Book: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (9)

There is, however, a peculiarity in psychosomatic illnesses which is chronic: the aberree’s reactive mind exercises a power of choice to the extent  that only pro-survival engrams become chronic. It could be said, on a reactive level, that the aberree will not permit himself to suffer illness from his engrams unless that illness has a [...]

Lecture: The Tone Scale (2)

James Forrestal1 was never more pleasant than when he sent the hospital corpsman away from his door so he could jump sixteen stories to the skylights below.
Psychiatry—excuse me for using—I shouldn’t use dirty words; forgive me. Some of the doctors there in charge of his case had walked in and had [...]

Lecture: The Importance of Getting Engrams (1)

Another way of handling a case who is stuck on the track is to mount four lady’s handbag mirrors on a phonograph record and then make the phonograph record turn on the turntable on which there is a small masked candle. The person can’t see the candle but he can see the flicking in the [...]