Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health

There is a lot of occult movements out there.

In 1950s, he published Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.

Dianetics taught that people have two basics parts of the minds, the analytical part of their mind, it's the rational, the conscious part, and then the reactive mind, which is a hidden part containing painful memories called engrams.

So he's essentially saying that there is some sort of evil that exists in our brain, in our heart, in our mind, and instead of calling it sin, he called it engrams.

L. Ron Hubbard was a prolific pulp and science fiction writer.

That's what he was sort of known for.

In 1950s, he published Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.

Dianetics taught that people have two basics parts of the mind: the analytical part of their mind, it's the rational, the conscious part; and then the reactive mind, which is a hidden part containing painful memories called engrams.

As the son of Marion Ross from Happy Days, Jim also brings a Hollywood lineage and perspective on carving out identity in a legacy industry.

Like many creatives, he faced uncertainty in his direction, which he reset through tools he credits from Dianetics, the modern science of mental health, helping him refocus his creative path.

So, it is my absolute pleasure to introduce Jim Meskimen.

How are you doing, sir?

And at least within the, the confines of my safe little family, I always felt very secure.

But I, once, once I started to reach out a little bit more into, you know, into the, the larger, uh, world, I discovered that I was, I had this interesting phenomena, this dichotomy of f- feeling very much like I wanted to share my voices, my impressions, and my characters, and at the same time, I felt very, uh, nervous or anxious about it because I was, you know, just sort of, uh, it was all very precious to me, and, uh, I was scared of invalidation, scared of the, you know, the, the effect that criticism can have on, on a person and, and just nervousness that maybe I don't know what I'm doing.

And, uh, that's why, um, in the beginning of this bio, you, uh, that you read, uh, Sean, it says, uh, I credit Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health by L. Ron Hubbard.

It wasn't until I, I read that book that I was able to really begin to vanquish all of the self-doubt, self-criticism, and anxiety that I had or surrounding my performing.

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Were these Dianetic tools?

Not yet.

Not yet.

I'm like, what is this stuff? I was shocked that it was working.

And at that point, he finally said, okay, have you ever heard of Scientology? And I said, no.

What's that? He goes, well, you ever heard of Dianetics? I said, oh, you mean the book with the volcano on the cover, right? That's everywhere.

At that time in 1987, that was at the height of its big marketing campaign that Jeff Hawkins did.

Almost every hype artist has this like document or book that they say is the key to all things in the universe.

Like L. Ron Hubbard with Dianetics, Ayn Rand with the Fountainhead.

You know, Karl Marx with the Communist Manifesto.

They all have it.

But Elena Cardone built all three at once.

She co-built a real estate portfolio worth more than $5 billion, wrote the bestselling book, one of my favorite books of all time, Build an Empire, How to Have It All, and built the 10XLadies event and community teaching hundreds of thousands of women to own their power across business, money, health, and relationships, not just to hand it over to someone else.

But she has not always been this way.

And today's conversation dives deep into who she has had to become in order to be the woman who has a $5 billion empire and is continuing to push herself.

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I remember the very first time I saw you live in person.

I had, for those of you who aren't familiar with this story, I had Instagram and Facebook.

And YouTube and all the social media platforms stalked Elena and Grant prior to buying tickets to Growth Conference.

Okay.

Yeah, that I believe, but the author's other point was that Crowley's O.T.O. was basically a failure as a cult, and that L. Ron Hubbard actually achieved in Dianetics what Crowley was aspiring to achieve with the O.T.O. For myself, when I consider that, having heard from other sources, that to this day celebrities like David Bowie, say, are O.T.O. members, I kind of have trouble believing that the OTO was a failure as a cult.

What do you think?

Well, I think that it still had an international influence, and it definitely had, I mean, after all my reading, it definitely had lodges in places all over the world.