Excalibur L. Ron Hubbard

The result was a manuscript originally titled The One Commandment or, more famously, Excalibur .

The story of Excalibur begins in 1938. At the time, Hubbard was a struggling pulp fiction writer, known for adventure stories in Argosy and Astounding Science Fiction . According to his own later accounts, he underwent a life-altering experience while undergoing a dental procedure—specifically, being administered nitrous oxide (“laughing gas”) for a tooth extraction. excalibur l. ron hubbard

Hubbard intended this "finite measuring stick" to coordinate all fields of knowledge—from politics and war to history and religion—into a unified philosophy. The result was a manuscript originally titled The

Hubbard wrote about a graduated scale of emotional tones, from apathy (the lowest) to enthusiasm (the highest). This would later become the Hubbard Chart of Human Evaluation . According to his own later accounts, he underwent

According to Hubbard’s own accounts—later canonized by the Church of Scientology—in December 1938, while undergoing a tooth extraction under nitrous oxide (laughing gas), he experienced a profound "awakening." He claimed to have glimpsed the "Basic Truths" of human existence: the nature of the subconscious, the structure of the reactive mind, and the key to unlocking human potential.