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Subject: My jaws hurt
Answered by: honorarykid
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.

honorarykid gave this response on 5/5/2000:

Ah, your dreaded clam engram is being restimulated. I hate when that happens! ;-)

What are we talking about here? Just more L. Ron Hubbard craziness, of course.

Hubbard wrote a bizarre book called "History of Man" in which he made all sorts of kooky claims.

One of the claims was that his work in Dianetics and Scientology had validated the theories of Charles Darwin.

But that didn't really jibe to well with his already existing upper-level, space alien, Xenu-implant cosmology. So Hubbard invented a new term, the "genetic entity." So, now a human being IS a Thetan, HAS a body, HAS a mind, and HAS a genetic entity.

This genetic entity carries engrams (negative mental pictures) picked up all along the evolutionary track. One of those engrams goes back to when we were actually clams, the bivalve type (yes, Hubbard actually said that mankind's genetic entities had evolved through a shellfish stage).

According to Hubbard, as clams, we picked up engrams due to pain from opening and closing our "shells." Hubbard said this pain engram is remembered ("restimulated") in humans when their temporo-mandibular [sp?] joint (your jaw joint) hurts.

Hubbard also said ones clam engrams could be stirred up and restimulated by seeing ssomeone opening and closing their hand, in the fashion of a clam shell opening and closing. Of course, "snap" is the sound your clam engram fearfully remembers as the shell snapping closed, to avoid predators.

Isn't that a hoot? Hubbard was a megalomaniac, and a arbitrary, mean man. But he was also a genuine kook of the first order.

It was these clam stories and beliefs that orginally provided the impetus for some critics to start calling members of Scientology "clams" as an epithet.

Anyway, the belief in this clam theory of Hubbard's is, like the Xenu myth, probably pretty rare in Scientology. Most Scientologists just don't know about it. Scientologists are told that Hubbard's "History of Man" is an upper-level book, and so they avoid buying it until they are already well-conditioned and indoctrinated into the OT levels. And as I've said before, a small percentage of Scientologists are actually at the OT levels.

And yes, Scientology can indeed help you with your clam engrams. First they'll indoctrinate you to the point where you might even believe this kookiness (paying for the priviledge all the while), and then they'll audit out those nasty engrams (paying some more). Later on, you'll be told you mocked up the whole thing (paying yet more), and later still, you'll be told about Xenu and Body Thetans being the real cause of your pains and you'll pay once again to remove them via auditing.

Snap, snap, snap!

Further facts about this criminal empire may be found at Operation Clambake and FACTNet.

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