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This hidden source, according to its discoverer, science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, is the "engram," "a moment of 'unconsciousness' containing physical pain or painful emotion." during this moment of "unconsciousness" the individual's "reactive mind" records all nearby utterances. No matter what their import, the "moronic" reactive mind misconstrues the words to be commands, and they influence the individual's later behavior like post-hypnotic suggestions...
Complete cures, or "clears," depend on erasing the very earliest engrams on the time track. The first time a patient relived his own birth "seemed a remarkable day for dianeties." After this, it was no shock for Hubbard to uncover engrams formed in the womb, the first at the moment of conception. "Most patients . . . sooner or later startle themselves by finding themselves swimming up a channel or waiting to be connected with." Sooner or later, the most phlegmatic patent is bound to be startled; cases are common "with the patient yet unborn discovering himself at his parents' wedding...
...womb is wet, uncomfortable, and unprotected." All in all, the first nine months are the hardest. "Mama sneezes, baby gets knocked 'unconscious.' Papa hits Mama, baby gets an engram. Junior bounces on Mama's lap, baby gets an engram. And so it goes." Besides these normal hazards, all Hubbard's patients have a pre-natal history of beatings by the father and attempted abortions by the mother. Small wonder that the child emerges punchy...
...scientific works have had such popular acclaim; "dianeties" has sold 40,000 copies by August (each reader automatically becoming a qualified dianetieian) and has been about fourth on the best seller list ever since. Science--fiction addicts have followed Hubbard's releases in "Astounding Science Fiction" down to the latest monograph in the October issue; astounding -sounding jargon or the absence from the 450-page book of ay experimental evidence cannot balk them. The appeal of the quick sure-cure is not surprising. Hubbard's claims are as disarming as an old-fashioned patent-medicine label...
...Hubbard himself taken no chances. His wife was in the (unfinished) process of clearing him 18 months ago, when she became pregnant. Hubbard hasn't been near her since. Afraid he might give the baby engrams, he says...