Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Significance of the Dianetics Symbol?
The Dianetics symbol uses the Greek letter Delta as its basic form. The stripes are green for growth and yellow for life. The four green stripes represent the four subdivisions of life which are delineated in the Dianetics technology.
What is the Mind?
The mind is basically a communication and control system between the person and his environment. It is composed of mental image pictures, which are recordings of past experiences. The individual uses his mind to pose and solve problems related to survival and to direct his efforts according to these solutions.
What is the Reactive Mind?
The reactive mind is the portion of a person’s mind which works on a totally stimulus-response basis, which is not under his volitional (willing) control, and which exerts force and the power of command over his awareness, purposes, thoughts, body and actions.
Can Dianetics® Technology Help Me Overcome Feelings of Grief and Loss?
Yes.
The source of any negative emotion, attitude or feeling is fully revealed by the Dianetics procedure. The causes of a person’s feelings of grief or loss are buried in the person’s reactive mind, able to influence and control the person.
Dianetics technology guides a person through his or her reactive mind to locate — and permanently eradicate — the actual source of the upset. With the cause of the upset handled, the person is once more able to live a happy, healthy life.
Who is L. Ron Hubbard?
L. Ron Hubbard is the founder of Dianetics and Scientology technologies. He has described his philosophies in more than 5,000 writings, including dozens of books, and three thousand tape recorded lectures. Those who regularly employ his teachings to improve themselves and help their fellows come from all walks of life, while Scientology® missions and churches have been established on six continents.
The universal acclaim for the man — including thousands of awards and recognitions from individuals and groups and the unprecedented popularity of his works from all walks of life — is but one indicator of the effectiveness of his technologies. More importantly, there are millions of people around the world who consider they have no greater friend.
How Did the Dianetics® Technology Start?
Dianetics technology was developed by renowned American author and philosopher L. Ron Hubbard.
L. Ron Hubbard began his study of the mind in 1923. Through his extensive travels, study of many cultures around the world and scientific research, he developed and tested man’s first fully workable technology of the mind.
In 1950, Mr. Hubbard wrote Dianetics, a comprehensive work detailing his discoveries and techniques and the first and only definitive manual of the mind.
Dianetics became a nationwide bestseller almost overnight. By late summer, 1950, people across the country were not only reading the book, but were also organizing groups for the purpose of applying Dianetics techniques. The book has remained a bestseller ever since, becoming number one on The New York Times bestseller list almost four decades after its initial publication. It continues to appear on bestseller lists around the world.
Is the Dianetics® Technology all Based on One Man’s Work?
Although Dianetics technology was discovered by L. Ron Hubbard, he wrote:
“Acknowledgment is made to fifty thousand years of thinking men without whose speculations and observations the creation and construction of Dianetics would not have been possible. Credit in particular is due to:
“Anaxagoras, Thomas Paine, Aristotle, Thomas Jefferson, Socrates, René Descartes, Plato, James Clerk Maxwell, Euclid, Charcot, Lucretius, Herbert Spencer, Roger Bacon, William James, Francis Bacon, Sigmund Freud, Isaac Newton, van Leeuwenhoek, Cmdr. Joseph Thompson (MC) USN, William A. White, Voltaire, Will Durant, Count Alfred Korzybski, and my instructors in atomic and molecular phenomena, mathematics and the humanities at George Washington University and at Princeton.”
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