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Summary: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health
Review: I've only read half the book. But I decided I wanted to try the therapy described in Dianetics. If I had been told that using the Dianetic procedure I would finally unlock the reason why I irrationally hated my only brother. I would've walked right out. I had tried psych counseling, priests, ministers, family and friends. But it never resolved. I believed that him and I just never "clicked". After just a few hours I discovered that 14 years of misery for my family came from the unconscious recording of a major injury I had. The Reactive Mind had been tossing the pain and fear of that injury at me when ever my brother was around. Making it impossible to be in the same room with him. Once that was known to me. All of the animosity I held for my brother vanished. We are now good friends all because of Dianetics.
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Summary: Too Good to Be True?
Review: I first picked up a copy of this book at a new age bookstore in Santa Fe, NM and read it over a long weekend while camping in Taos. To put it simply, I devoured it! That week I also purchased a "How to Use Dianetics" video from the same store and began using the therapy as described with my girlfiend. We were both amazed! We audited for at least fifty hours over the next two months and our lives began to alter for the better.At the time I was a heavy drug user and was wandering a career wasteland with little purpose in life. After using the techniques in the book I began to find my way back into the world of the living. I quite using drugs and found my dream job. I know this book is controversial, or rather, the organization that presents it is, but aside from the controversy, it has a lot to offer. The mental therapy espoused in Dianetics will work if applied correctly. Of this I have no doubts. Dianetics is the original milestone of the human potential movement as many of the founding fathers of self-help in later years were one time ardent students of Hubbard (Werner Erhard of est fame; Paul Twitchel, founder of Eckankar; and Harry Palmer, founder of Avatar). I'm not a Scientologist and have no desire to explore it as a religion, but Dianetics worked when I needed it to, and for that, I am greatful.
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Summary: Just do it!
Review: I read this book 14 years ago and its contents are since part of my everyday life. Every aspect of my life has become much better since - for it has the answers. People around me keep asking questions like "How can you learn that fast?", "How can you bear so much stress and still keep going?".
Its a very practical and enlightening work that can improve your IQ. Its approach is not authoritative or old-school but rather looking and finding things out for yourself and proving its factuality. It says that it's only true if it's true for you and if its not true for you it is not true. And I found it very true for me. All that has do be done is to do it!
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Summary: Life Saver
Review: The procedures from this book saved my life. There was a time many years ago that I fell off of a bicycle and hit my head on the cement. I was unconcious and was completely unaware. This was an injury that could have caused permanent damage to the structure of my scull and in the long run possibly my brain. After receiving medical attention I received a process outlined in the book "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health". After that my head healed completely and I was able to function almost as if nothing had happened. I knew that I fell and I knew that it had hurt me, but it no longer effected me in a negative way & to this day there are no residual effects. Wow! The same thing ocurred with another leg injury that I had sustained previously. I now use the technology contained in this book to help those I care about. It also contains very practical information about how to deal with life and why some things seem irrational. This book is definitely worth picking up and reading, it could change your life for the better, as well as the lives of those around you.
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Summary: Dianetics IS the solution. Read this and find out why.
Review: I read Dianetics about 5 years ago. Since then I have been applying the data on a daily basis. I am happier, brighter and those things that I felt were pulling me down 5 years ago are no longer present, I am happier because of it. I recommend you read this book and call the 800 number on the back if you have any questions. The people on the other end of the line are so much help!!
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Summary: emancipation from mental slavery
Review: None but ourself can free our minds. So much for "talking" and "telling" what it should be. Here is the tool to do the job !! I took this book and used it and my mind has never been healthier. I also applied the technique to my friends and family with remarkable success. It is so amazing and powerful, yet very easy to apply. I wish everyone could get their hands on it.
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Summary: I first read this book in 1970
Review: I first read Dianetics, The Modern Science of Mental Health in 1970. Unlike other books I had read about the human mind and human behavior, this made sense and was practical, in that anyone could sit down and apply the material in the book. Finally here was a philosophy that did not insult your intelligence -- in fact, it improved your intelligence. Since then I have read many other books by L. Ron Hubbard (and was even privileged to have met him in 1971) and have always found his writings to be enlightening and practical. It's hard to imagine going through life NOT knowing this stuff.
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Summary: YOU HAVE TO TRY IT
Review: When I first read Dianetics, it made complete sense to me: from what I read, it was clear that this was a major breakthrough, and I immediately want to see if the methods described really worked. Well, I found out Dianetics works as well in the real world as it does on paper. You need to read this book, and more important, you have to try out the methods to see what excellent improvement it will let you make in your life!
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Summary: FINALLY .Something that makes sense.
Review: I read the occult. I tried to read Brewer and Freud. (Oh My)I read history. Finally found this book. It is a little hard to read because it seems to have a huge amount of very precise and correct info in short amounts of pages. But it was easy to persevere because you get that it is true. I learned tons about people... and any person can learn see really true stuff about what is so wrong all around you, and learn a not terribly complicated method of "erasing" mentally and emotionally uglified internal garbage. It made me feel relieved that there is a way out, and a regular person can totally understand it. Loved the book! All the time I was hunting, there was actually something to discover at the end of the hunt. It is sort of like thinking you will never find a landing field no matter how far you fly. Someone was smart enough to build one. A really good job.
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Summary: This is the handbook for the human mind.
Review: I wish I would have studied this in college instead of the piles of psychology books that never made any sense and continually contradicted each other. It answered the questions I've always had on why I do certain things or why other people respond the way they do. It even gives you a simple method to fix it that honestly works. I highly recommend this book.
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