My father was a naval officer, shipped around various places. Well thought of. It was a calm world. I didn't have any business worrying about this sort of a problem, because it wasn't a personal problem. Whether people went mad or stayed sane was very, very little to me. It meant really nothing. And I figured everything in the world's all nailed down. Well, here's the very problem of thinkingness itself with which we are dealing continually in the field of science, not nailed down—not even … [Read more...] about Lecture: Universe: Basic Definitions (1954)
Joseph Cheesman Thompson
Lecture: Universes (1) (1954)
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)
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)
Lecture: The Purpose of Human Evaluation (3) (1951)
In 1930 I knew a fellow by the name of Commander Thompson. I had known him before, actually; he was a friend of the family. He had studied under Freud in Vienna. Old Commander Thompson trained cats. He had a cat named Psycho, a black cat with a crooked tail, and he had Psycho trained to sit up and do other things. He taught me how to train cats—I have never had any luck with it, but he taught me how. He got me very interested in the subject of the human mind. He taught me why it is that … [Read more...] about Lecture: The Purpose of Human Evaluation (3) (1951)
Lecture: Further Introduction To Dianetics (1950)
I was brought back by my father very summarily from my wanderings; I had neglected to go to high school. The last formal school I had attended was Grant School in Oakland and my father said I had to go to university, so he sent me to a prep school in Virginia where I studied for about four months and took the New York Board of Regents and got into George Washington University. They regretted it from there on because I never seemed to stay with the curriculum. At last they said, “Well, after all, … [Read more...] about Lecture: Further Introduction To Dianetics (1950)