All right. And yet where are we today in the field of reason? - you might say the healing of reason. Where would you go to in the society? Let's take conditions as they existed in 1945. Where would John Doe have gone in the society to have had something happen to his reason to better it? Let's say he'd been through a long and arduous war. Let's say he'd been many - two years, maybe, a prisoner of the enemy. He'd been starved; he was upset. He found out that every time he heard something drop … [Read more...] about Lecture: Universes (1) (1954)
Dr. Sigmund Freud
Lecture: The Elements With Stress On How To Run Matched Terminals (1953)
Because this universe had to be studied from the basis of what? It had to be studied from the basis of MEST[1. Define: MEST]. What's MEST? And how does it get mixed up with life? Now it, in other words, had to be hit from the level of everything we knew in the physical sciences. And until we had a good, solid subject called physics, until the boys in the laboratories had scared up an enormous amount of data concerning the identity of MEST, what it was basically matter, energy, space-we couldn't … [Read more...] about Lecture: The Elements With Stress On How To Run Matched Terminals (1953)
Lecture: Mechanics of the Mind (1953)
[Based on R&D transcripts. This was checked against an old reel for LGC-3, but the reel only contains the second half of this lecture. The start of the reel is marked below. We did not find any omissions.] This is the third lecture today: In this lecture we're going to talk something about the mechanics of the mind. Now, you must realize that there's quite a bit of work and technology underlies this material in Dianetics and Scientology. The amount - the amount of data which has been … [Read more...] about Lecture: Mechanics of the Mind (1953)
Article: Introduction to the Technical Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology (1952)
Man’s search for the answer to his own riddle was quickened during the last century by two things: the first was the energy and curiosity of Sigmund Freud and the second was the mathematics of James Clerk Maxwell who gave to us the fundamentals of energy. To talk of the faults of Freud, as do those who practice psychoanalysis today, is ungenerous. This great pioneer, against the violent objections of medical doctors and the psychiatrists of his day, ventured to put forth the theory that … [Read more...] about Article: Introduction to the Technical Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology (1952)
Magazine article: Of Two Minds (July 24, 1950)
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Of Two Minds July 24, 1950 A new cult is moldering through the U.S. underbrush. Its name: dianetics. Last week, its bible, "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health," was steadily climbing the U.S. bestseller lists. Demand was especially heavy on the West Coast. Bookstores in Los Angeles were selling "Dianetics" on an under-the-counter basis. Armed with the manual, which they called simply "The Book," fanatical converts overflowed Saturday night meetings in Hollywood, held … [Read more...] about Magazine article: Of Two Minds (July 24, 1950)