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Part One: How L. Ron Hubbard Lied His Way to Godhood

Behind the Bastards

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Excalibur by Ron Hubbard

Elrond Hubbard met Forest Ackerman in 1947. He told him a long and insane story about how he died on the operating table and visited heaven. The last time he showed it to a publisher, he was sitting in an office waiting for a reader to give his opinion. "I could never see what was wrong with that or why it would cause anyone to commit suicide"

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