THE LIFE OF L. RON HUBBARD

In the video: Leah Remini:  Scientology and the Aftermath, one episode was devoted to L. Ron Hubbard.  Who was this guy?  How did he come to do what he did?   Leah says, "I hope we can give some perspective on him as a person and what he was doing and how he went about doing it."

Hubbard was an ordinary kid, nice young man.  The family he grew up in lived in a modest little house (two story) in Helena.  He claimed he was born on his grandfather's ranch, which covered a quarter of the state of Montana.  He wasn't.  It didn't.  He was a Navy brat, and so he followed his family around as his father was posted from one place to another.  And his father was eventually sent to Guam.  He told me he had toured the Orient as a young man, learning the secrets of life from wise men and gurus.  He didn't.  He was on a ten-day tour of China with wives and families from Guam, where his father was stationed." (this is from journalist Russell Miller, who wrote a biography on L. Ron Hubbard.) 

"From high school - - he graduated, then went to George Washington University.  He said he graduated as a nuclear physicist.  (He didn't.)  He was a really poor student.  (Miller read his grades (they were posted on the video)  from the George Washington University Academic Records.  His grades were Ds and Fs.  He never graduated from the George Washington University.)  - - Hubbard really drifted after dropping out of the University.  He was unsure of what to do with his life, and I think he found himself when he started writing science fiction.  That was a moment when science fiction was becoming extremely popular.  He had a great imagination.  He had lots of ideas and great flair.  You know, these interplanetary, galactic wars and the pre-"Star Wars" stuff, really.  

Then came the war.  He enlisted in to the United States Navy, and this is where Hubbard's story and the real story of L. Ron Hubbard's activities diverges in an extraordinary way.  Hubbard said the true story  was, he was constantly in combat.  He was wounded many times, he was up to all kinds of adventures behind the lines.  L. Ron Hubbard claimed he was awarded 29 Combat Medals.  "In actuality, he never received one honor for battle. The reality was, he was a disaster as an officer.  I got his record from the Freedom of Information Act.  The record gives chapter and verse on every moment of his naval career, in great, great detail." Miller read the reports on Hubbard, consider this officer lacking in the essential qualities of judgment, leadership and corporation.  He acts out without forethought as probable...and not considered qualified for command or promotion.

Miller said - When I was doing my  research for his biography, I became aware very quickly, actually, not to believe everything Hubbard told me.  I had to fact check everything.  I couldn't take a single thing at face value.  He was incapable of telling the truth about himself.  Everything that he told me, was a lie.  - -  Hubbard was constantly embellishing his life.  He said he was a top Sergeant in the Marines.  He said he was a doctor.  He said he was a nuclear physicist.  None of it was true." 

Miller said Hubbard told him he was nearly blinded because there was some artillery fire that went off right next to his face.  He could hardly see.  None of that was true.  An officer states that Hubbard exposed his eyes to strong sunlight and had to wear tinted glasses ever since.  Another statement was, he was injured in the leg ands subsequently he obviously kept a piece of shrapnel in his pocket and he would, sort of walk out of a room and drop it, "Oh, yeah, shrapnel keeps working its way of my hip." (lie)

By 1944, Hubbard's cumulative injuries that he suffered in combat,  had taken a toll.  Lame from a Nazi torpedo and partially blind from the flash of a ship's gun, he was transferred to Oak Knoll Naval Hospital at wars end.  From a report on Hubbard:  "Blinded with injuries of optic nerve, and lame with physical injuries to the hip and back . . .  my  service record states ". . . permanently disabled physically."  L. Ron Hubbard, My Philosophy, page 2. (lies) 

Season 2, Episode 13:

Leah -  "I do remember, as a child, seeing this man as some form of Deity.  And I was young, but already indoctrinated to believe that this man had all the answers."

Mike Rinder -  "Me too.  My goal when I was growing up, was to join the Sea Organization as soon as I could, and go to work with L. Ron Hubbard.  Working with him to save the planet.  Children in Scientology are taught by their parents, this man, L. Ron Hubbard, is very important to me, and should be very important to you, this is why we are giving up our lives, because this man is saving mankind."

Hubbard -  "Scientology is a totally workable science.  We're only interested in what produces results, and if you know certain things, and you apply them, they increase a man's IQ, increases his ability to handle the world around him.  Why, he naturally is able to - - to do better and to do more, to make more money, to be more - - to be happier in his environment and so forth."

Mike - "He had the ability to convince people that he knew what he  was  doing and "if you will just listen to me, this is where I will take you."  "He's like the Pied Piper."  Hubbard: "If you will just listen to me , I can take you to complete happiness, because I have solved the problems of how to get there."

Leah - "People flocked to him, dedicated their lives to him.  People are currently giving up their lives, their money, their families for this man. "  Mike - "and the promises that this man made."

Leah - "In the book, "Dianetics" it says it cures things." 
Mike - "Immorality, and spiritual freedom and breaking the cycle of life and death, and saying this is what Scientology will accomplish for you."

L. Ron Hubbard's teachings, claim that with Scientology, illnesses can be cured and you can realize your full potential as an immortal being.  (To me this is putting L. Ron Hubbard as the Deity of Mankind.
He is trying to replace GOD.  If  Scientologists are immortal, Why did Hubbard die of a stroke?  He didn't heal himself and neither did Scientology. 

On January 24, 1986, L. Ron Hubbard died.  News of his death was withheld from Scientologists for three days.  A mandatory meeting was called for all Scientologists at the Palladium Theater in Los Angeles, California on January 27, 1986.  David Miscavige made the following announcement to those in attendance. (it was also video taped):  

David Miscavige:  "Over the past six years, LRH has indeed been intensively researching the upper bands of OT.  Approximately two weeks ago, he completed all of his research as he set out to do.  He has now moved on to his next level of OT, the body is nothing more than an impediment and encumbrance to any further gain as an OT.  Thus . . . at 2000 hours Friday, the 24th of January A.D. 36, L. Ron Hubbard discarded the body he had used in this lifetime for 74 years, ten months, and 11 days.  (applauding) 

Leah - "L. Ron Hubbard has decided to leave his body - -  Mike - "Discard his body" - - Leah - "Discard his body.  What would it hurt to be honest? " 

Mike - "If L. Ron Hubbard hadn't been able to eat the carrot, then no Scientologist would be able to attain the carrot, that is being dangled in front of them of immortality, et cetera, et cetera."

Leah - "And the lawyer of Scientology comes out, and I do remember this very clearly this man saying, "you know he wasn't sick. " (Lie)  They made a point to say that he made a decision to leave his body, because the work that he needed to do, needed to be outside of his body."

Palladiem Briefing: Earle Cooley, Scientology Lawyer - "By the decision to continue his work outside the confines of his body and by the decision to do it now, it is not surprising.  The body of L. Ron Hubbard was sound and strong and fully capable of serving this mighty Thetan for many years, had that suited his purposes." 

Leah - "the lawyer said he was of a sound mind and body, so what is the truth?"
Mike - "He was not at all in good shape, when he finally died."

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THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES:
L. Ron Hubbard, Founder of Scientology, dies of a stroke.
California - January 28 - L. Ron Hubbard, Founder of the Church of Scientology, died here Friday, and mystery surrounds his death, just as it cloaked the final years of his life.  He was 74 years old.

The death of Mr. Hubbard, who was a multimillionaire, was announced  Monday night by officials of the organization, which he called a religion, which was often attacked, as a lucrative business.  County officials said today that Mr. Hubbard, a science fiction writer was cremated Sunday without an autopsy.

Mr. Hubbard had not been seen in public since March of 1980.  He apparently lived for several years in a home on 80 fenced acres in a remote, rural part of San Luis Obispo, California.
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Mike - "He had pancreatitis and various other aliments and illnesses for some period of time.  (Lies that he was healthy)

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STATE OF CALIFORNIA CERTIFICATION OF VITAL RECORDS
L. Ron Hubbard: death caused by cerebral vascular accident.

Coroner Case Information sheet 1-30-86 . . . history of chronic pancreatitis.  Recent history of Dysphasia (defective speech due to impairment of intellect) . . .

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Leah - "This briefing was to keep Scientologists from not giving up and say, "Well, screw it."  If this man died, if he is just an average "human", who died of a stroke and sickness, then everything --
the first book that we read, which is "Dianetics" is a lie . . ."

Mike - "Right", starting with he died without having accomplished what he had said, so often, 'I have found the path to achieve this, Dianetics can help you quickly attain better health, happiness and peace of mind', he continued, Fifteen years of careful research and use prove the methods of this . . . science of mental health.'  "it's sort of a big overview that sets the stage for:  how did he get to that?" 
Leah - "And so you have to look at this man and go, 'He was a genius in certain aspects, and quite diabolical in another.' " 

L. Ron Hubbard had three wives.  His first wife was named Polly and they had a boy and a girl.  They were never in Scientology.  After the war L. Ron Hubbard abandoned his family and moved into a mansion of Jack Parsons, an occultist and practitioner of black magic.  His second wife was Sara, was Jack's girlfriend.  Hubbard married Sara before he divorced his first wife Polly.  They had one daughter.  After his divorce from Sara, she was no longer talked about.  It was as if she never existed.  His last wife was Mary Sue, who was second in command of Scientology.  They had four children, two girls and two boys.  He was never really in the lives of his children.  

author - I don't see how any one could see this man as deity, as some did.  He had a brilliant mind, charisma, he could convince anyone that what he was saying was the truth.  His practices were like those of a mind reader, soothsayer and the like. He had a big imagination.  How could he come up with all these theories on a man living forever, and the steps of Dianetics used to heal a man of illnesses himself.  If he had all this mind power and to reach the last OT level, why did he die? He didn't heal himself.  He died and his body was cremated, with no autopsy  preformed.  The coroner said he died of a stroke.