Among the folks I used to hang out with in a jyotish study group was a
geophysicist who was part of the team on St. Helens when it blew. He
said as they drove out of the area they warned people driving in to
leave immediately. My mother, living in eastern Washington, was on the
phone when it blew with friends in Amboy which is very near St. Helens.
It's still quite something to drive through that area.
Engrams would also be like samskaras.
On 04/23/2015 07:42 AM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius [email protected]
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
[Attachment(s) <#TopText> from Xenophaneros Anartaxius included below]
The term engram pre-dated Hubbard's use of the term, appearing in the
early 1900s having the meaning 'the means by which memory traces are
stored as biophysical or biochemical changes in the brain (and other
neural tissue) in response to external stimuli'. It was a scientific
hypothesis. In Hubbard's scam it's 'a mental image picture which is a
recording of an experience containing pain, unconsciousness and a real
or fancied threat to survival. It is a recording in the reactive mind
of something which actually happened to an individual in the past and
which contained pain and unconsciousness'.
When you look at any spiritual movement or philosophy there is
basically something like an engram, there is something that is 'wrong'
with you (which probably you do not like), and the spiritual system is
going to 'fix' it, and you fall into the system because you think life
will be better if you get rid of whatever seems insufficient in you.
In TM engram = stress, in Catholicism it is 'original sin', in a
number of philosophies it is 'ignorance' or 'illusion'. In every case
a supposed condition has to be reversed or eliminated, but the methods
used differ. It seems in Scientology the attempt is to get you to face
directly these unpleasant memories; in TM these things are supposed to
be gently released. These processes can be effective, but the danger
is the mind as memory gets loaded with all sorts of explanations for
what you are doing. A person basically does these things to improve
their life, but if the explanatory part of the process takes deep
root, you end up as a 'true believer' in the particular philosophy at
hand, when all you were trying to do in the first place was forget
something or lessen the impact of that something.
Cool video of that volcano. One person who had a great view of a
volcanic explosion was the scientist David Johnston who was monitoring
Mt. St. Helens in 1980. He was 10 kilometres from the mountain when it
blew. He yelled into his radio 'Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!' and
was never heard from again. Road workers found parts of his trailer 13
years later, but no sign of him. If he had any engrams from the event,
they probably disappeared at the same time he did. Attached is a
picture of Johnston made 13 hours before the explosion, and a second
image of the explosion which he directly faced (the image made by a
camper who was driving frantically away at the time).
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*From:* "TurquoiseBee [email protected] [FairfieldLife]"
<[email protected]>
*To:* FairfieldLife <[email protected]>
*Sent:* Thursday, April 23, 2015 10:54 AM
*Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Xenu Porn
*/For believers in the $cientology myth of galactic overlord and
badass Xenu bringing billions of his people to Earth and throwing them
into volcanoes, this time lapse segment of a Chilean volcano erupting
will bring back memories of what caused all the engrams you have to
pay the big bucks to get rid of through Co$ auditing./*
