See The Engram.
Reference: Subject Clearing Mind
When sensations do not get decomposed and assimilated, they remain as unassimilated impressions, or facsimiles.
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Definition of FACSIMILE
A facsimile is a raw sensation, which has not yet been decomposed and assimilated. A person is unaware of the contents of a facsimile because these have not been given meaning by the mental matrix. This is the case with sensations from traumas that are too compact to be decomposed.
Such facsimiles may said to be recordings because when they are examined closely they start to decompose and give a literal impression, which is inconsistent with the present context. This is different from memories because memories appear when one recalls them consciously knowing their context. Memories do not exist as recordings in the mind; they are recombinations of existing matrix elements by their known time characteristics.
The ‘past life memories’ are actually very old facsimiles decomposing for the first time. They are startling because their time characteristics do not fit with the present. A person then recalls them again and again to make sense out of them. Such old facsimiles are said to be carried forward on the genetic line from one beingness to another with a different body. Just because they are common to two beingness, does not necessarily make them the same beingness, but one may think that way.
The facsimiles behind ‘past life memories’ were known in Buddha’s time as ’samskara’. They were said to determine the deep-seated tendencies of a person that he could not control. These ’samskara’ depended on a person’s past ‘karma.’
Partially assimilated facsimiles, when activated, tend to aberrate one’s perceptions and the reasoning resulting from them.
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Misconceptions
1. It is a misconception to think that the ‘past life memories’ are a person’s own memories from a past life. They are actually unassimilated impressions that a past beingness gathered and have been passed on to a present beingness to be resolved through assimilation. They are also known as past ‘karmas’ of a person. They are basically facsimiles that needs to be decomposed and assimilated.
2. In Scientology, the facsimiles are categorized as Engrams, Secondaries and Locks that are connected in ‘chains’ on a time track. However, a chain of engrams, secondaries and locks is just a single facsimile.
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