267. Louis Theroux on Neo-Nazis, Jimmy Savile, UFO Cults, and Scientology
The Michael Shermer Show
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The History of Science Fiction
Hubbard was complaining to l spragg de camp and the others about riding for a penny a word. Lester delray then said, half jokingly, what you really ought to do is create a religion,. cause it would be tax free. And at that point, everybody in the room started in in with ideas for this new religion. So the idea it was a gestalt and ran caught on to and assimilated the details. He then wrote it up as dionetics, a new science of the mind, and sold it to john w. Campbell junior, who published it in astounding science fiction in 19 50. It's kind of, jesus and and paul, like pot
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