Lecture: Learning Processes: No-game condition

But let’s take up this, now, just on a very blunt, forward basis. You’re making this person learn something. All right. To the degree that you run Mimicry, it has some slight therapy. You say, “One-two-three,” he says, “One-two-three.” Now, that means that you have made him make his voice say “One-two-three.” See? You have [...]

Lecture: Flows: Characteristics Of

I mean, after all, that isn’t the purpose of a military organization to get anything done.
Uh… but it’s very very remarkable how easily this works out. By the way, I found this out empirically: I uh – tell you very briefly – I reported in – Robert Montgomery was uh… on [...]

Lecture: One-Way Flows In Processing: Question and Answer Period

One – a very amusing thing was the case of a person who was given a – a psycho – a Section Eight, something like that, out of the Army. He was a – had originally, because the Army was so antipathetic – he’s a medical doctor – the Army was so [...]

Book: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (9)

There is, however, a peculiarity in psychosomatic illnesses which is chronic: the aberree’s reactive mind exercises a power of choice to the extent  that only pro-survival engrams become chronic. It could be said, on a reactive level, that the aberree will not permit himself to suffer illness from his engrams unless that illness has a [...]

Lecture: Case Analysis – Rock Hunting – Q & A Period (3)

Male voice: I’ve heard a lot of fabulous stories about the book “Excalibur.” Could you tell us a little about that?
It still – it still exists. I got a carbon copy of it. The original’s been stolen.
Male voice: Will you ever put it in print, Ron?
The original… No. The original was stolen by the Russians [...]

Lecture: The Importance of Getting Engrams (2)

This is assuming that we don’t want to work with this patient more than 15 minutes; he has come in doubled up, and all we want to do is give him some relief. We can give him relief by giving him phenobarbital, or telling him that he should lead a calmer life, [...]

Lecture: Case Analysis – Rock Hunting (continued 1)

One time I was so amazed in session I could have fainted with humiliation, a long time ago. Poor old George Wichelow was running me on subjective don’t-know, which is the lousiest process there is; he knew it was a lousy process. I was just about to give a lecture, he didn’t have any business [...]

Lecture: The Tone Scale (2)

James Forrestal1 was never more pleasant than when he sent the hospital corpsman away from his door so he could jump sixteen stories to the skylights below.
Psychiatry—excuse me for using—I shouldn’t use dirty words; forgive me. Some of the doctors there in charge of his case had walked in and had [...]

Lecture: Where We Are At (1)

It was wonderful in the early days—actually, the name of this science was originally Scientology—early days I was operating around in Hollywood, and you can find a sample of anything in Hollywood, I don’t care what it is.
And there were more people processed by what later became Dianetics that never knew [...]

Lecture: Suppressives and GAEs

Now, you would just be amazed how many cases resolve in an institution. I know, I’ve put my collar on backwards many a day and audited psychos in institutions in many a yesteryear. It’s amazing, absolutely amazing. Some of the results I’ve had with this make me sometimes a little bit [...]

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