ABERRATION

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Definitions

1. by definition "a crooked line." It is from the Latin aberratio, "a wandering from", and from the Latin errare, to wander or to err. A sane person thinks, looks and sees in straight lines. Black is black, white is white. The aberrated person looks toward black and wanders off in his gaze to something else and makes the error of saying it is "grey." You can consider aberration in a passive way (supinely, of no force or action). A person is sane or not sane. He thinks straight or crookedly. Now consider aberration in a forceful way. A person looks, then an opposing force to him pushes aside his gaze or distracts it. But the really sane, forceful person looks right on through and past the opposition and sees what is there anyway. (HCOB 19 Aug 67)

2. Aberration (Def. 1)

3. the number of out-points the guy is carrying around in his skull is how aberrated he is. That has very little to do with his sanity. It has everything to do with his competence. (ESTO 10, 7203C05 SO 11)

4. aberration is just the basis of out-points. (ESTO 4, 7203C02 SO 11)

5. a chain of vias based on a primary non-confront. (HCO PL 18 Sept 67)

6. aberration is non-straight line by definition. (HCOB 5 Dec 73)

7. a departure from rational thought or behavior. From the Latin, aberrare, to wander from; Latin, ab, away, errare, to wander. It means basically to err, to make mistakes, or more specifically to have fixed ideas which are not true. The word is also used in its scientific sense. It means departure from a straight line. If a line should go from A to B, then if it is "aberrated" it would go from A to some other point, to some other point, to some other point, to some other point, to some other point and finally arrive at B. Taken in its scientific sense, it would also mean the lack of straightness or to see crookedly as, in example, a man sees a horse but thinks he sees an elephant. Aberrated conduct would be wrong conduct, or conduct not supported by reason. When a person has engrams, these tend to deflect what would be his normal ability to perceive truth and bring about an aberrated view of situations which then would cause an aberrated reaction to them. Aberration is opposed to sanity, which would be its opposite. (LRH Def. Notes)

8. an aberrated person wanders from his self-determined course. He no longer goes where he wants to go now, but goes where he has wanted to go in the past. His course is, therefore, not rational, and he seems to go wherever the environment pushes him. He has as many aberrations as he has hidden contrasurvival decisions in his past. (Abil 114A)

9. mental derangement, any irrational condition. (DMSMH, p. 102)

10. the aberree's reactions to and difficulties with his current environment. (DTOT, p. 127)

11. the manifestation of an engram, and is serious only when it influences the competence of the individual in his environment. (Scn Jour 28-G)

12. the degree of residual plus or minus randomity accumulated by compelling, inhibiting or unwarranted assisting of efforts on the part of other organisms or the physical (material) universe. (Scn 0-8, p. 86)