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.)
Joseph Cheesman Thompson
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.)
Essay: Clara M. Thompson and Joseph C. Thompson (n.d.)
Clara M. Thompson Childhood and Family Clara Mabel Thompson was born in Providence, Rhode Island on October 3, 1893 (Green, 1964). Her family's household was located in a rural area just outside Providence in which she lived with her immediate as well as extended family. While the family was financially secure there was some strife between the maternal and paternal grandparents especially over religious issues. Her father, of who she was quite fond, was a highly successful business man who … [Read more...] about Essay: Clara M. Thompson and Joseph C. Thompson (n.d.)
Article: A Word on Rediscovering the Human Soul (n.d.)
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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.)
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)
HCOB: Man Who Invented Scientology (1959)
(The following article appeared recently in the London City Press. It may be used by city offices and area offices for information to papers.) [...] The HASI and all its concerns is founded on the work of one man, L. Ron Hubbard, engineer, explorer, nuclear physicist and writer. Holding in his mind a knowledge of Eastern thought gained in his travels, his instruction in psychology from a medical doctor who had studied personally under Sigmund Freud, and his training in mathematics and … [Read more...] about HCOB: Man Who Invented Scientology (1959)