 | Although she is only 9 years old, Zainab was determined to become a Dianetics auditor. |
When 9 year-old Zainab came face-to-face with crime in her home city of Lagos, Nigeria, she learned first hand the harsh reality that millions of her neighbors have experienced. But despite her youth, Zainab knew enough of Dianetics1 technology that she was prepared to help her family when they needed it the most, which made her — and them — very happy indeed.
It started some months earlier when, despite her age, Zainab insisted on attending a Dianetics workshop.
The Scientology religion is relatively new to Nigeria. In fact there is only one Scientology Mission in the whole country. And that Mission, in the city of Lagos is headed by Zainab’s father.
Learning that her father was going to hold a Dianetics workshop, Zainab asked him to let her attend. He said no; Zainab was just too young; she would only be a nuisance and get in the way.
Like determined youngsters the world over, when Zainab has her mind set on something she doesn’t give up. She appealed to her mother, and insisted and pleaded until her mother relented and brought her to the workshop. Without her father’s permission.
But it worked out fine in the end. Zainab was no trouble at all. In fact, he fit right in and eagerly studied and drilled the Dianetics procedures along with the 20 adults who were present.
 | | With the skills she learned at the Dianetics workshop, Zainab can help people of all ages handle things that have been bothering them in life. |
Two days later, back at school, Zainab got her first opportunity to try her hand as a Dianetics auditor2.
Her class was idle, having just completed their exams, and the teachers had just left the children to themselves. Zainab took the opportunity to tell her friends about Dianetics auditing3 and she applied the techniques to six of her classmates, who found it was easy confide what was on their minds and were delighted to see how easy it was, with Zainab’s help, to handle things that had been bothering them in life.
Zainab was thrilled to be able to help her friends, but it wasn’t until a short time later that she really got to put her knew-found skills to the test, when it really counted.
One of the largest cities in Africa, Lagos is notorious for its crime, with 70.8 billion Nigerian Naira — the equivalent of over 568,521,084 US dollars — lost or stolen last year alone in Lagos state, only seven percent of which was later recovered.
And Zainab’s family gained a personal perspective of the worst aspect of their city when armed gunmen broke into their home. While her parents stood by helpless, the robbers their guns aimed at the children, stole everything they could get their hands on and fled.
Shocked by the violence that had been thrust upon him this way, Zainab’s father was devastated. And that is when her newly-learned skill as a Dianetics auditor took on a whole new dimension.
The 9-year-old auditor gave her father a Dianetics session, addressing the trauma that had just occurred.
L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Scientology religion discovered the existence of a part of the mind that prevents people from recovering from the kind of shock and trauma the family had just experienced. Called the Reactive Mind, it is defined as “that portion of a person’s mind which works on a totally stimulus-response basis, which is not under his volitional control and which exerts force and the power of command over his awareness, purposes, thoughts, body and actions.”
L. Ron Hubbard learned that anguish, brought about by a major loss or threat of loss to the individual, is also stored in the reactive mind and he developed techniques to eradicate these harmful effects — techniques Zainab had learned in her Dianetics workshop.
Despite what she herself had just experienced, Zainab saw her father needed help and she gave him a Dianetics session, making it possible for him to literally erase this trauma from his reactive mind.
 | | Zainab was proud to be able to help her own father overcome his trauma with the skills she learned at the Dianetics workshop. |
In despair when the session began, he was laughing so hard with relief at the end of it that his young son was confused, and asked him, “Daddy, why are you laughing? This isn't a laughing matter!”
The son’s confusion didn’t last long, though. A short time later he had his own Dianetics session and erased the effects of the terrible ordeal he had just lived through.
Dianetics auditing didn’t bring back their possessions, but it eradicated the spiritual trauma the incident caused. The whole family was able to pull together and make plans to overcome their adversity and prosper in the face of suppression, all-the-more enthusiastic now to share Scientology and Dianetics technology with the people of their country.
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