One question plagues the whole of Scientology, where did dirty old Hubbard get his dirty ideas? Investigative journalists seek answers but fail to cut the mustard. How long is their fumbling around going to take? Some of the shit he found was hot most was not. When I read reports of his early life I see things emerging that others miss. Wait a sec until I polish up my crystal egg. I see it all now; a systemic pattern of behavior taught by his mother shaped his childhood thinking, but it not up to me to be the judge, to be the messenger just for you is my aim.
Nobody wants to show up his goddam frigging parents, particularly his mother. In those days (and I suppose even these) every American is taught to respect God, Mother and Apple Pie. But as humans we all make mistakes. Oh gasp, Hubbard as his parent’s mistake? Hubbard claimed that his parents tried to abort him. Whether they did or not is beside the point, he said so and that’s all that counts. He claimed the attempted abortion was the source of him having ulcers. His mother was educated, but never employed as a teacher, the reason why will become apparent later.
Rare accounts of early life say his father, Harry, alarmed at his son’s lack of education sent him to various schools where he routinely got expelled for bullying and organizing gangs that stole lunch money and other things. His mother was forced to educate him during his formative years, so his ways reflected his mother’s teachings. Was his education all about the three R’s, reading, riting, and rithmatic? She could teach him what she damned well pleased so she did. The authorized versions of his life say she was a strong-minded woman and a suffragette supporter, an early women’s liberationist. Ledora May trained in Omaha, Nebraska as a high school and institute teacher; she met Harry Hubbard not long afterwards. But her support of women was far more than intellectual.
Hubbard later confided in a woman he wanted to marry, Barbara Kay, how walked into his mother’s bedroom one day and caught her in bed making love to another woman. A serious trauma for a child to deal with. One can imagine the other naked women jumping up shouting “Get that fucking kid outta here!” then his sobbing mother replies, “You had better go, Betsy, he’s my son and I have to take care of him.” All sorts of juicy engram things would have been recorded. Stuff like this played their part in his becoming a wife beater. His son told he watched his father beat up his mother. He had a rifle in his hands but couldn’t bring himself to shoot his own father.
An interview with Barbara Kaye, “He drank excessively and talked in proportion to his intake. He told grotesque tales about his family mostly and his hatred of his mother, who he said was a lesbian and a whore. He was fond of his grandfather, a heavy drinker who played a fiddle with the head of a Negro carved in the handle. His father was a sailor - a radio man who sent out communications on the ship, who got on the Kansas City Star.”
“He suspected his father was illegitimate. His (father’s) mother had been thrown on charity when the baby was born. "Ron is a deeply unhappy man. He said the only thing he has had to show affection on for the last few years has been a calico cat, before he met me. Although he was married to Sara at the time, “He buried his head in my neck in one of his deep drunk periods of depression and dreamed of empire, to rule the world by idea... "
Whether Harry knew or cared about his wife’s bisexuality is unknown, but then he was a sailor. One wonders if Ron called his mother a whore because he was the only member in both families with very bright curly red hair that never appeared before. The boy picked up quickly, but not the right things for a kid to know about. With Ron Hubbard his treatment of children turned out cold and indifferent. He didn’t care about reports of cruelty when as full leader he should have put a stop to it. He had problems in relating even to his own children.
Hubbard wrote, “My mother was one of those strange beings of her time, an educated woman. Most of the early schooling I received was actually from my mother since we were together a great deal of time, and since I was moved from school to school and often lost out my mother would see to it that I made up what I had missed and far more. She was a thin, handsome woman of the Western pioneer type and temperament. She died in 1959. “
This ‘far more’ he mentions? To learn Hubbard-speak you ignore the main point and pick up on expressions that slip by unnoticed. The truth is - all his life Hubbard had been trained in witchcraft! His mother, Ledora, was a grey witch, neither black nor white, who trained him in the “old ways” as a boy. It’s necessary to train children early to get them good at making others believe in the power of the rituals whether they work or not. Lenora’s family tree, the Waterbury’s, goes back to the time of the Salem witch trials. So does the name Hubbard, but his father was adapted
No information appears about the Hubbard family religion. His birth certificate doesn’t show religion. Hubbard did make some early remarks about conversing with Catholic priests, but they have been removed from official history. It really pisses them off to ask his family religion, they say he never had one! He did say the priests praised him. If they had known later in life he would attend black mass and recite the liturgy in a reverse under a reversed cross dipped in female menstrual blood they would have excommunicated him.
Hubbard’s need to throw himself into the magical mysteries at the deep end began in early life. Hubbard’s mother taught her boy the ancient arts while his father was at sea. The core of witchcraft is secrecy. Nowadays witchcraft is legal and just another religion, but back then it was very illegal. A whole lot more happened in their style of down home witchcraft than Halloween, wearing funny hats and brewing herbs that did funny things to your head and body. The well-known phenomena of witchcraft are of flying, every child knows witches fly through the air on broomsticks. Hubbard called it exteriorization. Lenora was well-educated so this desperate housewife built up a world of kitchen magic based on ancient mysteries found in arcane books and taught the contents to her child as his education.
Of course the story gets worse. Stop right now if offended by more expose on his childhood. A woman couldn’t go to hospital and abort in those days. They relied upon the witchy woman of their area. Abortion was illegal, yet what witches did was looked upon as a public service. Lenora’s sister worked at the local hospital, but it remained against the law and public morality for the local doctor to do the job. Although desperately needed religious pressure was put on doctors to stay away from terminating unwanted pregnancies. Young Hubbard joined the boy scouts to learn First Aid to help out in his mother’s out of town abortion clinic.
Hubbard trained from an early age to avoid telling about what went on behind closed barn doors a long way from the road. The ‘old homestead’, an extra house in the country was owned and built by his mother to use as a retreat and whatever else. It was made of slabs of untreated pine; the blood splattered wood could burn rather than mop up, leaving behind no evidence and unborn bodies burned as well. Her boy could use the witch’s bell, book, candle and mirror when mysticism was on the rise. After World War I many people, particularly women, sought spiritual contact with dead or lost brothers, husbands and sons.
He was born in 1911 the great war began in 1914 and ended in 1918, with another world war looming in 1939. These times show his major influences. His boyhood training to never tell secrets fitted in. The story of being the youngest Eagle Scout is not quite true; there had been younger boys from other areas, but could have been the youngest in his own. He got promotion for he could impress at his age, even if his skills were not as conventional as others.
When an adult he tried to break from his mother’s teachings. They didn’t fit into holding a career and raising a family. He tried his hand at writing science fiction but suffered from creative burnout after trying to mix it with the best for a while. He hovered around the outer fringes of greatness but dropped out for couldn’t take the pressure. He never had the right education, so he went ahead and made a world of his own.
His son said Hubbard used to hang out with Errol Flynn and I believe him. Flynn dreamed of being a writer and Hubbard conned him, the same as Hollywood actors are being conned today. Such a vulnerable group is easily got to and they were milked from the very beginning. It was noted that Flynn had “fourteen inches of untamed fury”. I doubt Hubbard had the same, but then, as they say, it’s not what you’ve got but what you do with it.
Funny thing many of the teachings he knew from his blessed childhood did apply to the human condition. The seeds of science had been concealed inside the shell of witchcraft to resist the ravages of organized religion. (Why are you tying me to this rack?)The magic thing should have died at the rise of the scientific age, but even scientists screwed it up for they too can be up themselves and full of it. Hubbard looked for ways to make what he knew into a system of the mind and found others to organize into a group. In a flurry of backstabbing about who owned what he emerged at the top of the heap with full ownership of what others had contributed.
His son, Nibs, broke from his father when it became obvious the teachings were using and not helping people and he begged for his father to control himself. A drunkard sailor having control of himself? Jeez, even the navy couldn’t control Hubbard, so like his school days he got thrown out. Walk the plank Hubbard! His father also served in the navy. Anyway, when joining the spoiled navy brat learned discipline at a level he never knew before. He found the experience terrifying but thought it was a wonderful idea for others to be disciplined by him and his bully cronies. In the primeval depths of the Org, the jungle of abbreviations and contractions of words come from past military manuals.
Nobody wants to show up his goddam frigging parents, particularly his mother. In those days (and I suppose even these) every American is taught to respect God, Mother and Apple Pie. But as humans we all make mistakes. Oh gasp, Hubbard as his parent’s mistake? Hubbard claimed that his parents tried to abort him. Whether they did or not is beside the point, he said so and that’s all that counts. He claimed the attempted abortion was the source of him having ulcers. His mother was educated, but never employed as a teacher, the reason why will become apparent later.
Rare accounts of early life say his father, Harry, alarmed at his son’s lack of education sent him to various schools where he routinely got expelled for bullying and organizing gangs that stole lunch money and other things. His mother was forced to educate him during his formative years, so his ways reflected his mother’s teachings. Was his education all about the three R’s, reading, riting, and rithmatic? She could teach him what she damned well pleased so she did. The authorized versions of his life say she was a strong-minded woman and a suffragette supporter, an early women’s liberationist. Ledora May trained in Omaha, Nebraska as a high school and institute teacher; she met Harry Hubbard not long afterwards. But her support of women was far more than intellectual.
Hubbard later confided in a woman he wanted to marry, Barbara Kay, how walked into his mother’s bedroom one day and caught her in bed making love to another woman. A serious trauma for a child to deal with. One can imagine the other naked women jumping up shouting “Get that fucking kid outta here!” then his sobbing mother replies, “You had better go, Betsy, he’s my son and I have to take care of him.” All sorts of juicy engram things would have been recorded. Stuff like this played their part in his becoming a wife beater. His son told he watched his father beat up his mother. He had a rifle in his hands but couldn’t bring himself to shoot his own father.
An interview with Barbara Kaye, “He drank excessively and talked in proportion to his intake. He told grotesque tales about his family mostly and his hatred of his mother, who he said was a lesbian and a whore. He was fond of his grandfather, a heavy drinker who played a fiddle with the head of a Negro carved in the handle. His father was a sailor - a radio man who sent out communications on the ship, who got on the Kansas City Star.”
“He suspected his father was illegitimate. His (father’s) mother had been thrown on charity when the baby was born. "Ron is a deeply unhappy man. He said the only thing he has had to show affection on for the last few years has been a calico cat, before he met me. Although he was married to Sara at the time, “He buried his head in my neck in one of his deep drunk periods of depression and dreamed of empire, to rule the world by idea... "
Whether Harry knew or cared about his wife’s bisexuality is unknown, but then he was a sailor. One wonders if Ron called his mother a whore because he was the only member in both families with very bright curly red hair that never appeared before. The boy picked up quickly, but not the right things for a kid to know about. With Ron Hubbard his treatment of children turned out cold and indifferent. He didn’t care about reports of cruelty when as full leader he should have put a stop to it. He had problems in relating even to his own children.
Hubbard wrote, “My mother was one of those strange beings of her time, an educated woman. Most of the early schooling I received was actually from my mother since we were together a great deal of time, and since I was moved from school to school and often lost out my mother would see to it that I made up what I had missed and far more. She was a thin, handsome woman of the Western pioneer type and temperament. She died in 1959. “
This ‘far more’ he mentions? To learn Hubbard-speak you ignore the main point and pick up on expressions that slip by unnoticed. The truth is - all his life Hubbard had been trained in witchcraft! His mother, Ledora, was a grey witch, neither black nor white, who trained him in the “old ways” as a boy. It’s necessary to train children early to get them good at making others believe in the power of the rituals whether they work or not. Lenora’s family tree, the Waterbury’s, goes back to the time of the Salem witch trials. So does the name Hubbard, but his father was adapted
No information appears about the Hubbard family religion. His birth certificate doesn’t show religion. Hubbard did make some early remarks about conversing with Catholic priests, but they have been removed from official history. It really pisses them off to ask his family religion, they say he never had one! He did say the priests praised him. If they had known later in life he would attend black mass and recite the liturgy in a reverse under a reversed cross dipped in female menstrual blood they would have excommunicated him.
Hubbard’s need to throw himself into the magical mysteries at the deep end began in early life. Hubbard’s mother taught her boy the ancient arts while his father was at sea. The core of witchcraft is secrecy. Nowadays witchcraft is legal and just another religion, but back then it was very illegal. A whole lot more happened in their style of down home witchcraft than Halloween, wearing funny hats and brewing herbs that did funny things to your head and body. The well-known phenomena of witchcraft are of flying, every child knows witches fly through the air on broomsticks. Hubbard called it exteriorization. Lenora was well-educated so this desperate housewife built up a world of kitchen magic based on ancient mysteries found in arcane books and taught the contents to her child as his education.
Of course the story gets worse. Stop right now if offended by more expose on his childhood. A woman couldn’t go to hospital and abort in those days. They relied upon the witchy woman of their area. Abortion was illegal, yet what witches did was looked upon as a public service. Lenora’s sister worked at the local hospital, but it remained against the law and public morality for the local doctor to do the job. Although desperately needed religious pressure was put on doctors to stay away from terminating unwanted pregnancies. Young Hubbard joined the boy scouts to learn First Aid to help out in his mother’s out of town abortion clinic.
Hubbard trained from an early age to avoid telling about what went on behind closed barn doors a long way from the road. The ‘old homestead’, an extra house in the country was owned and built by his mother to use as a retreat and whatever else. It was made of slabs of untreated pine; the blood splattered wood could burn rather than mop up, leaving behind no evidence and unborn bodies burned as well. Her boy could use the witch’s bell, book, candle and mirror when mysticism was on the rise. After World War I many people, particularly women, sought spiritual contact with dead or lost brothers, husbands and sons.
He was born in 1911 the great war began in 1914 and ended in 1918, with another world war looming in 1939. These times show his major influences. His boyhood training to never tell secrets fitted in. The story of being the youngest Eagle Scout is not quite true; there had been younger boys from other areas, but could have been the youngest in his own. He got promotion for he could impress at his age, even if his skills were not as conventional as others.
When an adult he tried to break from his mother’s teachings. They didn’t fit into holding a career and raising a family. He tried his hand at writing science fiction but suffered from creative burnout after trying to mix it with the best for a while. He hovered around the outer fringes of greatness but dropped out for couldn’t take the pressure. He never had the right education, so he went ahead and made a world of his own.
His son said Hubbard used to hang out with Errol Flynn and I believe him. Flynn dreamed of being a writer and Hubbard conned him, the same as Hollywood actors are being conned today. Such a vulnerable group is easily got to and they were milked from the very beginning. It was noted that Flynn had “fourteen inches of untamed fury”. I doubt Hubbard had the same, but then, as they say, it’s not what you’ve got but what you do with it.
Funny thing many of the teachings he knew from his blessed childhood did apply to the human condition. The seeds of science had been concealed inside the shell of witchcraft to resist the ravages of organized religion. (Why are you tying me to this rack?)The magic thing should have died at the rise of the scientific age, but even scientists screwed it up for they too can be up themselves and full of it. Hubbard looked for ways to make what he knew into a system of the mind and found others to organize into a group. In a flurry of backstabbing about who owned what he emerged at the top of the heap with full ownership of what others had contributed.
His son, Nibs, broke from his father when it became obvious the teachings were using and not helping people and he begged for his father to control himself. A drunkard sailor having control of himself? Jeez, even the navy couldn’t control Hubbard, so like his school days he got thrown out. Walk the plank Hubbard! His father also served in the navy. Anyway, when joining the spoiled navy brat learned discipline at a level he never knew before. He found the experience terrifying but thought it was a wonderful idea for others to be disciplined by him and his bully cronies. In the primeval depths of the Org, the jungle of abbreviations and contractions of words come from past military manuals.
