Glossary Of Terms*


Dianetics:

Dianetics spiritual healing technology. It addresses and handles the effects of the spirit on the bodyand can alleviate such things as unwanted sensations and emotions, accidents, injuries and psychosomatic illness (ones that are caused or aggravated by mental stress). Dianetics means "through the soul" (from Greek dia, through, and nous, soul). It is further defined as "what the soul is doing to the body."

Engram:

a moment of "uncounciousness" containing physical pain or painful emotion and all perceptions, and is not available to the analytical mind as experience. The engram is the single source of aberrations and psychosomatic ills.

Auditing:

the application of Dianetic processes and procedures to individuals by an auditor. To audit is both to listen and compute.

Auditor:

a person trained and qualified in applying Dianetics processes and procedures to individuals for their betterment; called an auditor because auditor means "one who listens."

Auditor's Code:

a collection of rules (do's and don'ts) that an auditor follows while auditing someone, which assures that the preclear will get the greatest possible gain out of the auditing he is having.

Aberration:

a departure from rational thought or behaviour. From the Latin, aberrare, to wander from; Latin, ab, away, errare, to wander.

Aberree:

aberrated person.

Ally:

in Dianetics it basically means someone who protects a person who is in a weak state and becomes a very strong influence over the person. The weaker person, such as a child, even partakes the characteristics of the ally so that one may find that a person who has, for instance, a bad leg, has it because a protector or ally in his youth had a bad leg. The word is from the French and Latin and means to bind together.

Analytical Mind:

that portion of the mind which percieives and retains experience data to compose and resolve problems and direct the organism along the four dynamics. It thinks in differences and similarities.

ARC:
A word made from the initial letters of Affinity, Reality and Communication which together equate to Understanding. It is pronounced by stating its letters, A-R-C. To Scientologists it has come to mean good feeling, love or friendliness such as "He was in ARC with his friend." One does not, however fall out of ARC, he has an ARC break.

ARC Break(s):
a sudden drop or cutting of one's affinity, reality or communication with someone or something. Upsets with people or things come about because of a lessening or sundering(breaking apart) of affinity, reality or communication or understanding. It is called an ARC break instead of an upset because if one discovers which of the three points, or understanding, have been cut one can bring about a rapid recovery in the person's stat of mind. It is pronounced by its letters A-R-C break.

Bank: See: Reactive Mind

Basic:

the first engram on any chain of similar engrams; basic is simply earliest.

Basic-basic:

the first engram of the first chain of engrams.

Case:

a general term for a person being treated or helped. Case also refers to a person's condition, which is monitored by the content of his reactive mind. A person's case is the way he responds to the world around him by reason of his aberrations.

Chain:

a series of incidents of similar nature or similar subject matter.

Charge:

harmful energy or force accumulated and stored in the reactive mind, resulting from the conflicts and unpleasannt experiences that a person has had.

Circuit:

a part of an individual's bank (a colloquial name for the reactive mind) that behaves as though it were someone or something separate from him and that either talks to him or goes into action of its own accord, and may even, if severe enough, take control of him while it operates.

Compulsions:

irresistable, repeated, irrational impulses to perform some act.

Dramatis personae:

the characters in a play or story (used here to refer to people present in the engrams of the aberree).

Dramatization:

the duplication of an engramic content, entire or in part, by an aberree in his present time environment. Aberrated conduct is entirely dramatization. The degree of dramatization is in direct ratio to the degree of restimulation of the engrams causing it. When dramatizing, the individual is like an actor playing his dictated part and going through a whole series of irrational actions.

Dynamic:

active, energetic, effective, forceful, motivating, as opposed to static.

Dynamic, The:

the tenacity to life and vigor and persistence in survival; the urge, thrust and purpose of life - Survive! - in its four manifestations: self, sex, group and mankind.

Dynamic Principle of Existence:

survival. The goal of life can be considered to be infinite survival. Man, as a life form, can be demonstrated to obey in all his actions and purposes the one command "Survive!" It is not a new thought that man is surviving. It is a new thought that is motivated only by survival.

Iatrogenic:

means illness generated by doctors. An operation during which the doctor's knife slipped and accidentally harmed the patient might cause an iatrogenic illness or injury since the fault would have been with the surgeons.

Key in:

make active. A key-inis a moment when the environment around the awake but fatigued or distressed individual is itself similar to the dormant (inactive) engram. At that moment the engram becomes active.

Key Out:

cause an engram (or engrams) to drop away without being erased.

Lock:

an analytical moment in which the perceptics of the engram are approximated, thus restimulating the engram or bringing it into action, the present time perceptics being erroneously interpreted by the reactive mind to mean that the same condition which produced physical pain once before is now again at hand.

Manic:

having or characterized by abnormal excitability, exagerrated feeling of well-being, flight of ideas, excessive activity, etc.

Manic-depressive:

(psychiatry) having a mental disorder marked by alternating extremes of excitement and depression.

Memory:

anything which, perceived, is filed in the standard memory bank and can be recalled by the analytical mind.

Neuroses:

emotional states containing conflicts and emotional data inhibiting the abilities or welfare of the individual.

Neurotic:

describing one who is insane or disturbed on some subject (as opposed to a psychotic person, who is just insane in general).

Paranoid-schizophrenic:

(psychiatry) of or concerning a mental condition resembling paranoia (form of psychosis in which a person imagines that he being persecuted or that he is very great or important) but also chareacterized by autistic (concerning a state of mind charactierized by daydreaming, hallucinations and disregard of external reality) behavior and gradual deterioration of the personality.

Preclear:

an individual entered into and undergoing Dianetic therapy; from pre-Clear, a person not yet Clear.

Present Time:

the time which is now. It is the instant which is now and is the successive instants of now. It si a term loosely applied to the environment existing in now.

Rationalization:

justified thought - the excuses one makes to explain his irrational behavior.

Reactive Mind:

that portion of the mind which files and retains physical pain and painful emotion and seeks to direct the organsism solely on a totally stimulus-response basis. It thinks only in identities. Also called reactive bank and bank.

Schizophrenic: (psychiatry)

person suffering from schizophrenia, a mental illness in which an individual is being two people madly inside of himself. It is a psychiatry classification derived from the Latin schizo, meaning "split" and the Greek phren, meaning "mind".

Scientology:

Scientology philosophy. It is the study and handling of the spirit in relationship to itself, universes and other life. Scientology means scio, knowing in the fullest sense of the word and logos, study. In itself the word means literally knowing how to know. Scientology is a "route," a way, rather than a dissertation or an assertive body of knowledge. Through its drills and studies one may find the truth for himself. The technology is therefore not expounded as something to believe, but to do.

Self-determinism:

the state wherein the individual can or cannot be controlled by his environment according to his own choice. He is confident in his interpersonal relationships. He reasons but does not need to react.

Somatic:

bodily or physical. Because the word pain is restimulative, and because the word pain has in the past led to a confusion between physical pain and mental pain, the word somatic is used in Dianetics to denote physical pain or discomfort of any kind.

Time Track:

the time span of the individual from conception to present time on which lies the sequence of events of his life.

Tone Scale:

a scale which shows a scale which shows the emotional tones of a person. These, ranged fromthe highest to the lowest, are, in part, serenity (the highest level), enthusiasm (as we proceed downward), conservatism, boredom, antagonism, anger, covert hostility, fear, grief, apathy.

Valence

the personality of one of the dramatic personnel in an engram.



*definitions taken from the book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health by L. Ron Hubbard.





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