Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
From: eastin@locus.com (Dick Eastin)
Subject: Frequently Asked Questions - 2
Message-ID: <1991Sep08.210452.2484437@locus.com>
Organization: Locus Computing Corp, Los Angeles
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1991 21:04:52 GMT
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              FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS                  Rev. 9/08/91
              SCIENTOLOGY & DIANETICS
                      PART 2

See the first FAQ for the following:
1) What is Scientology ?
2) What is Dianetics ?
3) Why is Scientology called a religion ?
4) Who is L. Ron Hubbard ?
5) What is the E-meter ?
6) Why doesn't the E-meter cost only $35 or less ?
7) What is Clear ?
8) What is a Thetan ?
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FAQ2 (this file) covers the following:
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9) How did Scientology start? (Or, why wasn't Dianetics good enough?)
10) What is the reactive mind ?
11) What is the analytical mind ?
12) What is the somatic mind ?
13) What is the body ?
14) What are the parts of man ?
15) How does Scientology work ?
16) Why is auditing so expensive ?

9) How did Scientology start? (Or, why wasn't Dianetics good enough?)

In 1950 L. Ron Hubbard published "Dianetics, The Modern Science of Mental
Health."  This book covered the anatomy of the human mind, and a technology
called auditing. (Auditing: a communicating process with the end goal of
raising the ability of another person so that he can handle his reactive
mind, body, others, and the environment in general.)  It started a demand
for academies in which people could study the discoveries outlined in that
book. The book has remained a best seller ever since.

Realizing at this stage that the mind in itself, no matter how liberated,
was limiting and that there was something "animating" the mind, Hubbard
permitted the founding in 1950 of the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation
to facilitate investigation into the realm of the spirit.  An astonishing
number of characteristics and potential abilities of Man were unearthed in
this course of study, and it was a difficult task to painstakingly isolate
the most important truths.  By 1952 Hubbard found that he had isolated
elan vital, the spirit, and thus was Scientology born.

Subjects which L. Ron Hubbard consulted in the organization and development
of Scientology were both Eastern and Western philosophical and religious
thought, the physical sciences, including nuclear physics, and mathematics.
Scientology is a wisdom in the tradition of ten thousand years of search
in Asia and Western civilization. It is an organization of the pertinencies
which are mutually held true by all men in all times, and the development of
technologies which demonstrate the existence of new phenomena not hitherto
known.

10) What is the reactive mind ?

A portion of a person's mind which works on a totally stimulus-response
basis which is not under his volitional control, and which exerts force and
the porwer of command over his awareness, purposes, thoughts, body and
actions.  Stored in the reactive mind are engrams, and here we find the
source of aberrations and psychosomatic ills. (Engram - a mental image
picture which is a recording of a time of physical pain and unconsciousness.
The word engram is an old one borrowed from biology.  It meant, "a lasting
memory trace on a cell."  It may be engraved on more than the cell, but
up against Dianetic processing, it is not lasting.)

Comprises an unknowing, unwanted series of aberrated computations which
bring about an effect upon the individual and those around him.  It is an
obsessive strata of unknown, unseen, uninspected data which are forcing
solutions, unknown and unsuspected, on the individual - which tells you
why it remained hidden from man for so many thousands of years.

11) What is the analytical mind ?

The conscious aware mind which thinks, observes data, remembers it, and
resolves problems.  It would be essentially the conscious mind as opposed
to the unconscious mind.  The analytical mind is alert and aware and the
reactive mind reacts without analysis.  The keynote of the analytical
mind is awareness, one knows what one is concluding and knows what he
is doing.  Its just the thetan.

12) What is the somatic mind ?

That mind which, directed by the analytical or reactive mind, places
solutions into effect on the physical level.  That mind which takes care
of the automatic mechanisms of the body, the regulation of the minutiae
which keep the organism running.

13) What is the body ?

A carbon-oxygen engine running at 98.6 degrees F. A solid form, making
the person recognizable and facilitating the control of, the communication
of and with, and the possession of the thetan in his existence in the
physical universe.  The thetan's communication center.

14) What are the parts of man ?

The individual MANis divisible (separable) into three parts (divisions).
The first of these is the spirit, called the THETAN.  The second of these
parts is the MIND. The third of these parts is the BODY.

15) How does Scientology work ?

Firstly, the philosophy of Scientology provides answers to many questions
about life and death and gives people more wisdom and understanding.
Secondly, it works by application of an exact technology on a precisely
mapped path.  By application of this technology in a counseling/auditing
context, a person is able to remove barriers and unwanted conditions and
so become more himself.  As a person progresses his native abilities are
successfully employed towards helping others.

That which is real to the person himself is all one is asked to accept
of Scientology.  No beliefs are forced upon him.  By training (study) and
processing/auditing he finds out for himself.

16) Why is auditing so expensive ?

Auditing is only a fraction of the cost of psychology, psychiatry, and
other social services.  Look at their price lists and subsidies.

To someone who is becoming happier, more able, more aware and more
successful, auditing seems to be worth far more than money.  In addition,
there is a whole team of people providing facilities which make it possible
for an auditor to audit someone, not to mention the cost of the organization's
existence itself.

The difficulty is to find something in our technological scoiety with which
to compare a commodity which results in a completely revitalized life.
Answers to the eternal question of "What am I?", "Where am I going?", and
"Where have I come from?" cannot be compared to products like washing
machines, cars, and television sets.  Western man has perhaps not
appreciated that the only security there is is that which lies within
himself.

(Foregoing mainly extracted from "Dianetics & Scientology Technical
Dictionary" and "What is Scientology?".)

Dick Eastin