Lecture: Opening Lecture Question & Answer Period

Male voice: Ron, as the preclear’s acceptance of violence comes up to a high degree, what would violence be, then, as a definition?
An unappreciated series of particles.
Violence has been the servant of a preclear, you see? And he has caused violence and then has withheld causing violence. One of the favorite  methods of mothers the [...]

Book: Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science (4)

Study of animals has long been popular with experimental psychologists, but they must not be misevaluated. Pavlov’s work was interesting: it proved dogs will be dogs. Now by light of these new observations and deductions it proved more than Pavlov knew. It proved men weren’t dogs. Must be an answer here [...]

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 [...]

Letter: John W. Campbell Jr. To A. E. Van Vogt

A.E. van vogt
November 16, 1949
Dear van:
I haven’t heard from you in some time, and with the subject of Dianetics boiling, I’ve been wondering what you’ve been doing. I’m still going to see to it that you get a copy of the operator’s manual as soon as possible, but the thing is [...]

Article: The Way to Happiness Operation Planetary Calm

Volunteers distributed 2,000 custom copies of The Way to Happiness to cadets at the Thai Military Academy. The Deputy Commandant welcomed them as the school endeavors to graduate officers who are “gentlemen of high moral standards”.
THE WAY TO HAPPINESS
OPERATION PLANETARY CALM
It is the most embracive IAS-sponsored Planetary Salvage Campaign of all and provides people with [...]

Lecture: Processing Children

In the early years a child’s mind is not completely formed physiologically. It is still growing. You see evidences of this in a certain lack of concentration which is not engramic and in their lack of ability to handle themselves physically.
Something else which is not physiological enters in as a very important datum. The child [...]

Lecture: Analytical Mind

Aberration is the thing. The psychiatrist and psychologist are playing right into the hands of the engrams and aberration by crediting aberration itself with enormous strength, and have rendered it less possible for the problem to be solved or for people to be sane by saying that neurosis is the
thing which makes a genius. This [...]

Lecture: Institutional Dianetics (1)

Sigmund Freud blew himself a flock of fuses in 1911 when he said all was delusion in childhood because he had found prenatal. He could not account for them, although his tenet of longing for the womb stated clearly that there must be memory connected with them. He got into about as confused a state [...]

Lecture: Analytical Mind (2)

Working on children is really an adventure, because the child doesn’t have a fully developed analytical mind. But the child that gets up to 9 years of age without too much in the bank can be cleared; and any child around 9 can have enough locks taken off the case, by educational methods, or enough [...]

Lecture: Clears in this Society

Another computation enters in there concerning manic-depressives. Everybody has got a few manics in his bank, but there are a few manic-depressives who have a cover-up mechanism whereby they cover up the aberration because they feel that the ally will leave them if they get well. For instance, Grandma has told the little boy who [...]

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