INCIDENT

Incident

L. Ron Hubbard used the term Incident in a specific context for auditing in Scientology and Dianetics: the description of space opera events in our Universe's distant past, involving alien interventions in our past lives. It is a basic belief of Scientology that a human being is actually an immortal spiritual being, termed a thetan, that is presently trapped on planet Earth in a "meat body". The thetan has had innumerable past lives and it is accepted in Scientology that lives antedating the thetan's arrival on Earth lived in extraterrestrial cultures.

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incident

Noun

  1. An event or occurrence.
  2. A relatively minor event that is incidental to, or related to others
  3. An event that may cause or causes an interruption or a crisis
  4. In safety, an incident of workplace illness or injury

Adjective

  1. Arising as the result of an event, inherent
  2. (of a stream of particles or radiation) falling on or striking a surface (e.g. "The incident light illuminated the surface.")
  3. Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.
  4. Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.
  5. Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.


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