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Understanding Your Mind
By L. Ron Hubbard

Why should you know something about your mind? A question of similar magnitude would be "Why should you live?" A science fiction writer once conceived a world composed entirely of machines, composed to a point where the machines were repaired by other machines, which in turn were repaired by yet other machines, and so the circle went 'round and the machines survived. He wrote this story from the fondest belief of nuclear physicists that there is only a machine, that man derived from some spontaneous combustion of mud, that the soul does not exist, that freedom is impossible, that all behavior is stimulus-response, that causative thought cannot exist. What a world this would be! And yet this world, this pattern, is the goal of the slave makers. If every man could be depressed from his freedom to a point where he believed himself but a cog in an enormous machine, then all things would be enslaved. But who would there be to enjoy them? Not the slave maker, for he is the first to succumb. He succumbs to his own mechanisms. He receives the full jolt of his own endeavors to entrap. What would be the purpose of this world of machines? There can be no purpose worth contemplating which does not include happiness and experience. When a man is no longer able to envision happiness as a part of his future, the man is dead. He has become nothing but an animated robot, without understanding, without humanity, perfectly willing, then, to compose missiles of such detonative quality that an entire civilization could perish, and that the happiness of all could be destroyed in the experience of radiation - an experience which might be considered digestible by an atomic pile*, but not by a human being. Thus, as we depart from the concepts of freedom, we depart into a darkness where the will, the fear, and the brutality, of one or a few, no matter how well educated, may yet obliterate everything for which we have worked, everything for which we have hoped. This is what happens when the machine runs wild, and when man, becoming a machine, runs wild. Man can only become a machine when he is no longer capable of understanding his own beingness and has lost his contact with it. Thus it is of enormous importance that we understand something about the mind, that we understand we are minds, that we are not machines, and it is of enormous importance that man attain at once some higher level of freedom where the machine reaction of destruction may be controlled, and where man himself can enjoy some of the happiness to which he is entitled.

—L. Ron Hubbard

L. Ron Hubbard

* atomic pile: an early name for a nuclear reactor.


L. Ron Hubbard, bestselling author and one of the leading philosophers of our time, now reveals the incredible story of his journey into the hidden depths of the human mind and soul. A journey that produced his pioneering research and books in the field of Dianetics technology.

Until Mr. Hubbard's discoveries, the inner workings of the mind had been considered "too complex" for the layman. In Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science, Mr. Hubbard cuts through the complexity and the "myths of the mind" to reveal the mechanics of human thought and action in terms anyone can understand.

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