Chapter 22 Chapter 22 Ideas

Dianetics (from Greek, meaning "thought") is a new science about ideas discovered by the famous science fiction writer Lafayette Hubbard.He began his first book on the subject by saying, "The creation of the theory of ideas is a milestone in the development of mankind, comparable to the discovery of fire, and surpassing the invention of the wheel and arch, . . . The underlying causes of physical and mental illnesses and human psychiatric disturbances due to psychological or emotional causes have been identified and inalienable remedies have been found through the theory of mind.

The word "immutable" is not a typo.Hubbard writes, "Mind theory is an exact science, its application similar to that of engineering, but simpler than engineering. Its principles must not be confused with theories, for some of its principles hold true as well. Like some laws of nature that have not been discovered so far, they can be demonstrated." Mind therapy is carried out with mathematical precision, and it is foolproof.This is indeed a big story worthy of people's investigation.However, before discussing the basic principles of idea theory, we might as well take a look at how incredible this movement has sprung up.

The founder of Mind Talk, La Hubbard, is very driven and efficient.Friends disagree on the source of his energy.Some people think that he is serious, honest, and consistent.Others thought he was the greatest liar of the century.Others thought he was basically honest, if a little phony, and now a sad victim of their psychopathy. Hubbard was born in Tilden, Nebraska, in 1911.Other details about his life are hard to come by.He appears to have served in the Marine Corps in his youth.In the early 1930s, he studied for several years at the engineering school of George Washington University in the capital of the United States, but did not graduate.He never worked in engineering, but this knowledge clearly gave him an engineer's perspective, which in large part formed the basis of the theory of ideas.For the past 20 years, he has been a prolific writer of pornographic fiction, with occasional radio and film adaptations.He was certified as a glider pilot and at one point sang and played the banjo on a California radio station.A self-proclaimed explorer, he made many excursions around the globe and lived in Asia, where he studied mysticism.During the Great War, he served as a naval officer on an escorting destroyer and was badly wounded in battle.

According to Hubbard, he first discovered the basic principles of mind theory in 1938 and began his 12-year research work.However, many of his friends insisted that these 12 years of research work were purely fictional, and it was not until 1948 that the theory of ideas was released.In any event, one of his earliest patients was John Campbell Jr., editor of Astounding Sci-Fi.Campbell suffers from a variety of medical conditions, including chronic sinusitis.He was so impressed by Hubbard's treatment that in May 1950, he published the first report on idea theory in his pornographic magazine.It was an article Hubbard wrote in just a few hours, and it was written in the style of a football broadcast.The article apparently drew sci-fi fans to such an impatience that Hubbard's Mind Talk: The Modern Science of Healing Mental Illness was published a few weeks later by Hermit Press. sold out.

The book "Theory of Ideas" is very long, wordy and rough.Hubbard claims he wrote it in just three weeks.This is believable, since almost all of his writings were written with lightning speed.This book is nothing like a scientific report.Most of the case histories are written by Hubbard from memory and imagination, just like the later works of Wilhelm Reich, his book is like God's "Revelation".Oddly, the book is dedicated to Will Durant.The appendix on the "scientific method" is signed by the nuclear physicist John Campbell Jr. (Campbell, who attended MIT for three years before transferring to and graduating from Duke University, worked briefly in the lab of Mack Trucks Inc. in New Brunswick, New Jersey.)

The book was a great success.The initial customers were sci-fi fans.But it was not long before the book aroused the frenzy and superstition of an incredible number of people throughout the country.Idea theory has become a fad in the film industry and has hit colleges and universities.College students hold "mind talk parties" to test each other's new treatments.At Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, a distinguished professor of political science, Frederick Schuman, was also drawn into the movement.He visited Hubbard, gave a lecture on ideaism in Boston, wrote outraged letters to journals that had not favored Hubbard's book, and even wrote on the subject in the April 1951 issue of Beautifying Homes and Gardens. magazine wrote an impassioned article.

The "idea theory research foundation" was established in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and research centers were established in major cities across the country.Hundreds of medical practitioners trained by the foundation are licensed to practice medicine in Hollywood, Park Avenue and Chicago's Gold Coast Avenue.Hubbard traveled the country giving speeches and demonstrations. "Ideology Talking Auditor Bulletin" was published.The foundation was later expanded and moved to Wichita, Kansas, where it was renamed "The Hubbard Ideation Foundation, Inc."The facility charges $500 for 36 hours of therapy, and four to six weeks of training for the same price.Those who pass the test will be issued a certificate and become the "inspector" of the mind theory.

What exactly is idea theory? Simply put, the idea theory holds that all mental disorders (neurosis, mental illness, and physical and mental diseases) are caused by "impressions".But, to make sense, we must first wade through Hubbard's dense jungle of carefully crafted terminology. Hubbard called the conscious mind the "analytical mind," which works like a mainframe computer, unerringly.But if the unconscious mind fills in wrong data, it can send the body into a state of disarray. The unconscious mind is called the "reactive mind".In fact, it is always conscious, and remains conscious even when a person is asleep or "lost consciousness" for other reasons.The reactive mind has no ability to "think" or "remember".It is a dull organ.But when the analytical mind becomes unconscious or semi-conscious due to physical pain or emotional pain, the reactive mind starts "recording".These records are called "impressions".They are like a record, except that in addition to recording sound, it also records all the perceptions that the analytical mind receives when it is "off."

Hubbard illustrates this with the following example: "A woman was knocked unconscious. People kicked her, said she was a liar, was a bad person, and kept changing her mind. In the process, a chair was knocked over. Yes. The faucet in the kitchen is running. A car is driving by on the street outside. Impressions are recording the perceptions in rapid succession: seen, heard, touched, taste, smell, organic Sensation, movement, joint status, thirst, etc. The 'impression' consists of everything presented to her while she was unconscious: tone of voice, emotion in voice, sound and feel of first and subsequent blows , the feel of touching the floor, the feel and sound of Shizi falling over, the body's sense of the blow, and maybe the smell of blood in her mouth, or whatever other smells were present at the time, the smell of the person who hit her, and the smell in the room. All kinds of smells, the sound of motors and tires of cars passing by, and so on."

The "impressions" are then the perceptual notes made when the "analytical mind" is switched off by pain or emotional distress.Loss of consciousness due to injury, narcotics, disease, drugs, or even drunken unconsciousness is painful enough to create an "impression."Since the "reactive mind" is dull and incapable of evaluating, everything it experiences enters into "impressions."These "impressions" are stored in the "reaction library".Hubbard labels them categories like outrageous lies, denials, gangs, possessions, misdirection, but we don't have to break them down.There is no space in this book to discuss his "desire demon circuit" (commander demon, critic demon, self-aggrandizement demon, instigating demon, etc.).A glossary of Hubbard's key terms can be found on the back cover of Mind Talk.

All neuroses, psychopathies, and psychosomatic diseases (including the common cold, and possibly diabetes and cancer) are caused by "impressions."In most cases, the "impressions" that cause trouble are registered before a person is born.This brings us to Hubbard's most revolutionary idea—the "impression" of prenatal life. We know from "Theory of Mind" that just after pregnancy, the fetus has the ability to record "impressions".How these records were made has remained a deep mystery since the fetal sensory organs do not develop until late in the fetus.These records are produced in the state of the cell, and contain some unknown changes inside the protoplasm.According to Hubbard, life in the womb is far from paradise. "When the mother sneezes, the baby will be shocked to 'lose consciousness'. If the mother runs briskly and accidentally touches the table, the baby's head will be smashed. If the mother is constipated hard, the baby will be crushed. If the father is excited, the baby will have a A feeling of being put in a washing machine running. Mom rages, baby gets 'impression'. Dad hits mom, baby gets 'impression', and so on". It was very noisy in the palace. "Intestinal bursts, water flow, hiccups, flatulence, and other mother's activities also produce various noises... When the mother takes quinine, there will be ringing in the ears of both the mother and the fetus. Throughout a person's life." Also, in later fetal life, the uterus menstruates very tightly.If the mother suffers from high blood pressure, "it will be even more terrifying in the palace." Besides being stunned by blows, "coughs, sneezes, vomiting, etc., the poor fetus is also rendered unconscious by violent pressure, and by attempted abortions, not to mention. Hubbard There is a deep-rooted hatred of women in the book, but it is expressed most explicitly in what the mind scholars call "AA" - abortion. When Hubbard speaks of mothers who are not kicked by their husbands abdomen, or when not having an affair with a lover, they are preoccupied with aborting, usually with a knitting needle. Hubbard writes, "Twenty or thirty attempts at aborting is commonplace.With each attempt, the baby's body or brain could be pierced. "These experiences, of course, produce the worst impressions, as they are usually accompanied by emotional scolding. Since all these words are recorded verbatim by the fetus, when these impressions are fed to the conscious mind as data, they may cause serious damage later in life. Here may wish to quote an example from Hubbard's book.The dad beat the mom in the belly, knocking the baby unconscious.At the same time Dad yelled, "Take that! I tell you, you must take that!" Later in life, those words were taken literally, and the man became a kleptomaniac, or a thief .Hubbard sighed sadly, "Oh, we don't quite mean what we say! What havoc it can do when it gets caught in a dull reactive mind! Everything is taken literally!" But prenatal impressions have to be "written down" before they can do damage.This happens when a person is in pain.This situation is in some ways very similar to the impression in hibernation.Hubbard cites the example of another mother to illustrate the problem.The husband punched her in the stomach and yelled, "You bloody whore, you useless thing!" The impression included headaches, a collapsed body, gnashing of teeth, and noises in the mother's bowels.Years later, the child was slapped by his father, who said, "You damn thing, you useless thing." The child cried and had a headache that night.This impression has been "written down". "Now the sound of a body falling, or a gnashing of teeth," or any trace of anger in the father's voice, can unsettle a child's nerves.His physical health will suffer.He started suffering from headaches. " One of Hubbard's patients was a sad young man. His attitude towards life can be summed up by Hamlet's famous line "To be or not to be, that is a question worth considering".Hubbard diagnosed the man whose mother had been beaten by her actor husband while she was pregnant, and then began reciting lines from Hamlet after beating her.As a result, Hubbard wrote, the young man "would sit for hours on end with a morose expression, indifferent and indecisive about life." Mindfulness therapy, often called inspection, is intended to "erase" the various "impressions" of the patient.The session begins with the patient relaxing in a comfortable chair or lying on a couch in a dark room.Close your eyes and keep them closed throughout the treatment.The examiner sat next to him, talked to him, and put him in a kind of "mental meditation."Eyelid twitching indicates entering this state.This is very similar to the initial stages of hypnosis.But the patient's mind is still very clear, and after the treatment session (usually two hours), everything will be recalled. The patient, at the instigation of the examiner, "walks backwards" along his "time track" to those early experiences that formed his impressions.As he narrates these experiences one by one, the original impression gradually loses its harmful effect, and finally is completely "erased".That is, they have been extracted from the "Reaction Bank" and put back into the "Standard Memory Bank" where they can be recalled by the conscious mind. The examiner tries to send the patient back to his earliest impressions, the so-called "primitive" impressions.The reason for this is that once the BB (Original) is erased, the subsequent impressions are easier to erase. The BB is usually formed a few weeks later in the embryo, but may go all the way back to the fertilization of the egg.In the end, almost every patient experienced a "sperm dream" in which he imagined that he was upstream down a tube, or (like an egg) waiting to meet the sperm.At first Hubbard thought that the dream was meaningless as far as impressions were concerned, but he had recently found cases where the impressions were formed before the fertilization of the sperm and ovum. When an impression is "diminished" by a narrative.The patient would yawn and stretch.Yawning is considered an important sign of therapeutic success and should never be misinterpreted as a sign of boredom or drowsiness.Strange pains and discomforts in various parts of the body would appear and then mysteriously disappear.These pains are phantoms of psychosomatic illness, never to be seen again.When the impression is finally erased, the patient experiences a sudden relief and pleasure from the pain, often laughing wildly.Hubbard reports that one patient was so relieved when an impression was erased that he laughed nonstop for two days.This maniacal laughter must never be misinterpreted as the patient laughing at the absurdity of the whole procedure. It takes about 20 hours of testing to bring a mentally disturbed patient into a "liberated" state.Liberation means getting rid of all serious neurosis and various diseases.According to Hubbard, "this state is more effective than years of psychoanalysis, because the relief is not relapsed." Continue to examine, this relief will become a A "pre-awake" state will eventually reach a "awake" state.Literally, sobriety, a superhuman being, is an evolutionary step towards a new species.He is a man completely free of impressions.All impressions have been erased and injected with new ones.He was no longer a neurotic or psychosomatic patient.Hubbard tells us, "A sober man doesn't catch colds, and he heals faster from injuries. His eyesight is better. His IQ increases dramatically." man is to the modern normal man what the modern normal man is to the severely insane". Hubbard pointed out that the amount of time needed to "cure" a sober person depended on the patient's condition, although he declared that some people were sober.But to be precise, they have not reached the level of sobriety. In 1950, Hubbard introduced a female student named Sonia Bianca to an audience of 6,000 at the Temple Auditorium in Los Angeles, saying that she was a sober person who could remember every moment of the past "" perception".But in the ensuing performance, she couldn't remember a single formula in physics (the course she was majoring in), and when Hubbard turned away, she couldn't even remember the color of his tie. Incredible.At this point, most of the audience left the seat.Hubbard later offered an ingenious ideational explanation for the fiasco.Because when he called her from both sides of the podium, he said, "Sonya, would you please come here now?" The word "now" made her freeze in the present time.As for Hubbard himself, he candidly admits that he is not: a sober man.He said that he was determined to devote all his energy to contributing the theory of ideas to the world, and he did not want to spend more time disposing of himself as a sober person who erased his impressions. A very important branch of thought theory is what Hubbard called "preventive thought method".This is the utmost care to avoid impressions when a person is unconscious, or when a fetus threatens to be unconscious.For example, when caring for someone who is seriously injured or ill, absolute silence is required.Hubbard wrote, "Say nothing or make a sound around an 'unconscious' or injured person who threatens his sanity. Nor can you speak while a person is undergoing surgery. Street You can't talk when you're in a car accident. Never talk!" Also, "When a woman is giving birth, for the sanity of mother and child, and for the protection of their family, it is necessary to keep quiet. So quiet that not even the slightest 'shh' can be made, as that would cause the infant to stutter." Of course, mothers must be extremely careful during pregnancy.She must never speak while she is having a bowel movement, coughing, sneezing, being spanked by her husband, or when the doctor is pressing hard on her belly to check for a pregnancy.Under such circumstances, no one should talk in her presence.Hubbard wrote, "If a husband is talking, every word he says becomes an 'impression.' When a husband hits his wife, both the gesture and the words they say become part of the 'impression.'" When mindfulness therapy and preventive mindfulness are used together, the world may move towards a higher culture.Hubbard concludes his work with the metaphor of two plateaus, one higher than the other; separated by a valley.An engineer builds a bridge over a canyon.People began to cross bridges and walk from the lower plateau to the higher plateau.Hubbard asked, "What would you think of society if the people on the lower plateau just lamented, wept, argued, and refused to widen or build new bridges?" The answer was clear.Mind says it's a rough first bridge, but it's sure to improve.Hubbard ends his book with a cry: "For God's sake, get on with it and build a better bridge!" In a long letter published in the August 1950 issue of Astonishing Science Fiction, Hubbard gave a more explicit description of the future state of mind theory.Sober people, he writes, who are cleansed of impressions, have higher intelligence quotients, they will naturally be the preeminent members of the new culture, and there will be a wide gulf between them and all others. "...it is sad to see that more than three-quarters of the world's people will be at the mercy of the other quarter, as a natural consequence, and there is nothing we can do about it." Hubbard again Happily, these pure people are also free from all kinds of bad motives (Hubard believes that people who have no "impression" are basically good), which "keeps them from exploiting the less fortunate" . In 1951, Hubbard published a new book, "Survivor's Science", which talked about a simplified method of accelerating processing.If "Theory of Mind" was written in 3 weeks, then this book with almost the same length was written in only 3 days.It introduces dozens of new vocabulary, such as MEST (the first letter of words such as matter, energy, space, and time), life energy, life energy state, and MEST state, etc., and engages in a lot of metaphysics and invented terms. A "Children's Will" and a "Manual of Mind Therapy" compiled by the editorial department to remove "impressions" for children aged 5 to 13 have both been published.Hubbard later placed advertisements for other books he had written.These books include The Process of Symbolism; What to Examine; How to Be a Manager (guaranteed to eliminate the "roots of corruption in management"); Hubbard tried unsuccessfully to market the manuscript to several publishers, including the Science Fiction Press of Chicago), as well as The Devil's Sword. The writing background of the book "The Magic Sword of King Arthur" is quite moving.This was revealed by Arthur Cox in the July 1952 issue of Science Fiction Advertisement.This magazine is published by Science Fantasy Fans in Glendale, California. In 1948, Hubbard told sci-fi fans in California that he had been operated on for an injury while in the Navy and that he was effectively dead for eight minutes.According to Cox, "Hubbard realized he had a startling revelation during his death.... He sat at his typewriter for 6 days and 6 nights without writing a single word. Then came The Devil's Sword" "The Devil's Sword of King Arthur" contained the supernatural fundamental mysteries of the universe. He sent the manuscript to several publishers, all of whom were rejected.... So he locked the manuscript in a bank vault. But later , according to him, he wanted to try to rewrite it and publish it... A friend of Hubbard recently told me that "The Word of Mind" is based on a chapter in "The Devil's Sword of King Arthur." The Magic Sword of King Arthur's ad synopsis is excellent and worth mentioning: "Mr. Hubbard's book was written in 1938. Four of the first 15 people who read it were insane, so Mr. Hubbard put The book was recovered and stored in a bank vault until now. This book is only for selected readers and read according to the instructions. It is not allowed to be published while the husband is still alive. The book contains complete disposition and proven prescriptions, and there are secrets not disclosed in "Theory of Ideas". Those who want to buy this book can get the original copy, which can be printed individually. It is bound into a book with bronzing. And signed. Very limited quantity. $1,500 per copy.. Another new work by Hubbard is titled Self-Analysis (published by the International Library of Arts and Sciences, 1951).Hubbard repeatedly tried to write his unique insights into popular works. The book Self-Analysis is an attempt to advance this idea.This book is designed to enable the reader to perform "the relaxing healing process" on his or her own.He said in the opening remarks of the book, "Self-analysis cannot bring the dead back to life, nor can it close the madhouse or start a war. That is the task of the mind tester and the mind therapy expert." This book is only intended to improve personal health and happiness. and Productivity's 'Strong Reader'.There is no danger in reading this book, so long as the reader is strong.What if not?Hubbard admits, "I don't want to lead the reader astray. It's possible to go crazy just by reading this book." Upon inspection, the book appeared to be harmless.The book includes page after page of questions for readers to ask themselves, such as "Can you remember a time when someone you liked fell asleep?" or "Can you recall a time when you jumped rope?" To help As the reader recalls these episodes, Hubbard provides a cardboard disk with slots cut into it.By placing the disc on the page, the question can be seen through a slot.If it says "see" on the disc, try to "see" the event.Then turn the disc to look at the next question, and another "feeling" appears on the disc, such as "smell".At this time, you try to recall the "smell" at that time.Many strange combinations of sensations and memories can be produced in this wonderful way.Hubbard cautions, "If you don't use the disk, you lose more than 80 percent of the beauty of the method." The book comes with two disks, one green and one white."Readers can choose whatever they like," Hubbard said. Later in the book, the "editor" (probably Hubbard himself), plagiarized William Shee's kind of big talk.The editor said that while the atomic bomb was still being developed, Hubbard was immersed in the problem of using atomic energy for construction. "In 1947, he discovered that this uncontrollable energy could be tamed, changed his mind, opened up the fallacy, and found a wise direction. He discovered the mechanism by which atomic energy governs the functions of the human body." Here is a striking footnote, leaked to the reader Hubbard's financial difficulties at the time. "He didn't even have a secretary to help, he didn't have a car in his mindwork research. He wrote on an old Remington typewriter. He relied only on his friends and the people he treated. Voluntary contribution. The author refuses to use foundation money, which he would rather use to help others - Ed." In the medical world, the most prominent physician-turned-idealist is Dr. Joseph Winter. In 1949, John Campbell, Jr. wrote to introduce him to Hubbard, when he was a general practitioner in Michigan.Winter was originally interested in Count Alfred Korzybski's method of treating mental illness with ordinary semantics.He, like many others who believed in semantics, found the notion of ideas more intriguing.His correspondence with Hubbard led him to visit the master himself in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where he underwent a dramatic examination.After returning to Michigan, he experimented with mindfulness therapy on his 6-year-old son who was naturally afraid of ghosts.His son's fear of ghosts was cured when he recalled being delivered by obstetricians in white aprons and masks. Dr. Winter's enthusiasm swelled so much that he moved to New Jersey to become the first medical director of the newly formed Mind Talk Research Foundation.However, less than a year.He came out of the trance again, and by October 1950 he had resigned.Now he practices his own modified version of mindfulness therapy in a handsome Manhattan clinic on Park Avenue. In his 1951 book A Doctor's Report on Mindism, Dr. Winter presents his thoughts on the solid core of the truth of Mindism, and then sets out arguments with which he disagrees.For example, while he believed that prenatal "impressions" could be formed, he doubted (although he was not sure that "sperm dreams" were merely figments of the patient's imagination and not real memories. He also objected to having patients recall previous incarnations death (which is standard Hubbard therapy), which he finds to be of no therapeutic value. He finds Hubbard's dogmatic attitude and the Foundation's complete disregard for the scientific method appalling. For example, Project "Guk" Winter explained that Guk is "the name given to a cocktail of various vitamins and glutamic acid that people thought would make them better when taken in large amounts. It is a frustrating, costly fact that the trial did not have proper controls prescribed." A colossal failure." Dr. Winter also disagrees with Hubbard that anyone can be an examiner.Hubbard wrote in "Mind Talk", "Anyone with knowledge and patience, and willing to read this book carefully, can become a mind tester." And, Hubbard insists that even A bad inspector is better than none at all, and even a clumsy inspection can do no harm.Dr. Winter took the opposite view.His writings cite several cases of patients who appeared to be sane before undergoing mindfulness therapy, after which they had to be committed to an insane asylum. Last, but not least, Dr. Winter was perplexed by the apparent failure to find a sane person.He writes, "I'm still looking for someone who is 'awake' before and after mindfulness therapy, a state I haven't achieved myself, and I haven't been able to get any of my patients to. I've seen some Individuals who are considered 'sane', but whose behavior does not fit the definition of that state. Furthermore, a person who is considered 'sane' has reverted to the original demeanor that was the incipient psychotic state." Perhaps the most revealing part of Dr. Winter's book is his own account of the mind-healing process.For these records show unmistakably the way in which the examiner asks the patient what kind of questions he is to recall.It must be remembered that in most cases the patient is already familiar with the theory of ideation.Armed with this understanding, let us examine a case of Dr. Winter's. Healer: How are you feeling now? Patient: I want to rub my eyes. Zhi: Why do you feel this way? Suffering: There is something in the eye, maybe a little soot. Ji: Anything else? Sufferer: I have suffered from "Fire Eye". Ji: Anything else? Patient: I can't think of anything else. Zhi: I can think of a few situations.Of course, you don't have to believe it.if you cry, you Do your eyes feel like this? Patient: I think so. Zhi: If someone puts some medicine in your eyes, will your eyes feel like this? Sufferer: Certainly. Zhi: Well, try to recall the first time your eyes felt this way. It can be seen that the explanations for the soot and fire eyes were neglected.When the patient cannot think of any other reason, the therapist suggests crying and eye drops.In a split second, the patient follows his time trajectory back to the time of his birth, imagines the scene of his delivery, and connects that scene with the way his eyes feel now. Here is another case of Winter.Patient complains of headache and stuffy nose: Zhi: Do you think there are other feelings? Patient: I don't know.You see, I can't bear the headache holding it. Zhi: Do you think, when you were born, someone might have said the word "hold"? Patient: Yes, I think the doctor may have said so. Zhi: What might he be doing at that time? Patient: I think he is handing me over to the nurse. Zhi: So, what did the doctor say? Patient: "Okay, now you can take him away." No, it doesn't seem to be the case. Zhi: Change it to what you think of. Sufferer: "Come on, you can take him away now." That's it. Zhi: Please repeat this sentence and notice how your head feels. Patient: [repeated five or six times] Cure: Notice how your nose feels when you say these words.Say it a few more times. Patient: [repeated several times] Zhi: How about the headache now? Sufferer: [Rubs eyes] It hurts even more. Zhi: What happened to your eyes?Do you feel anything in the eyes? Patient: His eyes hurt, he must have taken the damn potion. Zhi: What do you think of the doctor who put the medicine in your eye? Patient: I'm so angry, that's nonsense. Zhi: If you could settle accounts with that doctor, what would you like to do to him? Su: [said angrily] I want to beat him up. Zhi: Well, you imagine that the face of the doctor is on the sofa, next to you.Hit it now! Sufferer: [grit the teeth, clenched the fist, beat the sofa, about 10 punches] Zhi: Hit him again, give him a good blow to vent his anger.Hit him again! Zhe: [Laughs] No, this is too silly. Zhi: How about the headache now? Patient: better.Zhi: Now, let's tie it all together.Watch out for your headaches,...note Notice how your eyes feel,...your nose,...the feeling of anger.do you have anything else? Sufferer: [Scratching the ribs along the left armpit] It's funny, I suddenly thought that my sister was always tickling me.I haven't thought of this for years. Zhi: What feeling did you have when you were born that reminded you of being tickled? Patient: [scratches chest again] I don't know. Zhi: How did the doctor you wanted to deliver pick you up? Patient: He probably put his hands under my chest to pick me up. Zhi: Think about how it would feel if someone picked you up.How's the temperature on his hand? Patient: I think it is warm. Zhi: What did he say? 患：“来，你现在把他抱走吧。” 治：“现在”是什么时候？ 患：怎么，现在，就是目前呀。 治：你是1951年出生的吗？ 患：不，当然不是。 治：你能够把你出生时的那个“现在”和1951年的这个“现在”区别开吗？Can? 患：当然能。 治：假定你的头疼是由于“现在抱走他”那句命令造成的，那会怎样呢？ 患：我不知道，我似乎一点也想象不出来。 治：“抱”是什么意思？ 患：意思是带……，是拿……。 治：现在是什么时候？ 患：啊，我明白了，那就是说，我的头疼一直带到了现在。 治：不正是因为接生的医生说了句“现在抱走他”，你才把出生时的头疼一直带到现在吗？ 患，不，那是瞎说。 治：现在头痛怎样了？ 患：好多了，实际上是过去了。 从上面的对话中可以清楚地看出：对于头痛的意念解释，仅仅存在于治疗者的头脑里，而且是经过相当大的困难才诱使病人顺着他说。治疗者提出的那些问题，具有一种“诱导”的性质，就连温特医生也承认那是“鼓励幻想”。这位医生说，事实上，这些记忆是真实的还是想象的，关系不大！这真叫人吃惊。这样一来，哈伯德那套关于胎儿期和出生时“印象”的学说是应该扬弃的。也许这恰恰正是这位医生从那以后所要做的。因此，他1952年出版的新书《人的苦脑都是心身性病症吗？》，就再也没有提到意念说。 哈伯德本人也承认，许多病人对于自己在子宫里的经历想入非非。他写道，“病人谈到他的父亲和母亲，以及他们坐在什么地方，卧室是什么样子，然而他那时却是在子宫里。”哈伯德不同意“受苦的胎儿有一种超感官知觉”的理论。他承认这是一种好的理论，但他又不承认这种理论，因为胎儿并没有思想，因而也就不存在超人的洞察力。 实际上，认为神经机能病和心身疾病可以追溯到脑子失去知觉时的经历，不管是在子宫内还是子宫外，根本没有经过任何科学试验的证明，以致没有一位有名望的精神病学家肯对它一顾。不少精神分析学家指出，把一个人的病因归咎于他在胎儿时期发生的事件，是回避对神经机能病根源进行真正研究的最简便的办法。 在为意念说辩护的各种辩词中，“它有作用”这个辩词是最无聊的。因为在治疗神经机能性的各种症状时，病人相信的任何事物都有作用。这一类的“疗法”不胜枚举。从年轻的珀金斯关于他父亲的金属牵引器治疗效力的著作中，可以找到几百个远比意念说的病历更能给人印象的故事。这一切说明，意念说作为一种信仰疗法能影响某些病人。此外，再无其他。 自然，哈伯德是想到了这样的反对意见的。他写道，“如若发现有人试图阻止患者接受意念疗法，即应立刻通知验察师。……任何企图制止病人接受意念疗法的人，不是想利用病人的心理失常，……便是有意要隐瞒什么。” 意念说的狂热发展确实如火如茶，就连哈伯德本人也被卷进一场个人的纠纷中去了。1951年，他的第三个妻子、25岁的萨拉·哈伯德跟他闹起离婚。她把他称为“偏执狂型的精神分裂症者”。控告他在她怀孕时折磨她，并声明医学顾问们已断定，哈伯德已“无可救药地疯了”。 1952年2月，设在威奇塔的意念说基金会破产了。哈伯德最近又发信要求人们捐助25美元，帮助他支付生活费用，以便在“全美国”建立一个意念说学派和实现一些其它的小计划。作为回报，他将赠给捐助者新成立的“黄金”意念说组织的会员资格。 小约翰·坎贝尔是多年前当哈伯德为他治疗窦炎时接触到他的意念说的，后来他便向全世界大肆宣扬起意念说。但他至今仍然在患着窦炎。