Lecture: Review of Dianetics, Scientology, and Para-Dianetics/Scientology (2)

Now, we find out that in order to master these eight dynamics you’ve got to be willing to be them. Well, if you’re not willing to be the sixth dynamic you’re not going to have anything but trouble from here on out.
You’re afraid you’re going to be MEST, that’s the bad stuff: MEST. It kicks [...]

Lecture: Case Analysis – Rock Hunting – Q & A Period (2)

Yes, Bob?
Male voice: Ron, in running my particular case and trying to put it on all eight dynamics, I have a horrible time when I get to the eighth dynamic1. I cannot conceive of it without flipping back to the first. So I’m wondering what is the eighth dynamic?
Yeah, well that’s – I’ve told you [...]

Lecture: All Possible Aberrations

Now I will handle some questions that have come up. This is an unresolved end of the spectrum as far as I am concerned right now. I don’t know yet whether the seventh dynamic1 is eight or whether eight itself stands alone. There is something up at that end of the spectrum I haven’t got [...]

Book: Notes on the Lectures (1)

The Dynamics — Remarks about Groups
A dynamic is a surge of energy within us which is seeking to promote the survival of something. There are seven dynamics.1
First Dynamic Self
Second Dynamic Sex and family
Third Dynamic Group
Fourth Dynamic Mankind
Fifth Dynamic Life — Life has a great deal more affinity for living objects than it has for MEST, [...]