11. Jack Parson, rocket scientist & mutual friend of Heinlein & Hubbard, initiated them to world of Aleister Crowley, black magic, etc.
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12. After WWII, Hubbard started acting erratically. Heinlein blamed that on war trauma and started keeping distance.
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13. Despite now being wary of Hubbard, Heinlein still respected him and thought him casualty of war deserving sympathy.
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14. Dianetics emerged out the side of "hard" s.f. that was attracted to mystical solutions & pseudo-science.
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15. No accident that earliest essay on Dianetics appeared in Astounding Science Fiction, with laudatory intro by editor John W. Campbell.
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16. For a while, Campbell became a major supporter of Dianetics, as did many other sf writers like Van Vogt, Katherine MacLean, James Blish
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17. Heinlein didn't fall into Dianetics craze, but because of his past ties to Hubbard was interested in the hubbub.
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18. Heinlein's Stranger In A Strange Land (1961) is partially an attempt to re-write Hubbard's story as a science fiction novel.
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19. In RAH's Stranger we see conflicted attitudes towards Hubbard & his cult.
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20. Jubal Harshaw, polymatic pulp writer, is partly idealized view of Hubbard that Heinlein knew in 1940s.
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21. But satire on religion as money making scheme in Stranger is also in part directed at Scientology.
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22. In 1963 while prisoner at US Penitentiary at McNeil Island, Charles Manson heard other prisoners talk about Heinlein & Hubbard
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23. Manson could barely read, but he was a quick study in conversation. In prison he picked up key ideas of both Stranger & Dianetics.
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