“Dianetics:
The Modern Science of Mental Health” was
released on
by L.Ron Hubbard.
The book Dianetics was dedicated to Will Durant, he and his
wife were awarded the “Presidential Medal of
Freedom” in 1977.
Within 2 years of authoring the book Mr. Hubbard became the
first to scientifically isolate and identify the human spirit.
No book before it delivered an understanding of the mind and
life. And no other subject provided the means to release the full
potential of
the mind.
Random
House Modern Library Reader’s poll ranked Dianetics
among the ten most significant nonfiction works of the 20th
century.
In the 21st century a reader picks up a copy
somewhere is the world every 4.8 seconds.
For over fifty years Dianetics has been the top-selling book
on the human mind for one reason: IT WORKS.
Dianetics provides the only method to get rid of the single
source of problems, stress and unhappiness – the reactive
mind, and it can be
applied by a layman within a few short hours of study.
Dianetics
is a culmination and result of over 20 years of
research by Mr. Hubbard into the investigation of life
force. In fact Dianetics is actually the third book; the
first
publication of preliminary work in manuscript form is called
“Dianetics: The
Original Thesis”, it was written for close colleagues and
interested University
associates.
The Second publication is called “Dianetics: The Evolution
of a Science”, it was originally written for a national
magazine to coincide
with the release of “Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental
Health”. This
volume accounts Mr. Hubbard’s two-decade journey of discovery
and how he
applied a scientific methodology to the problems of the human mind.
Dianetics as presented in DMSMH actually deals with Individual
Dianetics, as Dianetics is
actually a family of sciences embracing the various humanities and
translating
them into usefully precise definitions.
Most importantly, the skills offered in this handbook will
produce the Dianetic Clear, an
optimum individual with intelligence considerably greater than the
current
normal, or the Dianetic Release, an
individual who has been freed from his major anxieties or illnesses.
The
Release can be done in less than twenty hours of work and is a state
superior
to any produced by several years of psychoanalysis, since the Release
will not
relapse.
New
York Times best-sellers are generally branded as such
because they are of great literary value and popular in magnitude, but
a book
that hits this list and stays on it for decades is much more than a hot
book,
it is a discovery.