“What (attitudes – emotions – sensations – pains) are associated with taking (fill in the drug) ” as on the “Dianetic Drug Rundown” might be revelatory to some people. It’s not designed for hard core addicts or alcoholics.

I’m not promoting scientology “drug and alcohol handling”, only mentioning that at a glance it seems logical.

Richard, Hubtard disavowed dianetics when he lost the IP rights to it in 1952 and immediately created Scamology in Phoenix to have SOMETHING to sell to his dianetics groupies.

The order in which a person partakes on complete bullshit brainwashing really doesn’t matter.

But that was brfore Capote appeared in ‘Murder By Death’ and told Sidney Wang to start using pronouns.
Precious.
Wang: Who murderer?
Capote: IS THE! Who IS THE muderer? Use your damn articles and prepositions!

I’m always reminded of Truman Capote’s biting comment about Jack Kerouac’s work:

“That’s not writing, that’s typing.”

I think TC was a little unfair to Kerouac, but it certainly applies to Flubbard. He’s in the Guiness Book of Records for having the most words in print – and it’s all garbage.

When I joined scientology in 1975 dianetic auditing came before scientology auditing on the Grade Chart. Book One, DMSMH style auditing had been replaced by R3R, Routine 3 Revised Dianetic auditing which was a simple set of twelve or thirteen questions and “commands”. “Locate an incident of . . . “. When was it? ” etc. It addressed unwanted attitudes, emotions, sensations and pains. If I recall correctly it was not required to read DMSMH cover to cover and accept all of it as factually true. There was nothing mystical about. The fact that a person would eventually be auditing one’s passengers, BTs, was well hidden.

Hello Marie,
I read that book and Jon Atack’s LET’S SELL THESE PEOPLE A PIECE OF BLUE SKY relatively soon after “blowing”(scientology term for leaving a situation/relationship suddenly, without notice, for those who aren’t familiar with the word) my staff job, thus accelerating my exit from the cult practices and mindset and saving me from wasting time with “Indie Scientology”, another cul de sac of delusion, indoctrination, and basic, b flat stupidity. Those books were psychological palette cleansers and inspired me to embark on a journey of deprogramming, education, and healing.
Glad you made it out AND informed yourself about what you had been subjected to!

“Ron the War Hero” extends it to the WW2 years.

Not to mention the rum, and pinks and grays, benzedrine (part of the “guk bomb”) and other amphetamines, plus all the other stuff he experimented with at one point or another, whether or not it was there – nitrous oxide, opium, cocaine, peyote, probably LSD, and so on. He did it all so his followers wouldn’t have to! You can practically get a contact high just by listening to some of his lectures….

James Randi had an interesting comment on Dianetics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj-w09kpQcY