The second World War and service was a long interruption. But in 1945 I was back at research again, using the library and facilities of Oak Knoll Naval Hospital.
In under a year, by use of endocrine experiments, on the basis that the endocrines are a switchboard of stimulus-response, I found that function seemed to monitor structure in living forms.
As the reverse had been held to be true (and had not provided a breakthrough) I was therefore able to proceed now in a new direction. I found eventually that Life increased in potential by the stripping away of additives. This meant I could possibly be on the road to isolating life as a pure force.
Working with small energies, I eventually found the mental energy seemed to be a band between life and emotion and what might be a pure life essence.
In handling this I found the mental energy was made up of mental image pictures and that these became jammed together into masses until the commodity known as life became nearly extinguished.
By unburdening these (by a method of erasure) I found life potential increased.
This became Dianetics (Dia - through, noos - mind).
As it had a connection with psychosomatic illness, I offered the discoveries and papers on them to leading healing societies and was rebuffed! They had nothing to do with basic research!
A medical associate and psychiatric publisher told me I had only the public left, so I wrote a book and it became surprisingly popular.
Just before this publication the US Navy’s Office of Naval Research approached me and made a threatening offer that I must go to work for them as a civilian or be recalled to active duty. The project was to make people more suggestible. I was able to resign before they could complete the threat. While I had no complaint about real active service, I had already done a pre-war tour of duty in Washington offices and knew I could get little done there and I had no ambition to make people more suggestible.
This was the second and last contact regarding any research aid. I had applied earlier for funds to foundations and none were available for basic research. Few understood at that time that basic research had any value. Only specific projects for specific products qualified.
A group formed to handle the popularity of the book, Dianetics. Yet it provided no research assistance beyond testing vitamins.
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