Word: protoplasms
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Then, says Hubbard, the reactive mind is switched on. It does not store memories, but "engrams"-impressions on protoplasm itself. An engram is, he declares, "a complete recording, down to the last accurate detail, of every perception present in a moment of ... 'unconsciousness...
Hubbard's most striking departure from older psychoanalytical schools is his insistence that protoplasm begins to record engrams immediately after conception. He sees the period of gestation as one of dire discomforts and great perils. The most important of all engrams, which he dubs "basic-basic," is the first one received after conception-perhaps during the mother's examination by her doctor, or in some mishap before her pregnancy is known...
...hate him, and I hate you-part of you . . . That man-this place-they've eaten you up, between them. Eaten up everything that was alive and honest and decent, everything I respected. You're not a man any more . . . You're a piece of-of protoplasm...
...Venus to hunt xixtchil, a scarce, rejuvenating drug, searched desperately for a way to save himself and his lovely companion, Pat Burlingame. They had been backed into a fearsome dusky canyon by the "doughpot," one of the most monstrous creatures on the whole planet. A white mass of nauseous protoplasm weighing several tons, the doughpot had neither intelligence nor any fixed form: it just rolled itself instinctively toward anything edible...
...Then, he "snatched up his drill, took a firm purchase on my hair and teed off. . . Two thin wisps of smoke circled up ward slowly from my ears . . . [my] screams . . . rattled the windows. . . . 'Don't be afraid now,' chuckled the dentist, patting "the mass of protoplasm" that had once been a man; 'this won't hurt...