a phrase used in Dianetics techniques. If an auditor asks a person for the engram necessary to resolve the case, he will always get the engram that is next available to b e reduced or erased. To reduce an engram means to take all the charge or painout of it and render it free of aberrative material a s far as possible to make the case progress. To erase an engram means to cause it to "vanish" entirely by recountings, at which time it is filed as memory and experience. —Have You Lived Before This Life? Glossary. Final approval circa 19/9/89