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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

* 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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