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Ability was the magazine of the Hubbard Communications Office, published from 1955 into the later 1960s and addressed to those studying and practising Dianetics and Scientology. Dianetics was introduced by the science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard in 1950 as a method of mental therapy, and developed over the following years into Scientology, a body of teaching about the spiritual nature of the person and a graded programme of training and counselling called auditing. The magazine is an internal organisational one rather than a work of exposition: it carries articles by Hubbard, announcements of Advanced Clinical Courses and of new technical bulletins, news from the organisations in Phoenix, Washington, London and elsewhere, appointments of officers, and testimony from students about the gains they attributed to the training. Its vocabulary is almost wholly proprietary — withholds, clears, orgs, the dynamics — which is why keyword tools built for the older metaphysical movements find almost nothing in it to measure. It is a primary record of the movement's institutional life during its formative decade.
Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
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