ABSTRACT
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, respectfully referred to as Ron or LRH, is the Founder of the Scientology religion. He was born on March 13, 1911 in Tilden, Nebraska, the son of naval commander Harry Ross Hubbard and Ledora May Hubbard. L. Ron Hubbard’s path to the founding of the Scientology religion began with certain discoveries he made in his research into the nature of man. He announced his findings in 1948 as “Dianetics,” a word that means “through the soul” or what the spirit is doing to the body through the mind. The breakthrough from Dianetics to Scientology came in the autumn of 1951, after Mr. Hubbard observed many people practicing Dianetics’ techniques and found a commonality of experience and phenomena which were of a profoundly spiritual nature – contact with past life experiences. Awareness of the human spirit has existed as a universal ingredient of almost every religion in every culture.
