Lecture: Sound and Aberration

When you are working a psychotic, you will find that you are very often working with enormous sound volume. The sound volume that a psychotic, particularly a manic-depressive in full swing, can pick up is almost unbelievable. One wouldn’t think that a human voice could make such a racket. If you haven’t run into such [...]

Lecture: The Conduct of an Auditor (2)

At present we only have two bad cases. One is being cleared up right now at a very rapid rate. The other one is a manic-depressive who was beaten up by her paranoiac husband. He brought her in after her psychosis had broken—a very nasty sort of a case. Over the period [...]

Book: Science of Survival (4)

This is the column devoted to the second dynamic. This dynamic would normally be called sex. In Dianetics, one considers sex to be divided into parts: the sexual act; and the produce of sex, children. (p. 127)
The organs of sex, at the 0.5 level1, become relatively useless; indeed, this second dynamic Tone [...]

Lecture: Address of Auditor to Preclear

Your own inventiveness could be called upon very definitely in establishing the bond of affinity, if we just had a little firmer grip on what affinity actually is. It would be interesting to be able to both establish or break the bond.
The law of affinity becomes very embarrassing to a male hypnotist, for instance, who [...]

Lecture: Dianetics: First Lecture of Saturday Course (4)

To start this indoctrination, let me first stress two or three points of the Auditor’s Code1. The Auditor’s Code isn’t there because it reads well. That code is there so that Dianetics won’t hurt people. Any time one has the cause for insanity, one can also create insane people. For instance, a Colt .45 in [...]