L. Ron Hubbard

Lafayette Ronald Hubbard was born on 13th of March 1911 in Tilden, Nebraska. During his childhood days he lived on a cattle ranch in Montana. From 14 to 18 years of age he travelled widely across Asia. He made contact with Chinese and Indian monks and through them with Asian Philosophies.
And he started to explore the spiritual nature of the human being. When he was 19 years of age he came back to America and started to study engineering at the Washington University.
As part of these studies he participated in one of the first courses about nuclear physics. He earned his living during this time at university, and later, as a professional writer. He succeeded in his study of the human mind and wrote an unpublished book.

During his youth he participated in various different expeditions. Some of them as the expedition leader. During World War Two his spiritual studies were interrupted. In 1944 he was ordered to the Philippines. In 1950 he wrote "Dianetics - The Modern Science of Mental Health" a book about the anatomy of the human mind in which he indicates precisely how to handle traumatic experiences.
The Dianetics Research Foundation was founded for the purpose of researching the human mind in more depth. Still Hubbard worked as a writer to finance his studies. As a development of Dianetics, the term Scientology was created. The concept of the research and its methods was for the advancement of human abilities. Scientology had a boom time and in the course of the years a worldwide organisation was formed. About cooperation with organisations wanting to misuse Scientology - L. Ron Hubbard prohibited this strongly.
In 1966 he retreated from his official responsibilities to focus more on his research activities. He assigned his previous responsibilities and jobs to representatives. But the organisation he had founded was undermined more and more as time went by.

The cause, and the year, of Hubbard´s death are still not proven. Probably he died at the beginning of the eighties.