None of the postulates and early discoveries in this research outlawed any concept concerning the human soul or divine or creative imagination. The optimum survival conduct pattern was formulated and then studied for exceptions, and there were no exceptions found. It was understood perfectly that Dianetics was a study in the finite universe only and that spheres and realms of thought and action might well exist above this finite sphere. But it was also discovered that none of these factors were needed to resolve the entire problem of human aberrations and irrational conduct.

The human mind was found to have been most grossly maligned, because man had not been able to distinguish between irrational conduct derived from poor data and irrational conduct derived from another, far more vicious source.

L. Ron Hubbard discovered the reactive mind. It had managed to bury itself from view so thoroughly that only inductive philosophy, traveling from effect back to cause, served to uncover it.