L. Ron Hubbard

It's the birthday of science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, born Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, in Tilden, Nebraska, (1911). He started out as a writer for pulp magazines, writing science fiction, fantasy, and Westerns. Then, in 1950, Hubbard published a book called Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, describing his theory that all psychological problems are caused by painful memories, and that people just needed to go through a therapeutic process called auditing, which would rid them of their negative associations. The process involved a person recounting painful memories while having a device called an "e-meter" applied to the skin. Hubbard claimed that this process could eliminate emotional problems, cure disease, and increase intelligence.

Despite the fact that many psychiatrists and medical professionals spoke out against the book as pseudo-science, it became a best-seller. Hubbard went on to found the Church of Scientology. His own son said this about his fathers Church Scientology, he said, was little more than a cult that existed to make money"

If you would like to read more fiction by L. Ron Hubbard my I suggest some of the below books.

1. Buckskin Brigades (1937)
2. Final Blackout (1940)
3. Fear (1951)
4. Typewriter in the Sky (1951)
5. Ole Doc Methuselah (1953)
6. Battlefield Earth (1982)
7. Mission Earth (1985-87), 10 vols.

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