6205C22 SHSpec-151  Missed Withholds

     Q and A is really Q an A. Some of the forms of Q and A are:

          1. Double questioning.  Auditor questions the PC's answer.

          2. Changing because the PC changes.  You are questioning the fact
             that he is changing.

          3. Following the PC's instructions.  That is a Q an A of Hubbard.
             You are questioning his answers, by assuming that the PC knows
             more about his case than you, the auditor, do.

     The auditor must stay at cause over the session and put the PC at cause
over his case.  If the auditor doesn't make the PC confront, the PC will obey
his bank, which says, "Don't confront."

     A full cycle of action must exist with an auditing command.  This puts a
tremendous responsibility on the auditor to ask the right question.  So there
can be two mistakes:

          1. A wrong auditing question, like "What should we run on you
             today?" or "Have you had a motivator lately?"

          2. A failure to let an auditing cycle complete itself.

     You can get in trouble by asking, "Have I missed a withhold on you?",
because the PC can give a motivator response.  This throws end-ruds out [The
first end-rudiment question is, "Have you told me any half-truth, untruth, or
said something only to impress me or tried to damage anyone, in this session?"
See HCOB 21Dec61 "Model Session Script, Revised".], which puts the PC out of
session.  Then you have to question the PC's answer to handle
the situation.  So don't ask an ambiguous question.  Ask the type of question
that makes a Q and A very unlikely.  A perfect question is one that produces
an answer that doesn't have to be questioned, since, if you question his
answer, he will feel unacknowledged; he will feel he can't talk to you and
will go out of session.  Even, "Do you have an ARC break?" is imperfect, since
if he says, "Yes," the non Q and A response is only an acknowledgement, not,
"What is it?"

     An auditor who changes when the PC changes is demonstrating so much
impatience to produce an immediate effect that he will never give anything a
chance to get completed.  He lacks confidence in "the usual" working, often
because he is unaware of what "the usual" is.  He will easily go off into
extraordinary solutions because he lacks confidence in the ordinary solutions,
because he has never done it.  Sometimes auditors Q and A because the PC gets
nasty and furious and they back out.

     The commonest form of Q and A, however, is failure to acknowledge the
PC's answer because one is questioning it.  This can cause a PC to react
furiously or, eventually, to go into apathy, as an extreme response to being
made to feel that he is having withholds missed.  Before this point, there is
a twilight zone of semi-out-of sessionness, where all the rest of the ruds
keep flying out as a result of occasional non-acknowledgement or wrong
questions.

     If you ask an auditing question like, "Do you have a PTP?" and get an
inadequate answer, you can meter check it.  If it still reads, don't just keep
asking the same question.  Ask something that will be answerable without
producing Q and A.

     When a PC drifts out of session, he is drifting on his feeling that he is
unable to communicate with the auditor.  The way to throw him out permanently
is to punish him for getting off withholds and to make him feel that he will
never be able to communicate his withholds to the auditor.  The auditor
doesn't have to be sweet and nice.  He does have to get his auditing questions
answered.  Permitting the PC to answer something else also throws end-ruds out
and makes the PC feel the auditor didn't hear him, since he knows (really)
when he is really answered.

     You must ask a question that can be answered and get that question
answered.  If you do that smoothly, pcs will do almost anything for you.  When
you see a session running off the rails, don't look at the PC as a peculiar
ape and don't develop a good Communistic self-criticism.  Just look at the
questions you are asking in session, ask yourself if they are answerable by
the PC and if you are accepting the PC's answers.  If you are doing these
things right, it must be the PC's environment that is caving him in.

