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From: cultxpt@primenet.com (Jeff Jacobsen)
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Subject: LRH quotation; e-meter bogus
Date: 31 Oct 1995 16:10:03 GMT
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   "The E-Meter is no longer used to determine 'what is wrong with the 
preclear.'  As we long ago suspected, the intervention of a mechanical 
gadget between the auditor and the preclear had a tencency to 
de-personalize the session and also gave the auditor a dependence upon 
the physical universe and its meters which did not have to be there."  
(Dianetics 55!, p.101)

   Well, uh, let's see... I heard Hubbard wrote this at the time he was 
having problems with Volney Mathisson and his patent on the e-meter.  
Later this patent argument was straightened out in Hubbard's favor and 
thus the return of the e-meter.
   BTW, I have a copy of a Home Workshop catalog from 1942 that shows a 
crude e-meter and calls it a fun-provoking party toy.  It was to be used 
as a lie detector.

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Jeff Jacobsen         SP4, Scientology critic
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