Alternative Auditing Practices
Several alternatives to Dianetics were developed in the early years of the Free Zone.
Synergetics is a self-help system developed by Art Coulter in 1954. Don Purcell, founder of an early Dianetics organization which had a tentative claim on the Dianetics trademark, joined Synergetics and returned the trademark to Hubbard. In 1976, Coulter published Synergetics: An Adventure in Human Development; he later founded the Synergetic Society, which published a journal through 1996.
Idenics is a personal counselling method not affiliated with any religion that was developed by John Galusha beginning in 1987. Mr. Galusha researched for L. Ron Hubbard during the 1950s, and was one of the founders of the first Church of Scientology in 1953. Galusha discovered that all personal issues can be addressed by thoroughly looking over the problem at hand, without judgement. The counselor asks a series of questions till the solution is found, by the client. The counseling, per Mike Goldstein, owner of Idenics methodology and author of the book, "Idenics, an alternative to therapy", is as effective over the telephone as in person.
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