L. Ron Hubbard

Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986) was the founder of Dianetics and Scientology.^[1] He started as a pulp fiction and science fiction writer. Hubbard was born in Tilden, Nebraska to Harry Ross Hubbard and Ledora May Hubbard. He died of a stroke in Creston, California.

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Museum recreation of a 1930s dentist office; the setting where Hubbard reported having a "near-death experience".
L. Ron Hubbard and Thomas Moulton at the Albina Engine and Machine Works, Portland, Oregon. From the Oregon Journal, April 22, 1943: "Ex-Portlander Hunts U-Boats"
John Whiteside "Jack" Parsons standing above a Jet-Assisted Take Off canister at JPL's test site in the Arroyo Seco, Los Angeles County.
Hubbard's novella "The Kingslayer" was reprinted in Two Complete Science-Adventure Books in 1950 after its original publication in a 1949 Hubbard collection.
Hubbard and Sara moved into a cottage at Bay Head, New Jersey, to finish writing Dianetics. The cottage at 666 East Avenue is now on the National Register of Historic Places. Hubbard's son Nibs later claimed the number '666' had special significance for his father.
Hubbard conducting a Dianetics seminar in Los Angeles in 1950.
Enroute to the volcanic island of Las Palmas, Hubbard wrote "OT III: The Wall of Fire", about the evil lord Xenu who uses hydrogen bombs and volcanoes to murder his enemies and imprison their souls on Earth. Beginning in 1967, new editions of Dianetics featured a volcano on the cover.
The Scientology cross came into use in 1969. Given Hubbard's private affinity for Crowley and antipathy to Christianity; it has been suggested that the cross may have been inspired by Crowley's Rose Cross or might be a "crossed-out cross" (an anti-Christian symbol).

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