Gardiner Greene Hubbard

Ron Hubbard, Hubbard established Scientology as a religion in 1952 and although it is still a currently practiced religion, many people viewed Scientology as something that would not be around for very long and in turn thought of it as a joke. For a religion that had such a humble beginning, it is obvious that this is a well thought out and complex religion that has changed lives all around the world in a remarkably short amount of time regardless of how some may feel about it. After Hubbard…

SCIENTOLOGY “You take on a matrix of thought that is not your own”, actor Jason Beghe and former scientology believer (video BBC Panorama the secrets of scientology documented by). L. Ron Hubbard was an author of pulp/science fiction and creator of Scientology in 1954. Many of us have heard about Scientology, something that sounds to most like a religious cult, which seemed to take on a new level of focus when the famous actor, Tom Cruise, touted its benefits. Through the media, Cruise told…

Do you know what Scientology is? Most people have recognized instances of the word but have no knowledge of its meaning. Its founder, Mr. L. Ron Hubbard, defines it as “the study of knowing how to know” (Going Clear: …). Seventy percent of Americans do not believe Scientology is a religion, and eighteen percent either don’t know or don’t care, according to a poll taken by 60 Minutes (Groh). In 2015, Oscar-winning director and narrator Alex Gibney made Going Clear, a documentary based on…

I’M sat at a wooden desk answering multiple choice questions with a pencil, occasionally erasing my answers and colouring in a different circle. No, this isn’t a exam, although the rows of shiny books and touchscreen information movies might suggest we were in a particularly well-funded private school. “Is your life a constant struggle for survival?” the paper asks. “Do you get occasional twitches of your muscles, when there is no logical reason for it?” “Is your voice monotonous rather than…

A brief History of Scientology The Scientology is a fairly new religion founded by Ron L. Hubbard in1954, a college dropout due to failing grades. Although he would later claim a distinguished wartime navel career, Ron never, in fact, saw combat, he left the US Navy requesting psychiatric care from the Veterans Administration. Ron had two polygamous fail marriages, and then he found success writing pulp/science fiction. In the late 1940s, Ron declared writing for a penny a word is just…

1952, however despite its relative newness to the religious scene it “remains one of the most controversial and poorly understood new religious movements to emerge in the last century” (Urban 91). Developed by the writer and philosopher Lafayette Hubbard, the religion itself is based upon findings over Hubbard’s personal study and development of Dianetics; or the study of metaphysical relationships found between body, mind, and soul. Scientology has garnered a dedicated following of notable…

Ron Hubbard. Along with his occupation as an acclaimed science fiction author, Hubbard was also an exceptional scientist, despite having failed science in university before dropping out. Thus, as a highly qualified scientist, he conducted many scientific investigations, where he was able to uncover…

Walking into the Church of Scientology I had a vague idea of what was about to happen and what they’re all about, but I don’t think I was mentally prepared for what I was walking into. I know that Scientology isn’t really the ideal candidate for this paper because they’re so secretive about their beliefs, but I just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to go and check out this mysterious religion. Now if I’m being completely honest, before my visit, everything I knew about Scientology I had learned…

celebrities who practice scientology; however I never knew what scientology entailed. Throughout this research paper, I will discuss more in depth what scientology practices and beliefs are. Scientology was founded in 1952 by and author named L.Ron Hubbard. Hubbard had originally founded a program called Dianetics, which is a set of practices and ideas emphasizing the relationship between the mind and body. Over the years the practice of dianetics started to become scientology. Scientology is…

I did some other researching had found a documentary that told of the “truth” about Scientology, called Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief. In the documentary it talks about how L. Ron Hubbard lied about his “injuries” from World War 2, and other accounts in his life. It also went on and had past members of the church talk about the bad parts of it. All I will say is there are always two sides to everything, and we must respect each side. Overall, with Scientology I ended up…