8-8008 Third Edition, 1956
If you want some real "highlights" on the subject of the rewriting of Hubbard's stuff, compare this stuff from the 1956 edition to the later 1970 material.
I posted on this on "The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973" thread post #2473 here:
http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?p=412862#post412862
Here is a change-point in Dn/Scn that few remember . . . . this will give you an idea of how superficial and deceitful Hubbard was; and also as to why he lost support in various ways over the years.
And by the way, this is the point and issue that first made me seriously question his integrity, when I read his accusations against we auditors for what he had actually done.
April 28, 1953: Hubbard relegates the techniques of DMSMH to being used only for assists and to have limited application, this in favor of the processes of Scientology as delineated in the books Scientology 8-8008 and Creation of Human Ability. (See pp 128, Scn 8-8008 3rd edition) On pp 11 & 12 Hubbard denigrates Dianetic processing compared to Scientology, and states:
"Today, when you see Dianetics being advertised and used, you are looking at the formal practice of psychiatry and medicine, and indeed some of those organizations which are still carrying forward under the name of Dianetics or other similar terms are official members, for the most part, of the same organizations that espouse electric shock and pre-frontal lobotomy. . . . Dianetics, the subject was dropped as a psycho-therapy by my organizations."
Then on September 28, 1968, in an HCOB titled "DIANETICS" Hubbard blames all auditors for his action above with this statement as the opening paragraph:
"The most incredible part of the auditing period preceding Sept 1968 was that auditors, calling themselves such, actually could forget, mislay and abandon secondary and engram running as a skill."
It is to be noted that there is revisions and omissions of this stupidity in later recent editions of 8-8008.
If you want a fuller showing of that 3rd edition (and all through the 1950's versions) of 8-8008 here it is:
1956 3rd Edition, missing bits in later edition bolded
Quote:
Understand that the reduction of the command value of the reactive mind was the goal, not merely the reduction of the reactive mind. It was discovered that if one entirely reduced the reactive mind he would bring to zero the entire beingness of the physical organism; thus, Dianetics was a limited therapy. When one is addressing the problems of an individual or group of men, the reduction of the command value of the reactive mind is still the goal where Scientology is used as a process to eradicate aberration.
[...]
Medicine and psychology, as practiced today, have absorbed and are using many of the principles of Dianetics without caring to be aware of the later developments in the field of the mind as represented here. To-day, where you see Dianetics being adverttised and used, you are looking at the practice of formal psychiatry and medicine, and indeed some of those organisations which are still carrying forward under the name of Dianetics or other similar terms are official members, for the most part, of the same organisations which espouse electric shock and pre-frontal lobotomy. Thus the society absorbs and very often misunderstands knowledge. Once the mechanical processes of Dianetics had become inseparable from surgery and psychiatry which embraced them without embracing as well, the ethic which was inherent in Dianetics, the subject was dropped as a psycho-therapy by my organisations. It is quite possible that Scientology, as well, will become as suborned as did Dianetics, but the practice of Scientology without practicing its ethics as well is more difficult. The endless reduction of engrams, like a series of surgical operations eventually leaves little or nothing of the patient. The reduction engrams to-day is done along with electric shock and the administration of carbon dioxide; in fact one state in the United States recently, by police order, made Dianetics the exclusive practice of pyschiartrists, not because Dianetics was doing harm, but because the lay practice of Dianetics had reduced the collective income of pyschiatrists by more than two-thirds.
* See Foreword
2007 edition, with material above (from 1950's editions) in bold deleted.
Quote:
Understand that the reduction of the command value of the reactive mind was the goal, not merely the reduction of the reactive mind. When one is addressing the problems of an individual or group of men, the reduction of the command value of the reactive mind is still the goal where Scientology is used as a process to eradicate aberration.
[...]
Medicine and psychology, as practiced today, have absorbed and are using many of the principles of Dianetics without caring to be aware of the later developments in the field of the mind as represented here. Thus the society absorbs and very often misunderstands knowledge. - LRH
It shows the extent to which LRH and or his minions go to cover his ass.
R