ello, my name is Jenny Scarfe Beckett, and here is a little bit about myself:

      I was born in 1945, soon after the Americans dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki. I was three weeks premature, as my brother had died a month earlier and my mother had gone into shock. I grew up in the era of the 'Cold War' and the 'four minute warning' (the amount of time you would have before being hit by a nuclear missile heading in your direction). Despite all this, I was a happy child right up to the time I went to school because I had very loving parents who did their best to give me a good home life.

      Primary School wasn't so bad, but when I went to Grammar School I became increasingly worried and depressed about the world I lived in, and developed very severe headaches, which were diagnosed as migraine. In retrospect, I wish I had known Scientology Study Technology and the Barriers to Study, I would have saved myself from a whole bundle of grief. As it was, I accepted the standard treatment for migraine in the early '60s. The medications prescribed didn't rid me of my headaches and I became quickly addicted to the strongest painkillers that were available to me.

      By the time I got to university, the war in Vietnam was at its worst and the world looked a very sad place. I tried to cheer myself up with anti-depressants, get to sleep with tranquilizers, lose weight with amphetamines, and stop the headaches with painkillers.

      After I got married and had children, I developed allergies to various foods and household chemicals. I knew that the illnesses and mood swings I suffered from came under the heading of psychosomatic illness. I knew that from all the books I had read on the subject and from my family doctor!

      Then in 1984 family life was shattered by the death of my father from a heart attack. We were devastated and just could not come to terms with the new situation.

      A friend of mine then tried to help me with my grief. He gave me a copy of the book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health to read, in case I should find anything useful in it for me. I have to say that this was exactly the book that I had been searching for, but didn't know it. It answered so many questions for me on the exact nature of the mind in relation to the body.