Lecture: Survival (2)

How is life operating? How is life operating in this physical universe? What is it doing? The answer to that question: it is surviving.
Now, the second question is, how is it surviving and what are the outermost limits of survival?
It gets to be a very interesting picture — very fascinating.
It is like a pyramid. We [...]

Lecture: Technique 88: Overts Acts Motivators & DEDs (continued) (1)

Now, perhaps you think I am being very unsympathetic with human beings and human aberrations by speaking in this gross, even disrespectful tone of voice with regard to the poor pitiful plight of people. Well, I am. Because the moment you understand a level of something, and understand it well, see it operating under your [...]

Lecture: Releases and Clears (2)

Now your next level of Release1 that was acceptable to the world at large—that man is a spiritual being. Now that is in decay. That has been known and has been suppressed, and has been suppressed since 1879, Professor Wundt, Leipzig, Germany. I always like to remember the man’s name. Man was an animal and [...]

Lecture: Case Analysis – Rock Hunting – Q & A Period (1)

Male voice: I’d like to hear your explanation of how you started on all this in the first place.
Started on what?
Male voice: Scientology. Dianetics. How you sort of independent – became independent again now, or – how did all this really come about?
Oh! Nothing-very, very simple.
Male voice: I mean, maybe a lot [...]

Lecture: Universes

Now, somebody came along not too long ago and invented something called clinical psychology, and this was supposed to be a practice on people. But again, this is not a process and it does not have a goal. It’s “Let’s treat people.” Now, that is just a gesture – f an empty [...]

Lecture: The Anatomy of the Overt Act Part II

In auditing, in a service facsimile, in a grief charge, in any overt act1, in any situation involving sympathy, look for the shift of the control center2. When does the individual suddenly become the other individual? It isn’t that he becomes the other individual. It is the moment when he determines that he shall control [...]

Lecture: Introducing Dianetics – Public Lecture Given at Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles (2)

There are many questions that have come up regarding Dianetics, some of which I will answer here.
“Are there Catholic practitioners of Dianetics?”
We have been receiving a great many letters from persons of the Catholic faith. I know of a Catholic priest who has been having excellent success with Dianetics, and there are many others. The [...]