The First Full Length Presentation of The Case FOR Scientology by a Distinguished Writer Who is a Non-Scientologist
by Omar V. Garrison
$8.50
THE HIDDEN STORY OF SCIENTOLOGY
by Omar V. Garrison
$8.50
Everyone has heard or read of Scientology, the new religion which has aroused storms of controversy in America, Great Britain, Australia, South Africa, and virtually every nation where English is the major tongue. Yet, few persons outside the movement's rapidly expanding membership understand the real principle of its teachings or why it is so vigorously opposed by influential groups throughout the world.
Now, in this first full-length presentation of the case *for* Scientology, a non-Scientologist gives us a much needed apologia to balance the great mass of literature, rumor and broadcast reports hostile to the sect.
This book is a fully documented, inside account of a spiritual movement that began in 1950 as a radical new approach to mental therapy and later developed into one of the fastest growing religious denominations in the world, whose followers now number in the millions.
The first part of the book carefully examines the history and origins of Scientology, as well as the personality of its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. Then the author traces, in detail, the organized and often underhanded methods used in efforts to annihilate the new faith.
Writing in forthright and at times deliberately provocative language, Mr. Garrison - a veteran journalist - seeks the answers to such disturbing questions as:
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The Hidden Story of
Scientology
Omar V. Garrison
The Citadel Press Secaucus, N. J.
Second American printing, August 1974 Copyright c 1974 by Omar V. Garrison All rights reserved Published by Citadel Press A division of Lyle Stuart, Inc. 120 Enterprise Ave., Secaucus, N.J. 07094 Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress catalog card number: 74-80818 ISBN 0-8065-0440-4
"Any new vital force in the world has a hard time." L. RON HUBBARD
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Is there any truth in the charge made by Scientologists that they are the victims of a hate campaign conducted by a world-wide secret power structure whose practices and aims they have challenged and exposed?
Have law-making bodies and agencies of national governments been used to persecute members of the new religion ever though they are guilty of no offense against existing laws?
In the chapter on "The Crafty Art of Psycho-politics," the author provides some searching insights into the fallacies and dangers inherent in the mental health movement. He writes: "Just as the idea of a 'generation gap,' being boldly asserted and plausibly maintained, produced in our society the condition it describes, so the concept of a 'sick society,' insistently urged upon us by the mental health professionals, is producing the psycho-neurotic populace it postulates. One of the most significant changes in public attitudes, in fact, has been the uncritical and widespread acceptance of the idea that mental illness in Western countries (especially in the United States) has reached virtually epidemic proportions and now constitutes a real threat to the survival of a sane, orderly society,"
This book is certain to provoke strong reactions, pro or con, on the part of the thoughtful reader because it challenges him to review realistically the present practices of government and the state of those ideals of freedom he has so long taken for granted.
Jacket design by Robert Cuevas.
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Omar V. Garrison is a distinguished American journalist, war correspondent and investigative reporter whose books have covered a wide range of subjects. His Spy Government, first published in 1967, analyzed in detail the government practices which led to Watergate. Among his other successfully published books were Howard Hughes in Las Vegas, and Medical Astrology.
He is not, and has never been, a Scientologist. Mr. Garrison is married and lives with his wife in Spain.
CITADEL PRESS
A division of Lyle Stuart, Inc.
120 Enterprise Avenue
Secaucus, N. J. 07094
ISBN 0-8065-0440-4