“Excalibur”: L. Ron Hubbard; book and analysis

“Excalibur”: L. Ron Hubbard; book and analysis.

Excalibur (Excalibur), according to legend, is a forbidden book that drives anyone who reads it crazy. Its author, L. Ron Hubbard (1911-1986), creator of Scientology, declared in 1948 that the book was inspired during the eight minutes in which he was clinically dead during an operation.

Unlike what happens with other cursed books that, theoretically, lead to madness for anyone who ventures into their pages, such as the Necronomicon, Excalibur is a real book that has not been published, at least conventionally, but is circulating among Scientology initiates.

In The Damned Books (Les Livres Maudits), a work dedicated to all kinds of bibliographical rarities, Jacques Bergier maintains that the content of Excalibur by L. Ron Hubbard would be related to a kind of absolute knowledge, the key to human existence and self-discovery; and that the author circulated the book among his closest friends as a test: they all fell into a kind of frenzy, and some, in fact, were admitted to psychiatric hospitals.

This is the reason why Excalibur It is the only book by the creator of Scientology to have not been published.

To better understand the haunting meaning of Excalibur First we must delve a little into the life of its author.

Lafayette Ron Hubbard was, above all, a good author of fantastic stories – although his best works are closely related to science fiction – and an efficient sailor. During World War II he was wounded by the Japanese and, in an emergency surgery, L. Ron Hubbard actually died on the operating table, but somehow he remained conscious – according to his statements – and acquired certain knowledge that, in under normal conditions, they would be inaccessible to us.

Some time later, meditating on psychology, L. Ron Hubbard conceived the foundations of dianetics. What is dianetics? A kind of personal psychoanalysis exercise where the subject can develop his hidden talents without any kind of instruction. Dianetics conceives the unconscious in the antipodes of Sigmund Freud, who suggests a lucid and astute unconscious, while for him Excalibur by L. Ron Hubbard it would be an idiotic, blind entity that follows all the postulates imposed on it by the environment.

In this context, Excalibur proposes that anyone who manages to free themselves from these conditioning will achieve true clarity.

This new, let’s say, enlightened subject is an updated variant of the concept of Superman – in Nietzsche’s terms – but a Superman who does not seclude himself on the top of a mountain, completely isolated, given his superiority, but who continues in contact with their younger and less evolved brothers, that is, us.

L. Ron Hubbard, it seems, created a method to awaken that clarity, and applied it to his wife, who as soon as he reached her asked him for a divorce in rather strong terms. Overwhelmed, L. Ron Hubbard began treating a friend. The consequences were more disturbing: after achieving clarity he murdered his wife and then committed suicide.

After arduous hours of reflection, L. Ron Hubbard considered that dianetics, although effective in the short term, only softened the psychic scars that we carry from the womb, and that it did nothing to help with the ancestral wounds, that is, those that we carry with us. previous. In this context L. Ron Hubbard created Scientology.

After publishing several popular works, he conceived his most controversial book on Scientology: Excalibur.

Curiously, contrary to the rest of the religions, Scientology has hidden Excalibur, even from his own faithful and followers. The dangers of disclosing it, they say, are too ominous to risk. In any case, it is strange that a movement so closely related to propaganda hides its favorite book as if it were an uncomfortable secret, and even potentially dangerous for whoever reads it.

But the truth is that L. Ron Hubbard’s theories, and those of Scientology in general, are certainly dangerous. It is relatively easy to attract adherents to a doctrine, even adherents of a high intellectual level, as long as the core of the organization is cohesive. It is even easier to believe in someone who claims that we are special, that we are not like everyone else, and that through a series of simple procedures and mental exercises we could rise above the rest of mortals and transform ourselves into what we should have been in the first place: gods.

So is Scientology dangerous? Yes, but no more than any other religious movement can be.

On the other hand, we cannot rule out the rumors that circulate around Excalibur, precisely because its legend prevents us from knowing its real content. If everyone who reads it goes crazy, then no sane person could tell us much about it.

After all, most likely Excalibur be it another apocryphal book, like the Delomelanicon or The Song of Vampires; although some maintain that, in fact, the pages of Excalibur They are scattered throughout all of L. Ron Hubbard’s books, and only the privileged can recognize them, although the legend refrains from providing more precise information on the matter.

From here we recommend discarding the search for possible PDF versions of Excalibur. In short, looking for a book that drives its readers crazy is not an advisable mission; as stated by GK Chesterton, who reasons that the existence of a book capable of going mad is less astonishing than the possibility of one that clears the minds of idiots, because…

Crazy is not he who has lost his mind,
Crazy is he who has lost everything, except reason.

Banned books. I Strange books.

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