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Summary: Simply put: It makes sense!
Review: I have heard alot of different views, and I feel it is important to just buy the book and make your own mind up. I hear so many opnions and I am a believer that one should investigate it for oneself, give it a thorough look and then decide for yourself. For me, the book answered so many questions that college professors unsuccesffuly unanswered, and even at times further obscured. It gave me areal way to understand and do something about my situation.
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Summary: Dianetics - Don't leave home without it!
Review: I read this book and believe me if you ever wondered what made people act the way they do, you will have no doubt after you read this book! It provides real answers and a very scientific and practical solution to man's ills. I have found that some pretty amazing results can be achieved through its use. Of course, like anything have to read and understand the material and apply it standardly to get the desired result, but if you do so you will find that you can help others rid themselves of unwanted feelings and emotions and help them achieve well being. As a matter of fact, through the use of applying the Dianetics principles in this book I helped a young man rid himself of his compulsion to abuse his son. Now, that's definitely a book worth reading (and using)! It's the only book I've ever seen that advises you on how to get the most out of it like never passing up a word you don't understand; it provides explanatory footnotes at the bottom on each page, as well as a glossary for unfamiliar or new terms. I can certainly see why this book continues to make the bestseller list over and over again -- if you have a mind or know someone who does you won't want to pass this book over. Because you never know when a friend or coworker will pour out his heart to you about some aspect of his life that you can use these principles to help him handle. Like I said, you won't want to leave home without it!
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Summary: A Practical Answer
Review: What are you doing right this minute to prevent yourself from fully achieving your dreams? Dianetics means "through the mind" and by using its simple method, you can find out for yourself. That is why I think it is so popular - because it works, and because it doesn't tell you what to think, but directs you in where to look to find out your own answers for yourself.
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Summary: I should have known...
Review: While reading this book, you will have the feeling that you have always felt the human mind worked this way, but could never put it into words. Hollywood instinctively knows it: the phenomenon we call a "flashback," used in nearly every movie, is fully explained in Dianetics. Hubbard has not only defined and explained the way the human mind works; he developed easy therapeutic techniques for cleaning up and enhancing its functions. These are techniques that are matched in their simplicity and ease of use by their surprising effectiveness. In testing out Dianetics, I saw a friend who had lived with anxiety for years since undergoing a traumatic experience, erase his fear permanently after about an hour of simple conversation applying the 10-step Dianetics process. If you have any nagging memories of which you would like to be free, buying this book is the best $5 you will ever spend.
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Summary: Read the chapter "The Clear."
Review: Take it off the shelf in any bookstore and read just that short chapter. You'll understand everything about Scientology and Dianetics that you need to know. And you will want to achieve the state of Clear. (It means "clear" in the sense of the button on a calculator--the next calculation can be done without the results of the last calculation being erroneously added in.)
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Summary: I got much from this book!
Review: The book's focus is on the mind and mentally caused ills - the cause and the solution to them. Dianetics celebrates its 50th year of publication and is as alive and a breath of fresh air as when it first dawned. I wish the critics would actually read the book and comment on the book rather than their own prejudices. Read it today and may you never be the same :)
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Summary: THE BEST BOOK WRITTEN ABOUT YOU!
Review: When I've been out of Käseburg last year in order to spend my hollidays at shiny L.A. a man sold me this book called "Dianetics". I was really surprised about the revoloutionary scientific content. Easy to read, really not complicated, it changed my life. In order to understand my euphory about this book you have to know that I've spent my whole 47 years on the Bauernhof (farm with pigs and cattle and fish and swine), I only ate bratwurst all the time, and that I never before got the chance to read something sooo amazing like "Dianetics". Life now is great. And swine are too.
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Summary: Modern Science of Mental Health
Review: Dianetics has been in print for 50 years now. (First printed in 1950). Dianetics has stood the test of time and has proven itself to truly be the Modern Science of Mental Health. It is time that the medical and educational communities learn to use the information contained in it. Dianetics is not difficult to learn. It only takes a willingness to follow the study guideline stated in the front of the book. (Do not go past a word you do not understand. Look it up in a good dictionary.) We can all do that. This book is the handbook for the human mind. Dianetics takes you on a incredible voyage into your mind. You should have a copy and be well informed. After all it is your mind. May you never be the same again.
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Summary: Great inside on the human mind
Review: This is a great manual for the human mind. I read it and enjoyed it a lot. I have used its techniques and they work. I have never felt better.
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Summary: A Book That Will Change Your Life!
Review: If you skim through DIANETICS, you cannot get all of its meaning. Tackle it as you would any serious textbook on a vital topic -- your own and other people's minds. You will never look at life, yourself, or others in the same way. You'll understand others' foibles -- and your own. You'll have basic tools to clear out unwanted mental noise and junk. You'll concentrate more keenly. You'll find that your compulsions, your irrational "must-do's" (addictions), your inhibitions, "can'ts" and avoidances are universal phenomena that can be "cleared" from your mind, leaving you with more mental acuity and more physical energy. Hubbard describes several ways in which you (and I, and all of us) have unwittingly assumed other people's negative personalities and how their traits show up in our behavior. He explains where the voices come from that drive some to harmful acts. He explains why you are instantly drawn to some people, and others make your skin crawl. He explains how some (few) personalities are bent on destroying/belittling other people, their property, their work, their works of art. Sadly, these few are the most resistive to self-correction. He elaborates on ways to raise children to ensure that they retain and enhance their own personality, that they can evaluate information; not blindly follow suggestions of strangers and the footsteps of friends. Speaking personally, DIANETICS helped me become more outgoing and far more cheerful. Physical problems disappeared, but I cannot totally swear how that occurred. Most importantly, people seem to now enjoy my company. I think it made me a more whole and better person.
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