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Dianetics and the Nature of Man...  
 

"Dianetics can be contested, it can be vilified, its founder and practitioners can be publicly pilloried1, but Dianetics cannot be ignored. It could neither be drowned in praise, nor burned in some purge to its total eradication, for it is a wonderfully observable fact that the one impulse in man which cannot be erased is his impulse toward freedom, his impulse toward sanity, toward higher levels of attainment in all of his endeavors. This is man's one saving grace. And because Dianetics is such an impulse, and because its basic purposes, from the moment of its conception, have been dedicated unswervably to the attainment of even greater freedom it cannot perish—a fact which will become doubtlessly more annoying to the slave masters as the years roll on." —L. Ron Hubbard

L. Ron Hubbard
This excerpt was taken from the book Dianetics 55!, by L. Ron Hubbard.
1. pilloried: exposed to ridicule, public contempt, scorn or abuse.

 

   
 
 

The Adventure of Book One Auditing
The story of a man who uncovers a secret never disclosed to his friend as a child...

View details on Book One, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health

"He suddenly erupted in a blood-curdling cry that sent me jumping into the air and throwing my papers and notes everywhere!"

In 1968 I had a lot of free time on my hands. I was in the U.S. Army and stationed in Germany. After work each day, I needed to find something to help wile away the idle hours, and normally I did this through reading books. On the campus there was a bookstore that only carried bestsellers, and it was there I first saw Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.

I thought the title sounded interesting and because it was a huge book, it gave me something to read for a while. So I started my journey into discovering and learning about the human mind. After the first read through, I thought this was really something and I already knew that just a small fraction of this information would mean a great deal for mankind. I then began reading it over again, this time with even more attention and curiosity.

Soon the paperback book became worn from my intensive reading and slowly the book started falling apart. However, this was most fortunate for my roommate who began picking up the fallen pages and reading along with me. Pretty soon he was just as curious as I was about the subject of Dianetics.

The Adventure Begins

One day Bill (my roommate) suggested I try auditing the procedure on him. I told him that I wasn't sure if I wanted to and didn't know what would happen. He persisted, and also pointed out that in the book it states you can't hurt anyone with the procedure and some auditing, even if done badly, was far better than nothing. Well, he had me on that one.

Bill settled himself down on one of the bunks and with a book on one knee and a notepad on the other, I began the auditing session. I meticulously followed the commands and made notes as best I could. For a short while I didn't notice any changes and began to get nervous. I kept following the procedure, just as LRH wrote and then came across a command where LRH said "if nothing else works, try this". So I did.

The Incident

A blood curdling cry erupted from Bill and had me jumping out of my chair, falling on the floor and throwing the book and papers all over the room. I was frightened half to death. Uneasily, I climbed back up to my chair and arranged the papers and the book again to continue the process. Looking closely at Bill, I could see a tear streaming down his face while his eyes were still closed. What the heck had just happened?

The next step was to reduce the engram and I set out to do this, following the procedure in the book exactly, and in a short time had Bill back up to present time and no longer in pain from the incident.

After the session Bill commented, "Boy I must have quite an imagination. After all, there's no way this could be true. I was a one year old kid when this happened and my parents for sure would have told me about this." Bill had uncovered a previous unknown injury — one that he had never been told about.

A few days passed and he was still wondering about whether or not this was a real incident or just his imagination. So I suggested he write his mother and ask. After all, she would surely know about a major injury that happened to him at this age.

The Incident is Confirmed

Three weeks later I entered our room after work and Bill was sitting on his bed, face white as a sheet, staring at a letter in his hand. I asked what was wrong and he handed me the letter. It was the answer from his mother. She was interrogating him as to how he could have possibly found this out and asking questions like "where did you hear this from?", "have you been talking to Aunt Martha?", etc. From this letter it was evident that this incident was real!

Both of us were in complete shock. We surmised from his mother's letter and the details of the incident that his family had covered this up and made a pact never to tell him. They were ashamed and embarrassed. You see, when he was only a year old, on Christmas Eve, all his relatives were visiting and had been drinking a little too much. His father was holding him next to the Christmas tree and they had real candles on the tree, which were of course all lit. He was fascinated by the flame and reached out with one finger to touch it but as he realized it was hot and it began to burn him he tried to withdraw, but his father accidentally turned him into the flame and he was burned severely! As he cried, everyone was so drunk they did not realize what had happened and were just standing around laughing. In fact no one in the family noticed the burn marks until the next day and then they quickly took him to a doctor.

The Result

My roommate had a sudden realization that he had been afraid of candles his whole life and never knew why. But best of all, he was no longer afraid of them as this incident had been reduced and was no longer subconsciously affecting him.

Needless to say, I had found something that really worked and I was very impressed. It was not a matter of how smart or clever I was as a person, but just by following the simple procedure in the book I could produce incredible results.

Over the next two years, I audited over 1,000 hours of Book One and other processes from L. Ron Hubbard's books and materials. In 1970 I visited Saint Hill and went Clear. But it didn't stop there. Since this time I have contributed as a Scientologist and staff member for over 30 years and never stopped disseminating or helping people with the tech. I can't imagine living any other way!

Further, I now encourage and challenge other fellow Scientologists to have similar wins and gains from applying the tech in LRH books and materials in helping others. There is no other feeling like it!

Warren R. Schneringer, OT III

 

Communication, the Universal Solvent

Listen to an excerpt from the Communication Freedom and Ability Lectures

Dianetics 55! was originally released to the broad public during a national congress with thousands in attendance, now called the Communication, Freedom and Ability lectures. In this series he lectured on all the points covered in the book and how important this information was to every man, woman and child.


Additional questions answered in these lectures:

  • What is the solution to a secret?
  • How does a person get a reputation for being a very mysterious person?
  • When communication has dropped with a person, why do you start making conclusions that there's something wrong or dubbing things in?
  • Why do people have difficulty with their bodies?
  • When does a problem become a problem?
  • What do you do if you want to make someone well?
  • How do you restore ability?
  • How does wisdom come about?
  • Where does stupidity come from?
 

Delivered between the 27th and 31st of December 1954, Communication! Freedom & Ability explains the basic elements of communication, how communication can be used to handle aberration, how aberration is created by miscommunication, violation of the comm formula as well as lack of origins and acknowledgements.

A keynote of this series is that it provides the knowledge of how to be at cause in life simply with communication.

Communication, however, is not the only subject that Ron details in this series. He covers the attention unit of society, how to create time and gives the solution to secrets. The series contains 16 lectures, full transcript and glossary and has all 10 lecture charts that LRH drew during the congress to explain key concepts.

 

Click here for more information on Dianetics 55! and the Communication, Freedom and Ability Lectures or to place your order.

 

Dianetics and the Nature of Man
...a Man Who Uncovers a Secret Never Disclosed...
Communication, the Universal Solvent

 


The Research and Discovery Volumes
The Research and Discovery Volumes

The Research and Discovery Volumes are comprised of transcriptions of L. Ron Hubbard's recorded lectures and auditing demonstrations, presented chronologically. Beginning with the first recordings, made less than a month after the publication of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, they contain a complete record of L. Ron Hubbard's research.

"THESE TAPE LECTURES CONTAIN THE ONLY CONSECUTIVE RECORD OF ALL SCIENTOLOGY RESEARCH.

"They contain more data than was ever released by HCOBs by many times.

"These tapes are not simply lectures. They are the ONLY existing record of all the advances which made possible the handling of the human mind. There is NO other such record in existence."—L. Ron Hubbard

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