Lrh had to be shocked as anyone that his crap was accepted as dogma. I bet he went to bed shaking his head in disbelief every night until he ‘abandoned his body’. What a crock of crazy these ppl sell tax free.

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No wonder your membership is so great, the charisma with which you write has pulled me in.

I’d like to see them try to keep Mike Tyson in the room watching the indoctrination film.

(That is, Tyson when he had money.)

Thank you. Tomkins is really a remarkable thinker. He was remarkably well equipped intellectually. He is a philopher-experimental psychologist.

His first doctorate was a PhD in Philosophy focusing on value. He then took a break and supported himself by handicapping horse races. He was very good and was able to support himself that way.

It also gave him first-hand experience dealing with people ordinary psychologists and philosophers don’t truck with, and got him interested in studying addiction, on which he did a great deal of work.

When he saved enough money he went to Harvard at a time of great creavity among psychologisrts and did his second doctorare in psychology.

You are quite right that Freud et al. did mostly case studies. Tomkins however was an experimental pschycolotogist who devised ingenious experiments to provide empirical backing for his conceptualization of affect.

Thanks for the tip!

Damian, to find non-Hubbard uses of “engram” you can use minus signs in your Google search:

engram -hubbard -scientology

I’ll second that..