This extensive text from L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics 55! outlines fundamental concepts within Dianetics and Scientology, emphasizing the critical role of communication in mental and physical well-being. Key terms are defined, including Affinity, Reality, and Communication, which together constitute understanding and are considered vital to life. The text introduces the Eight Dynamics as the urges toward survival and proposes Pan-determinism, a willingness to control across all dynamics, as a mark of sanity and ability. Various auditing processes, particularly the Six Basic Processes and techniques like the Remedy of Havingness and Remedy of the Barrier of Time, are presented as tools to improve communication, address past traumas (engrams), and facilitate exteriorization (the separation of the "awareness of awareness unit" from the body), leading to greater freedom and ability