Lecture: Dianetic Auditing and the Mind

I know, it’s fashionable for the newspapers to say I never went to college, and there are several colleges at this particular time that are wishing that I hadn’t gone there. But I can also assure you that you give them another decade or so, those colleges I haven’t even done more than go to [...]

Article: A Word On Rediscovering The Human Soul

As a word of general background, let us add a few salient points: Although events recounted here mark the commencement of Ron’s philosophic search, he had previously spent several years, as he elsewhere put it, “poking an inquisitive mind” into related fields. Of special note, were his early psychoanalytic studies with [...]

Article: The first Steps to Discovery (continued)

This Church of Scientology International site discusses Hubbard’s experiments with a Koenig photometer and quote him on the subject:
Returning to the United States to further his education, Ron enrolled in the engineering school of George Washington University where he joined the first classes on nuclear physics — then called Atomic and Molecular Phenomena. It was [...]

Article: Rediscovery of the Human Soul

The story starts in the physics laboratories of George Washington University in 1930. Quite coincidentally at almost this same time Professor Thomas Brown in charge of that department, was launching experiments which within fifteen years would bring forth an atomic bomb upon earth largely through Dr. George Gamow an assistant in this same laboratory.
Unwitting of [...]

Article: The First Steps to Discovery (continued)

“Is it possible,” Ron asked, “that with this new branch of nuclear physics we might be able to locate the energy of life?”
Returning to the United States to further his education, Ron enrolled in the engineering school of George Washington University where he joined the first classes on nuclear physics — then called Atomic and [...]

Article: A Word on Rediscovering the Human Soul

I have been engaged in the investigation of the fundamentals of life, the material universe and human behavior,” wrote L. Ron Hubbard of his larger philosophic journey towards Dianetics and Scientology, and proceeded to reference a search “down many highways, through many byroads, into many back alleys of uncertainty.” In a further explanation of that [...]

Book: Dianetics Today (1)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
L. RON HUBBARD was born on the 13th of March, 1911 in Tilden, Nebraska, USA, to Commander Harry Ross Hubbard of the US Navy and Dora May Hubbard (nee Waterbury de Wolfe).
He grew up in Montana with old frontiersmen and cowboys, and had an Indian medicine man as one of his best friends. [...]

Letter: Hubbard to Commodore Staff-Guardian

CS-G 28th February, 1972
GO WW
D/G Int WW
D/GO US
D/D/G INT US
Dear Brian
Thank you for the excellent packaging of Oberholser (the late and very unlamented)1.
The interest in this bad hat stems from the fact that he blew the whistle on Dianetics when St. Elizabeth psychiatrists were just beginning to use it and were [...]

Newsletter: A Brief Biography of L. Ron Hubbard

Hubbard claims to be a nuclear physicist with a BS in Civil Engineering at George Washington University.  Claims his technology increases IQ by about a point per hour of processing.

originally printed circa 1960
A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF L. RON HUBBARD
[...]
HUBBARD, Lafayette Ronald, author, explorer; b. Tilden, Neb., Mar. 13, 1911; s. H.R. & [...]

Government Report: The Anderson Report

From the Anderson Report:

Report of the Board of Enquiry into Scientology
by Kevin Victor Anderson, Q.C.
Published 1965 by the State of Victoria, Australia1

The Anderson Report
CHAPTER 6
HUBBARD—THE FOUNDER OF SCIENTOLOGY
From 1930 to 1932 Hubbard was a student at the George Washington University where he claims to have studied engineering and to have been one [...]

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