Cellular Phones
I. Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard
Burroughs favored Hubbard’s stated central belief – “man is motivated only by survival.”
A. The Engram – the basic pathogenic building block of Dianetics.
1. It is a painful moment literally recorded by the body
a. Not to be confused with memory
b. A person need not be conscious to record an injurious experience
c. The recording occurs anywhere in the body at the cellular level
2. Contain absolutely everything “like phonograph records or motion pictures, if these contained all perceptions of sight, sound, smell, taste, organic sensation, etc.
3. If the engrams stay in place, and are not discharged through therapeutic means, the individual will be predisposed to psychosomatic illnesses (all familiar diseases and mental disorders)
a. Therapeutic means: discovering these recordings and playing them back over and over again, until they lose their power or become boring, and shifted out of the reactive mind.
4. If engrams were produced only by traumatic events, then few people would have need for therapy.
a. So he extended the engram forming capacity to any degree of reduced consciousness.
5. Overall, engrams are generated by anything ranging from brutal surgical procedures to feeling a bit vague.
B. More Engram Fun
1. The total bank of stored engrams produces the combined cellular intelligence constituting the reactive mind, which is said to be the evil phantom double to the analytic mind, which is the perfectly running machine that stores everything we experience in the standard memory banks.
The Reactive Mind underscores the Other Half in a passage from The Ticket that Exploded – used to exemplify Burroughs’s notion that language is a virus – p.317.
“Language is a virus in that both are dead until they find life within a human host.”
2. Burroughs’s evolutionary development of language as a virus was aided by Hubbard in a couple ways.
a. The reactive mind already had its own voice (The Dianetic Demon) engramatically recorded and played back.
b. There was a radio station available to transmit the recordings.
3. The Dianetic Demon
a. A demon “who gives thoughts voice or echoes the spoken word interiorly or who gives all sorts of complicated advice like a real, live voice exteriorly.”
1. Not to be confused with psychotic voices
Hubbard: “A Dianetic demon is a parasitic circuit. It has an action in the mind which approximates another entity than self. And it is derived entirely from words contained in engrams.”
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