Who is L. Ron Hubbard? continued...
His mother was a well-educated woman who attended teacher’s college prior to her marriage. Because of her husband’s naval career and the family’s extensive travel, she tutored her son at home. He was well-grounded in academic subjects and the humanities.
L. Ron Hubbard learned much from life itself. In 1923, for example, through his father’s contacts and travels, he became friends with Commander Joseph C. Thompson of the U.S. Navy Medical Corps, the first officer sent by the Navy to study under Sigmund Freud. Because of Ron’s keen interest, Commander Thompson took it upon himself to pass on the essentials of Freudian theory to his young friend.
In 1927, at the age of 16, he took the first of several voyages across the Pacific to Asia, where he studied Far Eastern culture. Through these travels he gained access to the much-talked-about but rarely seen Buddhist lamaseries in the Western Hills of China. Once again, he spent much of his time investigating and questioning, seeking answers to the human dilemma.
By the age of 19, he had traveled more than a quarter of a million miles, including voyages to China, Japan, Guam, the Philippines and other points in the Orient. His sojourns in Asia and the Pacific Islands had a profound effect, giving him a subjective understanding of an Eastern philosophy that had predated even the Greeks.
Returning to the United States in 1929, he resumed his education. After graduating from the Woodward School for Boys in Washington D.C., he enrolled at George Washington University.
Theorizing that the world of sub-atomic particles might possibly provide a clue to human thought processes, L. Ron Hubbard enrolled in one of the first nuclear physics courses taught in the United States. He also conducted a series of experiments to determine whether or not minds responded identically to the same stimuli. (They did.)
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