This chapter is a guide for confirming the role of an auditor as being the guide that shares the persons ills and is there with them for the journey. It details the qualities that an auditor should bring to their task in the application of dianetics and, as such, contains very little that further defines dianetics itself.
For the reason I gave before, that it is possible a guilt complex can make a situation worse rather than better, I am concerned by one of the last paragraphs in this section, "If an auditor assumes the state of mind that he can sit and whistle while Rome burns before him and be prepared to grin about it, then he will do an optimum job. The things at which he gazes, no matter how they look, no matter how they sound, are solid gains. It's the quiet, orderly patient who is making few gains."
This is concerning because there is no method by which the auditor has of knowing whether the patient is actually making gains, or whether the engram is actually gaining in strength.
It is automatically assumed that confrontation with the engram is making it weaker; and to my mind this is a dangerous assumption to make.
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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
