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Blogging Dianetics, Part 5: Your Mind is a 1950s Computer

Welcome to our ongoing project, where we blog a 1950 first edition of Scientology’s bible, Dianetics, with the help of ex-Scientologist, Bay Area lawyer, blogger, and author Vance Woodward. Go here for the first post in the series.

We’re now entering Book Two, which promises to take us into the nuts and bolts of dianetic theory. […]

Blogging Dianetics, Part 4: Dynamically Speaking

This week we have a short chapter in which Hubbard defines the four dynamics. Yes, four. Later, he […]

Blogging Dianetics, Part 3: The Meaning of Life!

Welcome to our ongoing project, where we blog a 1950 first edition of Scientology’s bible, Dianetics, with the help of ex-Scientologist, Bay Area lawyer, and writer Vance Woodward. Go here for the first post in the series.

Last week, L. Ron Hubbard explained that there’s a superman inside each one of us that he calls a […]

Blogging Dianetics, Part 2: The State of Clear!

Last week, we started with the book’s opening sentence, which appears in a ten-page synopsis. That’s followed by a […]

Blogging Dianetics, Part 1: Vance Woodward Helps Us Parse L. Ron Hubbard’s Masterpiece

In 1950, L. Ron Hubbard published the book that changed his life, transforming him from a well known writer of pulp fiction into an even more well known leader of a worldwide organization that came to be known as the Church of Scientology.

That book was Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, and for some […]

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