Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health by L. Ron Hubbard Page A
Authors: L. Ron Hubbard
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banks. These are gaps which take place during moments of
“unconsciousness,” that state of being caused by anaesthesia, drugs, injury or shock.
This is the only data missing from a standard bank. If in hypnotic trance you examine a patient’s memory of an operation these incidents are the only periods in the banks you will not find. You can find these if you care to look and don’t care what happens to your patient -- of which more later. But the point is that there is something missing which has always been considered by one and all in any age never to have been recorded.
One and all in every age have never been able to put a finger on insanity either. Are these two data in agreement and do they have relationship? They definitely do.
There are two things which appear to be -- but are not -- recorded in the standard banks: painful emotion and physical pain.
How would you go about the building of a sensitive machine upon which the life and death affairs of an organism depended, which was to be the chief tool of an individual? Would you leave its delicate circuits prey to every overload or would you install a fuse system? If a delicate instrument is in circuit with a power line, it is protected by several sets of fuses. Any computer would be so safeguarded.
It happens that there is some small evidence to support the electrical theory of the nervous system. In pain there are very heavy overcharges in the nerves. It may well have been
-- and elsewhere some dianetic computations have been made about this -- that the brain is the absorber for overcharges of power resulting from injury, the power itself being generated by the injured cells in the area of injury. That is theory and has no place here save to serve as an example. We are dealing now only with scientific fact.
The action of the analytical mind during a moment of intense pain is suspended. In fact, the analytical mind behaves just as though it were an organ to which vital supply was shut off whenever shock is present.
As an example, a man struck in the side by a car is knocked “unconscious” and on regaining “consciousness” has no record of the period when he was “knocked out.” This would be a non-survival circumstance. It means that there would be no volition on the part of anyone who was injured, and this is the time when the organism most requires volition. So this is non-survival, if the whole mind cuts out whenever pain appears. Would an organism with more than a billion years of biological engineering behind it leave a problem like this unsolved?
Indeed, the organism solved the problem. Maybe the problem is very difficult, biologically, and maybe the solution is not very good, but large provision has been made for those moments when the organism is “unconscious.”
The answer to the problem of making the organism react in moments of
“unconsciousness” or near “unconsciousness” is also the answer to insanity and psychosomatic illnesses and all the strange mental quirks to which people are liable and which gave rise to that fable “it is human to err.”
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Clinical tests prove these statements to be scientific facts: 1.
The mind records on some level continuously during the entire life of the organism.
2.
All recordings of the lifetime are available.
3.
“Unconsciousness,” in which the mind is oblivious of its surroundings, is possible only in death and does not exist as total amnesia in life.
4.
All mental and physical derangements of a psychic nature come about from moments of
“unconsciousness.”
5.
Such moments can be reached and drained of charge with the result of returning the mind to optimum operating condition.
“Unconsciousness” is the single source of aberration. There is no such action as
“mental conditioning” except on a conscious training level (where it exists only with the consent of the person).
If you care to make the experiment you can take a man, render him “unconscious,” hurt
“unconsciousness,” that state of being caused by anaesthesia, drugs, injury or shock.
This is the only data missing from a standard bank. If in hypnotic trance you examine a patient’s memory of an operation these incidents are the only periods in the banks you will not find. You can find these if you care to look and don’t care what happens to your patient -- of which more later. But the point is that there is something missing which has always been considered by one and all in any age never to have been recorded.
One and all in every age have never been able to put a finger on insanity either. Are these two data in agreement and do they have relationship? They definitely do.
There are two things which appear to be -- but are not -- recorded in the standard banks: painful emotion and physical pain.
How would you go about the building of a sensitive machine upon which the life and death affairs of an organism depended, which was to be the chief tool of an individual? Would you leave its delicate circuits prey to every overload or would you install a fuse system? If a delicate instrument is in circuit with a power line, it is protected by several sets of fuses. Any computer would be so safeguarded.
It happens that there is some small evidence to support the electrical theory of the nervous system. In pain there are very heavy overcharges in the nerves. It may well have been
-- and elsewhere some dianetic computations have been made about this -- that the brain is the absorber for overcharges of power resulting from injury, the power itself being generated by the injured cells in the area of injury. That is theory and has no place here save to serve as an example. We are dealing now only with scientific fact.
The action of the analytical mind during a moment of intense pain is suspended. In fact, the analytical mind behaves just as though it were an organ to which vital supply was shut off whenever shock is present.
As an example, a man struck in the side by a car is knocked “unconscious” and on regaining “consciousness” has no record of the period when he was “knocked out.” This would be a non-survival circumstance. It means that there would be no volition on the part of anyone who was injured, and this is the time when the organism most requires volition. So this is non-survival, if the whole mind cuts out whenever pain appears. Would an organism with more than a billion years of biological engineering behind it leave a problem like this unsolved?
Indeed, the organism solved the problem. Maybe the problem is very difficult, biologically, and maybe the solution is not very good, but large provision has been made for those moments when the organism is “unconscious.”
The answer to the problem of making the organism react in moments of
“unconsciousness” or near “unconsciousness” is also the answer to insanity and psychosomatic illnesses and all the strange mental quirks to which people are liable and which gave rise to that fable “it is human to err.”
43
Clinical tests prove these statements to be scientific facts: 1.
The mind records on some level continuously during the entire life of the organism.
2.
All recordings of the lifetime are available.
3.
“Unconsciousness,” in which the mind is oblivious of its surroundings, is possible only in death and does not exist as total amnesia in life.
4.
All mental and physical derangements of a psychic nature come about from moments of
“unconsciousness.”
5.
Such moments can be reached and drained of charge with the result of returning the mind to optimum operating condition.
“Unconsciousness” is the single source of aberration. There is no such action as
“mental conditioning” except on a conscious training level (where it exists only with the consent of the person).
If you care to make the experiment you can take a man, render him “unconscious,” hurt
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