Author: Hubbard, L. R.
Document date: 1952, 21 January, 1952, 21 January, 1952, 21 January
Document title: The Anatomy Of The Overt Act Part II, The Anatomy Of The Overt Act Part II, The Anatomy Of The Overt Act Part II
Document type: lecture transcript
Event: Professional Course, Professional Course, Professional Course
Location: Wichita, Kansas, Wichita, Kansas, Wichita, Kansas
Document ID: 5201C21, 5201C21, 5201C21
Description: Hubbard says he investigated religion, mysticism, hypnosis and magic before Scientology and claims to use from hypnosis the idea of manipulating the person's control center., Hubbard says he investigated religion, mysticism, hypnosis and magic before Scientology and claims to use from hypnosis the idea of manipulating the person's control center., Hubbard says he investigated religion, mysticism, hypnosis and magic before Scientology and claims to use from hypnosis the idea of manipulating the person's control center.
Once upon a time they were mystic, magic, miracles. And then one day they become as solid as this table, at which time they are established phenomena. Now, that is what we are dealing with now, and in Dianetics I have tried consistently to deal only with established phenomena, no matter where it came from. It is very odd, but much more phenomena came out of the field of religion and mysticism than came out of any other one subject. But don’t think that other subjects weren’t investigated.
For instance, hypnotism has been in existence — that I know of — for about thirty-five hundred years. The phenomena of hypnotism in those thirty-five hundred years was known just as far as it went. It was recognized that you could relax another human being and what you said to him would then become effective. Or that you could cause this other human being to dream or travel to far places while he was under this “spell.”
Now, here we have phenomena. They have known that. Charcot tried to establish other phenomena in the field of hypnotism — posthypnotic suggestion and so forth. Later on they tried to work out a dream therapy. Strangely enough, no new phenomena were recovered.
And now we come up in Dianetics. Hypnotism was practically in its virgin state: there were maybe four or five phenomena known there, and we have suddenly taken these, we have taken them apart, we have looked at them, and out of them we have got about twenty phenomena and we can use them.
And one of those phenomena is the shift of the control center. You can watch it happen. You can watch it occur and you can feel it occur. It is a physical sensation. It is a physical sensation to your preclear and it is a physical sensation to you, the auditor.
Think of the last time you audited somebody — when you sat down to audit them. How did you feel at the beginning of the session? How did you feel at the end of the session? At what time during the session did you start to actively control the limbs and memories of your preclear? Is your control center still there? Well now, actually, all you have got to do is sort of say to yourself “Just take it back,” and your own feeling of individuality will go up.