B. Lafayette Ron Hubbard
The Church of Scientology as a religious community was founded in 1954 based on the successful teachings of an American writer and expert in Dianetics, Lafayette Ron Hubbard (1911-1986).
This successful science fiction author published in 1950 the first expert book on Dianetics, which was later expanded and reworked, and is currently published in 32 languages in 18 million copies, and may be considered a world-wide best seller: "Dianetics - The Modern Science of Mental Health" (the Czech version is to be published in 1996).
However, Lafayette Ron Hubbard was not only a successful writer, dianetist, and psychologist, but also an original philosopher, teacher, and manager of Scientology.
We especially need to stress his scientific growth and profile:
He was born into the family of a marine officer in the small city of Tilden, Nebraska, however, from here the Hubbards soon moved to Oklahoma and then to Montana and, it was here in the suburb of the capital of Helena that Ron spent his childhood.
As an eager scout he befriended the Indian boys of the Blackfoot tribe and became a favorite of old Tom, their medicine man. They became blood brothers, and he learned from him many languages and traditions of his tribe.
Witch-doctor practices made an especially big impression on him, and he generally became more interested in the natural healing practices of Indians.
By 12 years of age, he obtained the medal of Tracker First-Class and then he received several awards at school.
In 1923, the entire family sailed from San Francisco to New York and then to Washington.
During the trip, the thirteen-year-old Hubbard met Captain Joseph Thompson who was coming back from Vienna where he studied psychoanalysis under professor Sigmund Freud.
They became friends and thus Ron soon became familiar with the Library of
Congress and its treasury of books.
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As mentioned above the book "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health" has been published in over 32 languages visit your language here:
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