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GLOSSARY & DEFINITIONS

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W  X Y Z

ABBREVIATIONS LIST

ACC Advanced Clinical Course
AESP Attitudes, emotions, sensations, pains
ARCU Affinity, reality, communication,
understanding
ARC-X ARC break
CDEINR Curious, desired, enforce, inhibit, no, refuse
ARF Auditor's report form
BIs Bad indicators
BD Blowdown
BER Bad exam report
BPC By-passed charge
C&A Certificates and awards
CC Clearing Course
CL Class (level)
Class Chart Classification chart
Cog Cognition
Comm Cycle Communication cycle
C/S Case supervisor, case supervision
Demo Demonstration
D of P Director of Processing
DN Dianetics™
DN Dirty Needle
DR Dirty Read
DYN Dynamics
E/S Earlier similar
EP End phenomena
E/O Ethics Officer
EXT Exterior or exteriorization
F Fall, flow
HAV Havingness
FDA Food and Drug Administration
FES Folder Error Summary
FS Folder Summary
FL Flow
F/N Floating needle
FFT Full Flow Table
GAE Gross Auditing Error
GF Green form
GI Good indicators
GR Grade
Grade Chart Gradation chart
HF Health form
HE&R Human emotion and reaction
HCOB R. Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin
HGC R. Hubbard Guidance Center
Inval Invalidation
INT RD Exteriorization/Interiorization Rundown
LF Long fall
LFBD Long fall blow down
L&N Listing and nulling
LRH Lafayette Ron Hubbard, founder of Scn.
MO Medical officer
MU Misunderstood word or symbol
MWH (M/W/H) Missed withhold
O/R Overrun
OT Operating thetan
PN Pain
PC Preclear
PR Public relations
Pro Professional
PTP Present time problem
PSEA Pains, sensations, emotions, attitudes
PT Present time
PTS Potential trouble source
Q&A Question and Answer
R3RA Routine 3 Revised-A
REHAB Rehabilitate/rehabilitation
Restim Restimulation
RR (R/R) Rocket read
RS (R/S) Rock slam
R/S item Rock slam item
RUDS Rudiments
SCN Scientologie
SF Small Fall
SH Saint Hill
SHSBC Saint Hill Special Briefing Course
SOM Somatic
SP Suppressive person
ST Standard Clearing Technology
SUPP Suppress
TECH Technology or technical
TA Tone Arm or Tone arm action
TR Training Routine
TWC or
2WC Two-way communication
VGI Very good indicators
W/H Withhold
 
 
DEFINITIONS

A

A=A=A, Anything equals anything equals anything. This is the way the reactive mind thinks, irrationally identifying thoughts, people, objects, experiences, statements, etc., with one another where little or no similarity actually exists. Example: Mr. X looks at a horse, knows it’s a house, knows it’s a school teacher, so when he sees a horse he is respectful. This is the behavior of the reactive mind. Everything is identified with everything on a certain subject.

Aberration
is a departure from rational thought or behavior. From the Latin,
"aberrare", to wander from, Latin "ab", away, "errare", to wander. It
means basically to err, to make mistakes, or more specifically to have
fixed ideas which are not true. The word is also used in its scientific
sense. It means departure from a straight line. If a line should go from
A to B, then if it is "aberrated" it would go from A to some other
point, to some other point, to some other point, to some other point, to
some other point, and finally arrive at B. Taken in its scientific
sense, it would also mean the lack of straightness or to see crookedly.
As an example, a man sees a horse but thinks he sees an elephant.
"Aberrated" conduct would be wrong conduct, or conduct not supported by
reason. When a person has engrams, these tend to deflect what would be
his normal ability which then would cause an "aberrated" reaction to
them. "Aberration" is opposed to sanity, which would be its opposite.
"Aberee" is sometimes used by R. Hubbard to designate an aberrated
person.

Academy
That area of the Technical Division in which
courses and training are delivered.

Additive
a thing which has been added. This usually has a bad meaning in that an
"additive" is said to be something needless or harmful which has been
done in addition to standard procedure. "Additive" normally means a
departure from standard procedure. For example, an auditor puts
different or additional words into a standard process or command. It
means a twist on standard procedure. In common English, it might mean a
substance put into a compound to improve its qualities or suppress
undesirable qualities. In ST, it definitely means
to "add" something to the technology or procedure resulting in
undesirable results.

Admin (Administration)
A contraction or shortening of the word "administration". "Admin" is
used as a noun to denote the actions involved in "administrating" an
organization. The clerical and executive decisions, actions and duties
necessary to the running of an organization such as originating and
answering mail, typing, filing, dispatching, applying policy, and all
those actions, large and small which make up an organization. "ADMIN" is
also used to denote the action or fact of keeping auditor's reports,
summary reports, worksheets and other records related to an auditing
session. "He kept good "admin"" meaning that his summary report,
auditor's report and worksheets were neat, exactly on pattern, in proper
sequence and easily understood, as well as complete.

Affinity
Degree of liking or affection or lack of it. Affinity is a tolerance of distance. A great affinity makes you feel 'close' to somebody or something. It's a tolerance of or liking of closeness or close proximity. A lack of affinity would be an intolerance of or dislike of closeness. Affinity is one of the components of understanding, the other components are reality and communication.
One's level of affinity is expressed on the so called tone scale. This is an emotional scale. Some of the major steps are: Apathy, fear, anger, antagonism, boredom, conservatism, interest and enthusiasm. Apathy is the lowest affinity here. Enthusiasm the highest.

Ally
is a person from whom sympathy came when the preclear was ill or
injured. If the ally came to the preclear's defense or his words and/or
actions were aligned with the individual's survival, the reactive mind
gives that ally the status of always being right--especially if this
ally was obtained during a highly painful engram.

Alter-is
To change or falsify the way something actually is.

Analytical
means capable of resolving, such as problems, situations. The
"analytical" mind would be the conscious aware mind which thinks,
observes data, remembers it and resolves problems. It would be
essentially the conscious mind as opposed to the unconscious mind. 
In ST the "analytical" mind is the one which is
alert and aware and the reactive mind simply reacts without "analysis".
The word "analytical" is from the Greek, "analysis", meaning resolve,
undo, loosen, which is to say take something to pieces to see what it is
made of. This is one of those examples of the shortcomings of the
English language since no dictionary gives the word "analytical" any
connection with thinking, reasoning, perceiving, which in essence is
what it would have to mean, even in English.

Anaten
An abbreviation of "analytical attenuation," meaning 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.

ARC
A word made from the initial letters of Affinity, Reality and
Communication which together equate to understanding. Pronounced as
three letters A-R-C.

ARC Break: ARC brk.
1) A sudden drop or cutting of one's affinity, reality or communication
with someone or something. It is pronounced by its letters "A-R-C
break".
2) A sudden drop or cutting of one's affinity, reality or communication with someone or something. It is pronounced by its letters A-R-C break. This is in common language known as an upset or a condition of being shocked, disappointed, surprised etc. The A-R-C break gives an inside look in the anatomy of what is going on.

ARC break assessment
Reading a prepared auditing list appropriate to the activity to the pc
on a Meter and doing nothing but locating and then indicating the charge
found to the pc.

ARCU CDEINR
Stands for affinity, reality, communication, understanding. And curious,
desired, enforced, inhibited, no and refused. These are the points
assessed by an auditor on the Meter when handling an ARC break. First he assesses
ARCU, finds one and indicates to the pc. Then he assesses CDEINR, 
finds one and indicates to the pc - such as R-I = Inhibited Reality.

As-is/As-ising
To view anything exactly as it is, without any distortions or lies, at
which moment it will vanish and cease to exist.

Assess
means to choose, from a list of statements - which item or thing has the biggest read on the Meter and the pc's interest. The longest read usually will also have the pc's

Assessment
is done by the auditor between the pc's Bank and the Meter. There is no
need in assessing to look at the pc. Just note which item has the
longest fall or blowdown. The auditor looks at the Meter while doing an
assessment. Also the action of an auditor reading down a list to find
out which item on the list reacts more than the other items on the list,
using a Meter; and so choose which item to handle.
(See also, Prepared Lists).

Assist
An action undertaken by an auditor to assist the spirit to confront physical difficulties.
A simple auditing action given as a first aid. Does not replace medical first aid.

Attention 
When interest becomes fixed, we have attention. Attention is aberrated by 
becoming unfixed and sweeping at random or becoming too fixed without sweeping.

Attention unit
Could be considered a theta energy unit of awareness existing in the
mind in varying numbers from person to person. This would be the theta
endowment of the individual; attention units are what he enjoys with,
thinks with and works with. Attention units can be caught up in incidents
on the time-track, with problems and so on. See also theta.

Auditing
Also called Processing, the application of ST processes and
procedures to someone by a trained auditor. The exact definition of
auditing is: the action of asking a preclear a question (which he can
understand and answer), getting an answer to that question and
acknowledging him for that answer.

Auditng Comm Cycle
 This is the auditing communication cycle that is always in use:

1.  Is the pc ready to receive the command? (appearance, presence)
2.  Auditor gives command/question to pc (cause, distance, effect)
3.  Pc looks in his Bank for an answer
4.  Pc receives answer from his Bank
5.  Pc gives answer to auditor (cause, distance, effect)
6.  Auditor acknowledges pc
7.  Auditor sees that pc received the acknowledgement (attention)
8.  New cycle beginning with (1).

You drill different parts of this thoroughly in the Training Routines (TR's)

Auditing Session
A period in which an auditor and preclear are in a quiet place where they will not be disturbed. The auditor gives the preclear certain and exact commands which the preclear can follow.

Auditor
A person trained and qualified in applying ST
processes and procedures to individuals for their betterment; called an
auditor because auditor means "one who listens."

Auditor's Code
The technical or professional code of ST auditors; a list of
"do's" and "don'ts" which experience has shown ensure optimum progress
in auditing a case; the governing set of rules for the general activity
of auditing.
2) important set of rules, which guides the auditor's professional behavior and attitude. The purpose of these rules is to develop maximum trust between auditor and pc. Maximum trust leads to quickest and most lasting results. It's a joy to be audited by an auditor, who sticks to this code rigorously all the time. Remember the important rule: Auditor plus pc is greater than pc's Bank (aud. + pc>Bank).

Auditor's C/S
A sheet on which the auditor writes the case supervision instructions
for the next session.

Auditor's Report Form
Is made out at the end of each session and is an outline of what actions
were taken during the session. (Abbreviation: ARF).

Automatic Bank
When a preclear gets picture after picture after picture all out of
control. This occurs when one isn't following an assessed somatic or
complaint or has chosen the wrong one or one which the preclear is not
ready to confront or by overwhelming the preclear with rough TRs or
going very non-standard in session. Some preclears turn up in their
first session with automatic Banks. The thing to do is carefully assess
the physical complaint for longest or best read and gently handle "that"
chain well.

Automaticity
Something one is doing but is unaware or only
partially aware be is doing; something the preclear has "on automatic."

Axioms
Statements of natural laws on the order of those of the physical
sciences.

Axiom 30 (Scn Axiom)
The general rule of auditing is that anything which is unwanted and yet
persists must be thoroughly viewed, at which time it will vanish.

Axiom 32 (Scn Axiom)
Anything which is not directly observed tends to persist.

Axiom 51 (Scn Axiom)
Postulates and live communication not being mest and being senior to
mest can accomplish change in mest without bringing about a persistence
of mest. Thus auditing can occur.
 
B

Bad indicators (Bls)
Those observable indications that all is not going well for a preclear.

Bank: 
Reactive Bank; reactive mind; engram Bank
The mental image picture collection of the preclear. It comes from
computer technology where all data is in a "Bank"; portion of the mind
which contains engrams, secondaries and locks.

Basic
The first incident (engram, lock, overt act) on any chain. The FIRST
experience recorded in mental image pictures of the TYPE of pain,
sensation, discomfort, etc. Every chain has its basic. It is a
PECULIARITY and a FACT that when one gets down to the basic on a chain
(a) it erases and (b) the whole chain vanishes for good. Basic is simply
earliest.

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 name, one's profession, one's physical
characteristics, one's role in a game--each and all of these could be
called one's beingness. "Grant beingness:" To grant life to something;
to permit or allow other people to have beingness.

Bl's
See Bad Indicators.

Black field
This is just some part of a mental image picture where the preclear is
looking at blackness. It is part of some lock, secondary or engram. In
ST it can occur (rarely) when the pc is exterior, looking at something black. It responds to R3R.

Black V
A no-responsibility case; a heavily occluded case characterized by
mental pictures consisting of masses of blackness.

Blow
To release charge from; to erase or disappear. Also to depart without
authorization from an area; such a departure.

Blowdown
A tone arm motion to the left (one-tenth of a division or more on the
Tone Arm dial of the Meter), made to keep the needle on the dial.

Body
The organism with limbs, head, etc. It's the physical part of a human being or animal - whether living or dead.

Book One ™
"Dianetics™: The Modern Science of Mental Health".

Bouncers
Material (matter, energy, space and time in the form of effort, force,
mass, delusion etc.) or command phrases that throw the pc backward,
forward, up or down from the time track and so makes it apparently
unavailable.

Bullbaiting
In coaching certain drills the coach attempts to find certain actions,
words, phrases, mannerisms or subjects that cause the student auditor 
doing the drill to become distracted from the drill by reacting
to the coach. As a bullfighter attempts to attract the bull's attention
and control the bull, so does the coach attempt to attract and control
the student auditor's attention; however the coach flunks the student
auditor whenever he succeeds in distracting the student from the drill
and then repeats the action until it no longer has any effect on the
student.

Bulletin
In the text bulletin refers to R. Hubbard Communications Office Bulletins.
See technical bulletin.

Button
1)  Words, phrases, subjects or actions used by other people, 
that causes a Bank reaction in an individual, resulting in discomfort, 
embarrassment or upset, or in making him laugh uncontrollably.
They are found and pushed in 'TR-0, Bullbaiting' and worked over until 'flat',
meaning until the person can confront it without any discomfort or reaction.
2) Items, words, phrases, subjects or areas that are easily restimulatable
in an individual by the words or actions of other people, and which
cause him discomfort, embarrassment or upset, or make him laugh
uncontrollably. 

Button (auditing button)
3) This term is also used to refer to specific words or
phrases (such as "invalidate" or "suppress") used in auditing, because
when the auditor says it to the pc (pushes it) he can get a Meter
reaction.

By-passed Charge
When a person receives a lock, a lower earlier incident restimulates.
That is bypassed charge. It isn't the auditor bypassing it. One handled
later charge that restimulated earlier charge. That is bypassed charge
and that is all the term means, earlier charge restimulated and not seen
would be another name for it.

C

Case
The way a person responds to the world around him by reason of his
aberrations.

Case gain
The improvements and resurgences a person experiences from auditing and
training; any case betterment according to the pc.

Case Progress Sheet
is a sheet which details the Levels of processing and training the pc
has achieved while moving up the Grade Chart. It also lists incidental
rundowns and set-up actions the pc has had. The sheet gives at a glance
the pc's progress to OT.

Case Supervision: C/S
The inspection of auditing, by a qualified Case Supervisor (using
auditor reports, session worksheets and Examiner reports); the ordering
of standard actions and remedies to ensure maximum gains for the
preclear. The written instructions of a case supervisor.

Caved in
a slang term meaning mentally overwhelmed.
Certs and Awards (Certificates and Awards)
The office, which issues certificates and awards
for the successful completion of courses and auditing cycles. It is
located in the Qualifications Division.

Chain
A series of incidents of similar nature or similar subject matter.

Chain of incidents
A whole adventure or activity related by the same subject, general
location or people, understood to take place in a finite time period,
weeks, months, years or even billions or trillions of years.
 

Charge
The stored quantities of energy in the time track; stored energy or
stored or recreateable potentials of energy. The electrical impulse on
the case that activates the Meter. Harmful energy or force accumulated
and generated in the reactive mind, resulting from the conflicts and
unpleasant experiences that a person has had.

Chart of Attitudes
A chart which contains the major difficulties people have. It shows the
attitudes towards life taken by people, and comes with the book "Science
of Survival" by R. Hubbard.

Chart of Human Evaluation
A chart organized in very early 1951 by R. Hubbard. It has various
columns and gives behavior characteristics. It is plotted out
mathematically on the basis of ARC; a very good chart to use in order to
predict people. (See "Science of Survival" by R. Hubbard.)

Check:
V word has been cleared with the pc.

Checklist
A list of actions or inspections to ready an activity or machinery or
object for use or estimate the needful repairs or corrections. This is
erroneously sometimes called a "checksheet," but that word is reserved
for study steps.

Checkout
The action of verifying a student's knowledge of an item given on a
checksheet.

Checksheet
A list of materials, often divided into sections, that give the theory
and practical steps which, when completed, give one a study completion.
The items are selected to add up to the required knowledge of the
subject. They are arranged in the sequence necessary to a gradient of
increasing knowledge of the subject. After each item there is a place
for the initial of the student or the person checking the student out.
When the checksheet is fully initialed it is complete, meaning the
student may now take an examination and be granted the award for
completion. Some checksheets are required to be gone through twice
before completion is granted.

Circuit
is a part of an individual's Bank that behaves as though it were someone
or something separate from him and either dictates or takes over his
actions. (Circuits are the result of engramic commands.)

Class (Level)
Class 0 (Level 0) Communication
Class I (Level I) Problems
Class II (Level II) Overts/Withholds
Class III (Level III) ARC Breaks
Class IV (Level IV) Service Facsimiles
Class V (Level V) Engram and Secondaries

Class Chart
see Classification, also Grade Chart.
Classification: Class
An award earned by an auditor that entitles him to audit certain levels
of processes, and that shows that he has attained the ability and skill
to do so by actual test.

Clay Demo
Abbreviation for clay demonstration. A study technique whereby the student 
demonstrates definitions, principles, etc. in clay to obtain greater understanding 
by translating significance into actual mass.

Cleaning a Clean
Demanding more than is there.

Clean needle
One which flows, produces no pattern or erratic motions of the smallest
kind with the auditor sitting looking at it and doing nothing.

Clearing
Training and processing of an individual to bring him to the state of Clear.
 

Clear read
The tone arm reading on the Meter on a body of 2.0 for females and 3.0
for males.

Clear
1) A person (thetan)  who can be at cause knowingly and at will over mental matter, energy, space and time as regards the first dynamic (survival for self). The state of Clear is above the release grades of ST (all of which has to be done before you get to clearing). 2) A Being, who no longer has his own reactive mind.

Clearing Technology
See Standard Clearing Technology

Coaching
Training intensively by instruction, demonstration and practice. In
training drills, one twin is made the coach and the other the student.
The coach, in his coaching actions, coaches the student to achieve the
purpose of the drill. He coaches with reality and intention following
exactly the materials pertaining to the drill to get the student through
it. When this is achieved the roles are then reversed--the student
becoming the coach and the coach becoming the student.

Co-auditing
An abbreviation for co-operative auditing. It means a team of two people
who are using ST processes to help each other
reach a better life.

Co-auditor
See co-auditing.

Cognition
A pc origination indicating he has "come to realize." It's a "What do
you know? I . . ." statement. A new realization of life. It results in a
higher degree of awareness and consequently a greater ability to succeed
with one's endeavors in life.

Comment (TR-3)
In TR's (TR-3) is defined as an attempt to distract auditor or 
an attempt to blow session. Different from Origination (se Origination).
 

Comm Formula
See communication.
 

Comm lag: (Communication Lag)
The length of time between the asking of the question by the auditor and
the answering of that exact question by the preclear.

Communication
1) The interchange of ideas or objects between two people or terminals.
More precisely the definition of communication is the consideration and
action of impelling an impulse or particle from source point across a
distance to receipt point, with the intention of bringing into being at
the receipt point a duplication of that which emanated from the source
point. The formula of communication is: cause, distance, effect, with
attention and duplication. Communication by definition does not need to
be two-way. Communication is one of the component parts of
understanding.
2) The exchange or interchange of ideas or objects between two people or designated locations (terminals). More precisely the definition of communication is the consideration and action of impelling an impulse or particle from source point across a distance to receipt point, with the intention of bringing into being at the receipt point a duplication of that which emanated from the source point. The formula of communication is: cause, distance, effect, with intention, attention and duplication and understanding. Communication by definition does not need to be two-way. Communication is one of the component parts of understanding.

Communication, Control, Havingness Processes (CCHs)
Processes which bring a person into better control of his body and
surroundings, put him into better communication with his surroundings
and other people, and increase his ability to have things for himself.
They bring him into the present, away from his past problems. CCH stands
for Control, Communication, Havingness.

Communication cycle
A completed communication, including origination of the communication,
receipt of the communication, and answer or acknowledgement of the
communication. A communication cycle consists of just: cause, distance,
effect, with intention, attention, duplication and understanding.

Completion
A "completion" is the completing of a specific course or an auditing
grade, meaning it has been started, worked through and has successfully
ended with an award in Qual.

Computation
technically is that abberrated evaluation and postulate that one must be
consistently in a certain state in order to succeed.

Confront
To face without flinching or avoiding. Confronting is actually the
ability to be there comfortably and perceive.

Contact assist
A process which can be self-administered in which an injured body part
is brought into contact with whatever caused the injury in as nearly as
possible the same position and circumstances as it originally occurred
(excepting only unheating hot objects, or turning off electricity, etc.)

Control
The ability to start, change and stop things at one's own choice. (With
processing a person is capable of controlling a wider and wider sphere
of things).

Correction list (Repair List)
is a list of prepared questions on a printed sheet which is used by the
auditor for the repair of a particular situation, action, or rundown.

Cramming
A section in the Qualifications Division where a
student is given high-pressure instruction at his own cost after being 
found slow in study or when failing his examinations. In this section
auditors and case supervisors are handled with special corrective
instruction if they make errors when auditing or case supervising.

Cramming officer
That person in the Qual Division who trains students or auditors on
materials they have missed. This includes trained auditors who wish to
be brought up to date on current technical developments.

C/S 1
An action done by an auditor based on standard case supervision
instructions that sets up a preclear to run in auditing.

C/S 53 
The basic prepared list used in auditing to get the Tone Arm up or down into normal range.

ST 
Look under: Standard Clearing Technology

ST Meter
Electro-psycho meter, E-meter or simply Meter. An electronic instrument for measuring the mental
state and change of state in individuals as an aid to precision and speed in auditing.
The ST Meter is not intended for medical or physical treatment or the diagnosis, 
treatment or prevention of any disease. By itself it does nothing and is strictly not 
to be employed for medical or
scientific purposes. Its purpose is to assist the auditor to locate in
his pc's areas of travail so that be can assist in the relief of spiritual suffering.

D

Demo Kit: Demonstration Kit
A bunch of rubber bands, batteries, fuses, corks, caps, paper clips,
coins or whatever, will do. These are kept in a box or container
(tobacco tins or dairy cartons are good). These are used to demonstrate
ideas with material objects and so increase understanding of the idea.

Denyer
That which obscures a part of track by implying it is not there or
elsewhere (a misdirector) or should not be viewed.

Destimulation
The action of deleting the moments of restimulation of the reactive mind
or some portion of it, so that it moves away from the preclear and he is
no longer connected to it.

Dianetics™
Subject developed by R. Hubbard.
"Man's most advanced school of the mind". From the Greek "dia", through,
and "noos", soul, thus "through soul" or "through thought."
In this manual called D-netics due to trademark issues. In ST it is called 
Engram Clearing.

Director of Processing: D of P
The head of the Department of Processing in the Technical Division. The 
person who is responsible for having auditors
available and preclears to audit, assignment of preclears to auditors,
scheduling of preclears and sessions. 
He also checks up on the well being and progress of pc's. He can do 
metered interviews on pc's on his own authority or the C/S can ask him to
do metered interviews of a pc to get data.

Dirty Needle: Symbol Dn
An Meter needle reaction in which the needle moves with a ragged,
jerky, ticking motion. It is not necessarily a large reaction.

Dirty Read: Symbol DR
A more or less instant response of the needle which is agitated by a
major thought. It is an instant tiny (less than a quarter of an inch
agitation of the needle and is in fact a very small cousin of a rock
slam, but is not a rock slam. It does not persist.

D of P Interview: See Director of Processing.

Dope off
The phenomena of a person getting tired, sleepy, foggy (as though
doped).

Dramatization: Dramatize
To repeat in action what has happened to one in experience. It's a
replay out of its time period now of something that happened then.

Dub-in
Any unknowingly created mental picture that appears to have been a
record of the physical universe but is in fact only an altered copy of
the time track. Dub-in is of no concern to auditors as it is handled no
differently than any other mental pictures. It is run in auditing
exactly the same as any lock, secondary or engram.

Dynamics
The urge, thrust and purpose of life--SURVIVE!--in its eight
manifestations. THE FIRST DYNAMIC is the urge toward survival of self;
THE SECOND DYNAMIC is the urge toward survival through sex, or children.
This dynamic actually has two divisions. The Second Dynamic (a) is the
sexual act itself and Second Dynamic (b) is the family unit, including
the rearing of children; THE THIRD DYNAMIC is the urge toward survival
through a group of individuals or as a group. Any group or part of an
entire class could be considered to be a part of the Third Dynamic. The
school, the club, the team, the town, the nation are examples of groups;
THE FOURTH DYNAMIC is the urge toward survival through all mankind and
as all mankind; THE FIFTH DYNAMIC is the urge toward survival through
life forms such as animals, birds, insects, fish and vegetation, and is
the urge to survive as these; THE SIXTH DYNAMIC is the urge toward
survival as the physical universe and has as its components matter,
energy, space and time, from which we derive the word MEST; THE SEVENTH
DYNAMIC is the urge toward survival through spirits or as a spirit.
Anything spiritual, with or without identity, would come under the
Seventh Dynamic. A sub-heading of this dynamic is ideas and concepts
such as beauty and the desire to survive through these; THE EIGHTH
DYNAMIC is the urge toward survival through a Supreme Being, or more
exactly, Infinity.

E

Earlier Similar
When the auditor is checking the rudiments, he may run into the situation, that the difficulty doesn't resolve right away. To resolve the situation he will have the pc look for an earlier similar incident.
Earlier, means it happened before or further back in time, than the incident they were just talking about.
Similar, means it was somewhat the same type of incident. Maybe having to do with the same person or persons, the same place or the same surrounding circumstances.

To ask for an earlier similar incident is used in many processes, as the reason the present incident does not resolve, is because it unknowingly reminds the pc about earlier times. When he is sent earlier and the exact circumstances get known to him  the subject matter will clear up.

8C
A slang term meaning good and effective control of an individual or
group. (Name stems from a drill).

Eight Dynamics
8 dynamics. See dynamics.

E-Meter
Look under: ST Meter

End Phenomena: EP
Those indicators in the pc and Meter which show that a chain or process
is ended. It shows in Engram running that basic on that chain and flow has
been erased.

Engram
is 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.
It must, by definition, have impact or injury as part of its content.
These engrams are a complete recording, down to the last accurate
detail, of every perception present in a moment of partial or full
unconsciousness.

Entheta
Enturbulated ("en") thought or life ("theta"), especially destructive
communications.

Enturbulated
Stirred up, agitated or turbulent.

Enturbulation
When a person's environment has been stirred up, become agitated, or
turbulent.

Erase/Erasure
The action of erasing, (rubbing out) locks, secondaries or engrams.

Erase, to go over an engram repeatedly until it has vanished entirely. 
There is a distinct difference between a reduction and an erasure. Erasure  
is accomplished when you find the earliest part of the earliest incident on 
a chain and get the postulate made at the time. 
When the postulate comes off the incident will be erased.

E/S, see Earlier Similar

Ethics
Rationality toward the highest level of survival for the individual, the
future race, the group and mankind. Ethics is reason and the
contemplation of optimum survival.

Ethics Officer
A person who handles ethics.
 

Evaluation: Evaluate, evaluative
Any attempt by someone to impose his data or knowledge upon another. An
example would be someone telling another why he is the way he is instead
of permitting or guiding him to discover it for himself.

Evil purpose: Ev Purp.
Destructive intention.

Examiner: Preclear Examiner
1) The person to whom preclears are sent
immediately after any auditing session. The Examiner says nothing to the
preclear in this situation, noting only what the pc's tone arm position
and state of the needle are on the Meter and recording what the pc
says if anything. The Examiner is also the person a preclear sees if he
wishes to make any sort of statement regarding his case, or if there is
something he wants handled regarding his case.
2)  In a bigger organization there is a so called Examiner. The Examiner is there to give pc an independent inspection after session. He will seat the pc and have him hold the Meter cans for a moment. He won't say anything, but simply note down pc's appearance and Meter response. Pc can (and should) give a statement about the session to him. The Examiner is also the person a preclear sees if he wishes to make any sort of statement regarding his case, or if there is something he wants handled regarding his case.

Exam Report
The report made out by the Qual Examiner when the pc goes to exams after
sessions or goes on his own volition. It contains the Meter details,
pc's indicators and the pc's statement.

Exterior: Exteriorized
The state of the thetan being outside the body, with or without full
perception.

Exteriorization
The act of moving out of the body with or without full perception.
Becoming exterior.

Exteriorization Rundown
See Interiorization rundown.

Ext-Int: Exteriorization-Interiorization
See Interiorization rundown.

F

F1: Flow one
another doing something to self.

F2: Flow two
doing something to another.

F3: Flow three
others doing things to others.

F0: Flow zero
person doing something to self.

Facsimile
"Any" mental image picture that is unknowingly created and part of the
time track, whether an engram, secondary, lock or pleasure moment.

Fall: Symbol F
An Meter needle read in which the needle moves rapidly to the right
from one to two inches.

Firefight
The action of a quarrel between an auditor and a pc.

Flash answer
Instantaneous reply, the first thing that flashes into the preclear's
mind at the snap of the auditor's fingers upon asking a question.

Flat
No longer producing change or a reaction. Or, in Incident running, referring to
an engram, erased.

Flatten
To continue to do (something) until it no longer produces a reaction.

Flatten a process: To continue a process as long as it produces change
and no longer. In Engram running it is to continue running a chain of
incidents until basic on that chain is reached and erased. With CCHs, it
is three commands of equal comm lag with the pc doing the process.

Floating Needle:
(FN or F/N): A floating needle is a certain needle behavior on a ST Meter. It is a rhythmic sweep of the needle over the dial at a slow, even pace. A valid  floating needle is always accompanied by very good indicators in the pc.

FLOW
A stream of energy between two points. An impulse or direction of energy particles or thought or objects between terminals.
In processing the auditor works with four main flows:
FLOW 1: something happening to self. Another doing something to you.
FLOW 2: doing something to another. You doing something to another.
FLOW 3: others doing things to others. You see it happen as a spectator.
FLOW 0: self doing something to self. You do something to yourself.

Free needle. 
The idle uninfluenced movement of the needle on the Meter
dial without any pattern or reactions in it. It can be as small as
1-inch or as large as dial wide. It does not fall or drop to the right
of the dial. It moves to the left at the same speed as it moves to the
right.
It is usually observed on a Meter calibrated with the tone arm between
2.0 and 3.0 with good indicators in on the pc. It can occur after a
cognition, blowdown of the tone arm, or just moves into floating. The pc
may or may not voice the cognition.

Floating TA
The pc is so released the needle can't be gotten onto the dial. The
needle is swinging wider than the Meter dial both ways from center and
appears to lay first on one side and then the other. The tone arm can't
be moved fast enough to keep the extreme floating needle on the dial.

Flow
Impulse or direction of thought, energy or action between terminals.

Flow lines
Refers to the administrative lines of an organization which facilitate
the delivery of auditing and training.
 

Flunk: 
1) To make a mistake. Fail to apply the materials learned. 
Opposite of pass. Also used by coaches as a command: "Flunk!", 
to tell the student a mistake was made.
 

Fly a Rud: Fly a rudiment
The auditor must get a free needle (floating needle) on one of the
rudiment questions (ARC breaks, PTPs, missed withholds.)

Folder
A folder sheet of cardboard which encloses all the session reports and
other items. The folder is foolscap size, light card, usually blue or
green in color.

Folder Error Summary
A summary of auditing errors in a folder and on a pc's case not
corrected at the time the summary is done.

Folder Summary
Sheets located inside the front cover of a pc folder giving an adequate
summary of actions taken on a pc in consecutive order.

Free Needle
See floating needle.

Free track
That part of the time track that is free of pain and misadventure, in
that the pc doesn't freeze up on it.
 

G

GF M5: Green Form Method 5
This means assessing of the Green Form by an auditor once through
marking the length and blowdown of all reads as they occur when the
questions are asked of the pc. Those questions which read are then
handled one at a time in order from the largest read to the smallest.

GF 40: Green Form 40
This is item number 40 on the green form and is a special prepared list
of items with specific actions to be done for each item.

Goals-Problems-Mass, (GPM) 
Persistant masses, ridges and problems in the pc's Bank with a certain anatomy. The basic of this are beingnesses the person has been. Each beingness was motivated by a specific goal - a certain direction and method of survival. These goals and beingnesses changed over time. Thus we can find goals and beingnesses on the pc's track in direct opposition to each other. This created a problem and ridge. The problem was created by two or more opposing ideas which being opposed, balanced, and unresolved, made a mass. It’s a mental energy mass. So you will find items (valences) in opposition to one another. Any pair of these items, in opposition to each other, constitute a specific problem called a GPM. 

Good indicators
Those observable indications that all is going well for a preclear. The
pc is bright, happy and winning. Pc smiling and happy.

Grade Chart
This chart shows all the levels of ST auditing and training. It is the map 
of the road to Clear.

Grade
A series of processes culminating in an exact ability attained,
examined, and attested to by the pc.

Grades
A series of steps or levels in which a preclear regains specific
abilities and loses specific inabilities on a gradient to becoming
clear. They are achieved with auditing. See also release.

Grade 0 Zero Communication release
Grade I One Problems release
Grade II Two Relief release
Grade III Three Freedom release
Grade IV Four Ability release

Gradient
Something that starts out simple and gets more and more complex. The
essence of a gradient is just being able to do a little bit more and a
little bit more and a little bit more until you finally make the grade.

Green Form
A standard form used in Review auditing.

Grinding: Grinding out
Going over and over and over a lock, secondary or engram without
obtaining an actual erasure. The sense of the word comes from the action
of using an emery wheel on a hard substance with it not getting much
smaller or thinner no matter how long it is done.

Grouper
Is anything which pulls the time track into a bunch at one or more
points. When the grouper is gone the time track is perceived to be
straight.

Gungho Group
Gung-ho means "pull together" in mandarin. It pulls together other
groups in the community to work towards the betterment of society and of
the area. The groups program works on the motto: a community that pulls
together can make a better society for all.

H

Hand space mimicry
A CCH process.

Hat
Slang term for the work and title of one's post in an organization. 
(derived from railroad use of distinctively different hats to indicate
different jobs.)

Havingness
The concept of being able to reach. Owning, possessing, experiencing.
Affinity, reality, communication with the environment.

Hidden standard
A problem a person thinks must be resolved before auditing can be seen
to have worked. It's a standard by which to judge ST or auditing or the 
auditor. This hidden standard is always an old problem
of long duration. It is a postulate counter-postulate situation--the
source of the counter postulate was suppressive to the pc.

High TA
Tone arm reading above 3.5 on the tone arm dial.
 

I

Implant
A painful and forceful means of overwhelming a being with artificial
purposes or false concepts in a malicious attempt to control and
suppress him.

Implanter
One who implants. See Implant.

In
Things which should be there and are or should be done and are, are said
to be "in," i.e., "We got scheduling in."

Incident
The recording of an experience, simple or complex, related by the same
subject, location or people understood to take place in a short or
finite time period such as minutes or hours or days.

Indoctrination
To teach a doctrine, belief, or principle to; to teach.

in-session
Interested in own case and willing to talk to auditor.

Intensive
A specific number of hours of auditing given to a preclear over a short
period of time, as a series of successive sessions at regularly
scheduled intervals. Twenty-five hours of auditing administered over a
five-day period or occupying 10 evenings would be examples of
intensives.

Interiorization
The action of going in; a thetan becoming interiorized in a body. An
analogy would be stepping through a doorway into a room or getting into
an automobile.

Interiorization rundown: (Int RD or Int/Ext RD)
A remedy designed to permit the pc to be further audited after he has
gone exterior. It is NOT meant as a method of exteriorizing the pc;
formerly known as the Exteriorization Rundown or Ext RD.

Interiorization Rundown Correction List: (Int RD Corr. List)
A prepared list used NOT to solve the case but to make interiorization
cease to read and be clean as a subject by isolating the exact outness.
It is used after a pc has had an Int RD and is continuing to have
difficulty with interiorization.

Interne
An advanced graduate or recent graduate of an auditing level who is
auditing to get practical experience under professional supervision.

Internship
Apprenticeship served by an Interne.

Invalidation
A refuting or degrading or discrediting or denying something someone
else considers to be a fact.

Invisible field
This is just a part of some lock, secondary or engram that is
"invisible." It, like a black field, responds to R3R.

Is-ness
Something that is persisting on a continuum.

Item
Any one of a list of things, people, ideas, significances, purposes,
etc., given by a preclear to an auditor while listing; any separate
thing or article; in particular, one placed on a list by a pc.

Itsa
A term contracted from "It is a"; a term for a pc's action of answering
an auditor's question in which the pc positively identifies something
with certainty.

Itsa-maker line
Communication line from the preclear to his own Bank. Is where pc is
inspecting his Bank and where he is somewhat introverted.

J

Jonathan Livingston Seagull. A symbolic book by Richard Bach about about a seagull perfecting the ability to fly (symbolic for wisdom and ability). He learns and perfects it with other selected seagulls. The seagull is the symbol for ST. 

K

Key in
Is a moment where an earlier upset or earlier incident has been restimulated and affect pc in a negative way.
The action of recording a lock on a secondary or engram; the moment an
earlier upset or earlier incident has been restimulated.

Key out
The action of a reactive  incident (or many related incidents) dropping away without the mental image pictures being erased. The picture is still there but now far away. The pc feels released or separate from his reactive mind or some portion of it.
An action of an engram or secondary dropping away without being erased.
Released or separate from one's reactive mind or some portion of it.

Know-to-Mystery Scale
The scale of affinity from Knowingness, down through Lookingness,
Emotingness, Effortingness, Thinkingness, Symbolizingness, Eatingness,
Sexingness, and so through to Not-knowingness to Mystery.

L

L3RH
A prepared list used for locating and handling all errors and trouble in
Dianetics™ Engram running sessions.

L4BRB
A prepared list used in ST for handling all listing errors, when trouble occurs 
on a listing process, when TA goes high or pc gets sick or upset after a session 
which included listing actions.

Latent read
If (the needle) doesn't fall or react for a second or more (after the
question is asked) and then reacts. This is a latent read.

List
Items said by the preclear in response to a listing question from the
auditor, which have been written down by the auditor in the exact
sequence that they were given to him by the preclear.

Listing
A special ST procedure used in some processes where the auditor
writes down items said by the preclear in response to a question by the
auditor, in the exact sequence that they are given to him by the
preclear.

Listing and Nulling: L & N
A ST procedure in auditing done according to very exact rules
as given in the Laws of Listing and Nulling. This is ST Level III technology.

Locational processing
Processing which establishes a stability in the environment of the
preclear on the subject of objects and people. It can be run in busy
thoroughfares, parks, confused traffic or anywhere that there is or is
not motion of objects and people. It is used in the auditing room itself
to orient the preclear.

Lock
A mental image picture of an incident where one was knowingly or
unknowingly reminded of a secondary or engram. It does not itself
contain a blow or a burn or impact and is not any major cause of
misemotion. It does not contain unconsciousness. It may contain a
feeling of pain or illness, etc., but is not itself the source of it.
A lock is a mental image picture of a nonpainful but disturbing
experience the person has experienced and which depends for its force on
an earlier secondary and engram which the experience has restimulated.

Long Fall: Symbol LF.
A Meter needle reaction in which the needle moves rapidly to the righ
t from two to three inches.

Long Fall Blowdown: Symbol LFBD.
A Meter reaction in which the needle moves rapidly to the right and
requires that the tone arm be adjusted in order for the needle to remain
on the needle dial.

Low TA
Tone Arm reading below 2.0 on the tone arm dial.

M

Machine
An actual machine in the mind (like ordinary machinery) constructed out
of mental mass and energy, that has been made by the individual to do
work for him, usually having been set up so as to come into operation
automatically under certain pre-determined circumstances.

Major Action
any auditing action designed to change a case or general considerations or handle continual illness or improve ability. This means a process or even a series of processes like four flows. It doesn't mean a grade. It is any process the case hasn't had.

Mass
A composition of matter and energy existing in the physical universe.

Mental mass is contained in mental image pictures.

Mental image pictures
Mental pictures; facsimiles: a copy of one's perceptions of the physical universe of some time or incident in the past. It can also be mock-ups, meaning produced by the thetan with his imagination and not a copy of an actual incident.

Mental pictures 
Facsimiles and mock-ups; a copy of one's perceptions of
the physical universe sometime in the past.

Mental Mass
1)  Mocking up matter, energy, space and time. Its proportionate weight
would be terribly slight compared to the real object which the person is
mocking up a picture of.
2)  Mental matter, energy, space and time. It exists in the mind and has physical existence, that can be measured by a ST Meter. Its proportionate weight would be terribly slight compared to the real object which the person is making a picture of. The Meter registers mental mass; changes of the position of the needle indicates changes of the mass in pc's mind.

MEST
Word coined from the initial letters of Matter, Energy, Space and Time;
the physical universe and its component parts; also used as an adjective
in the same sense to mean physical, as in "MEST universe," meaning
"physical universe."

Meter, see ST Meter

Method 3
An assessment in which each reading question is taken up and handled
with the preclear when it is seen to read before continuing the
assessment.

Method 5
Assessing a prepared list once through marking the length and blowdown
of all reads as they occur when the questions are asked of the pc. Those
questions which read are then handled one at a time in order from the
largest read to the smallest.

Mind
A control system between the thetan and the physical universe. It is not
the brain. The mind is the accumulated recordings of thoughts,
conclusions, decisions, observations and perceptions of a thetan
throughout his entire existence. The thetan can and does use the mind in
handling life and the physical universe.

Misemotion
Anything that is unpleasant emotion such as antagonism, anger, fear,
grief, apathy or a death feeling; mis-aligned emotion, irrational or
inappropriate emotion. Misemotion is also emotion which has been
suppressed and which remains part of the individual's locks and
secondaries unless he is audited.

Missed Withhold
 A withhold, which has been restimulated by another but not disclosed. This is a withhold which another person nearly found out about, leaving the person with the withhold in a state of wondering whether her hidden deed is known or not. The missed withhold is different from the withhold as the pc's main worry is, if the other person found out or not. The action of the other to nearly find out or maybe he found out or guessed it is why it's called a missed withhold.

Mock-up
Any "knowingly created" mental picture that is not part of a time track;
to make a mock-up.
 

Model Session
The same exact pattern and script with which ST sessions are begun and ended.

Motivator
Actions which were directed against the preclear by others or another,
used by him to justify (used as a "motive" for) overts; an aggressive or
destructive act received by the person.

Multiple illness
The preclear is physically uncomfortable or ill from several engrams of
different types all restimulated. One runs one somatic chain at a time,
running each new symptom that is assessed or stated by the preclear.

N

Narrative chain
A chain of similar "experiences" rather than similar somatics. A chain
of incidents of similar description or event. In such a chain there may
be hundreds to millions of such events or incidents. Such chains can be
run in Engram running but run the risk of being very long without reaching
the basic of the chain; more specifically, a chain in which the
similarity of content is of "events" "story" content ("falls
downstairs," "fight with brother").

Narrative Item
One which will land the pc in a single incident for which there is no
chain.

Natter
Criticalness; unnecessarily and ineffectively talking about someone or
something; the word is coined from negative chatter.

Non Interference Zone
Rule The rule that preclears and pre-OTs from Level VI to OT III may not
be audited on anything else but those levels or necessary repair to get
them back on those levels.

Not-is; Not-is-ness, Not-is-ing
The effort to reduce an unwanted condition of existence by force
(breaking something, saying it's not).

Null
To nullify or to reduce the value or effect of something to nothing;
means there was no reaction of the needle on the needle dial of the
Meter when the auditor had asked a question of the preclear; or simply
it didn't read.

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 Meter.

Null Item or Null List
An item or list of items which when called out by the auditor as in an
assessment produces no Meter needle reaction.

O

Objective Havingness
Processes which increase a preclear's havingness by increasing his objective duplication.

Objective Processes
ST level 1 processes which familiarize a person with his environment, the physical universe.

Obnosis
A word put together from the phrase, "observing the obvious."
OCA Graph
A specially prepared graph which plots ten traits of a pc's personality
from a personality test taken by the pc. OCA = Oxford Capacity Analysis.
The personality test is also known as the APA = American Personality
Analysis.

Operating Thetan
A being who can be at cause knowingly and at will over thought, life,
form, matter, energy, space and time, subjective and objective.

Op Pro by Dup
Opening procedure by duplication. A process which increases the
preclear's ability to duplicate and so increases his ability to
communicate.

Original Thesis
A book by R. Hubbard. Also published under the title 'Dynamics of Life'.

Origination
In auditing, TR-4: A remark or statement from the pc, that concerns his ideas, 
reactions or difficulties. It is something he sais, that is improtant to him, but isn't 
an answer to the auditor's question. It usually comes unexpectedly.
It is different from a comment, that is defined as an attempt to distract auditor or 
an attempt to blow session.
 

Out
Things which should be there and aren't or should be done or aren't are
said to be "out," i.e., "Enrollment books are out."

Out-point
Any one datum that is offered as true that is in fact found to be
illogical.

Out Tech
Out technology; means that ST is not being
applied or is not being correctly applied.

Overrun
Continuing to run an auditing action (in error) past the preclear's
attainment of its end phenomena. A person can also be overrun on things
in life outside of auditing. This is doing something too long that has
engrams connected with it which means an engram chain with too many
engrams on it being restimulated by life or auditing. Accumulating
protests and upsets about something until it is just a mass of stops.

Overt
1) Overt act; an overt is an aggressive or destructive act by the
individual against one or more of the eight dynamics (self, family,
group, mankind, animals or plants, mest, life or the infinite).
2)  A harmful act. A bad deed.  An overt act is an act of omission or commission which does the least good for the least number of dynamics or the most harm to the greatest number of dynamics. An aggressive or destructive act by the individual against one or more of the eight dynamics (as explained in Fundamentals of Thought the 8 dynamics are: (1) self,  (2) family and sex,  (3) group(s),  (4)  mankind,  (5) animals and plants,  (6) physical universe and objects,  (7) life and spiritual things and,  (8) infinity, religion and God). That thing which you have done to others, but you aren't willing to have happen to yourself.

Overt-Motivator Sequence
The reactive series of events in which someone who has committed an
overt "has to" claim the existence of motivators (acts by others against
self). Motivators are thus used to justify overts and tend to be used to
justify further overts.

P

Pain
(in its various forms) is the indication of an engram. Composed of heat,
cold, electrical and the combined effect of sharp hurting. If one stuck
a fork in his arm, be would experience pain. When one uses pain in
connection with auditing one means awareness of heat, cold, electrical or 
hurting stemming from the reactive mind. According to experiments done 
at Harvard, if one were to make a grid with heated tubes going vertically
 and chilled tubes going horizontally and were to place a small current of 
electricity through the lot, the device touched to a body would produce a feeling of
pain. It need not be composed of anything very hot or cold or of any high 
voltage to produce a very intense feeling of pain. Therefore what
we call pain is itself heat, cold and electrical. If a pc experiences one or 
more of these from his reactive mind, we say he is experiencing
pain.
"Electrical" is the bridge between sensation and pain and is difficult to 
classify as either pain or sensation when it exists alone.
Its symbol is PN.

Pan-Determinism
Broad determinism; the action of determining not only one's own actions,
but the actions of others as well, especially to determine the
activities of two or more sides of a game simultaneously; to become
pan-determined it is necessary to view a dispute, struggle or game from
both sides.
 

Pc
Preclear.

PICTURE
 An exact likeness; image. A mental image.

Pleasure moments
These are mental image pictures containing pleasure sensations. One
seldom addresses them unless the preclear is fixated on some type of
"pleasure" to a point where it has become highly aberrated.

Postulate
1)  A conclusion, decision or resolution made by the individual himself; to
conclude, decide or resolve a problem or to set a pattern for the future
or to nullify a pattern of the past.
2)  A conclusion, decision or resolution made by the individual himself; to conclude, decide or resolve a problem or to make a plan or set a pattern for the future or to nullify a pattern of the past (like in New Years resolutions). We mean, by postulate, a self-created truth. A postulate is, of course, that thing which the individual uses to start a directed desire or order, or inhibition, or enforcement;  it is in the form of an idea. Postulate means to cause a thinkingness or consideration.

Potential Trouble Source
A person who by reason of connection with and the influences of another
person who is a suppressive person, is a "potential trouble source" to
himself or a group and may exhibit characteristics similar to those of
the suppressive person (SP), causing upset to himself and the areas in
which he operates. A person who is PTS may exhibit great gains one day
and then appear to lose them the next, be happy one day and very sad the
next; this being known as "rollercoaster." Before permanent and real
gains can be achieved, the person who is PTS must resolve the situation
with the SP.

Power
Grade V Power Processing. See also Release.

Practical
The drills which permit the student to associate and coordinate theory
with the actual items and objects to which the theory applies. Practical
is "application" of what one knows to what one is being taught to
understand, handle and control.

Preclear
From pre-Clear, a person not yet Clear; generally a person being
audited, who is thus on the Road to Clear; a person who, through ST 
processing, is finding out more about himself and life.

Preclear Information Sheet: White Form
A form done with new preclears, or pc's who haven't been audited for some
time or at the beginning of each intensive, which asks for certain
basic data that is necessary for the Case Supervisor. It is done by an
auditor in session.

Pre-Hav (Havingness) Scale
A scale giving degrees of doingness or not doingness.

Pre-OT
A person, having achieved the state of Clear, now working towards the
state of OT, Operating Thetan.

Prepared Lists
The auditor, trained in using a Meter, can use prepared (printed) lists to find the specific problem or difficulty he needs to address to get the preclear out of an unpleasant or puzzling situation in session. The list will contain all the possible difficulties for that action and the Meter will tell the auditor, which one is the first one to take up. A prepared list may turn up one thing or many things, that should be tackled before the routine process should be taken up again. Prepared lists can also be used to address a troubling area of pc's life and 'clean it up'.

Prepcheck
An auditing action in which a subject found to be charged is
discharged by the use of a prepared list of buttons (called the
Prepcheck Buttons).

Present Time
That which is now and which becomes the past almost as rapidly as it is
observed. It is a term that refers to the environment as it exists now,
not as it existed; as in the phrase "the preclear came up to present
time," meaning the preclear became aware of the existing matter, energy,
space and time of now.

Present Time Problem (PTP)
 A specific problem that exists in the physical universe now, on which a person has his attention fixed. This can be practical matters he feels he ought to do something about right away. Any set of circumstances that occupies the pc's attention, so he feels he should do something about it instead of being audited.

Pressure Somatic
In Engram running, considered to be a symptom in a lock, secondary or
engram, simply part of the content.

Prior Assessment
An assessment done in Engram running in which a time prior to or earlier than
something which occurred or started later is addressed.

Prior read
Reads which occur prior to the completion of the major thought. (Major
thought is the complete thought being expressed in words by the
auditor.)

Problem (Prob.)
Anything which has opposing sides of equal force; especially
postulate-counter-postulate, intention-counter-intention or
idea-counter-idea; an intention-counter-intention that worries the
preclear.

Process
A question or set of questions or directions used by an auditor in a
session to help a person find out about himself and life.

Processing
See Auditing.

Product
A finished high-quality service or article in the hands of the consumer
in exchange for a valuable.

Program
A program is the sequence of actions session by session to be undertaken
on a case by the C/S in his directions to the auditor or auditors,
auditing the case.

Psychosomatic
"Psycho", of course, refers to mind and "somatic" refers to body; the term 
psychosomatic means the mind making the body ill or illnesses which have 
been created physically within the body by derangement of the
mind.
 

Q

Quad Flow
Occurs when the four flows--another to self, self to another,
another to another, and self to self --are run on a preclear by an auditor.

Q and A
Stands for Question and Answer. A failure to complete a cycle of action;
to fail to complete a cycle of action; to deviate from an intended
course of action; questioning the preclear's answer; in auditing, it's a
failure to complete a cycle of action on a preclear.

Qual
The Qualifications Division - where
the student is examined and where he may receive cramming or special 
assistance and where he is awarded completions and certifications and
where his qualifications as attained on courses or in auditing are made a 
permanent record.

Qual Sec
Qualifications Secretary, the head of the Qualifications Division.

Quickie
Means omitting actions for whatever reason that would satisfy all
demands or requirements and doing something less than could be achieved.

R

Randomity
The ratio of unpredicted motion to predicted motion.

Reach/Withdraw
Basic process in assists or when processing animals, very small children
or people who are extremely ill.

Reactive Bank
See Reactive Mind, Bank.

REACTIVE MIND
Reactive Bank. The portion of the mind which works on a stimulus-response basis (given a certain stimulus it will automatically give a certain response) which is not under a person's volitional control and which exerts force and power over a person's awareness, purposes, thoughts, body and actions. The reactive mind never stops operating. Pictures of the environment, of a very low order, are taken (recorded) by this mind even in some states of unconsciousness.

Read
The action of the needle on the Meter dial falling (moving to the
right); SF, F, LF, LFBD are reads.

Reality
Has to do with agreement (or lack thereof). It is the agreed upon apparency of existence. A reality is any data that agrees with the person's perceptions, way of thinking and education. Reality is one of the components of understanding. Reality is what is.

Recall
Present time remembering something that happened in the past. It is
"not" re-experiencing it, reliving or re-running it. You are in present
time, thinking of, remembering, putting your attention on something that
happened in the past--all done from present time.

Rehabilitation
The restoration of some former ability or state of being or some more
optimum condition.

Release
A preclear whose reactive mind or some major portion of it is keyed out
and is not influencing him. In ST processing there are eight major 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. (See also Grade).

Repair
Patching up past auditing or recent life errors. This is done by
prepared lists or completing the chain.

Repeater technique
A Engram running technique given in the book "Dianetics: The Modern
Science of Mental Health" (1950) in which the auditor would have the
preclear repeat over and over certain phrases found in engrams being
run.

REPETITIVE PROCESS
A process, where the same auditing question or command is given many times to the pc. The pc is finding new answers every time. The auditor will state the command as it has never been asked before in a new unit of time, but with no variation of words; he will acknowledge the pc's answer and handle the pc origins by understanding and acknowledging what the pc said. This type of process will permit the individual to examine his mind and environment thoroughly and sort out relative importances.

Resistive Case
See Seven Resistive Cases.

Restimulate
To cause restimulation.

Restimulation
Condition in which part of the Bank has been "triggered" by something in
the person's environment (a restimulator) causing some greater or lesser
degree of reactive behavior or condition; doing something unknowingly,
unwittingly and without any understanding of what one is doing.

Retread
The auditor's weak areas are located and the auditor is word cleared on
the appropriate materials and he then restudies the materials of those
areas.

Reverie
The preclear is placed in a light state of "concentration" which is not
to be confused with hypnosis. The analytical mind of the preclear while
reduced in its potential and under direction, is still capable of
thinking its own thoughts and forming its own opinions.

Review
When a preclear is having difficulty of some sort that is not immediately resolving with the actions being done, he may be sent to the
Qualifications Division, where his case folder is
carefully checked over or "reviewed" and the necessary corrective 
actions taken to resolve the difficulty. The actions done in this manner
are collectively called "review".

R-Factor
Reality factor; explanation, information, data, etc., given to a person
in order to bring about sufficient understanding for him to be able to
perform a specific action.

Ridges
Are solid accumulations of old, inactive energy suspended in space and
time. They are generated by opposing energy flows hitting one another
and continue to exist long after the energy flows have ceased. Ridges
exist in suspension around a person.

Rise
A needle phenomena where the needle moves to the auditor's left (auditor
facing the Meter); a rising needle means "no confront"--the preclear has
struck an area or something he isn't confronting. One never calls his
attention to this but one knows what it is.

Rock Slam: Symbol RS
This is a crazy, irregular, jerky motion of the needle of the Meter,
narrow as one inch or as wide as three inches happening several times a
second. The needle "goes crazy," slamming back and forth, narrowly,
widely, over on the left, over on the right, in a mad war dance or as if
it were frantically trying to escape. It means "hot terminal" or "hot"
anything in an assessment and takes precedence over a fall.

Rollercoaster
See Potential Trouble Source.

Rudiments
 First principles, steps, stages or conditions. The basic actions done at the beginning of a session to set up the pc for the major session action. The normal rudiments are ARC breaks (upsets), Present Time Problems (worries) and Withholds (something pc feels he shouldn't say) - they are explained under each heading.

Run
Undergo processing; run out; erase.

Rundown (R/D)
A series of specific auditing actions done on a case designed to produce
a specific result.

S

Sad effect
When an ARC break is permitted to continue over too long a period of
time and remains in restimulation a person goes into a "sad effect"
which is to say they become sad and mournful.

Scientologie
 (Scn): An applied religious philosophy. It deals with the study of knowledge, which through the application of its technology can bring about desirable changes in the conditions of life. (Taken from the Latin word scio, knowing in the fullest sense of the word, and the Greek word logos, to study.) A body of knowledge which, when properly used, gives freedom and truth to the individual. It was originally founded by the German philosopher A. Nordenholz, who in 1934 published a book "Scientologie" in Munich, Germany. In it's present form it is based in its entirety on R. Hubbard's work, that saw it as his purpose to gather wisdom and truth from many sources, refine it and make it into one body of work. As this is an effort pursued by many philosophers through the ages, we keep the spelling of A. Nordenholz: 'Scientologie'. We use however 'Scn' throughout the manual. R. Hubbard called his main body of work for Scientology™.

You could say ST is the auditing technology part of Scn. Scn is a broader subject. It includes philosophy covering the character of life, death, Man, the spirit, the mind, and the physical universe; but also subjects like, Ethics, Administration and Management, Logic and Data Analysis.

Scientology™
See Scientologie. Scientology™ is a trademarked word. Since wisdom and trademarks are inconsistent with each other, we use Scientologie. Trademarks belong to commercial interests. Wisdom belong to culture and scholars.

Search and Discovery
A listing and Nulling process to handle a PTS person.

Seagull
Jonathan Livingston Seagull. A symbolic book by Richard Bach about about a seagull passing the ability to fly (symbolic for wisdom and ability) onto new generations of seagulls. The seagull is the symbol for ST and Clear Bird Publishing, who publishes ST.

Sec
Secretary, security.

Secondary
A secondary is a mental image picture of a moment of severe and shocking
loss or threat of loss which contains misemotion such as anger, fear,
grief, apathy or "deathfulness." It is a mental image picture recording
of a time of severe mental stress. It may contain unconsciousness.

Second Dynamic
See Dynamics.

Self-auditing
The manifestation of going around running concepts or processes on one's
self. It violates auditor plus PC is greater than the Bank ("Auditor's Trust").

Self Analysis
A book by R. Hubbard; see Bibliography.

Self-Determinism
The ability to regulate and take responsibility for one's own
considerations; motivation by the thetan rather than by the environment.

Sensation
(In its various forms) is the indication of a secondary, which precedes
the actual engram. All uncomfortable perceptions stemming from the
reactive mind are called sensation. These are basically "pressure,"
"motion," "dizziness," "sexual sensation," and "emotion and misemotion."
There are others, definite in themselves but definable in these five
general categories. If one took the fork in the pain definition above
and pressed it against the arm, that would be "pressure." "Motion" is
just that, a feeling of being in motion when one is not. "Motion"
includes the "winds of space," a feeling of being blown upon especially
from in front of the face. "Dizziness" is a feeling of disorientation
and includes a spinniness, as well as an out-of-balance feeling. "Sexual
sensation" means any feeling, pleasant or unpleasant, commonly
experienced during sexual restimulation or action. "Emotion and
misemotion" include all levels of the complete tone scale except "pain";
emotion and misemotion are closely allied to "motion," being only a
finer particle action. A Bank solidity is a form of "pressure," and when
the sensation of increasing solidity of masses in the mind occurs, we
say "the Bank is beefing up." All these are classified as sensation.
Symbol SEN.

Service Computation or Service Facsimile
Serv Fac, a ST level 4 term. The service facsimile is that computation
generated by the preclear (not the Bank) to make self right and others
wrong; to dominate or escape domination and enhance own survival and
injure that of others.

Session
A precise period of time during which an auditor audits or processes a
preclear.

Seven Resistive Cases
This is item number 40 on the Green Form (GF 40). It is a
specially prepared list of items with specific actions to be done for
each item, and is used by an auditor to correct specific case difficulties of a pc.

Small Fall: Symbol SF
A Meter needle reaction in which the needle moves rapidly to the
right a quarter to half an inch.

Somatic
Essentially body sensation, illness or pain or discomfort. "Soma" means
body; hence PSYCHO-SOMATIC or pains stemming from the mind. A pain or
ache, sensation and also misemotion or even unconsciousness.
There are a thousand different descriptive words that could add up
to a "feeling". Pain, aches, dizziness, sadness--these are all FEELINGS.
Thus in Incidentr running we ASK FOR AND FOLLOW DOWN ONLY FEELINGS.
Those can be aches, pains, sensations, misemotion--any FEELING.
"Somatics:" This is a general word for uncomfortable perceptions coming
from the reactive mind. Its genus is early Engram running and it is a
general, common package word, used by ST practitioners to denote 
"pain" or "sensation" with no difference made between them. 
To understand the source of these feelings, one should have a knowledge 
of engrams, ridges and other parts of the
Reactive Bank. Anything is a SOMATIC if it emanates from the various 
part of the reactive mind and produces an awareness of
reactivity. Symbol SOM.

Stable Datum
Any body of knowledge, more particularly and exactly, is built from one
datum. That is its stable datum. Invalidate it and the entire body of
knowledge falls apart. A stable datum does not have to be the correct
one. It is simply the one that keeps things from being in a confusion
and on which others are aligned.

Stage Four
A needle reaction on the Meter in which the needle rises, sticks,
falls, about once a second or two. It is very regular, always the same
distance, always the same pattern, over and over. It reacts on nothing
the auditor or pc says.

Standard Clearing Technology (ST)
A  clearing technology, mainly developed by R. Hubbard. It's applied by an auditor to a preclear in a formal session. The goal is the spiritual betterment of the preclear. The application of the processes and technology will bring about this change and a change in the pc's conditions and life. For short we use the letters ST to mean Standard Clearing Technology in this manual.

The symbol used for Standard Clearing Tech is the seagull. This is based on the story about Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach. This is a symbolic story about wanting to become a master in flying (ability and wisdom) and pass this ability onto new seagulls. By putting the Standard Clearing Technology on the web we pass this wisdom onto you and ask you to 'return the favor' by passing it onto somebody else.

Standard Tech: Standard Technology
That tech which has absolutely no arbitraries; correct exact duplication
of Source in application; the exact processes and auditing actions laid
down and used for the invariable resolution of cases. This was defined this way 
by R. Hubbard in 1968. 'Source' being a name or title for R. Hubbard. Standard Clearing Technology defines it different. We are only interested in if it works. In practice Standard Tech and Standard Clearing Technology is the same thing.

Static
A life static has no mass, no motion, no wave length, no location in
space or in time. It has the ability to postulate and to perceive.
Steering the pc
The only use of latent or random reads. You see a read the same as the
instant read occuring again when you are not speaking but after you have
found a whole thought reacting. You say "there" or "that" and the pc,
seeing what he or she is looking at as you say it recovers the knowledge
from the Reactive Bank.

Sticky needle
See Dirty needle.

Summary Report Form
Written by the Auditor after the session on a fill-in type standard form
and is simply an exact record of what happened and what was observed
during the session.

Supervisor
The person in charge of the course and its students. Any questions a
student has regarding the course or the materials on the course must be
directed to the Course Supervisor, never to another student.

Suppressive Person: SP
One who is battling constantly in covert ways to make others less
powerful and less able because of imagined danger to himself. The SP is
actually stuck on the time track at some point in the distant past long
forgotten. Such a person may even appear sane but in fact is quite
insane and incapable of viewing anything for what it actually is,
regarding others as constant threats to himself and operating to destroy
those around him.

T

Technical bulletin
R. Hubbard Communications Office Technical Bulletin
(HCOB). These essays and research papers contain the original statement of most of the technology contained in ST and were written by R. Hubbard between 1961 and 1980.

Technical Division: Tech Div
That part of an organization which routinely delivers auditing and training services. 
It handles the technology, thus it is the Tech Div.

Technology
The methods of application of an art or science as opposed to mere knowledge of the science itself.

Terminal
Anything that can receive, relay or send a communication (most common
usage); also, anything with mass and meaning.

Theta
Energy peculiar to life or a thetan which acts upon the material in the
physical universe and animates it, mobilizes it and changes it; natural
creative energy of a thetan which be has free to direct toward survival
goals, especially when it manifests itself as high tone constructive
communications.

Theta Bop
A small or wide steady dance of the needle. Over a spread of one-eighth
of an inch, say (depending on sensitivity setting, it can be half an
inch), the needle goes up and down perhaps five or ten times a second.
It goes up, sticks, falls, sticks, goes up, sticks, etc., always the
same distance like a slow tuning fork. It is a constant distance and a
constant speed. A theta bop means "death," "leaving," "don't want to be
here." It is caused by a yo-yo of the preclear as a thetan vibrating out
and into the body or a position in the body. It's as if the needle is
jumping between two peaks across a narrow valley.

Thetan
From THETA (life static), a word taken from the Greek symbol or letter:
theta, traditional symbol for thought or spirit. The thetan is the
individual himself--not the body or the mind. The thetan is the "I"; one
doesn't have or own a thetan; one is a thetan.

Third Dynamic
See Dynamics.

Tick
Small jerk of the needle.

Time track: Track
1) The endless record complete with 55 perceptions of the pc's entire past;
the consecutive record of mental image pictures which accumulates
through the preclear's life or lives. It is very exactly dated.

2) The consecutive record of mental image pictures which accumulates through the preclear's existence. The time track is a very accurate record of the pc's past, very accurately timed and very obedient to the auditor. If a motion picture film were 3D, had fifty-two perceptions and could fully react upon the observer, the time track could be called a motion picture film.

Seee also: Time track illustrated on ST 0.

Tone Arm: TA
Meter control lever on the Meter.

Tone arm action: TA
Movement of the tone arm of the Meter.
in the text) when it has to be moved more than one tenth of a division
to keep the needle at set (except during body movement); the total
number of divisions down a tone arm has moved accurately in a unit of
time such as twenty minutes or two and a half hour session. Tone arm
action denotes a change, and therefore, that case gain for the preclear
is occuring.

Tone 40
Intention without reservation or limit; an execution of intention.
Tone scale
A gradation of the various factors of behavior, thought, emotion,
communication and many other factors plotted on a precise scale of
levels of survival potential.

Touch Assist
An assist that brings the person's attention to injured or affected body
areas. When attention is withdrawn from them, so is circulation, nerve
flows and energy, which for one thing limits nutrition to the area, and
for another limits the drainage of waste products. Some ancient healers
attributed remarkable flows and qualities to the "laying on of hands."
Probably the workable element in this was simply heightening awareness
of the affected area and restoring the physical communication factors.
Training Drills See Training Routines.
 

Training Routines: Symbol TRs
Training drills on ST courses which train
students to prefect their communication skills to the level needed by an auditor in session. 
The TR's take up and drill the component parts of communication. Good TR's are the
 'Carrier wave' needed to make processes work. 2) Specific auditor skills in
communication and smooth session control are gained in doing the TRs.

Two-way comm
The precise technology of a process used to clarify data with another
for the other. It is not chatter. It is governed by the rules of
auditing. It is governed by the communication cycle.

Twin
The study partner with whom one is paired. Two students studying the
same subject who are paired to checkout or help each other are said to
be "twinned."

U

Unburdening
As a basic is not at once available on any chain one usually "unburdens"
it by running later engrams (closer to present time), secondaries and
locks. The act of unburdening would be digging off the top to get at the
bottom as in moving sand. As you run off later incidents, the ability of
the preclear to confront it also increases and basic is easy to run when
finally contacted.

Understanding
Composed of affinity, reality and communication. These three things are
necessary to the understanding of anything. 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. Greater
understanding comes about by increasing any one of these three factors.

Unmocking
Attempting to reduce or make disappear, make nothing of.
Upper Indoc (indoctrination) TRs (TRs 6 to 9)
Purpose of these four training drills is to bring about in the student
the willingness and ability to handle and control other people's bodies
and to cheerfully confront another person while giving that person
commands. Also to maintain a high level of control in any circumstances.

Uptone
At a high level of survival or state of being, plotted on the tone
scale. A person who is uptone, or high-toned, has a greater ability to
handle his facsimiles, to control his environment and has a greater
degree of survival than someone who is downtone, or low-toned.

V

Valuable Final Product
Something that can be exchanged with other activities in return for
support.

Valence
Is the assumption at the reactive level by one individual of the
characteristics of another individual. An individual may have a number
of valences which he puts on and off as he might hats. Often these
changes are so marked that an observant person can notice him dropping
one valence and putting on another. The shift from valence to valence is
usually completely outside the awareness and control of the individual
doing so. In other cases an individual has one valence, not his own, in
which he is thoroughly stuck.

Visio
Perceptic. Ability to see in facsimile form something one has seen
earlier so that one sees it again in the same color, dimension scale,
brightness and detail as it was originally viewed.
 

W

What's it
Pc saying 'what's-it what's-it what's-it that's wrong with me."

What's-it-line
From the auditor to the pc. The auditor is saying "what is it?" The
upward flow of the tone arm. Restimulated but unresolved charge. The
itsa line charge channels down and disintegrates.

White Form
See Preclear Info Form/Sheet.

Whole Track
The moment to moment record of a person's existence in this universe in
picture and impression form.

Withhold
An undisclosed harmful (contra-survival) act. After having committed an overt, the person wants to keep it hidden or secret. So he/she withholds the overt.

WORD, 1. a symbolic sound-code of the physical universe in action or in static and refers to nothing more than a condition or lack of condition of being of the physical universe. Words are all physical universe because they are designed to go on a physical universe system.  2. a word is a whole package of thought. 

WORD CLEARER, one who is qualified in and uses the technology of word clearing. 

Word Clearing
An auditing procedure used to locate and clear words the student or
preclear has misunderstood in his studies of ST
or earlier subjects he has studied.

WORD CLEARING (W/C), a technique for locating and handling ( clearing) misunderstood words. There are nine methods of word clearing. 

WORD CLEARING CORRECTION LIST (WCCL), used to handle any upsets or high or low TA occurring during or shortly after word clearing. Assessed M5 . EP is all reading items handled to F/N and pc again running well.

WORD CLEARING METHOD ONE, 1. by meter in session. A full assessment of many, many subjects is done. The auditor then takes each reading subject and clears the chain back to earlier words and or words in earlier subjects until he gets an F/N. 2 . assess, take the reading items from the best read on down and with E/S pull each one to F/N. Get each word you find to F/N. There can be many F/Ns per subject. End off with a win on the subject.  3. the action taken to clean up all misunderstoods in every subject one has studied. It is done by a word clearing auditor. The result of a properly done Method One word clearing is the recovery of one’s education. Abbr. M1 .

WORD CLEARING METHOD 2, 1. by meter in classroom. The earlier passage is read by the student while on a meter and the misunderstood word is found. Then it is fully defined by dictionary. The word is then used several times in sentences of the student’s own verbal composing. The misunderstood area is then reread until understood.  2. (M2) means word clearing Method 2 . A method of locating and handling misunderstood words, using a meter, in which the student reads aloud from written materials and each reading word cleared.  3. Method 2 is done with the pc reading the materials aloud and each reading word is taken to F/N before re-reading the relevant section and proceeding. Abbr.M2 .

WORD CLEARING METHOD 3, 1. verbal in classroom. The student says he does not understand something. The supervisor has him look earlier in the text for a misunderstood word, gets the student to look it up, use it verbally several times in sentences of his own composition, then read the text that contained it. Then come forward in the text to the area of the subject he did not understand.  2. a method of word clearing used in the classroom where the misunderstood word is located and handled without the use of a meter. In the study materials M3 means only word clearing Method 3 .  Abbr. M3 .

WORD CLEARING METHOD 4, 1. Method 4 fishes for the misunderstood word, finds it, clears it to F/N, looks for another in the area until there are no more with an F/N VGIs. Then moves to another area, handles that, eventually all misunderstoods that resulted in the cramming order or non-F/N student are handled. 2. a method of word clearing in which a meter is used to rapidly locate any misunderstoods in a subject or section of materials. It is used in the classroom by the course supervisor.  Abbr. M4 .

WORD CLEARING METHOD 5, a system wherein the word clearer feeds words to the person and has him define each. It is called material clearing. Those the person cannot define must be looked up. This method is the method used to clear words or auditing commands or auditing lists.  Abbr. M5

WORD CLEARING METHOD 6, is called key word clearing. It is used on posts and specific subjects. The word clearer makes a list of key (or most important) words relating to the person’s duties or post or the new subject. The word clearer without showing the person the definitions, asks him to define each word. The word clearer checks the definition on his list for general correctness. Any slow or hesitancy or misdefinition is met with having the person look the word up. Abbr. M6 .

WORD CLEARING METHOD 7, whenever one is working with children or foreign-language persons or semi-literates Method 7 Reading Aloud is used. The procedure is have him read aloud. Note each omission or word change or hesitation or frown as he reads and take it up at once. Correct it by looking it up for him or explaining it to him.  Abbr. M7 .

WORD CLEARING METHOD 8, is an action used in the Primary Rundown where one is studying study tech or where one is seeking a full grasp of a subject. Its end product is superliteracy. Usually an alphabetical list of every word or term in the text of a paper, a chapter or a recorded tape is available or provided. The person looks up each word on the alphabetical list and uses each in sentences until he has the meaning conceptually.  Abbr. M8 .

WORD CLEARING METHOD 9, the procedure is: (1) student or staff member reads the text out loud. He is not on the meter. (2) the word clearer has a copy of the text and reads along with the student silently. (3) if the student leaves out a word or stumbles or exhibits any physical or verbal manifestation while reading the text, the word clearer immediately asks for the misunderstood word or term and gets the meanings cleared with a dictionary and put into sentences until the word is understood and VGIs are present. 

WORD LIST, is simply a list of words taken from a body of data. A word list can be made for a tape lecture, a mimeo issue, a chapter of a book, etc. The word list contains all the words listed in alphabetical order.

Worksheets
The sheets on which the auditor writes a complete running record of the
session from beginning to end, page after page, as the session goes
along.

Y

Yellow Sheet
A sheet detailing each correction list or set of commands which have
been word cleared. It also lists the pc's current Havingness process and
the type of cans the pc uses.
 

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