REACTIVE THOUGHT

identity thought. The reactive mind is distinguished by the fact that although it thinks, it thinks wholly in identities. For instance, to the reactive mind under certain conditions there would b e no difference between a microphone and a table. An example of reactive thought is A=A=A=A: anything equals anything equals anything. —Scientology 8-8008 Glossary Final approval c. 3 Mar 1990

1. thought established by counter-efforts as in Homo sapiens and governed entirely in a stimulus-response basis. (Scn 8-8008, p. 36)2. reactive thought is wholly in terms of everything in an engram equals everything in an engram equals all the restimulators in the environment and all things associated with those restimulators. (DMSMH, p. 79)