Lecture: Research and Discovery

Someone from the General Semantics Institute wrote in recently and mentioned that General Semantics and Dianetics went hand in hand. He is absolutely right, because the reform of language and how to think, how to look at things, how to differentiate—all of these things are of vast importance to a clear.
A person can get up [...]

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. 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 [...]

Child Dianetics: A semantic approach

For the child, the whole problem of “self” is obscure and difficult, but of tremendous importance.  Various  writers  on  psychology  are  constantly  delving  into  the complexities of the subject because it is so basic to the study of the formative mind.
In the field of fiction, Lewis Carroll, creator of the immortal “Alice in Wonderland,” shows  [...]

HCOPL: The Anatomy of Thought and Semantics

SEMANTICS
In  a  subject developed  by  Korzybski  a  great  deal  of stress  is  given  to  the niceties of words.  In brief a word  is NOT  the thing.  And an  object exactly like another object is different because it occupies a different space  and thus  “can’t be the same object.”
As  Alfred  Korzybski   studied  under  psychiatry   and   amongst  [...]

Lecture: Games Theory

There  are  processes  in  Games  Processing which  I  well  imagine,  if run inexpertly,  would  simply pick up  the  preclear and,  well,  you’d  dust him  off afterwards and maybe find enough pieces to put in the coffin, but even that has its doubts.
There is one process in Games Processing which is sufficiently rugged as to turn [...]

Lecture: Study of the Particle

Take this thing called “freedom.” Take this thing called “democracy.” Today they – you – everybody practices democracy. It isn’t democracy, it’s some kind of socialism. I don’t know what kind of a socialism, it’s invented all the time. But we’re fondly believing that our forefathers fought for democracy. They didn’t, they fought for rugged [...]

Lecture: Cause and Effect–Education, Unknowing and Unwilling Effect

So what is association? Association is a proximity of thought with matter. It’s a proximity of thought with  matter. What’s identification? Well, “thought is matter” is identification.
Now, let’s invert and let’s just go down scale, clear down here at the bottom of the dial and we get dialectic materialism: all thought comes from matter. Now, [...]

Lecture: Mechanics of Communication

All   right.   Let’s   look   at   pan-determinism1.   You   know   about   pan-determinism. You’d better had. Pan-determinism is the willingness to start, stop and change, along the dynamics. The degree of pan-determinism which the  person  has  is  his  willingness  to  start,  stop  and  change  along  the  dynamics. In other words to monitor other dynamics, that is pan-determinism. Self-determinism2 [...]

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