In early 1923, when Ron was twelve, he and his family moved to Seattle, Washington, where his father was stationed at the local naval base. He joined the Boy Scouts and that year proudly achieved the rank of Boy Scout First Class. The next year he became the youngest Eagle Scout ever, an early indication that he did not plan to live an ordinary life. At the end of that year, young Ron traveled to the nation’s capital via the Panama Canal, meeting Commander Joseph C. Thompson of the US Navy … [Read more...] about Article: L. Ron Hubbard The Founder of Scientology (2013)
Dr. Sigmund Freud
Article: On the Rediscovery of the Human Soul (n.d.)
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 search is the introduction and first chapter to a retrospective, “The Rediscovery of the Human Soul.” Begun in 1956, but never completed, the … [Read more...] about Article: On the Rediscovery of the Human Soul (n.d.)
Article: 1922-1923 (n.d.)
1922-1923: L. Ron Hubbard moves north to Puget Sound in Washington State. He joins the Boy Scouts of America in April 1923. As a member of Tacoma Troop 31, he becomes a Second Class Scout on 8 May and two months later, on 5 July, advances to First Class Scout. In October, Harry Ross Hubbard receives orders to report to the nation’s capital. Ron and his parents board the USS Ulysses S. Grant on 1 November 1923 and sail to New York from San Francisco through the recently opened Panama Canal. … [Read more...] about Article: 1922-1923 (n.d.)
Article: A Word on Rediscovering the Human Soul (n.d.)
External link: 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 search is the introduction and first chapter to a retrospective, “The Rediscovery of the Human Soul.” Begun in 1956, but never completed, the … [Read more...] about Article: A Word on Rediscovering the Human Soul (n.d.)
Book: Studies on Hysteria (1974)
Josef Breuer (1842-1925) was a pioneer in the use of hypnotism as a method of treatment for hysteria, a method which formed the basis for his collaboration with Freud in the early 1890s. [...] First and foremost, Freud was the discoverer of the first instrument for the scientific examination of the human mind. Creative writers of genius had had fragmentary insight into mental processes, but no systematic method of investigation existed before Freud. It was only gradually that he perfected the … [Read more...] about Book: Studies on Hysteria (1974)
Hubbard Autobiography: Commander Thompson (1972)
COMMANDER THOMPSON[1. From the second part of L. Ron Hubbard's unpublished autobiography, originally dictated in 1972. Retrieved from solitarytrees.net/cowen/misc/auto2.htm] I travelled with Commander Thompson from Seattle, Washington through the Panama Canal to Washington, D. C. when I was about twelve and knew him during all that time that I was in Washington and later. Commander Thompson was the first man to study with Sigmund Freud from the U. S. Government and had just returned from his … [Read more...] about Hubbard Autobiography: Commander Thompson (1972)