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An incident in Scientology beliefs is something that happened to a person that continues to have a grip on their mind or spirit, and is negatively affecting them. It could be an accident or traumatic event that includes pain and subconscious commands, whether from this life or in past lives. Scientology auditing procedures are used to locate incidents in the mind, and relieve them.[1]: 3-4 [a][3]: INCIDENT
A special type of incident is called an "implant" which is basically an enforced memory that can contain commands and fictitious events. The person will believe the implanted event actually existed, and the commands in the implant allegedly make the person act strange. In a contemporary sense you could compare an implant to a hypnotic command, however the implants L. Ron Hubbard mentioned in his Dianetics and Scientology writings follow space opera themes. Typically, these implants involve electronic fields entrapping and zapping a thetan (the being), installing commands, and showing cinema-like moving pictures to install false memories.[b][5]: 30 [3]: IMPLANT [6]: 91
Instances of implantation are termed incidents; the subjects of the implants are termed goals. Such incidents are alleged to have occurred millions or trillions of years ago,[c] and follow the pattern of a hostile alien civilization capturing and brainwashing free thetans. Some incidents are simply unusual and traumatic events in which the memory is said to linger for trillions of years.
Hubbard wrote extensively about specific incidents and implants that he alleged are common to all beings on earth, and which should be "audited out" (removed) in order to help a person become more sane or spiritually free. The incidents that have most been covered in media, scholarly works, and books include the between-lives implants,[8]: 206 Christ and crucifixion implants, and the OT III implants known as the Xenu story. Hubbard believed that implantation is being performed in contemporary times by psychiatrists and priests.[9]: 104,106 [5]: 344 Hubbard's incidents and implants are unique to Scientology beliefs and have not been proven to exist or to have happened.
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