Preventive Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard

5008C30 Preventive Dianetics

Resume with time marks:

0:01–2:30: Hubbard introduces the lecture, responding to critics of Dianetics. He notes psychiatry’s limitations and stresses the need for “preventive Dianetics” to stop engrams before they form.

3:00–5:00: Discusses schizophrenia and paranoia; key phrases like “I’m all alone” or “They’re against me” may trigger severe conditions. Suggests repeater phrase “I love you” can uncover sympathy engrams.

5:10–10:00: Outlines preventive Dianetics: keep silence around the injured, ill, or unconscious to prevent engrams. Calm environments for children prevent key-ins. Even shocking experiences like drowning can pull people into present time if not engramic.

10:00–14:00: Absence of engrams leads to resilience—losses or criticism don’t damage the individual. Society mistakes aberrated reactions as “normal.” A society that keeps silence around unconscious people would change within a generation.

14:00–19:00: Case example: a woman hemorrhaging after childbirth improved when words associated with the incident were run out. Illustrates how careless speech can endanger life.

19:00–23:30: Industrial accidents often caused by engram restimulation. A worker injured repeatedly in the same environment accumulates engramic triggers, leading to major accidents affecting others.

23:30–28:30: Highway accidents also traced to engrams. “10% of drivers cause 90% of accidents” due to accident-prone engrams. Hubbard suggests preventive Dianetics as true accident prevention.

28:30–29:09: Mass hysteria and “telepathic” alarm reactions may spread engram restimulation. Example: accidents cluster where prior deaths occurred.

29:10–32:10: Accident chains explained as engram reactivations. Hubbard suggests pulling licenses from repeat accident-prone drivers would dramatically reduce deaths.

32:10–36:10: Highway “improvements” don’t reduce accidents—cause is engrams, not roads. Preventive Dianetics addresses the real source.

36:10–41:10: Professional auditing must be protected. Even poorly trained auditors can reduce engrams due to Dianetics’ inherent workability, but auditing competence matters.

41:10–46:10: Pregnant women pose a special case: auditing may help if aberrations threaten the child, but grief engrams run in the mother can transfer to the fetus. Grief commands in engrams can confuse future auditing.

46:10–50:40: Suggests physical protection (armor plate) for pregnant women to prevent injury. Criticizes harmful practices like corseting and tight lacing, especially among unmarried pregnant girls.

50:40–55:40: Moral codes often irrationally damage health and future children. Many morals arose as practical responses (e.g., venereal disease) but later became aberrations. Hubbard distinguishes ethics (optimum agreements) from morals (irrational preventives).

55:40–57:30: Morals often benefit vested interests (e.g., vice squads profiting from blackmail). Such interests reinforce destructive codes.

57:30–60:00: Preventive Dianetics inevitably addresses morality. Abortion of high school girls creates massive engram banks of grief, secrecy, and guilt.

60:00–62:00: Adoption discussed. Adopted children inherit rough prenatal banks, but benefit if adoptive parents don’t restimulate prenatal content. Sometimes cases are rough enough to need child Dianetics.

62:00–64:00: Marriages often reactive—partners chosen based on unconscious engram valences (e.g., marrying someone resembling a relative). Leads to divorce. Preventive Dianetics could reduce these outcomes.

64:00–end: Concludes that preventive Dianetics extends beyond therapy: it restructures family, morality, marriage, industry, and society itself. By preventing engrams, society can eliminate much insanity, illness, accidents, and aberration.