APPENDIX II:
GLOSSARY OF SCIENTOLOGY TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
(Compiled mainly
from "Scientology Abridged Dictionary")
ABERRATION
Irrational or deranged behaviour or thought on, or about, a specific
subject or subjects, resulting from the influence of the Reactive Mind
upon the individual in relationship to that subject or subjects.
AFFINITY
Degree of liking or affection or lack of it. (This is often expressed as
an emotion/enthusiasm towards a person betokens more affinity than
apathy.)
ANALYTICAL MIND
(analyser) This mind consists of visual pictures, either of the past or
the physical universe, monitored and presided over by the knowingness of
a thetan. The keynote of the analytical mind is awareness; one knows
what one is concluding and doing. It combines perceptions of the
immediate environment, of the past (via pictures) and estimations of the
future into conclusions which are based upon the realities of
situations.
ANATEN
An abbreviation of "analytical attenuation" meaning a diminution or
weakening of the analytical awareness of an individual for a brief or
extensive period of time. If sufficiently great, it can result in
unconsciousness. (It stems from the restimulation of an engram which
contains pain and unconsciousness.)
AOUK
Advanced Organisation United Kingdom.
ARC
A word made from the initial letters of Affinity, Reality and
Communication which together equate to understanding. (These are the
three things necessary to the understanding of something - one has to
have some affinity for it, it has to be real to him to some degree and
he needs some communication with it before he can understand it.)
AS-IS
To view anything exactly as it is, without any distortions or lies, at
which moment it will vanish and cease to exist.
AUDITOR
A listener or one who listens carefully to what people have to say. An
auditor is a person trained and qualified in applying Scientology
processes to others for their betterment.
AWARENESS OF AWARENESS
UNIT
The individual, the personality.
BANK
A colloquial name for the Reactive Mind. (This is what the procedures of
Scientology are devoted to disposing of, for it is only a burden to an
individual and he is much better off without it. A Clear has no bank.)
BASIC
The first incident, such as an engram or overt act, of a chain of
similar incidents.
BEINGNESS
The assumption or choosing of a category of identity. Beingness is
assumed by oneself or given to oneself, or is attained. Examples of
beingness would be one's own name, one's profession, one's physical
characteristics, one's role in a game - each and all of these things
could be called one's beingness. TO GRANT BEINGNESS means to grant life
to something: to permit or allow other people to have beingness.
BLOW
A colloquialism for a sudden departure. It is usually used to describe
either the sudden dissipation of mass in the mind with an accompanying
feeling of relief, or someone leaving, ceasing to be where he should
really be, or just ceasing to be audited.
BOIL-OFF
A state of lessened awareness to the point of unconsciousness.
BUTTON
Items, words, phrases, subjects or areas that are easily restimulatable
in an individual by the words or actions of other people, and which
causes him discomfort, embarrassment or upset, or make him laugh
uncontrollably.
CAUSE
Full effect.
CF
Central files.
CHARGE
Harmful energy or force accumulated and stored within the Reactive Mind,
resulting from the conflicts and unpleasant experiences that a person
has had. (Auditing discharges this charge so that it is no longer there
to affect the individual.)
CIRCUIT
A part of an individual's bank that behaves as though it were someone or
something separate from him and that either talks to him or goes into
action of its own accord, and may even, if severe enough, take control
of him while it operates. (A tune that keeps going around in someone's
head is an example of a circuit).
CLEAR
A person who has completed Grade VII by erasing his whole bank. He no
longer has a Reactive Mind or time track, and he is again wholly himself
and can follow his own basic purposes.
COMMITTEE OF EVIDENCE
(Comm Ev)
Part of the Ethics system of a Scientology Organization, being a fact
finding group appointed and empowered to impartially investigate and
recommend upon Scientology matters of a fairly severe ethical nature.
COMM LAG
(Communication Lag)
The time it takes for a preclear to give an answer to a question that
the auditor has asked him, regardless of whether he is silent until he
gives the answer, or has been talking in the interim. Also applies to
the delay between the giving of an auditing command by the auditor and
the execution of that command by the preclear.
COMMUNICATION
The interchange of ideas or objects between two people or terminals.
CONTROL
The ability to start, change and stop things at one's own choice.
DEMON
A by-pass circuit in the mind. Probably an electronic mechanism.
DEV-T
Developed and unnecessary traffic in any organization or between
organizations, consisting of off-line, off policy or off-origin
despatches or other communications.
DISPERSAL
The action of a dynamic ol purpose meeting an engram.
DYNAMIC
The urge, thrust and purpose of life - SURVIVE! - in its eight
manifestations.
ED
Executive Director.
ENGRAM
A mental image picture of an experience containing pain,
unconsciousness, and a real or fancied threat to survival; it is a
recording in the Reactive Mind of something which actually happened to
an individual in the past and which contained pain and unconsciousness,
both of which are recorded in the mental image picture called an engram.
ENTHETA
Means enturbulated theta (thought or life): especially refers to
communications, which, based on lies and confusions, are slanderous,
choppy or destructive in an attempt to overwhelm or suppress a person or
group.
ENTURBULATE
Cause to be turbulent or agitated and disturbed.
ETHICS
Rationality toward the highest level of survival for the individual, the
future race, the group and mankind, and the other dynamics taken
collectively. Ethics are reason and the contemplation of optimum
survival.
FACSIMILE
A mental copy of one's perceptions of the physical universe sometime in
the past, and also known as a mental image picture.
FLYERS
Printed promotional pieces advertising books, tapes, etc.
F/N
FREE NEEDLE (FLOATING NEEDLE): This is a needle manifestation of the
E-Meter of great importance, as it indicates the preclear has reached a
state of Release and is the end point of any process. A free needle
moves in an idle uninfluenced motion. It appears to float.
GENETIC ENTITY
A composite of all the cellular experience recorded along the genetic
line of the organism to the present body. It has the manifestation of a
single identity. It is not the theta being or "I".
GPM
Means Goals Problem Mass. A GPM is composed of mental masses and
significances which have an exact pattern, unvarying from person to
person, whose significance dictate a certain type of behavior and whose
masses, when pulled in on the individual, cause psychosomatic effects,
such as illnesses, pains or feelings of heaviness and tiredness.
GRADE
An award made to a preclear in the form of a certificate for having
attained one of the eight states of Release or the state of Clear.
HASI
Hubbard Association of Scientologists International.
HAT
Slang for the title and work of a post in Scientology Organization.
HCO
Hubbard Communications Office.
HCOB
Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin.
HCO P/L
Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter.
HDA
Hubbard Dianetic Auditor.
HGC
Hubbard Guidance Centre.
KEY-IN
The moment an earlier upset or painful incident has been restimulated.
LOCK
A mental image picture of a non-painful but disturbing experience the
person has experienced and which depends for its force on an earlier
secondary and engram which the experience has restimulated.
MEST
The physical universe. A word coined from the initial letters of Matter,
Energy, Space and Time, which are the component parts of the physical
universe. Also used as an adjective, in the same sense to mean physical
as in 'mest universe', meaning the 'physical universe'.
MISEMOTION
Emotion which is irrational and inappropriate to the present time
situation. Misemotion is also emotion which has been suppressed and
which remains part of an individual's locks and secondaries unless he is
audited.
NULLING
The auditor's action in saying items from a list to a preclear and
noting the reaction of the preclear's bank by the use of an E-Meter.
OBNOSIS
Observation of the obvious. The only way one sees anything is by
observing the obvious: one looks at the is-ness of something, at what is
actually there. Fortunately, the ability to obnose is not in any sense
"inborn" or mystical. It is easily regained and improved through
Scientology.
ORG
Organisation.
O.T. (OPERATING THETAN)
A Clear who has been familiarized with his environment to a point of
total cause over matter, energy, space, time and thought, and who is not
in a body.
OVERT-ACT (OVERT)
Harmful or contra-survival act. Precisely, it is an act of commission or
omission that harms the greater number of dynamics. Therefore, a failure
to eradicate something or stop.
PERCEPTIC
A neologism for any sense message such as a sight, sound, smell, etc.
P.C. (PRECLEAR)
This term covers anyone who is not a clear; however it is principally
used to describe a person who, through Scientology processing, is
finding out more about himself and life.
PROCESSING
That action or actions, governed by the technical disciplines and codes
of Scientology, of administering a process to a preclear in order to
release or free him.
PTS
(Potential Trouble Source.) Any person who, while active in Scientology
or a preclear, remains connected to a suppressive person or group. (A
person or preclear roller-coasters, i.e. gets better, then worse, only
when he is connected to a suppressive person or group, and he must, in
order to make his gains from Scientology permanent, either handle the
source of suppression or disconnect from it.
REACTIVE MIND
That portion of a person's mind which works on a stimulus-response basis
(given a certain stimulus, it gives a certain response) which is not
under his volitional control and which exerts force and the power of
command over his awareness, purposes, thoughts, body and actions.
RELEASE
A person whose Reactive Mind is keyed out and is not influencing him.
There are eight grades of Release - they are, from the lowest to the
highest, Grade 0 - Communications Release, Grade I - Problems Release,
Grade II - Relief Release, Grade III - Freedom Release, Grade IV -
Ability Release, Grade V - Power Release, Grade VA - Power Plus Release,
Grade VI - Whole Track Release. Each is a distinct and definite step
toward greater levels of awareness and ability.
REVERIE
In Dianetics the state achieved by withdrawing the attention from
present time and turning it into the recalling of past experiences,
facilitated by closing one's eyes.
ROCK SLAM
A crazy, unequal, jerky motion of the E-Meter needle.
ROCKSLAMMERS
Persons who Rock Slam on Scientology or associated items are Security
Risks.
SCS
Start, change, stop. (The anatomy of control).
SH
Saint Hill.
SOMATIC
Physical pain or discomfort of any kind, especially painful or
uncomfortable physical perceptions stemming from the Reactive Mind.
SOMATIC MIND
The genetic entity plus the brain system of the body.
SONIC
The ability to recall a sound so that one can hear it again as one
originally heard it, in full tone and volume.
SP
(Suppressive Person or Group.) One who actively seeks to suppress or
damage Scientology or a Scientologist by suppressive acts.
SQUIRRELING
The action of altering Scientology; off-beat practices.
STANDARD TECH
The exact processes and auditing actions laid down and used for the
invariable resolution of cases, taught and used without variation by all
Scientology auditors.
STRAIGHT WIRE
The process of questioning by which a preclear, while remaining in
present time, is enabled to recover and compute past data. (Straight
line memory technique).
TECH
(Technology). The methods of application of an art or science as opposed
to mere knowledge of the science or art itself.
THETA
Energy peculiar to life or a thetan which acts upon material in the
physical universe and animates it, mobilizes it changes it; natural
creative energy of a thetan which he has free to direct toward survival
goals, especially when it manifests itself as high tone, constructive
communications.
THETAN
The person himself - not his body or name, the physical universe, his
mind, or anything else - that which is aware of being aware; the
identity that IS the individual. (From Theta, the Greek symbol for
'thought' or perhaps 'spirit'.)
TONE SCALE
A scale measuring and relating the various factors of behaviour, emotion
and thought to levels on the scale. (The book, Science of Survival,
by L. Ron Hubbard contains a full description of the tone scale and its
applications in life).
TONE 40
Intention without reservation or limit.
UP-STAT
Up-going statistic.
VALENCE
The unwitting assumption by one individual of the characteristics of
another individual.
VISIO
Ability to see in facsimile form something one has seen earlier so that
one sees it again in the same colour, dimension scale, brightness and
detail as it was originally viewed.
WOG
Man off the street.
WW
World Wide.
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