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The #1 New York Times bestseller With over 22,000,000 copies sold in 50 languages, and used in more than 176 nations, Dianetics brings dramatic and permanent improvement to people all over the world.“While it’s true that Dianetics has become the self-improvement classic, there can be little doubt that what it has to offer is just what people are now looking for in ever increasing numbers. Reducing stress, achieving goals, improving relationships and striving to live up to one’s full potential is definitely the in thing.” (New York Post)“Hubbard’s bestseller has helped millions, and it should be read and used by all who are searching for a true understanding of the mind and a solution to such problems as self-doubt, stress, anxiety and depression.” (World Reporter)“[Dianetics is] a new science which works with the invariability of physical science in the field of the human mind. From all indications it will prove to be as revolutionary for humanity as the first caveman’s discovery and utilization of fire.” (Daily Mirror) If you’ve ever felt there was something holding you back in life, ruining your plans and stopping you from being who you want to be, you were right. The fact is, there is a single source of all your problems, stress, unhappiness and self-doubt. It’s called the reactive mind—the hidden part of your mind that stores all painful experiences, then uses them against you. With Dianetics, you can learn to control your reactive mind—freeing you to live an extraordinary life and be your true self. Don’t live with insecurity, negative thoughts, depression and irrational behavior. Use Dianetics to take control of your future. Key discoveries contained in Dianetics:
- Why do we give up on our dreams?
- What is the real cause of depression?
- Is there a cure for stress?
- How do you reach your full potential?
- Why do we hurt the ones we love?
- Why are some people prone to illness?
- How can you improve your mental health?
- Can you conquer your fears?
Start the adventure—of you. Buy and read Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781403144843 |
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Publisher: | Bridge Publications, Inc. |
Publication date: | 07/14/2007 |
Pages: | 678 |
Sales rank: | 689,373 |
Product dimensions: | 6.25(w) x 9.37(h) x 1.50(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
Read an Excerpt
Dianetics is an adventure. It is an exploration into terra incognita, the human mind, that vast and hitherto unknown realm half an inch back of our foreheads.
"The discoveries and developments which made the formulation of Dianetics possible occupied many years of exact research and careful testing. This was exploration, it was also consolidation. The trail is blazed, the routes are sufficiently mapped for you to voyage in safety into your own mind and recover there your full inherent potential, which is not, we now know, low but very, very high.
Table of Contents
DIANETICS: THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SYNOPSIS i
INTRODUCTION
How to Read this Book 1
BOOK ONE: The GOAL of MAN
CHAPTER ONE
The Scope of Dianetics 7
CHAPTER TWO
The Clear 13
CHAPTER THREE
The Goal of Man 25
CHAPTER FOUR
The Four Dynamics 41
CHAPTER FIVE
Summary 47
BOOK TWO: The SINGLE SOURCE of ALL INORGANIC
MENTAL and ORGANIC PSYCHOSOMATIC ILLS
CHAPTER ONE
The Analytical Mind
and the Standard Memory Banks 55
CHAPTER TWO
The Reactive Mind 63
CHAPTER THREE
The Cell and the Organism 85
CHAPTER FOUR
The “Demons” 103
CHAPTER FIVE
Psychosomatic Illness 111
CHAPTER SIX
Emotion and the Dynamics 133
CHAPTER SEVEN
Prenatal Experience and Birth 149
CHAPTER EIGHT
Contagion of Aberration 163
CHAPTER NINE
Keying-in the Engram 173
CHAPTER TEN
Preventive Dianetics 187
BOOK THREE: THERAPY
CHAPTER ONE
The Mind’s Protection 201
CHAPTER TWO
Release or Clear 207
CHAPTER THREE
The Auditor’s Role 213
CHAPTER FOUR
Diagnosis 221
CHAPTER FIVE
Returning, the File Clerk and the Time Track 239
CHAPTER SIX
The Laws of Returning 255
CHAPTER SEVEN
Emotion and the Life Force 279
CHAPTER EIGHT
Some Types of Engrams 319
CHAPTER NINE: PART ONE
Mechanisms and Aspects of Therapy 335
CHAPTER NINE: PART TWO
Mechanisms and Aspects of Therapy 381
CHAPTER TEN
Dianetics— Past and Future 479
Dianetics Terms 493
Dianetics in the 21st Century 499
APPENDIX
Further Study 519
Guide to the Materials 532
Addresses 534
Editor’s Glossary of Words, Terms and Phrases 539
Index 635
What People are Saying About This
In the early days, I would stand with one part of my foot on the amplifier and my eyes pinned downwards. Using Dianetics technology, I became more and more freed up. I used to play one note with one finger and now there are no limits. I came out of a shell. And that happened as a result of Dianetics. I have little attention on the past now, I only have attention on the present and future. Dianetics helps bring your creative horsepower way up.
Top rock bassist for "Mr. Big"
As with all great books, the impact of Dianetics means that the world will
never be the same again. History has become a race between Dianetics and
catastrophe. Dianetics will win if enough people are challenged, in time, to
understand it.
Writing in the New
York Times
Dianetics put me into the big time. I always had the ability to be somewhat successful, but Dianetics freed me up to the point where something really big could happen, without interference.
This is the most complete, accurate and life-changing book that I have ever read on the subject of the mind. Read this book from cover to cover and your life will never be the same.
consultant
This is the most complete, accurate and life-changing book that I have ever read on the subject of the mind. Read this book from cover to cover and your life will never be the same.
consultant
Power of healing, a successful life, and happiness - all yours by mere thought. Sounds like a science fiction book or movie right? Wrong. It is Dianetics and it is a real science of the mind and its powers. In 1950, L. Ron Hubbard wrote about this science in a book aptly named Dianetics.
The book deals with your mind and how your thoughts can affect your current state of health. It speaks of a way that you can make your life better simply by thinking about it. I read this book over the course of two weeks and it has been one of the best books that I have read in years.
It did not change my life overnight, or in a week but it did make me think about things I do in life, and why I do them. It makes the reader realize that ever action leads to a reaction, no matter how small the reaction.
You might be skeptical about the idea of power of thought, but even if you are Dianetics is a book that I would highly suggest reading. It will show you things about you thought processes that you never knew. I give this book a 5 out of 5 open minds. It's definitely a book to read.
Staff Writer, Oklahoma City Community College, Pioneer
Interviews
“We have around us today many problems: problems of the criminal, war, individual illness and juvenile delinquency. We are faced with very intimate and vital problems which we are not, as a large society, adequately solving. Dianetics has introduced into the society a technique by which it is possible to increase the potential working groups in the country.
“I would like to tell you a little more about Dianetics, its general ability to remedy some of the troubles and problems with which the community, the individual, the nation are faced. We have quite a few things in this society today which need remedying, and we are in a little bit better position to remedy these things.
“Dianetics is a series of techniques, tested on an engineering basis, which do things with the science of thought. You hear people say, ‘Dianetics? This is probably just another idea. If we sleep on featherbeds we will all be much healthier, etc.’ This is the sort of thing that has been going on in the past about thought itself: ‘If you sit with your legs crossed for fifteen minutes every morning and say, ‘Every day in every way we are getting better and better, ‘” etc. In the past they were trying to sell this sort of thing as a substitute for a good science of thought. The public is very justly suspicious of anything new that pretends to do something about the human mind.
“We have reached the place where we can blow a whole town off the face of the earth, drive automobiles at 110 miles an hour and unload how many tons of weight, where, at such and such a time, but nobody has been adequately studying the human mind itself.
“Doctors know that human ills stem from the mind. New remedies come out: ‘All you have to do is take so-and-so and life is wonderful.’ The thinking medical men, however, who have ability and who have done observations on their own, know that none of these medicines are panaceas…. With 75% of man’s ills very little advance has been made…”
“In Dianetics we demonstrate the fact that we have techniques to do away with psychosomatic illnesses. People say, ‘Why didn’t someone know this before? Why didn’t someone know that we could recover all our memories of childhood?
“One day I ran into a lady. She hadn’t known who her parents were... Her parents had died before she knew them. I took her back to the period where she could see her parents. We found her name, what her birthday was, where her parents had died, of what they had died, etc. She came back to present time in a remarkable state, tremendously enthused. Interesting to me that four psychiatrists had worked on this lady and were in the audience. Two came up and confessed to me that they had thrown this patient at me to prove that Dianetics did not work. They had worked on her for five years and considered her the hardest patient in the area. These two gentlemen were more courteous to me after that.
“I have received a letter from a gentleman in the Midwest who wants us at the Foundation to send him a certified auditor trained in these techniques in order to instruct the staff of an entire sanitarium in order to accomplish what they have not accomplished before.
“They did not know how thought works, what are the parts of the mind, etc. As a consequence they could not predict how a person would react under certain circumstances. They did not recognize that when a nation goes to war it was in a period of madness.
“Dianetics is interested in experimentation in order to increase the application of these techniques. Our research department is very hard at work running a pilot project on a small group in order to perfect these applications of Group Dianetics. In a few days Group Dianetics has taken an apathetic company and has brought it up to where its income potential has almost doubled. These things are the vital stuff out of which we hope to make a larger and better future for the world.”
L. Ron Hubbard Radio broadcast given on 8 February 1951