- you may find you get into a little light engram and you find it won't lift and you go
    over it and then it faded away. This is recession. You can do this and three days
    later have a stalled case on your hands. This engram you have beaten down comes back in
    full force in three days. (NOTL, p. 108) 
 
  - during a recession the somatic of the engram first reduces slightly and then
    continues constant. In the reduction, the somatic, little by little each recounting,
    reduces. In a recession, the somatic remains steady. If a recession takes place, it
    means simply that an engram similar to the one which is being re-experienced is earlier on
    the case, or that a tremendous quantity of entheta in secondaries and locks exists above
    the engram that is being recessed. Recessions occur only where the auditor has not
    taken off enough entheta from the case in the form of locks and secondaries to permit
    engrams to be run. It is a premature address to engrams or it is caused by auditing in
    violation of the file clerk's data. (SOS,
    Bk. 2, p. 173)