And during the war - during the war, I had some very interesting experiences on the subject of the mind. I was on one ship that had about seven hundred men on it, and we were getting two people a week going mad. Two people a week went mad on that ship. That's an awful lot of people going mad. But in view of the fact that we had no replacements, they were simply left on duty for the most part. We particularly contested taking off duty one chap who had had the bad taste to want shore leave in … [Read more...] about Lecture: Story of Dianetics and Scientology (2) (1958)
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Lecture: Case Analysis – Rock Hunting – Q & A Period (3) (1958)
Male voice: I've heard a lot of fabulous stories about the book "Excalibur." Could you tell us a little about that? It still - it still exists. I got a carbon copy of it. The original's been stolen. Male voice: Will you ever put it in print, Ron? The original... No. The original was stolen by the Russians a long time ago. They offered me a hundred thousand dollars to go to Russia and work exclusively in Russia - all laboratory facilities - and actually offered me any facility and pay … [Read more...] about Lecture: Case Analysis – Rock Hunting – Q & A Period (3) (1958)
Lecture: Case Analysis – Rock Hunting (cont.) (1958)
But I found something out during the session that I sure didn't like. I found out that the one thing I would never do, I had done. I found out that in about - in 1938, when I wrote the first notes and book on mental investigations, that every single cockeyed piece of terminology in it (none of which ever survived to 1949 or 50), every piece of that terminology was taken straight out of my own engrams. Boy, was my face red. And I was certainly pleased when I realized I'd had enough sense after … [Read more...] about Lecture: Case Analysis – Rock Hunting (cont.) (1958)
Lecture: Special Effect Cases, Anatomy Of – Question and Answer Period (1) (1958)
I've actually made people saner and ruined a whole series of experiments at Oak Knoll. They were taking Japanese prisoners of war and they were working them over with the administration of hormones. And they were trying to find out if hormones would bring them back to battery, you know, so that they could eat and so on. They had been starved so that when they began to eat they became very fat and food didn't do them any good; they were merely hectic on the situation. Food had become quite unreal … [Read more...] about Lecture: Special Effect Cases, Anatomy Of – Question and Answer Period (1) (1958)
Manual: Scientology Clear Procedure Issue One (1) (1957)
I have been at work for seven years to produce a series of techniques which any well trained auditor can use to clear people. We now have them. I am truly sorry that this took seven years. Actually, it took more than twenty-five. Under other “systems of research” it could not have been done. It was financed at first by my writings and expeditions. Some 15,000,000 words of fact and fiction articles ranging from political articles to westerns were consumed in a large part by this research-but … [Read more...] about Manual: Scientology Clear Procedure Issue One (1) (1957)
Lecture: Child Scientology (1) (1957)
It is quite remarkable, the number of misconceptions which have existed concerning children - the child mind and child processing - and that is the first thing I'll have to take up here. Those misconceptions are so considerable that they are woven into the woof and warp of everyone's lives here in this nation. And they're a pack of stinking lies! When you're talking about children, you are not talking about everybody's case. That is something psychoanalysis gave us. There is probably no … [Read more...] about Lecture: Child Scientology (1) (1957)