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Subject: My jaws hurt
Answered by: Phobos1
Asked By: FredricRice

FredricRice asked this question on 5/5/2000:

My jaws hurt every time someone says the word "snap." I was told that Scientology could help me with this problem.

Is this true?

Thanks.

Phobos1 gave this response on 5/5/2000:

Is what true? That Scientology can help you with this problem, or that your jaws hurt? (-:

Well, if the word "snap" makes your jaw hurt, my guess is there'd be a psychosomatic factor involved. Dianetics claims to be able to cure all psychosomatic ills, but until we see some properly peer-reviewed and objective studies, I'm not prepared to answer that it works.

Of course, you are alluding to the charming tale in Hubbard's "History of Man", in which engrams from past lives in our distant evolutionary past are supposedly responsible for some of the ills we suffer today. In this particular example, jaw pain is supposed to be a vestige of hinge problems from when we were clams. This claim I am strongly inclined to dismiss, for a number of reasons.

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