I have been engaged in the investigation of the fundamentals of life, the material universe and human behavior,” wrote L. Ron Hubbard of his larger philosophic journey towards Dianetics and Scientology, and proceeded to reference a search “down many highways, through many byroads, into many back alleys of uncertainty.” In a further explanation of that search is the introduction and first chapter to a retrospective, “The Rediscovery of the Human Soul.” Begun in 1956, but never completed, the … [Read more...] about Web article: A Word on Rediscovering the Human Soul (n.d.)
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Hubbard Autobiography: Commander Thompson (1972)
COMMANDER THOMPSON[1. From the second part of L. Ron Hubbard's unpublished autobiography, originally dictated in 1972. Retrieved from solitarytrees.net/cowen/misc/auto2.htm] I travelled with Commander Thompson from Seattle, Washington through the Panama Canal to Washington, D. C. when I was about twelve and knew him during all that time that I was in Washington and later. Commander Thompson was the first man to study with Sigmund Freud from the U. S. Government and had just returned from his … [Read more...] about Hubbard Autobiography: Commander Thompson (1972)
Lecture: Handling the PTS (1965)
Remember, we’ve already seen a psychotherapy go by the boards. I’ve gotten results with that psychotherapy; it’s called psychoanalysis. Why didn’t it ever take the world? I think they were so busy trying to handle PTSes and SPs on an individual-practitioner basis, with absolutely no rundown, that they could never complete their research. Now, they might have found some of our sub-zero material, if they’d continued to research. But psychoanalysis had a certain degree of workability. We shouldn’t … [Read more...] about Lecture: Handling the PTS (1965)
Lecture: Case Analysis – Rock Hunting – Q & A Period (1) (1958)
Male voice: I'd like to hear your explanation of how you started on all this in the first place. Started on what? Male voice: Scientology. Dianetics. How you sort of independent - became independent again now, or - how did all this really come about? Oh! Nothing-very, very simple. Male voice: I mean, maybe a lot of people have heard it but I haven't heard it. I just died about three times in this lifetime and got used to being outside.[1. being outside: exterior. Definition: … [Read more...] about Lecture: Case Analysis – Rock Hunting – Q & A Period (1) (1958)
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)