The #Engram: @Scientology's Version of Christianity's "Sin Nature" | @Dictionarycom @Wikipedia @FineDictionary @MerriamWebster @Pontifex @VaticanNews
'I discuss it a little' at the forum linked-to through "Engram" below (and I probably report more 'findings' beneath the Subscribe-bar).
What I show here is 'the group of words' that give "that word" a place to connect to your vocabulary ... deeper sources that firm the foundation upon which our lexicon stands ...
The word “Engram” is built on ancient words that mean |Nut (slang for The |Head) + Metric |Unit of Mass or -Weight equal to 15.432 grains (that's a dictionary's etymology given with the definition "a Presumed Encoding in Neural Tissue that Provides a Physical Basis for the Persistence of Memory").
Before I saw it described in a brief biography of L. Ron Hubbard (how he used DIANETICS to "clear" traumatic engrams left in his brain by his time in The War (WWII)), I had only heard the word 'engrams' in episodes of STAR TREK (STAR TREK: VOYAGER, to be precise ... but I wouldn't be surprised if it was also used in The Original Series, written by another military-veteran 🤔)
But--looking for information on 'Engrams' (probably more in line with 'science fact' than with science-fiction)--I find the pseudoscientific understanding of it (not necessarily 'false'; more like 'a fact-based imagining'), a couple dictionary-definitions of it (other than the one linked above), and of course Scientology's own explanation of the Engram ... like (I imagine) a Roman Catholic 'catechist's explanation of Mankind's Sinful Nature.
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