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March 11, 2003
Exhibit honors religion
founder
By Marika
Dehay
For the Mesa Legend
“Images of a Lifetime”, the black and
white captioned photographic exhibit of Scientology’s founder L.
Ron Hubbard, was currently at the Mesa Centennial Center Feb. 18–20.
Marika Dehay/Mesa Legend
Scientology founder,
L. Ron Hubbard. |
The exhibit depicted Hubbard’s life starting from the age of 6
when he was made blood brother of the Blackfoot Indians in Montana. Hubbard,
who graduated with an engineering degree from George Washington State
University, led numerous expeditions around the world where he studied
other cultures. His research to better develop the condition of man led
him to write, “Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health”
in 1950. His ideas went against the status quo and challenged psychiatry
at the time.
The Hubbard Association of Scientologists International was established
in Phoenix in 1952. People all over the country organized groups to apply
Hubbard’s Dianetics techniques and his ideas that man is a spiritual
being. These followers were considered Scientologists, and churches began
forming all over the world.
“I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how
it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.”
– L. Ron Hubbard
The exhibit also depicted the Scientology religion, which so many are
unfamiliar. Diagrams explained Hubbard’s findings on the analytical
mind, reactive mind, dianetics auditing, emotional tone scales, and the
eight dynamics, all ideas in which Scientology is based.
Scientologists believe in an eternal truth. Man to them is considered
good, but they have principles to improve one’s immediate life. Wendy
Shaw, Vice President of the Phoenix Chapter said, “What you are unhappy
with in your life isn’t really you.”
Known by many followers as an artist he adds, “We instinctively revere
the great artist, painter or musician and society as a whole looks upon
them as not quite ordinary beings. And they are not. They are a cut above
man…he who can truly communicate to others is a higher being who
builds new worlds.” – L. Ron Hubbard.
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