Do you know someone who has never fully recovered from a serious loss in life?
Or a traumatic experience?
And in your own day-to-day life, do you sometimes experience self-doubts,
negative thoughts, unreasonable fears,
upsets, or irrational behavior?
The painful experiences of our past clearly have an effect upon our present behavior --
but to what degree, and why?
What causes the mind to depart from rational thought or behavior?
That is the subject of Dianetics.
Every moment of your life, your mind is recording everything that's happening to you...
every sight,
every sound,
every taste,
smell,
pain,
emotion,
touch --
everything.
These recordings form what is called the TIME TRACK --
a consecutive record of all the experiences accumulated throughout your existence.
Your mind uses this information to make decisions
and solve problems relating to your survival.
The better it's decisions, the better you survive.
Most of this data is stored in your ANALYTICAL MIND --
that part of your mind that thinks, remembers and calculates.
But some of your experiences are not recorded into those analytical memory banks.
It is a discovery of Dianetics that all of your painful experiences
are stored in a previously unknown part of the mind -- it's called THE REACTIVE MIND --
and it throws those experiences back at you in an irrational attempt
to get you to avoid the same painful thing from happening to you again.
Here's a simple and common example:
At some point you've probably gotten sick from eating tainted food.
Later in life, if you see or smell or possibly even think about that particular food again,
you start to feel a little nauseous.
Now, you know that logically the mere sight or smell or thought of a food
can't physically make your body ill, because you haven't actually eaten it again.
And yet you are experiencing the same sick feeling you had before.
This is your reactive mind, making you re-experience the same perceptions
it recorded in that earlier incident in a crude attempt to protect you
from what it believes is a dangerous situation.
It reacts solely on a stimulus-response basis and below your awareness.
The painful experiences hidden in your reactive mind are the cause of your fears,
insecurities, negative thoughts,
unwanted emotions
and irrational behavior.
You have been accumulating these deeply buried experiences throughout your existence.
In fact, the most damaging among them occurred before you were born.
Dianetics reveals how these negative experiences are stored
and contains a technology to free yourself from them.
What would life be like if all of the pain you've experienced
no longer affected your abilities, emotions and behavior?
You would think and behave rationally,
making the best possible decisions relating to your survival.
You would be able to utilize your imagination and creativity to their fullest.
You would be confident, more intelligent and productive, and happier.
You would be yourself -- free to enjoy life and reach your full potential.
In short, your mind would be Clear.
That is the goal of Dianetics.
People achieve this state every day.
And so can you.