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DIANETICS 55!


David Miscavige's statements at the Basics release event in 2007:
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Yes, it’s a dictated book and aside from the fact it wasn't out-sequence, it otherwise had this litany of errors: mistranscribed words, process deleted by LRH on one page, yet erroneously left on another, but rather than make you suffer them again especially since our new book contains none of them, let me instead show you why we were able to put it right. That is, considering the lost tech has been restored, I thought you’d like to hear a couple of excerpts from those dictations. The first one contains his instructions to the transcriptionist, and by the way, the clicking sound you'll hear – it’s the switch on the microphone that throws the tape into recording mode. Here is LRH: [playing a recording]

And now, aside from the first paragraphs on Dianetics 55!, you also heard LRH instructed the tape be transcribed directly onto multi-litho plates, meaning, metal plates used for printing. The urgency was due to an already scheduled Unification Congress for which the book had to be ready. In either regard, that was the beginning of the book, and I thought you'd also like to hear LRH as he dictates the final chapter on exteriorization. Here is LRH: [playing a recording]

So yes, no doubt it was fast and a little randomity for the typist, but regardless if they didn't do it right the first time and even if rushed for the Congress, they had known it could be improved for final publication. Well, we did do it right! Once again, we went back to scratch: his original tapes, his original hand-written, word by word, sentence by sentence and so what you'll find in our new Dianetics 55! is LRH's EXACT communication: every word, every page, every lot emphasized as instructed, every auditing command set off for use, a glossary containing 743 words each one defined in Dianetic terms as he intended. And combined with the Unification Congress, centered around this very book, LRH instructing every step of the way, it's the full recovery of this lost tech.
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You can see the full video of this event on the official Church of Scientology website at this address:
http://www.scientology.org/david-miscavige/basic-books-and-lectures.html
The segment about Dianetics 55! starts at 2:04:24 time marker of the video.


As with many other books, Dianetics 55 is littered with alternations of various types. There are numerous cases of breaking down sentences, unnecessarily enclosing sections of text with parenthesis or various words with quotes as well as changing plural to single or vice versa on some words, changing capitalization or changing words altogether.

Below is a list of selected areas with alterations to demonstrate various types of changes that can be found in 2007 edition.


CHAPTER 2

1979: page 10 2007: page 22
In the field of mechanics we do not discover creativeness. We discover varying conditions, varying arrangements, deterioration and destruction of one or another form, but we do not discover any alteration in quantity. Indeed, the entire science of physics is predicated upon the assumption of “conservation of energy,” which is to say that energy, itself, cannot be created destroyed but can only alter its form. To this we might add “conservation of space,” “conservation of matter,” and “conservation of time.” None of these things are capable, in themselves, of altering. They are not capable of more than change of position or alteration of form. The physicist is very fond of demonstrating that the breaking of a vase does no more than or the altering of the relative positions of the particles of the form, and that the burning of a piece of coal does not change the basic particles of matter, since if you were to collect all the smoke, and the ash, and the particles which radiated from the burning and weigh them you would have the same weight as before the coal was burned. In other words, the quantity of matter does not change, and, as above, it does not create to itself or add to itself in any way.
 In the field of mechanics, we do not discover creativeness. We discover varying condition, varying arrangement, deterioration and destruction of one or another form. But we do not discover any alteration in quantity. Indeed, the entire science of physics is predicated upon the assumption of “conservation of energy” (which is to say, that energy itself cannot be created destroyed, but can only alter its forms). To this we might add “conservation of space,” “conservation of matter” and “conservation of time.” None of these things are capable, in themselves, of altering. They are not capable of more than change of position or alteration of form. The physicist is very fond of demonstrating that the breaking of a vase does no more than and alter the relative position of the particles and the form. And that the burning of a piece of coal does not change the basic particles of matter, since if you were to collect all the smoke, all the ash and the particles which radiated from the burning and weighed them, you would have the same weight as before the coal was burned. In other words, the quantity of matter does not change and, as above, it does not create to itself or add to itself in any way.


1979: page 13 2007: page 26
Two words were used in connection with this causative agent. One of them was “analytical mind,” and the other, much more properly, the “awareness of awareness unit.”The awareness of awareness unit, as its name implies, is aware of being aware, or aware of being alive.
 Two names were used in connection with this causative agent. One of them was “analytical mind” and the other, much more properly, the “awareness of awareness unit.” The awareness of awareness unit was (as its name implies) aware of being aware, or aware of being alive.

[Changing "words" to "names" could potentially be viewed as a legitimate change - a very rare occurrence indeed, but the changes in the next sentence are completely unnecessary.]


1979: page 15 2007: page 28
This machine demonstrates conclusively that the awareness of awareness unit can predict and cause an energy reaction to occur at will. It goes further and demonstrates that the awareness of awareness unit can bring about, without further contact, an energy flow in a body at a distance. This is a very startling demonstration, and is one of the more significant electrical discoveries of recent times. The conditions of the experiment are sufficiently rigorous to dispel any doubt in the mind of a physicist concerning the authenticity of occurrence.
 This machine (one of which is at the headquarters of Hubbard Professional College) demonstrates conclusively that the awareness of awareness unit can predict and cause an energy reaction to occur at will. It goes further and demonstrates that the awareness of awareness unit can bring about, without further contact, an energy flow in a body at a distance. This is a very startling demonstration and is one of the more significant electrical discoveries of recent times. The conditions of the experiment are sufficiently rigorous to dispel any doubt, in the mind of a physicist, concerning the authenticity of the current.



CHAPTER 3

1979: page 20 2007: page 37
An awareness of awareness unit is very unhappy unless it has some mass or space of some kind and if it does not have various problems to solve.
 An awareness of awareness unit is very unhappy unless it has some mass or space of some kind and has various problems to solve.

[The meaning in the "corrected" sentence in 2007 edition is now easier to misunderstand.]


1979: page 22 2007: page 39
When any practice gets less than 22 percent recovery, then that practice is actually definitely harming people, for if all the practitioner did was be at home in his office and give cheery reassurance to his patients he would get this 22 percent. He would have to be very active and depressive in order to decrease this amount of recoveries.
 When any practice gets less than 22 percent recovery, then that practice is actually, definitely, harming people. For if all the practitioner did was be at home in his office and give cheery reassurance to his patients, he would get this 22 percent. He would have to be very active and depressive in order to decrease this amount of “cures.”


1979: page 24 2007: page 40
Any Clear earlier obtained was known to be Clear simply by the fact that he could recall at will by pictures, or could perform certain other feats. Actually, a person was only able to stay Clear when he was not immediately involved with either his analytical or his reactive mind.
 Any Clear, earlier obtained, was known to be Clear simply by the fact that he could recall at will, by pictures, or could perform certain other feats. Actually, a person was only Clear to stay Clear when he was not immediately involved with either his analytical or his reactive mind.

[Here is an obvious typo in the "corrected" sentence of the 2007 edition.]

1979: page 24 2007: page 40
Those Clears which remained stable and continued to perform and function despite the convulsions of life were these who had been stably exteriorized. This may be a datum which is very hard for some Dianeticists to assimilate, but again the difficulty would stem only from the fact that these would be unwilling to look at space or would be afraid of being disenfranchised. Such people are very frightened of losing their bodies. But this is a fact with which we cannot argue, that so far as psychosomatic illness is concerned it is best resolved by exteriorization.
 Those Clears which remained stable and continued to perform and function despite the convulsions of life were these who had been stably exteriorized. This may be a datum which is very hard for some Dianeticists to assimilate. But again, the difficulty would stem only from the fact that these would be unwilling to look at space or would be afraid of being disenfranchised (such people are very frightened of losing their bodies).

But this is a fact with which we cannot argue: That so far as psychosomatic ill is concerned, it is best resolved by exteriorization.


1979: page 33 2007: page 50
Reduction from the state of awareness is into the condition of the symbol—mass, meaning and mobility. To get a clear idea of this, you see the word “a” on this page. That has mass, even if very slight mass. It has meaning, since it conveys an idea when glanced at, and it certainly has mobility, since you can move the book around.
 Reduction from the state of awareness is into the condition of the symbol (mass, meaning and mobility).

To get a clearer idea of this, you see the word “a” on this page. That has mass, even if very slight mass. It has meaning, since it converts an idea when glanced at. And it certainly has mobility, since you can move the book around.


1979: page 34 2007: page 51
Thus we see that it is desirable that an individual does not identify himself with masses, but that he retain his ability to handle masses and objects and energies, to remember at will, without the need of records such as those in the reactive bank, or facsimile machines such as those in the analytical mind’s bank.

In any good, thorough investigation, one investigates to see what he will discover and to find better ways to do things. In any reliable investigation report one tells what he discovered and reports its character and nature. In this science we are doing just that. When we talk of the awareness of awareness unit we are not talking to be pleasing, to win friends or influence professors, we are simply telling you what has been discovered after twenty-five years of research and investigation in the field of the mind having taken off from the platform of physics and mathematics rather than philosophy.
 Thus we see that it is desirable that an individual does not identify himself with masses, but that he retain his ability to handle masses and objects and energy, to remember at will without the need of “records” (such as those in the reactive bank) or “facsimile machines” (such as those in the analytical mind bank).

In any good, thorough investigation, one investigates to see what he will discover and to find better ways to do things. In any reliable investigation report, one tells what he discovered and reports its character and nature. In this science we are doing just that. When we talk of the awareness of awareness unit, we are not talking to be “pleasing,” to “win friends” or “influence professors.” We are simply telling you what has been discovered after twenty-five years of research and investigation in the field of the mind, having taken off from the platform of physics and mathematics rather than philosophy.

[Here is a good example of text being populated with needless quotation marks and parenthesis. Such changes are abundant throughout the whole text.]



CHAPTER 4

1979: page 41 2007: page 63
Now if Life is Understanding it would find it very hard to communicate with something which was non-understanding. In other words, Life, faced with a non-understanding thing, would feel itself balked, for Life, being Understanding, could not then become non-understanding without assuming the role of being incomprehensible. Thus it is that the seeker after secrets is trapped into being a secret himself.

Where one has an effect point which is an incomprehensible thing, and where one is occupying a cause point, in order to get any communication through to the effect point at all, it would be necessary for the one at cause point to somehow or another reduce his understandingness down towards incomprehensibility. The salesman knows this trick very well. He looks at his customer, recognizes his customer is interested in golf, and pretends to be interested in golf himself in order to have his customer listen to his salestalk. The salesman establishes points of agreement and potential duplication, and then proceeds into a communication. Thus searchers after truth have often walked only into labyrinths of untruth—secrets—and have themselves become incomprehensible, with conclusions of incomprehensibility. Thus we have the state of beingness of the philosophical textbooks of Earth. A wonderful example of this is Immanuel Kant, the Great Chinaman of Königsberg, whose German participial phrases and adverbial clauses, and whose entire reversal of opinion between his first and second books balks all our understanding as it has the understanding of philosophic students since the late Eighteenth Century. But the very fact that it is incomprehensible has made it endure, for Life feels challenged by this thing which, pretending to be understanding, is yet an incomprehensibility. This is the grave into which so many philosophers walk. This is the coffin into which the mathematician, seeking by mathematics the secrets of the universe, eventually nails himself. But there is no reason why everyone should suffer simply because he looks at a few secrets. The test here is whether or not an individual possesses the power to Be at his own determinism. If one can determine himself to be incomprehensible at will, he can of course, then, determine himself to be comprehensible again. But if he is obsessively, and without understanding, being determined into incomprehensibility, then of course he is lost. Thus we discover that the only trap into which Life could fall is to do things without knowing it is doing them. Thus we get to a further delineation of the secret and we discover that the secret, or any secret, could exist only when Life determined to face it without knowing and without understanding that it had so determined this action. The very best great secret, then, would be something which made Life also tend to forget that it was looking at a secret.

One can always understand that his ability can increase, because in the direction of an increase in ability is further understanding. Ability is dependent entirely upon a greater and better understanding of that field or area in which one cares to be more able. When one attempts to understand inability he is of course looking at less comprehensibility, less understanding, and so does not then understand lessening ability anywhere near as well as he understands increasing ability. In the absence of understanding of ability we get a fear of loss of ability, which is simply the fear of an unknown, or a thought-to-be-unknowable thing, for there is less knowness and less understanding in less ability.
 Now if life is understanding, it would find it very, very difficult to communicate with something which was non-understanding. In other words, life, faced with a non-understanding thing, would feel itself balked. For life, being understanding, could not then become non-understanding without assuming the role of being incomprehensible. Thus it is that the seeker after secrets, unless his way is carefully wended, is trapped into being a secret himself.

Where one has an Effect-point which is an incomprehensible thing and where one is occupying the Cause-point, in order to get any communication through to the Effect-point at all, it would be necessary for the one at Cause-point to somehow or another reduce his understandingness down toward incomprehensibility. The salesman knows this trick very well. He looks at his customer, recognizes his customer is interested in golf, and then pretends to be interested in golf himself in order to have the customer receive his sales talk. The salesman establishes points of agreement (and potential Duplication) and then proceeds into a communication.

Thus searchers after truth have often walked only into labyrinths of untruth-secrets-and have themselves become incomprehensible with conclusions of incomprehensibility. Thus we have the state of beingness of the philosophic textbooks of Earth. A wonderful example of this is Immanuel Kant, the “Great Chinaman of Königsberg,” whose German participial phrases and adverbial clauses (and whose entire reversal of opinion between his first and second book) balks all our understanding, as it has the understanding of philosophic students since the late eighteenth century. But the very fact that it is incomprehensible has made it endure. For life feels challenged by this thing which, pretending to be understanding, is yet an incomprehensibility. This is the grave into which so many philosophers walk. This is the coffin into which the mathematician, seeking by mathematics the secrets of the universe, eventually nails himself.

But there is no reason why anyone should suffer simply because he looks at a few secrets. The test here is whether or not an individual possesses the power to be at his own determinism. If one can determine himself to be incomprehensible at will, he can of course then determine himself to be comprehensible again. But if he is obsessively and without understanding being determined into incomprehensibilities, then of course he is lost.

Thus we discover that the only trap into which life can fall is to do things without knowing it is doing them. Thus we get to a further delineation of the secret and we discover that the secret, or any secret, could exist only when life determined to face it without knowing and without understanding that it had so determined this action. The very best grade secret, then, would be something which made life also tend to forget that it was looking at a secret.

One can always understand that his ability can increase because in the direction of an increase of ability is further understanding. Ability is dependent entirely upon a greater and better understanding of that field or area in which one cares to be more able. When one attempts to understand less ability, he is of course looking at less comprehensibility, less understanding, and so does not then understand lessening ability anywhere near as well as he understands increasing ability. In the absence of understanding of ability, we get a fear of loss of ability, which is simply the fear of an unknown or a thought-to-be-unknowable thing. For there is less knownness and less understanding in less ability.

[Here is a good example of a large section of text littered with alterations of different types - a good representative view of text as a whole.]


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