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Dianetics subsequently spent 28 weeks as a New York Times bestseller. [a] [58] [59] Urban suggested that Dianetics was "arguably the first major book of do-it-yourself psychotherapy". [60] Dianetics describes a "counseling" technique known as "auditing" in which an auditor assists a subject in conscious recall of traumatic events in the ...
Hubbard demonstrating Dianetics technique at a seminar in Los Angeles in 1950. The procedure of Dianetics therapy (known as auditing) is a two-person activity. One person, the "auditor", guides the other person, the preclear, through the procedures. The preclear's job is to look at their mind and talk to the auditor.
Dianetics was launched in Astounding's May 1950 issue and on May 9, Hubbard's companion book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health was published by Hermitage House. [15] Dianetics was an immediate commercial success and sparked what Martin Gardner calls "a nationwide cult of incredible proportions". [16]
Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization (CSFSO, FSO) — ministers the highest levels of auditor training through Class XII and auditing through New OT VII [2]: 52ff Church of Scientology Flag Ship Service Organization (CSFSSO, FSSO) — ministers the highest level of Scientology auditing, New OT VIII [ 2 ] : 55ff [ 3 ]
August: Hubbard held a failed demonstration to a Los Angeles audience where he unsuccessfully presented a young woman [a] [6] as the world's first Dianetics Clear. [7]: 165–6 [8]: 114-5 October: Medical doctor and Dianetics enthusiast Joseph A. Winter resigns from HDRF over the issue of past lives. [3]: 217
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Hubbard conducting a Dianetics seminar in Los Angeles in 1950. Accompanied by an article in Astounding's May 1950 issue, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health was released on May 9. [ 98 ] Although Dianetics was poorly received by the press and the scientific and medical professions, the book was an immediate commercial success and ...
Hubbard's beliefs and practices, drawn from a diverse set of sources, influenced numerous offshoots, splinter-groups, and new movements. Hubbard's eldest son, Ronald DeWolf, related a story that L. Ron Hubbard had "first discovered Magick" at the age of sixteen when he read Aleister Crowley's The Book of the Law. [5]