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Subject: DIANETICS - THE SOLUTION
Date: 1 Nov 1996 05:42:52 GMT
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Many falsehoods and inaccurate statements regarding several aspects
of the religion of Scientology have been observed on ars.
The purpose of this message is to give you a sample of the true data
from the book 'What is Scientology?' and show you where you can look
to get the full contents of this book.

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And this is the world Dianetics entered. A world where psychiatry
was entrenched among the US intelligence services, living off the
fat of government grants, and experimenting-with the help of ex-Nazi
scientists-on an oblivious public. A world where their critics were
simply labeled insane and "in need of psychiatric help."


Thus the battle lines were drawn. Dianetics offered a means to happiness,
stability and success. It provided a solution to psychosomatic illnesses.
It created an interest in the workings of the mind among people of
all classes and ages. And it gave the man in the street a method
that, for the first time, he himself could utilize to improve his
own condition. Additionally, it should be kept in mind that L. Ron
Hubbard achieved something that psychiatrists have long been attempting
to achieve: to write a book about the mind that was genuinely popular,
that people actually wanted to read, that was both understandable
and applicable.

But Dianetics did more. It labeled the latest and greatest psychiatric
drugs as dangerous. And it directly exposed the inhuman crimes of
psychiatrists and the harm they caused with ECT and lobotomies, clearly
substantiating the irreparable damage these treatments caused to
healthy brain tissue.

That mental health professionals were incensed by Mr. Hubbard's not-
so-gentle upbraiding is understandable, particularly as he was not
a member of their elitist clique. But when all was said and done,
the issue was clearly financial: How long could one continue to convince
the American taxpayer to foot the bill for multimillion-dollar psychiatric
appropriations in the face of what Dianetics could accomplish for
the price of a book?


For more information go to the following URLs:


          http://www.scientology.org
          http://www.lronhubbard.org
          http://www.dianetics.org

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