Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A physical alteration thought to occur in living neural tissue in response to stimuli, posited as an explanation for memory.
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- noun A
postulated physical orbiochemical change inneural tissue thatrepresents amemory . - noun Scientology A painful, negative mental image representing a past event.
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- noun a postulated biochemical change (presumably in neural tissue) that represents a memory
Etymologies
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Examples
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This configuration is sometimes called an engram.17
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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This configuration is sometimes called an engram.17
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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This engram, whether it be remembered or not, due to unconsciousness which accompanies every engram, is stored in the reactive mind and causes the thetan to believe false data [erroneous ideas].
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Cruise ‘is Christ’ of Scientology 2007
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An engram is a moment of pain and unconsciousness which contains perceptics.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Cruise ‘is Christ’ of Scientology 2007
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For when the thetan, who inhabits the MEST comes into conflict with other MEST, an engram is recorded in the reactive mind.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Cruise ‘is Christ’ of Scientology 2007
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Thus, an engram is a memory which is caused when any accidental event (be it major or minor) is experienced.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Cruise ‘is Christ’ of Scientology 2007
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However, at the instant that the engram is formed, often the person is unaware of the event.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Cruise ‘is Christ’ of Scientology 2007
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Because every engram is accompanied by unconsciousness to a greater or lesser degree, not all engrams are known to exist by the thetan’s analytical mind.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Cruise ‘is Christ’ of Scientology 2007
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This engram is thus that “mental picture” which “contains, as part of its content, unconsciousness and physical pain” and is stored in the individual’s mind (Dianetics and Scientology: Technical Dictionary, p. 114).
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Cruise ‘is Christ’ of Scientology 2007
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Once the engram is openly expressed by the pre-clear (Scientology student), then Auditing gets rid of unwanted barriers that inhibit, stop or blunt a person’s natural abilities as well as gradiently increasing the abilities a person has so that he becomes more able and his survival, happiness and intelligence increase enormously.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Cruise ‘is Christ’ of Scientology 2007
john commented on the word engram
“The idea that experience leaves some trace in the brain goes back at least to Plato’s Theaetetus metaphor of a stamp on wax, and in 1904 the German scholar Richard Semon gave that ghostly trace a name: the engram.�?
The New York Times, rain Researchers Open Door to Editing Memory, by Benedict Carey, April 5, 2009
April 6, 2009