NSOL Alteration Report

ALTERATIONS IN THE MATERIALS OF DIANETICS AND SCIENTOLOGY

A NEW SLANT ON LIFE

Comparing 1972 edition (1976 reprint) copyrighted under L. Ron Hubbard [ISBN: 0-88404-013-5] to 2007 edition copyrighted under “L. Ron Hubbard Library” [ISBN: 978-1-4031-4686-1]

The story of A New Slant on Life is quite simple. As can be seen on the original description of this book, it contained “twenty-eight of the best-loved essays written by L. Ron Hubbard between 1950 and 1959.”

All one needs to do is to compare the table of contents to see the sort of “correction” that was done to this book (matching chapters are identified with matching letters):

	1976 CHAPTERS		2007 CHAPTERS
A B C - D E - - - F G H - - I - - - - - - - - - J - - -	Is It Possible to be Happy? The True Story of Scientology Two Rules for Happy Living What Is the Basic Mystery? Man’s Search for his Soul The Reason Why What Is Knowledge? The Conditions of Existence Myths of the Mind How to Live with Children On Marriage The Man Who Succeeds On the Death of Consciousness Accent on Ability Honest People Have Rights, Too Acceptance Level Confronting On Bringing Order On Human Character Past, Present and Future Playing the Game Freedom vs. Entrapment Justice The Vocabularies of Science How to Study a Science The Human Mind Records of the Mind Are Permanent Communication	- A - - J D - - - - E - H - G F C - - - - I - B -	Introduction Is It Possible to Be Happy? Personal Integrity A Description of Scientology How to Study Scientology Man's Search for His Soul On Our Efforts for Immortality On Raising Our Level of Consciousness The Eight Dynamics The Affinity, Reality and Communication Triangle The Reason Why Handling the Confusions of the Workaday World The Man Who Succeeds A True Group On Marriage How to Live with Children Two Rules for Happy Living What Is Greatness? The Anti-Social Personality The Social Personality The Third Party Law Honest People Have Rights, Too Ethics, Justice and the Dynamics The True Story of Scientology My Philosophy

“How to Study a Science” in 1972 was an adaptation of an article "How to Study Scientology" from Ability magazine, issue 90M (can be found in Volume 3 of The Technical Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology). It closely correlates with “How to Study Scientology” chapter in 2007 which is itself an adaptation from the same article, and so it was counted in as a matching chapter.

Counting the remaining non-matching chapters in 1972, we can see that a whooping EIGHTEEN (18) chapters were dropped from the book including some of the chapters that are at the very core of the subject of Scientology – Knowledge, Communication, Confronting, Ability, Freedom and the mechanics of Entrapment – these concepts are at the very foundation of Scientology which aimed to quite literary give readers a new slant on life and a good understanding of the subject itself. Many of these dropped chapters are adaptations (shortened and/or simplified text) of more advanced and hard to find publications meaning that the simplified text aimed to reach raw public was unique to A New Slant on Life and is now lost. On the other hand, many of the chapters that were added to 2007 book in order to make up for the missing space come directly from other introductory books:

From Self-Analysis:
- On Our Efforts for Immortality
- On Raising Our Level of Consciousness

From The Fundamentals of Thought:
- The Eight Dynamics
- The Affinity, Reality and Communication Triangle

From Introduction to Scientology Ethics:
- The Anti-Social Personality
- The Social Personality
- The Third Party Law
- Ethics, Justice and the Dynamics

From Problems of Work:
- Handling the Confusions of the Workaday World

This leaves us with 5 unique chapters (not including the Introduction) that were added to the book:
- Personal Integrity
- A Description of Scientology
- A True Group
- What is Greatness?
- My Philosophy

Here is what was identified for the source of the eliminated chapters:

CHAPTER NAME	SOURCE OF ORIGIN
What Is the Basic Mystery?	Not identified
What Is Knowledge?	Not identified
The Conditions of Existence	Shortened version of a chapter from The Fundamentals of Thought
Myths of the Mind	Not identified
On the Death of Consciousness	A chapter from Self-Analysis
Accent on Ability	Adaptation of a chapter from Dianetics 55!
Acceptance Level	Not identified
Confronting	Adaptation of an article titled "More Confronting" from Ability magazine, issue 54 (can be found in volume 3 of The Technical Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology)
On Bringing Order	Adaptation of an article (same title) from Ability magazine, issue 107 (can be found in volume 3 of The Technical Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology)
On Human Character	Adaptation of Professional Auditor's Bulletin (PAB) No. 14 with the same title (can be found in the first volume of The Technical Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology)
Past, Present and Future	Not identified
Playing the Game	Adaptation from Professional Auditor's Bulletin (PAB) No. 63 with the same title (can be found in the second volume of The Technical Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology)
Freedom vs. Entrapment	Adaptation of chapter "Trapped" from Dianetics 55!
Justice	Adaptation from Professional Auditor's Bulletin (PAB) No. 96 with the same title (can be found in the second volume of The Technical Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology)
The Vocabularies of Science	Not identified
The Human Mind	A chapter from Handbook for Preclears
Records of the Mind Are Permanent	An article from The Journal of Scientology (can be found in the first volume of The Technical Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology) – original name "Records of Mind Are Permanent."
Communication	Adaptation of a chapter from Dianetics 55!

There are numerous alterations of text in the matching chapters between the two books, but there is no plan to cover them here since it is already clear just from looking at the table of contents that the book was not changed for the better.

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