In the thousands of years before 1950 there were many philosophers and much knowledge was gathered in the field of mathematics, electronics and the material sciences.

However, due to idealogies and political conflicts, little of this prior knowledge was ever applied to the field of the human mind.

The scientific idea of regarding as a truth only that which could be demonstrated with a result was never really applied to the mind.

"Researchers" in this field were not fully trained in mathematics, the scientific method or logic. They were interested mainly in their own private ideas and in political targets.

Man has used mental knowledge in the past mainly for control, politics and propaganda.

Various forms of "mental therapy" were in existence before Dianetics.

Psychology and psychiatry were developed chiefly by a Russian veterinarian named Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849- 1936). His basic principle was that men were only animals and could be conditioned and trained much like dancing bears or dogs.

This work was intended only to CONTROL people and so has found great favor with certain rulers and upper classes. None of the activities of psychology or psychiatry were designed to help or cure, only to control the masses.

The Western nations overlooked the fact that this work had already destroyed several countries (including Czarist Russia) and that Stalin had made Pavlov write up his work in the Kremlin in 1928 in order to permit the control of men.