a facsimile is a memory recording for a finiteperiod 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 mindlead 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 facsimilecan 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 universeswitchboard called the brain and nervous and glandular system to monitoraction. 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. Oldpaincan b e recontacted. Oldpain, in facsimileform, oldemotion in facsimileform, 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 lasttime 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 havefinitelife, are long since replaced although the body goes on. Hence the facsimiletheory. 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 canrecall a memorypicture 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 recallmechanisms of your controlcenters. There are facsimiles of everything you have experienced in your entire lifetime and everything you have imagined. —APA Glossary (app 11.7.90)