Hey -- I'm the One That Got Away! Seriously, my adoptive mother tried to get me interested in Dianetics when I was a child. I thought it was the biggest pile of sheer horseshit I'd ever encountered, and didn't go for it. Ever. Then I became a Ceremonial Magickian and Qaballist. Hubbard would have been appalled. XD
Actually, ceremonial magick is how Hubbard got started. (After that, though, he started cooking up his own BS.) Check into the history of Jack Parsons. I've heard it alleged that there are Thelemic influences here and there, such as Liber Thisharb and auditing. But he ripped more off from some branch of Buddhism, I hear. There's some article called "The Hubbard is Bare" that you could probably find.
No, I know all about his relationship with Parsons before he founded Scientology or even published his book on Dianetics. Two excellent resources on that are Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons and Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons. I know all about Parsons. As it happens, I was born in the same hospital where he died seven years later, Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, California. I spent the first six years of my life in San Gabriel, California, and the next nine in Pasadena, a few miles north of San Gabriel, in an area on the east side of Pasadena, a little west of Eaton Canyon Wash, and several miles east of the California Institute of Technology. Though I never met Jack Parsons, myslf, my adoptive father cultivated a group of people who were well acquainted with Parsons and other Magickians in the area; the group my adoptive father was associated with was covert, a "black lodge" (as in "black ops," invisible, covert) that used some seriously questiontable Magickal
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