L. Ron Hubbard
L. Ron Hubbard
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, better known as L. Ron Hubbardand often referred to by his initials, LRH, was an American author and the founder of the Church of Scientology. In 2014, Hubbard was cited by the Smithsonian magazine as one of the 100 most significant Americans of all time, as one of the eleven religious figures on that list. After establishing a career as a writer, becoming best known for his science fiction and fantasy stories, he developed a system called...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth13 March 1911
CityTilden, NE
CountryUnited States of America
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The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world; he is probably impossible by any human standard.
It takes truth to live with a swiftly changing world. Nothing less than truth can survive. You cannot survive with anything less than truth.
I set out to try to help my fellow man and to do what little I could to make the world a better place.
As South Africa has a white population of only 2.8 million or thereabouts, you can see that every other central organization in the world has been out-created.
Now we say there's, well, another place in the world-there's India. Wonderful place - except for its people.
There is no national problem in the world today which cannot be resolved by reason alone.
The cold, basic truth is that you are a vital and necessary part of this world
A philosophy can only be a route to knowledge. It cannot be knowledge crammed down one's throat. If one has a route, he can then find what is true for him. And that is Scientology.
You would be amazed how much action anyone is capable of.
Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.
Oh yes, as a matter of fact it is quite interesting that exercises can be conducted which demonstrate conclusively that there are memories which exist prior to this life.
Here on Earth there was undoubtedly a Christ.
I know no man who has any monopoly upon the wisdom of this universe. It belongs to those who can use it to help themselves and others.