Now, to begin, I have often offered a point to you which is nearly always missed–the mind and the body are part of a gradient scale of creation. The mind is at a high point on this scale, the body at a low point. The mind has all the capabilities of the body, but the […]
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Lecture: Handling of Cases (5)
The state of reverie is actually just a name. It is a label introduced to make the patient feel that his state has altered and that he has gone into a state where his memory is very good, or where he can do something he couldn’t ordinarily do before. The actuality is that he is […]
Book: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (4)
The Clear Dianetically, the optimum individual is called the Clear. One will hear much of that word, both as a noun and a verb, in this volume, so it is well to spend time here at the outset setting forth exactly what can be called a clear, the goal of Dianetic therapy. A Clear can […]
Book: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (2)
Simple though it is, Dianetics does and is these things: 1. It is an organized science of thought built on definite axioms (statements of natural laws on the order of those of the physical sciences). 2. It contains a therapeutic technique with which can be treated all inorganic mental ills and all organic psychosomatic ills, […]
PAB: The Open Channel
Besides having a couple of other things to do in the last eight years, I have been in search of an open channel for Dianetics and Scientology which would not run into large obstacles and which would thereby make it possible for organizations and auditors to outflow what we know to a maximum with a […]
Book: Dianetics: The Original Thesis (1)
INTRODUCTION In 1932 an investigation was undertaken to determine the Dynamic Principle of Existence in a workable form which might lead to the resolution of some of the problems of Mankind. 1 A long research in ancient and modern philosophy culminated, in 1938, in the heuristically discovered Primary Law. A work was written at that […]