Absolutism is a fine road to stagnation and I do not think Spencer meant to be so entirely absolute about his Knowable and Unknowable. SURVIVE! is the demarcation point between those things which can be experienced by the senses (our old friends Hume and Locke) and those things which cannot necessarily be known through the […]
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Book: Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science (4)
Study of animals has long been popular with experimental psychologists, but they must not be misevaluated. Pavlov’s work was interesting: it proved dogs will be dogs. Now by light of these new observations and deductions it proved more than Pavlov knew. It proved men weren’t dogs. Must be an answer here somewhere. Let’s see. I’ve […]
Book: Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science (3)
In a lifetime of wandering around many strange things had been observed. The medicine man of the Goldi people of Manchuria, shamans of North Borneo, Sioux medicine men, the cults of Los Angeles, and modern psychology. Amongst the people questioned about existence were a magician whose ancestors served in the court of Kublai Khan and […]
Book: Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science (2)
First we divided what we could probably think about and had to think about from what we probably didn’t have to think about, for purposes of our solution. Next we had to think about all men. Then a few men. Finally the individual man and at last a portion of the aberrative pattern of an […]
Book: Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science (1)
What Life is Doing My right to enter this field was an inquiring brain which had been trained in mathematics and engineering and which had a memory bank full of questions and far-flung observations. It was the basic contention that the human mind was a problem in engineering and that all knowledge would surrender to […]
Article: Terra Incognita: The Mind (1)
The comanome1, a period of unconsciousness which contained physical pain and apparent antagonism to the survival of the individual, has been isolated as the sole source of mental aberration. A certain part of the mind seems to be devoted to their reception and retention. In Dianetics, this part of the mind is called the reactive […]