1. a portion of a person's
mind which works on a totally
stimulus-response basis, which is not under his
volitional control, and which exerts
force and the
power of
command over his
awareness,
purposes, thoughts,
body and actions. Stored in the reactive
mind are
engrams, and here we find the
single source of
aberrations and
psychosomatic ills.
(Scn 0-8, p. 11)2. comprises an unknowing, unwanted
series of
aberrated computations which bring about an
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
occlusion which the
pc is unable to
contact and which contains within itself a total
identification of all things with all things, and until
released into the realm of
knowingness continues to react upon the person
compelling him into actions,
dramatizations and
computations which are not
optimum to his or anyone else's
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 operating.
Pictures of the
environment, of a very low
order, are taken by this
mind even in some
states of
unconsciousness. The reactive
mind acts below the
level of
consciousness. It is the
literal stimulus-response
mind.
Given a certain
stimulus it gives a certain response.
(FOT, p. 58)5. once called the "
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
entheta and
enmest of an accident with all the
perceptics (sense messages) present during the "
unconsciousness" resulting from the accident.
(SOS, p. 9)6. once known as the "
unconscious mind," but this
terminology is highly misleading, because the reactive
mind is the
mind which is always
conscious.
(SOS, Bk. 2, p. 182)7. also known as the
R6 bank.
(HCOB 12 Jul 65)