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A psychiatric textbook publisher insisted he write a book about his researches and the medical friend said, “It’s the only route you have left. The public.”
The resulting book, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health in 1950 soared to the top of the New York Times bestseller list and stayed there.
Today, even though followed by a score of his books about the mind and soul, the first book is still a bestseller.
Ridicule, wild rumors, bad press, lies and even attacks by governments have failed to suppress the technology. The story reads like something James Bond should have written.
And finally, after around eighteen years, the press has begun to print what he actually said and the people have begun to realize the real value and intention of the work.
New things take a while to catch on. Almost every new advance man has made has been a gory battle between the insistent new against the comfortable old.
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