I am sorry, Lox, but the fact that (if it is a fact) he said that at a party of science fiction writers back in the Thirties does not in any way whatsoever support your contention that it was the basis of his work. In fact his first three books were published before the word Scientology was coined and the notion of making it into a church got started.

The basis of his work was pretty straghtforwardly covered in those books. I am not inclined to quibble with ignorance, generally speaking, but in your case I'll make an exception.

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