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Originally Posted by Halx
Plenty of good stuff in this thread. I've always enjoyed the crazy scientology talk. I like how everyone has something new to add... some new story I haven't heard before about the cult.
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Then allow me to tell my own personal encounter with Scientology. I played jazz guitar in the 70's in several bands, and I definitely had some major jazz idols. Particularly, there was Chick Corea, Flora Purim, Airto, and Stanley Clarke that stood out for me above all the rest.
As any idol-worshipping teenager would do, I read every single syllable and word on all of their jazz albums, and there was something curious I noticed. All of the above-mentioned artists included a line on their album jackets that said, "And a very special thanks to L. Ron Hubbard." Every single album they released contained the same acknowlegment.
So, I wrote Chick Corea a letter and asked him who this L. Ron Hubbard cat was. He actually wrote me back with a nice little biography and a free copy of "Dianetics." From that point on, I found that I was on the mailing list of the Church of Scientology, whose members included Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke (among others). For about one summer (1978) I was seriously hooked on Scientology. Then, I just lost interest.
It was about that same time that the Scientologists were getting entangled with the FBI, and I started to notice that some of my mail was pre-opened when it got to our house. I figure I must have made somebody's FBI list somewhere. To this day, my mother still gets things mailed to her house addressed to me from Scientology.