an item or identity the pc has actually been sometime in the past (or present). It is "the pc's own valence" at that time. In the Goals- Problem-Mass, those identities which, when contacted, produce pain, tell us at once that they are terminals. The person could feel pain only as himself (thetan plus body) and therefore identities he has been produce pain when their mental residues (black masses) are recontacted in processing. See also GPM in this glossary.—AcademyLevel IV Glossary