By L. Ron Hubbard

ianetics (dia - through, noos - mind)
Scientology (Scio - truth, ology - study)

The essence of philosophy is to learn to "grin and bear it."

For eighteen years I have had the rather grim task of going on about my work, doing my job, regardless, waiting for the tide of opposition to turn as it is now doing. It has not been easy.

It all began in 1949 when I first released 12 years of independent research into the field of the mind.

With the help and advice of an associate, who was a medical doctor, I offered my work first to the American Psychiatric Association and then to the American Medical Association.

This was the proper thing to do and I did it. The AMA simply wrote me, "Why?" and the APA relied, "If it amounts to anything I am sure we will hear of it in a couple of years."

They have heard of it.

A psychiatric textbook publisher insisted I write a book about my researches and the medical friend said, "It’s the only route you have left. The public."

The resulting book, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health in 1950 soared to the top of the New York Times bestseller list and stayed there.

Eighteen years later, even though followed by a score of my books about the mind and soul, the first book is still a bestseller.

Ridicule, wild rumors, bad press, lies and even attacks by governments have failed to suppress the technology. The story reads like something James Bond should have written.

And finally, today, the press has begun to print what I actually say and the people have begun to realize the real value and intention of the work.

New things take a while to catch on. Almost every new advance man has made has been a gory battle between the insistent NEW against the comfortable OLD.

An ancient Greek said, "The mixture which is not shaken stagnates." And it is the NEW which keeps society out of ruts.

Although I’m hardly in such a class, Galileo went to infamy for daring to see another world, Harvey in 1608 got into a firefight for innocently saying blood circulated in the body. And even Einstein’s work was called, in 1928 at the Berlin Mathematicians’ Congress, "the greatest mathematical hoax of all time." These and countless other men have each had their battles with the comfortable old.

So one can say it is in the cards of fate that if you would make things better, you must also be willing to stand up to criticism, protest and fire.