abstract
| - Dianetics 55! is a Dianetics/Scientology book published in 1954 by L. Ron Hubbard. In its preface, Hubbard explains that he considered the book to be the first true sequel to 1950's Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health , even though numerous books on the subject had appeared in the intervening years: "Dianetics moved into the world on May 9, 1950, with the publication of a book, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. It moved with violence even though its message was peace... Dianetics was an adventure into the dark realms of the secret to accumulate knowledge and to establish the truth.... In Dianetics 55! we have, actually, the second book of Dianetics. Everyone has assigned the title First Book to Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. But nobody has ever referred to Science of Survival, published in 1951, as the Second Book. They haven't because it obviously wasn't.... This is the Second Book of Dianetics. It could mean a new Earth, a new freedom."
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