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Subjects consulted in over a third of a century of organization and development of Scientology include the sacred writings of the Asian religions of Hinduism, Taoism and Buddhism; the general knowingness about life extant in the lamaseries of the Western Hills of China; the technologies and beliefs of various barbaric cultures; the various materials of Christianity; the mathematical and technical methodologies of the early Greeks, Romans and Arabians; the physical sciences, including the various speculations of Western philosophers such as Kant, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Herbert Spencer and Dewey, and the various technologies extant in the civilizations of both the Orient and the Occident in the first half of the twentieth century.
But the philosopher ordinarily spends most of his working years in his ivory tower and is pretty well insulated from life. To know life you’ve got to be part of life, you must get down there and look, you must get into the nooks and crannies of existence, and you must rub elbows with all kinds and types of men before you can finally establish what man is. L. Ron Hubbard lived with bandits in Mongolia and hunted with Pygmies in the Philippines—as a matter of fact he studied twenty-one different primitive races, including the white race—and his conclusions were that man, regardless of his state of culture, was essentially the same, that he was a spiritual being pulled down into the material, and he concluded finally that man needed a hand.
In 1932 he undertook an investigation to determine the dynamic principle of existence in a workable form which might lead to the resolution of some of the problems of mankind. His long research in ancient and modern philosophy culminated in 1938. A work was written at that time which embraced man and his activities.
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