Is the physical universe an illusion? You can test this one. If a man loses his last dream, you’ve got a corpse on your hand. Don’t kill a man with bullets because you don’t really kill him at all. We can test that and prove that on an E-meter. No, sir. Kill him by taking his dreams away one by one. Take his goals and dreams. What’s the commonest thing that you hear from people? “I lost my illusions. I haven’t any illusions any more..” They know what’s wrong with them. they’ve lost their … [Read more...] about Lecture: Gradient Scales of Handling Space, Energies and Objects (1952)
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Lecture: Technique 88: Anatomy of Maybe (1952)
Here on the diagram is space zero and space infinity, thought zero and thought infinity, and time zero and time infinity. You can tell quite a lot by remembering this little picture. This is a simple picture. You can see that motion depends upon both space and time. If there is no time involved there can’t be motion. If you move your hand from one place to another it involves time. It was there it is now here. Regarding space, nothing can occupy space except for a period of time. If something … [Read more...] about Lecture: Technique 88: Anatomy of Maybe (1952)
Book: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (1950)
The conditions and mechanisms which hide the engram bank do not vary: they are uniformly present in every patient, in every human being. The techniques of Dianetics may be improved upon-and what scientific technique, particularly in its first few years of existence, cannot be-but they also do not perform selectively but are applicable to all individuals. Hence, if we have an "insane" patient, the fundamental problem does not change and Dianetic technique works as in any … [Read more...] about Book: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (1950)