departure from
rational thought or
behavior. From the
Latin, aberrare, to wander from;
Latin,
ab, away, errare, to wander. It means basically to
err, to make mistakes, or more specifically to have
fixed ideas which are not true. The
word is also used in its scientific sense. It means
departures from a
straight line. If a
line should go from A to B, then if it is "
aberrated" it would go from A to some other
point, to some other
point, to some other
point, to some other
point, to some other
point and finally arrive at B. Taken in its scientific sense, it would also mean the lack of straightness or to see crookedly as, in
example, a
man sees a horse but thinks he sees an elephant.
Aberrated conduct would b e
wrong conduct, or conduct not supported by
reason. When a person has
engrams, these tend to deflect what would be his
normal ability to perceive
truth and bring about an
aberrated view of situations which then would
cause a n
aberrated reaction to them.
Aberration is opposed to
sanity, which would be its opposite. This is the most
fundamental level of
aberration: "If the food smells good, go away from it!" This is directly against the
survival intention of the
organism.
—The Anatomy of the Human Mind Glossary