All right, air-raid warning. In come these old, obsolete five-hundred-mile-an-hour planes. These things come in, the air raid warning system goes up, everybody grabs their helmets, they grab their first-aid kits, they walk out into the street, the people powder their noses a second time, go out of the nightclub in an orderly fashion. They […]
Scientology
Lecture: The Success of Dianetics
We have another project going, and we’re ready to cut loose on this project just as soon as we can. Los Angeles is probably going to hit Arizona in an atom bombing. The Southwest is probably a part of the country to which many people will drift (after an atom bombing). There’s no reason why […]
Lecture: Rugged Individualism
You walk into a government agency and you give them any problem that is related to that agency but is not exactly right in the middle of the paragraph that tells it what it could do and it won’t have a single thing to do with it. So you go over to another agency and […]
Lecture: The Overt Motivator Sequence
And you study men under stress and men in various guises and men under various actions of this particular character, and you find out that the world has built up a series of superstitions about people. And they’re not facts–they’re superstitions. They hardly even are dignified as findings. Your animal psychologist has categorized the whole […]
Lecture: Effort Processing Summary
This is the mechanism on that: Any time an individual goes down to the acceptance of, obedience to or belief in–all the same thing–the absolute MEST-enforced command of another, he has gone into apathy as far as his own personality is concerned at that moment. That is a static. Furthermore, he is held on the […]
Lecture: Standard Procedure and Accessibility
Don’t try to force a patient into therapy. In the first place, the patient may be very resistant toward the idea that he isn’t all right. You will discover that you have an ally, for instance, in the police. Let’s say we are picking up somebody from the city jail and we are going to […]