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cult leader religious found a sci-fi
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innovative military hero there’s a lot
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of question marks when it comes to l ron
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Hubbard’s life the life story he is told
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over the years and the life story that
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many of his followers point to is not
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the same story that documents and other
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official sources tell though details of
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his life are uncertain there is no
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question that his life was a fascinating
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trip from a Midwestern childhood to an
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internationally recognized writer and
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influence at the Nan who rose to
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influence some of Hollywood’s biggest
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names was born far from the land of
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celebrity Hubbard was born in 1911 in
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Tilden Nebraska his mother was a teacher
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at his father was a military man when
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Hubbard was only 2 his family moved from
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Nebraska to Montana and Hubbard grew up
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in a town house though he has made
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claims that the family lived on a ranch
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that’s just one of many claims that has
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been debunked by family members
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government officials and others who
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actually knew Hubbard as he was growing
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up and starting his career
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Hubbard’s father was in the Navy and
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travel around the world but Hubbard
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didn’t accompany him outside of the
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country some stories about Hubbard’s
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teen life do suggest that he lived in
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places like China Guam and Japan but
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it’s not clear if this is in fact part
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of his official life or part of the
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mystique built up around him and a study
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of Eastern medicine as part of his
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Scientology persona truly separating
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fact from fiction is difficult when it
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comes to Hubbard’s life the Hubbard
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family briefly lived in Washington State
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and Hubbard attended school for some
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years on the west coast then returned to
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Montana to finish high school and live
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with his grandparents while his parents
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lived overseas after graduating from
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high school Hubbard left the Midwest and
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headed east to the nation’s capital at
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George Washington University he studied
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engineering but dropped out after only
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two years due to failing grades without
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a college degree and no prospects ahead
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of him Hubbard turned to his imagination
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and began penning sci-fi and horror
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stories to earn a living he was only
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making a penny a word though and he had
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to write prolifically
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in order to earn enough to live on you
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don’t get rich writing science fiction
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if you want to get rich you start a
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religion
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Hubbard once said this man’s well he
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certainly knew what he was talking about
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because he had to crank out so many
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stories Hubbard now holds the Guinness
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world record for the most translated and
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published author in the world during the
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1930s he wrote under several pseudonyms
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and wrote dozens of stories across
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nearly every literary genre he published
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novels and some reports even say that he
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wrote as many as 100,000 words a month
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science fiction became what he was best
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known for and he even moved in the
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social circles of men like Isaac Asimov
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and Robert Heinlein Hubbard’s writing it
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also caught the attention of Hollywood
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he wrote the script for the secret of
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Treasure Island and claims that he
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helped write several other movies
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including John Ford stagecoach but his
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name doesn’t actually appear in the
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credits for this movie in the year 2000
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his work was prominently featured on the
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big screen when his novel Battlefield
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Earth was made into a movie starring
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none other than devout Scientologist
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John Travolta Hubbard’s writing career
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like so many other American men’s
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careers was interrupted by the outbreak
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of World War two he joined the Navy
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Reserve in 1941 and upon the
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recommendation of his congressman he was
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made a lieutenant the stories of
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Hubbard’s military career have been
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polished and exaggerated for the benefit
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of Scientology tales have overseas
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heroism abounds hence the scientology
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version of his war record has him
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receiving 21 medals for his actions
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during the war including injuries that
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supposedly left him blinded and crippled
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in reality though the story of Hubbard’s
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military service is a little bit
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different official military records
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showed that he never actually left the
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continental United States during the war
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and he also wasn’t a hero
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far from it in fact he lost the command
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of his ship after a number of mishaps
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including having his crew fire upon what
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he thought was a submarine off the coast
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of Oregon well this submarine actually
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just turned out to be a large floating
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long even though Hubbard was relieved of
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his command he was allowed to stay in
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the Navy on in active duty it was in
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1950 that he officially resigned his
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commission and left the military behind
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for good
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when are birds active students in the
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Navy were over he stayed on the west
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coast moving to Los Angeles in 1945
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hitman married in 1933 but his wife
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wouldn’t bring along the whole family to
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California from Washington to live there
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later Byrd said his wife left him
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because he was a cripple I was abandoned
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by family and friends as a supposedly
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hopeless cripple and a probable burden
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upon them for the rest of my days is how
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his version of the story supposedly goes
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in California without his wife or
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children Hubbard found himself with a
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new family of sorts and Aleister Crowley
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that famous practitioner of magic was
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leading a group that would say a cult
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called Otto Templi Orientis
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Hubbard joined the group and found an
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outlet for his interest in science
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fiction thea cults and the fantastical
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hubbard moved in with Jack Parsons and
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his girlfriend Sarah Parsons also
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members of the group and the three they
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became close friends perhaps too close
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because eventually Hubbard began
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sleeping with Parsons girlfriends and
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Parsons didn’t seem to mind soon another
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female Marjorie Cameron joined their
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group and Parsons started sleeping with
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her but their sexual encounters had an
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occult end goal they wanted to
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impregnate Cameron with the spawn of
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Satan apparently this required Hubbard
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to watch the couple while they engaged
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in intercourse their behavior Munn
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surprisingly never resulted in the spawn
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of Satan but these exploits did end in a
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lasting relationship between Hubbard and
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Northrup the couple were married in 1946
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but Hubbard hadn’t yet divorced his
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first wife it took a year for his first
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wife to find out that he had married
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again making Hubbard a bigamist for an
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entire year the divorce filings do not
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paint a pretty picture of Hubbard’s
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first marriage among the accusations
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included in the papers is that
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systematic torture beatings
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strangulations and scientific torture
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experiments were among the things
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Hubbard’s first wife was subjected to
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once divorced and once again monogamous
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Hubbard and Northrup moved to Laguna
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Beach then to Georgia and they finally
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settled in New Jersey it was there that
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he began crafting the work that served
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as the basis for Scientology
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on May the 5th 1950 that work that was
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introduced to the world the publication
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of Dianetics the modern science of
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mental health brought Hubbard’s ideas
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about psychology to the masses within
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months the book was selling at her rate
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of thousands a week and was translated
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into several languages essentially
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Dianetics thought that memories which
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Hubbard referred to as engrams are the
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reason that people experience the
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psychological pain and its associated
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health problems in the book he described
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how people can and release their engrams
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and work towards becoming clear this is
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the term he used for being cured of all
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the ills caused by engrams he even
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alleged that he cured his own war
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injuries through the use of Dianetics
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and he even said that leukemia was
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caused by an Engram and could be cured
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through Dianetics leukemia is evidently
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psychosomatic in origin and at least
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eight cases of leukemia had been treated
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successfully by Dianetics after medicine
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had traditionally given up the source of
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leukemia has been reported to be an
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Engram containing the phrase it turns my
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blood to water
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Hubbard’s well he was one who never
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understate his achievements and he had
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no doubts about what Dianetics could
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mean for the world and for human health
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a milestone for man comparable to his
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discovery of fire and superior to his
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invention of the wheel and the arch well
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Hubbard was sure about his theory of
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psychology the scientific world wasn’t
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so quick to agree as the book continued
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to sell and Dianetics groups began to
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pop up around the nation scientists and
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medical professionals began to speak
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about their disbelief in Dianetics the
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American Psychological Association
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dismissed Dianetics as did Scientific
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American
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they said that Hubbard’s ideas weren’t
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based in fact and he had nothing but
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baseless promises nonetheless the
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teachings of Dianetics they kept
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spreading Hubbard spends much of 1950
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touring the country giving lectures on
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Dianetics and conducting seminars
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Dianetics groups sprouted up in large
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cities and people started sending money
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to the groups wanting to start on the
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path to becoming clear or wanting to
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learn how they could help others become
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clear by being what is called a
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Dianetics auditor I mean
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all the traveling and amid all the fame
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Hubbard couldn’t keep his second
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marriage going nor could he keepers
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finances in line he was having an affair
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with his public relations assistant and
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Dianetics foundations around the country
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were floundering only a couple of years
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after his book was an astounding success
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l ron Hubbard was divorced a second time
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and it wasn’t looking like Dianetics was
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going to be any sort of long-term
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lasting movement but Hubbard well he had
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a standing charisma and he had a theory
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that people that easily latched onto and
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wanted to believe in one of the
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Dianetics believers was a millionaire
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named Don Purcell he hadn’t lost faith
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in Hubbard’s and Dianetics yet and he
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wanted to support the cause so he poured
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money into a building and a brand new
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foundation for Dianetics research in
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Kansas but his support and his ideas
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they were no match for Hubbard after he
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and Hubbard had disagreements about the
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foundation that organization fell apart
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and ultimately ended up losing its money
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when it had to cover the depths of other
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lapsed Dianetics foundations though the
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foundation in Kansas didn’t work out it
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wasn’t a total loss for Hubbard he was
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able to launch Hubbard College in the
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States and even met his next bride there
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she was only 18 and the two moved
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together to Phoenix Arizona during this
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period Hubbard took the next leap
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forward in sharing his ideas about
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psychology and the human experience he
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started working on putting his ideas
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about Dianetics into a larger spiritual
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and philosophical frame in other words
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it was creating Scientology in 1954 the
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Church of Scientology officially
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launched however as with much of
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Scientology’s history there is dispute
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about which church was the official
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start was it the one in California
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founded by a member or was it Hubbard’s
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organization in New Jersey
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either way Hubbard to put forth the
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ideas for the structure of the church
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and it’s his name that will forever be
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linked with Scientology all right so
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well what is Scientology
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well Hubbard described it this way
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Scientology is the study of knowingness
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it increases one’s knowingness but if a
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man were totally aware of what was going
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on around him he would find it
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relatively simple to handle any outlet
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in that and according to the church’s
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website Scientology teachings contain
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answers for nearly everything a human
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could want to know contains they’re in
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our arms
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to life’s most profound mysteries the
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enigma of existence the riddle of death
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the realization of states not even
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described in earlier literature also
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from these works come Scientology
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technologies to rear children repair
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families educate organize and provide
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relief in times of illness or suffering
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by 1956 the Church of Scientology it was
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officially considered a church in the
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eyes of the government and therefore was
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a tax-exempt organization Hubbard was
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making money as people joins the church
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bought materials and spends money to
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move through the ranks of Scientology
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one session with a Scientology auditor
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could cost a person $300 and of course
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you could not just have one session as
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you kept working your way up getting
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closer to being clear you’d have to
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spend more money to work with auditors
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and to achieve more within the church
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people were spending a lot of money to
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be a member of Scientology and to
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achieve what Hubbard had promised them
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was possible but just because
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Scientology was growing and was flush
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with cash doesn’t mean it was without
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its problems governments targeted the
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organization worried about the
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consequences of Scientology on the
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health of its members and there was also
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this growing reputation for intimidation
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among Scientologists the Australian
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government even went so far as to say
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that Scientology was a serious threat to
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the community
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medically morally and socially and its
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adherents sadly deluded and often
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mentally ill the United States
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government was also concerned in fact
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they had been watching Hubbard for years
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some reports even say that the FBI had
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interviewed him as early as 1951 and was
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not happy with his mental state in 1963
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the Washington DC Scientology Church was
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raided the feds discovered just how much
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Hubbard was making off the church he was
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taking millions out of the coffers of
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this organization and paying no taxes to
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the governments it was this the cause
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Scientology to lose its tax-exempt
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status
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Hubbard wasn’t willing to let this
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treatment by the US government stand
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though he created a new office within
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Scientology to deal with negative
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publicity the Scientologists in charge
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of this office took aim aggressively
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liberally accusing Scientology’s
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detractors of libel and slander Hubbard
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wanted to bring down his attackers and
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was willing to do whatever it took to do
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so lurid blood sex crime actual evidence
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is what he wanted his publicity office
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to find on those who were attacking
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Scientology’s reputation
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even with an aggressive publicity
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approach a Scientology didn’t get their
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tax-exempt status back for another 30
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years as the church came under attack
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from governments Hubbard saw a solution
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on the open seas where governments
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couldn’t get him it was this that caused
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him to dream up another organization
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this one known as Sea Org the Sea Org
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was basically Scientology on the ocean
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with its members living aboard three
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ships that Hubbard had purchased there
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was a major cash flow to be welcomed
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into the Sea Org you had to sign a
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contract saying that you would be loyal
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to Scientology for 1 billion yes even
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though the group was based aboard ships
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they still faced resistance from
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governance the Greek government asked
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them to leave Corfu after a year and
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Morocco was no more welcoming to them
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being part of the Sea Org and sailing
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around the world was not akin to being
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on a cruise ship though instead there
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was little food long hours for those
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tending to the ship and dirty clothes
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and linens were the North Hubbard
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himself only lasted on the open sea for
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a few years it taken breaks on land in
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the early 1970s but in 1975 he returned
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to life on land for good upon his return
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he settled in California and after two
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decades in the spotlight l ron Hubbard
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began to fade away from his charismatic
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leadership role in the church the years
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on the ocean had not a raised
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Scientology’s problems with the
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government’s Hubbard in his organization
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were being chased by French and US
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authorities and even managed to get
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themselves embroiled in Moroccan
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political issues while there Sea Org
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ships were docked at Hubbard’s solution
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to these problems wants to keep himself
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hidden the church kept fighting with
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Hubbard pulling the strings and
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directing operations that went to
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elaborate lengths to infiltrate the
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federal government’s and disrupt
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investigations one operation called Snow
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White involved everything from breaking
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into IRS officers to bugging the federal
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government to even infiltrating
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government staff with Scientology plants
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you could report back to the church a
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former Scientologists said that Hubbard
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always said never defend always attack
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this was gospel and that’s pretty much
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what the church did and it landed 11
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people in jail including Hubbard’s wife
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as all of this was going on Hubbard was
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still hiding out at home he suffered
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from a number of health problems
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throughout the 1970s and nine
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in eighties a heart attack pulmonary
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embolism injuries sustained in a
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motorcycle accident and more he was
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obese and he smoked constantly the man
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simply wasn’t healthy he moved around
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trying to stay out of the public eye and
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away from potential government action
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against him he had a team of teenagers
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who took care of him washing his clothes
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and holding out ashtrays for his
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ever-present cigarettes by 1986 his
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health issues had mounted to a point
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where they couldn’t be overcome at the
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age of 74 l ron Hubbard passed away
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after suffering a stroke when he died he
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hadn’t made a public appearance in six
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years the New York Times said mystery
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surrounds his death just as a cloaked
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the final years of his life he was
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cremated and his ashes were scattered at
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sea by Scientologists seven years after
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Hubbard’s death in 1993 the IRS
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reinstated the church’s tax-exempt
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status the IRS has not given an
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explanation about why it was granted
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again but the Scientologists could
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celebrate their nearly eight billion
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dollars in assets were once again safe
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from taxation l ron Hubbard’s life is
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fraught with contradictions between
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church teachings and official government
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documents and he’s certainly a
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controversial figure a California judge
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ruling on his Scientology lawsuit didn’t
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hide his feelings about Hubbard at all
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the evidence portrays a man who has been
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virtually a pathological liar when it
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comes to his history backgrounds and
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achievements he had egoism greed avarice
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lust for power and vindictiveness and
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aggressiveness against persons perceived
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by him to be disloyal or hostile Hubbard
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was a Midwestern boy with an imagination
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and an aptitude for language that we
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didn’t fare well at George Washington
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University he was able to use his
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charisma and considerable aptitude for
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propaganda to build an organization that
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remains largely intact today it’s
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attracted the likes of Tom Cruise and
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other Hollywood luminaries to its ranks
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and although it takes hits after hit in
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the press Scientology marches on and l
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ron Hubbard has a legacy that lives on
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controversial though it may be so I
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