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)
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Lecture: Review of Progress of Dianetics and Dianetics Business (3) (1952)
As far as engrams are concerned, for a very, very short space of time it was found out that you could run engrams out of almost any case. And then we suddenly found out you had to run the earliest engram, and you had to do a lot of other things if you were going to run perceptics out of engrams. This engram was just a moment of unconsciousness. Its existence was learned from soldiers who had been treated by psychiatrists. And these soldiers would often go into a base hospital, would be given … [Read more...] about Lecture: Review of Progress of Dianetics and Dianetics Business (3) (1952)
Lecture: Survival Processing (1951)
Some people have been very fond of rushing up to me and saying, “You know, I’ve got a big idea of how we can sell Dianetics to psychiatry!” I can just see some fellow standing on a man-of-war, up on the signal platform working the shutter of a big searchlight, and it is going bippity-bap, bippitybap, and he is signaling to a submarine that is three hundred feet deep with no periscope up. The person rushing up to me saying “I know how we can sell Dianetics to psychiatry” is telling me to start … [Read more...] about Lecture: Survival Processing (1951)