I went into the field of writing. You know, my father said, "You go to engineering school," and I said, "No, I want to write." And I went to engineering school, so professionally I wrote—I got even with him—in an effort to support these researches, because I kept right on researching. My wife would tear her hair out by the handfuls when she would get bills for books—bill for $150 A Discourse on the Mystical and Spiritual Principles of the Magi.[1. The book Hubbard mentioned may be this one, … [Read more...] about Lecture: The Purpose of Human Evaluation (2) (1951)
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Lecture: Survival Processing (1951)
Some people have been very fond of rushing up to me and saying, “You know, I’ve got a big idea of how we can sell Dianetics to psychiatry!” I can just see some fellow standing on a man-of-war, up on the signal platform working the shutter of a big searchlight, and it is going bippity-bap, bippitybap, and he is signaling to a submarine that is three hundred feet deep with no periscope up. The person rushing up to me saying “I know how we can sell Dianetics to psychiatry” is telling me to start … [Read more...] about Lecture: Survival Processing (1951)
Lecture: Basic Processing (1) (1951)
I was in the hospital up at Oak Knoll, and early that year they told me the war was over. I played the "Dead March" of Saul to myself and said, "Well, you're really in bad shape, boy." They argued with me. I didn't think I was in bad shape but they wouldn't pass me on an overseas physical. It was the last year of the war; I was feeling horrible about it. They were very dramatic about it, too. I went to see the commander at the base that sent me up to the hospital and argued with him about it, … [Read more...] about Lecture: Basic Processing (1) (1951)
Lecture: The Complete Auditor Part II (1951)
I was the first casualty home from the South Pacific. I turned myself in at the hospital, got some adhesive tape glued on me, and I was all set to go home in a hurry and see the wife and kids. But the doctor said, “No, you go to bed.” “Why?” “Well, you’ve got to have a routine checkover, routine checkover.” Any time the navy says “routine,” this means it is unavoidable. So I proceeded to turn myself in. I woke up the next morning and there was the most horrible character I had ever seen, … [Read more...] about Lecture: The Complete Auditor Part II (1951)
Lecture: Civil Defense: New Channels for Putting Dianetics Into Society (1) (1951)
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I’ve been working on the first in a series of new books. The book I’m working on currently would seem at first glance to be well off the beaten track of Dianetics. I am writing a basic manual of civil defense.I happened to take a look at the federal government (there is a government, I want to assure you of that), and I saw the lack of an effective civil-defense program. This new manual on civil defense is based on training which I had as a civil-affairs officer. There are probably about ten … [Read more...] about Lecture: Civil Defense: New Channels for Putting Dianetics Into Society (1) (1951)
Lecture: Civil Defense: New Channels for Putting Dianetics Into Society (2) (1951)
For every person killed in the immediate impact of a disaster, 2.8 people die after the disaster from starvation, lack of water, disease and injury not caused by the impact of disaster. No provision has been made in civil defense for the United States for the 2.8; all the provision is being made really for those injured in the first impact. So I glanced around and talked to a few friends of mine in civil affairs, and I went around and talked to civil defense people, and all of a sudden I saw … [Read more...] about Lecture: Civil Defense: New Channels for Putting Dianetics Into Society (2) (1951)