Karen#1
Well-known member
TONY ORTEGA
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We continue our dive into the early history of Scientology’s founder L. Ron Hubbard, a history that the church hides from its members.
In a series of posts, we’ve been describing how things unfolded 75 years ago in 1951, as Hubbard’s early success with Dianetics turned sour, and his personal escapades began to catch up with him.
Last time, we remembered how Hubbard’s bigamy became public in court papers with his second wife leaving him and his first wife suing for unpaid child support. And at the same time, he was struggling to come up with ways to bring in more cash as his early Dianetics empire was crumbling.
Then, 75 years ago today, came another serious blow.
On September 3, 1951 Time magazine published a review of a new book by a physician by the name of Joseph A. Winter, who had been a very important early Dianetics supporter — he wrote the introduction to Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health when it came out the year before, and he had even delivered Alexis Valorie, the baby born to Hubbard and his second wife Sara Northrup on March 8, 1950, just weeks before the book arrived.
Now, a year later, Winter had not only soured on Hubbard and Dianetics, he had even published a book about it.
The timing could not have been worse for Hubbard. Just the day before, on September 2, the Wichita Eagle reported that his Dianetics foundations in Kansas and New Jersey were in receivership as his early successes were turning into abject failure.
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[/td]In a series of posts, we’ve been describing how things unfolded 75 years ago in 1951, as Hubbard’s early success with Dianetics turned sour, and his personal escapades began to catch up with him.
Last time, we remembered how Hubbard’s bigamy became public in court papers with his second wife leaving him and his first wife suing for unpaid child support. And at the same time, he was struggling to come up with ways to bring in more cash as his early Dianetics empire was crumbling.
Then, 75 years ago today, came another serious blow.
On September 3, 1951 Time magazine published a review of a new book by a physician by the name of Joseph A. Winter, who had been a very important early Dianetics supporter — he wrote the introduction to Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health when it came out the year before, and he had even delivered Alexis Valorie, the baby born to Hubbard and his second wife Sara Northrup on March 8, 1950, just weeks before the book arrived.
Now, a year later, Winter had not only soured on Hubbard and Dianetics, he had even published a book about it.
The timing could not have been worse for Hubbard. Just the day before, on September 2, the Wichita Eagle reported that his Dianetics foundations in Kansas and New Jersey were in receivership as his early successes were turning into abject failure.
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Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's year from hell: The Dianetics defection that really hurt
We continue our dive into the early history of Scientology’s founder L.
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