This is more my thinking based on my past experience with Scientology, but based on this article....
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I think this is what Scientology and L Ron Hubbard were doing. Hacking your memories. You'd be audited, go back, remember a time you were hurt. Change the event in your memory, change your feeling about it and as a result change who your were.
This is why the Dianetics process seemed to work. You would change to some degree your personality by hacking your past memories. This seemed to work for this current life events. However they accepted the truth of this hacking.
So when folks had "memories" of past life events, including Hubbard himself, they accept it was all real. Hubbard was a science fiction writer. Likely had all kinds of science fictional ideas running around in his head.
By accepting these as memories and hacking them, they were changing their personality. Perhaps, in their opinion for the better.
Maybe part of other beliefs to. Maybe the Apostle Paul retroactively hacked Jesus into God.
In reviewing our pasts, over and over, this was a big part of Scientology's auditing, we can intentionally or unintentionally change our memories of what occurred.
How to Implant False Memories into Other People's Heads (& Why You Should) « Mind Hacks :: WonderHowTo
I think this is what Scientology and L Ron Hubbard were doing. Hacking your memories. You'd be audited, go back, remember a time you were hurt. Change the event in your memory, change your feeling about it and as a result change who your were.
This is why the Dianetics process seemed to work. You would change to some degree your personality by hacking your past memories. This seemed to work for this current life events. However they accepted the truth of this hacking.
So when folks had "memories" of past life events, including Hubbard himself, they accept it was all real. Hubbard was a science fiction writer. Likely had all kinds of science fictional ideas running around in his head.
By accepting these as memories and hacking them, they were changing their personality. Perhaps, in their opinion for the better.
Maybe part of other beliefs to. Maybe the Apostle Paul retroactively hacked Jesus into God.
In reviewing our pasts, over and over, this was a big part of Scientology's auditing, we can intentionally or unintentionally change our memories of what occurred.