The creator of Dianetics, Scientology and all other gadgets related to them - Lafayette Ronald Hubbard was born in Tilden (Nebraska) in 1911 on March 3 or 13. His childhood first passed on the farm of his parents, then on board a merchant ship on which his father, the captain of the ship, sailed. Having entered the physics department of the University of Washington, Hubbard barely studied for a year and decided to seek his fortune in the literary field. Brisk for invention, he began to compose science fiction novels [29].

After the war, Hubbard took an active part in the activities of one of the Satanist sects, the founder of which was the famous Satanist of the twentieth century, Aleister Crowley, from whom Hubbard largely adopted the ideas of building his pseudo-religious system [1]. According to [20], Hubbard's son testified that most of his "scientific revelations" were made by his father under the influence of drugs. Declaring his loyalty to all religions, Hubbard in the last years of his life, according to the information given in [17], revealed the "innermost secret" that his "mission" on Earth was the mission of the Antichrist to prevent the Second Coming.

As a third-rate science fiction writer, Hubbard, after a series of financial failures, realized that there were easier ways to get rich. In 1949, speaking at a convention of science fiction writers in New Jersey, Hubbard declared: "To write to get a penny a word is ridiculous. If a person really wants to get a million dollars, then the best way is to found his own religion." A year after this statement, in 1950, Hubbard published the said book with the teachings of Dianetics [1]. It must be said that in the West, for almost forty years of its existence, Dianetics has not produced a single major scientist, politician or artist. Those few really famous movie "stars" who became members of Dianetics organizations achieved success and recognition before meeting Dianetics [18].

Nevertheless, the idea to make money on the creation of his own religion turned out to be fruitful. From a not very rich writer, the founder of Scientology turned into a multimillionaire with a fortune of 640 million dollars by the end of his life. He had at his disposal a huge rigidly structured organization created by him (see Fig. 1 [44]).

Hubbard was recognized as a criminal by the courts of many countries, and in a number of countries he was declared persona non grata. For example, in 1978 in France, Hubbard was sentenced to prison and a fine for fraud, but escaped punishment by fleeing the country. In the United States, during the case of the theft of government secret documents in 1977, Hubbard was included in the list of criminals, but not sentenced to prison. In 1985, the U.S. Internal Investigation Service investigated Hubbard's financial fraud. Hubbard was "saved" from criminal punishment only by death in 1986 [1,20]. But despite all this, for Scientologists he is still the wisest, most merciful and simply the most human person who has ever lived.

Possessing a rare writing potential and having written more than 800 papers and more than 6 thousand lectures during his life, according to his supporters, which need to be verified, (from 1951 to 1954 alone, more than 20 books were written and more than 1100 lectures were given), L. Ron Hubbard did not manage to get a higher education and was expelled from the university in his second year for poor academic performance. Justice Breckenridge of the California Supreme Court, after studying the biography of L. Ron Hubbard in 1984, defined him as "a pathological liar when he touches on his past" [18].

Many official Scientology publications (including recent statements by representatives of the Hubbard Humanitarian Center on Radio Radonezh) state that Hubbard was one of the first nuclear physicists in the United States. In fact, he took only one introductory course in molecular and nuclear physics at George Washington University, but failed to pass the exam, as well as in many other subjects, for which he was expelled from the second year of university.

Sequoy University, which had awarded Hubbard an honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy of no scientific value for his services in the field of Dianetics and Scientology, was ready to issue diplomas of various types to graduates of Scientology courses: Bachelor of Scientology, Doctor of Scientology, Freudian psychoanalyst, Doctor of Theology. In 1958, Sequoiah University was closed by the Department of Education for unworthy of a scientific and educational institution trade in diplomas. Hubbard himself refused to use the title of doctor in 1966, apparently precisely because of the notoriety of Sequoi University.

In fact, all the regalia and merits of Hubbard's "writer, humanist and philosopher" turn out to be either inflated to the size of an elephant, which an ordinary person will not pay attention to, or lies. Instead of answering all the counts, one should simply quote the 1984 Ruling of the London Supreme Court, Justice Latey (Scientologists then had every chance and opportunity to prove the opposite, if the following quote were not absolutely true): "In order to advertise his sect and himself, Lafayette Ronald Hubbard cited numerous false facts, including the following: That he received many awards for his heroism in the war. Nothing of the kind happened. That he commanded a squadron of corvettes. Nothing of the kind happened. That he was awarded the "Purple Heart" - a medal for wounding during hostilities. There were no wounds or awards. That as a result of battle wounds, he was crippled, lost his sight and healed himself with the help of Dianetics invented by him. He was not crippled and did not lose his sight. That he, on the instructions of naval intelligence, exposed a sect of black magicians and Satanists in California. Nothing of the kind happened. He himself was a member of this sect and was actively engaged in magical sexual rituals. That he graduated from George Washington University with a degree in nuclear physics. In fact, he had only completed one university course and had taken the only introductory course in nuclear physics, but he had never been able to pass the exam. All these facts are indisputable. Not a single testimony has been refuted. Hubbard calls himself a "doctor." The only doctorate he has is a "Doctor of Scientology" degree, which he presented to himself. Mr. Hubbard is a typical charlatan" [1,17].

That is, Hubbard did not have any "Purple Heart on his wrist", was not wounded, was not a nuclear physicist, did not expose the sect of black magicians in California, did not lose his sight, did not heal himself with the help of Dianetics, did not heal many patients in the Oak Knoll hospital. Scientologists had the opportunity in court to prove that all this was real, if it had been so. But the fact of the matter is that it was not so, these are the inventions of the dashing Hubbard. Hubbard's record is a forgery, which has been confirmed by the U.S. Navy Archives in response to numerous judicial inquiries from various countries (see [37]).

Beloved by all Scientologists, L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics—The Modern Science of Mental Health is a compilation of psychological information thickly spiced with provisions from books on the occult and magic, and "engramme," a central concept in Scientology, is in fact a pseudoscientific version of ancient concepts of karma. The sources of Scientology are presumably [1,14]:

- cheap science fiction;

- ideas of psychology of Hubbard's time, plucked from popular science literature (now quite outdated);