Once upon a time I turned a patient over to a hypnotist. I showed the hypnotist how to work Dianetics. It was a long time ago and the patient had a very large amount of material and had to be worked in amnesia trance, which is very slow work, and I was quite tired of working it. So I asked this hypnotist if he would go ahead with the case, seeing this person was a very good friend of his. I told him some of the rudiments of Dianetics and he was perfectly satisfied to take on the case and go … [Read more...] about Lecture: Conception (1950)
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Lecture: Dianetics: First Lecture of Saturday Course (5) (1950)
Several years ago when research was very intense, I learned this the hard way on a young man who maintained that he could run his own engrams. He kept insisting on it. He wanted all his engrams up in present time where he could run them himself. So finally I swamied him into a deep trance and said, "You can remember everything you’ve ever felt, heard or seen in present time. You can remember all these things in present time." That’s it, just you can remember—permission. There was enough … [Read more...] about Lecture: Dianetics: First Lecture of Saturday Course (5) (1950)
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)
Article: Dianetics: The Original Thesis (1948)
Dianetics: The Original Thesis was written by Ron in 1947, fifteen years after he began his studies of the mind. [...] Originally titled Scientology: A New Science, the book was retitled Abnormal Dianetics when it was offered to the medical and psychiatric profession in early 1948. The work was not utilized by these professions; it was, however, accepted broadly by the public at large. [...] The first hardcover edition, titled Dianetics: The Original Thesis was published in Wichita, Kansas … [Read more...] about Article: Dianetics: The Original Thesis (1948)