Where did scientology begin?

Answer 1

L. Ron Hubbard travelled the Orient as a young man in he 1920's. He already had an interest in the mind from a naval commander he met as a teenager.

Scientology research began in the early 1930's and the first time L. Ron Hubbard used the word was in 1932.

After the war he wrote a book on the mind and it was mimeographed and distributed. In 1950 he wrote the first real publication on the mind called Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. Here a person researched into his memories of earlier to find what was giving him problems now. What they found was an otherwise unknown mind that he labelled the reactive-mind.

Since 1949 the practitioners of Dianetics had been occasionally reporting past life memories. So while people were getting well from Dianetics there was research into past lives through the Hubbard Dianetics Research Foundation. While past lives may have seemed controversial, the truth of what existed in the minds of men was too overwhelmingly evident to be ignored.

In 1951 Mr. Hubbard gave a lecture on how spiritual thought could be physically measured by an instrument. An engineer in that audience manufactured the instrument, called an e-meter (electro-galvanometer). It was not complicated. With it the mind was available for total investigation, including before this lifetime.

Now they were studying and researching memories that were not obviously the body's memory but the spirit's memory. This was what one might call a soul. But in Scientology you did not have a soul, you were that soul.

In 1953 a group of Scientologists formed the first Church of Scientology in California. In 1954 the Founding Church of Scientology was established in Washington D.C.

Answer 2

Scientology was founded by Science Fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. He allegedly founded it on a bet that he could make more money founding a religion than he could writing science fiction.

The first church of Scientology opened in New Jersey in 1952.
It was founded in the USA by L. Ron Hubbard.

Answer 3

L. Ron Hubbard began his studies of the mind and spirit in 1923, resulting in a manuscript entitled "Excalibur" in 1938. It was in this unpublished work that the word Scientology first appeared to describe what Mr. Hubbard termed "the study of knowing how to know." He decided against publishing the book for the fact, "'Excalibur' did not contain any therapy of any kind but was simply a discussion of the composition of life." Consequently, "I decided to go further."

That "going further" resulted in Dianetics, a subject which was introduced into the much broader field of Scientology to provide an actual "therapy" easily applied by the man in the street. Thus, in 1947, he wrote a manuscript detailing the core discoveries of Dianetics. Although not published at the time, the manuscript was circulated among friends and colleagues, who copied it and passed it on to others. (This work was eventually published in 1951 as Dianetics: The Original Thesis.)

As copies of the manuscript continued circulating, Mr. Hubbard began receiving a flood of letters requesting further information. Indeed, he soon found himself spending all his time answering letters and decided to write a comprehensive text on the subject-Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.

Published on May 9th, 1950, it sparked a storm of popular enthusiasm, and immediately hit the New York Timesbestseller list where it remained for 28 consecutive weeks. As such, it was the biggest selling book on the mind ever written, and remains so today. Contained within was the discovery of the reactive mind-the hidden source of nightmares, unreasonable fears, upsets and insecurity.

Yet L. Ron Hubbard never considered Dianetics an end to his research but, rather, a steppingstone to the discovery and isolation of a long-illusive life source. And indeed, the techniques of Dianetics provided the means by which practitioners soon began discoveringpast lives. Pressing application and research even further came the accomplishment of what is known as exteriorization-demonstrating the spirit was indeed separable from the body and mind: The Scientology religion was born.

Thereafter, L. Ron Hubbard delved ever deeper into the spiritual nature of Man, documenting his discoveries in thousands of recorded lectures, films, articles and books.

While to present those discoveries, he literally circumnavigated the globe and so Churches of Scientology opened on four continents-headquartered at his long-term residence in southern England.

Through ensuing years, L. Ron Hubbard continued advancing the subject until his passing in 1986.

His legacy comprises tens of millions of published words, recorded lectures and films, while with over 250 million copies of his books and lectures in circulation, he has inspired a movement spanning all continents and all cultures.

Answer 4

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L. Ron Hubbard, a fiction writer, started the cult in America in 1952.

Answer 5

L. Ron Hubbard.