Lecture: Review of Progress of Dianetics and Dianetics Business (2)

And we find out that you can actually take a preclear today and you can run him through — over and over and over — that big fight he had with his wife, and just run it as a lock, and you will deintensify it. Some locks don’t spring, so the therapy isn’t 100 percent [...]

Lecture: Thinking Action, Machines

People  don’t  talk  now,  very  well,  in  this  society  really  because  they’re  afraid  their words will betray them; they have been taught by their literature, by movies, by examples on every hand, that their words may betray them.
Psychology and Freud’s associative word plays have reduced this – General Semantics done the same thing – that [...]

Article: Associate Newsletter No. 4

Germane to funds, I am recently in receipt of material from George Seidler suggesting an alternative in certifications and carrying with it the news that Sequoia University1 would like to authorize associates to give certain courses. With all due respect to Sequoia University and the project, I have to hand legal opinion that this protection [...]

Article: Associate Newsletter No. 6

I have been some time trying to evolve what we are doing. It’s quite one thing to plan a thing, quite another to see it go into action in MEST. I’ve made a lot of fits and starts trying to straighten things out with everybody’s agreement and liking and I think, from what I hear [...]

Article: Associate Newsletter No. 3

We are about to do a terrible thing to the general morale of psychotherapists in America. I have just gotten through a complete review of Freudian psychoanalysis, and I find out, Lord knows how he did it, that Sigmund Freud was hitting some very hot buttons. He was not hitting the button and he was [...]

Lecture: The Story of Dianetics and Scientology

But on this very impressionable background I found, at least, that somebody  had  a  hope  that  something  could  be  done  in  the  field  of the  human mind. And I think that was Freud’s great contribution-that something could be  done  about  the  mind.  Now,  that  doesn’t  mean-that  doesn’t  mean,  of course, absolutely and accurately that something [...]

Lecture: Geriatrics

You should understand that one of the longest searches man has ever indulged in has been that of longevity itself. And the study of living longer is Geriatrics. I, by the way, was one time a leading light in the American Society of Gerontology. What do you feed men to make them live longer? Well, [...]

Article: Departure in Dianetics (1951)

The cult of dianetics, which was going strong a year ago (TIME, July 24, 1950), has some of the features of a new religion. Its founder, Science-Fictioneer L. Ron Hubbard, claimed that his “science of the mind” could cure all mental and most bodily ills, make supermen1 of truly devoted converts. Today, dianetics is suffering [...]