Who is L. Ron Hubbard? continued...
At the outbreak of World War II, L. Ron Hubbard was commissioned as a lieutenant (junior grade) in the U.S. Navy, first serving as an intelligence officer before being given his own command at sea. He served in both the Atlantic and Pacific, and thoroughly distinguished himself in the eyes of those who served beneath him.
In 1945, left partially blind with injured optic nerves and lame from hip and back injuries, Mr. Hubbard was hospitalized at Oak Knoll Naval Hospital in Oakland, California. Among the 5,000 naval and Marine Corps patients at Oak Knoll were hundreds of former American prisoners liberated from Japanese camps on South Pacific Islands. Many were in terrible condition from starvation and deprivation, unable to assimilate protein.
In an attempt to resolve this problem, navy physicians were administering testosterone, a male hormone. This medical treatment, however, was not effective on all patients, and Mr. Hubbard utilized the opportunity to not only help his fellow servicemen, but to test in application a theory he had developed.
In case after case, he found that by utilizing his techniques, previously unresponsive patients immediately improved with medical treatment once the mental blocks were removed. His theory that in fact function did monitor structure gained further proof. As he noted at the time, “Thought is boss.”
This was then a revolutionary concept and opened the gates wide for further research.
In 1947, Mr. Hubbard wrote a manuscript detailing some of his new discoveries about the mind. It was not published at that time, but circulated among friends, who copied it and passed it on to others. The result was an increasing flood of letters wanting more information about these new breakthroughs. He soon found himself spending all his time answering letters and decided to write a comprehensive text on the subject.
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