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What do they call "getting mass" on the subject? To get you thinking about abstract ideas?
what is "preclears"? Why is it ephemeral for you?
LOL, I guess you have to explain your comment to me. Sometimes it's very painful to be a non native English speaker. HaHa!
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Learning for one's self.
First hand learning.
Preclears are people that haven't jumped through the hoops to be clears.
Basically it involves reducing the electrical charge of past traumatic experiences.
The theory is that when one is traumatized an electrical charge is stored in memory that later acts on one to influence behaviors, often to the negative.
Ephemeral is fleeting in nature.
I can give you an idea, but if you forget it as soon as you get it, that is ephemeral.
I don't know if you noticed, but you can highlight words, right click them, search your search engine of choice, and get definitions.
I do it alot, once I learned that I could.
This is what I got when searching 'getting mass', as one could expect it is not relevant to my usage of the word.
I blame that on the narrative never giving escape knowledge to the slaves.
But, on more mainstream ideas the search works ok.
Just to be clear, the churches of scientology have personnel issues, but the technology seems sound, imo.
It gives structure to thoughts that one can't get elsewhere.
https://stss.nl/stss-materials/English/Books/Science%20of%20Survival%20SOS.pdf
They probably have that in german at stss.nl.
Which is important because the concepts and definitions vary based on language and cultures.
I am always skeptical towards such theories. I think it's a simplification of the complexity of the human organism and its dynamics. I already started reading that book and was taking side notes some few weeks ago (I must already have downloaded it through your former recommendations).
There is even talk of eliminating it. I don't think anything is "stored" as memory, it's more a memory mystery of all the dynamics involved in the body, which, according to Sheldrake's morphogenesis, for example, doesn't take up any actual space in the body itself. Rather, it corresponds to the phenomenon of communication that goes beyond one's own body, because my body and all other bodies also communicate with each other. And memory is nothing that can be stored in the sense of a materially manifested memory location. He has investigated some phenomena coming from the animal kingdom. I tend more towards his theory than that of Theta/Mest. Since I did not understand it all fully, I remain being skeptical. LOL
Only, if you state that this kind of reactive mind is inferior to the analytical mind, while I would state that it's an interplay of the two. It's widely spread that people "mostly react impulsively" and that this is "bad". I would not make a bet that this is so. It is a matter of relation, I would say. Not sure about it, of course.
In the book it says:
(I retranslated it as I just copied the formerly from English to German translation, so the citation could not totally match the original text).
Here are my side notes:
If one understands engrams as something that is connected with a sensory event, by which, apart from feeling the body, smells and tastes are also meant, which is the case here, then one would also have to erase the smell memory at the same time, which is connected with a stress-triggering event. But that is not possible.
If I once know what freshly brewed coffee smells like and I am attacked from behind while making coffee, then nothing in the world will be able to eliminate my recognition of the smell of coffee. Especially since the experience of making coffee a thousand times without being attacked is also a manifestation in the form of peaceful habit.
If I have once learnt to ride a bicycle and I then fall unhappily and heavily, cycling is not per se something that evokes the pain memory, since cycling also brings about positive sensations and memories at the same time (happy feeling of speed, physical strength, etc.). Only someone who avoids cycling after a fall is performing an irrational act, as avoidance is not a good strategy.
People have car accidents and get back into the vehicle. So they should be stressed all the time when they drive. And yet I can say that even though I have seen accidents and been involved in a few, I continued to drive normally afterwards and have made countless car journeys where I was on "autopilot", i.e. I drove and then arrived, but I was so preoccupied with my thoughts that I had basically missed the journey and was making the moves and observations that I necessarily have to make when driving, but not paying conscious attention to them.
If it were the case that a traumatic experience, such as childbearing, reactivated a woman's instinctive and inferior unconscious, she would not want to have further children after giving birth.
Traumas, for example, were consciously created among tribal peoples in order to raise boys and girls to the status of adults and to give them particularly painful and frightening experiences. This is what distinguishes humans from animals, because they are conscious actions, such trials can be planned.
If one were to eliminate the pain memories, nothing would be gained, one would have to go back to the beginning, so to speak.
It doesn't eliminate the memory, it relocates it to the analytical portion of the mind where it is available for recall.
In the reactive mind it works like a stuck keyboard key.
And not always in a rational way.
Were the reactive mind rational it wouldn't cause problems.
Instead it equates all with all, and when enough similarities trigger the reaction the reaction can be irrational, or it can be the perfect thing at the perfect time.
The reaction is kinda random in that it can't be rationalized, only reacted.
So, if you have good responses trained in, you get a good response.
The aim of auditing is to reduce the charge on the earliest traumas first because later similar traumas work as a lock on the first.
But, some are occluded and require later charges be first reduced before the main engram can be accessed.
This is better covered in Dianetics, it discusses auditing more in depth than SoS.
I find it very difficult to come to terms with this theory, which is probably because I still consider what I have read so far and your linguistic explanation to be too mechanistic.
I probably have prejudices about the pigeonholing of the brain. "Mind" in this context is a term that is not clear to me. Therefore, for me, there cannot be an analytical and reactive part, as different parts where one can be "shifted" into the other.
Do I understand this correctly, that tones are worked with? I would be more open-minded if one could show results where a treatment has taken place, but even then, a propband would have to be studied not only over a short but quite a long period of time. And how is he supposed to bring up his improved well-being? How to classify it? That he is better able to curb his impulses (spontaneous "negative" reactions) because of this technique? What about spontaneous positive impulses? I have many questions, but they are not urgent to me. I will probably therefore have problems reading the books in their entirety, as they do not arouse my interest so much, i.e. they tend not to inspire me.
But I thank you for providing me with always new stuff.
SoS is about how to predict behaviors in others, for the actual auditing, ie reducing engrams, that is in Dianetics.
There are lectures that are available that will probably answer most of your questions.
I'd say I am good at this already. HaHa!!! (Kidding a bit)
Though prediction of the behavior of others can make life quite boring. In particular when those others are easy to read/easy to predict. People are indeed easy to predict once you got to know them for a while. It gets harder to surprise one another once you live together, for example. So sometimes I just do something out of order for my husband, for example. Or I answer in an unusual way but I must say it's not easy for myself to change my communication style - practice needed:)
Thanks for the lectures! Good, reading made me a bit tired. Though I really like English.
He uses a lot of vernacular that is specific to dianetics, most of the books have a glossary if you get words you don't understand.
He uses words in specific definitions peculiar to the material, so it's easy to get lost unless you've encountered the terms before.
Thank you. I didn't know that.