Episodios regionales

helping clients to identify their negative, irrational thoughts and to replace these with more positive, rational ways of thinking.

HUMANISTIC THERAPY, [Medical Definition] an approach to psychotherapy that emphasizes human uniqueness, positive qualities, and individual potential. It is sometimes used as a synonym for the human potential movement.

HUMANISTIC PERSPECTIVE, [Psychology Definition] the psychological perspective

popularized by Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow (hierarchy of needs) that emphasizes the human capacity for choice and growth. The overriding assumption is that humans have free will and are not simply fated to behave in specific ways or are zombies blindly reacting to their environments. So, the Humanists stated that the subject matter or psychology (what psychology should focus on) is the human subjective experience of the world - how humans experience things, why they experience things, etc.

[ Ed. note – see also: ABERRATION, ABILITY, AUDITING, AUDITOR, AUDITOR'S CODE, CERTAINTY, CLASS (GRADATION) CHART,

POSTULATE PROCESSING, 1: that processing which addresses the postulates, evaluations and conclusions of the preclear at the level of self- determined thought, yet postulate processing has some value when addressed to stimulus-response ideas. Postulate processing is the primary and highest method of processing; a thetan. With creative processing, it constitutes Scn 8-8008. (Scn 8-8008, p. 37) 2: the processor any process which permits an individual to change his postulates. (PDC 37)

CLAY DEMO, CLAY TABLE IQ PROCESSING, CONFRONT, CONCLUSION, EVALUATION, EXISTENCE, FREEDOM, GPM, HYPNOTISM, LIFE, PRECLEAR (PC), PSYCHOTHERAPY, POSTULATE, PROCESS, PURPOSE, REASON, SELF-DETERMINISM, SCIENTOLOGY (SCN), SCIENTOLOGY PRECLEAR and SCIENTOLOGY RELEASE. ]

PSYCHE, 1: a thetan, the spirit, the being himself. (SH Spec 31, 6407C29) 2. soul. (5506C03) 3: a Greek word meaning spirit. (PAB 82)

[ Ed. note – see also: MIND, PERSONALITY, PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOSIS, SPIRIT and THETAN. ]

PSYCHE, 1: capitalized : a princess loved by Cupid 2: [Greek psychē] 2a : SOUL, PERSONALITY. <the nation's consumer psyche — D. J. Kevles> 2b: MIND 2

PSYCHE, [Medical Definition] the specialized cognitive, conative, and affective aspects of a psychosomatic unity : MIND; specifically : the totality of the id, ego, and superego including both conscious and unconscious components.

RELIGION, 1. the ritual of worship or regard about spiritual matters. (4 LACC-18, 5510C13) 2: a study of wisdom. (HCO PL6 Mar 69) 3: the word religion itself can embrace sacred lore, wisdom, knowingness of gods and souls and spirits, and could be called, with very broad use of the word, a philosophy. We could say there is religious

philosophy and there is religious practice. (PXL, p.13)

RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY, implies study of spiritual manifestations; research on the nature of the spirit and study on the relationship of the spirit to the body; exercises devoted to the rehabilitation of abilities in a spirit. (HCOB 18 Apr 67)

RELIGIOUS PRACTICE, implies ritual, faith- in, doctrine based on a catechism and a creed. (HCOB 18 Apr 67)

RELIGION, 1a: the state of a religious. <a nun in her 20th year of religion> 1b(1): the service and worship of God or the supernatural. 1b(2): commitment or devotion to religious faith or observance. 2: a personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices. 3: archaic : scrupulous conformity :

CONSCIENTIOUSNESS. 4: a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith.

RELIGION, [Encyclopedia Definition] relation of human beings to God or the gods or to whatever they consider sacred or, in some cases, merely

supernatural. Archaeological evidence suggests that religious beliefs have existed since the first human communities. They are generally shared by a community, and they express the communal culture and values through myth, doctrine, and ritual. Worship is probably the most basic element of religion, but moral conduct, right belief, and

[ Ed. note – see also: APPLIED PHILOSOPHY, KNOWINGNESS, PHILOSOPHY,

REHABILITATION, SCIENTOLOGY and SPIRIT. ]

elements of the religious life. Religions attempt to answer basic questions intrinsic to the human condition (Why do we suffer? Why is there evil in the world? What happens to us when we die?) through the relationship to the sacred or supernatural or (e.g., in the case of Buddhism) through perception of the true nature of reality.

RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY, (not to be confused with Philosophy of Religion) philosophical thinking that is inspired and directed by religion, such as Buddhist philosophy, Christian philosophy, Hindu philosophy or Islamic philosophy.

PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION, [Encyclopedia Definition] branch of philosophy that studies key metaphysical and epistemological concepts, principles, and problems of religion. Topics

considered include the existence and nature of God, the possibility of knowledge of God, human freedom (the free will problem), immortality, and the

problems of moral and natural evil and suffering. RESTIMULATION, 1.the reactivation of a past

counter-effort by appearance in the organism’s environment of a similarity toward the content of the past randomity area. (Scn 0-8, p.85) 2: means the reactivation of an existing incident. (SH Spec 84, 6612C13) 3: where the environment reactivates a facsimile, which then acts back against the body or awareness of awareness unit of the person. This is a very simple system of stimulus-response. (Dn 55!, p.15) 4: where the perceptics of the engram are approximated by those of the present time environment. (SOS, Bk.2, p.118)

REACTIVATED, an engram is reactivated when an individual with an engram receives something in his environment similar to the perceptions in the engram. The engram puts everything it contains into greater or lesser operation. (DMSMH, p.73) See RESTIMULATION.

DESTIMULATION, 1: the action of deleting the

FLASHBACK (PSYCHOLOGY) [aka

INVOLUNTARY RECURRENT MEMORY], a psychological phenomenon in which an individual has a sudden, usually powerful, re-experiencing of a past experience or elements of a past experience. These experiences can be happy, sad, exciting, or any other emotion one can consider.[1] The term is used particularly when the memory is recalled involuntarily, and/or when it is so intense that the person “relives” the experience, unable to fully recognize it as memory and not something that is happening in “real time”.

FLASHBULB MEMORY, [Psychology

Definition] the sudden onset of a clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event. When you are trying to remember something and then it “all of a sudden comes to you”, you have experienced a flash bulb memory. It is like turning on a light.