The experience of L. Ron Hubbard

Hubbard had a lot of experience as a young man. At the age of 16, he came to Asia alone. In the 1920s, when few Westerners entered China, he had already traveled to Shanghai, Peiping and the western mountainous areas of old China. Before commercial flying became commonplace, Hubbard had traveled 250,000 miles by sea and land in his early teens. In 1929, he returned to the United States to study engineering at George Washington University, where he took the earliest courses in atomic and molecular physics. While a student, he was president of the school's engineering society and flying club, wrote numerous articles, stories and scripts for the school newspaper, and was a national reporter and photographer for Sportaman Pilot, the best aviation magazine of the era. . In 1932, he served as captain of two expeditions to the Caribbean and Puerto Rico. His successful expeditions earned him membership in the prestigious Explorers Club. During World War II, he became a distinguished officer in the U.S. Navy.

It is the rich experience accumulated in his youth, his insatiable curiosity and desire for adventure, and his extensive understanding of cultures in many regions of the world that have enabled him to achieve extraordinary achievements in many fields. Hubbard was an explorer, a sailor and a pilot, a cultural anthropologist, a philosopher, an educator, a composer, a musician, and a successful screenwriter, film producer and photographer. division. Of course, Hubbard's greatest achievement lies in literature.

However, Hubbard was also a very controversial writer, mainly because he created the controversial "queuing for harmful psychotherapy" and "Scientology", and thus became a kind of author. Religious leader and famous millionaire.

At the end of World War II, he served on a U.S. Navy frigate, then left the army and continued to write science fiction novels, but at the same time he became obsessed with hypnotism and often asked his friend Campbell to be the hypnotic subject. At the same time, he claimed that any writer who wanted to make money had to stop writing, develop a belief, or invent a new method of psychoanalysis. According to Harlan Ellison's Integrity (American magazine Time Out BNo. 332), Hubbard once said to Campbell: "I want to create a belief that will make me a lot of money. I'm tired of every word. Money Writing.” Chronicler of science fiction Sam Moscotz also wrote that he had heard Hubbard say something similar.

In 1950, Hubbard published "Methods to Eliminate Harmful Psychiatry," which he called the "new psychological science." A large number of articles emphasized that this was the application of engineering methods to psychological research. As a result, however, many careful observers view the theories that rule out harmful psychotherapeutics as nothing more than a hodgepodge of psychological concepts (some generally accepted, some rejected) and various fringe concepts from professional psychology. Hubbard's argument implies that the human mind forgets nothing and hears it all—painful experiences from birth (or even earlier) can occur even when the brain's centers of consciousness are asleep or under anesthesia. It remains in the memory forever and has a psychological impact. Hubbard called this psychological disorder an "engram," and his theory of "the elimination of harmful psychotherapeutics" eliminated this effect through a series of psychotherapies (which he called "audits").

This caused a lot of controversy. Mawu Science Fiction magazine published an article against Lester Ree, Hubbard wrote a rebuttal article, and Lester Ree published another Refute the article. Hubbard wrote seven books over his lifetime on the subject of eliminating harmful psychotherapeutics, and other authors followed suit, including Raymond Jones who cited the theory in many of his novels. In a series of novels he published in magazines, starting with "Methods in Trading", a lot of them used the elimination of harmful psychotherapy, thus forming the later criticized "Hubbard-Dianetics" psychological adjustment. school.