Introduction to Dianetics (Classic Lectures Series)

L. Ron Hubbard

ISBN 10: 1403108692 ISBN 13: 9781403108692

Publisher: Bridge Publications, Inc., 2010

Synopsis

People ask me these questions: 'How did you ever think about Dianetics?'

"Well, it doesn’t seem to me that it required much more than the cultural question itself—it has been with Man now for perhaps fifty thousand years: “What makes Man tick?” “Why does Man act as Man does act?” These questions are found in the oldest literature we have." —L. Ron Hubbard

Released on May 9, 1950, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health became an overnight publishing sensation. Immediately hitting the New York Times bestseller list and remaining there for 26 consecutive weeks, it was unquestionably the most popular book ever published on the human mind—a distinction it holds to this day.

So great was the excitement that, virtually overnight, some 750 Dianetics groups sprang up across the United States generating what was, quite literally, a wildfire grassroots movement. It also generated an unprecedented wave of popular demand for personal instruction from its author, L. Ron Hubbard. Consequently, and within weeks of the book’s initial publication, Mr. Hubbard was traveling coast to coast, lecturing to tens of thousands of new readers on his discoveries and their application. To provide for still greater numbers he could not otherwise hope to reach, Mr. Hubbard soon directed the lectures be recorded so they could be further reproduced for one and all.

So came his lecture to a packed Municipal Auditorium in Oakland, California. It stands today as the first recorded spoken word on the breakthrough technology of Dianetics.

Since then, decade after decade, Dianetics has continued to appear on bestseller lists world over with tens of millions of copies now in circulation. Moreover, the movement Dianetics inspired now spans every culture, across every continent, in over 50 languages of Earth.

As L. Ron Hubbard said in Dianetics: “You are beginning an adventure. Treat it as an adventure. And may you never be the same again.”

Here, then, is where that adventure began, an exploration into Terra Incognita—the mind.

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About the Author

No more fitting statement typifies L. Ron Hubbard than his simple declaration, "I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days." With over two hundred million copies of his works in circulation and dozens of international bestsellers, he has inspired a movement spanning every continent on earth. All told, those works comprise some 5,000 writings and 3,000 recorded lectures and, as such, not only stand as the single most embracive statement on the human mind and spirit, but provide the only road to spiritual freedom. Yet the greatest testament to L. Ron Hubbard are the miracles of his technology, and the millions of friends who carry forth that technology into eternity. Both continue to grow with each passing day.

Review

Dianetics has always been ahead of its time. More and more people are realizing that Dianetics technology is a vital survival tool for living in the world today. --Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Hubbard's bestseller has helped millions, and it should be read and used by all who are searching for a true understanding of the mind and a solution to such problems as self-doubt, stress, anxiety and depression. --World Reporter Newspaper

While it is true that Dianetics has become the self-improvement classic, there can be little doubt what it has to offer is just what people are now looking for in ever-increasing numbers. Reducing stress, achieving goals, improving relationships and striving to live up to one's full potential is definitely the 'in' thing. --New York Post

Edition details

• Publisher: Bridge Publications, Inc.
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1403108692
• ISBN 13: 9781403108692
• Binding: Audio CD
• Language: English