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PRECLEAR: OK
AUDITOR: Good. What is the duration of the incident?
PRECLEAR: 5 minutes.
AUDITOR: All right. Move to the beginning of that incident.
PRECLEAR: All right. (eyes closed)
AUDITOR: What do you see?
PRECLEAR: A gate house, 2 horses, trees, a road.
AUDITOR: OK. Move through the incident to a point "5 minutes" later.
PRECLEAR: (silent -- then opens eyes)
AUDITOR: What happened?
PRECLEAR: I had ridden up the road towards a big estate. I'd stopped
at the gate house and was just getting back onto my horse when he shied
and threw me against another rider next to me. I hurt my side against
his boot and stirrup. It was very painful and I had to be helped back
onto my horse and I rode slowly on up the road.
AUDITOR: All right. Move to the beginning of the incident. Tell me
when you are there.
PRECLEAR: Yes.
AUDITOR: Scan through to the end of the incident.
PRECLEAR: (silent) OK.
AUDITOR: Tell me what happened.
PRECLEAR: I had been riding fast to give my neighbor some news -- I
was very upset -- I don't know what about though it seems like someone
had died or was dying. I stopped to tell the gateman what had happened.
I ran out to get on my horse and as I was mounting, the horse shied and
threw me to the left. I landed against the boot and stirrup of a rider
next to me, then fell to the ground. It knocked the wind out of me and
hurt like the dickens. I was helped up onto my horse. (Preclear laughs)
Well that's a relief -- I mean the pain's gone -- that's all there was
to it -- I scared my horse. Oh! and that's why I hurt so much when I was
running in school -- it was like riding the horse that day -- pushing
him faster and faster. And then the pain would start. It was the same
pain. No wonder. Well, that's the end of that. (Preclear grinning) (14)
A successful Dianetics session always ends with a "cognition" on the
part of the Preclear, as well as what are called in Dianetics "very good
indicators," meaning that the Preclear is smiling and looking good.
In Hubbard's writings about Dianetics, he claims to be able to cure
almost every illness imaginable. For example, in the inner front flap of
the original Dianetics book jacket:
Psychosomatic ills such as arthritis, migraine, ulcers, allergies,
asthma, coronary difficulties (psychosomatic -- about one third of all
heart trouble cases), tendonitis, bursitis, paralysis (hysterical), eye
trouble (non-pathological), have all responded as intended by the
therapist, without failure in any case.
The claims made for the "clear" in the Dianetics book are
spectacular.
A clear can be tested for any and all psychoses, neuroses,
compulsions and repressions (all aberrations) and can be examined for
any autogenic (self-generated) diseases referred to as psychosomatic
ills. These tests confirm the clear to be entirely without such ills or
aberrations. Additional tests of his intelligence indicate it to be high
above the current norm. Observation of his activity demonstrates that he
pursues existence with vigor and satisfaction. (15)
Hubbard harbored a special grudge against psychiatrists. In a policy
letter on psychiatry, he states:
A full psychoanalysis covering five years cost a decade ago 9000
pounds (British sterling). Yet we furnish far more lasting a result for
$500.... It costs about $75,000 to educate a psychiatrist who can obtain
no good result. For $500 or less we can train a Hubbard Dianetic auditor
who can run rings around any commie psychiatrist on the planet.... Any
HAS (the lowest level Scientologist) knows more and can do more about
the mind than any psychiatrist. (16)
Hubbard claimed that Dianetics could cure leukemia:
Leukemia is evidently psychosomatic in origin and at least eight
cases of leukemia have been treated successfully by Dianetics after
medicine had traditionally given up. The source of leukemia has been
reported to be an engram containing the phrase "It turns my blood to
water." (17)
In A History of Man, Hubbard claims the ability to cure the
ultimate disease -- cancer.
Mitosis is an incident. Cellular division, once or many times, is on
common record. Mitosis answers the conditions for the other type of
cancer -- malignant cell.
Cancer has been eradicated by auditing out conception and mitosis.
(18)
The sad fact is that there have been many cases of people in
Scientology seeking cures for cancer and other terminal conditions
through Dianetic auditing, and sadly, ignoring more traditional medical
help that might have prolonged their lives.
Hubbard claimed many times to have the answer to every type of
psychosis and neurosis, announcing at one time that these cases could be
handled in between eight to thirty-five hours of auditing.
Some of the most interesting Hubbard curiosa occur when he attempts
to expound upon medical topics. One such example is outlined in a policy
he wrote concerning arthritis:
Arthritis, then, is structurally a deposit of calcium, or other
mineral, in an area which has been restricted by an old injury. The