What Dianetics Actually Says

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue
2. Chapter One - The Reactive Mind: Your Inner Saboteur
3. Chapter Two - The Engram: Where the Pain Lives
4. Chapter Three - The Mind Is a Tape Recorder (and You’re Not Holding the Mic)
5. Chapter Four - Auditing: Welcome to the Couch of Salvation
6. Chapter Five - The Repeater Effect: How to Fry Your Pain Circuits
7. Chapter Six - Birth Trauma and Other Everyday Hells
8. Chapter Seven - The Preclear: You, But Not Yet God
9. Chapter Eight - The Clear: Human 2.0
10. Chapter Nine - Psychosomatic Illness: It’s All in Your Head, Dummy
11. Chapter Ten - Emotion is a Scale (And You’re on the Low End)
12. Chapter Eleven - Shut Up, Freud
13. Chapter Twelve - How to Audit Your Friends (Without Going to Jail)
14. Chapter Thirteen - Group Dianetics and Other Cult Activities
15. Chapter Fourteen - The End Goal: Total Freedom (From Yourself)
16. Chapter Fifteen - This Book Is a Bomb

Excerpt

PROLOGUE YOU ARE HOLDING in your hands the most important book ever written. Yes. Ever. Not The Origin of Species. Not The Interpretation of Dreams. Certainly not The Bible, which has been misinterpreted more times than a sneeze in a courtroom. This book, Dianetics, is the only one that tells you the truth. The real truth. The truth beneath all truths. The truth that explains why you suck, and how to unsuck yourself. Because the problem is not you. It’s your brain. Or, more specifically, the reactive mind. A sinister little tape recorder inside your skull that doesn’t know the difference between a stubbed toe and the apocalypse. When you're unconscious, in pain, or just vibing too hard, the...