Reference: Postulate Mechanics
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The Engram
An engram is a condensed sensation that is difficult to assimilate naturally in the mental matrix. Therefore, a person is not aware of its content, or even its presence. The engram is generated during birth, or during a traumatic experience. The unassimilated engram influences the body and mind adversely, causing aberrations and much discomfort.
Birth is an excellent example of an engram. Everyone has it, and it generally is the cause of the auto-immune disease in the body. When a person becomes aware of his birth engram and assimilates it, the auto-immune disease disappears. The damage already caused by the auto-immune disease, however, may take a long time to repair itself.
Engrams, when spotted and examined closely, start to unravel for the first time like a literal recording of some past incident. This is different from a memory, which is known to exist, and is often recalled.
The ‘past life memories’ are engrams that are startling when unravelled for the first time because their time characteristics do not fit with the present. Later they are recalled like any memory, to make sense out of them. Such engrams are said to be carried forward on the genetic line. They seem to continue from one generation to the next until they are finally assimilated.
The engrams underlying ‘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.’
The number of engrams existing in an individual are few. They are obvious and come up first during subject clearing. As one continues to address introversions and misconceptions, the remaining engrams will naturally come up if they exist.
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Misconception
A past life engram does not necessarily imply that the individual has lived before. The engram may have come into existence in the life of an ancestor. Besides, there is no single engram, the discovery and assimilation of which will handle the whole case of the individual.
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More Misconceptions
You may discover more misconceptions on your own, if you contemplate on each sentence of the above definition with mindfulness. Please see:
Then, you may end up improving upon this definition too.
Good luck!
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