This is the twenty fourth of April 1994.
My name is Dennis Stevens and I’m cutting this tape for Antony Phillips and the subject matter of the tape, as requested by Antony, is L. Ron Hubbard the man that I knew.
My personal contact with Ron Hubbard stretch from a period from September 1952 through to 1955 –late 1955– early 1956 actually. Then there was a break when we went to Australia. There was no contact then for a period until 1962 when I did the Saint Hill Briefing Course.
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The one thing Hubbard could not stand was if someone displayed abilities or was successful to a point where they "dimmed his own light".

In about 1966, Beth Fordyce submitted a report on her use of "Book of Case Remedies". This was highly acclaimed, Hubbard awarded her a Doctorate of Scientology and there was a front page spread all about her in the Auditor issue. Beth worked at a E.US org and her fame grew as she was acknowledged far and wide. Hubbard was clearly upset by all this praise for her and set about undermining her and destroying her reputation. Within a couple of years she was a declared SP. (Continued...)

I was thinking today about LRH. You know... he was just an ordinary being just like any of us. Anyway, it occured to me... what if LRH found the true meaning of life... he answered his original questions about life and because of the answers he went crazy.

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