[Picture]      The very best method of convincing anyone about Dianetics is to let him ease down his own time track and discover a few things. In other words, give him what we call a “short run” in therapy. It can’t hurt him. It usually predisposes him to a pleased wonder about this new horizon and even enthusiastic participation in Dianetics.

     Above all, don’t worry about whether people accept Dianetics or not. A majority opinion does not necessarily establish the truth of anything; for instance, the fact that the enlightened of Shakespeare’s time may have believed in ghosts did not prove that ghosts existed. Individual opinion is valid only after observation of something. If a man won’t observe, forget him.

     A strange thing is happening and will continue to happen. There is a direct ratio between the brilliance of a mind and its ability to understand and work Dianetics – we have proven that continually; a person highly successful, for instance, in the field of psychoanalysis can be counted upon to grasp Dianetics quickly – the second-rater, whose practice is unsuccessful, whose security is already small, may have difficulty in understanding Dianetics and even be savage about it. Out of this comes, whatever we do or might wish to do to prevent it, an aristocracy of the mind. People who are bright and have a high dynamic, understanding and undergoing “clearing,” will become brighter and will have a higher dynamic. There will be many of these. But they will have to carry, on their own energy, so to speak, those that they wish to benefit. Below this will be the persons whose insanity or criminality has made them a menace to society and who will be given a release in Dianetics at state cost and those persons who have money enough to buy a release or Clear – expensive when not done in teams as no good professional practitioner would work for less than $15.00 an hour and usually charge more. On a lower strata there will be those who, for various reasons, do not undertake clearing and for whom no clearing is done. A wide gulf is thereby established. On the adage that them as has “gits,” one sees with some sadness that more than three quarters of the world’s population will become subject to the remaining quarter as a natural consequence and about which we can do exactly nothing. The saving part of this is that the good will of the upper quarter will inhibit their exploitation of the less fortunate.

     So if your friend or relative turns his back on Dianetics and refuses to inspect it even after you have done your best to explain it, don’t be disheartened. That you see it and can use it has not injured him in any way. The loss is definitely his, not yours.

     A further word. Many of you will have the book at the time you read this. I call your attention to the fact that so long as you use standard technique without diluting it with hypnosis or drugs or some preconception, you are utterly and entirely safe, your patient is safe and nothing whatever can happen that will injure anyone. A long, long series of experiments has demonstrated this. Any case is better opened than left closed, even when the auditor is entirely unskilled. So feel no apprehensions about what you might do or what is being done to you, just keep following the rules as closely as you can.

     We are opening an institute for training professional auditors because so many psychiatrists and psychoanalysts and medical doctors have expressed a desire for special training. Probably institutes will be opened in various parts of the country as soon as we get around to it. A foundation has been formed for the control of such institutes – and the proceeds of the handbook, by the way, have been given in their entirety to the foundation – and it is only a question of time before one will be in your neighborhood if all goes well. However, this should not inhibit your practicing as per the handbook in any way nor even practicing professionally if you will.

     Please accept my thanks, again, for your blazing reception of Dianetics, for your compliments and congratulations. They amply reward a score of years of hard labor.

     L. Ron Hubbard