When I first read Dianetics it was to learn about me.

And I really did.  

I always thought psychology was a crock.  My mother used to spout psychological platitudes and just loved telling me what my motives were for doing things,forgetting things, not doing things, and anything else she could come up with.

Don’t get me wrong.  I loved my mother dearly, and miss her a great deal now that she’s gone.  But I could never do anything with her evaluation of my behavior.

When I was in graduate school I got into a really destructive relationship. The guy was no good for me at all, and I knew it, but I was totally obsessive about him.  To be honest, I didn’t even like him, but I was miserable without him.

That’s when a friend gave me a copy of Dianetics.

I started reading it and I was amazed.  It was so clear.  It was so true.  It made so much sense.  It answered tons about me.  And it had no banal, trite, lazy explanations.  I decided right then that I was going to learn this and use it to help people.

That was quite a while ago.  But I did learn it and I do use it and it does help people.  Enormously.

Now I have just finished reading the book again.  This time, an edition just released last month by David Miscavige, Chairman of the Board of Religious Technology Center.  

A tremendous amount of work went into really upgrading the book, making the presentation far more easy to read and providing such an extensive glossary that practically every word I wanted to look up was provided right there.

This time reading it I wasn’t nearly as interested in what was going on inside my head.  I was much more interested in reading it from the perspective of what it said about others, and using it to learn about them.  And boy did I learn a lot.

 I’m sharing this because I don’t know many people who couldn’t benefit from learning more about themselves, or learning more about others.

And I’m telling you, the stuff in this book is amazing.  L. Ron Hubbard was such a genius. 

Here’s wehre you can order a copy of this new edition of Dianetics .