History of Dianetics® and Scientology®

The Birth of Dianetics   

In 1923, when twelve years old, L. Ron Hubbard was introduced to Sigmund Freud’s work by Commander Joseph C. Thompson, of the US Navy Medical Corp. Commander Thomson had been sent by the US Navy to study under Sigmund Freud. After this introduction to the mind L. Ron Hubbard traveled Asia, studying life.

In 1932 he coined the word Scientology to describe his research. In 1938 he compiled philosophic writings into a manuscript, “Excalibur.” The manuscript did not contain a therapy but was a discussion of the composition of life. His research continued.

(For more details see: www.scientology-canberra-lrh.org.au/hisearlylife.html)

In 1945, partially blind and lame from hip and back injuries he successfully applied his theories on himself and Americans liberated from Japanese prisoner of war camps.

In 1948 he published a manuscript Dianetics: The Original Thesis, which proved very popular.

Mr. Hubbard soon wrote a book on the subject, a full account of all his discoveries to date, a full manual of the mind, called, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. (http://www.dianetics-australia.org.au/)

Before the book was printed Mr. Hubbard wrote a magazine article called Dianetics: A New Science, heralding the coming book.

Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health was published on May 5, 1950. It sold phenomenally well, resulting in six immediate printings. Hundreds of Dianetics groups sprang up all over America. Over 22 million copies have been sold to date.

The therapy contained in Dianetics was new and exciting. Mr. Hubbard had discovered separate minds, which could be harmlessly accessed with simple therapy. Much of a person’s dreads, fears, irrationalities, and shortcomings could be addressed through these minds.

Mr. Hubbard found that a person could recall distant pasts, particularly birth, and the before nine months. He also found that when a person recalled traumatic times from the developmental stages before birth, that person would respond dramatically well.

Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health outlined the simple and exact theories and procedures.

That people could recall nine months before birth was new. Earlier, psychiatry had been offered the studies of Dianetics but had rejected them.

The technology outlined in Dianetics is simple and works. People can get rid of their unwanted emotional symptoms, be they shyness, fear, anger, unwanted emotional outbursts, psycho-somatic (mentally generated) illnesses and more. Irrational causes in the mind have been found. Dianetics is drug free. It is natural. It works.

(For more on Dianetics: http://www.dianetics-australia.org.au/)

Clear is the goal of Dianetics therapy. “A Clear can be tested for any and all psychoses, neuroses, compulsions and repressions (all aberrations) and can be examined for any autogenic (self generated) diseases referred to as psychosomatic ills. These tests confirm the Clear to be entirely without such ills or aberrations. Additional tests of his intelligence indicate it to be high above the current norm. Observation of his activity demonstrates that he pursues existence with vigor and satisfaction.” (L. Ron Hubbard, from Dianetics The Modern Science of Mental Health.

For more on this state of Clear, see the attached article: The Clear, from the book DIANETICS: The Modern Science of Mental Health: www.dianetics-australia.org.au/clear.html)

The Evolution of Scientology

While Dianetics worked precisely and positively, L. Ron Hubbard continued researching for higher states above Clear.

Since 1949 practitioners 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.

For more: www.scientology-canberra.org.au/wis.html

In 1951 Mr. Hubbard gave a lecture on how thought could be measured by an instrument. An engineer in that audience manufactured the instrument, called an e-meter (electro-galvanometer). It was not complicated.

Man was now shown to be a life force, his own soul, a spiritual entity, inhabiting a body, surviving death. And by accessing past life memories containing adverse emotions, a person became more able, aware, and intelligent.

Mortal and spiritual abilities could be returned to man. Here was a science that had evolved into a religion. Here were twentieth century discoveries validating all the major earlier religions of Earth. Here was Scientology.

The first Church of Scientology was established in 1953. The Founding Church of Scientology was established in Washington DC in 1954

From the results of research into the life-force that is man, it was found that man obeyed certain laws, as did all life. Using these laws, Mr. Hubbard introduced the exteriorization of the spirit from the body for faster and more predictable and exact gain.

In 1959 the headquarters of Scientology moved from the USA to East Grindstead, Sussex, United Kingdom, to take advantage of the communication lines reaching out of Great Britain. This became the worldwide hub of the expanding Church of Scientology. Here Mr. Hubbard continued his research.

Today, there are over 11 million Scientologists with numbers expanding exponentially. There are over four thousand Churches, Missions and Field Groups around the world, and Scientology books and lectures are translated into over 100 languages.

Scientology is the culmination of 50,000 years of thinking men. There is no stopping it. Its time has come.