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 [...]

Lecture: Dianetics The Modern Miracle (1)

In the twenties I was fortunate enough to know Commander Thompson of the Medical Corps of the United States Navy. He was a colorful man; he was very poised, was very traveled; he was curious in half a hundred sciences. And the United States Navy, having heard of the work of Freud, naturally, took ahold [...]

Lecture: The Purpose of Human Evaluation (1)

I never got inside a high school; I went into engineering school first off. My father had said,“You’re going to engineering school,” and I had said, “Oh, no, I’m not. I’m going to write.” So I went to engineering school! In engineering school they had an interesting little subject called atomic [...]