Dianetics is an adventure. It is an exploration into

terra incognita, the human mind. that vast and hitherto

unknown realm half an inch back of our foreheads.

The discoveries and developments which made the

formulation of Dianetics possible occupied many years

of exact research and careful testing. This was explora-

tion. it was also consolidation. The trail is blazed, the

routes are sufficiently mapped for you to voyage in

safety into your own mind and recover there your full

inherent potential, which is not. we now know. low but

very, very high.

As you progress in therapy, the adventure is yours

to know why you did what you did when you did it. to

know what caused those dark and unknown fears which

came in nightmares as a child, to know where your

moments of pain and pleasure lay. There is much which

an individual does not know about himself, about his

parents, about his " motives." Some of the things you

will find may astonish you. for the most important data

of your life may be not memory but engrams in the

hidden depths of your mind. not articulate but only

destructive.