- a mental image picture of a moment of severe and shocking loss or threat of loss which
contains misemotion such as anger, fear, grief, apathy or "deathfulness." It is
a mental image recording of a time of severe mental stress. It may contain
unconsciousness. Called a secondary because it itself depends upon an earlier engram with
similar data but real pain, etc. (HCOB 23 Apr 69)
- depends for its charge on an engram which contains pain and unconsciousness. It's
secondary. It does not contain pain and unconsciousness. It contains emotion, any emotion
or misemotion. But of course pleasure doesn't make a secondary and it also doesn't
make an incident. (SH Spec 70, 6607C21)
- every moment of great emotional shock, where loss occasions near unconsciousness, is
fully recorded in the reactive mind. These shocks of loss are known as secondaries. (SOS, p. xiii)
- a mental image picture containing misemotion (encysted grief, anger, apathy, etc.) and a
real or imagined loss. These contain no physical pain—they are moments of shock and
stress and depend for their force on earlier engrams which have been restimulated by the
circumstances of the secondary. (PXL, p. 250)
- a moment of misemotion where loss is threatened or accomplished. Secondaries contain
only misemotion and communication and reality enforcements and breaks. (SOS, p. 112)
- a very severe moment of loss. It's either anger against losing, fear of losing, or fear
because one has lost, or the recognition that one has lost. (PDC 4)
- a mental image picture of a moment of severe and shocking loss or threat of loss which
contains unpleasant emotion such as anger, fear, grief, apathy or
"deathfulness." It is a mental image recording of a time of severe mental
stress. A secondary is called a secondary because it itself depends upon an
earlier engram with similar data but real pain. (DPB, p. 6)
