REACTIVE MIND
From the AOGP Abridged Scientology Dictionary — based on original LRH source materials, updated through 1982.
Usage
The reactive mind operates below a person's conscious control, storing engrams, secondaries, locks, and GPMs that activate automatically when triggered by similar circumstances in the present. A person may suddenly feel anxious in a hospital without knowing why, because their reactive mind contains a painful incident in a similar setting.
Why It Matters
The reactive mind is the primary target of Dianetics and Scientology auditing, as it exerts unwanted force over a person's awareness, thoughts, body, and actions. Reducing its influence restores the individual's own self-determined control over their life.
Related Concepts
- SECONDARIES — Mental image pictures containing mis-emotion (encysted grief, anger, apathy etc.) and a real or imagined loss.
- CONTROL — The ability to start, change and stop things at one's own choice.
- ENGRAM — A mental image picture of an experience containing pain, unconsciousness and a real or fancied threat to survival.
- LOCK — A mental image picture of a non-painful but disturbing experience the person has experienced, and which depends for its force on an earlier secondary and or engram which the experience has re-stimulated.
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