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The following is extracted from the Encyclopedia of World Biography on L. Ron Hubbard
The story of L. Ron Hubbard (1911-1986) is also the story of a movement--the Church of Scientology. Founded by L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology claims millions of devoted members worldwide and, beyond all controversy, it cannot be denied that the movement retains its influence around the world even after Hubbard's death.
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard was born on March 13, 1911, in Tilden, Nebraska. He was the son of Harry Ross, a naval officer, and Dora May (Waterbury de Wolf) Hubbard. He attended George Washington University in the early 1930s and studied at Princeton University in 1945. The years in between undergraduate studies were spent as a free-lance writer. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy as a lieutenant though he was not "extensively decorated" as church brochures would later claim. After two unsuccessful marriages, Hubbard married Mary Sue Whipp on October 30, 1952. The couple had four children: Diana Meredith de Wolfe, Mary Suzette Rochelle, L. Ron Hubbard, Jr. (changed name to Ronald DeWolf), and Arthur Ronald Conway.
Pulp Fiction
Hubbard first came to public attention as a writer for the pulp magazines of the 1930s. During the next two decades he turned out a host of westerns, mysteries, sea adventures, and science fiction stories under his own name and several pseudonyms. Xignals reported that at his peak he wrote "over 100,000 words a month." Hubbard's writing, Martin Gardner explained in his In the Name of Science, "is done at lightning speed. (For a while, he used a special electric IBM typewriter with extra keys for common words like 'and,' 'the,' and 'but.' The paper was on a roll to avoid the interruption of changing sheets.)" Hubbard published nearly 600 books, stories, and articles during his lifetime. His fiction volumes sold over 23 million copies, while his nonfiction books sold over 27 million copies.
Birth of a Movement
During the late 1940s, Hubbard began to synthesize concepts from Eastern religions and modern psychology into a new system for mental health. Called Dianetics, after the Greek word for thought, this system promised to cure all mental disorders and psycho-somatic physical ailments. "The hidden source of all psycho-somatic ills and human aberration has been discovered," Hubbard explained in his manuscript Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, "and skills have been developed for their invariable cure." Dianetics sees the human mind as "blocked" by traumatic emotional memories called engrams. By talking over these emotional memories in a process similar to conventional psychoanalysis, a patient can remove the engrams and "clear" his mind. Hubbard believed that a treated patient--called a "clear"--was "to a current normal individual as the current normal is to the severely insane," and claimed that those treated by Dianetics had higher IQs, healed faster, had better eyesight, and never got colds. "The clear is, literally, a superman--an evolutionary step toward a new species," Gardner summarized. A writer for Fantasy Review saw a parallel between Dianetics and Hubbard's outer space adventures, claiming that "like the quasi-superman heroes of most of Hubbard's fiction, initiates were encouraged to believe their mental powers were unlimited."
Bought at first by Hubbard's science fiction fans, the manuscript soon became a national best-seller when it was published by Hermitage House in 1950. Groups were formed to learn and practice Dianetics, especially on college campuses and among the Hollywood set. In 1947, Hubbard actually opened an office in Los Angeles to "[test] the application of Dianetics" among the Hollywood elite. Hubbard left freelance writing in 1950 to promote Dianetics, writing a score of books on the subject in the following decade, delivering some 4,000 lectures, and founding a string of research organizations to spread the word. The Church of Scientology, founded by Hubbard in 1954, became the largest and best-known of these groups.
Dianetics describes a technique of traumatic stress reduction (auditing) that addresses and reduces memories charged with emotion, misemotion, pain, unconsciousness and hypnotically implanted commands (engrams). Later developments utilize a sensitive meter (Emeter) to help locate these areas. Advanced Dianetic techniques, in the hands of a skilled auditor, then rapidly reduce (erase) these areas. The recipient is desensitised of his troubling memories. Life altering changes in viewpoint result. The recipient becomes happier, less troubled, and capable of more intelligence and ability. He is less traumatized by past events (engrams). Furthermore the recipient of the Dianetic techniques becomes free of the subconscious commands that control him. He is returned to full control of his life (his self determined cause is returned).
Hubbard's ideas continued to be popular throughout the 1960s and 1970s. The church has over 700 established churches, missions, and groups around the world and membership reached its peak at around six million. Dianetics has sold over eight million copies and still sells nearly 400,000 copies a year.
The Dianetic processes developed by LRH and used in the Freezone, result in a being that feels well and happy. Some past life experiences seem to be verifiable in history books and scientific publications. The revelations of the auditing experience lead to a higher understanding of life, as well as life altering and positive decisions. The euphoria of the experience creates a feeling of well being and happiness that medical researchers believe lowers stress and promotes both mental and physical health.
My personal experience is also that the auditing process has to be done to perfection with the total willingness, optimism and effort on the part of the person being audited (the PC) combined with an auditor that processes good ability and experience.
L Ron Hubbard was a social personality that believed in equal exchange, keeping promises and not causing harm or injury - the eleventh characteristic of a social personality. L Ron Hubbard said “If it isn’t fun, it isn’t Scientology”. If the people he audits don’t make the promised gain, they are given a full refund (that is still the case in the Freezone)
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