- it isn't really his universe. It's pictures of the physical universe which he retains in lieu of. We're talking of the reactive mind, the facsimiles, engrams, energy pictures, as a secondary universe which is formed by reason of not being able to have the physical universe. And that's how the reactive mind gets born and where it comes from. These secondary universes could just as well be called reactive universes. (A bil 34, 1956)