ENGRAM
From the AOGP Abridged Scientology Dictionary — based on original LRH source materials, updated through 1982.
Usage
In auditing, the preclear is guided to locate and discharge engrams — mental image pictures containing pain and unconsciousness from past experiences that are stored in the reactive mind. A specific engram might be restimulated by present-time circumstances that resemble the original incident, causing irrational reactions or psychosomatic pain.
Why It Matters
Engrams are the primary content of the reactive mind and the source of aberrated behavior and psychosomatic illness. Locating and erasing engrams through auditing is fundamental to freeing a person from the reactive mind's influence.
Related Concepts
- REACTIVE MIND — That portion of a person's mind which works on a stimulus-response basis (given a certain stimulus, it gives a certain response) which is not under his volitional control and which exerts force and the power of command…
- REACTIVE — Irrational, reacting instead of acting- behavior dictated by the Reactive Mind rather than the individual's own present-time determinism.
- ALLY — A person who sympathized with or appeared to aid the survival of an individual when he or she was ill, injured or unconscious, and whom the individual now reactively regards as necessary to his or her continued…
- MIND — A control system between the thetan and the physical universe.
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