CHAPTER 5: The
Practices of Scientology
"If a man wants to be
psychoanalysed, he ought to have his head examined".
- attributed to Sam
Goldwyn.
119. The practices of Scientology
in relation to its followers can conveniently be described through the
three consecutive phases of recruitment, contracts, and processing.
(a) Recruitment
120. The recruitment of new
Scientologists is carried on in a number ways, such as advertising by
hand-bills, follow-up letters. and direct face-to-face salesmanship.
121. Typical hand-bills, handed
to passers by in the street, will contain passages such as these:-
ATTEND THE FREE PERSONAL
EFFICIENCY COURSE
SCIENTOLOGY IS EXPANDING
SCIENTOLOGY IS FOR YOU!
LEARN TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN
YOUR LIFE
BECOME MORE EFFICIENT
TAKE THIS FREE COURSE
LEARN WHAT YOUR LIFE IS ALL
ABOUT (10)
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DIANETICS NOW COMPLETELY
ERASES THOSE THINGS WHICH MAKE A PERSON SUSCEPTIBLE TO AND HOLD IN
PLACE PHYSICAL ILLNESS
THE END PRODUCT OF
DIANETICS IS A HAPPY, WELL, HIGH IQ PERSON
LEARN THE SKILLS OF
DIANETIC AUDITING
ENROL NOW ON THE FANTASTIC
HUBBARD STANDARD DIANETICS COURSE
DIANETICS IS THE ANSWER TO
THE HUMAN MIND
WHEN YOU HAVE THE ANSWER TO
THE HUMAN MIND ANYTHING CAUSED BY THE HUMAN MIND CAN BE REMEDIED
BECOME A STANDARD DIANETIC
AUDITOR
TAKE THE FANTASTIC NEW HUBBARD
STANDARD DIANETICS COURSE AND LEAM ALL ABOUT
- THE ERASURE OF PAIN
AND SUFFERING, RUIN, DISASTER AND SHOCK
- THE RESOLUTION OF
MENTAL AND PHYSICAL PROBLEMS
- INCREASING
INTELLIGENCE (11)
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JOIN THE CRUSADE TO MAKE A
HEALTHY ENGLAND
WHY BE TIRED?
WHY BE IN PAIN?
WHY FEEL BAD?
THE ANSWERS TO HUMAN
SUFFERING HAVE BEEN FOUND WITH DIANETICS. (14)
122. Clubs, groups and
professional men are frequently sent circulars containing similar
material. Anyone evincing the slightest interest - by attending one of
the free lectures or buying a book - stands a fair chance of receiving a
number of personal follow-up letters (if his address is known) on such
lines as:-
"Honey, come to St. Hill real
soon for your upper levels of Processing and Training and expand on
your road to freedom! Write me soon".
"Did you get any data out
of the book "A New Slant on Life" which you could apply to your own
life? I really do want to hear from you on this, as I am
interested".
In none of these documents is
there any suggestion that Scientology is a religion.
123. The persistence of the
follow-up is sometimes quite remarkable. In one case, someone who
received auditing in 1965, and then lost interest, has had no fewer than
27 pressing communications through the post in an endeavour to bring
them back into the fold. One, in 1968, was in these terms:-
"LONDON ORGANIZATION
QUALIFICATIONS DIVISION
EXAMINATIONS DEPARTMENT
SUMMONS
Name: ........................... Date.........
Course: ..............................
Dear.......................
It has come to the
attention of the Department that you have failed to:
a. continue on the road to
Total Freedom
b. have not been auditing
c. have been building a
large Ethics file
d. other
..............................
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You are to Report to the
Examiner on or before ... to ...
a. show reason why you
should not be removed from Scientology
b. show reason why you
should not be removed from course
c. show reason for your
not continuing
d. show reason why you
should not be turned over to Ethics.
e.
.............................................
Failure to report will
result in the assignment of the Condition of DOUBT with full
penalties.
Sincerely,
........................................ Clerk of the Department of
Examinations,
London
CONDITION OF DOUBT
When one cannot make up
one's mind as to an individual a group org or project a Condition of
Doubt exists.
PENALTIES FOR DOUBT
Debarment from premises. Not
to be employed. Payment of fine amounting to any sum may have cost
org. Not to be trained or processed. Not to be communicated or
argued with."
The latest, sent early in 1970,
reads as follows:-
"Please circle YES or NO in
the following:
1. Do you currently have
any aches or pains? YES/NO
2. Do you suffer from
fatigue? YES/NO
3. Do you have any
problems with work? YES/NO
4. Do you suffer from
illness? YES/NO
5. Have you had any
unsuccessful medical treatment? YES/NO
6. Are you currently
recuperating from some illness? YES/NO
7. Do you feel you are
getting into a rut? YES/NO
8. Do you have problems
with money? YES/NO
9. Do you have any
marriage difficulty? YES/NO
10. Do you have
difficulty with children? YES/NO
11. Do you have
business problems? YES/NO
12. Do you have
problems with study? YES/NO
13. Do you have difficulty
with personal relations? YES/NO
14. Which one of the
above questions you have answered "yes" to would you like to get
handled first?
15. Please give as many
details on this as possible. Answer on reverse side of this
form.
After filling in this form
please return to:
THE LETTER REGISTRAR,
THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY
OF CALIFOMIA,
THE HUBBARD SCIENTOLOGY
ORGANIZATION IN LONDON,
68 Tottenham Court Road,
London W.1."
124. The face-to-face approach
cannot be described better than in Mr. Hubbard's own words:-
"HUBBARD
COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 23
OCTOBER 1965
DISSEMINATION DRILL
Remimeo
Field Staff Members
Sthil Grads
Sthil Students
The Dissemination Drill has
four exact steps that must be done with a person you are
disseminating to.
There is no set patter, nor
any set words you say to the person.
There are four steps that
must be accomplished with the individual and they are listed in the
order that they should be done:
1. Contact the individual:
this is plain and simple. It just means making a personal contact
with someone, whether you approach them OR they approach you.
2. Handle: if the person is
wide open to Scientology, and reaching, this step can be omitted as
there is nothing to handle. Handle is to handle any attacks,
antagonism, challenge or hostility that the individual might express
towards you and / or Scientology. Definition of "handle": to
control, direct. "Handle" implies directing an acquired skill to the
accomplishment of immediate ends. Once the individual has been
handled you then -
3. Salvage: definition of
salvage: "to save from ruin". Before you can save someone from ruin,
you must find out what their own personal ruin is. This is basically
- What is ruining them? What is messing them up? It must be a
condition that is real to the individual as an unwanted condition,
or one that can be made real to him.
4. Bring to understanding:
once the person is aware of the ruin, you bring about an
understanding that Scientology can handle the condition found in 3.
This is done by simply stating Scientology can or, by using data to
show how it can. It's at the right moment on this step that one
hands the person a selection slip, or one's professional card, and
directs him to the service that will best handle what he needs
handled.
These are the steps of the
Dissemination Drill. They are designed so that an understanding of
them is necessary and that understanding is best achieved by being
coached on the drill
COACHING THE DRILL
Position: Coach and student
may sit facing each other a comfortable distance apart, or they may
stand ambulatory.
Purpose: To enable a
Scientologist to disseminate Scientology effectively to individuals.
To enable one to contact, handle, salvage and bring to
understanding, another being. To prepare a Scientologist so that he
won't be caught "flatfooted" when being attacked or questioned by
another.
Patter: There is no set
patter. The coach plays the part of a non-Scientologist and displays
an attitude about Scientology upon being approached by the student
The student must then handle, salvage, and bring the coach to
understanding. When the student can comfortably do these steps on a
given coach's attitude, the coach then assumes another attitude,
etc., and the drill is continued until the student is confident and
comfortable about doing these steps with any type of person. This
drill is coached as follows:-
The coach says, "Start".
The student must then (1) contact the coach, either by approaching
the coach or being approached by the coach. The student introduces
himself and Scientology or not, depending upon the mocked-up
situation. The student then (2) handles any invalidation of himself
and / or Scientology, any challenge, attack or hostility displayed
by the coach. The student then (3) salvages the coach. In this step
the student must locate the ruin (problem or difficulty the coach
has with life), and point out that it is ruinous and get the person
to see that it is.
When 3 has been done, you
then (4) bring about an understanding that Scientology can do
something about it. Example: the coach has admitted a problem with
women. The student simply listens to him talk about his problem and
then asserts - "Well, that's what Scientology handles. We have
processing, etc. etc." When the coach indicates a realization that
he did have a problem and that something might be done about it, the
student presents him with a selection slip, or a professional card,
routing him to the service that would best remedy the condition.
The coach must flunk for
comm lags, nervousness, laughter or non-confront. The coach would
similarly flunk the student for failure to (1) contact, (2) handle,
(3) salvage, and (4) bring to understanding.
Training Stress: Stress
giving the student wins. This is done by using a gradient scale in
the coach's portrayal of various attitudes, and staying with any
selected until the student can handle it comfortably. As the student
becomes better, the coach can portray a more difficult attitude.
Stress bringing about for the
student the accomplishment of the purpose of this drill.
A list of things to handle
and another of ruins to discover can be made up and used.
Do not specialize in either
antagonistic attitudes or an eagerness to know about Scientology.
Use both and other attitudes. One meets them all.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH: aw
Copyright (c) 1965
by L. Ron Hubbard
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED"
125. Mr. Hubbard is very conscious
of the importance of sales promotion and financial affluence for the
continued success of Scientology. The following examples of his internal
instructions on the subject show the nature of his concern:-
"The following points are a
summary of the basic principles of promotion. It is important that
you understand them and apply them in your promotion.
1. The basic
principle of promotion is to drive in more business than can be
driven off by a service unit or mistakes can waste. This applies to
any promotion anywhere.
Never allow your standard
of how many people should be brought into the org to be set by any
other division or part of the organization. Promote as far above as
possible the present operating capacity of the organization and you
will win.
From this it follows that
Tech or any other part of the Org can never tell the Dissemination
Division when or how many customers to bring in or that "we can only
handle 10 preclears this week". It is the job of promotion to drive
in as many preclears as possible. Its up to Tech to find the space
and the auditors.
In other words, promotion
must be so huge and effective so that even if other divisions are
blocking the line or driving people off so many people are being
crowded into the org by promotion that it makes up for any waste one
by other parts of the org. You get the idea. Its [sicl not
flattering but it is the stable datum that successful promotion
anywhere operates on. By the way, the error does not necessarily
have to be within the org. A bus strike could temporarily prevent
people from across town being able to start the HRS Course.
Promotion should have promoted so mach the Course is still full
despite such an error.
The motto of promotion
could be "we shall overcome - by numbers" ... "Despite any errors we
bring in so many people into the org continually or sell so many
books that even if the body registrar drives them off at gun point
enough will get through to keep the statistics rising".
2. If a promotional
programme does not seem to work find out where it is not being
applied - don't Q and A and abandon the programme. Spot instead the
non-compliance which is preventing it from going into operation.
3. Later promotional
programmes will not work if earlier ones have not been executed.
Example: the programme is to send out fliers to sell bla bla to all
buyers of foo-foo's. But it turns out that the original programme to
compile a list of 1he buyers of foo-foo's off old invoices was not
done therefore a flier to sell bla bla can't be sent to buyers of
foo-foo's. And since the invoices were burnt up by some long gone
suppressive (let's say) the original programme can't be carried out
What to do?
Don't give up or abandon
the programme of selling bla bla to buyers of foo-foo's. Get clever
and dream up some other way of compiling the list you want. Maybe
it's as simple as a notice in your local newspaper or a
questionnaire to everyone in your files: "Did you ever buy foo-foo's?".
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Finally, promote until the
floors cave in because of the number of people - and don't even take
notice of that, just keeping promoting." (l3)
"TO All Staff Saint Hill
Other Org Executives
FROM: RON
SUBJECT: How Saint Hill went from financial Crisis to Affluence in
13½ months.
ANALYSIS OF STHIL
AFFLUENCE
Pending further Analysis of
the affluence, the following is noted. It began, it seems, before
Power Processing service was offered but accompanies opening of the
HGC.
The basis of the affluence
is a continuation of my taking charge of Saint Hill in April 1964
when it had been dropped to about £20,000 in the red by former
management.
In November 1963 Mary Sue
Hubbard briefly took over Registration lines and obtained a short
resurge, salvaging immediate catastrophe.
In December 1963 I designed
promotion for Saint Hill consisting of designing the Auditor. It
took over 4 months to get out first issue and I realized I had to
take over and reorganize in April 1964. The three corporation scheme
proposed by Damonte and Palmer and Company had proven completely
catastrophic. I reverted to HASI Inc Arizona throughout the
Commonwealth and redesigned the org as one corporation with
production departments, which org board lasted for about a year -
until April 1965.
I began to unjam lines in
April 1965 by designing a new org board. Since that has been done
and as it is gotten in a resurge has occurred.
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SAINT HILL STABILITY
All this time (Apr
1964-June 1965) Saint Hill has been on an increasing statistic.
Mary Sue Hubbard worked hard
from June 1964 to January 4, 1965 handling the org as Org Sec
particularly legal and finance, and it became more stable
financially.
I designed and began to
press home new promotion and organization from April 1964 to January
4, 1965 and worked heavily to align low level tech Levels 0 to 4 and
get it into action.
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ETHICS
Ethics is a large reason
for attaining affluence. To the degree it has gone in we have
prospered. There is almost a parallel curve between Ethics going in
at Saint Hill and our recent income curve.
Lack of Ethics in 1963 cost
Saint Hill over £20,000 actual known pounds in non-compliance, waste
and other reasons.
Lack of it in 1964 made me
do my work over and over and spend hours at my desk that were needed
on research.
Lack of Ethics being in
made the vacation of 6 weeks in January and February a vital
necessity. Yet that vacation, taking my attention off org lines,
brought them close to disaster. Thus we see overwork, caused by
non-compliance, etc., resulted in a necessity for a vacation which
brought outer orgs close to the brink.
During the six weeks I was
away Saint Hill had a bit of slump and tech went out.
On return I reorganized the
Course, sought the reason for outer org slump and repaired it when I
finally got enough data, developed the new plan of organization now
in use, opened the HGC, developed and got in Ethics, developed the
power processes and got the org swinging with lots of help, all in
3½ months.
Toward the end of that
period we have had three weeks of Affluence and now a fourth which
takes Affluence back to "normal operation" as it is becoming common
to be in affluence at Saint Hill. We're in our fourth high week,
with many reservations of all kinds." (14)
"HUBBARD
COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 15
MARCH 1966
SH only
Guardian
Exec Secs
ES comm HCO
and
Legal Officer
CORPORATE ADDRESS
No corporate address
hereafter is to be Saint Hill.
This includes Hubbard College
of Scientology, C of S of Calif and any other corporation.
Crawley is a little
crossroads and their tax office is used to greengrocer accounts and
any sum above £15,000 is a fantastic sum to Crawley. Further,
Crawley's tax commissioners are East Grinstead and East Grinstead
saw a £10 note once and is still talking about it.
No large corporation should
ever use a rural one horse tax office as they can't understand real
business sums in such offices.
Always use a London address
and make sure you have one for all corporations.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH: ml
Copyright © 1966
by L. Ron Hubbard
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED"
126. Direct salesmanship is
encouraged by the payment of a commission of 10 per cent to 15 per cent
(which can be taken in cash or in the form of processing) to auditors
and students who succeed in enrolling new students. As in other
organisations who use direct selling techniques for their products,
there is intense competition between salesmen, whose status in the
organisation, as well as their earnings from it, is measured by the
value of their sales. 127. The following are some typical instructions
to such "Field Staff Members ":-
"THE ADVANCED
ORGANISATION
FLEET HOUSE, 10 SOUTHBRIDGE, EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
Production Division Advice
Letter of December 25th 1968
To ALL ADVANCED ORG FIELD
STAFF MEMBERS
Here's hoping you had a
very Happy and Merry Xmas and wishing you a very happy and
prosperous New Year for 1969.
1969 the year of the Sea
Org, the year in which Scientology BOOMS, with 100 per cent STANDARD
TECH ALL THE WAY.
YOU be part of this
tremendous BOOM. Go out and select lots of people to their Clearing
and OT levels and also select Class VI OT IIIs to the FABULOUS CLASS
VIII COURSE. Do it now, Don't wait till tomorrow, Don't put this
aside for later. Do it now, Take the enclosed Success stories and
find someone to show them, preferably a Scientologist, FIRE his
interest for Clearing and OT so that he has more push to get there
FAST. Get him or her moving. GET HIM HERE TO AOUK.
If you can't get out just now,
pick up the phone. Ring someone. Read them some of these Success
stories, select them, get them moving on the road. DON'T just put
this aside, DO something and above all:
GET PEOPLE HERE TO
THE AOUK. THIS IS HOW YOU EAM YOUR COMMISSION.
LOVE, QUENTIN KELLY
PUBLIC OFFICER AOUK.
Copyright © 1968
by L. Ron Hubbard
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED."
"THE ADVANCED
ORGANISATION
FLEET HOUSE
20 SOUTHBRIDGE EDINBURGH EHI 1LL SCOTLAND
Telephones 031-556-5074
and 031-556-5075
DISTRIBUTION DIVISION
ADVICE LETTER OF 22nd MAY 1969
Dear AOUK Field Staff
Member,
L. RON HUBBARD has just
sent us materials which will BOOM even further the effectiveness of
DIANETICS AND SCIENTOLOGY.
We need trained Auditors to
deliver to our public, who are demanding service, gains which are
beyond their expectations.
You can make it financially
in a very short time. Here is how
- Write or phone me
requesting full details of any of the following:
These will be rushed to you.
- Get your GUNG HO Group
very active, and through it get names and addresses, answers to
the survey question and actions completed in bringing about what
is needed and wanted. In so doing pick up the individual reach
for DIANETICS AND SCIENTOLOGY services.
- Send us the names of
Doctors and Psychiatrists who are known in your area so that we
can mail them the special offer letter
- Promote the NEW
STANDARD DIANETICS COURSE. This course can be completed in as
little as 10 days and the student completes as a HUBBARD
DIANETICS GRADUATE.
- SELECT those persons
whom you intend to help and 8-C, for DIANETIC Training and
Auditing up through CLEAR to the Upper Sections of O.T.,
training up to Class VIII Auditors and becoming a Scientology
Public Relations Officer via the AOUK P.R.O. Course.
We, as a group, are now
moving fast. We want you too to RUN WITH THE BALL.
We have the public where it's
at.
Mental Image Pictures and
all that!
We look forward to having
you financially affluent, a well and happy person who is making
total ability and spiritual freedom.
And this for all the people
whom you are helping too.
My very best wishes,
James Fuller,
Chief Officer.
Copyright © 1969
By L. Ron Hubbard
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED"
128. There are also franchise
holders, originally defined as "A professiona1 auditor, with a
classification to Level III or over, who practises Scientology full or
part-time for remuneration, who conducts processing and training
privately or to groups. whose understanding and experience of
Scientology is sufficiently broad for him to be publicized to others as
a stable terminal, who has signed a Franchise Agreement, who receives
Bulletins, Policy Letters, advice, advertising, technical information,
services and administrative data from HCO WW, and who, in return for
same, maintains regularly a weekly report and a weekly payment of ten
per cent of his gross income to HCO WW" (115).
Nowadays, although the
commercial arrangements remain the same, the wording has altered:
franchises are now granted by the "Mother Church" to "Missions" by means
of a "Charter":-
"This Charter gives official
authority to the individual who receives it to conduct a Mission in
the area specified. It does not confer any liability on the
Mother Church but it does confer upon the individual a right
to practice Dianetics and Scientology in his area. This right is
granted by the Mother Church by virtue of authority given it by L.
Ron Hubbard, sole owner of the materials and copyrights of Dianetics
and Scientology. The right is dependent upon usage, regular
remittance of tithes and the continued good standing of the
grantee." (1l6)
129. The usual procedure when a
potential pre clear first presents himself to the Scientology
organisations with a view to enrolment is to encourage him to take a
"free personality test" called the "Oxford Capacity Analysis." This test
has been investigated by a Working Party of the British Psychological
Society, the leading scientific body in this field in the United
Kingdom, incorporated by Royal Charter in 1965. The Working Party was
composed of a clinical psychologist, a consultant in psychological
selection, and a university lecturer in psychology, all members of the
Society's Council and distinguished experts in their field. Each of them
took the test at one or other of the Scientology shops in London and
Edinburgh.
130. The test consists of 200
written questions, to be answered "yes", "no" or "uncertain" (this may
not be easy to do when the question, like question 152, is in the form
"Do you rarely express your grievances?"). The members of the Working
Party answered the questions in differently but pre-determined. random
fashion (see below) which could not produce results of any significance:
in fact, they should all have come out pretty average in all personality
traits. The subsequent experience of one member of the Working Party
follows in his own words:-
"In this particular case the
inventory was deliberately responded to in a fashion designed to
produce an unpredictable result. As each question was read the
answer space was completed for the following question without
reference to the content of either question. On any known inventory
this procedure should produce a 'flat' profile, with few scores
departing significantly from the mean. When the profile chart was
presented on the second visit it showed extremely low scores on
three traits; all save one or two were below the 'desirability'
band. (The imprecision is due to the fact that, try as he might, the
'client' was not permitted to bring away the profile sheet). The
staff member who had scored the inventory expounded the extreme
scores with some urgency. He avoided questions on the meaning of the
scales, dismissing as irrelevant the trait words at top and bottom;
yet he invested the points on the scale with immense importance,
almost of a charismatic nature. His patter continually referred to
the inadequacies which the graph revealed - one point became 'failed
purpose' and another 'loss', although these terms were never
explained. He attempted to confirm his diagnosis of these poin1s on
the graph by such leading questions as "Do you often fail to achieve
what you set out to do?" and "Do you have difficulty making
friends?" Affirmative answers to these questions (which were given
readily) were, somehow, to be explained by the low scores and
the interpretation put on them.
In the course of the
session the following information was elicited from the Scientology
staff member:
(i) The test was devised
by "Oxford students, or the Oxford Dictionary people", he did
not know which;
(ii) He did not
understand the word 'percentile' - although it was he who
brought the word into the discussion. He looked it up in the
Concise Oxford Dictionary without success and decided it meant
'percentage'. He thereafter interpreted '90th percentile' as 90
per cent.
(iii) 'Most people'
scored beyond the 'minus 90' point on the three traits being
discussed
In general it was patent that
this person had no notion what the test was, how it was designed,
what it measured or what the scores meant. He had been trained to
produce this ill-informed commentary which, to a gullible anxious
person, might sound genuinely insightful. In fact he was pointing
out to an unknown member of the public 'inadequate' facets of his
personality shown up by an instrument which he did not understand.
In a second interview,
immediately following on, the 'Registrar' explained the hierarchy of
levels which could be attained by Scientology processing. He
described the courses offered by the organisation to remedy the
inadequacies shown up by the profile. All these courses would cost
money and a probable minimum total of one hundred guineas was quoted
to deal with the particular personality deficiencies shown up by the
OCA."
131. The conclusions of the
Working Party are summarised as follows:-
"The systematic quantification
of personality variables is one aspect of psychometric testing ....
All psychometric tests can be assessed in terms of their reliability
and validity. "Reliability" implies that a test yields similar
results under similar testing conditions. Various degrees of
reliability can be attributed to a number of sources of error. In a
properly constructed personality test the various effects of these
sources of error are systematically assessed. "Validity" implies
that a test measures what it claims to measure - i.e., that it is a
valid measure of the characteristic it claims to quantify. A test
may be reliable without being valid, but not vice versa. A known
degree of reliability is crucial to the use of any psychometric test
in a setting where its results are used with an individual case.
If a personality test is a
reliable device, then a systematic approach to answering the
questions should yield systematic variations in the conclusions
derived from an analysis of the test scores. That this is a property
of reliable tests may be assumed from a knowledge of formal test
theory such as any person competent to assess the results of a
psychometric test should possess. The members of the Working Party
used this property of reliability of psychometric tests to assess
the adequacy of the personality testing offered by the
Scientologists, by submitting themselves to testing as 'clients'
responding to the advertisements for free personality testing.
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For the purpose of making
their assessment of the status of the test, the members of the
Working Party employed three different methods of responding to the
test items when they themselves completed it:-
(a) one member answered
the questions at random, selecting the answer to be given
before reading the question;
(b) a second member
employed a method in which the response was pre-determined
regardless of the content of the question: if the final letter
of the question was a consonant in the range "a" to "m", he
answered "no"; if it was a consonant in the range "n" to "z" he
answered "yes"; if it was a vowel, he answered "uncertain";
(c) the third member
used the reverse of this procedure, so that he answered "yes"
where the second method produced the answer "no", and "no" where
the second method produced the "yes" response. The "uncertain"
response was given to the same questions as before.
This systematic variation in
response styles would be expected to affect the resultant profiles.
"Profiles" are an accepted manner of presenting the information
derived from some types of personality test. A random method of
response ((a) above) would be expected to produce scores close to
the mean of scores obtained during the standardising of the test.
Methods (b) and (c) should also result in profiles with low
deviations from the mean scores; if such deviations occurred these
two methods would be expected to produce different, if not
complementary, profiles. The Working Party verified that on two
accepted personality tests such systematic variations in answering
did produce variations in profile pattern.
These variations in
answering the questions did not seem to affect the Oxford Capacity
Analysis as the three methods produced remarkably similar profiles,
in which the scores on the first three scales were in an extreme
position in the range marked "unacceptable" ... All profile results
then rose into the "normal" or "desirable" range over the next 2-4
scales and showed a return to "unacceptable" over the remaining
scales.
If these three
systematically varied response styles had all produced "flat"
profiles, with few scores departing greatly from the mean, then we
would have considered that the Oxford Capacity Analysis could not be
criticised on these grounds. But when each of two diametrically
opposed methods of response produces the same extreme deviant scores
as the other and as a third "random" response style, we are forced
to a position of scepticism about the test's status as a reliable
psychometric device.
It should be noted that the
Oxford Capacity Analysis is not a personality test known in
psychological circles; it is not distributed by reputable test
agencies in this country; there is no research literature available
about it, nor is it listed in the Mental Measurements Year Book
which is internationally accepted as the authoritative source on
psychometric devices. While any one of these points does not in
itself indict a psychometric instrument, the failure of the Oxford
Capacity Analysis to meet all of them does, in our opinion,
constitute an extremely strong case for assuming it to be a device
of no worth. The scientific value and useful nature of the profile
apparently derived from completion of the Oxford Capacity Analysis
must consequently be negligible. We are of the opinion that the
Oxford Capacity Analysis and the profiles derived from its
completion are constructed in such a manner as to give the
appearance of being adequate psychometric devices, whereas, in fact,
they totally fail to meet the normally accepted criteria.
Taking the procedure as a
whole, one is forced to the conclusion that the Oxford Capacity
Analysis is not a genuine personality test; certainly the results as
presented bear no relation to any known methods of assessing
personality or of scaling test scores. The booklet itself might
produce genuine scores but these are not the
scores presented on the
profile. The legend 'produced and edited by the Staff of the Hubbard
Association of Scientologists International' which appears on the
cover is totally inappropriate to a personality measure - such an
instrument is not 'edited', it is developed through painstaking
research. The validity of the OCA booklet itself is therefore in
doubt.
No reputable psychologist
would accept the procedure of pulling people off the street with a
leaflet, giving them a 'personality test' and reporting back in
terms that show the people to be 'inadequate', 'unacceptable' or in
need of 'urgent' attention. In a clinical setting a therapist would
only discuss a patient's inadequacies with him with the greatest of
circumspection and support, and even then only after sufficient
contact for the therapist-patient relationship to have been built
up. To report back a man's inadequacies to him in an automatic,
impersonal fashion is unthinkable in responsible professional
practice. To do so is potentially harmful. It is especially likely
to be harmful to the nervous introspective people who would be
attracted by the leaflet in the first place. The prime aim of the
procedure seems to be to convince these people of their need for the
corrective courses run by the Scientology organisations."
132. A similar exercise was
carried out independently by Dr. David Delvin, who reported the outcome
in World Medicine (17). Again, I quote:-
"I settled down to the
'personality test'. This consisted of 200 questions of the type much
favoured by women's magazines (Are you considered warm-hearted by
your friends? Do you enjoy activities of your own choosing? Are you
likely to be jealous? Do you bite your fingernails?).
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Eventually, a young man
took my answers away for "processing". When he returned, he was
waving an impressive-looking piece of graph paper, around which were
printed figures, symbols, and various bits of McLuhanistic jargon.
Across the paper was drawn a line that looked something like the
Boat Race course. This, the young man told me, was my personality
curve.
The young man airily drew a
ring round the area of Putney, and said that this represented "other
people". A similar ring in the region of Barnes Bridge indicated
"myself", while another drawn round Mortlake Brewery apparently
represented "life". On the basis of all this, the young man gave me
a 20-minute personality analysis, which mainly consisted of
portentous-sounding pseudo-scientific neologisms ("You've got quite
a bit of agity and you re moderately dispersed, but we can help you
to standard tech.") He seemed bit vague about what these words
actually meant.
At the end, he said to me
impressively, "So you see. it's all very scientific - thanks to the
fact that our founder is a man of science himself".
"Oh yes, very scientific
indeed," I said.
I hadn't the heart to tell him
that his super-scientific system had failed to detect the fact that
I had marked the "don't know" column against all 200 questions in
the test."
133. It may be relevant to note
that none of these observers at any stage had it suggested to him that
Scientology was a religion.
131. I asked the Scientologists
what claims they made for the Oxford Capacity Analysis, on what
published evidence they were founded and what written instructions were
given to persons who interpreted the tests. Mr. Gaiman answered:-
"As far as I have been able to
discover, we don't make any particular claims about the Oxford
Capacity Analysis.
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All I say about the test is
that it is a reasonably reliable test for measuring individual
personality.
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I don't know if you have
received a paper from the British Psychological Society by three of
its members who went to our premises in London deliberately to make
a mockery of the tests by giving random answers. I would certainly
concede that it is possible to make a mockery of them. Newspaper
plants have also proved that it is possible to make a mockery out of
auditing. It does not discredit the tests, or auditing, for honest
men who are genuinely seeking a result."
He did not mention any published
evidence, or the existence of any instructions.
l35. If the sale of a training
course is concluded, the pre-clear is required to sign a standard form
of contract. This contains, amongst others, the following clauses:-
"(1) Whereas the applicant is
desirous of obtaining the services of the organization the applicant
hereby declares and makes known that it is understood and agreed
that any help given by L. Ron Hubbard, the organization, the
executives, auditors, supervisors and other personnel of the
organization is given entirely at their discretion individually and
severally and out of the goodness of their own hearts and that if at
any time any of them no longer desire to help the applicant through
processing and/or training the applicant may be suspended from such
processing and/or training without rebate or refund, recourse or
appeal.
(2) In consideration of
being accepted by the organization for training and/or processing
the applicant in addition to and supplementary to any and all other
agreements and undertakings herein after expressed in writing (no
oral agreements being valid or recognized), being over 21 years of
age and under no legal disability, undertakes to and does hereby
waive any and all claims, now and in the future howsoever arising
against L. Ron Hubbard, the organization, their employees, agents
and assigns and without reservation or duress release each of the
aforementioned from all liability for any consequences resulting
from processing and/or training practices and/or methods used and
applied by the aforementioned persons, and further undertakes:
(a) to pay to the
organization the fees for processing and/or training
(b) to act always in
accordance with the Scientology Ethics Codes and understands
that any violation of them may result in suspension or expulsion
from training and/or processing
(c) to have any
auditing and/or training in the Department of Review ordered by
those in whose charge the applicant is entrusted and to pay for
such at the current rates prevailing
(d) to waive any claim
or demand for refund or return of money paid or payable to the
organization by reason of receiving the . . . Course or
enrolling for the . . . Course, and further understands that if
an application for refund is made the applicant shall be in
default of the contract herein, subject to any default section
of the contract provided, and further undertake to release L.
Ron Hubbard, the Hubbard College of Scientology, the Church of
Scientology of California, the organization, its employees,
agents and assigns from any claim or suit whatsoever and not
make further claim or suit
(e) to receive no
auditing or training from other quarters without the express
permission of the Course Supervisor
(f) to guarantee to pay
his own transport out of the country.
(3) The applicant further
agrees, declares and makes known that he is enrolling with the
organization on his own determinism and has not been sent or ordered
by any other individual or group against his own determinism and
makes oath and say as follows:
(a) that he does not have
a purely medical illness that would be curable within the skill
of a physical practitioner
(b) that he does not
have a history or record of institutionalization in any insane
asylum or similar place
(c) that he does not
have a criminal record for felony
(d) that he is not
connected to any person or group who has been declared
suppressive
(e) that he understands
and agrees that there is no refund or rebate howsoever claimed
of money paid or to be paid to the organization for training and
/ or processing
(f) that he will
willingly undergo any E-Meter test requested by any authorized
HCO personnel
(g) that he understands
fully and completely that the purpose of the aforementioned
organization and persons are based upon the practice of
Scientology which is known to be a spiritual and religious guide
intended to make persons more aware of themselves as spiritual
beings and not treating or diagnosing human ailments of body or
mind and not engaged in the teaching or practising of the
medical arts or sciences and not granting scholastic degrees or
fumishing accreditation towards the requirements of college,
university, or scholastic degrees
(h) that he has fully
read and understood this document and has signed it of his own
free will and without coercion.
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I, . . . do agree that I
shall not divulge the contents of the . . . Course materials or any
future . . . Materials issued to me, to anyone, nor shall I copy it,
allow it to be copied, or re-issue it in any way. I agree to the
condition that should I default on this contract, I shall be
immediately suspended and the matter turned over to Ethics. who
shall treat such as a Suppressive Act and deal with it accordingly.
I agree not to discuss the Materials or my case in relation to it
with anyone other than a . . . Course Supervisor or a properly
assigned Review Auditor.
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UNDERTAKING
TO L. RON HUBBARD
In consideration of L. Ron
Hubbard researching into and developing Scientology and maintaining
high technical standards of Scientology now and in the future and
making such available to me through training and/or processing, I
hereby agree to waive any and all claims howsoever arising that I
may have against him now and in the future.
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UNDERTAKINGS
OF THE ORGANIZATION
We, the Operation and
Transport Services, Ltd., do hereby undertake, that in consideration
of the agreements entered into heretofore by . . . (the applicant),
to ensure personal case supervision for the duration of such period
as he is under our charge and to make every effort to ensure that
the applicant progresses and attains the end result of the training
or processing contracted for m the shortest possible time and to
give to the applicant such certificates of attainment."
It will be seen that this document
does contain a passing mention of Scientology as a "religious guide".
136. With the contract go the
arrangements for payment. On these, Mr. Hubbard has this to say:-
"Scientology organizations are
service organizations. Now, it goes without saying, that
service costs money. So please don't equate service with the idea
that it is all give away. People expect to pay for good service, and
they do pay for good service, unless you barrier the line, or by
some foolish handling, convince them otherwise.
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"Well, how about money,
then? How does this get handled?
"Simple. MONEY IS AN
ACCOUNTING FUNCTION. It IS the proper concem of Accounts. (Div 3 -
Dept. of Income).
"With Accounts, money is
simply collected. Accounts collects from the person the amount of
the price of the service desired. That is all there is to it. It
collects the amount, invoices it and routes a copy of the invoice
through the org lines to the Division that the service is to be
delivered in, so that they may know it is all right to go ahead and
deliver the service.
"The Invoicing-Cashier in
Department 7, Division 3 is at post preferably in a wicket. This is
exactly like a theatre ticket front, complete with the glass window
with the hole (small and awkward) in it to talk through and the hole
at the bottom to slide money through. Any amounts office door, if up
front in the org, can be fixed with a half door to look like this.
It would not at all be out of place for the cashier to wear a green
eyshade [sicl, and have a very detached attitude about
anything except money or money matters. Very businesslike. Posted on
the outside of the wicket or immediately in the area on display
signs is the prices for books, materials and services offered by the
org. If the cashier is asked for data, he points to the proper sign.
"A person coming into the
org first comes into Reception. If the person wants a service he or
she is routed to the Body Registrar. The Body Reg talks about and
signs the person up for service. If the person has a question about
the cost, the Body Reg says "You will need to talk to Accounts about
that" and routes them to the Invoicing Cashier, who shows them the
prices on the display signs. When the Body Reg has signed the person
up for the service on proper contract and release forms, the person
is routed to the Invoicing Cashier for paying.
"The Invoicing Cashier
(Dept 7) always expects for the service to be paid for, i.e. expects
cash, not credit. The subject of credit must not be brought up by
the Invoicing Cashier. For example, the question would be "Are you
going to pay this by cash or cheque" . . . NEVER "IS this going to
be cash or credit?". If the person is going to ask for credit, then
it must be his origination. In the event it is asked for, then it
must have the Org Sec.'s OK, who before giving it, must check the
person's past credit record with the org. People who have a bad
payment record on their org bills must not be extended further
credit. When credit is extended, a proper note must be signed at 12
per cent interest if not paid in 90 days and they must sign the
debiting invoice.
"When the service is completed
with the person, the last person he sees on the org lines is the
Body Registrar, who channels the person to further service.
"The Reception area,
Invoicing Cashier, and Book Store should be located close to one
another. If someone comes in wanting a book, he or she is routed to
the book store in which books are on display, but separated as to if
they are for Beginners or Advanced Scientologists. The books for
Beginners and to the public books should be prominently marked by
display signs.
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"The Book Store should be
close to the Reception area but remember that to have Reception
selling books is creating Divisions. Reception only routes. However,
in the immediate Reception area should be display posters on books,
Free Introductory Lecture, AS Course, graphs, and other promotional
material - all prominently displayed. If someone comes in asking
"What is Scientology?", the Receptionist routes him to the Free
Introductory Lecture by giving him an Invitation, and routes him to
the Book Store for a book that covers Beginning Scientology. The
Receptionist is forbidden to try to explain Scientology or
processing. If someone comes in not knowing what they want, but that
they want to talk to someone about Scientology, the Receptionist
routes them to the Body Reg to channel them into a Service.
"The Letter Registrar may
not talk money. However, he or she may enclose rate cards for Org
services and book price lists.
"So please each Division do
its own work. Registrars - channelling to service, Reception -
routes; and only Accounts talks money". (118)
137. The central practice of
Scientology is what is called "processing". In essence. this is a
procedure carried on by an "auditor" on a pre-clear, who stand in a
relationship to each other closely analogous to that of therapist and
patient, in that the aim of the pre-clear is to improve himself, and
that of the auditor is expressed to be to help him in achieving this
aim.
138. Processing takes place in
formal sessions, whose beginning and end are explicitly announced by the
auditor. In most of these sessions. no other persons are present. An
important adjunct, however, in which Scientology reposes much faith, is
an instrument called an "E-Meter", which is an abbreviation for
"electro-psychometer". (119)
Viewed from the point of view
of conventional physics, this instrument is a sensitive device for
measuring the resistance (normally quantified in units called "ohms") of
an electrical conductor to the current being passed through it. Working
on the principle of the well-known Wheatstone Bridge, it contains some
batteries and a transistorised circuit, together with a galvanometer
whose reading furnishes an indication of the resistance of any conductor
connected between two external electrodes which are attached to the
instrument. Certain knobs on the instrument may be adjusted so as to
vary its calibration, range and sensitivity.
139. During an auditing
session, the pre-clear holds the two electrodes, one in each hand, and
the auditor observes and records the movements of the meter needle. As a
matter of physics, what is being observed is the electrical resistance,
and any changes in that resistance, interposed between the two
electrodes, and this will depend on a variety of factors such as the
area of contact, the quantity and salinity of any sweat exuded by the
preclear's palms, tile force of his grip, and any variations in the
electrical resistance of his skin or the rest of his body. Such
instruments and their limitations are well-known in conventional
psychology: they are closely related to the so-called "lie-detector" or
"polygraph" which had a certain vogue in the United States of America at
one time, but is going out of fashion there as its limitations are
becoming better known and the early claims made for its efficiency are
being refuted. (120)
140. In Scientology, however,
what is claimed to be registered by the E-meter is not mere electrical
resistance but "the amount of charge represented by a mental image
picture" (121)
"The meter tel1s you what the
preclear's mind is doing when the pre-clear is made to think of
something ... This current is influenced by the mental masses,
pictures, circuits and machinery. When the unclear pc thinks of
something these mental items shift and this registers on the meter"
(122)
"The E-meter is never
wrong. It sees all; it knows all. It tells everything". (123)
141. Thus installed in a
processing session, the auditor either asks the pre-clear questions or
issues commands to him. Taken at one level, that is all there is to it.
The complications and problems only arise when one examines the nature
of the questions and commands. Since there is a large variety of
auditing routines and since these change constantly as Mr. Hubbard makes
new discoveries (or, in his terminology, "final break-throughs") in his
field, it would be impossible to specify precisely which routines are in
vogue at any given moment. Indeed, it seems to be a matter of policy not
to publish current routines to the world at large, for every description
of auditing routines which I have found in published Scientology
literature bears a disclaimer in terms such as these -
"The processes described in
this chapter were the forerunners of modem Scientology processes and
Clearing techniques" (124)
or
"These processes are the
forerunners of today's processes and are no longer taught in
Scientology Academies as part of modem standard technology" (125)
142. But the books in which
these routines are described continue to be on open sale, and budding
Scientologists are strongly advised to buy and read them, since they are
said to be "important for the students' grasp of earlier breakthroughs
in the opening of the route to Clear" and "well worth knowing" (126),
Besides, "There are no texts or books banned by Standard Tech. It
outlawed no processes. Any process ever published is valid if (a) It
reads on asking its question and (b) Is run to F/N and end phenomena".
(127)
143. Accordingly, and with that
qualification, I reproduce here a few selection from this published
material, so as to give the reader at least some idea of how processing
is conducted.
"The techniques involved
herein were developed by L. Ron Hubbard and after testing by him,
were tested by other auditors on a wide variety of cases. It is
doubtful if any earlier process of any kind in any age has been as
thoroughly validated as this operating procedure. However, it works
only when used as stated. Disorganized fragments of this material,
given other names and emphasis, may be found to be harmful.
Irresponsible and untrained use of this procedure is not authorised.
Capricious or quasi-religious exteriorization of the thetan for
other purposes than the restoration of his ability and
self-determinism should be resisted by any being. The goal for this
process is freedom for the individual to the betterment of the many.
STEP I - Ask preclear to be
three feet behind his head. If stable there have him be in various
pleasant places until any feeling of scarcity of viewpoints is
resolved; then have him be in several undesirable places, then
several pleasant places, then have him be in a slightly dangerous
place, then in more and more dangerous places until he can sit in
the centre of the Sun. Be sure to observe gradient scale of ugliness
and dangerousness of places. Do not let preclear fail. Then do
remaining steps with preclear exteriorized.
STEP II - Have preclear
mock-up own body. If he does this easily and clearly, have him
mock-up own body until he slips out of it. When he is exteriorized
and knows it thoroughly (the conditions of all exteriorization) do
STEP I. If his mock-up was not clear, go to STEP III immediately.
STEP III - SPACATION: Have
preclear close his eyes and find upper comers of the room Have him
sit there, not thinking, refusing to think of anything, interested
only in the comers until he is completely exteriorized without
strain. Then do a spacation (constructing own space with eight
anchor points and holding it stable without effort) and go to STEP
I. If preclear was unable to locate comers of the room easily with
his eyes closed, go to STEP IV.
STEP IV - EXPANDED GITA:
(This is an extension of give and take processing.) Test preclear to
see if he can get a mock-up he can see, no matter how vague. Then
have him WASTE, ACCEPT UNDER DURESS, DESIRE and finally be able to
TAKE OR LEAVE ALONE each of the items listed below. He does this
with mock-ups or ideas. He must do the sequence of WASTE, etc., in
the order given here for each item. He wastes it by having it at
remote distances in places where it will do no good, being used or
done or observed by something which cannot appreciate it; when he is
able to waste it in vast quantities the auditor then has him accept
it in mock-up form until he no longer is antagonistic to him to
accept it even when it is unpleasant and great force is applied to
make him take it; then, again with mock-ups, he must be able to
bring himself to desire it even in its worst form; then, by mock-ups
of it in its most desirable form he must come to be able to leave it
entirely alone or take it in its worst form without caring. EXPANDED
GITA remedies contra-survival abundance and scarcity. It will be
found that before one can accept a very scarce to him thing, he has
to give it away. A person with a milk allergy must be able to give
away, in mock-up, enormous quantities of milk, wasting it, before he
can accept any himself. The items in this list are compounded of
several years of isolating what factors were more important to minds
than others; the list lacks very few of the very important items if
any; additions to or subtractions from this list should not be
attempted. Viewpoint, work and pain should be heavily and often
stressed and given priority.
WASTE, HAVE FORCED UPON,
DESIRE, BE ABLE TO GIVE OR TAKE, IN THAT ORDER, EACH OF THE
FOLLOWING: (Order of items here is random).
VIEWPOINT, WORK, PAIN,
BEAUTY, MOTION, ENGRAMS, UGLINESS, LOGIC, PICTURES, CONFINEMENT,
MONEY, PARENTS, BLACKNESS, POLICE, LIGHT, EXPLOSIONS, BODIES,
DEGRADATION, MALE BODIES, FEMALE BODIES, BABIES, CHILDREN MALE,
CHILDREN FEMALE, STRANGE AND PECULIAR BODIES, DEAD BODIES, AFFINITY
(LOVE), AGREEMENT, BEAUTIFUL BODIES, PEOPLE, ATTENTION, ADMIRATION,
FORCE, ENERGY, LIGHTNING, UNCONSCIOUSNESS, PROBLEMS, ANTAGONISM,
REVERENCE, FEAR, OBJECTS, TIME, EATING HUMAN BODIES, SOUND, GRIEF,
BEAUTIFUL SADNESS, HIDDEN INFLUENCES, HIDDEN COMMUNICATIONS, DOUBTS,
FACES, DIMENSION POINTS, ANGER, APATHY, IDEAS, ENTHUSIASM,
DISAGREEMENT, HATE, SEX, REWARD, EATING PARENTS, EATEN BY MOTHER,
EATEN BY FATHER, EATING MEN, EATEN BY MEN, EATING WOMEN, EATEN BY
WOMEN, START, BROKEN COMMUNICATIONS, WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS,
STILLNESS, EXHAUSTION, WOMEN STOPPING MOTION, MEN STOPPING MOTION,
CHANGING MOTION WOMEN, CHANGING MOTION MEN, CHANGING MOTION BABIES,
CHANGING MOTION CHILDREN, STARTING MOTION MEN, STARTING MIOTION
WOMEN, STARTING MOTION CHILDREN, STARTING MOTION OBJECTS, STARTING
MOTION SELF, OMENS, WICKEDNESS, FORGIVENESS, PLAY, GAMES, SOUND,
MACHINERY, TOUCH TRAFFIC, STOLEN GOODS, STOLEN PICTURES, HOMES,
BLASPHEMY, CAVES, MEDICINE, GLASS, MIRRORS, PRIDE, MUSICAL
INSTRUMENTS, DIRTY WORDS, SPACE, WILD ANIMALS, EVETS, BIRDS, AIR,
WATER, FOOD, MILK, GARBAGE, GASES, EXCRETA, ROOMS, BEDS, PUNISHMENT,
BOREDOM, CONFUSION, SOLDIERS, EXECUTIONERS, DOCTORS, JUDGES,
PSYCHIATRISTS, ALCOLIOLIC LIQUOR, DRUGS, MASTURBATION, REWARDS,
HEAT, COLD, FORBIDDEN THINGS, GOD, THE DEVIL, SPIRITS, BACTERIA,
GLORY, DEPENDENCE, RESPONSIBILITY, WRONGNESS / RIGHTNESS, INSANITY,
SANITY, FAITH, CHRIST, DEATH, RANK, POVERTY, MAPS, IRRESPONSIBILITY,
GREETINGS, FAREWELLS, CREDIT, LONELINESS, JEWELS, TEETH, GENITALIA,
COMPLICATIONS, HELP, PRETENCE, TRUTH, LIES, ASSURANCE, CONTEMPT,
PREDICTABILITY, UNPREDICTABILITY, VACUUMS, WHITE CLOUDS, BLACK
CLOUDS, UNATTAINABLES, HIDDEN THINGS, WORRY, REVENGE, TEXTBOOKS,
KISSES, THE PAST, THE FUTURE, THE PRESENT, ARMS, STOMACHS, BOWELS,
MOUTHS, CIGARETTES, SMOKE, URINE, VOMIT, CONVULSIONS, SALIVA,
FLOWERS, SEMEN, BLACKBOARDS, FIREWORKS, TOYS, VEHICLES, DOLLS,
AUDIENCES, DOORS, WALLS, WEAPONS, BLOOD, AMBITIONS, ILLUSIONS,
BETRAYAL, RIDICULE, HOPE, HAPPINESS, MOTHERS, FATHERS, GRANDPARENTS,
SUNS, PLANETS, MOONS, SENSATION, LOOKING, INCIDENTS, WAITING,
SILENCE, TALKING, KNOWING, NOT KNOWING, DOUBTS, FAC ONE,
REMEMBERING, FORGETTING, AUDITING, MINDS, FACE, POWER, ACCIDENTS,
ILLNESSES, APPROVAL, TIREDNESS, FACES, ACTING, DRAMA, COSTUMES,
SLEEP, HOLDING THINGS APART, HOLDING THINGS TOGETHER, DESTROYING
THINGS, SENDING THINGS AWAY, MAKING THINGS GO FAST, MAKING THINGS
APPEAR, MAKING THINGS VANISH, CONVICTIONS, STABILITY, CHANGING
PEOPLE, SILENT MEN, SILENT WOMEN, SILENT CHILDREN, SYMBOLS OF
WEAKNESS, SYMBOLS OF FORCE, DISABILITIES, EDUCATION, LANGUAGES,
BESTIALITY, HOMOSEXUALITY, INVISIBLE BODIES, INVISIBLE ACTS,
INVISIBLE SCENES, ACCEPTING THINGS BACK, GAMES, RULES, PLAYERS,
RESTIMULATION, SEXUAL RESTIMULATION, SPACE REDUCTION, SIZE
REDUCTION, ENTERTAINMENT, CHEERFULNESS, FREEDOM FOR OTHERS TO TALK,
ACT, FEEL PAIN, BE SAD, THETANS, PERSONALITIES, CRUELTY,
ORGANISATIONS.
WARNING: SHOULD YOUR
PRECLEAR BECOME UNSTABLE OR UPSET DOING THIS PROCESS TAKE HIM TO
STEP VI, THEN RETURN TO THIS LIST.
COMMENT: The mind is
sufficiently complicated that it can be expected to have
computations on almost all the above. Thus there is no single
clearing button and search for it is at the dictate of a circuit,
the mechanism of circuits being to search for something hidden. Thus
your preclear may begin to compute and philosophize and seek to find
the "button" that will release all this. All this releases all the
buttons so tell him to relax and go on with the process every time
he starts to compute.
NOTE: Running the above
will bring to the surface without further attention the "computation
on the case" and the service facsimile. Do not audit these. Run
Expanded Gita.
STEP V - PRESENT TIME
DIFFERENTIATION. EXTERIORIZATION BY SCENERY. Have preclear, with his
body's eyes, study and see the difference between similar real
objects such as the two legs of a chair, the spaces between the back
two cigarettes, two trees, two girls. He must see and study the
objects, it is not enough to remember objects. The definition of a
CASE V is "no mock-ups, only blackness". Have him continue this
process until he is alert. Use liberally and often.
Then exteriorize by having
the preclear close his eyes and move actual places on Earth under
him, preferably places he has not been. Have him bring these up to
him, find two similar things in the scene and observe the difference
between them. Move him over oceans and cities until he is certain
that he is exteriorized.
Then, preferably while
exteriorized, have him do STEP I.
This case has to know
before he can be. His viewpoint is in the past. Give him present
time viewpoints until he is a STEP I by the methods given for STEP
V.
(COMMENT: PRESENT TIME
DIFFERENTIATION is a very good general technique and resolves
chronic somatics and improves tone.)
STEP VI - A-R-C STRAIGHT
WIRE using next to last list of SELF ANALYSIS IN SCIENTOLOGY which
asks preclear to recall something really to him, etc. Then use the
lists in SELF ANALYSIS. This level is the neurotic level. It is
identified by the preclear having mock-ups which will not persist or
which won't go away. Use also PRESENT TIME DIFFERENTIATION. Then go
to STEP IV. At any drop in tone, return case to STEP VI.
STEP VII - PSYCHOTIC CASES*
Whether in or out of body, the psychotic looks to be in such
desperate straits that people often err in thinking desperate
measures are necessary. Use the lightest possible methods. Give case
space and freedom where possib1e. Have psychotic IMITATE (not
mock-up) various things. Have him do PRESENT TIME DIFFERENTIATION.
Get him to tell the difference between things by actual touch. Have
him locate, differentiate and touch things that are really real to
him (real objects or items). If inaccessible mimic him with own body
whatever he does until he comes into communication. Have him locate
comers of the room and hold them without thinking. As soon as his
communication is up, go to STEP VI but be very sure he changes any
mock-up around until he knows it is a mock-up, that it exists and
that he himself made it. Do not run engrams. He is psychotic because
viewpoints in present time are so scarce that he has gone into the
past for viewpoints which at least he knew existed. By PRESENT TIME
DIFFERENTIATION, by tactile on objects, return his idea of an
abundance of viewpoint in present time. If he has been given
electric shock, do not process it or any other brutality. Work him
for very brief periods for his attention span is short. Always
work psychotics with another person or a companion present."
* It is not the purpose of
Scientology to handle psychotics, but rather to "make the able more
able". The above is included, however, as valuable data for the
handling of psychotics by those in fields other than Scientology.
(128)
Level Four
OPENING PROCEDURE BY
DUPLICATION
Done in an auditing room
with a book and a bottle.
Commands:
"Do you see that book?"
"Walk over to it".
"Pick it up".
"Not know something
about its colour".
"Not know something
about its temperature".
"Not know something
about its weight".
"Put it in exactly the
same place".
"Do you see that
bottle?"
"Walk over to it".
"Pick it up".
"Not know something
about its colour".
"Not know something
about its temperature".
"Not know something
about its weight".
"Put it in exactly the
same place".
"Do you see that book?"
(129)
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"There is a very fine set
of processes which have been used for more than a year at this
writing and which produced excellent results. These we called the
S-C-S processes.
After running 8-C (and if
it turned on somatics remember to flatten the process entirely, even
though it takes 50 hours, before going on to another process), we go
into these control processes grouped under S-C-S. There have been
several varieties of process, all entirely in the control bracket
but with different severities of control. The commands of S-C-S
processes are almost all the same except that some are made more
severe than others.
The first of these
processes is the Start process. This is very simple. We have a
preclear out in the middle of the room standing up while we stand up
along side of him touching him, and we explain to him (and we
explain this every command) that when we say "Start" we want him to
start his body in that direction, and we point out some direction.
Then we take our hands off
of him and we say "Start". We do not say Stop, Halt, or anything
else, but after he has moved forward we then say "Did you start your
body?" And he says he guesses he did or he did, and we then - and
only then - acknowledge. We do this many times until the process
apparently has no charge on it or is flat. We then go into the next
of this series, which is Change.
To run Change the auditor
marks four points out on the floor. These points can be imaginary or
they can be actually chalk-marked on the floor One of these points
we label "A", one "B", one "C" and one "D". We explain the meanings
of these symbols to the preclear and we give him this auditing
command: "Now when I ask you to change the body, I want you to
change the body's position from A to B. Do you understand that?" The
preclear says he does, and the auditor, stepping back from the
preclear, says "Change". The preclear then changes the body's
position. Similarly in using the various points and combinations of
the points A, B, C and D, the auditor drills the preclear on Change
until that particular process seems to be flat.
The auditor then goes to
Stop. The auditor takes the preclear by the arm and explains
(explains every time) that when he says "Stop", he wants the
preclear to stop the body. The actual wording of the auditor is "Now
I want you to get the body moving in that direction and when I say
Stop, I want you to stop the body. Do you understand?" When the
preclear says that he does, the auditor lets go of him, lets him
move down the room a distance (never the same distance twice) and
says "Stop". When the preclear has stopped the auditor says "Did you
stop the body?". And the preclear says "yes", or "maybe" and the
auditor then acknowledges. The auditor does this many times until
the pre-clear understands that he himself can stop the body or he
has regained an ability, or the process appears to be flat and has
no charge on it.
These three steps done in
that order are then repeated. And it will be discovered that once
Stop has been flattened, Start is now unflattened and can be
flattened all over again by running it anew. Similarly, Change will
be found to be unflat and again Stop will be found to be unflat.
Thus, one runs Start and one runs Change and then one runs Stop, in
that order, over and over and over again until all three appear to
be flat.
A variation of this
particular process has been called Stop Supreme. Stop Supreme is a
heavy emphasis on Stop and it will be found that after the three
processes of Start, Change and Stop are flat, one can move rather
easily into Stop Supreme and concentrate heavily upon it. In other
words, one runs Start, Change and Stop, Start, Change and Stop,
Start. Change and Stop until they are relatively flat. He should not
then suppose that the whole of S-C-S is flat since he still has Stop
Supreme in all of its variations.
The idea behind Stop
Supreme is that Stop, or motionlessness, is probably the most thetan
ability a thetan has. Thus the rehabilitation of this particular
ability is worthwhile and does produce considerable results. but
don't be surprised if the preclear falls apart in the process of
doing it.
The commands of Stop
Supreme are roughly these. Every time one runs one of these S-C-S
processes he, of course, explains the thing in full at the beginning
of every command. He does not let any explanation hang over from the
last time the command was executed. It will be found that the
preclear cannot hold in his mind these explanations. Therefore, it
has to be all explained anew every time. Thus we say to the preclear
in Stop Supreme, "Now I want you to get your body moving down the
room when I so indicate and when I say Stop, I want you to stop your
body absolutely still". Then the auditor gives the preclear a slight
shove and the preclear moves the body down the room, and the auditor
says "stop", and the preclear tries to stop his body absolutely
still in that instant. It will be found that faster and faster
responses are achieved by the preclear and he can actually stop the
body in more and more peculiar positions. The auditor then says,
"Did you stop your body absolutely still?" The preclear answers this
and then the auditor acknowledges. There are even more severe
versions of this, but they are left to the imagination of the
auditor.
These S-C-S processes
produced the greatest control changes that have been produced with
any control process They were consist- ently used with great success
by a great many auditors. This is not really true of CCH 1." (130).
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"There is a peculiar
manifestation in Dianetics known as boil off. Boil-off has assumed
tremendously important proportions in processing, since the case
that is very heavily entheta'd has its charge held down by such
quantities of anaten that the induction of boil-off seems to be the
most efficacious way to unburden the case In a boil-off, a pre-clear
will go into an apparent sleep. This is not sleep, no matter how
much it may appear to be, but is actually a release of
unconsciousness which is extremely concentrated and heavy. The
release of this permits the case to go forward much more rapidly,
because under it will lie quantities of specific incidents which
otherwise are masked by this heavy layer. It is possible that a
pre-clear may boil off for twenty-five to fifty hours, if he is
extremely heavily burdened with entheta. The boil-off has certain
strange manifestations. The pre-clear may, when running an incident,
suddenly begin to maunder and trail off, giving muttered accounts of
strange pictures and unrelated events. This is a mirage effect,
through boil-off, and peculiarly disconnected things will clutter up
his attention at this time, but he does all this in a very sleepy,
dazed condition and shortly after may go into an even deeper
boil-off.
Early in Dianetics, it was
thought necessary to keep the pre-clear more or less alert in a
boil-off. This was an error. The pre-clear should never be disturbed
in a boil-off, but should be permitted to continue in this state
until the boil-off is exhausted. Further, it was once thought that
the pre-clear could be brought up to present time during the
boil-off and that the boil-off would continue automatically. This
does not appear to be the case. A boil off must be continued on the
point of the track where it began to occur.
144. Perhaps more enduring, and
certainly more important, are Mr. Hubbard's views of the general
principles of auditing. They are, in my view, central to the
"processing" which constitutes the principal practice of Scientology,
and I therefore quote them here in full, despite their prolixity.
"Auditing Procedures
All requisites for auditing
from here on are entirely concerned with procedures and processes.
By auditing procedure is meant the general model of how one goes
about addressing a preclear. This includes an ability to p1ace one
question worded exactly the same way over and over again to the
preclear no matter how many times the preclear has answered the
question. It should include the ability to acknowledge with a "good"
and "all right" every time a preclear executes or completes the
execution of a command. It should include the ability to accept a
communication from the preclear. When the preclear has something to
say, the auditor should acknowledge the fact that he has received
the preclear's communication and should pay some attention to the
communication. Procedure also includes the ability to sense when the
preclear is being over-strained by processing or is being unduly
annoyed and to handle such crises in the session to prevent the
preclear from leaving. An auditor should also have the ability of
handling startling remarks or occurrences by the preclear. An
auditor should also have the knack of preventing the preclear from
talking obsessively since prolonged conversation markedly reduce the
havingness of the preclear, and the sooner Long dissertations by the
preclear are cut off the better for the session in general.
Processes as distinct from procedures consist of utilizing the
principle of the gradient scale to the end of placing the preclear
in better control of himself, his mind, the people and the universe
around him. By gradient scale is meant a proceeding from simplicity
toward greater difficulty, giving the preclear always no more than
he can do, but giving him as much as he can do until he can handle a
great deal. The idea here is to give the preclear nothing but wins
and to refrain from giving the preclear losses in the game of
processing. Thus it can be seen that processing is a team activity
and is not itself a game whereby the auditor opposes and seeks to
defeat the preclear and the preclear seeks to defeat the auditor,
for when this condition exists little results in processing.
The earliest stage of
auditing consists in taking over control of the preclear so as to
restore to the preclear more control of himself than he has had. The
most fundamental step is then location, whereby the preclear is made
to be aware of the fact that he is in an auditing room, that an
auditor is present and that the preclear is being a preclear. Those
conditions will become quite apparent if one realizes that it would
be very difficult for a son to process a father. A father is not
likely to recognize anything else than the boy he raised in his
auditor. Therefore the father would have to be made aware of the
fact that the son was a competent practitioner before the father
could be placed under control in processing. One of the most
elementary commands in Scientology is "Look at me, who am I?" After
a preclear has been asked to do this many times until he can do so
quickly and accurately and without protest, it can be said that the
preclear will have "found" the auditor.
The preclear is asked by the
auditor to control, which is to say, start, change and stop (the
anatomy of control) anything he is capable of controlling. In a very
bad case this might be a very small object being pushed around on a
table, being started and changed and stopped each time specifically
and only at the auditor's command until the preclear himself
realizes that he himself can start, change and stop the object.
Sometimes four or five hours spent in this exercise are very well
spent on a very difficult preclear.
The preclear is then asked
to start, change and stop his own body under the auditor's specific
and precise direction. In all of his commands the auditor must be
careful never to give a second command before the first one has been
fully obeyed. A preclear in this procedure is walked around the room
and is made to start, change the direction of and stop his body, one
of these at a time, in emphasis, until he realizes that he can do so
with ease. Only now could it be said that a session is well in
progress or that a preclear is securely under the auditor's command.
It should be noted especially that the goal of Scientology is better
self-determinism for the preclear. This rules out at once hypnotism,
drugs, alcohol or other control mechanisms used by other and other
therapies. It will be found that such things are not only not
necessary, but they are in direct opposition to the goals of greater
ability for the preclear.
The principal paints of
concentration for the auditor now become the ability of the preclear
to have the ability of the preclear to not-know, and the ability of
the preclear to play a game.
An additional factor is the
ability of the preclear to be himself and not a number of other
people, such as his father, his mother, his marital partner or his
children.
The ability of the preclear
is increased by addressing to him the process known as the Trio.
These are three questions, or rather commands.
1. "Look around here and
tell me what you could have".
2. "Look around here
and tell me what you would permit to remain in place".
3. "Look around and
tell me with what you could dispense".
No. 1 above is used usually
about ten times, then No. 2 is used five times, and No. 3 is used
once. This ratio of ten, five and one would be an ordinary or
routine approach to havingness. The end in view is to bring the
preclear into a condition whereby he can possess or own or have
whatever he sees, without further conditions, ramifications or
restrictions. This is the most therapeutic of all processes,
elementary as it might seem.
It is done without too much
two-way communication or discussion with the preclear, and it is
done until the preclear can answer questions one, two and three
equally well. It should be noted at once that twenty-five hours of
use of this process by an auditor upon a preclear brings about a
very high rise in tone. By saying twenty-five hours it is intended
to give the idea of the length of time the process should be used.
As it is a strain on the usual person to repeat the same question
over and over, it will be seen that an auditor should be well
disciplined or very well trained before he audits.
In the case of a preclear who
is very unable, "Can't have" is substituted for "have" in each of
the above questions for a few hours, until the preclear is ready for
the Trio in its "have" form. This can-can't is the plus and minus
aspect of all thought and in Scientology is called by a specialized
word "dichotomy".
The rehabilitation of the
ability of the preclear to not-know is also rehabilitation of the
preclear in the time stream since the process of time consists of
knowing the moment and not-knowing the past and not-knowing the
future simultaneously. This process, like all other Scientology
processes, is repetitive. The process is run, ordinarily, only after
the preclear is in very good condition and is generally run in an
exterior well-inhabited place. Here the auditor, without exciting
public comment, indicates a person and asks the preclear "Can you
not-know something about that person?" The auditor does not permit
the preclear to "not-know" things which the preclear already doesn't
know. The preclear "not-knows" only those things which are visible
and apparent about the person. This is also run on other objects in
the environment such as walls, floors, chairs and other things. The
auditor should not be startled when for the preclear large chunks of
the environment start to disappear. This is ordinary routine and in
effect the preclear should make the entirety of the environment
disappear at his own command. The environment does not disappear for
the auditor. The end goal of this "not-know" process is the
disappearance of the entire universe, under the preclear's control,
but only for the preclear. It will be discovered while running this
that the preclear's "havingness" may deteriorate. If this happens.
he was not run enough on the Trio before he was run on this process.
It is only necessary in such a case to intersperse "Look around here
and tell me what you could have" with the "not-know" command to keep
the preclear in good condition. Drop of havingness is manifested by
nervous agitation, obsessive talk or semi-unconsciousness or "dopeyness"
on the part of the preclear. These manifestations indicate only
reduction of livingness.
The reverse of the question
here is "Tell me something that you would be willing to have that
person (indicated by the auditor) not-know about you". Both sides of
the question have to be run (audited). This process can be continued
for twenty-five hours or even fifty or seventy-five hours of
auditing with considerable benefit so long as it does not react too
violently upon the preclear in terms of loss of havingness.
It should be noted in
running either havingness or "not-know" on a preclear that the
preclear may "exteriorize". In other words, it may become apparent
either by his observation or because the preclear informs him that
the auditor has "exteriorized" a preclear. Under "The Parts of Man"
section there is an explanation of this phenomenon. In modem
auditing the auditor does not do anything odd about this beyond
receive and be interested in the preclear's statement of the fact.
The preclear should not be permitted to become alarmed since it is a
usual manifestation. A preclear is in better condition and will
audit better exteriorized than "in his head". Understanding that an
actual ability to "not-know" is an ability to erase the past by
self-command without suppressing it with energy or going into any
other method is necessary to help the preclear. It is the primary
rehabilitation in terms of knowingness. Forgetting is a lower
manifestation than "not-knowingness".
The third ability to be
addressed by the auditor is the ability of the preclear to play a
game. First and foremost in the requisites to play a game is the
ability to control. One must be able to control something in order
to participate in a game. Therefore the general rehabilitation of
control by starting, changing and stopping things is a
rehabilitation in the ability to play a game. When a preclear
refuses to recover, it is because the preclear is using his state as
a game, and does not believe that there is any better game for him
to play than the state he is in. He may protest if this is called a
game. Nevertheless, any condition will surrender if the auditor has
the preclear invent similar conditions or even tell lies about the
existing condition Inventing games or inventing conditions or
inventing problems alike rehabilitate the ability to play a game.
Chief among these various rehabilitation factors are control (start,
change and stop), problems, and the willingness to overwhelm or be
overwhelmed. One ceases to be able to have games when one loses
control over various things, when one becomes short of prob1ems and
when one is unwilling to be overwhelmed, in other words, to lose or
to be or to overwhelm (to win). It will be found while running
havingness as in the Trio above that one may run down the ability to
play a game since havingness is the reward of a game in part.
In the matter of problems
it will be seen that these are completely necessary to the playing
of a game. The anatomy of a problem is intention versus intention.
This is, of course, in essence the purpose of all games, to have two
sides, each one with an opposed intention. Technically a problem is
two or more purposes ill conflict. It is very simple to detect
whether or not the preclear is suffering from a scarcity of games
The preclear who needs more games clutches to himself various
present-time problems. If an auditor is confronted with a preclear
who is being obsessed by a problem in present-time he knows two
things: (1) that the preclear's ability to play a game is low, and
(2) that he must run an exact process at once to rehabilitate the
preclear in session.
It often happens at the
beginning of an auditing session that the preclear has encountered a
heavy present-time problem between sessions. The preclear must
always be consulted before the session is actually in progress as to
whether or not he has "anything worrying" him. To a preclear who is
worried about some present-time situation or problem no other
process has any greater effectiveness than the following one. The
auditor after a very brief discussion of the problem asks the
preclear "to invent" a problem of comparable magnitude. He may have
to reword this request to make the preclear understand it
completely, but the auditor wants in essence the preclear to invent
or create a problem he considers similar to problem he has. If the
preclear is unable to do this, it is necessary then to have him lie
about the problem which he has. Lying is the lowest order of
creativeness. After he has lied about the problem for a short time,
it will be found that he will be able to invent problems He should
be made to invent problem after problem until he is no longer
concemed with his present-time problem.
The auditor should understand
that a preclear who is "now willing to do something about the
problem" has not been run long enough on the intention of problems
of comparable magnitude. As long as the preclear is attempting to do
something about the problem, the problem is still of obsessive
importance to him. No session can be continued successfully until
such a present-time problem is entirely flat, and it has been the
experience that when a present-time problem was not completely
eradicated by this process that the remainder of the session or
indeed the entire course of auditing may be interrupted.
When a preclear does not
seem to be advancing under auditing, a thing which he does markedly
and observedly, it must then be supposed that the preclear has a
present-time problem which has not been eradicated and which must be
handled in auditing. Although the auditor gives the preclear to
understand that he too believes this present-time problem is
extremely important, the auditor should not believe that this
process will not handle any present-time problem, since it will.
This process should be done on some preclears in company with the
Trio.
If the preclear is asked to
"lie about" or "invent a problem of comparable magnitude", and while
doing so becomes agitated or unconscious or begins to talk wildly or
obsessively, it must be assumed that he will have to have some
havingness run on him until the agitation or manifestation ceases so
that the problem of comparable magnitude process can be resumed.
Another aspect of the
ability to play a game is the willingness to win and the willingness
to lose. An individual has to be willing to be cause or willing to
be an effect. As far as games are concerned, this is reduced to a
willingness to win and a willingness to lose. People become afraid
of defeat and afraid of failure. The entire anatomy of failure is
only that one's postulates or intentions are reversed in action. For
instance, one intends to strike a wall and strikes it. That is a
win. One intends not to strike a wall and doesn't strike it. That is
again a win. One intends not to strike a wall and strikes it. That
is a lose. One intends to strike a wall and can't strike it. This is
again a lose. It will be seen in this as well as other things that
the most significant therapy there is is changing the mind. All
things are as one considers they are and in no other way. It it [sic]
is sufficiently simple to give the definition of winning and losing.
so it is simple to process the matter.
This condition is best
expressed, it appears, in processing by a process known as
"overwhelming". An elementary way of running this is to take the
preclear outside where there are numbers of people to observe and,
indicating a person, to ask the preclear "What could overwhelm that
person? "When the preclear answers this, he is asked about the same
person, "What could that person overwhelm?" He is then asked as the
third question, "Look around here and tell me what you could have?"
These three questions are run one after the other. Then another
person is chosen and then the three questions are asked again. This
process can be varied in its wording, but the central idea must
remain as above. The preclear can be asked, "What would you permit
to overwhelm that person?" and "What would you permit that person to
overwhelm?" and of course "Look around here and tell me what you
could have." This is only one of a number of possible processes on
the subject of overwhelming, but it should be noted that asking the
preclear to think of things which would overwhelm him could be fatal
to the case. Where overwhelming is handled, the preclear should be
given a detached view.
A counter-position to
havingness processes, but one which is less therapeutic, is
"separateness". One asks the preclear to look around and discover
things which are separate from things. This is repeated over and
over. It is, however, destructive of havingness even though it will
occasionally prove beneficial.
It will be seen that
havingness (barriers), "notknowingness" (being in present time and
not in the past or the future), purposes (problems, antagonists, or
intention-counter-intention), and separateness (freedom will cover
the anatomy of games. It is not to be thought, however, that
havingness addresses itself only to games. Many other factors enter
into it. In among all of these, it is of the greatest single
importance.
One addresses in these days
of Scientolo6y the subjective self, the mind, as little as possible.
One keeps the preclear alert to the broad environment around him. An
address to the various energy patterns of the mind is less
beneficial than exercises which directly approach other people or
the physical universe. Therefore, asking a preclear to sit still and
answer the question "What could you have?", when it is answered by
the preclear from his experience or on the score of things which are
not present, is found to be non-therapeutic and is found instead to
decrease the ability and intelligence of the preclear. This is what
is known as a subjective (inside the mind only) process.
These are the principal
processes which produce marked gains. There are other processes and
there are combinations of processes, but these given here are the
most important. A Scientologist knowing the mind completely can of
course do many "tricks" with the conditions of people to improve
them. One of these is the ability to address a psychosomatic illness
such as a crippled leg which, having nothing physically wrong with
it, yet is not useable. The auditor could ask the preclear "Tell me
a lie about your leg" with a possible relief of the pain or
symptoms. Asking the preclear repeatedly "Look around here and tell
me something your leg could have" would undoubtedly release the
somatic. Asking the preclear with the bad leg "What problem could
your leg be to you?" or desiring him to "Invent a problem of
comparable magnitude to your leg" would produce a distinct change in
the condition of the leg. This would apply to any other body part or
organ. It would also apply, strangely enough, to the preclear's
possessions. If a preclear had a vehicle or cart which was out of
repair or troublesome to him, one could ask him "What problem could
a cart be to you?" and thus requesting him to invent many such
problems one would discover that he had solved his problems with the
cart. There is a phenomenon in existence that the preclear already
has many set games. When one asks him to give the auditor problems,
he already has the manifestations of as-ising or erasing taking
place. Thought erases; therefore the number of problems or games the
preclear could have would be reduced by asking him to recount those
which he already has. Asking the preclear to describe his symptoms
is far less therapeutic and may result in a worsening of those
symptoms, contrary to what some schools of thought have believed in
the past, but which accounts for their failures.
There are specific things
which one must avoid in auditing. These follow:
1. Significances. The
easiest thing a thetan does is change his mind. The most difficult
thing he does is handle the environment in which he finds himself
situated. Therefore, asking a thetan to run out various ideas is a
fallacy. It is a mistake. Asking the preclear to think over
something can also be an error. asking a preclear to do exercises
which concemed his mind alone can be entirely fatal. A preclear is
processed between himself and his environment. If he is processed
between himself and his mind, he is processed up too short a view
and his condition will worsen.
2. Two-way communication.
There can be far too much two-way communication or far too much
communication in an auditing session. Communication involves the
reduction of havingness. Letting a preclear talk on and on or
obsessively is to let a preclear reduce his havingness. The preclear
who is permitted to go on talking will talk himself down the tone
scale and into a bad condition. It is better for the auditor simply
and discourteously to tell a preclear to "shut-up" than to have the
preclear run himself "out of the bottom" of havingness. You can
observe this for yourself if you permit a person who is not too able
to talk about his troubles to keep on talking. He wil1 begin to talk
more and more hecticly. He is reducing his havingness. He will
eventually talk himself down the tone scale into apathy at which
time he will be willing to tell you (as you insist upon it) that he
"feels better" when, as a matter of fact, he is actually worse.
Asking a preclear "How do you feel now?" can reduce his havingness
since he looks over his present-time condition and as-ises some
mass.
3. Too many processes. It
is possible to run a preclear on too many processes in too short a
time with a reduction of the preclear's recovery. This is handled by
observing the communication lag of the preclear. It will be
discovered that the preclear will space his answers to a repeated
question differently with each answer. When a long period ensues
between his answer to the question a second time, he is said to have
a "communication lag". The "communication lag" is the length of time
between the placing of the question by the auditor and the answering
of that exact question by the preclear. It is not the length of time
between the placing of the question by the auditor and some
statement by the preclear. It will be found that the communication
lag lengthens and shortens on a repeated question. The question on
the tenth time it has been asked may detect no significant lag. This
is the time to stop asking that question since it now has no
appreciable communication lag. One can leave any process when the
communication lag for three successive questions is the same. In
order to get from one process to another, one employs a
communication bridge which to a marked degree reduces the liability
of too many processes. A communication bridge is always used. Before
a question is asked, the preclear should have the question discussed
with him and the wording of the question agreed upon, as though he
were making a contract with the auditor. The auditor says that he is
going to have the preclear do certain things and finds out if it's
all right with the preclear if the auditor asks him to do these
things. This is the first part of a communication bridge. It
precedes all questions, but when one is changing from one process to
another, the bridge becomes a bridge indeed. One levels out the old
process by asking the preclear whether or not he doesn't think it is
safe to leave that process now. One discusses the possible benefit
of the process and then tells the preclear that he is no longer
going to use that process. Now he tells the preclear he is going to
use a new process, describes the process and gets an agreement on
it. When the agreement is achieved, then he uses this process. The
communication bridge is used at all times. The last half of it, the
agreement on a new process, is used always before any process is
begun.
4. Failure to handle the
present-time problem. Probably more cases are stalled or found
unable to benefit in processing because of the neglect of the
present-time problem, as covered above, than any other single item.
5. Unconsciousness, "dopeyness"
or agitation on the part of the preclear is not a mark of good
condition. It is a loss of havingness. The preclear must never be
processed into unconsciousness or "Dopeyness". He should always be
kept alert. The basic phenomenon of unconsciousness is " a flow
which has flowed too long in one direction". If one talks too long
at somebody he will render him unconscious. In order to wake up the
target of all that talk, it is necessary to get the unconscious
person to do some talking. It is simply necessary to reverse any
flow to make unconsciousness disappear, but this is normally cared
for in modem Scientology by running the Trio above." (132)
145. The following is an example
of a published auditing case-history, in which it will be noted that the
pre-clear is described as "the patient":-
"SCIENTOLOGIST'S
REPORT
SCIENTOLOGIST: PETER A.
DAVIES, H.A.A.
PRECLEAR: CASE No. 3
Former Condition
In grief - easily invalidated, unsure of own potential.
Mental Outlook
Now more sure of my own
potentials on first dynamic, for probably the first time.
Physical
Improvement
Body feels clearer (more
relaxed), and lighter.
What you attribute
improvement to
Confronting engram which
has resolved my case as follows: I did not know I had lived before.
Engram Report
I located a moment of loss
in the patient's past and she gave me the number 56. By using the
E-meter the time of this moment of loss was 56 B.C., the date being
March 19th. On questioning the preclear, she told me that she had
lost a body at this time by suicide. The body was that of a Roman
soldier on garrison duty in Greece.
The preclear went quickly
into the incident and there was a great amount of grief over what he
thought had been the slaughter of family and friends.
Later on, the preclear
found this to be an hallucination due to poison he had been given,
and it was not more than four hours before I had a good outline of
the incident. The incident ran thus:
On the morning of March
l9th the soldier preclear took his wife to a grove a few miles away
from the city, for a picnic, accompanied by many friends all riding
in chariots. He then returned to the city to see his mistress,
knowing that he shouldn't see her. He was rebuffed at her house and,
because of the jealousy of his mistress, she gave him a poisonous
drink. The drink dulled his senses to a marked degree and caused a
lot of misemotion. He made his way back to the grove by chariot; on
the way back the chariot broke down, the wheel coming off after
being jolted by a boulder.
The soldier walked and ran
the rest of the way suffering agony from the poisonous drink, being
delirious. On arrival the soldier went through hallucinations of his
dead wife and friends, murdered around him. Through all this
delirium he decided that no one could ever help him, and after some
effort plunged his sword into his heart.
On the death of his body he
was bewildered and for 45 minutes could not understand why he should
be alive, and his body dead. He kept near his dead body for three
hours, feeling the heat of the sun on the dead body and watching a
soldier take the sword out of it. He had decided to stay with the
dead body until it had been helped in some way. Now, detached from
his body, he decided to use the body of the brother of the woman who
poisoned him, as he was in the vicinity. He wanted to feel bodily
emotions again and also to feel the experience of seeing the woman
who poisoned him through another person's body. During the time he
was in that person's body he experienced the emotions of that person
and also that person's profession.
He did see that woman again
and later on in the evening left that person's body and went back to
take a look at his old dead body to see if it was right. He sensed
the "cheesy" smell of the body.
Three years later he came
back to that area still without a body and was surprised to find a
man sleeping in the same spot where he had left his dead body. End
of incident.
During the running of this
incident pieces of the incident began to fit together like a jigsaw
puzzle, until the whole of the incident knitted together.
For a large part of the
time the preclear went through and felt she was actually in the
incident, and went through degradation, unconsciousness, effort,
pain, physical agony, emotion and thoughts in the incident. Later
the patient could view the whole incident objectively and take full
responsibility for it.
The act of suicide was not
easy for the preclear to confront, but with some prompting, she did
it all right." (133)
146. There is a bewildering
variety of processing and training courses available to those who can
afford them. It would serve little purpose for me to try to classify or
distinguish between them, since they evidently change frequently. I am
content to take the latest state of affairs from Mr. Gaiman's answer to
a questionnaire of mine which he sent me on 19th June 1970: -
"The Church offers Dianetic
auditing, Scientology Grade auditing which is comprised in the five
Grades 0-IV, namely Communication, Problems, Relief, Freedom,
Ability, Power and Power Plus and the Solo Auditing Course, as well
as its broad social and Sunday devotional activities. We also run
training courses ....
----------
The Church provides
auditing in minimum 5-hour lots but parishioners on average receive
auditing in 25-hour lots. An individual might take from 50 to 100
hours to achieve a stable Release and as a result achieve the next
Grade in a matter of 10-20 hours. I would say that a person has
achieved a stable gain in auditing after perhaps 150 hours. Although
there have been variations in this from time to time, this is the
norm and is current practice.
When a person has
successfully completed a course he will be respectively a Dianetics
Release, a Grade 0, I, II, III, IV, V & VI Release.
Dianetic Counselling began
in 1950. There have been many refinements over the years. In 1969
Standard Dianetics was introduced. Scientology auditing began in
1952/53. Counselling has continued throughout the whole of this
period but the actual Grade sequence was introduced in 1965, and
Power and Grade VI in 1965/66.
In order to audit a
respective level of auditing, an auditor must be respectively a
Dianetic Auditor, Class 0 Auditor, Class I Auditor and so on. Only a
Class III Auditor can audit Power, and Grade VI is audited by the
person concerned (Solo Auditing). In practice most Grade auditing is
given by Auditors who are Class VI and above. The training for a
Class VI Auditor runs into many hundreds of hours and in addition
all practising auditors, even after receiving their formal training.
spend 3 hours a day training to keep up to scratch. In order to
become a Class VII auditor a person must already be a very expert
auditor and he will spend very many months in training on the
particular techniques of Class VII, and a Class VIII Auditor (which
is the highest class of Auditor) will have had training extending
over a number of years. Rigorous examinations are given to auditors
who are required to achieve 100 per cent pass mark. Very many long
hours of training extending over many months and after that still
more months of practice are required for an auditor to achieve the
precise standards required.
----------
Parishioners make
contributions for their auditing depending on the number of hours
received - 25 hours �125; 50 hours �225; 75 hours �325. This applies
to both Scientology and Dianetic auditing. A 5 per cent discount is
given for advance contributions. A 50 per cent discount is given for
any Hubbard Professional Auditor Class III and above or old-time
(pre-1955) Hubbard Professional Auditor or Hubbard Certified
Auditor. Students training to be Class IV auditors receive 50 per
cent discount, 5 hours special auditing costs �30 and Group Auditing
�5."
It will be seen that "patients"
are no longer mentioned; those undergoing auditing are now described as
"parishioners".
147. Judging from "The
Auditor", No. 33 (1968), there would appear to be two routes to the top:
-
"THE IDEAL AUDITOR ROUTE
1. Personal Efficiency Course ...................................... Local Org
2. Hubbard Apprentice Scientologist Course ......................... Local Org
3. Hubbard Dianetic Auditor Course ................................. Local Org
4. 0 to IV Grade Processing......................................... Local Org
5. Academy Training to Class IV..................................... Local Org
6. Power Processing ................................................ Saint Hill
7. Saint Hill Special Briefing Course............................... Saint Hill
(includes Solo Audit training to Grade VI)
8. Clearing Course ............................... Saint Hill and Advanced Org
9. Class VII Internship............................................. Saint Hill
10. OT Court (Sections I and 2).................... Saint Hill and Advanced Org
11. OT Course (Section 3 and above).......................... Advanced Org only
THE IDEAL PRECLEAR ROUTE
1. Dianetic Auditor's Course........................... Local Org or Saint Hill
2. 0 to IV Grade Processing......................................... Local Org
3. Power Processing ............................................... Saint Hill
4. Solo Audit Course (to Grade VI)................................. Saint Hill
5. Clearing Course................................. Saint Hill and Advanced Org
6. OT Course (Sections 1 and 2) ................... Saint Hill and Advanced Org
7. OT Course (Section 3 and above).......................... Advanced Org only
Where a Scientologist
taking the Ideal Preclear Route has done earlier Academy training,
the Hubbard Dianetic Auditor Course is not necessary.
L. Ron Hubbard recommends
the Ideal Auditor Route for all Scientologists. This is the route
which produces trained Auditors - the most valuable and causative
Beings in this Universe. Come join them."
148. As for the cost of these, the
latest published price list which I have seen reads as follows:-
"DUE TO TECHNICAL ADVANCES AND
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE O.T. SECTIONS, THE FOLLOWING PRICES ARE AMENDED
1969 ADVANCED ORGS PRICE SAVING
On the first of January
1969, the cost of Advanced Course sections will be as follows:
OT I ............. $75.00 (yet is entirely new)
OT II ............ $500.00
OT III ........... $870.00
OT IV ............ $75.00 (Plus $200. Review costs by a Class VIII Auditor)
OT V ............. $875.00
OT VI ............ $350.00
OT VII ............ $500.00
OT VIII .......... $500.00
---------
$3,800.00
---------
As a Package after 1
January 1969, you will be able to obtain all 8 sections for
$3400.00.
If purchased now you need
only pay $2850.00.
Buy now in Advance and
save.
The Class VIII Course,
taught only at Advanced Orgs in the U.S. and England is $1500.00 and
takes from 3 to 5 weeks.
All auditing and Reviews
are being greatly improved by the advent of the Class VIII Auditor
and Standard Techn.
Write the Registrar
Care OT Liaison
Saint Hill Manor
East Grinstead
Sussex
England"
Mr. Gaiman, in correspondence with
me, puts it in rather different language:-
"Offerings for the Courses are
as follows: Clearing �318, O T I �28., O.T.II �199.10.0d., O.T.III
�346.15.0d., O.T.IV �28.10.0d., O.T.V �346.15.0d., O.T.VIII
�137.15.0d."
149. In addition, a variety of
peripheral courses is offered from time to time, ranging from a set of
"Mini-Courses" costing from $10 to $150 to a "Public Relations Officer
course" at $800. The Mini-Courses include a Valence Course, an Ethics
Course, a Letter Writing Course, a Meter Reading Course, and a Finance
Course, which is described as covering "Ron's contribution to Finance
and how it is applied in Scientology Orgs and all organisations. Spend
some time and money and become cause over accounts, and money direct
from the policy of L. Ron Hubbard". The Public Relations Officer Course
is advertised to cover subjects such as How to Build a World
Personality, the Technique of Stage Lighting, Voice and Voice
Production, Handling T.V. Interviews, Disseminating and Ethnics (sic).
150. The Anderson Board
actually had a demonstration of "auditing". Here is the relevant section
from its Report (134):
"The particular session
demonstrated what was called "listen style auditing". It was said
that this was one of the simpler processes, quite a low grade
process, and was designed to help people talk about their worries
and problems and get them "off their chests", on the basis that
people found relief when there was someone ready and willing to
listen to them. It enabled the person with problems and worries to
talk about them and the auditor, on this occasion being very
literally one who listened, merely started the preclear talking and
then sat silent, providing a receptive ear.
The demonstration session
was of about thirty minutes duration The auditor was Tampion and the
preclear was a woman approaching middle age. She appeared to be
nervous, excitable and enthusiastic. This woman had initially signed
for 50 hours processing in June, 1962, but the director of
processing, carrying out "the old routine" as directed by Hubbard,
had certified that she required 300 hours before she could obtain a
"stable gain", and she had then signed up for 300 hours. By
February, l964, she had had something in excess of 60 hours'
auditing and had undergone some training. The session was conducted
in a small room with only the auditor and the preclear present, the
Board and others viewed proceedings in another room on closed
television circuit. An E-meter was used.
The session began with the
customary strict routine of "start of session", and the auditor then
commanded the preclear to "Tell me about the right decisions you
have made". The preclear thereupon commenced talking and almost
without pause talked for the whole of the session about herself, her
daughter, her husband and his woman friend, her neighbours, her work
and her employment. It was a somewhat pitiful performance in which
the preclear seemed to be talking herself into the belief that all
the problems associated with the matters she mentioned were working
themselves out and that she was understanding them better. At the
end of the session, she said she had made gains. Nine days after the
demonstration session this preclear was admitted as a patient to the
care of the Mental Health Authority.
The Board is appalled at
the realization that it witnessed this unfortunate woman being
processed into insanity. At that early stage of the Inquiry the
Board had not been informed of the potentially dangerous nature of
this apparently simple and easy "listen style auditing".
Subsequently a psychiatrist witness who read the transcript of this
woman's demonstration session gave evidence that her behaviour in
the session indicated clearly that she was in a state of mania
rather than ecstasy, which would have been readily apparent to a
psychiatrist. Williams, Tampion and Mrs. Tampion were present at
this session and the woman was obviously regarded by them as a
suitable subject for auditing. Williams is a "Doctor of
Scientology", and Tampion, for his services in conducting the
demonstration sessions, was subsequently awarded the "degree" of
"Doctor of Scientology" by Hubbard. Neither Williams nor Mrs.
Tampion had the slightest idea that there was anything mentally
wrong with this preclear. Later, Williams unconvincingly sought to
explain the need for hospitalization as being the stress of vaguely
hinted at family troubles. Williams when asked did he know what a
schizophrenic was, was constrained to answer that hc knew only in
the broadest terms. Tampion claimed that because of his scientology
training his ability to treat people with psychotic and neurotic
conditions was superior to the ability of psychiatrists although he
did not bother to give the time to treating such people.
The kind of treatment given
to this unfortunate woman was the very kind which precipitated her
breakdown. The Board heard expert psychiatric evidence to the effect
that it was one of the well known traps in handling depressives to
believe that by encouraging them to talk and "get things off their
chests" one was doing some good. In dealing with a person showing
signs of depression, psychiatrists have to exercise great care and
judgment in determining whether it is advisable to allow the person
to talk about himself or not. The traditional concept of a
psychiatrist as one who encourages a person to sit down and talk
about anything is not correct In order to determine whether a
patient should be allowed to talk about himself, the psychiatrist
must be a highly trained physician, with insight of many branches of
medicine, as well as of his own speciality, and the listener must be
able to observe and appreciate the danger signs. In particular
cases, positive harm may be done by encouraging a person in
depression to talk about himself, for the patient could be
developing a pathological sense of guilt, and to allow him to
elaborate on his guilt may develop in him such a sense of guilt that
he may well attempt suicide.
There was further expert
psychiatric evidence that such techniques as listen style auditing
encourage a trust and dependency by the patient on the auditor, and
tend to mobilize guilt and bring up emotions and anxiety in the
preclear. Such anxiety tends to provoke more symptoms, more anxiety
and perhaps more depression, leading to a worsening of the
situation. In any event, being a good listener or interviewer is not
sufficient. What is required is an understanding of the complexities
which are involved, an understanding impossible of attainment by a
person whose only clai In is that he is a scientology-trained
auditor."
151. And here are the Scientology
leadership's comments (135) on that passage:-
"Out of the thousands of
persons who had been helped by increasing their knowledge about
themselves and life generally, Anderson could only find one person
whom he could allege had been harmed by Scientology. He deals with
her case at length in the Report. Even then he was way off!
He announces to the world
that one woman was processed into mental derangement in his
presence. He does not state that he knew that this person had a long
history of mental illnesses, she had been in and out of psychiatric
wards and she was audited on a very simple process which consisted
of the auditor, Ian Tampion, sitting down and listening to her
talking for about only 15 minutes. Her husband and relatives were
violently against Scientology. After she went home, she had a very
troubled time from some members of her family. Her husband
threatened her and continuously insulted her and threatened to
injure her daughter. This caused a heavy strain. Her grandmother
told her all the time, how bad she was; she had no one to turn to.
The doctors were against Scientology, which, at that time, was under
heavy governmental attack. Thus, nine weeks later, in order to get
away from these persons who were literally driving her mad, she
signed in as a voluntary patient in one of Dr. Cunningham Dax's
institutions. Anderson was so delighted about this case, that he
refused to hear any evidence of the contributory causes of this
woman's relapse Needless to say, he does not mention this in the
Report. The conduct of this woman's husband needed investigation.
What other members of the family were doing to her he brushed
aside." (135)
152. Mr. Hubbard evidently takes
the view that auditing can never do any harm:-
"No auditor should audit with
the fear that he will do some irreparable damage if he makes an
error.
"Dianetics: The Modem
Science of Mental Health" provides the answer to the question, "What
happens if I make a mistake?"
The following extracts are
from "Dianetics: The Modem Science of Mental Health", Book 3,
Chapter 1, "The Mind's Protection".
"The mind is a self
protecting mechanism. Short of the use of drugs as in narco-synthesis,
shock, hypnotism or surgery, no mistake can be made by an Auditor
which cannot be remedied either by himself or by another Auditor".
"Any case, no matter how
serious, no matter how unskilled the auditor, is better opened than
left closed." (136)
153. The Scientology leadership is
highly sensitive of any suggestion that "processing" involves, or even
resembles, any form of hypnosis. Over and over again, they protest that
no hypnosis of any kind is practised, and that any apparent resemblance
is wholly coincidental.
154. The Anderson Board
disagreed:-
". . . the scientific evidence
which the Board heard from several expert witnesses of the highest
repute and possessed of the highest qualifications in their
professions of medicine, psychology, and other sciences - and which
was virtually unchallenged - leads to the inescapable conclusion
that it is only in name that there is any difference between
authoritative hypnosis and most of the techniques of scientology.
Many scientology techniques are in fact hypnotic techniques, and
Hubbard has not changed their nature by changing their names ".
(137)
By "Authoritative hypnosis" Mr.
Anderson meant a form of hypnosis, "where the hypnotist assumes positive
authoritative contact over the patient who, though he may or may not be
aware of what techniques the practitioner is practising on him, is
nevertheless under the domination of the hypnotist pursuant to positive
commands" (138)
155. On this issue, the
following passages (139) from Mr. Hubbard's best-selling book may shed
some light:-
"The patient sits in a
comfortable chair, with arms, or lies on a couch in a quiet room
where perceptic distractions are minimal. The auditor tells him to
look at the ceiling. The auditor says: "When I count from one to
seven your eyes will close". The auditor then counts from one to
seven and keeps counting quietly and pleasantly until the patient
closes his eyes. A tremble of the lashes will be noticed in optimum
reverie.
This is the entire
routine. Consider it more a signal that proceedings are to begin and
a means of concentrating the patient on his own concerns and the
auditor than anything else. This is not hypnotism. It is
vastly different. In the first place the patient knows everything
which is going on around him. He is not "asleep", and he can bring
himself out of it any time he likes. He is free to move about, but,
because it distracts the patient, the auditor does not usually
permit him to smoke.
The auditor makes very sure
that the patient is not hypnotized by telling him, before he begins
to count, "You will know everything which goes on. You will be able
to remember everything that happens. You can exercise your own
control. If you do not like what is happening, you can instantly
pull out of it. Now, one, two, three, four," etc.
To make doubly sure, for we
want no hypnotism, even by accident, the auditor installs a
canceller. This is an extremely important step and should not be
omitted even when you may be entirely certain that he is in no way
influenced by your words. The auditor may inadvertently use
restimulative language which will key-in an engram: he may, when he
is especially new in dianetics, use such a thing as a holder
or a denyer, telling the pre-clear to "stay there" when he is
returned on the track or telling him, worst of all things, to
"forget it", one of a class of phrases of the forgetter mechanism
which is most severe in its aberrative effect, denying the data
entirely to the analyzer. To prevent such things from happening, the
canceller is vital. It is a contract with the patient that
whatever the auditor says will not become literally interpreted by
the patient or used by him in any way. It is installed immediately
after the condition of reverie is established. A canceller is
worded more or less as follows: "In the future, when I utter the
word Cancelled, everything which I have said to you while you
are in a therapy session will be cancelled and will have no force
with you. Any suggestion I have made to you will be without force
when I say the word Cancelled. Do you understand?"
The word cancelled
is then said to the patient immediately before he is permitted to
open his eyes at the end of the session. It is not further
amplified. The single word is used.
The canceller is vital. It
prevents accidental positive suggestion The patient may be
suggestible or even in a permanent light hypnotic trance (many
people go through life in such a trance)."
156. One of the accusations which
has been levelled at Scientology is that it is applied to children. This
appears to be common ground: in a letter to me dated 22nd March l970,
Mr. Gaiman says:-
"Our policy has always been
not to accept any minors without written parental consent.
Children's courses, criticised by the Minister [of Health] were
communication "play" courses, and parental consent was always
required".
Again, in the "Report to Members
of Parliament", there is a reprint of an interview with seven-year-old
Neil Gaiman conducted by the B.B.C.'s "World at Weekend" programme in
August 1968, in which Neil explains that Scientology is "an applied
philosophy dealing with the study of knowledge", that he has passed
Grade I - "Problems Release" - on the way to Clear and has just finished
Engrams. The Scientologists' comment is: 'Of course Scientologists,
educate their children in their religious philosophy. There are
children's courses attended by children with parents' signed consent'.
157. How that consent is worded can be seen from the following form,
reproduced from an HCO P/L of 23rd May 1969 in which it is described as
"a prerequisite", "for use when students audit minors":-
"PARENT
OR GUARDIAN ASSENT TO DIANETIC PROCESSING
I
.............................................................................................
of
...........................................................................................
...............................................................................................
...............................................................................................
do attest that I give my full consent for my child/ward
...................
.....................................................................
to be audited on Standard
Dianetics Processes by ...................................
........... (Auditor) and that
I understand that the
Auditor is a student of Dianetics which is known to be Pastoral
Counselling, a religious guide intended to make happy human beings
and not treating or diagnosing any medical ailments of body or mind
whatsoever.
Date
.................................. Signature
....................................."
158. Scientology periodicals
regularly carry promotional matter for children of which the following
is typical:-
"ENROL YOUR CHILD
ON THE CHILDREN'S COURSES
Give your child the best start
in life.
- CHILDREN'S DIANETICS
COURSE
Your child will study the anatomy of the mind and how to apply this
knowledge in everyday life.
PRICE: �3 TIME: Sundays, 2.30 pm - 4.30pm.
- CHILDREN'S COMMUNICATION
COURSE
This course teaches the basics of communication - how to give and
receive it effectively.
PRICE: �3 TIME: Sundays, 2.30pm - 4.30pm.
- CHILDREN'S HUBBARD
QUALIFIED SCIENTOLOGIST COURSE
On this course your child will learn to understand and help others.
PRICE: �3 TIME: Sundays, 2.30pm - 4.30pm.
SPECIAL OFFER
Children who have taken the Children's Courses may take all the courses
on the route to Clear at half price. A Clear is a person who is at cause
knowingly and at will over mental matter, energy, space and time with
regard to the First Dynamic (survival for self). Children who wish to
take these courses again may do so at half price.
CONTACT THE REGISTRAR TODAY at
The Scientology Foundation, Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex.
Telephone: East Grinstead
24571-2-3 (three lines)." (140)
159. Children's courses are also
made the subject of the handbill approach, as in this instance:-
"HUBBARD COLLEGE OF
SCIENTOLOGY
Founder L. Ron Hubbard
Saint Hill Manor,
East Grinstead,
Sussex, England.
Cable: Scientology East
Grinstead, England
Tel: 95176 H C O Sthil Egstd
Tel: East Grinstead 24571-2-3
CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE
This is your first Scientology Course.
THE CHILDREN'S
COMMUNICATION COURSE
This Course is for you. It
is easy and lots of fun.
Here you will find out that you can enjoy your family, friends,
school and games - and YOURSELF - much more by being able to
TALK EASILY
with other people and by
knowing what Communication really is. Life is so much more fun when
you can talk easily to others and answer them without feeling shy.
It's fun to be able to make
friends - SO
COME AND JOIN US
The next Course begins on
6th August.
Be at Reception, Saint Hill
Weekend Foundation, Saint Hill, at 2.00 p.m. to register on the
Course.
The Course lasts for six
Sundays - 2.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.
The cost of the whole
Course is �2.10.0.
The age Group of this
Course is from 6 to 14 years.
LEONORA ADAM
per Foundation Children's Course Supervisor
VIf/aap (67JUN51b)
CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY
OF CALIFORNIA
(Incorporated in U.S.A.
with Limited Liability. Registered in England)
Julia Lewis Salmen (USA)
President for USA. Pam Pearcy, President for UK & Commonwealth.
Kenneth M. Salmen (USA) Vice President. Denny L. Fields (USA)
Secretary. Mary Long, Vice President. Monica Quirino, Secretary.
Valerie Guzzetti, Resident Agent (England)."
160. To get an idea of what is
involved in the "processing" of children to which parents are asked to
consent, it is necessary to look at a standard Scientology publication
which goes under the title "Child Dianetics - Dianetics Processing for
Children". This is a booklet of 92 pages first published in 1951, with
later editions in 1962, 1965 and 1967. I quote the following passages:-
"Dianetic Processing
1. From the time the child
begins to speak,, use straight-line memory technique on locks,
controls, and valance shifts.
2. Do not invalidate the
child's sense of reality; honor the Auditor's Code.
3. Re-orient the child
semantically, by treating reception of original faulty information
as a lock.
4. From the age of 8, run
the child in reverie: pleasure, grief and locks.
5. From the age of 12,
process the child, using standard procedure as outlined in SCIENCE
OF SURVIVAL: Simplified, Faster Dianetic Techniques.
6. Restate any dianetic
term if it contains a charge for the child, or treat the receipt of
the charge as a lock.
E. Things to Remember
1. Recognize that the
authority on identifying as well as treating organic ills,
germ-borne diseases, is your physician. If possible, choose one who
is a Dianeticist or knows his Dianetics.
2. Be familiar with methods
of medical first aid. 3. Observe the precepts of preventive medicine
and efficient nutrition."(14l)
"It is possible to process a
child at any age level beyond the point when he learns to speak.
However, no serious processing should be undertaken until the child
is at least five. Extensive dianetic processing is not encouraged,
except in very unusual circumstances, until the child is at least
eight years of age. Much good can be accomplished before the age of
eight by straight-line memory technique, and in the period from
eight to twelve years the child may be processed by any of the
techniques outlined here. But one should not force the child into
the prenatal area until he is at least twelve years old. If a return
to the basic area is made by the child, it is to be accepted and
treated as a matter of course and engrams reduced or erased, but the
auditor should not in any way force the child to do so." (142)
"The problem of processing
children is of utmost importance and will occupy a much greater
portion of the auditor's attention than working with adults.
Accessibility, parental interference, and a child's lack of the
right kind of education, all combine to present a real challenge to
the auditor - one which only his exercise of deep insight and
sphinx-like patience will enable him to meet. He must be firm and at
the same time diplomatic with the child's parents. He must meet the
child on a companionship level and literally become the child's
private tutor. And he must be able to fathom the root of a problem
not only from a jumble of information, but from a complete lack of
data as well." (143)
161. One extract (144) will
suffice to exemplify the kind of technique recommended:-
"Nephew Jimmy, age 10½, has
been showing the auditor his work bench and the model airplanes he
is currently building. Jimmy knows that his uncle is an HDA [Hubbard
Dianetic Auditor], but doesn't know what Dianetics is. He has a
great deal of affinity for his uncle.
AUDITOR: Very nice. Say,
let's try some Dianetics.
JIMMY: Okay. What do I do?
AUDITOR: Make yourself
comfortable on the bed. Take off your shoes. (Jimmy does this). You
want a pillow? Are you comfortable?
JIMMY: I don't need a
pillow. I'm all right.
AUDITOR: You will remember
all that happens. All right. You may close your eyes. If the light
is too bright, you may put one arm over your eyes. (Jimmy does
this). Now, let's return to a very pleasant incident. (Pause) What
are you doing?
JIMMY: I was playing with
my dog in the back yard.
AUDITOR: What is your dog's
name?
JIMMY: Spike.
AUDITOR: What do you hear?
JIMMY: My dog was barking.
AUDITOR: What else do you
hear?
JIMMY: Cars going by in the
street.
AUDITOR: Is anyone talking?
JIMMY: No.
AUDITOR: Is anyone else
there?
JIMMY: Yes, my mother was
hanging up the wash.
(Jimmy remains aware of the
reality of the incident as something that happened to him in the
past. Continues to use past tense and yet returns efficiently.
Perceptics seem to be good).
AUDITOR: What are you
doing?
JIMMY: Playing with my dog.
AUDITOR: Is it fun?
JIMMY: Yes.
AUDITOR: What sort of a day
is it?
JIMMY: Warm.
AUDITOR: What happens next?
JIMMY: I go in the house.
AUDITOR: Let's return to
the beginning of the incident and go through it again.
JIMMY: I was in the back
yard. I was playing with my dog. After a while I go in the house.
AUDITOR: Return to the
beginning and go through it again.
JIMMY: I was in the yard.
AUDITOR: What do you hear?
JIMMY: The cars going by
and my dog barking.
AUDITOR: Are you saying
anything?
JIMMY: No.
AUDITOR: How old are you?
JIMMY: Three.
AUDITOR: Continue.
JIMMY: I pet my dog and
then I go in the house.
AUDITOR: How do you feel?
JIMMY: Fine.
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AUDITOR: All right, let's
see about that. Make yourself comfortable on the bed. (Jimmy does).
Now it may be necessary to return to a moment where you are
uncomfortable, have a pain, or what is called a somatic. A somatic
is a feeling of pain. By running through this somatic several times
it will go away. In Dianetics it is necessary to return to this
somatic and eliminate it, do away with it, so that we have greater
pleasure in life. Are you willing to do this?
JIMMY: Yes.
AUDITOR: Remember, just be
prepared to do what I ask and the somatic will go after we go over
it several times. You will remember all that happens.
JIMMY: Okay.
JIMMY: Yes.
AUDITOR: How does it feel?
JIMMY: Not so good.
AUDITOR: What does your
mother say?
JIMMY: Nothing.
AUDITOR: What do you say?
JIMMY: I cry.
AUDITOR: What happens then?
JIMMY: Mother takes me and
puts me in the crib?
AUDITOR: What do you do?
JIMMY: I keep on crying for
a little while.
AUDITOR: Let's return to
the beginning of the incident.
JIMMY: My mother was
spanking me.
AUDITOR: What happens
before your mother spanks you?
JIMMY: I was reaching for
something on the coffee table.
AUDITOR: What does mother
say?
JIMMY: "Don't touch that.
If you do, I'll have to spank you and put you to bed".
AUDITOR: Where are you?
JIMMY: In the front room.
AUDITOR: What are you
reaching for?
JIMMY: (Pause) A . . . an
ash tray.
AUDITOR: What happens?
JIMMY: My mother picks me
up and spanks me.
AUDITOR: What does she say?
JIMMY: Nothing.
AIJDITOR: Can you feel the
spanking?
JIMMY: Yes. (Jimmy's body
position show that he is feeling pain.)
AUDITOR: Is it too painful?
JIMMY: No.
AUDITOR: What happens then?
JIMMY: My mother takes me
in the bedroom and puts me in the crib. (By the fourth time through
this incident the somatic is reduced).
AUDITOR: How do you feel?
Shall we go on?
JIMMY: Fine. Okay.
AUDITOR: Now, let's return to
way before you were born, to the first moment you were aware. Return
to way before you were born. When I go from A to E and snap my
fingers you will hear the first words. A-B-C-D-E-(snap). What do you
hear?
JIMMY: Nothing.
AUDITOR: When I read from A
to E you will hear the first words.
A B-C-D-E (snap). What do
you hear?
JIMMY: Nothing.
AUDITOR: What happens?
JIMMY: My mother was out
walking. She walks a couple of blocks and turns around and comes
home.
AUDITOR: Pick it up at the
beginning and go through it again.
JIMMY: My mother was out
walking
AUDITOR: What do you hear?
JIMMY: Cars going by.
AUDITOR: What does your
mother say?
JIMMY: Nothing.
AUDITOR: What do you see?
JIMMY: Nothing.
AUDITOR: How old are you?
JIMMY: Eight.
AUDITOR: Yes or no, is it
eight days?
JIMMY: Yes.
AUDITOR: Continue.
JIMMY: Mother walks a
couple of blocks, turns around and comes home.
AUDITOR: How do you feel?
Is there any discomfort?
JIMMY: Yes, all over my
body.
AUDITOR: Where are you?
JIMMY: In my mother's
stomach.
AUDITOR: Start at the
beginning.
JIMMY: My mother was out
walking.
AUDITOR: What happens
first? Let's go back ten minutes before this. What is happening?
JIMMY: I'm asleep. My
mother walks down the steps and up the block.
AUDITOR: Just where do you
wake up?
JIMMY: Just as she steps
down the bottom step.
AUDITOR: Just as she steps
down the bottom step?
JIMMY: Yes.
AUDITOR: Then?
JIMMY: She walks up the
street.
AUDITOR: What do you hear?
JIMMY: Cars going by.
AUDITOR: Anything else?
JIMMY: My mother's
footsteps.
AUDITOR: How do you feel?
JIMMY: Not too bad.
AUDITOR: Return to the
first time you thought you didn't see so well. (Pause) What are you
doing?
JIMMY: I was in school.
AUDITOR: What do you see?
JIMMY: My teacher, Mr.
Bidwell.
AUDITOR: What is he saying?
JIMMY: "Turn to problems in
your Arithmetic Book - page 46."
AUDITOR: What happens?
JIMMY: I do the problems.
AUDITOR: Do you see the
first problem?
JIMMY: Yes.
AUDITOR: Read it to me.
JIMMY: I can't.
AUDITOR: Maybe you can if
you try. Read it to me. (Jimmy reads the problem from visio recall).
AUDITOR: Do you have
trouble with problems?
JIMMY: No.
AUDITOR: Are you good at
arithmetic?
JIMMY: Yes. That is, pretty
good.
AUDITOR: How about your
eyes?
JIMMY: When I finish the
problems, I look up and don't see very good.
AUDITOR: Yes or no - is
this the first time?
JIMMY: No.
AUDITOR: Let's return to
the very first time this happens. (Pause) What are you doing?
JIMMY: I am reading my
science lesson at school. I look up and I don't see so very good.
AUDITOR: How old are you at
this time?
JIMMY: Nine.
AUDITOR: Go through this
incident again.
(The auditor has Jimmy read
the science lesson from visio recall, but the content of the lesson
seems to have nothing to do with his eyes.)
AUDITOR: What happened
three days before this science lesson?
JIMMY: Nothing.
AUDITOR: Let's return to
three days before this time. (Pause) What are you doing?
JIMMY: Reading my science
lesson.
AUDITOR: Same one?
JIMMY: No.
AUDITOR: How are your eyes?
JIMMY: Okay.
AUDITOR: Anything happen
that evening? Any quarrels?
JIMMY: No.
AUDITOR: All right, let's
return to that other time, when you look up from the lesson and
can't see so well. What do you do afterward, when you get home?
JIMMY: Tell my mother.
AUDITOR: What does she say?
JIMMY: Maybe I'm reading
too much. I ought to go to a doctor for a check-up.
AUDITOR: How do you feel?
JIMMY: Fine.
AUDITOR: Lets go now to the
incident needed to resolve the case. When I speak the letters from A
to E and snap my fingers, you will be at the beginning of the
incident. A-B-C-D-E-(snap). What do you hear?
JIMMY: I am reading my
science lesson at school.
AUDITOR: How old are you?
JIMMY: Nine.
AUDITOR: Let's return to
the incident needed to resolve this case. When I recite the first
five letters of the alphabet you will hear the first words of the
incident. A-B-C-D-E-(snap). What happens?
JIMMY: I am in school,
going over my science lesson. (Jimmy goes through this again and the
auditor tries again with another approach, reasoning that perhaps
Jimmy does not understand what he means. The auditor wants to find
out just how much Jimmy does understand.)
AUDITOR: Let's return now
to the first moment of conception. Return to the first moment of
conception.
JIMMY: (Pauses.)
AUDITOR: Return to the
first moment of conception. (Jimmy starts through science lesson
again. The problem here is what will Jimmy understand when the
Auditor is trying to enter an engram.)
AUDITOR: Let's return to
the first moment of discomfort, the very first moment of discomfort.
Return to the first, very earliest moment of discomfort. (Pause.)
What happens?
JIMMY: My mother was
spanking me.
AUDITOR: How old are you?
JIMMY: About a year and
half.
AUDITOR: Yes or no - is
this the first time you were spanked?
AUDITOR: What does your
mother say?
JIMMY: Nothing.
AUDITOR: Does anyone else
say anything?
JIMMY: No.
AUDITOR: Does a neighbour
speak to your mother?
JIMMY: No.
AUDITOR: Yes or no - are
there any words in this incident?
JIMMY: No.
(The auditor risks
invalidating data here by continuing to ask for words and phrases.
He realizes, of course, or should if he knows his Dianetics, that
there are engrams without verbal content.)
AUDITOR: What happens next?
JIMMY: Mother turns around
and walks home.
AUDITOR: What happens when
she gets home?
JIMMY: She walks up the
steps into the house.
AUDITOR: How many steps?
JIMMY: (Pauses and counts
steps) One, two, three, four. Four.
AUDITOR: What do you see?
JIMMY: Nothing. (A
confirmation: there is no visio in the prenatal period, though there
are other perceptics.)
AUDITOR: Can you hear the
door slam?
JIMMY: Yes.
AUDITOR: What does your
moth r do then?
JIMMY: She sits down.
AUDITOR: What do you do
JIMMY: I go to s1eep.
(On the fourth run through
the complete incident the discomfort somatic reduces. At the twelfth
run the sonic content remains, although perhaps not as intense as
before. Jimmy seems relaxed, refreshed and pleased. A pleasure
incident is run and then Jimmy is asked to come to present time.)
AUDITOR: What's your age
now?
JIMMY: I'm l0 years old.
AUDITOR: You may open your
eyes.
JIMMY: (Opens his eyes):
They're not the same as before.
AUDITOR: What's not the
same?
JIMMY: My eyes. I can see.
The other times I had trouble when I opened them.
AUDITOR: good: How do you
feel otherwise?
JIMMY: Good.
AUDITOR: How'd you like it?
JIMMY: Fine. I didn't
understand those long words in the middle.
AUDITOR: Oh? Well,
sometimes I use words in my language that mean things you don't know
in your language. If I ever use a word you don't know, ask me and
I'll explain it in your language. You probably already know what is
means. What were the words? Do you mean "conception"?
JIMMY: Yes.
AUDITOR: Conception is the
meeting of the father's cells with the mother's cells before they
become a baby. You know it in those words, don't you?
JIMMY: "Yes"
_______________
NOTES:
(110) Copyright 1968 by L.
Ron Hubbard.
(111) Copyright 1969 by L.
Ron Hubbard. The advertised price of this course was �125.
(112) Copyright 1969 by L.
Ron Hubbard.
(113) HCO P/L, 17th
November 1965.
(114) HCO P/L, June 19th
1965.
(115) HCO P/L of 2nd
January 1965.
(116) HCO P/L of 20th
November 1969.
(117) July 29th, 1969.
(118) HCO P/L of 15th
September 1965.
(119) The original inventor
of this instrument - or, rather, of "electro-psychometry" -
seems to have been a Mr Volney G. Mathison of California, a renowned
hypnotist and student of the occult. See Lee, p. 89.
(120) see Westin,
Privacy and Freedom, p. 213.
(121) Kangaroo Court,
p. 33.
(122) E-meter Essentials,
p. 8.
(123) Anderson Report
p. 93.
(124) Dianetics 55,
p. 108.
(125) Scientology 8-8008,
p. 115.
(126) Scientology: Clear
Procedure, Issue 1, 1968 (Publishers' note).
(127) LRH ED 88 INT, 26th
February 1970.
(128) Scientology 8-8008,
pp. 116-122.
(129) ibid, p. 140.
(130) Scientology: Clear
Procedure, Issue 1, pp. 16jl 7.
(131) Science of
Survival, pp. 255/6.
(132) Fundamentals of
Thought, pp. 108-128
(133) Have You Lived
Before This Life?, pp. 37/8.
(134) pp. 134/5.
(135) Kangaroo Court, p. 23.
(136) HCO P/L of l7th April
1970, Issue 11.
(137) Anderson Report,
p. 115.
(138) ibid.
(139) Dianetics: MSMH
(1968), p. 199/200.
(140) Change - The
Scientology Foundation Magazine, Issue XVII, 1968, p. 9.
(141) p. 79
(142) p. 31.
(143) p. 35.
(144) pp. 51-59.
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