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#1 Lafayette Ron Hubbard was a prolific writer of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an amateur explorer, magician, and hypnotist. He came up with an alternative to psychotherapy called Dianetics, and became famous. He lost everything within a year.
#2 Hubbard had a love of adventure and a fascination with the sea. He grew up listening to the stories told by the men in his father's naval circles, and dreamed of commanding his own ship. He had no intention of winding up like his father, a naval supply officer.
#3 By 1938, Hubbard was twenty-seven years old, and had already experienced a lot in his life. He had dropped out of college in 1932, and had spent two unimpressive years there. But he had great self-confidence, which had served him well through the Great Depression.
#4 Hubbard was a very successful pulp fiction writer, and he had been in the United States Marines for seven years, an explorer on the upper Amazon for four years, a radio crooner, newspaper reporter, and gold miner in the West Indies. But his efforts did not transfer into monetary success.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	03 mai 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669398554
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Lafayette Ron Hubbard was a prolific writer of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an amateur explorer, magician, and hypnotist. He came up with an alternative to psychotherapy called Dianetics, and became famous. He lost everything within a year.

#2

Hubbard had a love of adventure and a fascination with the sea. He grew up listening to the stories told by the men in his father's naval circles, and dreamed of commanding his own ship. He had no intention of winding up like his father, a naval supply officer.

#3

By 1938, Hubbard was twenty-seven years old, and had already experienced a lot in his life. He had dropped out of college in 1932, and had spent two unimpressive years there. But he had great self-confidence, which had served him well through the Great Depression.

#4

Hubbard was a very successful pulp fiction writer, and he had been in the United States Marines for seven years, an explorer on the upper Amazon for four years, a radio crooner, newspaper reporter, and gold miner in the West Indies. But his efforts did not transfer into monetary success.

#5

Until the late 1930s, science fiction had been one of the more obscure areas of the pulp market. But with the ascension of John W. Campbell to editor of Astounding Science Fiction magazine, the genre was radically transformed.

#6

L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Church of Scientology, was a science fiction writer who wanted to join the military. He was eventually commissioned as a lieutenant in the U. S. Naval Reserve in 1941. He had a tumultuous wartime career, and was often argumentative and self-promotional.

#7

L. Ron Hubbard, after the war, found himself in Los Angeles, where he met and stayed with the rocket scientist John Whiteside Parsons. Parsons was a protégé of Theodore von Kármán, with whom he had conducted secret experiments during the war.

#8

The Agape Lodge, a Thelemic society, was led by Parsons. He was a lover of music and poetry, a sexual libertine, and a ladies' man. He hosted regular parties where he would discuss literature and mysticism while his lodge members wandered the garden paths.

#9

Hubbard was very charismatic, and he could charm anyone. He was also enamored with Parsons, though self-interest motivated him as much as a sense of fellowship. He began a passionate affair with Parsons's mistress, Sara Northrup, a seductive and spirited twenty-one-year-old blonde.

#10

Hubbard was treated for a recurrence of a duodenal ulcer in September 1945, and was discharged from the Oak Knoll Naval Hospital in Oakland. He then drove south to Pasadena, where the next stage of his transformation awaited him.

#11

In April 1946, Hubbard left Pasadena for Miami, with Parsons's money, to start a business partnership called Allied Enterprises. They planned to pool their resources and profit off the capabilities and crafts of each partner.

#12

After the war, L. Ron Hubbard, who had married his girlfriend, Sara Northrup, in 1946, began filing claims with the Veterans Administration to increase his disability pension. He complained of numerous ailments, including psychological problems, and in one letter appealed to the VA to help him pay for psychiatric counseling.

#13

After training with Jack Parsons, Hubbard wrote a series of personal affirmations in his journal, confessing to deep anxiety about his writing as well as his struggles with impotence. He claimed that he had magical power and that he would make fortunes in writing.
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#1

In 1949, Hubbard wrote a book called Science of the Mind, which was about his discoveries in the field of psychology and how they could be used to help people. He offered the book to the American Psychological Association, but they declined. The science fiction editor John Campbell was not as dismissive, and began promoting Hubbard’s work.

#2

Hubbard had a small circle of disciples by now. The Bayhead Circle was led by Campbell and included Dr. Joseph Winter, a Michigan physician and sometime contributor to Astounding who'd taken an interest in Dianetics after Campbell had told him that Hubbard had cured more than a thousand people with his techniques.

#3

Scientology is based on the idea that the mind is not a complex labyrinth but a simple computer-like system that works very much like a computer. The main processor of the mind is called the analytical mind, and it is in charge of daily events and decisions. The reactive mind, which is not capable of independent thought, lies dormant until it is awakened by a traumatic event.

#4

By 1950, the American mental health care system was in shambles. Psychiatry was not a new discipline, and there were only about six thousand psychiatrists in the United States. Dianetics was proposed as an alternative, and it became popular with college students and artistic enclaves.

#5

Dianetics, the book written by Hubbard, claims that most people are victims of their own unfortunate prenatal experiences. The book claims that the most crucial engrams are caused by domestic violence, and that those who reject its premise have ulterior motives or are being controlled by a denyer.

#6

The popularity of Dianetics was due to its promises of a cure for all aberrations. It offered concrete answers to the vast and complex problems of the human condition, and it promised a person liberated from all aberrations and infinitely more powerful and free.

#7

Hubbard claimed that his therapy was very hard to verify, so he went on the lecture circuit and demonstrated it. He claimed that he could demonstrate full and perfect recall of every moment of his life, but when presented with a crowd, he couldn't even remember the color of his tie.

#8

The author was raised a Christian, but had never been particularly devout. She signed up to be audited by a man she had met at the lecture, and felt like she had returned to her mother’s womb.

#9

The Dianetic Research Foundations were not able to cover their expenses, and Hubbard was drawing cashier's checks against the proceeds of the foundation. By the spring of 1951, the income of the Dianetic Research Foundations had dropped so significantly that they were unable to meet their payroll and other costs.

#10

By 1951, the foundation was in shambles. Hubbard’s marriage was falling apart, and his most ardent disciples had left him. He wrote a letter to the FBI denouncing more than a dozen members of his organization as suspected members of the Communist Party.

#11

In 1951, Hubbard took his one-year-old daughter, Alexis, from her crib at the Los Angeles Foundation and deposited her at a local nursing agency. He then flew to Havana, Cuba, with his personal assistant, Richard De Mille, and baby Alexis.

#12

Hubbard had many other problems to deal with by now. The existing foundations were in shambles, and a court ruled that the Wichita Foundation was liable for the Elizabeth Foundation's debts.