Isn't this a contradiction?

Question answered by FreeZone in Scientology

formerscientologist asked this question on 10/4/2000:

Dianetics, book 1 says that engrams are recorded on a cellular level.

Yet, the "clear cognition" of a Scientologist is, "I'm creating my reactive mind."

Clears don't put engrams into their cells, so how can that be?

FreeZone gave this response on 10/4/2000:

The basic issue here is that Book 1 doesn't at all represent what came later. It's a materialistic therapy based on materialistic assumptions. Hubbard was still hoping for respectability and mainstream acceptance. For instance, he already knew that some people, if you tell them to go earlier, will pop back to a past life, but he never mentions this or even hints at it in 400+ pages. If you look closely at the early R & D volumes, you can spot an interesting fact - Hubbard often discusses past life recall in the talks he give to students training to become auditors, but never mentions the topic in lectures given to public audiences.

Other things he didn't mention because he didn't know about them. You can get some gains, and occasional, but unpredictable, spectacular relief from physical conditions running book 1. But to get real changes in life you have to run the grades, or in some way address directly grades material. The book 1 idea that it's all engrams and you can ignore everything else is just false. The later 'one shot clear' idea that you can handle all these areas by exteriorizing, rehabilitating postulates, or other approaches was also wrong. They might key out, but they will bounce back - sometimes with a vengeance.

The clear cognition is pure Scientology and really has nothing to do with Dianetics. Original Dianetics assumed you could handle everything from engrams and tried to bypass all the areas that became Scientology. The clear cognition tries to handle the bank by getting at the postulate to have a bank and actually does a bypass of the Dianetic approach of erasing or reducing the contents of the bank.

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