Word: minding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...team has gone out of its way to acquire Jeff Judkins and Rick Robey, both friends of Bird's, an obvious effort to feather a nest for him in Boston. Says Celtic Player-Coach Dave Cowens: "He's unselfish, he can pass, and he doesn't mind mixing it up underneath...
ACCORDING to Velona, the "technology" of Scientology allows one to better one's own "intelligence, intellectual capacity and happiness" through a study of the mind and its effects on the body. This study is carried out under the rubric dianetics, which according to Velona are "a set of coordinated axioms which resolve certain problems in human behavior...
Dianetics postulates that there are two aspects to the human mind, the analytical and the reactive. The analytical mind perceives the immediate environment, puts it in the context of past experience, and compels one to act a certain way. It is the conscious part of the mind. The reactive mind operates below the state of consciousness as a stimulus-response mechanism. Through Scientology, Velona said, clasping both of his elbows across His chest...
...breaks down the reactive mind and brings it into one's consciousness...
...Tilden, Nebraska and founded dianetics in 1950 after a number of years as a science fiction writer and a stint with the Navy in World War II. According to Velona, Hubbard "affirmed to himself that man is a spiritual being. Whereas dianetics had dealt just with the mind, Hubbard realized it branched off into more of a spiritual philosophy." The first Church of Scientology was founded in Washington in 1954. Hubbard headed the faith until 1966 and now acts as a consultant to the religion and an adviser to all scientologists...