Route to Infinity
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Route to Infinity is a Church of Scientology course consisting of recorded lectures by L. Ron Hubbard in 1952, and a printed transcript. It is currently still in print from the Church's Bridge Publications.
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[edit] Technique 80
The main subject of the course is what Hubbard calls "Technique 80", which is presented as "the means of resolving the being's ability to make and execute his decisions" [1], but also claims to offer superhuman extra-sensory abilities:
"Technique 80 has to do with a progress up the dynamics to a point where you are theoretically in contact, at considerable distance, and can be almost anything. And when I say 'can be almost anything', I mean you could be an icebox or a Cadillac or anything while you are still being yourself. Sounds fantastic, doesn't it?" - from the back cover of Route to Infinity cassette edition.
[edit] Technique 88
The course also teaches about "Technique 88", about which Hubbard claims "Technique 88 takes the body away", and makes this observation:
"And by the way, people who do run 88 have to furnish their own coffins! We won't furnish those here. You also have to leave a suicide note for the police." [2]
Much of Technique 88 also deals with control, as in the subsection called "On Control And Lying":
The only way you can control people is to lie to them. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. [3]
[edit] Litigation
In response to litigation from Scientology attorneys Moxon & Kobrin, the Google search engine placed a warning notice on their search results for the phrase "Route to Infinity":
In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org. [4]
The removed "Route to Infinity" search result was a page from Operation Clambake which included audio and transcripts from Hubbard's lectures from the course. [5]
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