Scientology and Hypnosis - Hubbard's Experience With Hypnosis

Hubbard's Experience With Hypnosis

Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard was known to his associates in the late 1940s as a talented hypnotist. During this period, he worked in Hollywood posing as a swami. The Church says that Hubbard's experience with hypnosis led him to create Dianetics as an alternative means to solve man's problems.

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