May 11, 2002
DIANETICS HAS ANSWERS FOR POST-9/11 STRESS EPIDEMIC
On the 52nd anniversary of the publication of Dianetics - The Modern Science of Mental Health, the landmark work by L. Ron Hubbard, sales have reached nearly 20 million in 50 languages in 154 countries.
This publishing achievement was announced at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium on May 11 where some 8,000 in attendance heard about this remarkable book that has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list a record 95 times. The auditorium is the site of legendary standing room only Dianetics lectures given by L. Ron Hubbard in the 1950s. Dianetics anniversary events are held in all 154 countries where the book is distributed.
“Dianetics - The Modern Science of Mental Health is, simply put, one of the most popular books of all times,” said Janet Weiland, vice president of Church of Scientology International.
Due to the remarkable results experienced by people using it, Dianetics resonates with readers today much as it did in 1950. Eighty percent of respondents to a recent international survey say that since September 11 they suffer “fear,” “anxiety” or “stress.” Many are haunted by images of the destruction of that day. Stress-related “depression” is now claimed as the No. 1 “disease” for women in the Western world. A large percentage say that in the face of very real threats of terrorism, what they want most are answers.
Dianetics provides the answers to this post-9/11 epidemic.
The book has been embraced by millions for its straightforward approach to resolving human misery. Written and introduced into the chilling age of the Cold War, Dianetics achieved instant popularity by revealing the source of human misery and conflict—the reactive mind – and a solution anyone could apply.
The reactive mind is that part of the mind that stores painful past incidents and operates on a stimulus-response basis just below a person’s awareness. In Dianetics, Mr. Hubbard describes how a person can access this part of the mind and, through the application of easily learned procedures, resolve problems in the present that stem from incidents in the past.
Today Dianetics is frequently used to provide relief to survivors of 9/11. When a New York City man who lost his wife in the attacks received one Dianetics session, exactly as described in the book, a family member said in amazement: “He literally rose from a depression so deep he seemed close to death. To see someone raised to being cheerful about life and living again was a miracle.... The pain is gone. Thank God for your work.”
A New York police officer who had gone into World Trade Center tower No. 2 just minutes before it collapsed. Although he got his men out of the building, he could not get the pictures out of his head.
That all changed after one Dianetics session. “I came out of this depression. I stood up from the session knowing I could lead my men and knowing they needed my leadership more than ever. Thank you for giving me my life back.”
Mr. Hubbard says in the opening pages of Dianetics: “The discoveries and developments which made the formulation of Dianetics possible occupied many years of exact research and careful testing. This was exploration, it was also consolidation. The trail is blazed, the routes are sufficiently mapped for you to voyage in safety into your own mind and recover there your full inherent potential, which is not, we now know, low but very, very high.”
This timeless message is an important beacon of hope to mankind.
Dianetics spiritual healing technology and Scientology applied religious philosophy were developed by writer and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard. The Scientology religion has grown to 9 million members in 154 countries. The Scientology religion holds that man is a spiritual being, that he is basically good, and is capable of spiritual betterment.
For more information, visit www.scientology.org or www.dianetics.org
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