AUTOMATICITY

Anything one is doing that he is not aware he is doing or is only partially aware he is doing. Also, a sudden, very rapid outflow of answers given by a preclear in a session.

Something set up automatically to run without further attention from yourself.

a thing one is doing but is unaware or only partially aware he is doing; something the individual has "on automatic." An automaticity is something which ought to be under the control of the individual, but isn't. —Ability Congress Approved Glossary

1. a sudden very rapid machine-gun fire outflow of answers given by the preclear. (HCOB 10 May 65)2. non-self-determined action which ought to be determined by the individual. The individual ought to be determining an action and he is not determining it. That's a pretty broad consideration. It's something not under the control of the individual. But if we said, something not under the control of the individual, as a total, unqualified definition of automaticity, we would have this, then: that car that just went down the street would be an automaticity to you. You didn't have control of it. So this is not a precision definition. The precision definition has "which ought to be under the control of the individual." (Abil 6)3. anything that goes on running outside the control of the individual. (Abil SW)4. something set up automatically to run without further attention from yourself. (2ACC-6A 5311CM20)5. there are three kinds of automaticities, those which create things, and those which make things persist, and those which destroy things. (2ACC-19A 5312CM09)