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From HELTER SKELTER by Vincent T. Bugliosi:
A staff evaluation written in 1961 mentions
that
Manson gave as his claimed
religion `Scientologist,' stating that he `has never settled upon a
religious formula for his beliefs and is presently seeking an answer
to his question in the new mental health cult known as Scientology.'
Scientology, an outgrowth of
science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics, was just coming
into vogue at this time. Manson's teacher, i.e. `auditor', was
another convice, Lanier Rayner. Manson would later claim that while
in prison he achieved Scientology's highest level, `theta clear'.
(ep. 240)
Paul Watkins when Bugliosi interviewed him
about Manson's philosophy:
Manson had told him that while he was in prison
he had studied Scientology, becoming a "theta" which Manson defined
as being "clear". (p. 237)
Septembre 1961 progress report:
He was still interested in
Scientology when his annual progress report was written that
September [1961]. Furthermore, according to the report, that
interest "has led him to make a semi-professional evaluation of his
personality which strangely enough is quite consistent with the
evaluations made by previous social studies. He appears to have
developed a certain amount of insight into his problems through his
study of this discipline. Manson is making progress for the first
time in his life." (ep. 241)
Watkins said that in the summer
of 1968 he and Charlie had dropped into a Church of Scientology in
downtown Los Angeles, and Manson asked the receptionist, "What do
you do after `clear'?" When she was unable to tell him anything he
hadn't already done, Manson walked out." (p. 237)
From "Manson in His Own Words", as told to
Nuel Emmons. Grove Weidenfeld, New York, 1986.
About psychs:
The subject that interested me
was understanding and knowing my own mind. Prison psychs had told me
often enough that I had 'persecution' and 'inferiority' complexed
but they never did anything to help me overcome those faults
p.69
On his favorite reading topics while in
prison:
I read whatever books I could
find (and understand) that dealt with mind development. A cell
partner turned me on to Scientology. With him and another guy I got
pretty heavy into Dianetics and Scientology. Through this and by
other studies, I came out of my state of depression. I was
understanding myself better, had a positive outlook on life, and
knew how to direct my energies to each day and each task" ibid., p.
69-70
On his conversations with Alan "Creepy"
Karpis, an imprisoned hit-man:
There were times when I would
try to sell Karpis on the things I was learning through Scientology.
'Kid', he would say, 'your mind is your greatest friend, yet it can
be your worst enemy. Don't get it more fucked up than the world has
already made it." ibid., p.73
From a Scientology
compliance report investigating
Manson's possible involvement in Scientology in the wake of the
Tate-LaBianca murders. (These were part of documents seized by the
FBI from the Church of Scientology in 1977 and subsequently made available through the
Freedom of Information act):
GS-C Comm GS-G 22 June 70 D/G
Intell U.S.
Dear Mary Sue, COMPLIANCE REPORT
RE: MANSON, BRUCE DAVIS
There have been numerous new
developments on this case and they are as follows.
An individual by the name of
Steve Grogen appeared on our lines (PM). I received word that he had
made statements that he was a member of Mansons family and therefore
started some intell. action, which at first consisted of talking to
the girls he had been in contact with. By the time I had finished
talking to them Grogen had been put away in jail for car theft. In
spite of numerous efforts on our part it was impossible to get
together with him. I had the girl he seemed to be most in comm with,
journey out to the valley on four different occasions to talk to him
and in spite of our best efforts he was never made available. He was
either "in court" or the jail was undergoing extensive re-
decoration. Of course we did not want it known that a member of The
Church was trying to see him. At the same time this was going on we
received word that two members of the Manson Family "squeeky Frome"
and "Sandy Goode" were staying at the Viking Motel on 3rd and
Alverado which is in close proximity to the org. We made no efforts
to contactthem.
On 18 June 80 the following
report was received by me.
Report of interview with Raul
Morales, Re: Charles Manson.
According to Raul: Raul arrived
in prison on McNeil Island, Washington in 1962 and became a cell
mate of Lafayette Raimer allegedly a trained Scientology auditor
(about Level I in Raul's estimation) and was introduced to
Scientology at that time. Raimer was auditing in prison at that time
and in one 10 man cell had managed to gather a group of about 7, all
in Scientology. Charles Manson entered later and studied, did TRO
etc. along with his cell-mates and received approximately 150 hours
of auditing from Raimer. Processes used were CCH's, Help processes
(Who have you helped-Who have you not helped) and other Dichotomy
processes (Rauls terms, such as What can you confront, what would
you rather not confront), Havingness (Such as "What can you have?"
"Look around and find something you can have. Look around and find
something you're not in." Rainer kept recor records of his auditing.
Manson got super-energetic & flipped out when he'd been audited and
would, for a time, talk about nothing but Scientology to the extent
that people avoided his company. After a while, however, Manson was
screaming to get away from his auditor (in Raul's opinion, he'd been
severely over-run or something). He eventually managed to get put in
solitary confi- nement to get away from his auditor. Eventually
prison officials got suspicious of the groups strange activities and
broke up the group. Subsequently, Raul was released from the prison
in 1965. Raimer's wife was in training here at the L.A. Org in
1965-66; she had disconnected from Raimer. Raul just found out
yesterday that another friend, Marvin White, later sent Manson books
(after the Scientology group was broken up) on hypnotism and black
magic,
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