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How Was Scientology Created?

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Scientology was not created as such, but I think you want to know how it all started. It first began as early as 1932 when L. Ron Hubbard coined the word.

He was researching man. The second world war intervened, but he still learned from it.

After the war he wrote a book on the mind and it was mimeographed and distributed. In 1950 he wrote the first real publication on the mind called Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. Here a person could search into his memories of earlier to find what was giving him problems now. What Hubbard found was an otherwise unknown mind that he labeled the reactive-mind.

Since 1949, practitioners of Dianetics 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. While past lives may have seemed controversial, the truth of what existed in the minds of men was too overwhelmingly evident to be ignored.

In 1951 Mr. Hubbard gave a lecture on how spiritual 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. With it the mind was available for total investigation, including before this lifetime.

Now they were studying and researching memories that were obviously not the body’s memory but the spirit’s memory. This was what one might call a soul. But in Scientology you did not have a soul, you were that soul.

In 1953 a group of Scientologists formed the first Church of Scientology in California. In 1954 the Founding Church of Scientology was established in Washington D.C.

I think this should answer your question.

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