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Subsequently, he developed his ideas into a set of wide ranged rituals and doctrines as a part of his new religious movement called as scientology. Ron hubbard claimed to have had a neardeath experience in 1938 that inspired him to write excalibur, an unpublished manuscript based on the revelations from the experience. Dianetics florida buy hard cover, paperback and audio. During the continual process of dianetics research, both as an auditor and as an observer of other auditors, mr. Author, humanitarian and founder of dianetics and scientology, l.
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