Hello. I began Dianetics in 1993 when I was in despair and didn’t have any answers. Right away the people in Dianetics were so awesome and kind and the technology was so revelatory that I began a journey and haven’t stopped yet. You should start on your journey to self understanding and improvement.
Posted by Jeff Kelley on March 29th, 2007
I’ve read many self help books and this one is the only one that told me what the source of barriers, insecurity, self doubt and negative thoughts was. I’ve applied Dianetics to others and have had it applied to me, my IQ has come up well over 20 points and my abilities are soaring in areas I didn’t know I was able in before. Dianetics works, it gets results accross the board. I highly recommend it.
Posted by Deanna Meske on March 29th, 2007
My father had collapsed one day. His leg had turned black.
I found him in the emergency room of the hospital. He had a clogged aorta. The doctors said that they would have to operate and amputate the leg because gangreen would set in.
I started using Dianetics on him right there and took him back to an early childhood incident.
Within 10 minutes after that the doctors told me that for some reason they could not explain the condition had reversed and he was healing fast enough so they did not have to operate.
The result? My dad kept his leg!
Posted by Jay Clitheroe on March 28th, 2007
I had about 8 sessions of Dianetics for severe Migraine attacks which painfuly blinded me for days. That was 40 years ago and I haven’t had an attack since.
Posted by Sunja Ackerman on March 27th, 2007
About 7 years ago, my marriage broke up and my husband left to marry someone who had been a good friend of mine. I kind of went crazy about it and it was constantly in my mind. I hated them so much and complained to everyone who would listen about it!
About a year later, I had a couple of sessions of Dianetic processing that addressed the loss I had experienced, and I found that this situation was connected to other things from the past that initially seemed totally disrelated. What happened after that was a miracle to a lot of people frankly! After that time I was able to look at the situation with my ex-husband with rationality that I could not find before. For the first time, we could actually discuss our daughter without my winding up screaming about it.
There has even been a hug or two since then.
I can’t imagine the kind of life our child would have had to have lived if that had continued.
Posted on March 27th, 2007
In 1998 I had everything perfect in my life. I had achieved almost all my goals in life: I was successful, had wonderful and successful family, I had a lot of money, great job, great upcoming career, just completed my M.A. and started working on my Ph.D. Yet, I was not happy and even got to experiencing some depression which was developing really fast.
Fortunately, I met a highschool friend at that time and as I started to complain to her about my problem, she asked me to read the Dianetics and see if it will help me in a way. I took the book in apathy because I didn’t believe that it will help me at all, but I was curious what is in there and read it in the next two days.
Nevertheless, the other wins that I got from the book were numerous. Yet the most valuable for me, as an educator and a philosopher who had been searching for the answers about life and universe all my life, was that I found some of those answers and truths in Dianetics and later all of them in the L. Ron Hubbard’s books and materials.
I highly and truly recommend Dianetics to everybody and find out for themselves.
The fact is that you lose nothing, but what you might gain might be surprisingly wonderful and life-changing.
Posted by Mila Nedelkovska on March 27th, 2007
I’ll try to make this brief and to the point.
Prior to Dianetics, I used to get pneumonia or severe bronchitis each fall. After receiving Dianetics auditing (counseling) in 1974, I’ve had no more pneumonia or severe bronchitis.
A few years later, I was cleared of my Reactive Mind. Since then, I have been able to think more clearly, make faster decisions and have confidence in those decisions.
Also, creative abilities which had been locked within myself, were released and I now am an award-winning poet, an award-winning salesman and the founder of a private school.
In recent years, I’ve been using Dianetics to help others achieve similar gains. Just a few examples: A 13-year old girl who had suffered from frequent and severe motion sickness has been free of that condition for about one year now, after receiving only one Dianetics session.
A woman with chronic leg pain has been free of that condition for about three years, since receiving Dianetics auditing from me.
Many people who were suffering grief from loss of loved ones can now think of those loved ones without feeling the former emotional pain, because I used Dianetics to help them address the loss.
I could list many more similar results from the use of Dianetics.
Posted by Lee TerBush on March 20th, 2007
Howdy!
My experience with Dianetics began over 30 years ago when I read it twice through and realized that not only did I have a reactive mind, but so did just about everyone else.
With that realization came understanding and I got along better with others, especially my family and friends. But I also got along better with myself.
Enjoy the adventure!
Sincerely,
Christopher Scott
March 26, 2007 5:43PM (PDT)
Dear Readers,
I would like to tell you my story of how I found Dianetics.
For me it all started nineteen years ago in early 1988. I was a young man, twenty-two years of age, married with two baby daughters. One afternoon I was performing a routine engine exchange, when suddenly the engine hoist gave way while my hands where still on the chains and when everything came crashing down my right hand was crushed.
My immediate reflex action pulled my hand back fast and cupped it in my left hand. It was at this very moment that something strange happened. First it was like time slowed down, then I felt electrical impulses shoot from my head down to my hand, one after another. It seemed as if my brain was trying to reestablish contact with my hand. Then there was a second wave, this time it felt like the impulses were trying to fibrillate or reboot my hand, then it was like I felt something say “we lost it.”
I knew at this instant without even looking that I had lost part of my hand, then my hearing went, then my eyesight went, my knees began to buckle, but before I fainted I thought “I have two babies in the house, I can’t faint.” I pushed back at the knees, reopened my eyes, but something else was commanding my body and all I could do was watch.
I grabbed a dirty grease rag and wrapped up my hand, all the while I was thinking “don’t wrap your hand in that, it’s filthy.” By this time my endorphins where kicking in and everything was getting blurry. So off to the hospital I went to begin eight months worth of surgeries and skin grafts. Well before the first set of stitches had been removed, I found out that my wife was having an affair, and shortly after that I found out that my identity had been stolen and that I was in debt to an amount that I could not pronounce at the time. So not only did my engine come crashing down but my whole life came crashing down with it.
From this point forward nothing could ever be the same again. The initial event (crushing my hand) had opened something in my mind and the other two events where holding it open. For about the next year, information about everything downloaded into my mind from out of nowhere. Mostly chemistry, physics and biology. But there was also a lot of information about words. Somehow I knew that there was a part of my brain that took everything I heard literally. It could not understand sarcasm or humor, so without even looking I dove straight off the high dive into the pool of theology. I studied the Bible day and night. I had the Bible in large print, small print, red print and cassette.
After about three years my search in theology faded out so I turned to science and spent the next fifteen years studying one by one different branches of science. In science, I never really found anything that pinpointed my experience but I found a good solid foundation to stand on. I began to disregard my earlier experience to painful imaginations and adopted a new outlook on life. If I can see it, smell it, hear it, taste it or touch it, it is real, and if I can’t, it’s not.
Then Quantum Physics came along and knocked me right off the cliff. Now my solid physical universe was gone. Now all my depression of the past started coming back fast, all the years of my quest seemed like a waste of time. My childhood was about as stable as a fox in a hen house and the pain of that was catching up to me also. I couldn’t find good in anything and didn’t want to live anymore.
I reached the point that if I didn’t have to work that day I wouldn’t get out of bed. I felt the dying process begin in my body. After about a year I went to the doctor knowing that something was wrong with me and I tested positive for Type II Diabetes and a list of other complications. I tried the medicine but my body wouldn’t really accept it.
Now about this time my second wife of ten years was also dealing with mass depression and started attending a local church and was really hoping to get me to attend. I went with her a few times but I just couldn’t get excited, I’d heard it all before and I just couldn’t do it again.
So one night while she was at Bible study I was sitting in my chair wondering what to do and where do I go from here, when suddenly I remembered a TV commercial from back around the time I had my injury in ‘87-’88. “Dianetics the owners manual to the human mind”. Then I remembered that nearly ten years ago I had acquired that book from a store here in Salt Lake City. I went digging through my books and there it was!
I sat down, opened the cover and started from the very first page. When I read the “Important Note” my interest flared right there. I had never opened a book before that told you how to read and understand it, much less a book that spoke to me and gave definitions on the same page. I started at book one and I couldn’t put it down.
The next day as soon as I got home from work I started book two, chapter one, “The Analytical Mind”, loved it. Next was chapter two, “The Reactive Mind.” About a quarter of the way in I yelled “BINGO!”. It took me the better part of the next week to finish the book but now I had so much information to process that I began to reread the book. That was taking too long so I jumped on the “NET” and ordered Dianetics, book on CD. Now I could listen to it on my way to and from work everyday, and I drive an hour each way.
Now I knew I needed to find a Scientology Center. It turned out that I worked a block and a half away from one. My wife and I went to the Center that following weekend for the workshop. I explained to Wendy, the auditor, my recent experience. She sent me home with the “Self Analysis” book so my wife and I could start light processing. Little did I know what I was about to embark on in the “Self Analysis” book! Like before with the Dianetics book, I started at the very first page and began reading and like before the book was very good. Then I reached chapter four “On Our Efforts for Immortality.” L. Ron Hubbard begins by explaining the four elements: matter, energy, space and time. Now he really has my attention because for the last fifteen plus years I had been studying, contemplating, theorizing and examining these four elements extensively.
Then he throws the fifth element (”Life Energy”) at me in a way I had never looked at it before. I had never viewed life as an independent element. I viewed life as an atomic molecular probability that was confined by space and time. But after seeing life as an independent element it made perfect sense now why no mathematical formula could predict how any one person would experience any given situation.
I kept reading and then I reached the part on half conscious. I realized that I met the level at or below half conscious, and then I realized that I was dying. I had never been my own best friend and really had not wanted to live for some twenty-five years. I could see clearly now how all the pain I had been carrying was slowly killing me and that brought me to the juncture of choice, live or die. Right then I dropped the book using my thumb as a book marker and said out loud “I WANT TO LIVE!!!”
I just laid there for awhile out of myself but I had to finish the book so I kept on reading and when I reached the end of chapter six, L. Ron Hubbard said “If you aren’t being a friend of yourself, I’m your friend.” I got chills through my whole body and now felt comfortable so I put the book down. I went to sleep early that night, something I had not been able to do for quite awhile.
About 3:00 AM I was awakened out of my sleep by a feel good burning sensation throughout my entire body literally from head to toe. I could feel everything in my body turning back on. This lasted about a half hour and when it was finished I was left laying there in a prenatal memory that answered a lot of my problems. I must add that I did not sleep again for about forty hours.
Now I have never felt better, I have energy again, all my symptoms of Type II Diabetes have left, including constant chest pains, pain in my lower back and in my legs that I had had for the last three years. Prior to this experience, my body temperature had not been above 95 degrees for several years (on record with my doctor). It is now back to normal. For a few years I was white as a ghost - my wife and other people would comment on this regularly. Now my complexion is healthy. My past does not bother me anymore and I’m excited about life. Within two weeks from this experience I changed my career and left a dead end job that had me trapped for seventeen years.
In my opinion L. Ron Hubbard is an absolute genius and society could never repay him their debt. Little did I know that the entire time I was reading his books, he was auditing me. People have asked me how he did it and I tell them that they’ve got to read the books to find out. I feel I owe him my life. Thank you, Clayton Liston.
Posted by C. Liston on March 20th, 2007
Dianetics is the most amazing book I have read, and started a very exciting journey for me.
Once I discovered that there was a reactive mind and an analytical mind, and that when I acted irrationally or had emotions I didn’t understand after that they were from my reactive mind, everything became so much more clearer.
I discovered that I could actually get rid of the reactive mind, and life would be easier, more fun, less stressful, and the benefits just kept coming.
It took only one session for me to understand something that happened to me rooted from words I heard when I was 16 years old. That totally changed my perspective about how I react to things, and how others react to me (it’s just their reactive mind too).
It was the best money I had ever spent, and is taking me to self-betterment levels I could have never imagined possible.
Get the book, (and even better get the DVD - it makes everything so easy to understand) and you can enjoy your journey.
Posted by Tracy Repchuk on March 26th, 2007
