abbreviation for Goals Problem Mass, a mental mass created by two or more opposed ideas which, being opposed, balanced and unresolved, makes a mental energymass. GPMs are composed of beingnesses that the person has been and has fought, these identities being hung up on the postulate - counter-postulate of a problem. Each GPM is founded on a basicgoal. Some cover 2.5 trillion years and some much more, though the last one formed may be only partially formed and cover as little as 60 thousand years. The auditing of goals and Goals Problem Masses is the subject of numerous processesdeveloped by LRH in the early and mid-1960s in the process of discovering the exact structure of the reactive mind. See also goal in this glossary.—NED Approved Glossary