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The Roman Emperor, Scilla the Monster, executed the philosopher Merameris for outlining some of the mechanisms of the mind.
In modern times, the psychoanalyst Freud was driven out of Austria for daring to assert that physical illness could be traced to mental conflicts.
L. Ron Hubbard once said, “I am certainly not of such stellar stuff but, in my small way, have had some rather threatening years.
“Before 1950, as a writer in the movies and for various magazines and as an expedition leader, the newspapers were usually very kind and pleasant to me.
“In 1950, overnight I pressed some fatal trigger in the citadels of hidebound tradition. And ink was scarcely dry in the flood of books before I was being represented as a sort of two-horned, cloven-hoofed beast.
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