"Clinical tests prove these statements to be scientific facts:
1. The mind records on some level continuously during the entire
life of the organism.
2. All recordings of the lifetime are available
3. "Unconsciousness," in which the mind is oblivious of its
surroundings, is possible only in death and does not exist as
total amnesia in life.
4. All mental and physical derangements of a psychic nature come
about from moments of "unconsciousness."
5. Such moments can be reached and drained of charge(harmful
energy or force accumulated and stored in the reactive mind,
resulting from the conflicts and unpleasant experiences that a
person had) with the result of returning the mind to optimum
operating condition.
pg 80 Dianetics, by L Ron Hubbard
If you are in a discussion with a scientologist, you might like to ask
which clinical tests prove the above statements, who did
them and where they were published. In the experience of many
critics, scientologists are unable or unwilling to give this essential
information.
Jeff Jacobsen has written several articles on the scientific status of
L Ron Hubbard's teachings. Science and Dianetics challenges assertions
like the above. The origins of Dianetics are looked at in Dianetics:
From Out of the Blue?