This is the audio version of my recent article on the history of Scientology. All religions are pastiches of ideas, beliefs, and rituals from the past. Lafayette Ronald Hubbard invented his religion out of available material just like any other prophet.
Science, Fiction, and the Magician: How L. Ron Hubbard Conjured Scientology
An audio version of this post is embedded below the paywall. All posts are now archived after 4 weeks. Lafayette Ronald Hubbard did not create Scientology from original material. For example, “in his early Dianetics practice we can see clearly the influence of Freud, Jung, and other thinkers available in the mid-twentieth century, as well as the influence of popular self-help works such as Norman Vincent Peale’s best-selling
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