The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #123765   Message #2728762
Posted By: Amos
22-Sep-09 - 09:32 AM
Thread Name: Scientology in Folk
Subject: RE: Scientology in Folk
Well, it's not a shanty, but Hubbard himself once recorded a ditty on a tape and sent it to one of his ship's engineers as a spontaneous gesture of goodwill or something, I was once told by the guy who received it. On it, he played a guitar and sang the following Dianetic ditty:

Down on the old time track,
Down on the old time track,
When the good girls go to heaven,
Where do the bad girls go?
They go down, down, down down,
Down on the old time track.


(If it doesn't make sense, you probably don't know that Scientologists spend a lot of time addressing the "time track"--the chronological series of images of experience -- and straightening it out through regression and other techniques.)


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