The goal of Dianetics is to remove the " reactive mind ", which Scientologists believe prevents people from becoming more ethical, more aware, happier and saner.

The Dianetics procedure to achieve this is called " auditing ".

Dianetics is also practiced by independent groups, collectively called the Free Zone.

Where the goal of Dianetics is to rid the individual of his reactive mind engrams, the stated goal of Scientology is to rehabilitate the individual's spiritual nature so that he may reach his full potential.

It is run ( processed ) exactly like Standard Dianetics ( once very widely practiced before the advent of NED ) except the pre-clear ( parishioner ) is encouraged to find the " postulate " he made as a result of the incident.

New Era Dianetics is really only a prelude to what is available at the high levels of the Bridge including the incidents: New Era Dianetics for OTs also known as NOTS.

A basic idea in Dianetics is that the mind consists of two parts: the " analytical mind " and the " reactive mind.

Dianetics is a proposed method to erase these " engrams " in the " reactive mind " to achieve what is referred to in Scientology as a state of " Clear ".

In Dianetics, the unconscious or reactive mind is described as a collection of " mental image pictures ," which contain the recorded experience of past moments of unconsciousness, including all sensory perceptions and feelings involved, ranging from pre-natal experiences, infancy and childhood, even the traumatic feelings associated events from past lives and alien cultures.

'" While it is sometimes claimed that the Church of Scientology no longer stands by Hubbard's claims that Dianetics can treat physical conditions, it still publishes them: "... when the knee injuries of the past are located and discharged, the arthritis ceases, no other injury takes its place and the person is finished with arthritis of the knee.

He emphasizes: " The discovery of the engram is entirely the property of Dianetics.

Hubbard writes: " Again, Dianetics is not being released to a profession, for no profession could encompass it.

Commentators from a variety of backgrounds have described Dianetics as an example of pseudoscience — that is, information presented as scientific that fails to meet the basic criteria for science.

: Dianetics is nothing more than an example of pseudoscience trying to legitimize itself ... Hubbard, had he indeed been a scientist, would have known that truth is not built on axioms, and facts cannot be found from some a-priori knowledge.

The procedure of Dianetics therapy ( known as auditing ) is a two-person activity.

He said that Dianetics " forms a bridge between " cybernetics and General Semantics ( a set of ideas about education originated by Alfred Korzybski, which received much attention in the science fiction world in the 1940s ) — a claim denied by scholars of General Semantics, including S. I. Hayakawa, who expressed strong criticism of Dianetics as early as 1951.

(" Postulate " in Dianetics and Scientology has the meaning of " a conclusion, decision or resolution made by the individual himself ; to conclude, decide or resolve a problem or to set a pattern for the future or to nullify a pattern of the past " in contrast to its conventional meanings.

Hubbard always claimed that his ideas of Dianetics originated in the 1920s and 1930s.

Some of the psychometric ideas in Dianetics can be traced to Sigmund Freud, whom Hubbard credited as an inspiration and was said to have used as a source.

Herbert, who was ghostwriting a newspaper column on the general semantics whilst completing Dune, details the ‘ Bene Gesserit ’ mental training method which includes hyper-acute sensitivity, powers of projecting mental will onto others, and even eugenic control of reproduction – ideas not far away from the claims of L Ron Hubbard ’ s Dianetics.

Paul Bloch, spokesman for Keough and Presley stated " The baby was delivered naturally and in complete silence in a calm and supportive environment ," according to practices laid out by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard in his book Dianetics.

Harvey Jay Fischer tested Dianetics therapy against three claims made by proponents and found it does not effect any significant changes in intellectual functioning, mathematical ability, or the degree of personality conflicts ; Jack Fox tested Hubbard's thesis regarding recall of engrams, with the assistance of the Dianetic Research Foundation, and could not substantiate it.

Disagreements emerged over the direction of the Dianetic Foundation's work, and relations between the board members became strained, with several leaving, even to support causes critical of Dianetics.

Hubbard coined Dianetics from the Greek stems dia, meaning through, and nous, meaning mind.

Dianetics divides the mind into three parts: the conscious " analytical mind ," the subconscious " reactive mind ", and the somatic mind.

With the use of Dianetics techniques, Hubbard claimed, the reactive mind could be processed and all stored engrams could be refiled as experience.

The reactive mind is a concept in the Dianetics and Scientology systems of L. Ron Hubbard, referring to that portion of the human mind that is unconscious and stimulus-response, which Hubbard blamed for most mental and physical ailments.

Scientology and Dianetics use a galvanic skin response detector called an E-meter originally designed by Volney Mathison that is basically a Wheatstone bridge designed to help the work of erasing one's own " engrams " According to Dianetics, erasing one's own reactive mind altogether can be facilitated by measuring the changes in resistance experienced by a living organism.

Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science covers how Hubbard defined the reactive mind and developed the procedures to get rid of it.

In 1950 Hubbard published Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, introducing his " science of the mind ," Dianetics.

Dianetics states that a person's awareness is influenced by the stimulus-response of the reactive mind.

According to the RTC website, " RTC stands apart as an external body which protects the Scientology religion and acts as the final arbiter of orthodoxy " and its stated purpose is " to protect the public from misapplication of the technology and to see that the religious technologies of Dianetics and Scientology remain in proper hands and are properly ministered.

Hubbard saw Dianetics as focused on the physical body but viewed Scientology as a way to address spiritual matters.

The success of selling Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health brought in a flood of money, which Hubbard used to establish Dianetics foundations in six major American cities.

One example was Harvey Jackins, founder of Re-evaluation Counselling, originally a sort of discrete reworking of Dianetics, which L Ron Hubbard later declared suppressive to Scientology.

This would decrease his self-determinism instead of increasing it, which is one of the prime goals of Dianetics.

After establishing a career as a writer, becoming best known for his science fiction and fantasy stories, he developed a self-help system called Dianetics which was first published in May 1950.

Dianetics is not in any way covered by legislation anywhere, for no law can prevent one man sitting down and telling another man his troubles, and if anyone wants a monopoly on dianetics, be assured that he wants it for reasons which have to do not with dianetics but with profit.

Don Purcell, founder of an early Dianetics organization which had a tentative claim on the Dianetics trademark, joined Synergetics and returned the trademark to Hubbard.

Hubbard publicised a psychological technique, " Dianetics ", which is practised in his " Church of Scientology ".

Despite the lack of scientific basis for his claims, Hubbard's book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health claimed that the Reactive Mind stores impressions ( which he called engrams ) of past events, which occurred while the person was unconscious or otherwise not completely aware.

In 1985 RTC entered with IGN a so-called " Reversion and Reservation Agreement ", which regulated the rights and obligations with regards to the Scientology and Dianetics trademarks of the " secular " organizations IGN and " World Institute of Scientology Enterprises, Inc ." ( WISE Inc .), a dormant Delaware corporation.

Auditing was developed by L. Ron Hubbard, and is described by the Church of Scientology as " spiritual counseling which is the central practice of Dianetics and Scientology ".

L. Ron Hubbard created a self-help therapy known as Dianetics, which he promoted as a scientific, not religious, teaching.

The three brothers have used Dianetics, a philosophy which serves as the base of Scientology methodology, to aid their trading techniques.