L. Ron Hubbard's The Church Of Scientology

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“What are your strong points? What are the problem areas that are denying you to achieve your goals?” These are the first two of the two hundred question ‘free personality test’ you were offered on Hollywood Blvd. The test can take up to three hours without disruptions from your friendly Scientologist monitoring you. At the end of your test, you will be told you are miserable and should definitely take one of Scientology’s self-help courses for a ‘small fee.’ Soon you will start thinking you’re actually miserable and you’ll begin to take more and more courses until you’re broke and you’ve signed the Billion Year Contract with the church. The Church of Scientology was founded in 1954 by a popular science-fiction writer named L. Ron Hubbard, most notably attached to Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. Hubbard was born March 13th,1911 in Tilden, Nebraska. At the age of 16, Hubbard enrolled as a junior at Helena High School and moved in with his grandparents. That same year, “He begins his interest in black magic by reading Aleister Crowley’s The Book of the Law and begins to use drugs to improve his magical powers.” In 1930, Hubbard joins a Marine Corps Reserve Training Unit and is placed inactive for almost the 18 …show more content…

Eventually, Hubbard receives his license for sail vessels and heads to Melbourne to perform duties he was never qualified to do. He gets in trouble with authorities and is sent back to the US. From 1942 to 1944, Hubbard gets himself in some trouble with a number of countries and in 1945, admits himself to Oak Knoll Naval Hospital in Oakland, California. His injuries from ‘battle’? An ulcer and headaches. He later writes that his days in the battle zone resulted in bullet wounds and was called out for his bravery while he served. He used his ‘ground breaking techniques’ he had developed from Dianetics to heal

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