To whom it may concern - consider this a "message in a bottle" if you will. Dianetics '55, by L. Ron Hubbard, Chapter 1: "Anyone who knows the structure, function, and dynamics of the human mind is very difficult to control. The only way a mind can be controlled is by enforcing upon it ignorance of itself." "And when one restores full awareness to a mind one is no longer able to victimize it. And a profession or a society would have to move out of slave orientation into action by freedom and consent, were it to be effective." "Just as you do not want people to control you, so you should want knowledge of yourself and others. Just as you fight away from knowingness concerning self, so you will be controlled." "The only elements in a society which would combat, or contest, or dispute an effort to attain such a science would be those interests which desired, by ignorance, to maintain their control of a slavery." "Dianetics can be contested, it can be vilified, its founder and practitioners can be publically pilloried, but Dianetics cannot be ignored. It could neither be drowned in praise, nor burned in some purge to its total eradication, for it is a wonderfully observable fact that the one impulse in Man which cannot be erased is his impulse toward freedom, his impulse toward sanity, toward higher levels of attainment in all of his endeavours. This is Man's one saving grace, and because Dianetics is such an impulse, and because its basic purposes, from the moment of its conception, have been dedicated unswervably to the attainment of even greater freedom it cannot perish - a fact which will become doubtlessly more annoying to the slave-masters as the years roll on." "That mind which understands itself is the mind of a free man. It is no longer prone to obsessive behaviour, unthinking compliances, covert innuendos." "A mind that is enslaved is weak. A mind that is free is powerful, and all the power there is, is defined by and contained in freedom." "If every man could be depressed from his freedom to a point where be believed himself but a cog in an enormous machine, then all things would be enslaved. But who would be there to enjoy them?" "Not the slave-maker, for he is the first to succumb. He succumbs to his own mechanisms. He receives the full jolt of his own endeavors to entrap." "Thus as we depart from the concepts of freedom, we depart into a darkness where the will, the fear, or the brutality, of one or a few, no matter how well educated, may yet obliterate everything for which we have worked, everything for which we have hoped. This is what happens when the machine runs wild, and when Man, become a machine, runs wild." "Only a raving, drooling madman could contemplate the ending of all goals everywhere on earth. And only an apathetic fool would stand by motionless before the inevitable destruction of his most intimate dreams, his fondest hopes, his possessions, even on down to his identification cards and the money in his wallet." "....it is my belief that an individual who can contemplate this with equanimity and without an impulse to act is so lost to the race and lost to himself, to his family and to his friends, that he must personally believe there is no hope for anything, anywhere, at any time. Such depravity is difficult to envision." "We know, definitely, that the wrong thing to do is nothing. Whenever any situation may develop, we always have that answer. It is wrong to do nothing. The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided that he could do nothing about something. This was the entering threshold toward death. When one knew (italics), at last, that he was powerless in the face of all fates, or of any one particular fate, he was, to that degree, a slave of those fates. Thus, the wrong thing to do in this world, at this time, is nothing. No matter what fantastic or incredible plan we adventure upon, no matter how we put it forward, it would still be better than the abandonment of all plans and all action."