(I managed to dredge back up the subject we were in the middle of. Call me the discovered of lost threads!)
That being the case, and since I don't have a copy of Dianetics Today, what is it supposed to be all about? Just an update on Dianetics technology from that time? (When was it published originally?)
1954 was the famous year when LRH recovered the Dn trademarks which marked the reunification of Dianetics and Scientology. Dianetics technology was subsequently updated to better match up to Scientology discoveries (I'm leaving out all the quote marks I have an urge to put around certain words here). So, this book, I would assume, was the handbook of Dianetics technology after those changes? Although Dianetics 55! is more like it.
Just trying to fill the holes in my education here.
Victor
My hallowed copy of "Dianetics Today" is laying open beside me.
It was published in March of 1975 by Pubs Org on Temple Street. It was compiled and edited by The LRH Personal Compilations Bureau. Edited by Jill Steinberg and Alethiea C Taylor. The artwork is by Andre Clavel.
It is ISBN #0-88404-036-4
It's in three sections, Book 1 Book 2 and Book 3.
The Chapters in Book One:
Become an Auditor
How To Study Dianetics
Basic Dianetics Definitions and Illustrations
What is the Mind?
Dianetics Use
Book Two:
The Magic of Communication
The E-Meter
Observing the Obvious
End Phenomena
Administration, A Piece of Truth
Book Three
Dianetic Auditing and Society
R3R Procedure
The PC's Introduction to Auditing
Rudiments and Havingness
Assists
Drugs
The Bridge to Health
Auditor Rights
The Ivory Tower
Personally C/Sed Sessions
Keeping Dianetics Working
The Value if Training
Then there are other sections:
Quadruple Dianetics
The Dianetics Axioms
About the Author
Bibliography
Abbreviations List
Glossary
Index.
It's 1060 pages long.
Any other questions before the Official Alanzo Historical Archivist returns this book to the Archival Library?
PS: the About the Author section contains this quote:
"In 1941 like many other young men of his generation, L Ron Hubbard was commissioned in the US Navy. He served in all five theaters of the war. In 1944 he was severely wounded and was taken crippled and blinded to Oak Knoll Naval Hospital. It was here that L Ron Hubbard did much of his early research on the human mind...Injured, L Ron Hubbard faced an almost non-existent future, yet he worked his way back to fitness, strength and full perception in less than two years, using only what he knew and what he could determine about Man and his relationship with the universe...."
Hah!
I wonder what the new books say in the "About the Author" section?