It came from the book Scientologie, from Freudian analysis, from the tao te ching, from zen related martial arts practices. From Crowley, from Claude Bristol- from everywhere.

Campbell was the first to describe the religion basis as it pproovides a method to sidestep the medical guilds. Creative processing was developed by someone else, the meter was develoed by someone else. Hubbard "put things together" in ownership and economic/control terms.