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L. Ron Hubbard
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard was an American author and the founder of Scientology. A prolific writer of pulp science fiction and fantasy novels in his early career, in 1950 he authored the pseudoscientific book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health and established organizations to promote and practice Dianetics techniques. Hubbard created Scientology in 1952 after losing the intellectual rig…
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culture · American writer and Scientology founder (1911–1986) · military officer · novelist · musician · writer · screenwriter · poet · science fiction writer · painter · religious leader · Scientology · also L. Ron Hubbard, LRH, Hubbard
Born 13 March 1911 · Died 24 January 1986 · Q216896
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2026· 2 entries
“on this planet, and on the other seventy-five planets which form this Confederacy, seventy-five million years ago”
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2021· 2 entries
Published video “Alien Visitors Attack”.
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Published video “Jonnie”.
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2010· 1 entry
The Nation of Islam began introducing its followers to Hubbard's teachings, with leader Louis Farrakhan proclaiming "I thank God for Mr
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2009· 1 entry
The American Religious Identification Survey found that 25,000 Americans identified as Scientologists
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2002· 1 entry
Released album “Org Board and Livingness”.
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2001· 2 entries
Published “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome” in Nature — cited 18,636 times.
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Diana and Suzette were reported to still be Church members, while Arthur had left and become an artist
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2000· 1 entry
Released album “Hymn Of Asia”.
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1999· 1 entry
Released album “The Ultimate TRs - Beingness”.
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1998· 2 entries
Keith Raniere drew upon Hubbard's writings and Erhard's techniques to create the large group awareness training ESP, a forerunner to the group NXIVM
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Released album “State of Mind”.
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1997· 1 entry
The Fox network aired an episode of X-Files spinoff Millennium titled "Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense" which satirized Lafayette Ronald Hubbard's biography in a brief opening narration about a character named "Juggernaut
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1996· 1 entry
Released album “Orientation: A Scientology Information Film”.
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1995· 1 entry
Released album “The Road to Freedom”.
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded Ig Nobel Prize for Dianetics (1994).
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1989· 3 entries
Awarded Cosmos 2000 Award for Mission Earth (1989).
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Released album “Trs in Life”.
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Published “Backpropagation Applied to Handwritten Zip Code Recognition” in Neural Computation — cited 9,345 times.
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1988· 1 entry
Released album “Man the Unfathomable”.
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1987· 1 entry
Released album “Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science”.
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1986· 4 entries
Died 1986-01-24.
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Hubbard suffered a stroke; he died a week later
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“Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wanted to make a million dollars, the best way to do it would be start his own religion.”
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“Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.”
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1983· 1 entry
“s most important source of inspiration, and scholar Hugh Urban has written extensively about the occult roots of Scientology. Nibs Hubbard said in an interview in 1983: What a lot of people don”
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1982· 2 entries
Released album “Space Jazz”.
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Sued unsuccessfully for control of his father's estate
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1980· 1 entry
Released album “Music From the Movie, L. Ron Hubbard's the Problems of Life”.
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1978· 2 entries
Hubbard suffered from a pulmonary embolism and fell into a coma, but recovered
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Hubbard was convicted of fraud in absentia by France
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1977· 1 entry
The FBI carried out simultaneous raids on Guardian's Office locations in Los Angeles and Washington, D
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1976· 2 entries
Las Vegas police discovered Hubbard's son Quentin Hubbard unconscious in his car with a hose connected to the tailpipe
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The FBI apprehended two Guardian's Office agents inside the US Courthouse in D
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1975· 1 entry
And went into seclusion in the California desert after an unsuccessful attempt to take over the town of Clearwater, Florida
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1974· 1 entry
Hubbard established the Rehabilitation Project Force, a punishment program for Sea Org members who displeased him
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1973· 2 entries
Instigated the "Snow White Program" and directed the GO to remove negative reports about Scientology from government files and track down their sources
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Published Mission into Time about those searches
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1971· 1 entry
Former Scientologist Werner Erhard founded EST, a notable large group awareness training
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1969· 3 entries
A group led by former Scientologists Charles Manson and Bruce M
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The Church of Scientology acknowledged that these rites had occurred and claimed that Hubbard's involvement had been an effort to rescue Betty
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Following hostile press coverage where Scientology's status as a legitimate religion was being questioned
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1967· 1 entry
Which was applicable to anyone deemed an "enemy" of Scientology: "May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist
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1966· 1 entry
Two former Scientologists founded the Process Church of the Final Judgement which mixed Hubbard's teachings with Satanism
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1963· 1 entry
US Food and Drug Administration agents raided American offices of the Church of Scientology, seizing over a hundred E-meters as illegal medical devices, thousands of pills being marketed as "radiation cures", and tons of
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1958· 1 entry
Amid widespread interest in the Bridey Murphy case, Hubbard authored Have You Lived Before This Life
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1956· 1 entry
Hubbard released Fundamentals of Thought, which teaches that life is a game and divides people into pieces, players, and game-makers
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1955· 1 entry
Hubbard authored a text titled: Brain-Washing: A Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics which purported to be a secret manual linking Psychiatry and Communism written by a Soviet secret police chief
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1954· 2 entries
When the latter, worn out by constant litigation, handed the copyrights of Dianetics back to Hubbard
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A Scientology church in Los Angeles was founded, which became the Church of Scientology International
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1953· 2 entries
Hubbard incorporated the Church of Scientology in Camden, New Jersey
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The first Scientology organizations were founded by Hubbard
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1952· 2 entries
Hubbard was arrested in the middle of a lecture for failing to return $9,000 withdrawn from the Wichita Foundation
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After losing the intellectual rights to his literature on Dianetics in bankruptcy
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1951· 3 entries
Sara and her lover consulted with a psychiatrist about Hubbard, who advised that Sara was in grave danger and Hubbard should be institutionalized
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Hubbard's wife Sara reportedly consulted a psychiatrist who recommended Hubbard be institutionalized
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Hubbard's wife Sara said that experts had diagnosed him with paranoid schizophrenia and recommended lifelong hospitalization
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1950· 3 entries
Came in the middle of the preparations to launch Dianetics
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Authored the pseudoscientific book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health and established organizations to promote and practice Dianetics techniques
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“The Intensive Processing Procedure”
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1947· 1 entry
Hubbard wrote a letter to the VA requesting psychiatric treatment
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1946· 1 entry
Hubbard married Sara, though he was still married to his first wife Polly
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1945· 1 entry
Hubbard again reported sick and was re-admitted to Oak Knoll Naval Hospital, Oakland
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1944· 1 entry
Hubbard served aboard the USS Algol before being transferred
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1943· 1 entry
Hubbard was given command of a submarine chaser, but only five hours into the shakedown cruise, Hubbard believed he had detected an enemy submarine
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1941· 1 entry
Hubbard applied to join the United States Navy
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1933· 1 entry
Hubbard renewed a relationship with a fellow glider pilot, Margaret "Polly" Grubb and the two were quickly married on April 13
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1932· 1 entry
Hubbard organized a student trip to the Caribbean, but amid multiple misfortunes and insufficient funding, the passengers took to burning Hubbard in effigy and the trip was canceled by the ship's owners
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1930· 2 entries
Studied at George Washington University (1930).
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Hubbard enrolled at George Washington University to study civil engineering but dropped out in his second year
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1927· 2 entries
Studied at Helena High School (1927).
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Studied at Queen Anne High School (1926–1927).
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1923· 1 entry
And 1930 with navy psychiatrist Joseph Thompson
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1911· 3 entries
The only child of Ledora May Waterbury, who had trained as a teacher, and Harry Ross Hubbard, a low-ranking United States Navy officer
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Born 1911-03-13.
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Hubbard spent much of his childhood in Helena, Montana
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1906· 1 entry
Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung had famously used such a device in a study of word association
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