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"Entrapment is the opposite of freedom. A person who is not free is trapped. He may be trapped by an idea, he may be trapped by matter, he may be trapped by energy, he may be trapped by space, he may be trapped by time, and he may be trapped by all of them. The more thoroughly the preclear is trapped the less free he is. He cannot change, he cannot move, he cannot communicate, he cannot feel affinity and reality. Death itself could be said to be man's ultimate in entrapment. When a man is totally entrapped he is dead.

"It is our task in investigation and auditing to discover for the individual and the group the roadway to a greater freedom, which is the roadway to a greater ability."

—L. Ron Hubbard

L. Ron Hubbard
This excerpt was taken from the book, Dianetics 55! by L. Ron Hubbard.

 

Accidents Will Happen—or Will They?

If you have had more than your fair share of accidents and injuries lately, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health by L. Ron Hubbard, is the book you should be reading.

According to a survey by the National Safety Council, the number of unintentional injury deaths in America has been in excess of 90,000 per year. In the year 2000, traffic accidents were the leading cause of death for teens between age 16 and 19, according to federal data that also showed that the youngest teens were the most accident-prone.

In the best-selling self-help book Dianetics, author and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard explains what makes a person accident-prone. "If one knows the cause of something, he can usually prevent the cause from going into effect," writes Hubbard. The discovery and proof that the malaria germ was carried by the mosquito is what makes it possible to prevent the disease.

Similarly, when you know the cause of accidents you can do a great deal toward preventing them.

Hubbard's research identified exactly what occurs when our analytical mind is shut down by physical pain, drugs, or other means: the subconscious or reactive mind is opened for direct recording of what is going on around us and this recording has the power to command our actions in the future.

Just as subjects who have been hypnotized will do exactly as they were commanded under hypnosis, so we react according to commands in our reactive mind.

Hubbard named this moment of lowered analytical awareness or unconsciousness an engram—and engrams can determine our fate. "When that recording has verbal content," says Hubbard, "it becomes most severely aberrative."

"The accident prone person is a case where the reactive mind commands accidents," writes Hubbard. "The terrible and awesome death toll taken by our automotive transport is almost all attributable to reactive mind driving rather than learned response driving."

Engrams subtly weave their way from incident to incident and cause catastrophe in the life of the accident-prone person and those around him. Stress, depression and anxiety as a result of accidents can by themselves cripple one's ability to deal with everyday life. "The aberree, in thousands of ways, complicates the lives of others," writes Hubbard.

But with the information in the book Dianetics, an aberree, or one affected by engrams, can be sorted out—these engrams can be cleared away and the reactive causes and commands can be handled by getting rid of the source—the reactive mind.

So if you or someone you know has been bumping into things, having little incidents and accidents or even causing general turmoil—read this book. It may just save your life or perhaps the lives of others.

Click here to order The Dianetics Self-Improvement Package.

Son reunites mother and father after twenty-one years

Christmas after Christmas, while growing up in Roosendaal, Holland, Frank Ofman watched the heartwarming and inspiring American movies which portrayed the season as one of warmth and happiness. He saw the large family, the joyous laughter, everyone proudly watching as father made that first slice of Thanksgiving turkey or Christmas ham—it was idyllic.

And it was the exact reverse of his own life.

Frank lived in a home devoid of everything those movies represented. There was little family life. The father he had never known was dead. His mother, though she loved her son, was constantly ill, nearly dying twice, and lived with a man who abused her. And Frank had learned to hide his feelings.

Yet it was his mother's revelation to him at the age of 13 which set him on a path that would change everything.

"What would you do," she asked him one day out of the blue, "if I told you your father was still alive?"

Aghast at his mother's question, Frank could only stare speechlessly as she haltingly explained.

"We were young," she said, "We got together, but he had to leave to America. We wanted to have kids. I sent photos to him when you were born...."

Something had happened those many years ago and despite the original intention, Frank's father never returned to his first love in Holland, or to the son that she bore him. And they lost contact over time.

Widowed from another marriage, his mother had spent the past decade of her life with this abusive boyfriend—and the misery of her past.

What hit Frank the deepest was her obvious suffering.

"She would sit in front of the television and cry for no reason," Frank said, "I wanted to change that."

He vowed that he would find the solution. He decided to go to college and learn enough to travel to America for an internship. Then, he would find his father and somehow set things straight.

"The adventure really started when I first heard about Dianetics in college," Frank relates. "I was 21. A friend had the book and I told him I wanted to read it. I read the first pages, where L. Ron Hubbard says, 'You are beginning an adventure. Treat it as an adventure. And may you never be the same again.' I thought it was very profound."

With these words as inspiration, he moved to America and began the search for his father with little more than a name and old photographs.

In Boston, he began months of fruitless calls, tore through lists of names, checked with the local police department, and visited all the addresses he was referred to. Call after call. House after house. Dead end after dead end.

But just as he was about to give it all up, Frank again found Dianetics as his beacon.

On Newbury Street one afternoon, he met a man from the local Hubbard™ Dianetics Foundation.

"I connected him with the book I had read in college," Frank said, "At the time, I wasn't happy. And somehow I knew Dianetics could change that."

Frank enrolled on courses at the Foundation to help improve relationships and to overcome the ups and downs of life that plagued him, while also receiving several hours of Dianetics counseling.

It was after one of those Dianetics sessions that Frank realized he had found the answer to his problems.

"After that session, my life completely changed," Frank says. "I became certain that I could now control my life. And after that session, I knew I would find my father and put together the family I had always wanted."

Things did change—and soon.

"One day, shortly after that session, a man called me and said 'I can tell you where your father is.'"

It was in fact his uncle, his father's brother, and he offered to pick up Frank and take him to his grandmother's house to meet the family.

The resulting reunion was much larger than any he had seen in the American movies he had watched so longingly in Holland. Although his father was in New Hampshire on a job, Frank found himself in the midst of a huge family—his grandmother, 48 cousins and 10 aunts and uncles, who each accepted him into the family with open arms.

Reaching his father by phone, Frank stated simply, "This is your son." And his father rushed back to meet him.

"All I had was a photo of him 20 years ago," Frank said, "I could see it was him, but older. He gave me a hug. There was instant reality there and no doubt that I was his son. I looked just like him in his younger photos."

It was the end of the search, but the beginning of a new adventure.

Together they called Frank's mother in Holland, and together they paid her airfare to come to America. She arrived in Boston in time for the holidays.

Frank could tell that his parents still felt strongly about each other, but they had both been through failed relationships and felt they could not get back together. But this is where Frank put his knowledge of Dianetics to work.

Using what he had learned at the Hubbard Dianetics Foundation, he helped them to understand what had happened and to recognize that a happy life together was still possible.

"That year I got to have my first Thanksgiving dinner with my new family in America," Frank said. "It was the realization of that dream in Holland."

But Frank's application of Dianetics didn't stop there.

With his new knowledge of how to handle relationships with other people, Frank taught his mother what to do to safely get out of the abusive relationship in Holland.

Then, qualified as a Hubbard Book Auditor by reading and successfully using Dianetics, Frank applied these principles to her ailing health and addressed the spiritual problems that were at the root of her illness.

After one two-hour session, the trauma that had been the real cause of her chronic illness was resolved. And the illness that had brought her near death twice never recurred.

His mother returned to Holland, ended her relationship, sold the house and returned to America to get married—for the first time—to Frank's father.

Frank proudly gave his mother away at the wedding.

While on course at the Dianetics Foundation, Frank ended his own troubled relationship, found the woman he really loved, and married her.

And today?

Both Frank's and his parents' marriages are stronger than ever. He has the family he always dreamed of. And plenty of Christmases and Thanksgivings to share with them all.

And, says Frank gratefully, "It all started with Dianetics."

For more information on Dianetics or to order your copy of Dianetics.

The roadway to a greater freedom...
video success story Accidents Will Happen—or Will They?
Son reunites mother and father after twenty-one years

 

 

 

There is a hidden part of your mind that affects the way you think, feel and act. It’s called the reactive mind because it reacts irrationally—manipulating your thoughts, controlling your emotions, and making you lose confidence and trust in yourself.

Dianetics® technology provides you with the technology to GET RID of your reactive mind and take control of your life. With Dianetics you can achieve:

  • Higher intelligence
  • Creative imagination
  • Amazing vitality
  • Deep relaxation
  • Good memory
  • Strong will-power
  • Radiant health
  • Magnetic personality
  • Good self-control

The Dianetics Self-Improvement Package has everything you need to start using Dianetics to handle your reactive mind, including:

Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, which gives the complete anatomy of the reactive mind and the technology to erase it.

DVD VIDEODianetics: A Visual Guidebook to the Mind DVD, shows a step-by-step demonstration of Dianetics auditing that makes it easy to get started.

Dianetics Lectures and Demonstrations, four one-hour recorded lectures by L. Ron Hubbard, in which you’ll hear him explain and demonstrate the breakthroughs of Dianetics.

Dianetics Self-Improvement Home Study Course, an easy-to-do course that takes you through all of the above and greatly increases your understanding of Dianetics. Do your lessons on-line!

Click here to order your copy of The Dianetics Self-Improvement Package.


On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you describe your competence at work?

Before Dianetics After Dianetics
6.5 8.5

75% said Dianetics improved their income-making ability, while on average Dianetics improved competence at work by 131% and users increased their income by an average of 306% — proving the point that investing in yourself with Dianetics is the wisest investment you can make.

Join the millions who have used Dianetics to become truly well and happy. Take your next step towards getting rid of your reactive mind!

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