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I have never been a Tech person. I have just been an evaluator. Therefore in this thread I would like to examine the Dianetic Procedure and how it expanded to become the whole Bridge of Scientology. At the moment that is a mystery to me.
The original discovery of engrams was made through the use of hypnosis. LRH could access the engram after putting a person under hypnosis, but at the same time the hypnotized person had no awareness of that engram. Without that awareness the person could not release his engrams.
So the original focus was on making a person contact his engrams outside of any hypnotic trance. A canceller was installed as a precaution against inadvertent hypnotic trance in a Dianetic session. A person was simply told to close his eyes and access incidents containing pain and unconsciousness (engrams). This was not found to be easy.
According to my understanding, the auditor made present time observation of preclear’s behavior and, assuming that to be a dramatization, prompted the preclear to recall incidents containing behavior of similar nature. Stress was put on words used by the preclear in describing his unwanted condition, or recalled from incidents. The preclear was then asked to repeat those words as “syllabic sounds without meaning” and contact an engram containing those words/sounds.
From LRH demos, it can be seen that the above approach led to only spotty success if at all. The auditing demonstrations given by Hubbard sound very complex as they required continuous, close observation of preclear's behavior, and instructions to the preclear based on that observation.
However, there must have been enough results from the auditing procedure of that time to keep public interest alive in Dianetics. But the number of Dianetic enthusiast's diminished rapidly from the initial experimenters and settled to a small number of Dianetics students.
Thus, the first book DMSMH sounded very promising, but it didn’t right away deliver what it promised.
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The original discovery of engrams was made through the use of hypnosis. LRH could access the engram after putting a person under hypnosis, but at the same time the hypnotized person had no awareness of that engram. Without that awareness the person could not release his engrams.
So the original focus was on making a person contact his engrams outside of any hypnotic trance. A canceller was installed as a precaution against inadvertent hypnotic trance in a Dianetic session. A person was simply told to close his eyes and access incidents containing pain and unconsciousness (engrams). This was not found to be easy.
According to my understanding, the auditor made present time observation of preclear’s behavior and, assuming that to be a dramatization, prompted the preclear to recall incidents containing behavior of similar nature. Stress was put on words used by the preclear in describing his unwanted condition, or recalled from incidents. The preclear was then asked to repeat those words as “syllabic sounds without meaning” and contact an engram containing those words/sounds.
From LRH demos, it can be seen that the above approach led to only spotty success if at all. The auditing demonstrations given by Hubbard sound very complex as they required continuous, close observation of preclear's behavior, and instructions to the preclear based on that observation.
However, there must have been enough results from the auditing procedure of that time to keep public interest alive in Dianetics. But the number of Dianetic enthusiast's diminished rapidly from the initial experimenters and settled to a small number of Dianetics students.
Thus, the first book DMSMH sounded very promising, but it didn’t right away deliver what it promised.
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