About this title: Indisputably the most widely read and influential book ever written about the human mind, "Dianetics" fully describes the Reactive Mind and how to get rid of it in order to achieve something man has only dreamed of: the state of Clear.
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Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Nice soft cover, lightly read, light shelf wear to cover, 12 page corners turned down, light creases on spine, light aging to pages, bend on corners of front cover, stk #2428i9. Glued binding. 676 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
"In a word: Tripe. In two words: Utter Tripe In three or more: Utter and Complete Tripe A better title would have been "Dianetics: The Modern Science of the Mentally Unstable" or "Ways In Which I Show I Have No Idea What I Am Talking About" by L. Ron Hubbard. His science fiction was and always will be terrible, and I include this bunk in that pile, though to use the word "science" at all is overly misleading. At no point are the methods for these "scientific facts" ever mentioned or brought up. This Is Fiction. Through and through. Fiction. Written by probably the only person who's writing I like LESS than Stephenie Meyers'. Though I am ashamed to admit I even touched this book let alone read it I'm writing this as a heads up to anyone who might be curious: Read it if you're up for a good laugh but be prepaired to lose some braincells."
"This book is worth reading because 1)it's an interesting read, and 2) it's nice to learn about something that is somewhat prevalent in the news (Scientology). I know Scientology has gotten a lot of bad press lately, but I think the book can stand on its own as a good read. The book claims a lot, especially as it concerns healing the mind to the point where you don't get sick, your vision improves, and your memory jumps through the roof. These claims are a weak part of the book, but at least they keep you interested. There are hundreds of books that relate general health to the power of the mind/brain, and this one is decent. The book claims that only a specialist of Scientology can help clear your mind of the engrams (things in your unconscious that hold you back, make you depressed, etc.). The unfortunate thing is that it seems only the well-off can benefit from this specific therapy. The rest of us can at least think about the mind/body connection, and perhaps discover an alternative route to Scietology to help heal our brains."
"One of a few books I didn't finish, but feel I read enough of to qualify for this list. (See my "read-about-half-and-then-quit" bookshelf.) As odd and ultimately pointless as you'd expect any UFO cult's bible to be. I picked it up out of curiosity in the 1980s, and -- to be fair to the author and his followers -- only read half of it before throwing in the towel. The first half seemed to say that all of my problems could be understood, and then solved, by understanding them as "ingrams" (do I have that right?) or imprints inadvertantly made on my unconscious mind during brain surgery. Except I'd never had brain surgery, and still had problems (which I guess can't be solved since they can't be understood as having been made during brain surgery). Maybe the second half of the book is better; I would read it if I could just overcome the negative ingram made by the first half. Stick to Hubbard's ostensible sci-fi (if you must), and skip this sci-fi disguised as science and used as sham New Age religion for the profit of Hubbard's dubiously gained estate."
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