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L. Ron Hubbard
Creston, California; L. Ron Hubbard’s ranch home in the mid 1980s.
There are only two tests of a life well lived L. Ron Hubbard once remarked: Did one do as one intended? And were people glad one lived? In testament to the first stands the full body of his life’s work, including some 12,000 writings and 3,000 tape-recorded lectures of Dianetics and Scientology. In evidence of the second are the hundreds of millions of individuals whose lives have been demonstrably bettered because he lived. They are the more than 28 million students now reading superlatively owing to L. Ron Hubbard’s educational discoveries; they are the millions of men and women freed from substance abuse through L. Ron Hubbard’s breakthroughs in drug rehabilitation; they are the near 100 million who have been touched by his nonreligious moral code; and they are the many millions more who hold his work to be the spiritual cornerstone of their lives.
FOUNDER“The first principle of my own philosophy,” wrote L. Ron Hubbard, “is that wisdom is meant for anyone who wishes to reach for it. It is the servant of the commoner and king alike and should never be regarded with awe.” To this he added that philosophy must be capable of application, for “Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.” Finally, he declared philosophic knowledge to be only of value if true and workable, and thereby set the parameters for Dianetics and Scientology. How L. Ron Hubbard came to found these subjects is an immense story…
AUTHOR“What is generally missed,” Mr. Hubbard once remarked, “is that my writing financed research.” And although more broadly known for what finally came from that research, his novels and stories will never be forgotten. Having published a full 15 million words between 1929 and 1941, the name L. Ron Hubbard had been virtually synonymous with popular fiction through the 1930s…
HUMANITARIANNotwithstanding this century’s array of technological wonders—in medicine, transportation, nuclear energy and electronic communications—we live in a seriously troubled society. Under the triple onslaught of drug abuse, criminality and declining morals, much of this world has truly become a wasteland…
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