Interesting story about L. Ron.  It has the smell of authenticity. I always remember Tom Cruise jumping on Oprah's sofa when I think of Dianetics, which sucked in a lot of relatively high-IQ converts.  Tom Cruise had obviously, at great expense, purged his brain of engrams.  A huckster on the street in Seattle, years ago, invited me into the Dianetic church to take a free IQ test.  I assumed I would do well, given that it was a sales pitch.  Imagine my distress on learning that my brain was crippled by engrams, which could be removed by an expensive retraining course.  Though young and relatively naïve at the time, I saw through it as a scam.  My mistake was to put my contact information on the test form.  They pursued me for years. Finally, I got my brother to tell them I was months dead, from prolapsed hemorrhoids leading to peritonitis and septicemia.  This is a true story.  Mothers, don't let your sons to grow up to be Tom Cruise.