Rubbish to your rubbish. There is no way the CofS would allow an independent person to open a book one Dianetic center without slapping a law suit on them.

WTF????? There you go again. You CANNOT go into a c of s and get auditing for a bad back! They do not do that! They do not offer that service! They do not sell that service!
Those who don't read history are condemned to repeat it in weird
and mysterious ways.
The Trademark Dianetics is owned since 1950 by:-
http://ca-da.org/
"NEWSFLASH: A copy of the article: A SHORT HISTORY OF THE CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF DIANETIC AUDITORS by past president A. E. van Vogt as been located and reproduced in the History Section of this website. van Vogt sums this article up reminding us that dianetic auditors, by being C.A.D.A. members have full right(s) to use Dianetics and practice dianetic therapy. This of course is one of the main reasons to join our orgnization."
Kate.....anyhow I don't think anyone can get "book one" style Dianetics auditing anymore. It has been changed to NED.
There use to be some sort of Dianetics Auditors Association in the late 1950's but that was squashed by the CofS in the late 1960's far as I remember.
Does the CoS even offer a book one style Dianetics course anymore?


I didn't say it would _help_ your bad back. I said that you could go there and ask for auditing because you had a bad back and they would give it to you. That kind of stuff is what Book One auditing is all about. That doesn't imply that it will actually work.
Then by all means point out to me the flaw in this reasoning:
Premises:
1) Book One claims to be able to help a bad back via auditing
2) The cofs delivers Book One auditing
Conclusion:
Therefore, the CofS delivers auditing that Book One claims will help a bad back
I don't know if you can today - but you could as recently as a couple years ago. A friend who was on staff for a while tried to get me in for book one auditing - must have been 2011. Maybe there was a pool at the org - "we've all tried, let's see if you can get Blanky to drop some coinage."
If one was to endure..... errr.... happily attend..... an upcoming IAS event - what kinds of things would you like to hear about it?
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Post 2000 I did the HQS course and a part of that course was to deliver Book 1 auditing to people.There is policy against saying auditing can handle a medical condition. A bad back is a medical condition.
If you said "I want to see if auditing can cure my shyness", that would be a different story.
I don't know the current story, but back in the 1980's you could learn Book 1 auditing in Div6, and do what you wanted, co-audit, whatever.
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Kate as intelligent as you are you are a hard head like I am and you may have to learn the hard way like I do. You'll never be satisfied by what we say here unless you see for yourself. Leland is absolutely right, and so are you in this post when your say "...what's the point...". Exactly as has been stated so many times of this board, it is pointless because all the cures Hubbard purports are skewed data and most likely no one was ever cured of a real illness by Dianetics.
But people with psychosomatic imaginary illnesses that are in need of a placebo cure may imagine relief and therefore experience it. I have an injured back and I would laugh myself silly if I went in for Dianetic auditing. Why would it help my body if I recalled the first time I ever injured my back? It's preposterous.
Kind of like the traveling minister snake oil salesmen who put their hands on the ill person's head and voila, they're cured by Jesus. It's snake oil poured over reworked texts and sold as original "technology".
I once had a friend who was OT7 L10, 11 & 12 complete and he said ""I would like to see one example of lasting case gain is Scientology". That helped give me the impetus to get out for good.
I'm not implying that Dianetics is effective at curing so-called psychosomatic ills... I'm saying that they _claim_ it is and I'm saying that it's a service they attempt to deliver (even if its doomed to failure) if you want to give them money to get that service.