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= Reactive Mind =

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1. a portion of a person's mind which works on a totally [[Definitions/Stimulus-response|stimulus-response]] basis, which is not under his volitional [[Definitions/Control|control]], and which exerts [[Definitions/Force|force]] and the [[Definitions/Power|power]] of command over his [[Definitions/Awareness|awareness]], purposes, thoughts, body and actions. Stored in the [[Definitions/Reactive|reactive]] mind are engrams, and here we find the [[Definitions/Single|single]] [[Definitions/Source|source]] of aberrations and [[Definitions/Psychosomatic|psychosomatic]] ills. (Scn 0-8, p. 11)

2. comprises an unknowing, unwanted [[Definitions/Series|series]] of aberrated computations which bring about an [[Definitions/Effect|effect]] upon the individual and those around him. It is an obsessive strata of unknown, unseen, uninspected data which are forcing solutions, unknown and unsuspected, on the individual-which tells you why it remained hidden from man for so many thousands of years. (Scn 0-8, p. 11)

3. is basically that area of [[Definitions/Occlusion|occlusion]] which the pc is unable to contact and which contains within itself a total [[Definitions/Identification|identification]] of all things with all things, and until released into the realm of [[Definitions/Knowingness|knowingness]] continues to react upon the person compelling him into actions, dramatizations and computations which are not optimum to his or anyone else's [[Definitions/Survival|survival]]. ( SH Spec 35, 6108C08)

4. the reactive mind is a stimulus response mechanism, ruggedly built, and operable in trying circumstances. The reactive mind never stops [[Definitions/Operating|operating]]. Pictures of the environment, of a very low order, are taken by this mind even in some states of [[Definitions/Unconsciousness|unconsciousness]]. The reactive mind acts below the [[Definitions/Level|level]] of [[Definitions/Consciousness|consciousness]]. It is the literal stimulus-response mind. Given a certain stimulus it gives a certain response. (FOT, p. 58)

5. once called the “[[Definitions/Unconscious|unconscious]]” mind. It is a tough, rugged mind which is alert during any moment of life, regardless of the presence of pain, and which records everything with idiotic faithfulness. It stores up the [[Definitions/Entheta|entheta]] and [[Definitions/Enmest|enmest]] of an accident with all the [[Definitions/Perceptics|perceptics]] (sense messages) present during the “unconsciousness” resulting from the accident. (SOS, p. 9)

6. once known as the “[[Definitions/Unconscious_Mind|unconscious mind]],” but this terminology is highly misleading, because the reactive mind is the mind which is always [[Definitions/Conscious|conscious]]. (SOS, Bk. 2, p. 182)

7. also known as the [[Definitions/R6_Bank|R6 bank]]. ([[Definitions/HCOB|HCOB]] 12 Jul 65)

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