lronhubbard

      L. Ron Hubbard was a philosopher, humanitarian, author,
artist, educator, and administrator. He was born in 1911 in
Tilden, Nebraska. He has traveled to many countries and
studied their cultures. His traveling and writing has taught
many people to regain their dignity, moral strength, and
respect. He is best known for Dianetics and Scientology.

       After traveling the globe, he came back to the United
States in 1929 to continue his education in psychology,
mathematics, engineering, and the new field of nuclear physics.
He started searching for a principle that would lead to the
unification of knowledge and explain the meaning of existence.
There were many other philosophers that had been searching
for the same thing but had little success. Many Western
philosophers had given up on the idea that different people
held anything in common and were no longer asking questions
about the life force or the essence of life. Man had just
become another animal.

      Mr. Hubbard saw things through a different light and was
determined to figure it out. Although he had no name for it
yet, he felt certain that life was more than a random series of
chemical reactions. He thought that some sort of intelligent
urge must inspire our actions. He thought things happened in
a certain order.

      There was logic related to explaining. Math is logic,
which was the aspect he used. Math seeks to utilize scientific
formulas to reach logical conclusions and solutions to
problems. It also can determine what we do and in what
quantity.

       He wanted to pinpoint what made people react the way they
do, why they do irrational things and experience uncontrollable
emotions. L. Ron Hubbard made the decision he would go
directly to the public with a handbook. It would detail his
discoveries and the techniques he had developed. Never
before had there been such a text on the mind. It was a work
that was written for the common man on the street.

      The book was called Dianetics. Dianetics principles
explain the single source of stress, tension, depression,
psychosomatic illness, compulsion, addiction and insanity. This
book teaches the reader what to do about it. It was a
procedure, based on logic, anyone can learn to handle the
source of irrationality. He used math and religion to explain
the causes of addictions and dependencies. He started lecturing
all around the world on his book and study of the mind. Then
he founded a religion based on his concept explaining who we
are. It was called Scientology.

      Scientology teaches that human beings are immortal
spirits called thetans and practices a ritual known as auditing
or logic steps. The purpose was to free the thetan from past
painful experiences. After doing so, it would increase spiritual
awareness and abilities. A device called an E-meter is used to
guide individuals during auditing and help them to locate
precise areas of spiritual difficulty. The more self-knowledge
they attain will increase their ability to survive. The church has
been the subject of much controversy.

       The first Church of Scientology was formed in California
in February of 1954. It is the only major religion to have been
founded in the twentieth century. This was a major
breakthrough. Dianetics has universal application and is used
today in all churches of Scientology and an increasing number
of other organizations. It has sold more than 15 million copies
and is published in fifty-three languages. There are more
than 8 million people in over 2,100 organizations and churches
practice Dianetics and Scientology.

      Although L. Ron Hubbard died on January 24, 1986,
there is no other philosopher in history whose popular appeal
is so broad. There are over 11,000 students in Colombia that
use his educational technology and 30 American inner-city
literacy programs now using his Study Technology. There are
millions of people whose life has bettered because he lived.
There are more than 3 million children now reading because of
his educational discoveries, millions of men and women freed
of substance abuse through his breakthroughs in drug
rehabilitation, and more than 50 million who have been touched
by his nonreligious moral code. Many people hold his work to
be the spiritual cornerstone of their lives.