DIANETICS DMSMH by L. Ron Hubbard

Author:L. Ron Hubbard [mh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-03-18T14:22:10+00:00

DIANETICS: THE MODERN SCIENCE

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L. RON HUBBARD

OF MENTAL HEALTH

CHAPTER VII

EMOTION AND THE LIFE FORCE

One of the largest roles in therapy is played by Emotion. In the second book we cov-

ered this subject and divided it tentatively as a theory only into three divisions: (a) the emotions contained in the command of engrams whereby physical pain became confused with

emotions; (b) the emotions contained as endocrine reactions subject to the analytical mind of the clear and the analytical mind and reactive mind of the aberree; and (c) the emotions contained in engrams which bound up free units of Life force.

Further work and research on emotion will undoubtedly bring about an even closer

understanding of it. But we have a workable knowledge of emotion now. We can use what we

know and produce results with it. When we know more, we shall be able to produce much

better results but just now we can produce the release and the clear. If we treat emotion as bound up life force and if we follow these general precepts to release it, we shall obtain a very large gain in any pre-clear; indeed, we shall produce our largest single gains by so releasing emotion.

In an engineering science like dianetics, we can work on a push-button basis. We

know that throwing a switch will stop a motor, that closing it again will start it and that no matter how many times we open or close that switch our motor will stop or start. We are using here a force which is still as mysterious to us as electricity was to James Clerk Maxwell.

Much earlier Benjamin Franklin had observed that electricity existed and had done some interesting things with it: but he had not used it much and he could not control it. A philosopher like Bergson selected out a thing he called elan vital, a life force. Man is alive, there must be a force or flow of something which keeps him alive; when Man is dead there is no force or flow.

This is life force in the Benjamin Franklin stage. As he considered electricity, so did Bergson consider life force. Now we are up, in dianetics, to the James Clerk Maxwell stage, or very nearly. We know that certain equations can be made about life force and we can use those

equations. And we can theorize that "life force" and what has been called a certain kind of

"emotion" are either similar or the same thing. We may have the wrong theory, but so might James Clerk Maxwell. Indeed, Maxwell's theories may still be wrong: at least we have electric lights. In dianetics we are pretty certain that the majority of tenets are parallels of natural law: these are the big computations. We are not certain that we have emotion properly bracketed, but then we shall not be sure until we have actually taken a dead man and pumped him up

with life force again. Short of this extreme, we are on solid ground with emotion as life force.

We can, for instance, take a

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