6312C05 SHSpec-327 Basic Auditing

     [Some of the data in this tape is also to be found in HCOB 26Nov63 "All
Levels Star Rating:  A New Triangle:  Basic Auditing, Technique, Case
Analysis".]

     The problems of auditing are divided into three categories:

     1. Basic auditing.

     2. Technique.

     3. Case analysis.

"Technique" means the exact patter and procedure for getting something audited
on the PC.  We have dug up lots of old processes.  All of them are still
valid, except mock-up processes.  Processes like, "Spot three spots in your
body/in the room," run long enough, tend to exteriorize people.  Another
exteriorization process is, "Where aren't you?" These processes are OK if they
are not run to exteriorization.  Exteriorizing someone tends to result in his
coming back into his body more solidly, because he becomes alarmed.  He is
unstable.  This occurs at higher levels, e.g. Levels V or VI.  The PC tends to
come back in and hold harder.  Actually, what upsets him is the energy masses
that he is going through, which exert certain emotional responses upon him.

     The liability of these old lower-level processes is that they run the PC
into GPM's and can pull RI's out of line.  E.g. the liability of "Tell me
something you wouldn't mind forgetting," is that you could run into the RI,
"forgetting".  But such an occurrence is very rare.  People coming up through
Level III are in the charge of the top RI's, but they are getting
destimulated, as they get more oriented and wiser in their environments.  Just remember, when running a repetitive process, that there is some danger of restimulating an RI, especially if the process has a fancy or oddball wording.  You even run this risk at Level I, when you ask, "What solutions have you had to that?", since the track is just a series of solutions.  What saves your bacon is the PC's lack of reality on other lifetimes.  Starting at Level III, you would be wise to preface processes with "In this lifetime...." Do this for sure at Level IV, since the PC's awareness has come up, and he will slip back on the track pretty easily.  Your main problem will be the manic at Level I, who insists on running only past track.

     This came up in Elizabeth, N.J., with the first Foundation, when a couple
of co-auditors could only find past-life engrams to run on each other.  Joe
Winter, Parker Morgan, and John Campbell tried to pass a motion to make
research on or mention of past lives off-limits, because it had bad public
presence.  They found out then that LRH could get mad.  Public presence has
nothing to do with the truth.  There is no such thing as acceptable truth.
That is really just a lie.  There is no room in "PR" or public image for
truth.  PR is nice, but don't build on it.  Build on truth.

     With most PCs, any attempt to go backtrack before their PTP's are handled
will produce nothing but disaster.  You are asking them to confront a big new
datum, when they can't even confront their environment.  Most processing
failures come from the attempt to process someone higher then his class.

     The classifications are laid out on a gradient scale of increasing
responsibility for self and the dynamics.  The processes laid out in any given
class form a gradient scale, too, plotted against increasing responsibility.
So it starts with motivators and ends with overts.  All this is still
techniques.  The programming of techniques is based on case analysis.  Every
level has its own case analysis.

     The three basic steps of case analysis are:

     1. Find out what the PC is sitting in.

     2. Get the PC to tell you about it fully.  Get any lies off.

     3. Handle it by locating and indicating charge as
        accurately as possible.

That is the pattern that you would use at any level.  This delivers the whole
world of healing to us.  It was a research target set last January, and it has
been met.

     At Level I, this could consist of getting the person to talk about some
illness that they have had.  At Levels II and III, you would find what
incident the person was sitting in.  In dianetics, this was done with an
age-flash.  At Level VI, it is done with all the tech of case analysis, asking
if it is an actual GPM, an implant GPM, etc.  At Level 0 it is, "How do you
feel today?  What have you done about it?  Do you feel better?"

     As a PC runs actual GPM's, the sub-itsa and the PC's ability to itsa come
closer and closer together.  On case analysis, they fold over about half way
to OT, where the PC's ability to itsa surpasses the meter.  If the PC doesn't
say itsa, the meter won't read.  The meter depends on mass and short-circuits
in the mass.  You will eventually reach a point where the person is
self-determined enough that unless they think it, it isn't so.  Somewhere
along the line, you will also run into their recognition that they are
creating all the mass.  What you will do there hasn't been worked out.  You
will have to get across it and back to the beginning and the earliest
postulates with regard to the making of mass and the creation of all this type
of bank  [see pp. 337-339, above].  It is a rough go, unless your basic
auditing is superb.

     Your basic auditing at Levels II and III has to be magnificent, because
the PC doesn't know what you are talking about.  He has no nomenclature.  He
has no reality on it.  He can't put these things together smoothly.  The whole
burden, therefore, is on basic auditing, on handling the PC's itsa, improving
the PC's itsa.  Never give the itsa to the PC on the meter when he can give it
to you.  Don't refuse to check the meter if he asks, but wean him off it.

     The only things that vary in basic auditing are the addition of more
complicated metering, as you go up the levels.  Note that at Levels V and VI,
you never use a sensitivity higher than 8.  Other wise the needle is too
loose.

     Improving one's basic auditing is the way to improve the amount of TA
that one gets, given a particular technique used.  Dirty needles come solely
from out basic auditing [see HCOB 25Nov63 "Dirty Needles"].

     On Level VI, the TA moves around so much that you can't wait until the TA
stops to say something.  You have to talk when it slows down.  The PC will get
heat, during BD's, which will be suppressed if you talk, so that you will have
to get the suppress off the heat to get it to turn on again.  If there is
nothing going on, it is up to the auditor to start something.  If there is
something going on with the PC, then there is no need for the auditor to start
something.

     At the upper levels, basic auditing had better be as free from attention
as walking.  This sounds obvious, but it is horribly true.  You've got plenty
to do, with the meter.  You don't have time to record TA, except when you give
the question and when the TA blows down, when the PC gives the item.  Apart
from that, you need a TA counter to keep record of it.  Just don't move the TA
while the PC is moving around, or you will get a falsely high count.

     You've got to stop the needle at set with your thumb, in order not to cut
the PC's itsa while centering the needle.  You will put in a comm lag if you
delay while centering it, and the PC's attention will go to the meter.  There
are numerous tricks that you can do with meters.  For instance, you can brake
the needle to stop it from wobbling.  Know the needle well enough to be able
to spot a missed withhold without asking for it, or to repair havingness
without having to run any, by getting the PC to spot what upset his
havingness, etc.  You can know TA behavior well enough to spot trouble before
it arrives, so that you are not startled when the PC erupts.  At Level VI,
technique is an all-devouring monster.  You can spare no attention for the
meter or for basic auditing aspects such as the comm cycle.  There is no
zenith on how good your basic auditing can get.

     You could probably make some mistakes with techniques and case analysis
(not many), but you can't afford to make any mistakes with basic auditing,
especially if you do make a mistake in another area.  Nothing very serious
will happen to a PC because of technique or case analysis errors, especially
below Level VI, but basic auditing errors will pitch the PC on his head.  The
only serious things that can happen to a PC occur because of out basic
auditing.  PCs feel badly when basic auditing is out.  Invalidation is the
only way to turn on somatics at Level VI.  OT processes are as rough as there
is invalidation.  It isn't that items turn on pain.  It is that if you
invalidate a right item or goal, the PC can get good and sick.  This makes the
steps of case analysis mandatory.  But if your basic auditing is in, such that
the PC's itsa is in, you are less likely to make these mistakes, because the
PC's opinion and knowingness are consulted.

     The greatest dividend you can get from training is improvement of your
basic auditing, to a point where you can relax and get technique and case
analysis to hum.  Get it perfected, and your tone arm motion will triple.

