Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's year from hell: His bizarre letter from Cuba

TONY ORTEGA
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We continue to dive into the early history of Scientology’s founder L. Ron Hubbard that the church hides from its members.
Last time, as we watched things unfold 75 years ago in 1951, Ron’s second wife Sara Northrup had begun to exact some revenge after his failed attempt to kidnap her and to get her committed. She still had no idea where Ron had taken their baby girl, Alexis Valorie.
On April 12, she had filed a writ with the court in Los Angeles, making the kidnap attempt public and asking for return of Alexis. It blew up in the press, and the news reached Hubbard.
Ron, with the help of his assistant, Richard B. DeMille, had absconded to Havana, where they put the baby in the care of a couple of Jamaican women so Ron could focus on finishing dictating Science of Survival, his follow-up to the previous year’s bestseller, Dianetics.
On April 15, he penned a letter to Sara in a strange sloping handwriting, finally admitting that he was in Cuba.

Dear Sara,
I have been in the Cuban military hospital and I am being transferred to the States next week as a classified scientist immune from interference of all kinds though I will be hospitalized probably a long time. Alexis is getting excellent care. I see her every day. She is all I have to live for. My wits never gave way under all you did and let them do but my body didn’t stand up. My right side is paralyzed and getting more so. I have trouble moving and I am going blind. I hope my heart lasts. I can stand everything but the way it hurts. I may live a long time and again I may not. But Dianetics will last ten thousand years — for the Army and Navy have it now.
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But I wanted to be well and strong and I can barely move now.
My will is all changed. Alexis will get a fortune unless she goes to you as she would then get nothing. Get away from bad companions.
Hope to see you once more. Goodbye — I love you.
Ron.

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Karen#1 said:

TONY ORTEGA
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We continue to dive into the early history of Scientology’s founder L. Ron Hubbard that the church hides from its members.
Last time, as we watched things unfold 75 years ago in 1951, Ron’s second wife Sara Northrup had begun to exact some revenge after his failed attempt to kidnap her and to get her committed. She still had no idea where Ron had taken their baby girl, Alexis Valorie.
On April 12, she had filed a writ with the court in Los Angeles, making the kidnap attempt public and asking for return of Alexis. It blew up in the press, and the news reached Hubbard.
Ron, with the help of his assistant, Richard B. DeMille, had absconded to Havana, where they put the baby in the care of a couple of Jamaican women so Ron could focus on finishing dictating Science of Survival, his follow-up to the previous year’s bestseller, Dianetics.
On April 15, he penned a letter to Sara in a strange sloping handwriting, finally admitting that he was in Cuba.

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Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's year from hell: His bizarre letter from Cuba

We continue to dive into the early history of Scientology’s founder L.

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What emerges here for me was how invested and committed Hubbard was to self-delusion, with the idea that if he could convince himself, then he could somehow speak his self-serving fantasies into being through having others perceive and project them as being real. As evidenced in his "affirmations", revealed and related by Gerry Armstrong. And it isn't like he didn't have any success, albeit it mostly impermanent with people, in building his cult this way.