PART IV
NE OF EARLY Dianetic's respected figures has written an impelling challenge to my thesis that
Hubbard was right and the first
book was a factual account of
what drives people crazy and
makes them sick. My correspondent said, in effect: "How
do you account for the failure
of 'successful' auditing cures
to last? The despair of psychoanalysis and psychiatry is the
individual who seems to respond to treatment, and then
after a couple of years, drops
right back into the same old
hectic, destructive dramatizations that are killing him --
and Dianetics encountered the
same failures."
This statement is a thumbnail digest of the reasons this
man, and many other Dianetic
auditors of 1950, have now turned their
backs on Ron Hubbard and his book, "The
Modern Science of Mental Health", which
once gave them hope and inspiration. The
question deserves an answer.
I, too, have seen the "miraculous" remission and subsequent return of chronic
ailments, of all kinds. A classic case in
Idaho that comes to mind was overnight
recovery from a long-standing case of
migraine headache, where the pre-clear
had already spent much money on conventional treatments without avail. One day
this person was a semi-invalid, the next
day O.K. Two years later, it came back
as rapidly as it had gone away.
Both auditor and pre-clear are known to
this writer. The "case" is a solid 1.5,
with a full emotion shut-off. The engram
ran was a simple lock incident without
pain but heavy emotion at time of pick-up
-- and clearly remembered. The pre-clear
had tried to dodge the session, and was
violently ill thruout. Then slept soundly,
to wake up "cured".
It came back after failure to control
an aggravating situation and suppression
of that old "urge to kill".
What happened? Nothing mysterious to
anyone familiar with the meat of the
first book. The session described was no
cure at all -- not even an engram "run"
