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Dianetics The Modern Science Of Mental Health Summary

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Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health was published in only 1950 and is the established text of Scientology. It was written in, what is claimed, three weeks by L. Ron Hubbard, an author of science fiction and fantasy stories. It is best-selling and is sold in English and fifty other languages. It became a book that started a movement that later grew into a very controversial religion that has 500,000 followers worldwide today. Today, however, due to continuous editing, it hardly resembles its original edition.
Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health claims that it is an exact science whose laws are capable of accurate measureable expression. What is this the science of? It is the science of mind. It claims that the hidden source …show more content…

Ron Hubbard has made a bold claim: “The creation of dianetics is a milestone for Man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his inventions of the wheel and arch.” With this very first line, you are given an understanding of the ego of the man that wrote this book. It is this egocentric attitude that is peppered throughout the book that makes this book so hard for me to take seriously and continue reading. However, it is through this egocentric attitude that you are shown his true fear and insecurities about doctors and mental health. The way he speaks about them you get a sense that maybe there have been people in his life that have questioned his mental stability, and because of that he has a distrust and even a hatred towards anyone in the field of mental …show more content…

I usually tend to try and be more open minded when reading about others religious choices, but as I continue to learn more about this religion and the secrets it hides, I can’t help to feel it to be so disingenuous especially as it grows older and asks for more profit from its followers. I, honestly, chose Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health because I was hoping to find the reason so many people of different means, and fame were so invested into this organization. It is a religion where people pour enormous amounts of money into, sign billion year contacts and devote their lives to working for Scientology under horrible pay and atrocious conditions. I couldn’t help to think that maybe there is something there that is worth connecting to. What I ended up getting out of this is continued confusion to why people are drawn to this. I found it to be convoluted, boring, with made up words, and an ego that is apparent right from the very first

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