As far as engrams are concerned, for a very, very short space of time it was found out that you could run engrams out of almost any case. And then we suddenly found out you had to run the earliest engram, and you had to do a lot of other things if you were going to run perceptics out of engrams. This engram was just a moment of unconsciousness. Its existence was learned from soldiers who had been treated by psychiatrists. And these soldiers would often go into a base hospital, would be given … [Read more...] about Lecture: Review of Progress of Dianetics and Dianetics Business (3) (1952)
war neurosis
Lecture: Cause And Effect: Full Responsibility (1951)
I had an interesting experience on this line. I was supposed to have been the first casualty who came home from the South Pacific at the beginning of the war. I woke up in a bed at the hospital and there was a little fellow standing there with thick glasses on, and he held up a finger and he said, “How many fingers have I got?” I remembered the experience of a girl who was picked up on the street in New York and taken to Bellevue, and somebody said, “How many fingers have I got?” She said, … [Read more...] about Lecture: Cause And Effect: Full Responsibility (1951)