The Demons

For a science, Hubbard is using some very colourful and descriptive language to outline his selection of information that is taken from the world of the mystics, "No opinion will be delivered at this stage of Dianetics about ghosts or the Indian rope trick beyond the fact they are seen to be multicoloured pieces and the only ones we want are white. We have most of the white pieces and it makes a good, solid whiteness where there was blackness before." This kind of talk is positive about Dianetics but doesn't actually say anything. It is like being on a journey of goodness; you don't know anything about where you are going or why you are going there ... just feel the width of the happiness.

Hubbard then goes on to explain that, "A thorough examination of a number of subjects (fourteen) revealed that ever one apparently had a 'demon' of some sort. They were randomly selected subjects in various conditions in society." Now; if someone like me was left to conclude anything from this, it would be that everyone in society has demons in them. This is an example of how the writing leads to conclusions but doesn't actually state anything. A leading statement.

And the fourteen people? Never heard of again.

Hubbard, however, goes on to explain that the demons are actually the result of behaviour pattern changes that are the results of engrams. More colourful language is used to explain this; "An electronics engineer can set up demons in a radio circuit to his hearts content. In human terms, it is as it one ran a line from the standard banks toward the analyser but before it got there be put in a speaker and a microphone and then continued the line to the plane of conciousness. Between the speaker and the microphone would be a section of the analyser which was an ordinary, working section but compartmented off from the remainder of the analyser. 'I' on a conscious plane wants data. It should come straight from the standard bank, compute on a sublevel and arrive just as data. Not spoken data. Just data." Yeh. Right. Whatever you say Ron. What about a diagram with that?

It takes slow and considered reading to gain a loose grip on what is going on in this chapter. Even then, it doesn't make much sense. It almost endows engrams with conscious thought in themselves.

We move from here, to "Psychosomatic Illness."