whom it did not work had a severe mental block, then it was obvious
that regardless of the amount of hormone or medical treatment the
person received, he would not get well. If the mind were capable
of putting this much restraint upon the physical body then obviously
the fact that was commonly held to be true, that structure monitors
function, would be false. I set out to prove this.... I was not interested
in endocrinology but in resolving whether or not function monitored
structure or structure monitored function."

In case after case, he found that by utilizing techniques he had
developed, previously unresponsive patients immediately improved
with medical treatment once the mental blocks were removed.

In fact, function did monitor structure. As Ron noted at the time,
"Thought is boss."

This was a revolutionary concept, cutting across misconceptions which
had plagued Eastern philosophy and science for centuries.




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          http://www.scientology.org
          http://www.lronhubbard.org
          http://www.dianetics.org

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