The Reactive Mind
Excerpt: Book two, Chapter Two from Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health
By L. Ron Hubbard
“The reactive mind is possessed by everyone. No human being examined anywhere was discovered to be without one or without aberrative content in his engram bank, the reservoir of data which serves the reactive mind. What does this mind do? It shuts off hearing recall. It places vocal circuits in the mind. It makes people ton-deaf. It makes people stutter. It does anything and everything that can be found in any list of mental ills: psychoses, neuroses, compulsions, repressions…
“What can one do? It can give a man arthritis, bursitis, asthma, allergies, sinusitis, coronary trouble, high blood pressure, and so on down the whole catalogue of psychosomatic ills, adding a few more which were never specifically classified as psychosomatic, such as the common cold.
“And it is the only thing in the human being which can produce these effects. It is the thing which uniformly brings them about.
“This is the mind which made Socrates think he has a demon that gave him answers. This is the mind that made Caligula appoint his horse to a government post. This is the mind which made Caesar cut off the right hands from thousands of Gauls, which made Napoleon reduce the height of Frenchmen one inch.
“This is the mind which keeps war a thing of alarm, which makes politics irrational, which makes superior officers snarl, which makes children cry in fear of the dark. This is the mind which makes a man suppress his hopes, which holds apathies, which gives him irresolution when he should act, and kills him before he has begun to live.
“If there ever was a devil, he invented it.
“Discharge the content of this minds bank and the arthritis vanishes, myopia gets better, heart illness decreases, asthma disappears, stomachs function properly, and the whole catalogue of ills goes away and stays away.”
DEFINITIONS:
ENGRAM: ANY MOMENT OF GREATER OR LESSER “UNCONSCIOUSNESS” ON THE PART OF THE ANALYTICAL MIND WHICH PERMITS THE REACTIVE MIND TO RECORD; THE TOTAL CONTENT OF THAT MOMENT WITH ALL PERCEPTICS.
ENGRAM BANK: THE STORAGE PLACE IN THE BODY WHERE ENGRAMS, WITH ALL THEIR PERCEPTICS, ARE RECORDED AND RETAINED AND FROM WHICH ENGRAMS ACT UPON THE ANALYTICAL MIND AND THE BODY.
PERCEPTIC: ANY SENSE MESSAGE SUCH AS A SIGHT, SOUND, SMELL, ETC.
PERCEPTICS: IMPRESSIONS OR MENTAL RESULTS FROM PERCEIVING BY THE SENSES: THINGS WHICH ARE PERCEIVED.
MORE ON DIANETCS:
Here is also a set of DVDs to also help you quickly understand the concept of the book. https://www.myreligion-canberra-dmsmh.com.au/2019/10/03/dianetics-dvd-2/
There is also Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.
There are other Dianetics Books and Scientology Canberra.
And there are lectures of Dianetics that were recorded over seventy years ago.
And here is more information about the author, L. Ron Hubbard. https://www.myreligion-canberra-lrh.com.au/
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