They say Hubbard came to believe that a conspiracy of vested interests, namely the psychiatric and pharmaceutical industries, was behind the political attacks against him because his self-help principles of Dianetics (that we’re all laden by ‘engrams’, painful memories from past lives, and when we clear ourselves of them we can be invincible, we can re-grow teeth, cure blindness, become sane) meant that nobody would ever need to visit a psychiatrist or take an antidepressant again.
