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Reference: Hubbard 1950: Dianetics TMSMH

These are some comments on Book Two, Chapter 8, “Contagion of Aberration” from  DIANETICS: THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH.

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Contagion of Aberration

KEY WORDS: Aberration

Aberrations are contagious. They are passed along through dramatizations of engrams just like disease are carried by germs. The common source of contagion is somebody dramatizing his engram around an “unconscious” person; for example, on operating table under anaesthetic, after an accident, or when sick or injured. The father and mother, in dramatizing their own engrams around sick or injured children, pass them along just as certainly as if those engrams were bacteria. This is how misconceptions and poor data also gets manifested in a society’s culture.

Aberration passes from people to other people in a society like a communicable disease does.

Aberration is also passed through the programming recorded on the genes. Birth itself may contribute to contagion as it can be a very painful experience for both mother and child that causes unconsciousness. Mother and child can then become mutually restimulative to each other. If the husband has been aberrated, he will have aberrated or restimulated his wife and children in one way or another, even when he used no physical violence upon them.

Aberration passes from parents to children in a family.

In the larger sphere of society contagion of aberration is extremely dangerous and cannot but be considered as a vital factor in undermining the health of that society. A society which practices punishment of any kind against any of its members is carrying on a contagion of aberration. Contagion of aberration is never more apparent than in that social insanity called war.

Engrams enter from the exterior world into the hidden recesses below rational thinking and prevent rational answers being reached. This is exterior-determinism. Any interference with self-determinism cannot but lead to wrong computations. Forced groups are invariably less efficient than free groups working for the common good. 

In a society, the passing of aberration has much more severe consequences than the passing of misinformation alone.

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Reference: Hubbard 1950: Dianetics TMSMH

These are some comments on Book Two, Chapter 6, “Emotion and the Dynamics” from  DIANETICS: THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH.

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Emotion and the Dynamics

KEY WORDS: Emotion, Suppressors

Emotion seems to be inextricably connected up with the actual force of life. When an individual’s dynamics are increasingly suppressed he descends into the emotions of hostility, anger, rage, fear, terror, and apathy. In this range of emotions he starts to become increasing irrational and reactive in his behavior.

The life force when suppressed produces various emotions.

Under normal circumstances, perceptions get continually assimilated in the mental matrix. The inherent impulse continually running through the mental matrix becomes the response as the perceptions are assimilated. It is similar to the electrical impulse that moves through the circuits of a computer naturally without effort, and forms a response. The response from mental matrix then directs the organism in real time. This function is natural and lightening fast. The situations are assessed and acted upon based on assimilated experience. There is imagination and prediction. The necessity level is brought up, as needed, to handle the situation. Adrenalin helps. So there is learning. It is all very rational and straightforward. The emotion associated with it is calm and serene. 

Emotion breaks down in terms of the endocrine system and the surging of life force to handle the situation.

But when there are engrams hooked up into the circuits there is dimming of awareness and precipitation of reactive behavior, since the traumatic perceptions are not assimilated in the mental matrix. Not having access to the engrams, the mental matrix is forced to make projections and come up with justifications for the irrational reactive behavior. There is attention and additional effort involved to figure out the reasons. Such justifications, obviously, are approximations in the absence of the actual truth. Therefore, they corrupt the experience and pose problems for the future, generating anxiety. 

The life force that is normally calm and serene becomes agitated and turbulent In the presence of engrams.

The incidents encountered by the organism, which generate engrams are called external suppressors. These suppressors then continue to influence the organism through dramatization of the trauma and the corruption of experience. These influences then become internal suppressors that reduce the person’s ability to handle external suppressors. Thus, a dwindling spiral ensues throughout one’s life. These suppressors push the person down in the emotions of hostility, anger, rage, fear, terror, until he becomes apathetic. 

The turbulence of life force ultimately ends up in the condition of apathy.

When a person dramatizes an engram he may express the emotion of different valences in that engram. These emotions are acute as they last only for the duration of the dramatization. But underlying such outbursts is the chronic emotion of the person, which depends on the accumulated internal suppressors influencing that person.

Emotion may then be seen as a personal condition resulting from the damming of the life force.

When this dammed up life force is released in any amount there is always relief followed by laughter. Thus, laughter is the relief of painful emotion. 

A person who is calm and serene with no internal suppressors is called a “clear” in Dianetics. 

A “clear” can handle external suppressors with greater ability. He can keep himself cleared of any residual influence of trauma that he encounters. Dianetic procedure may handle some internal suppressors through an auditor, but not all, as they do not train a person to handle himself.

In Dianetics, an auditor, in the long run, introduces more complications than it resolves in another person.

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Reference: Hubbard 1950: Dianetics TMSMH

These are some comments on Book Two, Chapter 4, “The ‘Demons’” from  DIANETICS: THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH.

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The “Demons”

KEY WORDS: Demon, Demon circuit

A bona-fide demon is one who gives thoughts voice, or echoes the spoken word interiorly, or who gives all sorts of complicated advice like a real, live voice exteriorly. Such “demons” appeared in Dianetics research. This was a strange phenomenon, which Hubbard found to be pretty common among people. He found that a dianetic demon is a parasitic mental circuit that is derived entirely from words contained in engrams. 

What appears as a demon possessing a person is actually an engram of that person dramatizing itself.

Many people, when they look inward for some answer, hear a voice inside their head that seem to answer their question. This is an engram (unassimilated trauma) demanding the person to listen and obey its orders. Such “listen to me” demon is common in the society, which is to say this, engram circulates widely. After it is keyed-in, the individual thinks “out loud,” which is to say, he puts his thoughts into language. Some people find a voice inside their head criticizing them all the time. 

All the chatter going inside one’s head is the result of mental circuits set up by the engrams.

These circuits are formed when the engram compartments off part of the mental matrix. The engram reduces the intellect of the person. When a person resists the actions of the engram, it eventually makes him ill one way or another. 

According to Hubbard, there is another class of demons that don’t permit certain things to be said or done. These are parasitic circuits that are created from phrases contained in engrams, such as, “Never say can’t!” “Never talk back to your elders,” or “You can’t talk here. Who said you could talk?” 

Any of these engramic phrases that create “demons” (parasitic circuits) might produce a stammerer.

There are thousands of cliches in any language which, when literally taken, mean quite the opposite from what the speaker intends. Such cliches can enter engrams and enforce themselves on the behavior of the person with moronic literalness under the threat of pain, emotion, and “unconsciousness.” Phrases in engrams, such as, “you can’t see,” “you can’t hear,” can inhibit or obstruct that ability. Any perception can be occluded in recall by engrams. 

According to Hubbard, any disability can be traced back to phrases in the engrams.

This is the dianetic theory of Hubbard. This theory is found to be limited when applied. However, there is no doubt that there are unassimilated perceptions that can corrupt the circuits of the mental matrix, and seriously affect a person’s thinking, behavior and well-beingness. When such perceptions are finally assimilated, miraculous improvements can occur in a person’s condition.

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