This is what I would say after 25 years of thoughtful research,
This is my best shot today:
Hubbard was a science fiction writer.
He was a good story teller. Good stories place you into trance, where you just have to read the next page…
SHOCK & AWE
Heavy emotional content tends to stop thinking. When you stop considering, thinking about, imagining, filtering… the information you are being fed, you have stopped thinking. The emotional content, – in Dianetics Hubbard used coathanger abortions, electro-convulsive shock treatment (ECT), etc as the thought stopping METHOD, and then told you that you had a reactive mind, in great detail, repetitively. Then told you only he had the advanced technology to get rid it!
When you stop thinking the door to your subconscious is left unguarded.
Dr George Estabrooks, psychologist for OSS (CIA/DIA/NSA now) in 1943, said:
“Anything said to a hypnotized subject is true for them”