LRH hated women, especially mothers. Whatever old mother Hubbard did to him to make this hatred so engramatic we’ll never know, but his misogyny is on full display in Dianetics: The Original Thesis.

Engrams are apparently encoded whenever a person is knocked unconscious. So how can a person who has never been knocked unconscious (such as myself) have engrams? It’s WOMEN! Namely, mothers. Engrams are forced upon their poor children (such as you!) by near constant attempts to destroy the fetus gestating inside.

Disbeliefs and antagonisms from the preclear on the subject of such a thing as an attempted abortion should be overlooked by the auditor or taken into account as the sign of an existing engram. A case is recalled wherein a girl insisted that if an abortion had ever been attempted on her it should have been successful. Through several sessions, while an attempt was made to lift birth, she continued this assertion until the auditor realized that this was probably a remark made by the abortionist (or the mother) when his efforts failed. As soon as this was suggested to the girl she was able to contact the actual incident….

The repair facilities available to a human being before birth are greatly enhanced by the presence of ample connective tissue, oxygen and sustenance. These repair facilities are unimaginably great so that a prenatal human being can be severely torn and ripped without becoming structurally deficient. It does, however, receive engrams and these are subject to restimulation. In many cases of attempted abortions it was found that large sections of the prenatal human being’s brain could apparently be injured without the brain being deficient or even scarred after birth. These repair facilities do not however lessen the extreme severity of the engrams which can be received by the prenatal human being… Insufficient evidence is at hand to make an outright declaration that attempted abortions are responsible for the bulk of our criminal and insane aberrees. But according to the cases at hand the attempted abortion must be accounted responsible for the majority….

The dianeticist can usually establish the attempted abortion preclear by an investigation of the conduct of the infant and child. Uneasiness or unhappiness in the home, a feeling of not being wanted, unreasonable fear, and a strong attachment to grandparents or another non-parental member of the household are often signs of an attempted abortion. Fear of the dark is usually but not always a part of the attempted abortion case.

In short, normal teenage angst is caused by your parents wanting to prevent your existence, they hate you, now join our cult and sever all ties to them.

Also interesting is this little piece of Hubbardian bullshit:

The attempted abortion human being is often struck unconscious by the earliest part of each attempt since the head is so available to the knitting needles, hat pins, orange-wood sticks, buttonhooks, and so forth which are employed. These periods of unconsciousness must be penetrated and will quite ordinarily release slowly….

A cough, however, although it is present in birth and seems to be alleviated by the exhaustion of the birth engram, is quite ordinarily blood running down the throat of the prenatal during an attempted abortion.

Magical rotating baby, one second heads-down (”the head is so available”) the next heads-up (”blood running down the throat”)? Yes, people actually believe this shit, even with a huge red flag such as this.

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