Running Engrams SOP Step Two (500824)
Date: 24 August 1950
Speaker: L. Ron Hubbard
I would like to make a couple of comments here this morning. One of the things which I have heard more or less is that there are quite a few people here on Guk that are not being processed through under the observance of pro auditors. It’s not that there is anything dangerous about Guk, but it does happen that Guk is not the panacea to cure all ills for you. Yes, it makes it very easy to run engrams in most cases. Yes, it prevents some of the restimulation so that you can erase or reduce engrams before the basic engrams are out. Yes, it permits automatic running, but not for one instant does it suspend or supersede Standard Procedure. You can take a person on Guk, run an engram halfway out, fail to reduce it and restimulate him badly The primary crime in Dianetics, of course, is invalidating the pre-clears material, but the crime which is number two above robbing banks, above shooting your mother, is failing to reduce an engram. I can’t make that too strong with you. It’s one of those exclamation point affairs. You can fail to reduce an engram in a preclear and you can trigger a psychosis. Now there is no trick to it. If you have your hands on the engram and you are running the engram, the only thing which would prevent you from reducing that engram would be just sheer laziness or carelessness. That would be the only thing, because if an engram doesn’t reduce, you have to find the basic on that chain. And that will deintensify the chain. If you run conception on somebody, run the sperm sequence, go halfway through the sperm sequence, go over it a couple of times, and then say, “Well, that will take care of the rest of it.” No, it won’t. You have started the whole combo running; “I,” the file clerk, the somatic strip are all working on that engram. And now we halfway restimulate the thing and it’s going to result seriously if that engram is left. So if you are running somebody on Guk, reduce everything that you lay your hands on if you are running him in Standard Procedure. You see, Guk divides into two things. One is the Standard Procedure, and the other is automatic running. There are two sides to Guk. They don’t mix. It’s either one or the other.
We have the person on the couch returning to the engram and we run the engram from beginning to end. And we run it until it’s reduced, or if it doesn’t reduce, we go to an earlier engram of the same type which will reduce. Because the only reason that engram won’t reduce, you see, is because it’s suspended on an earlier one. Now, that’s very important. That is Standard Procedure. Going to talk to you quite a bit about that this morning.
Then, when that is done, when you have him in reverie, bring him up to present time and you cancel. It’s just exactly Dianetics, that’s all. It isn’t any new strange wild factor that’s been entered in here. When he is in present time you can then direct the somatic strip to keep erasing somatics, to continue to erase somatics. He is now in present time, the perceptics are not all present; “I” is in present time, he is well oriented. You can ask him then, “Are you moving on the track?” And you get file clerk flashes of yes and no. And if he says no, you say, “Give me a holder,” or “Holder, bouncer, denyer, what is it?” And you get yes or no to each one of these. And finally you spot the fact that it’s a denyer and it says suddenly, “I can’t reach it.” He then repeats two or three times this phrase—don’t have him repeat it too many times because “I” will start back down the track. We are not interested in “I” going down the track. This is just a phrase which has sort of come up out of nowhere and we take a little of the tension off of it. And then we give him, “Are you moving, yes or no?” And you get a yes. Somatic strip will continue to sweep somatics. He is not running engrams; his somatic strip is automatically going through the somatic and that doesn’t restimulate a person. But if we do this—this is a wrong thing to do—he suddenly gets a somatic and it holds too steady and you say, “Are you moving?” He says, “No.” So you say, “All right. Is it a holder?” “Yes.” “All right, when I count from one to five, you will give me a holder. One-two-three-four-five.” He says, “Stay there.” You say, “Go over ‘stay there.’ “ “Stay there, stay there, stay there, stay there, stay there.” Now, it’s right as far as we’ve gone. And we suddenly notice there’s a strong somatic turning on there. And we say, “Give us the next consecutive phrase.” (snap) “Give us the next consecutive phrase.” (snap) “Go over that one.” “Give us the next consecutive phrase.” You’re running an engram now. You haven’t just picked up a bouncer or a holder or something. You are actively running an engram. And the second that you start going off onto the whole parade of that engram, “I” starts down towards the point where it is.
Now, the somatic strip will do a very good job of erasing somatics without picking up any other perceptic than pain—pain and heat. And you get quite a bit of relief on that when you try to go after the engrams afterwards. You find out they don’t have any somatics left. At least, it works out that way. But you see, they are precisely two different things.
I am teaching you Standard Procedure. There may be some slight disinclination on the part of people to learn Standard Procedure, because, after all, “Guk is the panacea now which rules all the world, and all we have to do is take a few pills and it will all go down automatically.” Many people have engrams which say, “All you have to do is take three or four of these pills and then you will get rid of it and everything will be all right.” And after that, pills have a very wonderful effect on them. You can give them flour and water mixed together and pressed, and maybe somebody says, “All I have to do is take an aspirin and I feel wonderful.” Now that aspirin is a euphoric. Now, after he takes the aspirin it just doesn’t cure the headache—makes him feel wonderful. So many of these people having engrams say, “All I have to do is take a few pills and I will get rid of it.” They look at Guk as something which just goes automatically wham. And that’s all there is to it. Oh, yes, Guk speeds it up, promptly takes the time down by, well, I don’t know, probably a twelfth or a twentieth of the time previously required. When you say Standard Procedure, Standard Procedure on Guk is absolutely no different than the Standard Procedure I am telling you about now. You just have something that will let you cure engrams from the preclear more swiftly.
Now, that’s right in line with this morning’s lecture. Because I am going to go on this morning and tell you about the shape of engrams. Before I do that, I have a little piece of good news for you. The haggard look on Brad’s face and our professional auditors’ faces prompted us yesterday—I called up Elizabeth and they sent us five new pro auditors and Don Rogers; they are on their way, and the pros will be here probably tomorrow. You are very lucky on that. This is the processing crew.
We are getting together a clearing house, taking care of this mass processing which is going to take place. No guarantees are made as to what will happen to that mass processing, but we are getting the best talent available for it. There’s a great deal of push, thrust, to get into the Guk runs and the processing and so on, right now, right quick, I can sympathize with you, but it’s being done superhumanly at the moment. And all of this will be carried far, all, very soon. And then, we can look down on the class and I won’t have to say, “It’s a boy. It’s a boy. It’s a boy. It’s a girl. It’s a girl. It’s a girl,” and then people start this twitching of the eyes they started to do just now. So I will be able then to say, “It’s a boy. It’s a boy. It’s a boy,” without restimulating you. See? All right.
Here we have the running of engrams. It says, “Direct the somatic strip, work with the file clerk, reduce all engrams with their basics contacted,” And that ought to say this: Reduce all engrams with their basics contacted, reduce all engrams with their basics contacted, reduce all engrams with their basic contacted, and be sure you reduce them and always reduce them and never do anything but reduce all engrams with their basics contacted. And there ought to be eighteen exclamation points, nine underscorings, and the type ought to be as high as William Randolph Hearst writes “YELLOW PERIL” or “WAR,” It says, “Compute at all times,” In other words, while you are auditing, the auditor is supposed to compute, not the preclear, “Detect and deintensify all denyers, bouncers, call-backs, holders and groupers and so forth,” That’s very interesting that very often somebody rather new at the business will run through an engram and it says, “I am very tired of you. Get out, I don’t want to see you anymore,” and so on, and he’ll run this engram along and go through the “Get out” and keep right on going. And of course the next phrase that shows up is “I don’t want to see you,” or something of the sort. Or the next phrase will be, “Where is my hat?” or “John, are you going to be home for dinner tonight?” or “Where did you put the baby’s bottle?” Or, see, you’ve hit the “Get out,” You can start clipping engrams all the way up the bank, restimulating them. So he starts to run along and he hears this word “Get out,” Now, the first time he hits the word “Get out,” preclear may say, “Uh-huh. Yeah, well, it’s ‘Get out,’ that’s fine” and runs on through, but he doesn’t pay a great deal of attention to it. And “get out” is now activated. And being activated the next time one tries to hit the engram, it isn’t there.
If the auditor lets a denyer, a bouncer, a misdirector, a call-back, a holder go by without deintensifying it, the engram’s running will not be smooth. That’s quite important. If he lets a shut-off go by, a feeling shut-off go by or something of the sort or a visio shut-off, running a postpartum engram, he of course activates it and the next time he comes over the same area, the thing is working and the fellow says, “Oh . . .” He may have even had a slight somatic up to the moment he got to “I can’t feel anything.” And then all of a sudden he says, “I can’t feel anything.” And he goes on running the engram. You say, “Do you have a somatic?” And he says, “No.” So you say, “Ha, reduced.” And you say, “Well, we’ll go off and leave this one.” That’s how we get into trouble.
Because, of course, that thing is active now, and as such it might have had a bouncer in it, might have had a denyer, something of the sort, and these things are all active. Now, the first thing you know, he is up to postpartum, twelve years of age, and you say, “Well, let’s return to the prenatal area,” and he can’t. That’s because the auditor, when running it, did not pick up the phrases at the right time. This is kind of tough because sometimes the preclear may be saying, “Mumble, mumble, mumble; mumble, mumble, mumble; mumble, mumble, mumble.” And the auditor is sometimes prone to just sit there and let him run, and not try to understand what he is saying.
It doesn’t do any good to tell him to talk louder. It doesn’t do any good to tell him to talk faster. That engram is running at its own speed, and the preclear, had he ever been able to force this engram to do anything else, would of course long since have done so and it wouldn’t have been aberrative. So he runs it as he runs it, the only way he can run it, and it is “gobble, bubble, gobble, gobble.” That’s just your hard luck.
I’ve run a case with my ear down, within about that far off a guy’s mouth trying to make out what he was saying and he would still occasionally hit a bouncer and mumble the darn thing, something of the sort, and then he would be out of that engram. But if I hadn’t heard it, I wouldn’t know he was out of the engram. So in such a way he starts out in conception and I’d say, “Go over it again.” And he would be running one up here, and running one up here, and running one up here, and one . . . And he’s getting stuck and has the whole bank nicely restimulated. And then you would put the straitjacket on him and send him away. Pay attention to what he is saying; that’s why it says, “Compute at all times,” that’s why it says, “Deintensify all denyers, bouncers, call-backs, holders and groupers” and so forth. It ought to say also “shut-offs.” You ought to make a note to add shut-offs in that running engrams section.
The proper way to go through such a one as “I am tired of you, get out” would be to go over “I am tired of you.” Well, that’s not an important phrase. It’s merely aberrative.
Well, what’s an aberration? I mean, people have billions of them, see! But that “get out,” that is very important, so we hit the “get out” and he starts on maybe even into the next phrase, you turn him right square back to that phrase. “Go over it again, over it again, over it again, over it again, over it again, over it again, over it again.” We take the kick out of it. Then we’d go on and we’d get down to the end and it says, “I can’t feel a thing.” Knock that out, then “Come back here”—it follows that right afterwards—and he runs that one, we knock that out.
In other words, on aberrative phrases, he need only go over them once. But on these special phrases, which are action phrases—phrases which produce action or command that he do something—those phrases have to be spun and you just brrrrrrr and out they go.
Now, sometimes this sort of thing will happen. You’ll have a callback here—you saw this demonstration the other day. A fellow had a call-back and a holder in the same engram. And here was the engram and here he was riding—it had a bouncer, a call-back and a holder in it. That’s right. And the bouncer said “Up” and the call-back said “Come back” and the holder said “Stay here,” as a result he’s running the thing without somatics. See how that would be?
He’s off of the engram because he’s told to get off of it, but he can’t get away from it because he’s called back to it. So he was running this combination and he was floating that high above the engram. So in order to get him down on the engram it was necessary to knock out the bouncer—that was the most important one to knock out first—to knock out the holder; then he could run on the thing and then knock out the call-back. It doesn’t matter what order they are knocked out; they are knocked out in any order.
Now, you get in the basic area, you can get a conception engram— here’s your sperm sequence and this conception sequence here is running off on the basis of somebody says, “Oh, come on.” And somebody says, “Get out.” “Oh, come on. Get out.” Well, it’s reactivated, let us say, in some way—maybe it’s been in restimulation for years, and you start down the bank on this thing running engrams, and you’ll find each one of them seems to be acting like a call-back/bouncer. In other words the person is running more or less without somatics. You might say that this basic engram, being the most aberrative, is actually keeping this situation going all the way up and down the track. That’s one of the reasons why it’s important to get out the first one first. Also, a more important reason is to get the anaten off down here. But you could get this combination down there in the basic area, and the person will be running over the top of every engram he contacted. He can actually do this. He can drop down a little bit and get the somatic but he can’t get the words; that’s a specialized case of this. And then he goes up a little higher and he gets no somatics but he gets the words. That’s one of these stretchers at work; he’s not there, quite. Of course, having an engram he’s not there anyway—not all there anyway.
A serious error can be made as one runs through an engram. You all of a sudden hit “Get out.” At first the preclear is going into this engram and it’s “Ohoooo” and he’s shaking and breathing hard and so on and he gets into the engram and he starts on through with the thing—a lot of charge on this thing—you go back to the beginning of it and you start on through with it and very calm about the whole thing, and maybe he’s talking in a little bit of a hushed voice, no somatic, there is a bouncer and a call-back in there.
Now, they’ve both been activated on the first run through and the auditor didn’t pay attention to them. And so he starts in and it’s a wonderful thing, he can go on recounting that and recounting it and recounting it, because he’s playing it off the line and it takes a long time to recount it. Let’s say we get him twelve times to recount this engram and at the end of twelve times we say, “Well, that should do for it, all right.” And he is just that much above the engram lying there sort of frozen.
Now, that’s an interesting manifestation. I have stood and watched a pro auditor three weeks in training sit alongside of a preclear and not have gotten that point clearly—that’s why I’m making the point—who let a preclear do this and then sat there and ran the thing out, and was going to run it out I suppose about ten, twelve times. For what end? To what good? This is played off of the thing. It obviously was off of it. Of course, it’s a long engram. If he ran through it enough times, certainly these words would deintensify. Then eventually he’d come back down on it again and get the somatic if he just said the words enough times. But it was a funny thing that the preclear in this case was starting to omit phrases like the call-back and the bouncer. He wasn’t saying. And the engram was very long. It took about a half an hour to run this thing. So you see the amount of time which was being wasted there. Oh, an auditor can really waste time if he doesn’t watch what he is doing.
All one had to do in that case was the first time through, the engram said “Get out” so wham-wham-wham-wham-wham-wham, “get out.” Now we know he’s going to be on the line.
Of course, there is such a thing as running an engram so darn late in the case that none of these things are going to deintensify. But you shouldn’t still go back on them. All right.
As a matter of fact if you start to spin on a “get out” in this engram which won’t reduce—the fellow can go over it, like “Get out, get out, get out, get out and get out/’ The first thing you know you’re running a “get out” of this engram without ever noticing it. “Get out, get out, get out, get out, get out, get out” and then you’re running into this engram. “Get out” in this and then “get out” here. And then the first thing you know, you may be running conception. So you want to watch it, because as these things spin they’re liable to go right on down the bank.
Male voice: Is it bad to run it, conception? If you spin down on this phrase?
What is the first target?
Male voice: Basic-basic.
What is the most likely thing that would be basic-basic?
Male voice: Conception.
Okay.
All right. There’s your combination on the thing. You must learn to recognize the literal quality of these phrases then. We are dealing with phrases not as an English major would but as an idiot would.
That, you see, Shakespeare’s “To be or not to be, that is the question,” and all of a sudden you see there is a bouncer in the next line.
If you were running the thing as an engram, and I’ve run it as an engram, the thing has several bouncers, denyers, groupers in it; it’s a very interesting engram, Hamlet’s soliloquy. It also is terribly aberrative. And the last time I ran the thing rather endlessly because in this case we couldn’t get to basic-basic without running this darned thing. Mama was trying to hold it all a secret from the world that she was pregnant, hoping she would resolve the secret before anybody found out, and was playing the part of something or other in a play. I never quite found out what Mama was doing in the play but right at a particular point here drones in Hamlet’s soliloquy. Oh, this was rare. This poor guy who had had that engram was in just dreadful shape because the thing had been in restimulation ever since he was in high school and had had to memorize it. So the little fates that life hands out to us. Boy.
Now, the number of bouncers there are has not been determined; it’s—there’s quite a large number of bouncers. You look for all sorts of odd things. “You’re always taking it out on me.” That’s a bouncer. Not obviously, you see. There are many bouncers that don’t appear to be actual bouncers at first glance. So you have to learn to listen to this stuff as it runs through and figure out whether or not it is going to bounce. So when it says “Compute at all times,” that’s what it means.
There are things that are denyers. Let’s run across the phrase “Can’t make it out/’ What is “Can’t make it out”?
Male voice: Ha-ha! A holder.
It’s a holder.
Okay. It means something else too. It’s an aberrative phrase which means one has to build things in the house.
Now, that just gives you a little sample, a little sample of a literal meaning. It takes a little practice, but you ought to practice up on this. These phrases are very, very tricky, some of them. “You’re always taking it out on me” is the sort of a schizophrenic, aberrative, something or other bouncer; it’s aberrative too to some degree.
Now, here’s a control circuit that you wouldn’t suspect at first would be a control circuit and it also has other connotations—it’s “Fight it down.” It puts the person back on the track to fight. And it’s also a control circuit.
Now, there are such broad phrases that don’t have a precise heading which are nevertheless very interesting. Somebody says “It’s all up to you” or “That’s all for the present.” Those are really groupers. Those are the worst kind of groupers, those are present time groupers.
Another thing is “present time.” The word “present time” occurs in the bank continually. When you run across in an engram the words “present time,” if you haven’t reduced that engram and you tell the person “Go to present time,” he goes to that engram. And so you say, “Well, there you are, session is over.” The only justification of forgetting these things is the person belongs to another political party!
Now, there’s a skip type of phrase that you will encounter often enough that you have to know about it; not often enough to make it worth a full classification of itself. Had quite interesting action. It can be classified as a bouncer: “The next thing you know there’s trouble.” I ran across this phrase in somebody once “You’re always doing so-and-so and so-and-so and so-and-so, and the next thing you know there’s trouble.” So the second time we ran this thing we go over the line and then, the next thing you know, there is—“Trouble with you is you’re no good.” That’s a funny thing to appear in an engram suddenly, isn’t it? “The next thing you know there is trouble.” So it just goes right up on the bank and finds trouble. The trouble he is in. See the literal meaning?
These things are like a lot of insane traffic cops who have received orders from the police commissioner that they will obey his orders to the law and the letter of the law a la Les Miserables and then try to foist it off on the general public to that degree. Now that would make a remarkable traffic situation, wouldn’t it? Just as it does every day. So you have to watch out when you’re running engrams to do this.
Now, the main trouble in running these things in a foreign language case—you get a foreign language case where you don’t know the language and you start running this stuff off—you don’t know the literal meaning of these words. You have to say to somebody, “Give me a phrase that means ‘get out.’ “ You’ve noticed he’s bounced. And he just ran an awful lot of stuff that was “Oogla, doola, hubla, hubla,” whatever it was, and he says that it was “Hubla, hubla.” All right, so you’d say, “Go back and repeat that.” But you have to have noticed that his somatics or manifestation has changed markedly. And in running foreign language cases, one is very often in hot water with the case.
Actually, the optimum runner of a foreign language case is a person who speaks that language so fluently that he knows all of its idioms and colloquialisms and its literal meanings and does not have to learn all over now in another language the literalness of “the next thing you know there’s trouble.” Male voice: This happened a few days ago. The preclear was talking in her own language of the early part of the engram. And then—she had promised that she was able to translate it before she went into reverie. And at that moment she stopped and began to translate. Now, what happened there?
Nothing, except that nearly all—you see, that’s a foreign language case. I didn’t mean to take that up particularly, I try not to repeat too much that’s in the book.
Here is the engram in a foreign language case in its own tongue with its own perceptics. And the analyzer has had to come around, and through the translating mechanism—the mind is very able in translating. So English has been laid along on top of it. And the English is lying there as a sort of a strange translated lock on this engram. You’ll find out that this is the case and the reason why foreign language cases are very often quite frustrated is because they have to dramatize in English and that gives no release because the engram is in Slovenian and they’d have to dramatize it in Slovenian in order to get any release off it. So they can’t abreact their hostilities, so this gets pretty tough very shortly The best thing to do with a foreign language case is to get somebody else who knows the language. But you can do it if you have to. You get a bouncer; all of a sudden the somatic goes off. Naturally it goes off, he’s out of the engram. So we run it through. “Wham, wham, wham, wham, wham, wham, wham, wham.” And the somatic will turn on, you see, by various ways; the somatic gets turned on and then you continue to run the engram.
If a person hits a phrase which is a holder, and he runs three or four phrases beyond this holder, his contact with the incident is getting dimmer and dimmer and dimmer. That’s because the attention units latched up here, and you’re trying to run him beyond that point. So what happens there is that you have to knock out the holder.
This works the same way with a call-back. A call-back calls back to that particular portion, that minute point of the engram. That’s what the call-back does. So back he comes to the engram. You understand? All right. So you have to deintensify phrases just as though they were independent little engrams inside the engram and if you regard it in that fashion, you’ll find it very easy to do. All right.
The next step in running engrams: “You start in the basic area and proceed to present time, erasing all engrams on the way, and keep at it until you have a Release and Clear. If the case bogs down, check for poor auditing, check for poor auditing, check for poor auditing, check for poor auditing and detrimental environment and remedy their effects. If case is still bogged down, go to Step Three.” That’s pretty self-explanatory, so I’m going to proceed to tell you something about the shape of engrams.
Here is engram one, which we have already discussed, which is the curve of a single loop of gradual, increasing unconsciousness. These are the two major types of engrams. The second type is—here is your level of wakefulness, “awake level”—goes bang. Type one, type two. This is a blow, an impact, a sudden shock or pain. Causes very swift—this can even be much sharper—it causes very swift reduction of consciousness. The unconsciousness comes on boom! And then hits the bottom and then actually does a little bit of a loop here at the bottom, it just evens off and then comes on, and then gradually the fellow pulls out of it on a steady upward line. That’s the second distinct type: this is a blow. This is loss of blood, loss of oxygen, anesthetics, as in an operation. This is an electrical shock, a sharp pain, a slash with a knife, something on that order. So when you suddenly are cognizant of the type of engram you are running, you know whether or not the major impact is on the front or on the center, and that’s important to you, and that’s what you want to know out of this: Is the impact on the front or on the center? If it is on the front, the first phrase which you will receive will be late in the engram.
This first phrase that you ask for is that much beyond the blow There are earlier phrases, another phrase, two, three, four, six phrases ear lien There is the sound of impact. There is all sorts of stuff here, earlier kinesthesia, so on. In other words, we cut into this engram, we would be sometimes even lucky to get that close to the impact. Sometimes you’ll get this, clear over here. And I have picked up an engram where I got this: just this last phrase.
Now, there’s an elementary procedure of which you may not be sufficiently aware, and I am stressing its importance, and that is “walking an engram backwards.” Sometimes an engram has to be walked backwards. You go to the phrase before this phrase, now the phrase before this phrase, the phrase before this phrase, the phrase before this phrase. So it will be started there, the second recounting would be here, the third recounting would be from here, the earlier phrase, the earlier phrase, the earlier phrase.
I walked one case all the way from birth to conception, backwards. Had to. The bouncers in it were so vicious and so strong and so thoroughly reactivated that the tension had to be taken off of this case all the way down. It was convulsive throughout the whole bank. And I took it backwards, “The phrase before this phrase, please, the phrase before this phrase,” going through AAs, morning sickness and everything else, taking the tension off of each one. And then I’d get a set of about ten phrases in sight with the holders and bouncers deintensified, and then I’d deintensify the rest of them, then I’d go backwards. Oh, that was a job, rough job. So this, the engram, is going to offer you trouble because one has to go back here. And sometimes you tell the somatic strip on this engram, by the way, to go just before it occurred, thirty seconds before it started, and then sweep into it. Some of this is so deeply buried and there is so much boil-off right here in the front end of it, that you may not get a somatic through there and so your first impact of the somatic is that late; see what I mean? So it does go here all right, it goes before the impact, because that’s what it says on its registry card. And then it sweeps forward but the first contact it makes is this late. See how that would be? It’s just going over this deep portion.
These deep portions are usually smothered with unconsciousness. They usually contain the deepest phrases. Because of their depth, those are potentially the most aberrative phrases and these deep portions and the moment of impact are terrifically important. That’s the most important part of the engram, is the most masked portion of the engram. And that’s what we have to know, and that’s what we have to get. And I have seen auditor after auditor auditing happily, cheerfully. He gets up to here, and he recounts from there, and he recounts from there, and he recounts. But it doesn’t lift very well; it’s all held down by the front end, you see. It doesn’t lift very well, but he recounts it a few times, and that’s what it says in the book; you go over the thing, and “Well, that’s that one, that’s that one, and that’s that one and that’s that one.” When you start to swamp up a case, what you mainly find are missed front ends or missed centers, and they can be all over a case.
Yeah?
Male voice: What’s the shape of a high blood pressure engram caused by anger or fear?
Caused by anger or fear?
Male voice: On the part of Mother I would say that a highest part of the blood pressure engram was probably caused by an engram which caused an intrauterine pressure rather than by an emotion. We’re crossing our semantics there. I want to call that to your attention that it is not an emotion on the part of Mama which creates an engram in the child. It’s the result of the emotion, but more important than that, it’s the future translation by the analytical mind of the engram, see that? And then he gets his own metering system hooked in on it.
There are no hormones transplanted; that rage dramatization can come just as easily from Papa, so on. So what we have with a high blood pressure somatic is just pressure. And it is also intraumbilical cord pressure. And I’ll show you the way that thing looks on a graph. It’s a long time period. Sometimes it’s two or three hours building up. Sometimes it builds up in three or four minutes. But three or four minutes is still a long time period compared to an impact, you see. So it goes up and it falls off, and it goes up and it falls off.
It is accompanied by a very unusual perceptic, if you’re really interested in high blood pressure. The baby’s heart is going brrrrrrrr and Mama’s heart is going BOOM-boom, BOOM-boom. And when these people go to see symphony orchestras, and they go listen to voodoo drums beating, and if they ever get a bulge on a tire—it goes bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump on the road, while the motor is going brrrrrrrr, — they get migraine headaches. And it’s interesting that the restimulation on the thing may take place on Tuesday and the person may just get a little tired about it and the engram is just starting to restimulate, and you start to get a dwindling spiral, so you don’t get a real roaring migraine headache on this person until Friday, nice long lag period on that restimulation.
These migraine headaches constituted the most relentless search, possibly, that was conducted inside the small application sphere of Dianetics. What in the name of God caused migraine headaches? What caused them to turn on? How could you possibly trace back? Because I would find where was this person when the migraine headache turned on? They were always in different places. It was a real piece of detecting to try to find one of those things, and I was trying to do it, you see, before I knew about prenatals. And it was very mysterious, the whole thing. And then one day I got a person back into the prenatal area, the first migraine headache case, and here was BOOM-boom, BOOM-boom, and brrrrrrrr. As a matter of fact, the baby’s heart starts to speed up. The first thing you know, there’s just intrauterine pressure. And then the umbilical cord and so forth starts to get pressure. It may even be that something happens to the membrane in it, I don’t know. And it goes higher and higher, the baby stiffens out straight finally in a real rough one, and then its heart is trying to keep ahead of the pressure. It’s like a pump which is having too much water pumped through it, and it starts to shake itself to pieces. And it’s an odd thing but on two of these migraine people they have each told me that there is—both of these people have, the others haven’t mentioned it—that they had never known it before, but it was not a migraine headache, it was a migraine body ache including the head. But the pressure in the head, where, after all the nervous system is located to a large degree, was so enormous that the pain overshadowed the body pain. And when the thing was clipping out as an engram, they suddenly discovered that their bodies had a somatic, and then suddenly recalled something that they had never quite registered before, and that was the fact that every time they had a migraine headache, they hurt all over. It’s a misnomer to call them “migraine headaches”; the headache is just worse there. That gives you an idea—there is a specialized type of somatic. Thank you for bringing this up.
This is the way one of these engrams would look, basically; and now let’s get a sawbones to work in it. We’ll call this an anesthesia and this is surgery, and out comes—and he’s saying, “knife, chisel, hammer, pneumatic drill, riveter,” you know, like he says. And right about here, he says, “Well, is he out?” And the nurse says, “Yup, he’s down and out now.” You know, real bright conversation goes on. And so we’ve got this curve—now this one takes place as a result of just anesthetics, ether; it goes down like this and comes out more or less. Actually, there would be a few waves in it as it lightens. But this would be its essential shape. And now we start to add pain in on this, and at this point in went the chisel or the knife, the lancet, and then we got that one up, and we got a recovery on that one, and it came up to here again, and by the way, it would never come up quite that high again—and it would come up here. And this is where the chisel came in, and these are chisel blows, see. And then up here on something or other, there’s cuts and then there’s stitching, so on—and he’s coming out of this in the meantime, but this would be the normal curve—so there’s the stitching, see, and this thing then goes on up. He regains consciousness there, whereby— from the ether, he’s regained consciousness there, see what I mean?
In other words, the pain adds in on the unconsciousness, deepens it, carries it forward, and it comes out that much later. What I am trying to stress to you is we have got a combination curve, so now, this thing doesn’t look like this anymore. It looks like—that far, and then there’s no curve here anymore. All of this is added inside there. Here we have the essentials of these two shapes of engrams. Now, these two shapes have various combinations. We have a fellow who is drowning, we will get a curve that goes like this. This is a nice drowning picture. Here he’s gone in and drowned, but somebody brings him out and puts a Pulmotor on him. They throw him over the top of a barrel and get the water out of him a few times. And then he starts to regain consciousness. Here’s your engram.
Although this is an engram—but it is a mild perceptic—water, silence, no verbal content. And down the line we go, and we suddenly strike a period there where he is being rescued and they maul him around. He is deep in unconsciousness and so forth, and so we start to run this engram, we should get a picture sort of in our minds what the shape of this thing would be. Drowning engram. Automobile accident engram. Here they are getting him out of the car. Now he is out of the car or something. Then gradually returns to consciousness. This is a surgery. Now, you start to look for an automobile engram, you don’t follow it up—“When were you treated?”—you are going to miss the bulk of the engram. That is where they set the broken arm or something. It was far more painful and produced a deeper unconsciousness, because that is aided and abetted by anesthetics. Even if it isn’t, its analytical attenuation is such—smash! He’s already out. Now, more pain just drags him on down. The first moment of impact is important. It’s important from there on through.
You’ll find all sorts of interesting things—you’re liable to omit running one of these things—the discussion on the scene of the accident, the siren.
You’re liable to find this fellow antagonistic toward his name. And it was the admissions clerk at the hospital. They bring him into the hospital; there he is lying there in a basket and (quote) unconscious (unquote) and somebody says “Name?” “Well, it’s John Jones.” “Age?” so and so, “Occupation?” so and so. After this he just doesn’t like to be a journeyman printer. He decides that this is no good.
Male voice: Is that the engram of industrial accidents as well?
Oh, yes. That’s—a lot of this goes on. For instance, I was appalled one time. I went into an exodontist’s office, and saw that the clerk—this was an exodontist who handled dentists’ business. So the dentist when he had to have a real fancy job of exodontistry done on some of his patients, would take the patient and take him down to the exodontist. Then they would put the fellow under; and there was a desk right behind the chair and there was the nurse sitting there, it was a very crowded office. There was a radio right there with a telephone. So we got all of the traffic of a dentist’s office. “Oh, yes, she’s much worse now.” “Well, that’s too bad; she probably will stay that way for a few days. But I’m sure it will get better.” “Oh, you think it’s abscessed, uh-huh, mm-hm.” All of this talk over a telephone. Of course, she takes down the essential information from the dentist after the operation has started because one has lots of time then, and she’s the anesthetist too. So when we get this fellow really hurting, then we recite his name, his occupation, we make comments on how nice it is to be a newspaperman or how lousy it is to be a newspaperman. We make comments on this person’s personal appearance. Make comments on his general ability, aptitude and so on. That was an engram factory, as are nearly all hospitals and dentists’ offices at this time.
Except, God bless him, the hospital of Dr. Pierce in Beaumont, Texas, who has gone over 100 percent into Dianetics and is using Preventive Dianetics and is having a hell of a lot of trouble with, as he calls them, “visiting fireman” who come in—they’re not indoctrinated—and insist on opening their big yap in an operating room. So they have a terrific indoctrination program there that they take the “visiting fireman” in, they tell him about this, and he says, “Well, I’m not sure about Dianetics. I don’t know.” They say “You don’t know: no operation. You know: operate.” The guy will say, “Well, it’s . . . after all, I’m down here this morning; that’s $250. Okay, I’ll shut up.” There is the subject. It is not a complicated subject. You can make it enormously complicated if you wish. Somebody could write undoubtedly a beautiful textbook on the subject. He could undoubtedly call these things by various shapes, such as this would be an “octolangular” occlusion shape. You see, we could have names for all these things but there’s no reason to. All we have to know is there are two courses of unconsciousness. One is bang and one is brrrrrrrrrow.
I’m not going to spend any more time on this subject, it doesn’t deserve it. But you should be very careful to clean up the beginning of any blow engram because the major material of the engram is just with and after the impact. And don’t suppose that an engram because it has one impact in it does not have another, because it usually has many impacts. If you get one, there will probably be several, except in the case of Mama for instance, bumping into the table, then it’s just a little bump afterwards. She may bump into the table and then fall on the floor, so that you get bump, jolt. And then maybe sometimes bump, squash, if she happens to fall on her stomach. Some women are very graceful about this. They have engrams that say, “Well, I have to get it out one way or the other, but I mustn’t even let myself know I am thinking about it.” I ran into an accident-prone once. Every time she became pregnant, she hurt herself very badly, continually. She would wreck the car, little things like that. She would go out and fall over lawn mowers. It didn’t say how she was to hurt herself or what it was to accomplish, it just said she had to, so she did. (Recording ends abruptly)