a
facsimile is a
memory recording for a
finite period of
time. It is considered that
memory is a
static without
wavelength,
weight,
mass or
position in
space (in other words, a true
static) which yet receives the impression of
time,
space,
energy and
matter. A careful examination of the
phenomena of
thought and the
behavior of the
human mind lead one to this
conclusion. The
conclusion is itself a
postulate used because it is extremely useful and
workable. This is a
point of
echelon in
research, that a
facsimile can be so described. The description is mathematical and an
abstract and may or may not be
actual. When a
thought recording is so regarded, the problems of the
mind rapidly
resolve.
Facsimiles are said to be "stored." They
act upon the
physical universe switchboard called the
brain and nervous and
glandular system to
monitor action. They appear to have
motion and
weight only because
motion and
weight are recorded into them. They are not stored in the cells. They
impinge upon the cells. Proof of this
matter rests in the
fact that an
energy which became a
facsimile a long
time ago can be recontacted and is found to b e violent on the
contact.
Pain is stored as a
facsimile.
Old pain can b e recontacted.
Old pain, in
facsimile form,
old emotion in
facsimile form, can reimpose itself on
present time in such a
wise as to deform or otherwise physically
affect the
body. You can go back to the last
time you hurt yourself and find there and reexperience the
pain of that hurt, unless you are very
occluded. You can recover
efforts and exertions you have made or which have been made against you in the
past. Yet the cells themselves, which have
finite life, are long since replaced although the
body goes on. Hence the
facsimile theory. The
word facsimile is used as bluntly as one uses it in connection with a drawing of a box top instead of the
actual box top. It means a
similar article rather than the article itself. You can
recall a
memory picture of an elephant or a photograph. The elephant and the photograph are no longer present. A
facsimile of them is stored in your
mind. A
facsimile is
complete with every
perception of the
environment present when that
facsimile was made including
sight,
sound,
smell,
taste,
weight,
joint position and so on through half a hundred
perceptions. Just because you cannot
recall motion or these
perceptions does not mean they were not recorded fully and in
motion with every
perception channel you had at the
time. it does mean that you have interposed a
stop between the
facsimile and the
recall mechanisms of your
control centers. There are
facsimiles of everything you have experienced in your entire lifetime and everything you have imagined.
—APA Glossary (app 11.7.90)