L. Ron Hubbard

L. Ron Hubbard once remarked: There are only two tests of a life well lived, Did one do as one intended? And were people glad one lived? In testament to the first stands the full body of his life’s work, including the more than ten thousand authored works and three thousand tape-recorded lectures of Dianetics and Scientology.

In evidence of the second are the hundreds of millions whose lives have been demonstrably bettered because he lived. They are the generations of students now reading superlatively, owing to L. Ron Hubbard’s educational discoveries; they are the millions more freed from the lure of substance abuse through L. Ron Hubbard’s breakthroughs in drug rehabilitation; still more touched by his common sense moral code; and many millions more again who hold his work as the spiritual cornerstone of their lives.

“For nearly a quarter of a century, I have been engaged in the investigation of the fundamentals of life, the material universe and human behavior. Such an adventure leads one down many highways, through many byroads, into many back alleys of uncertainty, through many strata of life…”

Purification Program

Although L. Ron Hubbard long recognized what drugs potentially spelled in terms of human misery, it was the so-called psychedelic revolution of the 1960s that prompted his most intensive work in the rehabilitation arena. His reasoning was simple—no one can be spiritually free if chained to a chemical substance. Not only did drug abuse endanger one’s health, but also one’s learning rate, attitudes, personality and overall mental acuity.

Moreover, as Mr. Hubbard next discovered, street drugs were not the only detrimental substances to lodge in the fatty tissues. In fact, virtually every kind of drug, chemical poison, preservative, pesticide and industrial waste that we regularly ingest can likewise embed in the body and do us harm.

That discovery—and L. Ron Hubbard was unquestionably the first to recognize it—held profound ramifications. Consider, for example, a subsequent Environmental Protection Agency report admitting the average American consumes more than seven hundred potentially dangerous substances in the body. What all this spells in terms of ill health and shortened life, the agency cannot say. But one fact is patently clear from both Mr. Hubbard’s original research and secondary medical studies: those toxic substances do much to diminish our ability to act, think and perceive.

The damage is done in this way: Given the body is essentially a communication system, with the brain acting as a switchboard for the translation of thought into action, biochemical substances can be devastating—actually disrupting the normal pattern of thought. Needless to say, these toxic substances also do much to inhibit our learning rate, our memory and all else necessary for our physical and spiritual well-being.

In answer to what he rightfully described as a biochemical crisis, Mr. Hubbard developed a complete program to counter it. It is most comprehensively explained in the book Clear Body, Clear Mind and utilizes an exact regimen of exercise, sauna and nutritional supplements under medical liaison. This, then, is the appropriately named Purification Program and intended to bring about detoxification, actually removing drug residuals from the fatty tissues.

To be sure, according to numerous studies, the Purification Program is the only means of ridding drug residues from fatty tissues. In point of fact, when Michigan residents were found to have ingested dangerous levels of a fire retardant in 1973, only the Purification Program proved capable of reducing toxin levels. Similarly, the program proved the only effective means for expunging airborne pollutants from 9/11 rescue personnel suffering pulmonary ailments; thus New York City firefighters describing the program as literally lifesaving.

The end result is more than impressive; it has factually redefined the parameters of environmental medicine. For whereas physicians previously treated only symptoms of toxic accumulation—including exhaustion, memory lapse and nausea—suddenly they were equipped to treat the underlying source of the problem. In consequence, many of those completing the program not only report improved perceptions, but also maintain they are generally happier, more energetic, mentally alert and altogether better disposed. Hence, the corollary reports of dramatically improved personal relationships and, in short, a recovery of what he so memorably described as:

“…some of the happiness, some of the sincerity and some of the love and kindness with which he was created.”