Hubbard himself took a sobered backward look at dianetics
as early as October, 1951, in a book titled Dianetics:
Axioms. He wrote: "The phenomena of engrams, key-ins, the
time track ... all these things exist in truth. How we
evaluate them and what we do about them is something else....
I have no fear in saying now that the first book was how L.
Ron Hubbard thought he processed. Unknown factors were
present. The only important thing I did, I now discover,
was enormously increase, by my own attitude towards life,
the self-determinism of the preclear"

A handful of us constituted a sort of honor guard for Hubbard
at that time. We were intensely admiring of him, and loyal, and
what went on in our auditing sessions was very directly in line
with his current writings and lectures. The one closest to him
was Bud Eubank, son of a Missouri doctor. Tall, heavy, with a
cherubic face and an uncombed head of soft black hair, Bud was
the enfant terrible of the Wichita foundation. He was a college
student, destined to be a doctor, when he learned of dianetics. He
became a professional auditor at the Los Angeles foundation, and
at the time I knew him in Wichita, had just worked with Hubbard
on a new set of dianetic axioms.