Originally posted by Denver
"With the invention of language, man brought upon himself an unexpected source of aberration. While language itself is very far from the whole reason an organism is less successful than it might be, our current social order lays undue stress upon language. Words are only symbols which represent actions.

Scientology completely aside, I agree with what Hubbard says here. For anyone interested in a much more technical, in depth study in this very direction you could read General Semantics by Alfred Korzybski, or Quantum Psychology by Robert Anton Wilson. Both titles will offer explanations that I have neither the time, patience, skill, knowledge or even inclination to attempt.

Good tomorrow, fellow observers!

"Caught up by the illusion of words, stressed into obedience when he was a child by physical means, Man is subject to his greatest shadow and illusion-language. The words, forcefully spoken, "come here!" have no actual physical ability to draw the individual to the speaker. Yet he may approach, although he may be afraid to do so. He is impelled in his approach because he has been made to "come here" by physical force so many times in the early period of his life, while the words "come here" were being spoken, that he is trained much like a dog to obey a signal. The physical force which made him approach is lost to view and in its place stands the shadow "come here." Thus, to that degree, he loses his self-determinism on the subject of "come here." L. Ron Hubbard Self Analysis

The ideology met with such dislike is not the piont of argument here but the fact of recovering past memories to have them refiled as experience is. What is so wrong with using a method to recover past incidents within someones life to there betterment? we have over shot the target of psychology the unconscious or reactive mind.

[edit on 23-11-2009 by Denver]