Did Ronald Hubbard start Scientology or did his fans?

 

Did Ronald Hubbard start Scientology or did his fans?

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This is a little bit of a difficult question to answer because Ronald Hubbard stole nearly every single idea he put out and claimed to have created himself.

Here is an excerpt from an article by Jon Atack on the topic:

"SCIENTOLOGY"

The name Scientology is borrowed. It was first used by philologist Allen Upward in The New World (which was published in 1910 in the U.S.). Upward used the word to mean "pseudo-science". Nordenholz, an Aryan race theorist, adopted the word "Scientologie" as the title of a 1934 book. Nordenholz's book was translated into English and published in the 1960s by former Scientologist Woodward McPheeters, who claimed many parallels between Nordenholz's work and that of Hubbard. Nordenholz used the word "Scientologie" to mean "the science of the constitution and usefulness of knowledge and knowing" or the "science of consciousness".

Hubbard claimed both to have coined the term himself prior to the inception of Dianetics (in 1950) ("In 1938 I codified certain axioms and phenomena into what I called SCIENTOLOGY" (51)), yet also claimed that Mary Sue Hubbard had coined it (52). He did not meet Mary Sue until 1951.

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Possible origins for Dianetics and Scientology

Possible origins for Dianetics and Scientology Jon Atack My starting point is the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary definition of plagiarism, viz "the taking and using as one's own of the thoughts, writings, or inventions of another." Hubbard's plagiarism was extensive. He took ideas from earlier authors without proper acknowledgment; repudiated his initial, partial acknowledgment of other authors; and many times took ideas from his followers without acknowledging them. By far the majority of Hubbard's published work was actually readied for publication by others. Over time, acknowledgment for these co-authors has simply been removed from newer publications. SOURCE The key concept in any argument relating to Hubbard's plagiarism is that of "source". In the early days, Hubbard expressed a debt to other thinkers. For example, there are a number of references to Freud and Breuer in his 1950 lectures. Hubbard also initially credited U.S. Navy doctor Commander Thompson. The books Science of Survival (1951) and Scientology 8-8008 (1952) both contain acknowledgment lists. However, on 7 February 1965 Hubbard published the Policy Letter "Keeping Scientology Working", where he said: "Our technology has not been discovered by a group. True, if the group had not supported me in many ways I could not have discovered it either." This Policy Letter appears in all but introductory Dianetic and Scientology courses. In the Executive Directive "How to Raise Stats" (01) , Hubbard said, "I am the source of Dianetic and Scientology tech, know-how and org[anization] form." In a talk given on 27 January 1986, the then head of the Sea Organization, which governs Scientology, Pat Broeker, said "There is only one source of Scientology and Dianetics tech, and that is L. Ron Hubbard ... There is - not 'was', is - only one Source ... What is it about LRH that made him Source? His technology - the Grades, the OT levels, all of his discoveries. Nobody else - nobody - ever discovered it." (02) . These assertions, despite Hubbard's earlier admissions, are held to be "sacred scripture" in Scientology (03) . Hubbard is styled "Source" by Scientologists. The Dianetics and Scientology Technical Dictionary defines "source" as "1. the point of origin, or it would be the originator, or where something was begun or dreamed up or mocked up." Scientology's Modern Management Technology Defined defines "Source" thus: "Scientologists recognize and revere the spiritual leadership of L. Ron Hubbard as the Founder, and as the Source of the religious philosophy of Scientology." Earlier, Hubbard had said "parts of these answers have been represented in many places under many names." ( The Scientologist - A Manual on the Dissemination of Material , 1955). In a 1954 lecture, Hubbard said, speaking of the Hindu Vedas, "A great deal of our material in Scientology is discovered right back there" (04) . Further, "We find Scientology's earliest certainly known ancestor in the Veda ... we can look back ac

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Hubbard had a very consistent habit of taking ideas from other people and slightly altering the descriptions of them and sometimes even combining methods and sort of filing off the serial numbers by changing the names of the practices and then presenting the ideas as his own original creations.

After spending twenty five years in Scientology and hundreds, perhaps thousands, of hours in Scientology indoctrination then over the seven years since 2014 examining several potential sources for plagiarism including hypnosis, the occult, other cults, and techniques from psychology and psychiatry and other sources I realized that Hubbard knew only a few subjects well including hypnosis but had a sort of Reader's Digest level education on many other things as he just read small articles or had others explain summaries of books to him from which he pretended to do extraordinary research and to discover the conclusions that others had arrived at.

Here are several links to articles on the very abundant evidence that Hubbard plagiarized the ideas he presented in Dianetics and Scientology.

The Hubbard Is Bare

Operation Clambake & Jeff Jacobsen present: The Hubbard Is Bare copyright 1992 by Jeff Jacobsen INTRODUCTION | REVIEW OF HUBBARD'S THEORIES | THE MURKY STATE OF CLEAR | SCIENCE AND DIANETICS | HUBBARD'S SOURCES | THE IDEAL DIANETICS SOCIETY | CONCLUSION | FOR FURTHER READING INTRODUCTION In June of 1989 I was in Chicago at a large used book sale, one of the largest in the country. I stumbled upon Physical Control of the Mind , by Jose Delgado. Delgado had experimented with various animals by placing electrodes in certain parts of the brain, then passing an electrical signal to those electrodes. By this process he could induce behavior in the animal. Delgado became a notorious figure to me when I had read some of his experiments while researching mind control for a college paper. In discussing the brain's development, Delgado made the following statement about the writings of psychoanalyst Robert Sadger; Sadger reported that when he could not relate some patients' neuroses to their embryonic periods, he induced them to recall what happened to their original spermatazoa and ova, or even to remember possible parental attitudes which could have produced a trauma in their delicate germinal cells before conception. Sadger maintained that these cells have a psychic life of their own with the capacity to learn and to remember. 1 This sounded strikingly like some theories I had read in Dianetics, the Modern Science of Mental Health , by L. Ron Hubbard. I had been reading and studying Hubbard's works, and had even written a tract critical of his Church of Scientology after studying the church's doctrine and history. Dianetics seemed to be full of new and unique theories and ideas, but Delgado's statement caused me to wonder whether perhaps Hubbard had not actually ripped off some of his ideas instead of discovering them. Sure enough, the reference date on Sadger's article was 1941 - eight years before Dianetics was published! That was the beginning of the booklet you are about to read. I had studied Hubbard's works since 1986, and had taken an introductory course in about 1983 (which included some "Book one" auditing). By the time of the Chicago book sale, Hubbard's writing style, wacky theories and smugness were wearing on me, and I hoped to begin a study on electrical brain stimulation - hence the interest in Delgado. But since the revelation hit that Hubbard borrowed rather than invented his theories, it seemed to be a ripe and exciting subject to pursue. The reason I thought this was an exciting topic was Hubbard's insistence that he came up with his ideas by himself and that they were as monumental a breakthrough from what came before as was the discovery of fire to the cavemen. If it could be shown that dianetics was simply a synthesis of previous ideas, then Hubbard would be exposed as a huckster and fraud. And I don't like hucksters and frauds. Generally speaking, it is my contention that Hubbard did no credib

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Hubbard and the occult

Hubbard and the Occult Jon Atack Preface This article is the first in a series of articles based upon research into the roots of the Hubbardian philosophy that gave birth to the "Sacred Scriptures" of the Church of Scientology The Office of Special Affairs, the elite Secret Intelligence unit of the Church of Scientology, was well aware that this report was reaching its final stage and in the recent months they have launched lawsuits and a massive propaganda campaign to discredit FACTNET Director, Lawrence Wollersheim and the researcher, Jon Atack Scientology is using many Hollywood celebrities to promote its agenda. But most Scientologists, celebrity and non-celebrity alike; as well as the general public , are ignorant of the Satanic/Black Magic background of its Founder, L. Ron Hubbard, and how he used these materials to form the core of his secret "Sacred Scriptures" The ransacking of the FACTNET files and data base by the OSA Raid Team was not unexpected and the timing of the raid, not surprisingly, corresponded to the scheduled release date of this material. FACTNET Co-Director Arnie Lerma's computers and personal files were also ransacked by OSA raiders. FACTNET hopes these series of articles will create meaningful dialogue and that all readers will give this report, and future reports, the widest distribution on the Internet and other areas of Cyberspace, and amongst the general public. Hubbard and the Occult I stand before you having been accused in print by L. Ron Hubbard's followers of having an avid interest in black magic. I would like to put firmly on record that whatever interest I have is related entirely to achieving a better understanding of the creator of Dianetics and Scientology. Hubbard's followers have the right to be made aware that he had not only an avid interest, but that he was also a practitioner of black magic. Today I shall discuss these matters in depth, but I shall not repeat all of the proofs which already exist in my book A Piece of Blue Sky (001) . Scientology is a twisting together of many threads. Ron Hubbard's first system, Dianetics, which emerged in 1950, owes much to early Freudian ideas (002) . For example, Hubbard's "Reactive Mind" obviously derives from Freud's "Unconscious". The notion that this mind thinks in identities comes from Korzybski's General Semantics. Initially, before deciding that he was the sole source of Dianetics and Scientology (003) , Hubbard acknowledged his debt to these thinkers (004) . Dianetics bears marked similarities to work reported by American psychiatrists Grinker and Spiegel (005) and English psychiatrist William Sargant (006) . The first edition of Hubbard's 1950 text Dianetics: the Modern Science of Mental Health (007) carried an advertisement for a book published a year earlier (008) . Psychiatrist Nandor Fodor had been writing about his belief in the residual effects of the birth trauma for some years, following in the footsteps of Otto Rank. In lectures given in 1950,

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OT III And Beyond: Sources Plagiarized From Part 1

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OT III And Beyond: Sources Plagiarized From Part 2

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OT III And Beyond: Sources Plagiarized From Part 3

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Notably the Xenu figure in Scientology has a tremendous number of similarities to the alien Xemnu from Marvel comics. Perhaps Ronald Hubbard read the OAHSPE which has over fifty points of similarity to Scientology doctrine and the comic books with Xemnu and he combined the two to create his own work.

Xemnu was in comics published in 1960 and Xenu appears in the OT III materials in 1967.

It is worth noting that Xemnu had telepathic powers and sought to brainwash people through television, which is remarkably similar to elements of the Xenu story presented in Scientology doctrine.

Xemnu: Marvel's Original Hulk is Weird, Cute and... Inspired Scientology!?

He looks like a cross between Santa Claus and a swole Furby, and may have inspired Scientology! He's Xemnu, Marvel's first Hulk, and he's back!

https://www.cbr.com/xemnu-marvel-original-hulk-scientology-explained/