L. Ron Hubbard
An incredible amount of nonsense has been written about this man. I will be brief as possible and stick to the salient points based upon my own personal knowledge and insights.
Hubbard was extremely wide read and had an acute aptitude for the paranormal. His experiences were not those of a “normal” person and he was continually finding that nobody believed him. Various authors and courts have condemned him for being a compulsive liar. I definitely found this not to be true in my own experience, but if he was a compulsive liar to some, it was partly because no one believed him when he told the truth. Why not just tell them something that works? Hubbard believed in workability beyond all else and he was extremely effective in his pursuits. He hated the establishment because it furthered stagnation and was a hallmark of ineffectiveness.
The Navy career of L. Ron Hubbard is checkered with ambiguity. His actual Naval records will not be released although there is agreement that he worked in Naval Intelligence. This being the case, disinformation as to his whereabouts and duties would have been fabricated as a matter of due course.
It is known that Hubbard studied the psychiatric records of Navy personnel and had information on the cutting edge procedures of the day. This included narco-synthesis and regression techniques. He took what he learned from psychiatric research, plus his earlier studies, and formulated Dianetics. This was the first major regression therapy applied on a broad basis and was designed to be easy for the layman to use.
Hubbard also studied Aleister Crowley and found him fascinating. Crowley’s principles are to be found here and there throughout Hubbard’s work, but they are not one and the same thing. Hubbard developed his own techniques and was more of an innovator than a copycat.
Hubbard’s popularity grew and he never had to look back as far as money was concerned. The Church of Scientology grew out of this popularity and it was incorporated as a legal religion in 1954. Hubbard had constant difficulties running organizations and found he couldn’t openly trust others to “just go do it”. He formulated his own administrative system and set it up to be effective. The purpose was to sell books and get his Dianetics and Scientology process to the public. He honestly believed this would save humanity.
The Government waged decades of war against Hubbard and much of it was unconstitutional. I believe that they were angry at him for breaking security with information he had obtained while with the Navy. His organization was also perceived as a treat by J. Edgar Hoover, Richard Nixon and other establishment forces.
I first saw Hubbard in 1972 and Scientology was a growing and dynamic movement at that point. He had definite health problems, but they were not exaggerated nor did they seem to hamper him. These were not hidden from the crew. He considered himself an experimental guinea pig and what he released as standard Scientology was watered down (as far as being dangerous) and foolproof as far as he was concerned.
Hubbard is often described as a temperamental hot head who always had to get his way. He had extremely high expectations and they were not often met. Very often, he didn’t get his way and nothing was done about it for a long time or sometimes not at all. Of course, there were plenty of times when he achieved what he wanted, but he was mostly busy researching. Hubbard did not constantly police anyone. At times, he would keep himself but he never ignored the crew. I only saw him get angry a couple of times and this was after a person had repeatedly acted like a fool.
Hubbard said he had no idea he would become so popular and become such a figurehead. Had he known, he would have led his life much differently. It was wild and filled with outrageous aspects. In fact, he told a friend of mine in the early 1970’s that he would prefer to die. His body was worn out, and he felt he had to keep it alive because he had become an important symbol to so many people that followed the movement.
Government agents reportedly used to take bets on how fast they could put Hubbard in prison. Although they were not successful in this regard, I believe he was under constant psychotronic attack during the time the Montauk Project was in operation. He even ended up on Long Island during most of 1973.
The Church of Scientology grew to be a very large organization by the early 1980’s. despite high officials going to prison for conspiracy against the Government, the movement was highly popular and growing. In 1981, at what was probably the height of the Church’s popularity, Hubbard was no longer directly involved. He was hiding so as not to be served with a subpoena. Several people thought the movement had been infiltrated by the CIA pitting one Scientology faction against another. There was tremendous infighting within the organization during this period and the majority of people I knew left. The organization totally changed its operating basis and hasn’t been the same since.
Hubbard passed on in January 1986 at the age of 74. He called his confidante, Patt Broeker, to his room a few days before he departed and told him that he would be leaving his body. Hubbard was concerned that people might grieve and cry over his departure. He said this wasn’t necessary and that people would cry only because of their own self-invalidation. In other words, people would be crying over their own belief system that they themselves were not immortal.
I’ve tried to be as objective as possible about this short biographical sketch of Hubbard. It is important to realize that this man had incredible knowledge. He wanted the entire world to access it. If he were clearly interested in money and power and that was all, he would have led a much more extravagant life style. Most of the time, his quarters were not as plush as the average three bedroom house. His life was also filled with pits and valleys and he would have been the first to agree. The man has simply not been accurately portrayed in any biographical accounts of him.
I believe that the real clues to this man’s role on Earth have to do with his involvement with Jack Parsons and his heritage with the Wilson clan. His activities there are still shrouded in mystery.
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