I am not, and will never pretend to be, a philosopher. The task of a philosopher is to go off and philosophize. Philosophers normally philosophize all the years of their lives, and in the books of philosophers all the absurdities and wisdoms of men can be found. My entrance into this field of better minds was a forced one: I had a feeling that man ought to progress. It was with astonishment that I discovered that man, for all his prate of science, psychotherapy, all his yap of mysticism and … [Read more...] about Article: It Probably Has Not Occurred to the Field… (1953)
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Lecture: Where We Are At (1) (1952)
It was wonderful in the early days–actually, the name of this science was originally Scientology–early days I was operating around in Hollywood, and you can find a sample of anything in Hollywood, I don’t care what it is. And there were more people processed by what later became Dianetics that never knew it. Why? I well recall one old lady. She came in and all of her life she had gotten these wonderful spirit messages by automatic writings and they told her good advice, and she could see at a … [Read more...] about Lecture: Where We Are At (1) (1952)
Book: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (6) (1950)
Absolutism is a fine road to stagnation and I do not think Spencer meant to be so entirely absolute about his Knowable and Unknowable. SURVIVE! is the demarcation point between those things which can be experienced by the senses (our old friends Hume and Locke) and those things which cannot necessarily be known through the senses, but which possibly may be known, but which one does not necessarily need to solve the problem. Among those things which one did not necessarily need to know (the … [Read more...] about Book: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (6) (1950)