CHAPTER B1 - FUNDAMENTALS OF AUDITING
TECHNIQUE
If you knew eight techniques, let's say, and you were darn certain of technique two, you would do much better to take this technique two and operate with it than you would be to try to operate with all eight.
A technique which leads to a certainty is superior to a technique which leads to a partial certainty.
A technique that works uniformly on preclears would be a good technique. But can it be taught to an auditor? No? Gee - that technique isn't worth a darn.
You cannot make a better Homo sapiens with any other more recent process than Dianetics - DMSMH and Science of Survival. Start operating on Homo sapiens with techniques above that level, we no longer get a Homo sapiens. We go into Anvanced Procedure and Axioms and the fellow starts to fly apart. We get something different.
We take Theta Clearing techniques
and apply them to Homo sapiens and you are going straight on toward Theta
Clear.
Here's Cause and Effect
at work: you postulate what kind of an effect you want to achieve, you
have to take it from the level of Cause that will produce that Effect.
We work toward this effect and we have the ritual necessary to produce
this effect.
Any preclear works on these basics.
1. Auditing
The variable in Standard Operating Procedure is the auditor. This variable will to a large extent establish the amount of time required to apply it.
1.1. Logic and the Preclear's Case
It doesn't do much good to
be logical about a preclear. We know in Scientology there are so many things
that can be wrong with him in this universe. We know he has so many can'ts
on create, and so many can'ts on destroy, and so many can'ts on change
in this universe on eight dynamics. And we know he's got these various
compartments of eight dynamics, and he can't do some of these things. That's
that. You run mock-ups on these things, and your preclear'll come out all
right. There's no sense in trying to be logical.
Never bother to ask him,
"Why? Now why was that aberrative to you?" Never ask him to evaluate, because
the silliest trick of this universe is: beyond the progressive line of
agreement there is no logic in this universe.
Engineering, mathematics
and electronics seem to be so certain and so true. But they are only the
track of agreement - there is no logic beyond that agreement.
Logic was not used to work
out Scientology.
1.2 Good and Bad Auditing
For those who wanna fail with a preclear, the best one is - you try to make him agree with the real universe.
Some auditors go at exteriorization
on this basis. They put out the kind of feeling, "Let's abandon the space
of the body, let's abandon all that energy and let's get out of that object
and move back. Now, are you all in control of the physical universe and
do you feel better?"
"No, no." The guy is practically
unconscious, he's in terrible state instantly, because the auditor has
reduced him in consciousness.
The proper slant on theta
clearing is to ask him to assume control of more space, to develop more
energy and to demonstrate to him he can have an unlimited number of objects.
You want to know how to be
a bad auditor? Drive in your preclear's anchor points.
You want to know how to
be a good auditor? Remedy him so he can get'em out again. And then so he
can get'em out and bring'em in at will. Because that's the total size factor
involved.
1.3 Communicating with the Preclear
Find out what the preclear is doing. And when he says something, find out what he said, if you don't understand it. If he tells you something peculiar that you don't immediately grasp, find out what he told you and what he's talking about.
When you give him a mockup, did he do it? Wait for his "Um-hmm".
You have to keep your ear open. The preclear is not noted for talking loudly or being succinct or distinct or anything else.
If you don't have a two-way communication channel with the preclear - pow! He's going to go into apathy.
In asking for mock-ups, you
can err only on the side of being too quick; you can't err on the side
of being too slow. You can make things dull, but that's better than to
have them too fast. Only ask him to do one thing at a time. And you've
got it.
But find out what the preclear's
talking about. The preclear says, "Wub-lub-zub-zub-zub." All this time
he's trying to tell the auditor, "I've got a facsimile of my mother and
it's stuck right square in my face and I can't get rid of it."
One case had, I don't know
how many arduous hours of auditing and travail piled on top of it by this
incredible one: Three times this guy was out of his head looking at the
room clearly, told the auditor so, and the rattle and bang of command which
continued to hammer and pound him was such that he couldn't make himself
understood.
This dumb auditor didn't
have enough sense, when the pc said, "Mup-wup-wub-wub," to say, "What did
you say?" And he would have found out the guy was having difficulty making
his jaws work because he was out of his head.
1.4 Session Set-Up for Creative Processing
When running processes that
produce exteriorization,
like: "Be three feet back
of your head," move the preclear bodywise out more than three feet from
the wall. You want him to have at least five or six feet of leeway between
himself and the wall, and between himself and the two side walls.
And you do not want him
lying on a couch. You want him sitting in a chair. And you want the back
of his head above the level of the chair.
Why? Guy doesn't want to
move into all that MEST; he's got an idea about it.
2 Rules of Auditing
2.1 Outlook
I can bust all kinds of rules in processing and never get in serious trouble. But when I start busting the "shuns" (invalida-tion and evalua-tion) I generally get a little bit sorry, one way or the other - something will happen.
I may not follow my own rules, but I sure know the rules. And to a large degree when I am extremely successful with somebody or other, I have followed the rules.
2.2 Changing as the PC changes
Do not change process in
the middle of a preclear scream. If the process which you're using got
him there, the process which you used will get him through it.
You got him in there - to
the stuck picture - with one route (e.g. Creative Processing) and you're
trying to take him out with another route (process the real incident, just
a few passes at effort processing) - it won't work.
2.3 Effectiveness
In the lower band, you can't attract his attention or get him to do any of these other things; you have to do the lower band processes, which is to get some accessibility. And then you go right on with the rest of it.
As an auditor, don't you ever let your own willingness to avoid force inhibit your restoring to an individual his right to be free.
2.4 Controlling the PC
The way you control the preclear is you place him in space and time. And never let him get the idea he's placing himself in space and time. Although you're trying not to be bad cause, if you're not willing to do that, you're not willing to handle the force of a preclear.
2.5 Sympathy
Your sympathy is only valuable
to a preclear if you give it from an altitude. And the only way to gain
altitude is simply to be cause. And you're cause by locating them in time
and space. You tell them when they're supposed to be there and when they
leave.
And so we have a condition
resulting here of a preclear who is going to get well. Not a preclear who's
going to come in and burn up some time and pay you a fee and go out again
and monkey around.
It's much easier to get a
great deal of money out of somebody who's on a down spiral into becoming
MEST than it
than it is to get money
out of somebody who is going on an up spiral toward becoming theta. So
go very cautious about this. I mean, slow down, hold motion, and you'll
be able to get a lot of MEST. Remark: from the original context, it's totally
clear that Ron means this remark humorously. Of course, people who don't
understand the rest of the lecture might fix themselves on a comment like
that and interpret it literally.
2.6 Excuses
That you are there, is fortuitous. You are doing the preclear such a hell of a favor, that you never have to ask him for a license to survive. But also don't look at the preclear and expect that he's going to thank you tremendously.
2.7 PC Wins and Indicators
If in a single session you
don't watch this preclear's face change five or six times, you're not getting
anyplace. You haven't done a good assessment.
His perceptions start to
get worse and worse - you missed picking up a can't.
At least every 20 minutes
your preclear ought to laugh in a process. He ought to giggle or feel relieved
or something of the sort. If he's not doing that, you're not hitting close
home. And you're missing can'ts.
Sooner or later in using
any of the steps you're going to hit a win. And leave him in a win and
keep him winning, because winning goes up-scale.
RUINING OR HELPING THE PC
You're cause. And the preclear
just looks at you and your attitude and your tone of voice and he knows
immediately that you're doing something for him. And it's just inevitable
that you're going to do something for him. Why, he goes ahead and lets
it happen about ten times as fast.
But if he looks at you and
he sees doubt and uncertainty and request to survive and all that sort
of thing written all over the place, and then he'll hold it up for ten
times as long as he should have.
The duration of his havingness
of aberration extends somewhat in the face of your apology for being able
to do something for him.
Any time you figure you utterly ruined a preclear, you got scared. "I'm afraid to hurt anybody," that is the biggest curtain of all. The guy brings that down and he doesn't tell himself what's true: "I'm too cowardly to do anything about it." So he substitutes that for, "I don't want to hurt his feelings".
Number one: Don't have any
qualms about ruining somebody. That'll ruin far less.
Number two: If you found
out he was ruined, so what? He was ruined by the MEST universe before you
got your hands on him.
In each and every case so
far examined where anything like a preclear spin happened, the auditor
didn't finish the technique, he didn't finish what he started out to do.
He was insufficiently cause to produce an effect.
Courage could be summed
up in (1) being willing to cause something and (2) going ahead to achieve
the effect one has postulated against any and all odds. There just doesn't
happen to be any such thing as failure.
CAUTIONS
1. Preclear doing a Bunk
Step One is a very easy step. Do a bunk is its only liability.
When a guy decides he'll do a bunk, he shoots out of his head and he's on his way. He hits the dispersal just adjacent to a ridge.
Sometimes the preclear will
"do a bunk" when going exterior.
"Be two feet back of your
head."
"Nuooong!" and the body
goes collapse. The heart's still beating, the lungs are still breathing
'cause the GE runs those, but the thetan, he's done a bunk.
She is just passing Arcturus.
If somebody does a bunk
on you, coax them back. They seldom leave dead bodies on your hands.
What happened is this preclear
is suddenly shedding all his/her responsibilities. They're quite startling.
Sometimes they get out and
they don't know how to make the body handle anymore.
There's the kind of One that does a bunk. The body sags, it's just a rag doll and there you sit. Another person does a different type of bunk, unwillingly, and is still in communication, they get blown out of their heads and can't come back into it. They'll be up there against the ceiling looking down at the room, running some kind of glee of insanity. Or the pc suddenly screams with laughter and plasters him/herself up against the ceiling and sits up there and says, "Try and get me down now! Heh-heh-heh-heh!" You can practically feel this insanity emanate off them.
You can use old processes
if you want to:
"Get the beautiful sadness
of being responsible for everything on earth. Now get the beautiful sadness
of having this beautiful tomb for having been responsible for everythin
on earth." They can get that. "Boy!" they say, "that's phoney!"
Get the glories of being
responsible, the glories of being not responsible, and so on. Remember,
responsibility solves it. Make them start mocking up sane people who suddenly
go nuts, and nutty people who suddenly turn sane.
Whatever you do, do something
and do something effective. Action is always superior to inaction.
Actually, the body keeps
on running.
2. Boil-Off
Any flow run too long in
one direction will result in a boil-off. A boil-off is a state of unconsciousness
produced by a confusion of effort impinging upon one area. It is a slow-motion
unconsciousness. The fellow doesn't go out because of a direct blow; he
simply slides out gradually and rather painlessly, because of a small application.
To stop a boil-off, you
simply reverse the flow line. If you notice your preclear starting to boil
off, get something in whatever you're doing - this applies also to mock-ups
- get it to go around and flow in the opposite direction.
3. Facsimiles Moving In on the Preclear
You're doing all these mock-ups
of toy elephants, let's say, and there's an incipient facsimile right there,
about eight feet away. You don't process that. Forget it. That's a facsimile.
Just keep doing mock-ups and that thing will key out.
But if he gets a lose -
let's say, the elephant walks backward around the pedestal instead of forward
around the pedestal as he intended, the facsimile comes closer. Now it's
only six feet away.
And every time he has a
failure with that toy elephant, what will we find finally happens? There's
a great big elephant's foot planted squarely upon the preclear's chest
and the preclear has the full somatic of being squashed.
He's getting a visio of
an elephant with one foot halfway through his chest. How do you solve it
when it's gone that far? Give him a win with an elephant, that's all. Just
a win. Have a little toy elephant sitting out there in front of him.
"Now you've got that toy
elephant? Okay. Now have that toy elephant fall over." Yeah. What do you
know. The pressure comes up off his chest.
"Now have it fall over again,
roll once, yeah."
And so on, light things
the pc can do.
"How's that facsimile?"
"What facsimile?"
Remark: if the auditor fails to handle the can't as Ron directs in the lecture, or if facsimiles come in too close or too strongly, in modern auditing some kind of correction list would be run on the preclear, to get him afloat again.
Creative Processing carried
out any distance at all will land a person into such things as a complete
conviction that a cannonball is travelling richt straight toward their
middle, and that it is going to land any second. And they can practically
feel the wind of its arrival.
They're just certain, and
sometimes they'll look at you rather sadly and say, "Well, my body is about
to blow up and I hope you'll take care of things a little bit for me. I
hope it won't get you in trouble."
And what do you know? It
never does - it just never happens. This expected instant doesn't arrive.
You might know that you were within a split inch of it, but it just doesn't
get there.
Remark: the picture and
the moment the pc is stuck in is exactly the moment just before the impact,
where his effort is at its concentrated maximum.
If you just left him at that
point, this can happen: He could go home and then go to the hospital for
an operation or something.
Just because you were afraid
to hurt by not pushing through, you could kill him.
What is the missing ingredient
here? It isn't lack of courage in all cases. It's just not going through
to the effect which you desire to produce, that's all. You just fell short
and decided there was something else that you ought to go off on.
It's easy to start things
in this universe and it's damn tough to conclude them. And a guy gets into
a habit of never finishing anything. Don't let that one show up in your
processing of preclears.
4. Mocking Up Energy
To make a preclear sick at
4.0 or 5.0 on the Tone Arm of the E-meter, start him handling vials of
energy - little vials of energy (but he will come out of it and it is therapeutic).
Somewhere on the track,
the preclear would get inside of them as a thetan and be surrounded by
energy. Oh boy, lots of energy and go on a big binge. When he creates it,
the energy might be nice and bright red or green. It'll make your preclear
sick as a cat, it'd turn black and gets kind of solid, the second it comes
into conjunction with use - he's bringing it down tone scale. He's got
the idea that energy burns up. A person could have consumed enough of these
vials of energy to be himself a black mass of burned up energy.
Have them given away and
thrown away and wasted and anything else. Then he'll start to take them
in. He'll get up to a point where he can't get enough energy. Then you've
got to mock up all kinds of energy vials and capsules and tanks and so
forth around him in such a way that he can take this energy. Finally he'll
get upscale to a point where he doesn't care to bother with it any more.
5. Running Flows
You are going to worry yourself
into an early demise if you think your preclear has a reasonable case,
or that reason can finish off his case.
The second you go into the
level of flows you get into the area of unpredictable reverses and immediately
chaos ensues.
You start running a preclear on flows, his ability to do mock-ups will reduce, just like if you let a preclear start using pieces of the MEST universe or pieces of his facsimiles to patch up his mock-ups.
6. Other Cautions
You can wreck marriages, as an auditor, with great ease. Just process one of the marital partners without processing the other one.
Giving away air and taking in air, they practically gasp themselves into oblivion. Remark: so it supposedly is not recommended.
I'd do a lot before I'd put
a child to sleep in a dark room. If he's demonstrated fear of dark in the
first place, he's had something to do with deep space, just automatically.
It means electronic incidents. Another thing, it's kind of bad to leave
a beam shining acroos a kid's room. He'll wake up suddenly and he'll see
this thing, and that's just no good. Somebody's gunning for him.
ELECTROPSYCHOMETRY - THE E-METER AND METERING
Volney Mathison built this
special demonstration E-meter so that I could give demonstrations, so he
could give demonstrations. He makes these, I believe, for sale, for teaching
and so forth. The machine there is a very fancy and strange variety of
Wheatstone bridge.
He did it for Dianetics,
and tells you something about that in his literature that he puts out with
the machine. And he puts out as well a book I wrote on these, called "Electropsychometric
Auditing".
The machine actually measures,
according to the theory on which we are operating, the electronic density
of the preclear.
An individual has a certain
amount of dense energy in suspension. It's not energy flowing, it's ridges.
And when you feed through
him a tiny trickle of current, and the dense area of energy is restimulated
by what the preclear is answering up to, the way the current is modulated
on the machine, which can be viewed by the auditor on the dial, reflects
the amount of effort, emotion, counter-effort and counter-emotion in the
ridge, and its variation.
When it's restimulated by the auditor's questions, and by the preclear's actions, you get a variation of that needle. That's because it varies the current trickling through the preclear by the varying ridge.
How the preclear records on this machine depends on how dense he is. Remark: in electricity, density usually means increased conductivity and lowered ohmic resistance which goes in the direction of lower tone arm, but "density of mental mass" surrounding the preclear is associated with high tone arm and increased ohmic resistance.
A person registers off the
scale at the top. This person is dispersing. They're sitting in the middle
of an explosion.
If a person is way up scale
(the E-meter tone arm scale) and they are very easily upset, you've got
a dispersal case, and they sit between 1.0 and 1.3 on the Tone Scale. And
you just ask them to contact the feeling of something expanding.
The greatest exaggeration
of that is known as the Theta Bop. It's just a bullpen datum, an unsolved
problem. And the unsolved problem was the body itself.
You got yourself the body
he's stuck in and it's not the body he's in. Because that's the biggest
bullpen datum a preclear can have. It went wrong and the body shouldn't
have been killed.
That Theta Bop then, is
very important to you on theta clearing because you have to take him out
of the other body first before you take him out of this body.
You can still read an exterior preclear on an E-meter, if he didn't have good perception, because he's hooked to the body by communication lines.
The people with electronic
incidents think they've got all this electricity. Well, they aren't even
attached to it.
They've got it there with
a postulate. How do you get rid of it? Turn the postulate over. Every once
in a while you'll blow out an E-meter doing that trick.
Remark: some early E-meters
were connected to the mains and had a DC source like most electronic appliances;
later models, for safety reasons, are battery powered, to rule out the
possibility of inadvertently and unexplicably shorting the mains.
ELECTRONICS IN THE MIND
Once upon a time, sitting
down in Phoenix and I was monkeying around and I knew there was something
there...
I was waving a few meters
and cathode-ray tubes around in the air and I was doing a very Einsteinesque
performance.
I found out that electronic
flows were generated by facsimiles.
And I set it up to get a
condenser action by holding and getting the preclear to hold one facsimile
there and to hold another facsimile there and not let them discharge in
any way or shape or form. Just hold them there, even if it required two
hours or six hours. Let's hold these two in place and not let them vary
even vaguely.
And you do it for a very
short time and those facsimiles go BOOM!
It's a very fascinating
experiment. Leave it to somebody else to make future experiments. It gives
you a cold. It blows your nose up and explodes a ridge or two in your face.
Well, I already knew from
running incidents on the track that facsimiles could explode.
When we get an explosion,
it isn't what the preclear feels with his intuition. It knocks the E-meter
pins off, or it burns the coils out or it does something like that.
There's nothing mild, or
hard to read, if there's any meter left after one of these explosions.
Man creates energy, obvious.
You've done a mock-up and
here's this mock-up and obviously it's just your imagination. It obviously
doesn't have any energy in it, or if it did, it must have gotten it someplace
else.
Here's an instantaneous
mock-up appearing. No ridges, nothing. You just make this mock-up. And
you take that mock-up and you slap it into another facsimile and it goes
pam! and zing! goes the meter on the machine.
Hey, is it possible that
man is actually creating electricity?
It never occurred to anybody that thought was good enough and high enough and powerful enough to create something like that.
We should therefore be able
to look over electricity and find out if there wasn't something left out
of electricity.
And it's much too simple,
but it happens to be horribly true.
You've got to have a base,
which is made out of iron or wood or something of the sort. That base is
sitting there keeping those terminals apart.
If you just took two terminals,
every time you tried to turn anything over or furnish any effort in the
thing, why, the two terminals would simply go bang! and they'd just go
together.
And you'd separate them
very carefully and you'd turn the thing on again and their magnetism would
keep pulling them together. And you wouldn't get a current through that
line at all. The terminals got to be held rigidly apart.
And you extrapolate all this back again and you'll find out that it's absolutely essential to locate something in space and time in order to produce an electrical flow.
And the highest order of action (or of cause) then, for an electrical flow would be something that located in a space some somethings which could discharge from one to the other and then, only then, would you have an electrical flow.
You can rehabilitate an electric
shock case (rehab a guy who has received an electric shock) - just rehabilitate
the guy's ability to mock up force. You don't even address the electric
shocks.
ASSESSMENT
You put a person on this machine, the E-Meter, mostly to tell you what your course of action is going to be and to do an assessment to use in creative processing.
When we make an assessment of the case, we find out what he can't create. We just ask about objects, and items, and conditions. Under create and under destroy. We watch the little needle and we mark it as it dives, and we just make a graph of this character.
You not only take an assessment when you begin the case. You work the case maybe four or five hours, take another assessment. Because what's happened there is, you've gotten off the hottest factors. And the evaluation may have shifted so that the things which you assessed as can'ts before are now too minor to bother with. They've blown too, but there's some other can'ts that you didn't ask before which are ready to come up. If you take an E-meter assessment every few hours, you're in good shape with your case.
We have a way of doing an
assessment.
You don't ask a preclear
what's wrong with him, you don't diagnose him in any way. You just ask
him a series of questions and wherever the machine drops, why, that's the
question. And then you use creative processing on that zone of the eight
dynamics. The reason why you're doing it is to make a theta clear.
In the Handbook for Preclears, you'll find a list of relatives in an early Act, and then you'll find a list of the parts of the body. And let's find out about creating and destroying these relatives and these parts of the body. And then I have here a list of nouns - just hundreds of them. It's an inclusive list of objects suitable for assessing. Also, every kind of person you can think of.
RUNNING INCIDENTS
An auditor of past techniques had to go back on the time track and grind and finally it's all ground down and all of a sudden, boom! there's the postulate, springs into view. He reevaluates the postulate, bang! it's out and he feels pretty good about it, after you've worked for many many hours.
The over-all idea of locks, secondaries and engrams is handled now by creative processing.
You don't have to run grief
charges to cure loss anymore. That all comes under Gita, Step IV of Standard
Operating Procedure.
Remark: but creating and
uncreating grief, in mocked up form, is part of Creative Processing.
In Creative Processing, you don't have to run a single whole track incident, but you have to know every one of those electronic incidents. Why? So that you can give them the geometric object to handle which comprises the mainstay of the electronic incident.
You try not to produce dynamite (when running Creative Processing). You have to know all there is to know about phenomena on the track and what't there because you're approximating it with mock-ups. And you're asking the preclear to do what's good and pleasant in existence. The restimulative quality of this auditing is practically zero.
You have this factor: About
ten minutes of Creative Processing is worth hours and hours of running
the actual incident.
SELF-AUDITING
One of the reasons why people
respond better to being audited than auditing themselvesis, they don't
audit themselves, they just kinda dodge around because they're asking themselves
to take full responsibility for everything they do.
Well, it's much better to
have an auditor there and say, "Well, it's what he's doing. I'm not doing
it. Another fellow can do it with great ease."
In other words, having an
auditor is a gradient scale on automaticity which is also the scale of
responsibility.
It's almost dangerous to start them in self-auditing because they're not going to take responsibility for doing a good job of it. Another thing is, when they self-audit, they have to set up to some slight degree, a circuit auditing themselves or themselves auditing a circuit. It becomes a little more complicated and it isn't so good.
So why are we all of a sudden able to say it may be possible for a person to audit himself? Well, that's because SOP Issue 5 opposes and disagrees with flows. Doing mock-ups all by itself, by oneself, is tremendously improving.
It is also possible to give oneself a Creative Processing Assist after for example an automobile accident.
Self-auditing - God knows how long it would take him, how many times he would falter, how many mistakes he would make, how many times he would get upset and fell like he was about to die as a result of not having finished a session. All of those things regardless, we have a possibility sitting there.
You'll find yourself lower
on the scale of Steps when you're self-auditing. I mean lower than another
auditor would find you, because you've got to set up a circuit to audit.
But if you were to sit down and do this, theoretically you could then attain
theta clear in God knows how many hours - five hundred hours of self-auditing?
SOME BACKGROUND DATA
1. Structure vs. Function
I spent a year doing nothing
but studying the endocrine system. I studied the endocrine system and structure
at will.
The endocrine system is
really some kind of an alarm, or monitoring system of the body. But it
did not respond to matter. It couldn't be monitored very much by matter,
but it could be monitored by the mind.
You could take somebody and
you could remove a compulsion or an inhibition and his endocrine balance
would just go way up along the line. Or you could hypnotyze him and selectively
repress almost any gland he had. That's function.
But you could feed him hormones
and you couldn't materially change his behavior.
So I had solved the basic
problem of what did you study? Structure or function? Could you change
structure and function by handling only structure? Structure was not the
answer or the road to an answer because you couldn't do anything with structure.
Could you change structure
and function by handling only function? Yes, according to the above - if
you varied their mind, you varied their structure.
So we've moved straight out of structure entirely. The second the guy can handle all force, he can handle structure.
2. Hypnosis
Hypnosis is a wild variable;
sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. It worked on some people; it
didn't work on other people. Any time you have a variable that is as wild
as this, study it.
The essence of solving problems
is the essence of solving one against the other: the highest certainty
that you can reach, versus the most variable thing you could reach.
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CHAPTER B1