Book: Dianetics Today (1)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
L. RON HUBBARD was born on the 13th of March, 1911 in Tilden, Nebraska, USA, to Commander Harry Ross Hubbard of the US Navy and Dora May Hubbard (nee Waterbury de Wolfe).
He grew up in Montana with old frontiersmen and cowboys, and had an Indian medicine man as one of his best friends. [...]

Lecture: Control of Attention

Now, “willing to talk to the auditor” is the other one. Now of course, a pc with a heavy ARC break1 is not willing to talk to the auditor, but also a pc who does not want the auditor to know something is unwilling to talk to the auditor. But when a pc has a [...]

Lecture: Story of Dianetics and Scientology

I’d like to tell you today, here at this first lecture, I’d like to tell you something of the story of Dianetics and Scientology. Some things I’ve never confided to anyone before.
Would you like to hear that?
Audience: Yes.
Well, the start of this story is probably a long, long time ago. And those who don’t believe [...]

PAB: A Critique on Psychoanalysis

It is necessary to understand first that we are actually indebted to psychoanalysis and its originator, the debarred doctor, Sigmund Freud. My basic, if unappreciated, education in the field of the mind came from Commander Thompson of the Medical Corps of the U.S. Navy, who was Freud’s personal student. Better than [...]

Lecture: Dianetics The Modern Miracle (1)

In the twenties I was fortunate enough to know Commander Thompson of the Medical Corps of the United States Navy. He was a colorful man; he was very poised, was very traveled; he was curious in half a hundred sciences. And the United States Navy, having heard of the work of Freud, naturally, took ahold [...]

Article: Introduction to the Technical Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology

Man’s search for the answer to his own riddle was quickened during the last century by two things: the first was the energy and curiosity of Sigmund Freud and the second was the mathematics of James Clerk Maxwell who gave to us the fundamentals of energy.
To talk of the faults of Freud, as do those [...]

Lecture: Dianetics: First Lecture of Saturday Course (3)

The theory of delusion: Insanity starts by delusion. Childhood delusions become insanity and therefore what one remembers as having done is delusion. We pick up a college textbook on psychiatry and we can look up cases where the patient was informed that what she thought she was experiencing while in her mother’s womb was only [...]

Book: Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science (2)

First we divided what we could probably think about and had to think about from what we probably didn’t have to think about, for purposes of our solution. Next we had to think about all men. Then a few men. Finally the individual man and at last a portion of the aberrative pattern of an [...]

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