When Hubbard formulated Dianetics, he described it as " a mix of Western technology and Oriental philosophy ".

Hubbard described Dianetics as " an organized science of thought built on definite axioms: statements of natural laws on the order of those of the physical sciences ".

He described Hubbard as " absolutistic and authoritarian ", and criticized the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation for failing to undertake " precise scientific research into the functioning of the mind ".

His grandfather is described as a " wealthy Western cattleman " from whom Hubbard " inherited his fortune and family interests in America, Southern Africa, etc.

The narrative of Xenu is part of Scientologist teachings about extraterrestrial civilizations and alien interventions in earthly events, collectively described as space opera by Hubbard.

Hubbard described Xenu's spacecraft as looking exactly like Douglas DC-8 | DC-8s without " fans " ( meaning the engines ).

It is described in more detail in the accompanying confidential " Assists " lecture of October 3, 1968, and is dramatized in Revolt in the Stars ( a screenplay written by L. Ron Hubbard in 1977 ).

Hubbard described the scene in his film script, Revolt in the Stars:

Elbert Hubbard, American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher, wrote " A miracle is an event described by those to whom it was told by people who did not see it.

Hubbard was described as " the most brilliant trumpeter of a generation of musicians who stand with one foot in ' tonal ' jazz and the other in the atonal camp ".

Hubbard described these " thetans " in a " Space Opera " cosmogony.

The act of using Scientology techniques in a form different than originally described by Hubbard is referred to within Scientology as " squirreling ", and is said by Scientologists to be " high treason ".

" Used as a verb, " dead agenting " is described by Hubbard as a technique for countering negative accusations against Scientology by diverting the critical statements and making counter-accusations against the accuser.

The judge who convicted Mrs. Hubbard and ten accomplices described their attempt to plead freedom of religion in defense:

Hubbard described Scientology as " the Western Anglicized continuance of many earlier forms of wisdom.

On October 17, Nicholas Hubbard, an Englishman working for a Dutch bank used by the Americans ( who came to be identified as " W " in the published papers ), notified Pinckney that Baron Jean-Conrad Hottinguer, whom Hubbard described only as a man of honor, wished to meet with him.

A short man ( he had to cut six inches off his rapier so it wouldn't drag on the ground when he walked ), he was described by Puritan historian William Hubbard as " A little chimney is soon fired.

In L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology, a survey of Hubbard's literary career, Marco Frenschkowski of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz described the Mission Earth series:

Hubbard described himself as an anarchist and a socialist.

It was also alluded to ( although not described in any detail ) in a publicly available cassette tape Hubbard released called " Ron's Journal 67 ", addressed to " all staff and students of Scientology organizations ".

A Mother Hubbard Clause is a provision in a deed for the conveyance of real property that attempts to sweep within it other parcels not specifically described.

I was more interested in the book which described the auditing technique in which they had preclears — or prereleases if just beginners — count backwards from seven to zero repeatedly until they went into a trance, although Hubbard denied it was hypnosis.

William Hubbard who, in 1677, claimed that the Pequot, rather than originating in the region, had invaded it sometime before the establishment of Plymouth Colony.

Seeking answers not in Connecticut and Massachusetts Bay Colony's own failed diplomacy and colonial conflicts over Native lands, Hubbard may have projected his own situation onto the Pequot by defining them as " foreigners " to the region.

Owned by Hubbard Broadcasting, WNYT has studios on North Pearl Street in Menands even though it has an Albany address.

Unlike the city's icon towering above it, major figures like former Auckland Mayor Dick Hubbard have remained critical of the casino, though he acknowledged that the complex itself has been positive for the city.

musicOMH's Michael Hubbard also gave the album a positive review, writing " This album deserves to do well for many more reasons than the act's name, excellent though it is.

Further honours were showered on Hunt and the expedition team: the Hubbard Medal of the National Geographic Society, the first time the medal was awarded on a collective basis, though individual bronze replicas were made for Hunt, Hillary and Norgay ; the Founder's medal of the Royal Geographical Society ; the Lawrence medal of the Royal Central Asian Society ; and honorary degrees from Aberdeen, Durham, and London universities.

The top ten in that poll, though, included four works by Ayn Rand and three by L. Ron Hubbard -- according to David Ebershoff, Modern Library's publishing director, " the voting population skewed.

* Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard claimed the existence of a race of extraterrestrial invaders known as the Hoipolloi.

The first president of ARIN was Kim Hubbard, from 1997 until 2000.

Hubbard coined Dianetics from the Greek stems dia, meaning through, and nous, meaning mind.

Hubbard explained the backlash as a response from various entities trying to co-opt Dianetics for their own use.

Because of a sale of assets resulting from the bankruptcy, Hubbard no longer owned the rights to the name " Dianetics ", but its philosophical framework still provided the seed for Scientology to grow.

Hubbard proposed that, via pain, physical or mental traumas caused " aberrations " ( deviations from rational thinking ) in the mind, which produced adverse physical and emotional effects.

One treatment method Hubbard drew from in developing Dianetics was abreaction therapy.

: Dianetics is nothing more than an example of pseudoscience trying to legitimize itself ... Hubbard, had he indeed been a scientist, would have known that truth is not built on axioms, and facts cannot be found from some a-priori knowledge.

Scientific knowledge is gained by observation and testing, not believing from some subconscious stipulation, as Hubbard would have us believe.

Hubbard lived over a hundred miles from the Blackfeet reservation.

During a journey to Washington, D. C. in 1923 Hubbard learned of Freudian psychology from Commander Joseph " Snake " Thompson, a U. S. Navy psychoanalyst and medic.

Hubbard and his parents made a side trip to Beijing before sailing on to Shanghai and Hong Kong, from where they returned to Guam.

Scientology accounts present a different version of events, saying that Hubbard " made his way deep into Manchuria's Western Hills and beyond — to break bread with Mongolian bandits, share campfires with Siberian shamans and befriend the last in the line of magicians from the court of Kublai Khan.

Nashvilles commanding officer, Commander John Hubbard, sent a small party ashore and, with the support of the American superintendent of the Panama Railroad, kept the Colombians from taking the train to Panama City.

Samuel and Tacy Hubbard, two members of the First Baptist Church of Newport, pastored by John Clarke ( 1609 – 76 ), withdrew from that church and joined with Stephen Mumford, a Seventh Day Baptist from England, and 4 others, covenanting to meet together for worship, calling themselves Sabbatarian Baptists.

According to Director of the Writers and Illustrators Contests Joni Labaqui, the funds to underwrite the contest — including the cash prizes, the gala awards ceremony and the weeklong pre-awards festivities — come from the Hubbard estate.

The Hubbard estate is separate from the Church of Scientology and earns royalties from sales of Hubbard's books, including his fiction.

However, records with the United States Patent and Trademark Office show that the rights to the Writers of the Future name were transferred from the L. Ron Hubbard estate (" Family Trust-B ") to the Church of Spiritual Technology in 1989, and under the 1993 IRS closing agreement with the Church of Scientology, the L. Ron Hubbard estate became part of the Church of Spiritual Technology, a " Scientology-related entity ".

In Neil Gaiman's early short story The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds, the Humpty Dumpty story is turned into a film noir-style hardboiled crime story, involving also Cock Robin, the Queen of Hearts, Little Bo Peep, Old Mother Hubbard and other characters from popular nursery rhymes.

Hubbard uses the existence of body thetans to explain many of the physical and mental ailments of humanity which, he says, prevent people from achieving their highest spiritual levels.