Editing Scientology controversies (section)

===R2-45===
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"R2-45" is the name given by [[L. Ron Hubbard]] to what he described as "an enormously effective process for exteriorization but its use is frowned upon by this society at this time".<ref>{{cite book |last=Hubbard |first=L. Ron |title=The Creation of Human Ability |year=1954 | page=120}}</ref> In Scientology doctrine, [[exteriorization]] refers to the separation of the [[thetan]] (soul) from the body. According to the author Stewart Lamont, Hubbard defined R2-45 as a process by which exteriorization could be produced by shooting a person in the head with a .45 revolver.<ref name="relinc">{{cite book| last1= Lamont| first1= Stewart| title=Religion Inc. : the Church of Scientology| date= 1986| publisher= Harrap| location= London| isbn= 978-0-245-54334-0|page=25}}</ref>

While no "R2-45 letters" have been published, orders to use R2-45 on specific individuals were published in a monthly magazine for Scientologists. On March 6, 1968, Hubbard issued an internal memo titled "RACKET EXPOSED", in which he denounced twelve people as "Enemies of mankind, the planet and all life", and ordered that "Any [[Sea Org]] member contacting any of them is to use Auditing Process R2-45."<ref name="Wallis">{{cite book |last=Wallis |first=Roy |title=The Road to Total Freedom |title-link=The Road to Total Freedom |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=1976 |isbn=0-231-04200-0 |location=New York |page=154}}</ref> The memo was subsequently reproduced, with another name added, in the Church of Scientology's monthly journal, ''The Auditor''.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Hubbard |first=L. Ron |date=n.d. |editor-last=Ziff |editor-first=Judy |title=Racket Exposed |url=http://iapsop.com/archive/materials/auditor/auditor_35.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224152854/http://iapsop.com/archive/materials/auditor/auditor_35.pdf |archive-date=December 24, 2020 |access-date=January 1, 2025 |magazine=The Auditor |publisher=THE PUBLICATIONS ORG WORLD WIDE |location=Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex, England |page=2 |issue=35}}</ref> Another four people were named in a second R2-45 order published in ''The Auditor'' later in 1968.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Hubbard |first=L. Ron |date=1968 |editor-last=Ziff |editor-first=Judy |title=Racket Exposed |url=http://iapsop.com/archive/materials/auditor/auditor_37.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210208233917/http://iapsop.com/archive/materials/auditor/auditor_37.pdf |archive-date=February 8, 2021 |access-date=January 1, 2025 |magazine=The Auditor |publisher=THE PUBLICATIONS ORG WORLD WIDE |location=Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex, England |page=2 |issue=37}}</ref>
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