PHILOSOPHER

L. Ron Hubbard’s philosophic journey was genuinely a journey — not a sifting of ideas in some academic cloister, but a study of existence from what he truthfully termed “the top down and the bottom up.”

This search led him from the poverty and degradation prevalent in a then-impoverished China’s streets to the materialistic obsessions of those within the hallowed halls of Western learning.

The result? The Dianetics and Scientology materials comprise the largest written and spoken body of any single philosophic work – one which has given rise to the only major religion founded in the twentieth century. It was additionally through his research into Dianetics and Scientology that L. Ron Hubbard derived his solutions to criminality, drug addiction, illiteracy and social unrest — all now utilized by many million more in virtually every nation on earth.

Yet when we examine the principles upon which his philosophy was founded, we find a truly simple conviction. In the first place, L. Ron Hubbard tells us, wisdom is meant for those who would reach for it, and should never be regarded with awe. Next, he tells us that philosophic knowledge is only relevant to our lives if we can actually apply it, for “learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone.” Finally, he tells us that philosophy has no value unless workable or true, and if we come to know the truth about ourselves then the truth shall set us free.

To further appreciate L. Ron Hubbard, philosopher, let us first define philosophy as a love of wisdom or pursuit of wisdom, and say that it traditionally embraces all grand quests for truth. L. Ron Hubbard’s work stands in the oldest philosophic tradition, extending back to at least the dawn of religious thought and has resulted in the Scientology applied religious philosophy which rests, not upon theory or assumption, but upon axioms derived from precise observation.

Indeed, when we speak of Ron’s philosophic journey, we are actually speaking of the first deliberate and methodical examination of spiritual matters wherein the only criteria had been one of workability, i.e., did procedures derived from that quest actually better our capability to survive, actually make us happier, more causative and more able? In that regard, then, we are not speaking of philosophy in any generally conceived sense: a discourse on existence, a contemplation of reality or a statement of our place in this world. Nor are we speaking of what passes for philosophy in the face of a materialist creed wherein all philosophic thought becomes meaningless beyond such grim platitudes as: Your life is a biological accident, so you might as well get what you can before you die. Rather, we are dealing with philosophy as derived from a search for what is, for truths that are workable, relevant and applicable to every facet of our lives.

And that is Dianetics and Scientology.

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