DMSMH: The analytical mind, the reactive mind and semantics

Everything in this bank is correct insofar as the single action of perception is concerned. There may be organic errors in the organs of perception, such as blindness or deafness (when physical, not aberrational), which would leave blanks in the banks; and there may be organic impairment, such as partial organic deafness, which would leave [...]

DMSMH Appendix II: The Scientific Method

Appendix II1
The Scientific Method
The Scientific Method is based solidly on definite rules, but is none the less, like the American Way of Life, something that must be lived to be fully understood. The United States has a Constitution, but the American Way of Life is far more than that; so the Scientific [...]

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 [...]

Article: Letters from the Birth of Dianetics

Those familiar with the life of L. Ron Hubbard as recounted in issues of the Ron Series will recall repeated references to the LRH trail of research through the latter 1940s. Generally touched upon are his 1945 endocrinological studies at an Oak Knoll naval hospital near San Francisco, his 1946 examination [...]

Book: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (8)

There has been, in recent years, a practice called “narcosynthesis.” This was actually a branch of “hypnoanalysis” and “deep analysis.” It did not produce clears and it did not even produce alleviation in the majority of its cases. But it was discovered to be an aberrative factor in itself. A thing which aberrates may well [...]

Book: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (7)

Let us now address the heart. By deep hypnosis or drugs we take a patient into amnesia trance, a state of being wherein the “I” is not in control but the operator is the “I” (and that’s all there is, really, to the function of hypnosis: the transfer of analytical power through [...]

Lecture: Basics of Auditing, Matter-of-Factness

They covertly get on our bulletin lines, which is quite interesting. We have all sorts of Joe Doakeses and Bill Smykes . . Sykeses and things like that in our mailing lists and so on in order to get bulletins and memberships, and so on. And these turn out to be the most interesting people [...]

Lecture: Axiom 53: The Axiom Of The Stable Datum (1)

But if we had this as the stable datum forever and if we all believed it implicitly that we were all equal and we all had the same stable data, we’d all go nuts! We’d get 1984 for sure, because nobody eventually would understand anybody else, unless you had the two basic, [...]

Letter: Scientology executive to FBI

FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #124
HUBBARD ASSOCIATION OF SCIENTOLOGISTS INTERNATIONAL
806 North Third Street
Phoenix, Arizona
June 12, 1954
Better Business Bureau
834 North Central Avenue
Phoenix, Arizona
Gentlemen:
For your interest, the Hubbard Association of Scientologists, an Arizona Corporation, has brought about certain changes in Scientology, and of which we would like to acquaint you.
Scientology is described as a science of [...]

Book: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (2)

Simple though it is, Dianetics does and is these things:
1. It is an organized science of thought built on definite axioms (statements of natural laws on the order of those of the physical sciences).
2. It contains a therapeutic technique with which can be treated all inorganic mental ills and all organic psychosomatic ills, with assurance [...]

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