I have been engaged in the investigation of the fundamentals of life, the material universe and human behavior,” wrote L. Ron Hubbard of his larger philosophic journey towards Dianetics and Scientology, and proceeded to reference a search “down many highways, through many byroads, into many back alleys of uncertainty.” In a further explanation of that […]
St. Elizabeths Hospital
Article: A Word On Rediscovering The Human Soul
As a word of general background, let us add a few salient points: Although events recounted here mark the commencement of Ron’s philosophic search, he had previously spent several years, as he elsewhere put it, “poking an inquisitive mind” into related fields. Of special note, were his early psychoanalytic studies with United States Naval Commander […]
Article: A Word on Rediscovering the Human Soul
I have been engaged in the investigation of the fundamentals of life, the material universe and human behavior,” wrote L. Ron Hubbard of his larger philosophic journey towards Dianetics and Scientology, and proceeded to reference a search “down many highways, through many byroads, into many back alleys of uncertainty.” In a further explanation of that […]
Letter: Hubbard to Commodore Staff-Guardian
CS-G 28th February, 1972 GO WW D/G Int WW D/GO US D/D/G INT US Dear Brian Thank you for the excellent packaging of Oberholser (the late and very unlamented)1. The interest in this bad hat stems from the fact that he blew the whistle on Dianetics when St. Elizabeth psychiatrists were just beginning to use […]
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 […]
Book: Interpersonal psychoanalysis : the selected papers of Clara M. Thompson
Chapter 14 Notes on the Psychoanalytic Significance of the Choice of Analyst […] The second case is that of a woman with a male analyst. The first meeting was at a social gathering. In the course of the evening they had a conversation together which led to his suggesting that she come to see him […]