Aaron Smith-Levin

So in 1950, when he wrote Dianetics, it wasn't a spiritual endeavor.

It was supposed to be a mental health, a science of mental health.

So...

as of that time, the earliest engram you could have was the incident of birth, being born was an engram.

And technically in Dianetics, they said you could have prenatal engrams, like when you're still in the womb.

But there was no concept of past lives as of 1950 version of Dianetics, right?

And so the idea there was that the reactive mind is essentially a stimulus response mechanism

created through evolution millions of years ago to protect the individual from things that would harm them.

In other words, things that would bring about pain and unconsciousness.

So you have these recordings of things that hurt you, create pain and unconsciousness.

And in present time, these things will react upon you in a way to cause you to avoid similar things reacting upon you in a subconscious, unconscious way.

So the reactive mind protects you

From the trauma that is inside your subconscious mind.

Yes.

And the idea is we've now, as human beings, evolved to a state where it no longer serves us beneficially.

It only serves us negatively.

This was Hubbard's theory.

And he said, so you can get rid of these engrams by basically recalling them and going over them again and again using Dianetics auditing therapy.

And if you get back to the moment of birth and erase the earliest engram, all the other subsequent engrams on the chain would vanish.

Oh, nice.