Philosopher


How L. Ron Hubbard came to found these subjects is an immense story that effectively began in the first decades of this century with his befriending of indigenous Blackfeet Indians in and around his Helena, Montana home. Notable among these people was a full-fledged tribal medicine man, locally known as Old Tom. In what ultimately constituted a rare bond, the six-year-old Ron was both honored with the status of blood brother, and instilled with an appreciation of a profoundly distinguished spiritual heritage.

What may be seen as the next milestone came in 1923 when a twelve-year-old L. Ron Hubbard began a study of Freudian theory with a Commander Joseph C. Thompson—the first United States naval officer to actually work with Freud in Vienna. Although Mr. Hubbard was never to accept psychoanalysis per se, the exposure was once again pivotal. For if nothing else, he later wrote, Freud had at least advanced the idea, “that something could be done about the mind.”


A great deal more information is available on L. Ron Hubbard’s life
as a philosopher in Ron, The Philosopher.


Listen to "My Philosophy," by L. Ron Hubbard, read by Jeff Pomerantz.