Dianetics - what is it? Ronald Hubbard's Dianetics

Perhaps you've heard the term earlier"Dianetics." What it is? This is the doctrine of the metaphysical relationship between mind and body, created by the American science fiction writer Ronald Lafayette Hubbard.

In recent decades, this theory in is not so popular. And in the times of the USSR, it was professed by many famous statesmen and bright scientific minds. But first things first.

Dianetics - what is it?

Nevertheless, one must begin to consider this teaching withThe theory proposed by Ronald Hubbard himself. Let us turn to his book "Dianetics: Modern Science of Mind". It was written for three months and was published in 1950.

So, according to the founder, Dianetics is the science ofhow to think and live correctly. Using her techniques and techniques, you can get healing from many physical ailments and the painful burden of past mistakes and, in addition, start thinking positively.

Dianetics divides the human mind into threeconditional parts: consciousness (analytical mind), the subconscious (reactive mind) and the so-called somatic mind. The goal of the practice of Hubbard's followers is to get rid of the consequences of the work of the reactive mind, which affects the behavior, life and health of a person. The effect is this: all experiences are recorded in the subconscious of a person, and then in a similar situation is experienced again. There is a so-called engram. For example, a man has a toothache, and at a time when he suffers from pain, children run and run in his house. Time passes, and when the children again rasshumyatsya, this man can again reasonlessly get sick teeth, even recently healed or absolutely healthy.

According to Hubbard, Dianetics is a modernthe science of mental health, which means that it can help a person achieve harmony and psychological comfort. In addition, following the canons and following certain guidelines proposed by the founder of the theory, one can supposedly live forever.

Dianetics of Survival

Ronald Hubbard proposed a scale, the beginning of whichbecame a non-survival, and the end is eternal life. A person strives for immortality and overcomes on his way a huge number of levels of existence and four so-called dynamics:

• the first is the desire to survive for oneself;
• the second - survival for the sake of his family and loved ones;
• the third is life for the sake of a group of people;
• the fourth is the existence of the individual for the benefit of all mankind.

His mind helps him to survive. Only getting rid of the adverse impact of engrams, you can go to a higher standard of living. And dianetics involves carrying out a certain procedure, the purpose of which is to save a person from engrams.

Working with engrams

Hubbard proposed the procedure of auditing - activehearing, as it is represented by Dianetics. What it is? The procedure is as follows. One person who has certain life problems, interpreted in Dianetics as a negative influence of engrams, tells in detail about his difficulties to another person, the auditor. The listener directs the narrator's thoughts to the awareness of the pain he has experienced. He asks questions and applies special techniques of dianetics, helping to get rid of the effects of engrams.

Thus, gradually from human lifethe action of all engrams is canceled. But this is an ideal development of events. Nobody, and even Hubbard himself, who still died in 1986, did not manage to get rid of reactive intelligence, and at the same time with this immortality.

However, many scientists, analyzing the theory of Dianetics, noticed that only a person like Hubbard could create such a teaching. Why is that?

From the history of Dianetics

As mentioned above, the book "Dianetics: modern science of mind "was written in a very short period of time. Hubbard and his followers explain this with illumination, but critics of Dianetics pay attention to completely different moments.

Erich Fromm draws a parallel between auditingHubbard and the popular at the time cleaning chakras and holotropic breath. There is no scientific basis under these methods, more precisely, in some of them the necessity of any justification is simply ignored, while others take as a basis the teachings of recognized masters of psychology. So did Hubbard.

And here Freud?

Hubbard tried to link his dianetics topsychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud, modifying the teachings of the famous physician and the method of free associations, as well as the procedure for conducting a psychoanalytic session. Fromm notes that if Dianetics were a mere retelling of the teachings of Freud, it would not have any negative effect on the minds of ordinary people, its followers. But Habbard interpreted psychoanalytic terms inaccurately, as he perverted the understanding of the value of the human person.

Dianetics is the science of the mind? May be. But if we allow this, as well as the scientific basis of the theory itself, we thereby recognize that a person does not have the ability to build his life by committing acts and logical choices, we recognize that a person does not have an individuality. Hubbard believed that programming the individual to do things, saving him from engrams. That is, by clicking on the necessary leverage, you can get certain actions from a person.

Psychoanalysis seeks to help the individual, identifythe contents of her psyche, which remains unconscious and slows development, remaining in the shadows. The dianetics of Ronald Hubbard deprives man of the ability to think and to realize, she teaches us to reject engrams and "press levers". Dianetics thus kills the person in person.

Some facts of Hubbard's biography

Hubbard was a writer. First he created fantastic stories that were printed in some American magazines, then, as his followers claim, he collaborated with Hollywood and even wrote several scripts for the film company Columbia Pictures. But his name was not mentioned in the credits for some reason ...

During the Second World War, Hubbard commandedship, but because of the organized pursuit of a seemingly non-existent submarine, and then the bombardment of the Mexican island, he was removed from command and sent ashore.

At the end of the war, Hubbard came to the hospital withcombat wound. There are no documents and extracts from the medical file at the moment, as, indeed, there was no earlier. Presumably, Ronald Hubbard himself wounded himself to leave the fleet and quickly get on land.

In the hospital, he, according to his own statements,he developed special techniques that could help to cure hopelessly sick patients. After the war, he created well-known works, and on the covers of his books was "Hubbard L. Ron: Dianetics."

Dianetics and Scientology

These teachings are interrelated. However, if Dianetics was initially positioned by the author as a science, then Scientology was immediately elevated to the category of religion. Scientology and Dianetics use very similar terms, but there are some differences in content.

Thus, both Dianetics and Scientology proclaimsurvival is the only goal of man. Both teachings divide the mind into analytical and reactive, and postulate auditing as the main way to get rid of all problems and diseases. However, Scientology proclaims a man by default good, and his own identity is the eternal and indestructible foundation of being, calling it the new word "thetan".

Scientology has a direct relationship to the company"Purification", the founder of which also became R. Hubbard. Dianetics, by the way, by the time (60s of the last century) had already been criticized by the American scientific community, which, quite possibly, was the impetus for the emergence of all the new concepts developed by Hubbard. His beginnings seemed to be good: the company "Purification" was developed for the rehabilitation of drug addicts and former criminals. However, behind these good intentions were again commercial organizations - Narconon and Criminon.

Criticism of the teachings of Ronald Hubbard

Initially, Dianetics was criticized. Reviews of the scientific community of America were reduced to one: Hubbard does not have the obligatory for psychoanalysts permission to conduct their own medical practice. The postulates of his theory did not receive a proper theoretical justification and were considered unscientific.

In the 50's Hubbard gave an interview for "New YorkThe Times, in which he stated that he had conducted a phenomenal study - a psychometric test, in which over 80 people with various pathologies participated. According to Hubbard, most of them experienced improvements after the therapy they had under Dianetics, and his patients got rid of bronchial asthma, ulcerative colitis, arthritis, manic-depressive psychosis and pronounced homosexuality. This was not confirmed.

Following Dianetics, scientific criticism was subjected toScientology. At first it was a matter of defining it as a religion. Scientology takes the theory from both Christianity, and from philosophy, psychology and other humanities. In fact, it does not apply to any of these areas of knowledge.

Later, scientists and the media expressed the view thatScientology is a commercial organization through which Hubbard takes refuge from the persecution in the case of illegally provided medical services. She, thus, served him as a kind of facade, allowing him to remain in the status of leader and founder of the whole teaching, and also to earn money.

Scientology and Dianetics have not only been criticized in their time, but have also been subjected to the most real prosecution under the law.

The history of adepts with a fatal outcome

There are several such cases. The most famous is the death of Lisa Macpherson. The girl came early in Scientology. She was already an adept when she had an accident, an accident, after which Lisa was sent to a hospital. Like-minded people by faith took the girl to the active center of Dianetics and Scientology in order to prevent the intervention of doctors and psychotherapists in her fate. After two and a half weeks, Lisa died.

Another girl, Susan Meister, shot herself atboard of the ship belonging to the Church of Scientology. More precisely, the suicide version was suggested by the Hubbard followers themselves, but in fact it was established that Susan was killed. Perhaps her death was part of some Scientology rite.

Two men, Patrick Vick and Richard Collins,threw themselves out of the window. True, the reasons for each of them were diametrically opposed: Patrick did not have enough money to pay for the next theoretical course of Dianetics, and Richard wanted to leave the sect of Scientologists, but they did not let go. He received regular letters with threats from former comrades in the church, and the man, driven to an extreme degree of despair, found no other way out.

Some other cases are connected with Scientologysuicides committed by former members of the organization. As a rule, the cause was bitter disappointment in the religion and personality of the teacher - Ronald Hubbard.

According to Hubbard himself, his teaching shouldto heal, but, as we see, the cause of the collapse of human destinies was precisely dianetics. Reviews about it, of course, were completely unflattering. However, this was the case in the United States. How did they relate to the teachings of Hubbard at the other end of the earth?

Dianetics and Scientology in the USSR

In the USSR Dianetics of Ronald Hubbard came in the 70s of the last century. Before our country, she got there after she was criticized in the US, and she got quite wide popularity here.

The teachings of Hubbard were admired by many people of scienceAt that time, the lectures were given to the students of educational institutions by the most inspired professors. Scientology was perceived as a "science of science", its categories and postulates were tried in depth to study and re-think, and also to apply in practice.

In Russia, the centers of Dianetics and Scientologyexisted in the 90's. Later and in the post-Soviet space Ronald Hubbard's teaching was forbidden as contradicting the scientific canons and carrying destruction. However, some postulates of Dianetics were borrowed by the founders of the destructive sect "Sinton".

Conclusions about Dianetics

So, the theories of Ronald Hubbard were recognizeddestructive, unscientific and almost charlatanic. However, Scientology still exists, and its church reserves all copyright to Hubbard's dianetics. Many people still consider themselves to be Scientology devotees, among them there are even very famous media personalities: John Travolta, Tom Cruise and Elvis Presley's former wife Priscilla.

This is strange, incomprehensible and in many respectsThe absurd theory of Ronald Hubbard is dianetics. What is it really? Another page in the life of all mankind is not entirely rainbow and pleasant, but it is still possible to turn it around.