NEW BIOGRAPHICAL VOLUME ON SCIENTOLOGY FOUNDER L. RON HUBBARD NOW PRESENTED IN ITS ENTIRETY ONLINE

The Church of Scientology International today announced the online edition of the new, biographical overview of the life and legacy of Scientology’s Founder, L. Ron Hubbard: A Profile. The work is the all-encompassing overview of The L. Ron Hubbard Series, the monumental 16-volume hardback biographical encyclopedia released on March 13 commemorating the yearlong celebration of Mr. Hubbard’s centennial. L. Ron Hubbard: A Profile is presented in its entirety at lronhubbard.org.

The online edition of this biographical work provides a never before available interactive chronology of milestone events in Mr. Hubbard’s life. Featuring hundreds of rare photographs, personal artifacts and pivotal biographical details, A Profile presents the many paths Mr. Hubbard traveled—as an author, adventurer, explorer, philosopher and founder of the only major religion born in the modern age.

The chronology details Mr. Hubbard’s lifelong trek to unravel the central questions of human existence, beginning in a rough and tumble American West where the six-year-old L. Ron Hubbard found himself befriended by an itinerant Blackfeet shaman who subsequently honored him with that very rare status of blood brother. Online visitors are further provided with details of each fundamental breakthrough along Mr. Hubbard’s trail of discovery through Dianetics and Scientology: from the startling moment when early Dianetics proved the single critical factor in saving lives of otherwise terminal patients at a northern California naval hospital, to the publication of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health and its meteoric rise to New York Times bestseller. Also detailed is the development of techniques demonstrating the human spirit is indeed independent and separable from the body, and thereby giving way to the birth of the Scientology religion.

L. Ron Hubbard: A Profile further presents Mr. Hubbard’s landmark accomplishments as a humanitarian: with a technology of study now employed by some 30 million students and educators world over; with an answer to drug addiction achieving unparalleled success rates through an international network of rehabilitation centers; with a moral code for the 21^stcentury now embraced by upwards of 100 million globally; and a body of organizational technology whereby groups and individuals may flourish, prosper and so achieve their dreams.

The online biographical resource further provides the definitive introduction to Mr. Hubbard’s legendary and multi-faceted artistic career—as among the world’s most prolific and influential authors with more than 60 bestselling works to his credit; as a musical composer, performer and arranger; as an award-winning photographer; and as a filmmaker whose codification of the craft provided for the production of several thousand award-winning public service announcements, educational films and documentaries.

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The Scientology religion was founded by author and philosopher L. Ron Hubbard. The first Church of Scientology was formed in the United States in 1954 and has today expanded to more than 10,000 Churches, Missions and affiliated groups, with millions of members in 167 countries.

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I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.— ScientologyFounder, L. Ron Hubbard

Scientology Churches Celebrate Dianetics 60th Anniversary

Churches of Scientology around the world celebrate the original release of the religion’s first book this weekend.

Published May 9, 1950, “Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health” became an overnight success and has been a continuing bestseller for 60 years. May 7, 2010 -- Churches of Scientology around the world celebrate the original release of the religion’s first book this weekend. Published May 9, 1950, “Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health” became an overnight success and has been a continuing bestseller for 60 years. The work is the anatomy and full description of a portion of the mind that is the source of nightmares, unreasonable fears, upsets and insecurities. More than 20 million copies have been sold.

Based on author L. Ron Hubbard’s researches into the mind and human behavior prior to 1950, its release brought on the spontaneous formation of 750 Dianetics groups around the U.S. and establishment of the Hubbard Dianetics Foundation in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Mr. Hubbard lectured, instructed and otherwise met a staggering demand, while continuing research into the fundamental nature of man culminating in the founding of the Scientology religion in 1952.

Today, Dianetics remains a key substudy of the greater body of Scientology Scripture, its perennial popularity sustained by its workability. Before Dianetics, prevailing scientific thought held that Man's mind was his brain, nothing more than a collection of cells and neurons, and IQ and personality were considered fixed and unchanging. With Dianetics, IQ and personality improved, its effectiveness documented in a multitude of case histories over more than half a century of application.

In 2009, Mr. David Miscavige, Chairman of the Board of Religious Technology Center, announced the completion of translation in 50 languages of Dianetics and seven other basic Scientology books. Mr. Miscavige also released 32 new films of visual instruction in Dianetics procedures on DVD, part of a special Hubbard Dianetics Seminar now offered at Churches of Scientology, which include turnabout application of Dianetics procedure.

“Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health” is published by Bridge Publications and is available in 125,000 libraries in over 180 countries as well as public bookstores and Churches of Scientology. Dianetics Anniversary celebrations are open to the public.

^{I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.— Scientology Founder, L. Ron Hubbard}

Frankfurt Book Fair: Scientology and Dianetics Publisher Announces Books Now in 50 Languages

Scientology books now available to 90 percent of global book market.

Frankfurt, Germany, October 2009—Bridge Publications dominates its category at the Frankfurt Book Fair opening Oct. 14, as it releases eight popular non-fiction titles by L. Ron Hubbard in 50 languages. Los Angeles-based Bridge Publications Inc. is the publishing arm of the Scientology religion and one of the world’s largest all-digital printers. In the announcement to the trade, Nicole Shell, Director of Public Relations of Bridge Publications, said this means the most popular basic Scientology books are now available to 90 percent of the global book market.

The numbers are impressive: The translations took five years and consisted of 103,350 pages containing 21.1 million words. A corps of 928 translators and 84 staff supervisors put in 139,580 hours so readers in 188 countries now have these books in their native languages, many for the first time.

L. Ron Hubbard is named in the Guinness World Records as Most Translated Author (71 languages). One of the most prolific writers of the 20th century, L. Ron Hubbard has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list with 19 separate titles. His works have sold 230 million copies in 150 countries including 22 million copies of Dianetics: the Modern Science of Mental Health alone. The Guinness Book of Records recognized Mr. Hubbard for the most published works by one author (1,084) in Oct. 2006, and in April 2009 for the most published audio books (185).

The eight newly translated Hubbard works are: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health; Dianetics: The Original Thesis; Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science; Self Analysis; Scientology The Fundamentals of Thought; The Problems of Work: Scientology Applied to the Workaday World; Scientology: A New Slant on Life; and The Way to Happiness. They are now available in their original English and the following 50 languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese (simplified), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Farsi, Filipino, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Nepali, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (Castilian), Spanish (Latin American), Swahili, Swedish, Taiwanese, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu and Vietnamese.

Those attending the Fair can find the Bridge Publications booth in Hall 8.0 at stand A978.

For more information about L. Ron Hubbard and his works, watch a short biographical video at the Scientology web site or visit www.lronhubbard.org. For more information on the books of L. Ron Hubbard visit www.bridgepub.com or contact Nicole Shell, Director of Public Affairs, Bridge Publications, Inc., (323) 888-6200 nshell@bridgepub.com

^{I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.— ScientologyFounder, L. Ron Hubbard}

L. Ron Hubbard and Education

In the 1920s, L. Ron Hubbard’s concern for education began when he realized the “influence of a mislearned word on a life.” At that time, he was teaching English in a school in Guam.

He stressed two significant points: first, he wished his students to appreciate the scope of the world beyond their shores; and second, he wanted them to understand how literacy held the key to participation in that world.

To convey the foreign concept of a railroad train to children, who had no experience of mechanical transportation, he hitched three or four ox carts together. The theory underlying this successful experiment would prove vital to his later work. He had hit right at the heart of the learning process, how information is best assimilated-and what accounts for the bored and exasperated student.

In 1938, Mr. Hubbard outlined fundamental principles of education, from his views on the degrading examination system to practical procedures to be followed in teaching a foreign language.

During the Second World War, he became involved in the direct instruction of military personnel as well as the redrafting of instructional materials. In a preliminary note on his navigational text, he advised, "Failure to learn definitions results in a later inability to understand explanations, which include those definitions. Easily the most important factor in any study is a comprehension of what is meant by certain words."

In 1950, he lectured further on effective approaches to education, clarifying the goal and purpose of education as well as basic axioms for the subject. “The maintenance of a high level of self-determinism is more important in educating than the maintenance of order,” he stated. This prescient observation predated modern education reform efforts, and the emerging emphasis on teaching students to reason with the concepts they are taught, by more than four decades.

In fact, by the early 1960’s, Mr. Hubbard saw fully that declining educational standards were having a profound effect on the learning abilities of the people he was attempting to instruct. His investigation of this decline, and research regarding the basic laws of education led to a revolutionary development in the field – a technology of study. His lectures on this work were recorded and formed the basis for a whole approach to teaching and learning.

As educators throughout the world learned of Mr. Hubbard’s breakthroughs, they began to utilize them in their own work. Thus were formed the roots of a new world wide movement – Applied Scholastics.

Due to Mr. Hubbard’s discoveries and developments, quality education is now within the reach of every person who wants it. Applied Scholastics is the organization that makes available L. Ron Hubbard’s educational methods to the world.

^{I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.— Scientology Founder, L. Ron Hubbard}

L. RON HUBBARD - HOW HIS WORK HAS INFLUENCED THE WORLD

<sup>Throughout history, the most important advances in our culture and civilization have not come about because man invented a stronger sword for the foot soldier, a better longbow for the archer, more powerful tanks for the cavalry or atomic bombs. Rather, progress has come from the new ideas of thinking men.

As L. Ron Hubbard wrote in Science of Survival, “Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.” When an idea represents fundamental and workable truths, it is adopted by many and achieves a lasting endurance. Plato’s Republic, written more than three hundred years before the birth of Christ, catalyzed political thinkers for centuries and many of its fundamental concepts are woven into the fabric of modern governments. Descartes’ seventeenth-century laws of mathematics are taught today in modern universities and continue to be used as tools to aid scientific inquiry.

Today, at the dawn of a new millennium, the last hundred years have seen some of the most rapid advances in technology ever. These advances, unfortunately, have been accompanied by a commensurate decline in the beneficial influence of religion and the systematic removal of the humanities from our educational systems. The results have been mixed. While we have seen a rise in material living standards, we have also lived through the horrors of two world wars, political, racial and religious genocide on an unprecedented scale and social turmoil, reflected by plummeting moral standards, the breakdown of the family unit, violent crime, widespread drug abuse in all economic sectors and failing educational systems.

Amid this turmoil, L. Ron Hubbard researched the spiritual breakthroughs which led to his development of Scientology and ultimately the founding of the Scientology religion – the only major new religion established in the twentieth century. But the birth of Scientology has meant more than just the growth of a worldwide religion of eight million adherents. As has happened throughout history, the ideas of one man have been taken up and carried forward by many – Scientologists and non-Scientologists alike – and have become part of the fabric of modern culture.

I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.— ScientologyFounder, L. Ron Hubbard</sup>

L. Ron Hubbard's Own Philosophy

In an essay titled My Philosophy, L. Ron Hubbard once wrote: “I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself from the shadows which darken his days.”

I've always been impressed with L. Ron Hubbard's care and with how true he was to his own philosophy as stated above, but now that I'm studying the Scientology basic books and lectures this has come home to me even more.

Sometimes my friends ask me about LRH, and it's not unusual that I read this quote to them. Because I believe this typifies his attitude toward life and toward other beings. He combined this with a brilliant mind and the perseverance and integrity to document and publish all his research so that anyone can study it and use it to help themselves and help others.

And the release of the new editions of the Dianetics and Scientology basic books and lectures of L. Ron Hubbard, which was announced in late June by David Miscavige, is an incredible boon to anyone who wants to learn more about the mind, the spirit and life as it is all laid out in simple if incredibly perceptive words for anyone to read or listen to.

^{I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.— ScientologyFounder, L. Ron Hubbard}

What Motivates Mankind?

While it is true that I'll go a long way to avoid pain, it's also true that I'll put up with an awful lot of pain and discomfort to accomplish a pleasurable goal. I remember one time staying up three days straight to finish an art project because "I was so close" and didn't want to lose my train of thought. And when I finished I was so tired I could hardly move, but I was so happy!

In Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health L. Ron Hubbard debunked the psychological model that man is motivated by the avoidance of pain, pointing out that he is equally attracted by the pursuit of pleasure. And that is certainly true for me.

"There is a necessity for pleasure, a necessity as live and quivering and vital as the human heart itself. He who said that a man who had two loaves of bread should sell one to buy white hyacinth, spoke sooth . The creative, the constructive, the beautiful, the harmonious, the adventurous, yes, and even escape from the the maw of oblivion, these things are pleasure and these things are necessity."

If you are a fan of Dianetics and you haven't picked up a copy of the latest edition of the book (released in late June by David Miscavige, Chairman of the Board of Religious Technology Center) I urge you to order your copy (you can do so online here). This book is such an easy read now, with a complete glossary in the back that defines not only all the Dianetics and Scientology terms but virtually any English language word you might have to look up as well. As much as I loved this book before, and I did (it was my first Scientology book), I am inspired by in now!




^{I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.— ScientologyFounder, L. Ron Hubbard}

Scientology Basic Books and Lectures

The materials of Dianetics and Scientology comprise the largest body of information ever assembled on the mind, spirit and life, rigorously refined and codified by L. Ron Hubbard through five decades of research, investigation and development. The results of that work are contained in hundreds of books and more than 3,000 recorded lectures.

All the basic books and lectures of Scientology were released at a special event MCed by David Miscavige at the end of June, 2007.

Scientology means "knowing how to know."

The basic books of L. Ron Hubbard contain the summaries of breakthroughs and conclusions as they appeared in the developmental research track of Dianetics and Scientology. His lectures provide the running day-to-day record of research and explain the thoughts, conclusions, tests and demonstrations that lay along that route. In that regard, they are the complete record of the entire research track, providing not only the most important breakthroughs in Man’s history, but the why and how Ron arrived at them.

^{I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.— Scientology Founder, L. Ron Hubbard}

Are You a Friend of Yours?

In 1951 L. Ron Hubbard wrote a book called Self Analysis in which he said, "Probably the most neglected friend you have is you."

The other day I was going through a rough spot and I pulled this out and this line resonated. I realized I needed to make friends with myself again, and started using the techniques in the book. Within half an hour I was completely back to battery and then some.

Not a bad use of half an hour of my always-too-busy life. I got more done that afternoon than I'd accomplished in weeks in my previous "I'll get through it" state of mind.

Try it out some time. You can get the book online at the Bridge Publications web site.



^{I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.— ScientologyFounder, L. Ron Hubbard}

It Makes me Feel Sick!!

Ever see something awful and it makes you actually feel physically ill? Ever wonder how the mind can turn emotional reaction into physical reaction?

Have you ever gotten really upset with someone and sometime, maybe a few hours or even a couple of days later, you came down with a cold or flu?

If you thought it might have been a coincidence, think again.

I'm reading Science of Survival by L. Ron Hubbard. This newest edition of the book, released in late June by David Miscavige. I'm on chapter 12 and I was reading along and BANG! I suddenly discovered something I'd been trying to figure out for ages!



^{I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.— Scientology Founder, L. Ron Hubbard}