Old doll body and Prince Xenu

Letters to the Editor // The Scientology debate
Date: Friday, 13 August 1993
Publisher: East Grinstead Courier (UK)
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Pinning our hopes on Old Doll Body

I READ with interest Denise Harrison's statement of incredulity that a new religion could be the work of a science fiction writer.

According to the saying, truth is stranger than fiction, so what about this one?

In his early lectures, Ron Hubbard mentioned "Old Doll Body", a mythical figure from the past, who travelled freely in the universe in his flying saucer.

In 1964, I was driving up the Turners Hill Road one night and, lo and behold, there was Old Doll Body making heavy weather of the grass verge, which was much wider in those days. According to Ron, Doll Body could control six bodies at once, but I saw only three.

I hasten to add that he was seen by others, even driving a car, and the incidents were duly recorded by the Church of Scientology HCO Dept. Saint Hill.

I mention all this because it is an important date in the annals of Scientology and I hope Saint Hill will write and confirm my statement and add any further data.

After all, if Doll Body is still roaming the universe freely then there is hope for us all.

J. REVILL
Bricklands
Crawley Down

Letters to the Editor // The Scientology debate
Date: Friday, 20 August 1993
Publisher: East Grinstead Courier (UK)
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Enter Prince Xenu

HOW refreshing it was to read in last week's Courier about Mr Revill's encounter with Old Doll Body. I believe that his letter has put the whole Scientology debate into perspective.

In a similar vein, I wonder how many local people will remember old Prince Xenu. He used to be a familiar figure in the Dorset Arms in the High Street where he worked as a barman in order to raise the money to pay for his life repair. Of course, that was in the days when it was possible to pay for a basic service out of a year's wages and still have change for a copy of All About Radiation.

I well remember the Old Man and Xenu having a drink and laughing about old times while they wrote the OT III materials.

The Old Man was into nuclear fission and Xenu fancied himself as a bit of a vulcanologist. That was before he was discovered to be a pyromaniac and had his visa withdrawn. The incident was duly recorded by the Church of Scientology HCO Department.

He often took his space pod up to the Hill where he and the Old Man used to take the advance levels students for very lone intergalactic rides. This photograph was given to me by Old Doll Body himself and shows Xenu's pod when it was parked outside the pub one night.

These days it is impossible to park a spacecraft anywhere in East Grinstead. The only place that has clearance for flying saucer landings in Saint Hill itself. I hope Saint Hill will write and confirm this and add any further data.

JOHN ABLETT
Acorn Close
East Grinstead