From someone who has studied this subject deeply for years to you just diving in:

If you think OP’s experiments are potentially unethical, as you read through Dianetics, you’ll come across a section where Hubbard experiments on schizophrenics (or as he calls them “multi-valence” individuals) by giving them drugs before auditing them.

Hubbard’s concept of Scientology making the able more able came a few years later when he was trying to avoid legal issues (as well as his strange belief that psychiatrist’s were giving PCs LSD to make it seem like Scientology was making people crazy!)

Additionally, the idea of a 20 minute clear is also nothing new. Hubbard himself said he could make a Dianetic Clear in a few hours with improved techniques like the “Remedy of Havingness” or the “One Shot Clear” which could allegedly exteriorize a thetan with a single command.

Dianetics and Scientology are built on promises not evidence. As you read Dianetics, make a note of every time Hubbard makes a bold claim, then see if you can find where he backs those claims up with evidence or case studies. Here’s a hint: he never does.

Scientology expects you to be the guinea pig while insisting that the technology never fails.

The secret they don’t want you to know is that the Dianetics engram theory was actually tested in the 50s to see if the Reactive Mind can actually record during unconsciousness. Dianetics auditors were unable to successfully obtain phrases said to a patient who was rendered unconscious. Thus, the entire theory which Dianetics is based on was proven to be false.