BOOK ONE
The everyday name for the first book published on Dianetics — Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, released in May 1950 — and for the auditing methods described in it. People also say "Book One auditing" to mean auditing done with those original techniques.
From the AOGP Abridged Scientology Dictionary — based on original LRH source materials, updated through 1982.
Usage
Someone who says he was audited on Book One means he was audited using the techniques from that first 1950 book. The book itself is simply a description of how the mind works.
Why It Matters
Book One is where all of this begins, and it went onto the New York Times bestseller list within weeks of release. Everything that followed was built on the ground it laid.
Related Concepts
- AUDITING — The application of Scientology processes and procedures to someone by a trained auditor.
- ENGRAM — A mental image picture of an experience containing pain, unconsciousness and a real or fancied threat to survival.
- CLEAR — (noun) A thetan who can be at cause knowingly and at will over mental matter, energy, space and time as regards the First Dynamic (survival for self).
- REACTIVE MIND — That portion of a person's mind which works on a stimulus-response basis (given a certain stimulus, it gives a certain response) which is not under his volitional control and which exerts force and the power of command…
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