 The characters gather on a cold winter night to rejoice in telling the story of L. Ron Hubbard . " Hey ! It 's a Happy Day ! " A narrator notes : " Today we relate the life of L. Ron Hubbard : Teacher , author , explorer , atomic physicist , nautical engineer , choreographer , horticulturist , and father of Scientology ! " Hubbard is born in a nativity scene , surrounded by parents and barnyard animals , as an angel proclaims , " Billions of years of evolution had climaxed with his birth . " He begins to question the nature of his existence . He is adrift on a boat in the Pacific Ocean during his service in World War II , when he begins to think about starting a religion . Hubbard tells his followers about what he has learned through his travels in " Science of the Mind " , singing about " the key to being free , the way to be happy " . He tells his followers that during the War " I saw how emotion can make you blind " , and he begins to teach his followers about the reactive mind . 
