Sarah Jane

And when I was thinking about this big talk and like the impact of something like this, it's really important to say that you might be listening and going, oh, well, I understand as a process how like when you share vulnerable moments, you do and you talk to someone professionally about them.

Emotionally, you can work through these things.

help yes it does and there are so many powerful there are so many roots in this all through wellness movements and cultures as well where it starts off with something quite simple which is about sharing and community and kind of relieving yourself of like a burden in some way psychologically and it's transformed into like a power dynamic essentially

So if we just stop here for a second, let's actually talk about why this is unsafe.

Obviously, there's the fact that Hubbard was claiming that this psychoanalytic theory could cure physical ailments like arthritis, cancer, etc.

There's also the fact that he's calling this book scientific when the theory had no empirical evidence to back it.

Then there's the practice of auditing itself.

Again, I've just said, like, it's kind of like talk therapy, right?

It's like cognitive behavioral therapy in many ways.

But it goes terribly wrong and far beyond this, right?

Because Dianetics encourage lay people to help audit one another without any formal training.

That's so important.

So it's important to acknowledge, you might listen and go, I get it at a communal level.

But the problem is the way it's packaged and who is running this system and who is creating it and saying that they are kind of all seeing, all knowing about this scientific theory that is not.

So as you can imagine, playing therapist as a person with no psychological training is so dangerous, especially when talking with people who have experienced painful and often traumatic memories.

There's also a huge risk here of false memory creation when it comes to auditing engrams that you were unconscious for, like something like giving birth.

And some of the techniques that are used in auditing are designed to build a dependency.

This is what I'm talking about.

It's this power dynamic.

You suddenly depend on the auditor.