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Aaron Smith-Levin

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

So there's a chain.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Early or similar, early or similar, early or similar, early or similar.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Okay.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

So that gives you a pretty good understanding of how L. Ron Hubbard thought of the mind because that carries on, has applicability later on in Scientology.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

That's probably what Hubbard took it from.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

In the early days of Dianetics, before he decided psychiatry was evil, he actually credited Sigmund Freud with...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

some of the shoulders he was standing on in writing Dianetics.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

As I've just described, that is the fundamental.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

That is pretty much the nuts and bolts of Dianetics.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Was it applied?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Was it applied often?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Oh, yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

No, that's what Dianetics in the early days was all about, was just auditing.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Auditing is the process of the one-on-one counseling, recall a moment of pain and unconsciousness, run through the engram over and over and over again, find something earlier similar.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

That is Dianetics auditing.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

One of the main things that changed with Scientology is that birth or prenatal engrams were no longer the earliest engrams on the chain.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

The idea is you have to get the earliest engram on the chain for the later ones to blow, which is a race.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

And so, but all of a sudden now, with the addition of an immortal spiritual being into the equation, well, now the earliest incident could be trillions of years ago in other galaxies and universes.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Yes.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Is there a model of physics integrated in any of this?