Editing Auditing (Scientology) (section)

=== Reactive mind ===

The ''reactive mind'' (also called a ''reactive bank'', or simply ''bank'') is a concept formulated by Hubbard, referring to that portion of the human mind that is unconscious and operates on a stimulus-response basis. In the reactive mind are ''engrams'' which are recordings of incidents in one's life that Hubbard says cause most mental, emotional, and [[psychosomatic]] ailments.{{r|hubbard-sos|p=418}}{{r|gardner|p=266}}

{{Blockquote|text=What can it do? It can give a man arthritis, bursitis, asthma, allergies, sinusitis, coronary trouble, high blood pressure and so on down the whole catalogue of psycho-somatic ills, adding a few more which were never specifically classified as psycho-somatic, such as the common cold. —L. Ron Hubbard {{r|hubbard-dmsmh|p=51}} }}

The action of auditing is to locate these incidents and "erase" them, meaning they are removed from the unconscious reactive mind and re-filed into the person's conscious analytical mind.{{r|corydon|p=269|quote=The idea in [auditing] is to gain access to the postulates or 'think' (immature evaluations) buried in moments of pain, unconsciousness, and shock, and 'erase' them from the 'reactive mind,' thus refiling them in the conscious mind where they can be intelligently evaluated, used or discarded, at the individual's discretion.}}{{r|gardner|p=269|quote=As he recounts these experiences, the engrams slowly lose their evil power. Eventually they are totally "erased." This means they have been taken from the "reactive bank" and refiled in the "standard memory bank" where they can be recalled by the conscious mind.}}