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It's advertised all over television.
It's distributed by Ingram--one of the largest book distributors in the
world . It's sold over the counters of the glitzy, high profile retail
centers of bookselling giants like Waldenbooks, Crown Books, Barnes &
Noble, B. Dalton--in fact, "wherever fine books are sold."
.....It's
"SCIENTOLOGY: A NEW SLANT
ON LIFE." And right there on the cover, as
big as the title, is a name which appears to be the name of the
sole author: "L. Ron Hubbard."
.....Which
means he is the sole author, right?
.....Wrong,
according to records of the Library of Congress.
.....According
to those records, the book currently being advertised and sold is a new
edition, with new material, and the author of the new material is not L.
Ron Hubbard, but is
"Church of Scientology
International (CSI), employer for hire." So how can it say "L. Ron Hubbard,"
right there on the cover? Well, according to the Library of Congress, the
name "L. Ron Hubbard" has been made part of the title!
.....But
see that for yourself in the sidebar at right, exactly as it appears in
Library of Congress records.
.....You'll
note that Norman F.
Starkey, claimant for this 1988
copyright  filing,
was "d.b.a." (doing business as) the "L. Ron Hubbard Library." But if you've
read our What's Behind the L. Ron Hubbard Library?
page, you know that it's the Church of Spiritual Technology (CST) that
is currently doing business as the "L. Ron Hubbard Library," and currently
owns ALL the copyrights. Confusing? You betcha'.
.....You
can make more sense out of it all by seeing the actual d.b.a.
papers, and  by
seeing How CST Grabbed the Copyrights.
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THE SQUIRREL
CAGE SQUEAKS
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Changing L. Ron Hubbard's writings has
a dirty-word description within Scientology: it's called "squirreling."
.....Hubbard
himself was adamant about it: he said, "The...public must not be led to
believe that I have written or issued things I have not." But are
people being led to believe that he has written or issued things he has
not? Are his works being "squirreled"?
.....To
find out, we did a side-by-side comparison of two versions of "New Slant
on Life." We compared the earliest version we could find with the new edition
being advertised now and sold in retail bookstores.
.....VERSION
ONE is the version originally authored by L. Ron Hubbard. It says right
on the cover, "by L. Ron Hubbard." It was copyrighted in 1965 by L. Ron
Hubbard. He
is listed with the Library of Congress
as the author. |
| Returned
in a search of the Library of Congress database for "CSI Employer for Hire" |
(Definitions
for abbreviations are listed below.)
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TITL:
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A New slant on life / L. Ron
Hubbard.
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IMPR:
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Los Angeles : Bridge Publications,
c1988.
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PHYS:
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206 p.
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CLNA:
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Norman F. Starkey as executor
of the Estate of L. Ron Hubbard d.b.a. L.Ron Hubbard Library, Los Angeles
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DCRE:
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1988
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DPUB:
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8Oct88
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DREG:
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28Nov88
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APAU:
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some text, compilation, paintings
used for dustcover art: Church of Scientology International
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PREV:
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Prev. reg. 1970, A145211.
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LINM:
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NM: "some
text, compilation, paintings
used for cover art."
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ECIF:
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1/B/L
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XREF:
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cL. Ron Hubbard Estate
of. SEE
L. Ron Hubbard Library,
Los Angeles.
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Glossary of Abbreviations:
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APAU:
Name(s) of author(s) on application if different from deposit
copy
CLNA:
Name of Claimant(s)
DCRE:
Date of creation according to application
DPUB:
Date of publication according to application
DREG:
Effective date of registration
ECIF:
Essential computer information field (machine coding for internal
Copyright Office use)
IMPR:
Imprint information (place of publication; publishers; date of publication
or copyright)
LINM:
Limitation(s) on claim; New Matter in claim
PHYS:
Physical description of the deposit copy
PREV:
Information on previously registered related works
TITL:
Title; other title information; authorship if not
indicated in CLNA or APAU
XREF:
Cross reference(s) for and to personal and corporate names
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.....VERSION
TWO is a version first copyrighted in 1988--two years after L. Ron Hubbard
died. The Library of Congress shows L. Ron Hubbard's name as part of the
TITLE; the author that is listed (for New Matter) is NOT L. Ron Hubbard--it
is "Church of Scientology International."
.....Our
comparison turned up some differences we thought you ought to know about.
So we've included some of them below to illustrate just a few of
those differences side-by-side. In the examples below, read the original
version as written by L. Ron Hubbard, and then read the "improvements"
contributed by un-named writers who were hired by the Church of Scientology
International. Is the public being led to believe L. Ron Hubbard has written
things that he hasn't written? You decide!
Excerpts from 1965 edition of
Scientology: A New Slant on
Life
Author: L. Ron Hubbard
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Excerpts from 1997 edition of
Scientology: A New Slant on
Life
Author: Church of Scientology International, Employer for hire
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(Changes in this
type style)
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| Actually a little child derives
all of his "how" of life from the grace he puts upon life. |
Actually, a little child derives
all of his pleasure
in life from the grace
he puts upon life. |
| They're looking for something, but
the odd part of it is, the only time they ever find something is when they
put it there first. Now, this doesn't sound very plausible, but it's
quite true. |
They're looking for something, but
the odd part of it is, the only time they ever find something is when they
put it there first. Now, this doesn't seem very creditable,
but it's quite true. |
| And here you have somebody who is
happy, who is cheerful, who is strong, who finds that most things are pleasurable;
and what do we discover in this person? We find out that he is making life,
and here is actually a single difference: are you making life or is life
making you? |
And here you have somebody who is
happy, who is cheerful, who is strong, who finds that there
is something worth doing in life,
and what do we discover in this person? We find out that he is making life,
and there
is actually a single difference: Are you making life, or is life making
you? |
| Of course, you will have difficulty
if this child of yours has already been trained, controlled, ordered about,
denied his own possessions. In mid-flight, you change your tactics.
You try to give him his freedom. He's so suspicious of you he will
have a terrible time trying to adjust. The transition period will
be difficult. But, at the end of it, you'll have a well ordered,
sociable child, thoughtful of you and, very important to you, a child who
loves you. |
Of course, you will have difficulty
if this child of yours has already been trained, controlled, ordered about,
denied his own possessions. In mid-flight, you change your tactics.
You try to give him his freedom. He's so suspicious of you, he will
have a terrible time trying to adjust. The transition period will
be terrible.
But at the end of it, you'll have a well-ordered, well-trained,
social child, thoughtful
of you and, very important to you, a child who loves you. |
.....Not
only are there subtle contextual changes in the book, there are eight (8)
chapters that were in the original edition which have been completely expunged
from the current edition. But there are 12 new chapters that were not in
the original book. Could some or all of these be the "some text" that is
referred to in the Library of Congress abstract?
.....Despite
these changes, there is no mention anywhere on the outside packaging, or
in any of the advertising, that would alert a potential buyer of the book.
.....And
it may be far bigger than just this one book.
....."New
Slant on Life" is just one amongst at least 913 titles in Library
of Congress records with the author listed as "Church of Scientology International,
employer for hire." The "new matter" for many of those works includes writing,
editing, and compilation, strongly suggesting that they each have been
changed in some way from the original works. You may be surprised at some
of the titles on that list (including the venerable "Dianetics: The Modern
Science of Mental Health"), so we selected a few samples
from the Library of Congress records and put them here on the site.
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WHO IS BEHIND IT?
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The owner of the copyrights for all these "other" works is the Church
of Spiritual Technology, doing business as the "L. Ron Hubbard Library."
 .....So
they not only own all the original L. Ron Hubbard copyrights, they also
own all the "new" versions, the "look-alike" versions--authored or co-authored
by others, but being sold carrying the name of L. Ron Hubbard.
.....Few
people have ever known anything about this "L. Ron Hubbard Library." Until
now. But now a DEFAULT has been entered against them in a libel suit with
a face value of $190 million. (If you haven't already been there, visit
this link: What is Behind the L. Ron Hubbard Library?)
.....But
who are the people behind it? Who is doing
it? The answer to that question very well may be Scientology's
Greatest Secret.
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