abstract
| - Dianetics Today is a book compiled from the work of L. Ron Hubbard and published in 1975 (Bridge Publications, Inc., ISBN 0-88404-036-4). It was created to mark the 25th anniversary of Hubbard's practice of Dianetics, which had been introduced in his 1950 book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. The book discusses and updates Dianetics in the light of technical developments allegedly made by Hubbard in the previous quarter of a century. Dianetics Today was the textbook for the Hubbard Standard Dianetics Course which used to train Dianetic auditors from 1975 to 1978. However, in June 1978 this technology was updated by the release of New Era Dianetics , which introduced an improved version of R3R and many additional ways of applying Dianetics. Dianetics Today is therefore no longer used as a textbook but remains a snapshot of Dianetics as it was practised in the mid 1970s. Like a number of other Hubbard books, Dianetics Today was not actually written as a single work; instead, it comprises various technical bulletins and taped lectures issued by Hubbard and circulated within the Church of Scientology. The assembly of the book is attributed to unnamed staff members of the "LRH Personal Compilations Bureau", under the editorship of Jill Steinberg and Alethiea C. Taylor, with line drawings by André Clavel. .
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