What Tom Cruise Believes Instead of Freud
Somebody, it might have been BoingBoing, led me to a Wikipedia article about Scientologist space opera, the wacky cosmogony that L. Ron Hubbard foisted onto his followers. “Hubbard argued that science fiction was actually an unconscious recollection of real past lives that could be uncovered in detail through Scientology auditing,” so apparently while he didn’t believe in psychology, he did believe in the collective unconscious–Dianetics has a volcano on the cover, for example, because it’s supposed to remind us subliminally of the time 75 million years ago when Xenu brought us all to Earth, sat us around the volcanoes, and then dropped a bunch of H-bombs on us.
13 September 2005 | uncategorized |
Our Endless and Proper Work is my new book with Belt Publishing about starting (and sticking to) a productive writing practice. 
