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Reference: Hubbard 1950: Dianetics TMSMH

These are some comments on Book Three, Chapter 4,“Diagnosis” from DIANETICS: THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH.

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Diagnosis

KEY WORDS: Unexplained oddity, ache, pain

The classification of aberrations and illnesses should be such that it leads to an understanding of the problem, and to a possible course of treatment. According to Dianetics, the number of aberrations possible is the number of combinations of words possible in a language as contained in engrams. In other words, if a psychotic thinks he is God, he has an engram which says he is God. 

Diagnosis involves relating the aberration of the person to some combination of words present in his engrams.

Most aberrated people talk in a large measure out of their engrams, especially when their words depart from rationality, such as, in anger. These are minor dramatizations of their engrams. The words may contain associations, reasoning, cliches and absurdities that do not make sense. In other words, aberration can be any combination of words contained in an engram.

To classify by aberration is not only utterly impossible but completely unnecessary.

The psychosomatic ills depend also upon accidental or intentional word combinations and all the variety of injury possible. According to Dianetics, asthma comes fairly constantly from birth, as do conjunctivitis and sinusitis, but when these can occur in birth, there is generally prenatal background. For psychosomatic diagnosis, all the auditor needs to know of a chronic illness is that some area of the body hurts the patient, and he uses that to locate the chain of sympathy engrams.

Diagnosis of psychosomatic illness consists of using the area of the body that hurts to locate the chain of sympathy engrams.

When a person is frightened, and afraid to see or hear in present time, there is much in his background to make him afraid. The only fact of importance is the “nervousness” about reception. When a person suffers from imagination which substitutes itself for recall, he basically has difficulty recalling. Some of the engrams in this case demand reduced or no recall.

The aberration is the engram content; the psycho-somatic illness is the former injury. The perceptions of sight and sound, under-optimum recall, over-optimum imagination regulate the length of the case.

When one is auditing oneself with Subject Clearing approach it requires the concentration of attention, and contemplation and meditation on certain thoughts, feelings, emotions or pain to unravel the engrams or facsimiles (unassimilated impressions). The hints given above are useful.

One simply starts with some unexplained oddity, ache or pain, that one is concerned about, and lets the mind unwind itself.

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Reference: Hubbard 1950: Dianetics TMSMH

These are some comments on Book Three, Chapter 2, “Release or Clear” from  DIANETICS: THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH.

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Release or Clear

KEY WORDS: Release, Clear

Dianetics lays down the milestones of “release” and “clear,” but these are quite general. Actually, a person improves on a gradient. His unwanted conditions get handled as he improves. The improvement continues beyond any “milestones.” In fact, there is no limit to improvement. 

The improvement occurs in terms of clearing a person’s upsets, pain, psychosomatic illnesses, fixed ideas, aberrations, and general ignorance.

Hubbard insists that a clear has complete recall of everything which has ever happened to him or anything he has ever studied. It is not quite that simple. The memory is not a recording of perceptions that get stored in the mind. The sensations from environment simply get assimilated in a mental matrix in real time and become perceptions. Memories are reconstructed from the perceptual elements of the mental matrix on ad hoc basis. The better assimilated are the perceptual elements the more precise is the reconstruction of memory. 

There is no ready made storage  of memories in the mind. Actual memories are ad hoc reconstruction from perceptual elements in the mental matrix.

The sensations of traumatic experience never got assimilated, and therefore, they never became perceptions in the first place. Traumatic sensations remain in the mind as unassimilated impressions. There is no memory of them. The whole idea of clearing is assimilating such sensations when one does not even know what they are. This is tricky. It is only upon their assimilation that one becomes aware of what happened.

Clearing is the process of assimilating unknown sensations of traumatic experiences. It results in the improvement of personal condition.

Dianetics “clear” is an idealized state imagined for an individual. It has never been realized in Dianetics or Scientology. Dianetics “release” is a state of release from an unwanted condition. It is an improved personal condition.

The goal of clearing is to fully assimilate the mental matrix, such that no unassimilated impressions are left.

That is why it is very important to clear up all your schooling and earlier education. The bottom line is Subject Clearing. In the process of subject clearing all unwanted conditions are cleared too.

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Reference: Hubbard 1950: Dianetics TMSMH

These are some comments on Book Two, Chapter 10, “Preventive Dianetics” from  DIANETICS: THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH.

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Preventive Dianetics

KEY WORDS: Silence, Calm environment

When one knows the cause of aberration and psychosomatic illness, he can do a great deal toward preventing them. The cause are engrams. When an engram has verbal content, it becomes most severely aberrative. When it contains antagonism on an emotional level, it becomes very destructive. When it is intensely pro-survival in content it is most certainly capable of thoroughly deranging a life. Understanding engrams, we may prevent them or, at least, hold them to minimal content.

Engrams are traumatic sensations of shock, injury and confusion that did not get assimilated. They manifest as aberrations and psychosomatic illnesses only when restimulated continually. 

Engrams can make one accident prone. Preventive Dianetics addresses this problem in two phases: first the prevention of engrams, and second, the prevention of the key-in. 

Engrams are prevented by maintaining silence in the presence of injury. Do what has to be done for the injured and do it in silence. Maintain silence in the presence of birth. Say nothing while a person is being operated upon. Say nothing when there is a street accident. Don’t talk! To speak, no matter what is said, is to threaten his sanity. And the maintaining of silence does not mean a volley of “Sh’s,” for those make stammerers. 

The maintenance of silence around any “unconscious” or injured person is second in importance only to preventing the “unconsciousness” in the first place.

Preventive Dianetics, in the sphere of the home, must place emphasis on the woman in order to safeguard the child. A woman who is pregnant should be given every consideration. If she falls, she should be helped—but silently. She must not be expected to carry heavy things. Women who lead peasant lives, doing heavy labor, are subject to all manner of accident. When it is known that any injury to the mother can create an engram in the unborn child, it should be the concern of all those present during such an injury, including the mother, to maintain a complete and utter silence. Any remark is aberrative in an engram.

The mother, then, should be extremely gentle on herself during pregnancy and those around her should be entirely informed of the necessity for silence after any jar or injury.

Preventive Dianetics, then, on the level of the individual, asks for cleared parents and then precaution against the aberrating of the child, and further precaution against the keying-in of any aberration the child might have received. Key-in is prevented by providing a calm and harmonious atmosphere which is not restimulative. If the child appears to be restimulated despite kindly treatment, he can be removed to another environment. Drooling sympathy, when the child is sick or hurt, should be avoided.

A kind, affectionate and unrestimulative environment is necessary for a child’s growth. 

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