Pavlov talks about making a dog insane. I'd like to shake the paw of a dog the techniques contained in his book would make insane. These learned experiments by which we reduce a circle to a square and reduce a square to a circle while ringing gongs and dah-dah bells and feeding the dog and beating the dog–oh, bah. I had a malamute once, he was a tough dog. The only way he could accept an acknowledgment was if you took a stick of firewood and hit him between the ears. My mother, who is a … [Read more...] about Lecture: The Effectiveness of Brainwashing (3) (1956)
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Lecture: The Effectiveness of Brainwashing (2) (1956)
But the finding is a very, very interesting finding and a strange commentary on a line in Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, a very strange commentary. It said, "Man is basically good." The duress required to make man worse is so tremendous that I do not believe there is known to the communist today, as he operated in the Korean War, any technique that would have worsened the IQ or actual ability of a human being.[1. Hubbard claimed that he used Dianetics on Korean POWs in 1954 to … [Read more...] about Lecture: The Effectiveness of Brainwashing (2) (1956)
Lecture: Self-Determined Effort Processing (1) (1951)
I figured out all these various things, and I was sitting there in the chair and I said to myself, "I’d certainly like to be able—with the enthusiasm that I had when I was about sixteen—to go in and sit down to that typewriter and make that keyboard jump and the paper fly and have blood and sand and nostalgia and everything all over the place here in just no time. Boy, that would really be terrific. I sure got a bang out of it once." And then I thought of this terrific and awful task of … [Read more...] about Lecture: Self-Determined Effort Processing (1) (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)
Book: Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science (4) (1950)
Study of animals has long been popular with experimental psychologists, but they must not be misevaluated. Pavlov’s work was interesting: it proved dogs will be dogs. Now by light of these new observations and deductions it proved more than Pavlov knew. It proved men weren’t dogs. Must be an answer here somewhere. Let’s see. I’ve trained a lot of dogs. I’ve also trained a lot of kids. Once I had a theory that if you trained a kid as patiently as you trained a dog, then you would have an obedient … [Read more...] about Book: Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science (4) (1950)