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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