This section appears at the outset to be returning to the dynamics and zones with respect to emotions and the minds control over them. It is, however, where the book is trying to draw some stark lines.
"Emotion seems to be inextricably connected up with the actual force of life. That there is a life force no engineer could doubt. Man and medicine usually look at the pitcher and forget that the pitcher is only there to hold milk and that the milk is the important quantity." The first printing of this book was 1993 so it is hard to think that the book could have been created without the knowledge that the fields of medicine have been aware of bedside manner for some considerable time. That the very fact that even I am aware, and voluntarily chose the comparator of the patient who has lost the will to live, must say something for a widespread acceptance and awareness of the milk within the pitcher.
If there is one thing coming clear from all this, it is that it is possible for someone to achieve the state of being clear and not even come close to dianetics. It is entirely possible for a person to be perfectly at ease with themselves, their lives and be at balance and not have even read this book. Also, that clear is, in itself, a transient state; not one which is achieved and then you move on; it is a very precarious state and unless you lived in a bubble, I dare say that an event could move someone from clear by the very next day. Indeed it could be possible to consider that even being IN a bubble could move you downwards from being clear.
I think that is an important concept for me to have got straight in my head.
The chapter itself, though, attempts to explain these things through a number of dramatic examples and required me to re-read them before eventually concluding that they did not actually draw a conclusion.
The chapter finished with the emotion of laughter, which it describes as not actually an emotion but a relief from emotions. That is, actually, laudable and has considerable anecdotal history behind it.
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As part of my self discovery, I take a journey in to the book, "Dianetics," to see if it can answer the long unanswered questions on the human soul.
Conclusion after reading one third
The book is presenting theories based on anecdotal evidence, none of which carries any references or evidence either of its own or qualified external bodies. The reader is expected to take the presented writings as they stand, on trust, without any form of external support for the hypothesis contained within.
Thus, to this point there is no provable science and no religious element.
Thus, to this point there is no provable science and no religious element.
Dianetics and Anonymous
