A Service Computation is a type of consideration or fixed idea the individual holds onto firmly which is of service to him. Let us define and explain:

Definitions:
Service:  The action of giving assistance or support to. A way of providing a person with the use of something. Work done. Duty performed.

A butler is of    service to his master.

Examples: A butler is of service to the master. An accountant provides a service by keeping the accounts straight. A lawyer performs a service by defending his client in court.

Compute: To determine the outcome of something by a calculation or thought process.

Computation:  1. The act, process or method of computing. 2. The result of computing. 3. A calculation.

A Computation has input  and output. There is a  calculation or thought     process involved. But often    this is done automatically  - without inspection.

Examples: "If I work hard I'll succeed". "If you eat your vitamins you'll grow up healthy". "2+2 = 4".
"Real estate owners get rich, so I should own some real estate". 

Analytical computations are useful.

The type of computations we are interested in on Grade 4 are the "stupid ones". They have their own technical definition:

Computation (technical definition): That aberrated fixed idea that one must be in a certain state in order to succeed. The computation may thus state: "I must entertain in order to be alive" or "I must be dignified in order to succeed" or "I must own much in order to live". A computation is simply stated. It is always aberrated. A computation is troublesome because it apparently tells the individual how to survive. All computations are non-survival. Computations are held in place wholly to invalidate others.

Other Examples: "If I have a shiny car people will respect me". "If I cry and whine my mother will feel sorry". "If I know the tax laws in and out I will succeed". 

A Service Computation: Is a type of computation held by the person himself (not the Bank). It is designed to make self right and others wrong. Or to dominate others or escape domination. It is designed to increase or enhance the person's own survival and injure the survival of others.

"I'll just bully others so I get  what I want", would be a    way to dominate others and    escape domination.

Examples: "People help whiners". "If I scream and yell I'll win". "If I'm invisible I'll survive". "Flashy people succeed". "Crime is ok if you can get away with it". "I'll just bully others so I get what I want".

A Service Computation is a computation, not a doingness, beingness or havingness. In most of R. Hubbard's writings it is called a "Service Facsimile" but it is clearly defined as a computation on Grade 4. Thus we will use the term Service Computation here on level 4 to make it easier to communicate to students and pc's.

It is a computation that the pc adopted in a dangerous situation, when he felt threatened by something but could not cope with it. Instead he blocked it off. It is called a service computation because he uses it; it is "of service" to him.

Aberration and Survival
Any aberration on any subject, has been of some use to the person having it at some time or other. When you trace it back you will run into it. At some time it was of some use. It was good camouflage. An illness or injury made him noticed by somebody and he received tender care. 

The accident was reactively     'useful' as it helped him get    the girl's attention and care.  Later when he realized this the symptoms ,he had held  on to, blew easily.

People felt sorry for the guy and spared his life. People feared his rage and outbursts and let him have his way. There are many other possibilities. But at some point it was of use, or he wouldn’t keep on holding on to it. But if you look at it in his present environment, if you look at it in the light of survival, you will find it is very non-survival. This is basically true for any type of aberration you run into on a case. Usually he will just realize this in routine auditing. You take him down some chain and suddenly he will cognite and the whole thing will As-is. "Oh, I was trying to be motionless so the killers wouldn't see me! Ha, ha, ha... That's why I am motionless when I am facing the boss!" The whole subject usually blows right there.

 There are however certain aberrations that has become so "dear and useful" to him so he just won't let go. You can offer him a million bucks or immortality. The answer is still "No, I think I'll hang onto this a little longer". To let go of it would to him mean that he would be buried in a complete confusion and be wiped out.

"Shoot first. Ask questions later"    is a well known 'safe solution'.

The pc picked them up  because he couldn’t stand the confusion in some situation, so he found a safe solution. A safe solution is always adopted as a protection from the environment and its negative influences. He adopted a safe solution in a dangerous situation and he survived. His safe solution became his stable datum. He has held onto it ever since. It is the computation, the fixed idea, he uses to handle life with, his service computation. There can be many such computations on a case. But some of them are more dear and considered an absolute necessity by him to his continued existence.

The Thetan and Ideas
An idea is the 'thing' most natural to represent a thetan. An idea as such doesn’t have any mass. And it appears to have some wisdom in it so it’s very easily put in the place for a thetan. Thus the idea, the stable datum he has adopted, is substituted for himself as a thetan. A thetan is capable of observations and of changing his mind. An idea is not. It is at best a bright light in the dark. It makes you understand something. At its worst it prevents you from looking, evaluating and understanding. That's a fixed idea, a prejudice, a haste to judgment, a jump to conclusions. "Who needs to look - all dogs are vicious ands should be shot."

An idea is what naturally  represents a thetan. But     when you use it as stable datum    in the place of your own good  judgment and observation  you get into troubles. That's a fixed idea.

How does this stable datum become a fixed idea? It gets fixed, and more and more firmly put in place as time goes on, by the confusion it is supposed to handle but doesn’t. It accumulates so many incidents of meeting dogs, of shooting dogs, of chasing dogs and being chased by dogs; it really gets fixed. It gets buried under these long chains of incidents of overts, motivators, ARC breaks and problems and so on.

Just take a look at clashes between population groups and races. If you take a look at racial charged periods in history and  around the world you will find people ready to kill or die for such fixed ideas on a larger third dynamic and fourth dynamic scale.

Hitler and his regime was     operating on the fixed idea    of the Arian race was  superior to any other  race or population.

The stable datum was put in place so the person didn't have to observe directly and put himself at risk. The person ceased to inspect, he withdrew from inspecting, he withdrew from living. He put the datum there as a substitute for his own direct observation and his own understanding and coping with life. At that moment he started to build up a confusion. It became the barrier in the stream that all kinds of stuff would hang onto and build up around - the dam that keeps the water and junk in place and prevents a flooding.

That which is not confronted and inspected tends to persist. Thus in the absence of his own confronting mental mass piles up. (You can actually observe this on a Meter as the tone arm will go up when you get into such an area. That indicates mass). This stable datum forbids inspection. It’s an automatic solution, a haste to judgment, a prejudice. It is 'safe'. It solves everything. He no longer has to inspect to solve, so he never As-ises the mass. He gets caught in the middle of the mass. And it collects more and more incidents and confusions and his ability to observe and inspect becomes less and less. The more he isn’t confronting, the less he can confront. This becomes a dwindling spiral.

To Ku-Klux-Klan-members  their cloaks "solved everything"  They felt completely justified and  right about crimes done while     wearing them. They didn't have to    think or use good judgment.  It was a 'safe' solution.

So the thing the individual has adopted to handle his environment for him is the thing which reduces his ability to handle his environment. You have to be able to observe and confront to handle something. The "safe solution" is in place so he doesn't have to do that.

A lot of these solutions will blow in routine auditing. But those things which seem to resist and persist despite any number of approaches are rooted deeply in this mechanism. These things are not beingnesses, doingnesses or havingnesses. They are the service computations behind, that generate them. 

So a service computation can be behind a compulsive doingness such as having to clean all the time. It could be, "Only clean people succeed", which would be the computation behind. This could also lead to choice of profession, such as janitor (which is a beingness). The havingness could be a spotless home.

We want however the computations here. So we have to use a different approach. We have to find the ideas and computations directly that are so fixed. Pull the fixed idea itself and you will free the individual up to be able to look and inspect and As-is all kinds of things. He will cognite on the obsessive and compulsive beingnesses (such as valences), doingnesses (such as compulsions and destructive fights) and havingesses (such as junk or possessions that really do him in).  When that happens all the built up mass and confusion will suddenly have been unstuck. The barrier in the stream has been removed; the dam has been broken; and now all the built up water, the clutter and junk are going downstream fast.

In service computation handling you will see this phenomenon as tone arm action.  When the fixed idea has been pulled the confusion which had been piling up and dammed up for so long is now running off.

The fixed idea was like a  dam. Once it is inspected   it will break down and     all the dammed up charge    runs off and generates  tone arm action.

Right/Wrong and Survival
Right and wrong are the markers of survival. In order to survive you have to be right. There is of course an analytical way to be right about something. There is nothing wrong in seeking to do the right thing, be the right way or have the right things for survival and recognize when this is the case. There certainly is a level where true rightness is analytical.

But at some point this gets abandoned. The individual gets caught up in being, doing or having the right thing but is just not willing to admit that this is not the case all the time. The rightness and wrongness has ceased to be analytical or make sense. When it drops below that point it’s aberration.

At some point you slide down from survive to succumb. You are not engaged in survival any more, but in being right. That is the beginning of succumb. The moment one becomes worried about his own survival he enters into the practice to dominate in order to survive.

It goes this way: it starts with insisting upon survival, followed by the need to dominate, followed then by the need to "be right". These postulates, following upon each other, are going downhill. So you have now gotten an aberrated rightness or wrongness. The game of domination consists of making the other guy wrong in order for self to be right. That is how the service computation works and reacts.

The reason the service computation isn’t rational is because the way the Bank 'thinks'. If the individual is surviving he must be right.  You have A=A=As along this line. To survive is to be right. To be right is to survive. To be wrong is to succumb. People will defend the most fantastic wrongnesses on the basis they are being right. To admit they are wrong is to admit to succumb.

People will defend   the most fantastic  wrongnesses on  the basis of  "I am right!"

In the present and at any point along the track, the fellow is trying to be right, trying to be right, trying to be right. Whatever he’s doing he’s trying to be right. In order to survive you have to be right more than you’re wrong, so you get the obsession to be right in order to survive. 

But there is a lie in this - because a thetan can't do anything else but survive. He is an immortal spirit and as such above succumb and survive. He can identify himself with the body so closely so he is convinced he can't survive. He can identify himself with his possessions and creations which are all part of this universe and can be wiped out and destroyed. But as far as the thetan himself goes it is a lie. He is being caught up in the game to an extent where he takes these losses completely personal.

It isn’t that trying to be right is wrong - it’s obsessively being right about something that’s doing him in. That’s when the individual is no longer able to select his own course of action or behavior. When he is obsessively following a course of behavior which he refuses to inspect or change in order to be right.

There is nothing sane about a service computation, there is no good sense to it. The computation does not fit the incident or event occurring. It simply enforces, or prevent perception. It destroys freedom of choice, the ability to be happy or normal or active. It destroys power, destroys freedom of choice.

The zone or area to which he applies a service computation you’ll see the individual follow a dwindling spiral. But the irony is that he himself is putting it in place and holding on to it and enforcing it to happen.

The intention to be right is the strongest intention in the universe. Above that you have the effort to dominate and above that you have the effort to survive. These things are strong. But when we say intention we’re talking about a mental activity. A thinking activity. An intentional activity.

Survival actually just happens, whether you intend it or not. Domination - that will just happen if the situation is right. Those are not necessarily intended things. But you get down along the level of intended  things and there you find right-wrong at the top. That is the strongest intention in the universe.

A service computation is always an aberrated solution. It always exists right here and now and he applies it on his environment. He’s doing it. It’s his solution. Overwhelmed as he is by it, he is still doing it. It’s aberrated because it’s an uninspected solution. And it is something that everyone else is telling the pc is wrong,  but that just causes him to insist that he is right. It was the perfect solution when he first got hold of it. But now it runs his life; it’s living his life for him. And it doesn’t even vaguely begin to take care of his life.

"It was the perfect solution when  he first got hold of it. But now it     runs his life; it’s living his life for him.   And it doesn’t even vaguely begin  to take care of his life". The story about Dr. Frankenstein's  Monster can illustrate that. The     monster is known as Frankenstein, but   that was actually the creator's name. But the monster took over.

That is the anatomy of the service computation.

You are going to find these on any pc you audit. A service computation is the clue, the key to a pc’s case. The route to succumb which he blindly asserts is his route to survival. And every pc has more than one of these.

Fortunately, we have the tech to get him out of the mess.

A service computation is closely related to evil intentions.
We have for a while known what that looks like on the Meter. The needle phenomena called a Rock Slam (R/S) is a wild slashing back and forth of the needle. This needle behavior indicates an evil, destructive intention on the case is in restimulation.

A R/S looks like this. It means a     hidden evil intention is in restimulation    on the case. That is all it means.  It should be investigated before you jump to conclusions.

When you understand the anatomy of service computations and the right-wrong, dominate and survive computations that go into this it becomes obvious that this has to do with evil intentions. Also, you have to understand that an R/S always means a hidden, evil intention - the total reason for an R/S is the intention to make wrong. In order to get someone else to succumb they have to be made wrong.

When the service computation was first adopted it was absolutely right. Then it became a method of survival and after that it was a method of dominating and then it was a method of being right in order to make others wrong.

The evil purposes and Service  Comp's are closely related.     When first adopted the Service    Comp was absolutely right.  It ended up as a method  of 'Make wrong'.

And during all that the person piled up enough overts so that the communication line got switched around completely. What was right about it is now wrong about it and what was once wrong is now right. You see that is a 180 degrees turn-around.  This is due to the Bank think of A=A=A. Here rightness becomes wrongness. Overts and withholds are committed due to these fixed ideas and get piled up on top of this service computation.

A service computation isn’t a facsimile in the Bank. But the guy himself keeps Bank facsimiles in restimulation because he "knows what’s best". The computation will keep selected things in the Bank in chronic restimulation. It can be a 'bad temper' including high blood pressure and alcoholic tendencies; it can be an illness that needs constant medical care; the appearance of being wise, including long bird and strong glasses and being absent minded; or being tougher than anybody else, including be a body building fanatic and loving war movies; etc. Incidents and facsimiles supporting these traits can all be found in the Banks of these individuals. Special traits can all be traced back to incidents and facsimiles in the Bank. But these incidents are intentionally being kept in restimulation. It is the being himself who does this. He is putting the fixed idea there; the fixed idea keeps the pot boiling - not the Bank.

Normally we see aberration in the individual as a dramatization. That means the individual is unknowingly acting out the content of some incident or part of his Bank. He is at the effect point of his Bank. But when we are talking about service computations something else is happening. The individual digs up  things from his Bank in order to make somebody else wrong. 

When suing for damages    the victim will make sure  to show off any injury  in a dramatic way.

It's somewhat like somebody suing for damages, pain and suffering after a minor traffic accident. There is no end to the complaints he and his lawyer can squeeze out of the accident. Any little bruise or discomfort is held on to and being documented so it can be used. A stomp of a toe is made into a life ruining event. An unrelated bump of the head had to be caused by the accident. In other words, with a service computation at work it’s intended to keep all these things alive and restimulated and blame it on somebody else in order to make them wrong and responsible for it.

The intention is to be right and make others wrong, to dominate others and escape domination for self, to aid own survival and hinder the survival of others. That is the service computation - a close relative to the hidden, evil intention that is behind the rock slam.

This does not mean you will see Rock Slams in connection with every service computation you run. You also have to understand that an evil purpose and a service computation are two distinctly different things - each with their own definition. They are related - that's all we are pointing out. But if you in general auditing run into a Rock Slam you should be aware of, that you have run into an area of a heavy aberration. You have located a key point that keeps a case aberrated. You may find an evil purpose or a non-survival service computation. Make good notes of any purposes or computations the pc expresses in an area that R/S'es. Service computations can be hard to catch in general auditing but a smart auditor can catch a few of them on such occasions. He may even fish around a bit if it doesn't interfere with the process too much (such as in confessional auditing). If he makes good notes, circle it and mark it in the Folder Summary it can be handled at a later time. The least he should do is to make full notes of the pc's statements and on what subject and auditor's exact questions so this can be checked out carefully later. Because this is a key area to address and  take apart in order to handle pc's aberrations. (The auditor would of course not Q&A with the R/S by trying to handle right away. He carries on with what he is doing  after handling the 'origination' (TR-4), but he keeps excellent notes).

Rock slams means 'evil intent or computation'. But Rock Slams are not the only Meter phenomena connected with Service Computations. A rising TA can be caused by that as well. A rising TA means "non confront". Here are some early observations concerning that:

(This method of handling Service Computations is not used at level 4, but illustrates a point)

An R/S (to return to that subject) does not mean, that you should condemn a pc. The R/S means an evil intention or evil computation is in restimulation on the case. It is something to investigate. The real proof would be in the person's performance and production record. So don't fear Rock Slams or 'Rock slammers'. Only fear somebody dramatizing evil intentions in his or her behavior rather constantly.

But what you should suspect, when you see an R/S on an individual, is that he may be consumed by an evil intention which he himself is generating in that instant. In its purest form this phenomenon means, that the area in which the pc is R/Sing, is an area he only wishes to cause harm to.  In such a case he will go to great lengths and by many hidden back roads to carry out his evil intention in a covert way so he will not be caught or suspected.

What is causing the R/S is the evil intention itself. The evil intention is not closely attached to terminals. The evil intention can be associated with many terminals. The individual is looking for a range of targets to destroy with his gun, you could say. The gun being the evil intention.

When the R/S is in restimulation it dominates the individual. He has been overwhelmed by it. In that area he has no freedom of choice. The evil intention can consume him and make him act very irrational.

The service computation forbids inspection - including inspection of its own existence. That's why it does not respond to ordinary auditing. But when addressed at the right-wrong level the pc gives it up easily because it triggers its very reason for being. In that area the pc has no power of choice.

Numerous Service Computations
When handling service computations you will soon realize that you are not just dealing with one computation. You will find many service computations which then add up to the big one.

It is also finding what the pc had done with the service computations to make others wrong which is important, not just finding them. That is why the most effective processing includes engram running. When you find all the major computations and run them out this way you are likely to get a complete character change.

So by using engram running, when possible,  we have a more thorough method of handling service computations than ever before - we also have a more reliable route to the handling of  R/Ses.

You will actually see several service computations coming off and running well and you may believe you have gotten to the bottom of things. But all these are actually covering the central service computation that is in restimulation and use in present time. As you take these lesser service computations off the central one will come to view.

On the first ones you find, the most you can hope for is, you found something that blew the TA down and moved you closer to finding the main service computation. So you take each of them and run them.

If you’ve found a valid service computation the needle will become looser and the TA will be in reasonable range. You would take it in the brackets right-wrong dominate-escape domination and so on (see below for exact procedure). The pc will run off the automatic answers. But you should suspect that you will have to find and run several such computations before THE central computation on the case comes into view.  You actually have to unburden the central computation on the case, but by doing so you are already beginning to reverse the dwindling spiral the pc has been following. You are restoring the individual’s ability to handle his environment because he is now seeing it, he is now beginning to confront it.

It can also happen, that you found something that isn't really a service computation - yet it was still the pc's item to an L&N question. It could be a beingness, a doingness or a havingness and not a computation. The way you would really find out (without evaluation or invalidation) is, that it does not run in the right-wrong, dominate, survive brackets. In such a case you have a reading item but obviously not a service computation. Per the procedure below you simply Prepcheck such items to get the charge off and get an EP. It will help you unburden the central service computation all the same.

The central one is what you ultimately want. Not until you have pulled the main service computation out by its roots are you done. By doing so you have returned him to sanity. He is now able to inspect; he no longer needs a "safe solution."

It is the most dangerous thing in the world to have a "safe solution". People can do the most terrible crimes because of that or they can die from it. Any sanity can go down the drain with it.

(End of Guided Tour)

Procedure:

(Note: The Engram Running Step is only done when the pc is OK'ed for running engrams and R3RA. It should normally be done as part of this action, if the pc has been educated in running R3RA as a pc. It can also be done as an early step of Engram Clearing which is the next Grade after Grade 4. Engram running is not done if the pc is already Clear. Also the auditor needs to have been trained fully in running Engrams with R3RA. In appendix, print outs - you will find the commands with and without the engram steps. There are links to them at the end of this chapter).

Service Computation Handling by Steps

The first step in handling service computations is of course to find them. This is done by the Listing & Nulling questions included below. When found they are run on a set of commands, called the brackets. 

If the pc is C/S OK'ed for running engrams you do that next. You want to find the pc's service computation and run it on the different flows. You do not want to find the service computations other people used on the pc. That is important to point out because it may be different to how things are done on other subjects and processes.

So it is done like this: You find the pc’s service computations, one at the time, through Listing and Nulling. When you have found one, you run out the fast automatic answers they have provided for the pc - the 'automaticities' of it. This is done with the auditing commands called the brackets. There are three set of brackets. (1) Right-wrong, (2) Dominate-escape domination, and (3) Help survival-hinder survival. You run each computation found in these brackets so the pc can realize how he has used it. 

When that is done you run the service computation itself on R3RA, engram running by chains. It is run to basic and full end phenomena for engrams.

In this way you don’t leave a service computation until you have taken it apart and blown it at its very roots.

Then you L&N for another service computation, using a different listing question, and handle it fully. Then another, and another. A pc can have many, many service computations. You peel them off until you find the main service computation at the core of the case. And you handle that one fully, as you do the others, using the steps above. Needless to say, you are going to see some remarkable results.

Full Service Computation Procedure

Beginning Steps:

A. Give pc a R (Reality) factor by telling him briefly what is going to be done in the session.

B. Clear "computation" very thoroughly with the pc. Use the Tech Dictionary, "service facsimile" and "computation", and any other references you feel the pc may need, including parts of this chapter. Have him demo it until you are certain he fully understands it.

C. Clear the bracket commands (right-wrong, domination, survival) first, using "Eating apples" instead of a service computation. You clear the bracket commands at this point so you can use these questions right after the service computation is found. Often it will start a torrent and you don't want to put stops on the pc’s first rush of answers.

D. First now do you clear the listing question.

The Running

I. List and null for the pc’s service computation in response to this question:

L&N (1) "In this lifetime, what do you use to make others wrong?"

You want a BD F/N item that is a computation (not a doingness, beingness or havingness).

When you get it, indicate the item. Then indicate the F/N. Then you go on to the Bracket step of the handling.

II. Run the service computation found in the brackets:

1. In this lifetime, how would (service computation) make you right?
2. In this lifetime, how would (service computation) make others wrong?

3. In this lifetime, how would (service computation) help you escape domination?
4. In this lifetime, how would (service computation) help you to dominate others?

5. In this lifetime, how would (service computation) aid your survival?
6. In this lifetime, how would (service computation) hinder the survival of others?

The brackets are run as follows:

Give the pc question (1) "In this lifetime, how would (service computation) make you right?" and let him have a go with it. Often there will be a rush of answers. He will have more answers coming than he can say easily. Don’t repeat the question unless the pc needs it. Just let him answer 1-1-1-1-1-1-1 (he may give you 10 or 50 answers). At some point he will get a cognition or he runs out of answers or he inadvertently begins to answer Question 2.
Then switch to Question 2: "In this lifetime how would (service computation) make others wrong?" Handle  this the same way: let him answer 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2 until he cognites or runs out of answers or starts to answer Question 1. Then switch back to Question 1, same handling, back to Question 2, same handling, as long as pc has answers coming easily. When he at some point gets cognition and F/N you have the EP for that bracket. You acknowledge, indicate the F/N and end off on 1 and 2.

Now you go on to the next bracket. Give him Question 3: "In this lifetime how would (service computation) help you escape domination?" and let it run by the same method as above. When this seems cooled off, use Question 4: "In this lifetime, how would (service computation) help you to dominate others?" Use Questions 3 and 4 as above, as long as pc has answers coming easily. When he at some point gets cognition and F/N you have the EP for that bracket. You acknowledge, indicate the F/N and end off on 3 and 4. Now go on to the next bracket.

Using the same method as above, give him Question 5: "In this lifetime, how would (service computation) aid your survival?" When he’s run out on 5-5-5-5-5-5, switch to Question 6: "In this lifetime, how would (service computation) hinder the survival of others?" Use Questions 5 and 6 as above as long as pc has answers coming easily. Let him get off the torrent of answers and come to a cognition and F/N. Acknowledge and indicate the F/N.

At this point it is safe to end off on running the brackets. The idea is not to beat the process to death. The pc will have automatic answers coming off fast and stumbling early in the run. This should all slow down and the pc be bright, F/Ning and VGIs before you end off. You are only handling the compulsive character of the service computation found and you get it inspected. The pc will be able to see what has been going on in his life at this stage. Especially when you follow up with engram running there is no need to bleed the process of every bit of TA action possible.

Running the service computation in the brackets should result in a major cognition. This can occur at any point during this running. When a major cognition does occur it is the EP of this step of the service computation handling. 

(Important: If the service computation found on a pc did not run on the brackets, it would need to be Prepchecked. See sections "When To Prepcheck" below.)

Engram Running Step
This step is of course only done when the pc is OK'ed for running engrams and R3RA. It should normally be done here, if the pc has been educated in running R3RA as a pc. Or it can be done as an early step of Engram Clearing which is the next Grade after Grade 4. Engram running is not done if the pc is already Clear. Also the auditor needs to have been trained fully in running Engrams with R3RA. In appendix, print outs - you will find a version with and without the engram steps. There are links at the end of this chapter.

III. Run the service computation R3RA Quad, each flow to EP. It is not run narrative and it is not pre-assessed; otherwise full Engram running with R3RA tech is used.

The service computation phrase itself is used as the running item.
The beginning commands for running a service computation on R3RA Quad Flows are:

FLOW 1: "Locate a time when you used (service computation)."

FLOW 2: "Locate an incident of your causing another to use (service computation)."

FLOW 3: "Locate an incident of others causing others to use (service computation)."

FLOW 0: "Locate an incident of you causing yourself to use (service computation)."

Take each flow down its chain of incidents to the basic and full Dianetic EP: F/N, postulate (postulate off = erasure), and VGIs.

That will be the end of all empowerment of that service computation.

IV. List for another service computation on the pc, using this L&N question:

L&N (2): "In this lifetime, what do you use to dominate others?"

When you have the service computation, repeat Steps II and III above.

Find another service computation on the pc with this L&N question:

L&N (3): "In this lifetime, what do you use to aid your own survival?"

Handle the service computation per Steps II and III above.

Continue to find and handle service computations on the pc, using the following listing questions (in that order):

 L&N (4): "In this lifetime, what do you use to make yourself right?"

L&N (5): "In this lifetime, what do you use to escape domination?"

L&N (6): "In this lifetime, what do you use to hinder the survival of others?"

L&N (8): "What would be a safe method of handling your problems here and now in life?"

L&N (9): " What is a safe assumption about your environment?"

L&N (10): "What beingness would be a good solution for a tough environment?"

 V. Also the pc's folder should be culled for service computations and each that is reading on the Meter should be run per steps above. Any such item that does not run on any of the brackets must be Prepchecked to EP.

Listing
When you do L&N for a  service computation you are looking for a BD F/N item. Write down each computation the pc gives you exactly as he states it, verbatim no matter how odd, illogical or strange they may sound. Of course you mark the read as well. They may not always sound like perfect computations. The only reliable test is how they run in the brackets.

The service computation works like a magnet while you’re listing. The L&N question is close to the service computation and will trigger it. It will draw the pc’s attention to it. He’s listing along and suddenly he’ll put a non sequitur item on the list. It doesn’t make sense. It doesn’t even answer the question, but there it is. Because his attention is being pulled to the inevitable conclusion. You’re asking him for answers and he gives you the rightest answer he knows -"People always jump off high buildings." That’s the solution. That solves everything. It blows the TA down. That’s the service computation.

Indicate the item to the pc; then indicate the F/N.

You’re now ready to run it in the brackets.

Running off the Automatic Answers
If you’ve found a service computation the pc won’t be able to stay out of it.

The first question is always how would it make him right. (Never how would it make him wrong.) The torrent of answers should start with the first question. If not, ask him how it would make others wrong. You almost always trigger it at the level of right/wrong. But don’t make the mistake of thinking it can’t be a service computation if it doesn’t trigger there. Try it on the other levels. It can trigger at the level of dominate; it might be at the level of survival.

But if none of these immediately make the pc jump in and swim to drown, it’s not it. If he tells you, "Well, let’s see . . . make me right, no, hmmmm...." or "... escape domination ... no, doesn’t make sense," then it is not a service computation.

If he says that isn’t it, then that isn’t it. Don’t try to insist upon a wrong service computation because it’s too easy to find a right one. They are all over the place on his case.

If he hasn’t jumped in and swum madly to the center of the stream and gotten all caught up in this thing, it’s not it. Because that’s the first thing they want to do with a real service computation - drown.

When you have the right one you’ll get a torrent coming off fast. Don’t stop it with acknowledgements. Don’t stop it with a new question. Let it run its course. It’s not one auditing question for one answer. It’s one auditing question for a torrent of answers.

When to Prepcheck
When the item found as a service computation won’t run in any of the brackets you Prepcheck it to EP (F/N, cog, VGIs).

A rightness-wrongness computation doesn’t surrender to normal auditing because it is a service computation. The pc is actively holding onto to it. He won’t be able to itsa it on a Prepcheck. Thus, a service computation, if present, will turn on mass on a Prepcheck (the datum with the rising TA equals no-confront.)

The Prepcheck is a series of types of decisions thetans make about things. So if it doesn’t run on Prepcheck that action must be in conflict with the rightness and wrongness involved.

But it also follows, if it’s not a service computation it will run on Prepcheck, and you handle it by that method to EP.

Then go back and find a service computation that will run.

Should a real Service Computation surface during such a Prepcheck is is handled the same way it would be in any other auditing. It is carefully noted, exact wording and read. It is circled and marked so the C/S can't miss it. It should be checked out and run if valid in the next session. In other words, the auditor finishes the Prepcheck without Q and A and culls the Service Computation for future handling.

Handling Service Computations With R3RA
Even when the pc has gotten off the automaticities, has cognited and apparently is free of the compulsive nature of the service computation, there is more to be handled.

Running the service computation using R3RA enables him to run out what he has done with it to make others wrong, etc. These will be the actual most charged incidents in which he has used it, which will have accumulated in his wake as he went along substituting the service computation for himself and never inspecting the consequences. He will now be free to inspect those parts of the track as himself, and to inspect as well the effects of the service computation on the other flows.

Finally, the use of R3RA, engram running by chains, will make it possible for him to fully erase the somatics and engram chains which had their roots in the service computation as well as the postulates underlying them. He will cut the vicious cycle of the pc restimulating the Bank and the Bank restimulating the computation.

Full End Phenomena
Service computation running can be ended off when you have fully run many service computations. These should lead to the main service computation. When the main service computation has been run to full EP, service computation handling is complete.

It might happen in rare cases, that you get the main service computation on the pc on your first listing and nulling. It will be rare because the main one does not usually become accessible until the others have been taken off. You run it, of course. Any service computation run will produce change, but on the central one you will see the pc change character. The results are quite impressive and visible.

But you should also understand that he still has others, lesser service computations which do not simply disappear because the central service computation is now gone. They may have lost some power because they were leaning up against it. But you will still need to L&N for these and completely clean the pc of service computations.

The central service computation will be the one the pc has used as a solution to all of life. When found and run it will be unmistakable to both the pc and the auditor. When this one has been completed on all the steps above, as well as the lesser service computations surrounding it, you will have attained the EP on service computation running.

You will have brought about a complete character change in the individual, returned his freedom of choice and his freedom to inspect and have opened the door for him to be truly right. And that is the stuff of which sanity is made.

R3 SC-A with Engram Steps (R3RA)

R3 SC-A (No R3RA)

SERVICE FACSIMILE

Technical Dictionary's definitions and quotes about Service Facsimiles, which here on ST 4 is called Service Computation:

Service Facsimile, 1. these are called “service facsimiles.” “Service” because they serve him. “Facsimiles” because they are in mental image picture form. They explain his disabilities as well. The facsimile part is actually a self-installed disability that “explains” how he is not responsible for being able to cope. So he is not wrong for not coping. Part of the “package” is to be right by making wrong. The service facsimile is therefore a picture containing an explanation of self condition and also a fixed method of making others wrong.  2. this is actually part of a chain of incidents which the individual uses to invite sympathy or cooperation on the part of the environment. One uses engrams to handle himself and others and the environment after one has himself conceived that he has failed to handle himself, others and the general environment.  3. it is simply a time when you tried to do something and were hurt or failed and got sympathy for it. Then afterwards when you were hurt or failed and wanted an explanation, you used it. And if you didn’t succeed in getting sympathy for it, you used it so hard it became a psychosomatic illness. 4. every time you fail, you pick up this facsimile and become sick or sadly noble. It’s your explanation to yourself and the world as to how and why you failed. It once got you sympathy.  5. that facsimile which the preclear uses to apologize for his failures. In other words, it is used to make others wrong and procure their cooperation in the survival of the preclear. If the preclear well cannot achieve survival, he attempts an illness or disability as a survival computation. The workability and necessity of the service facsimile is only superficially useful. The service facsimile is an action method of withdrawing from a state of beingness to a state of not beingness and is intended to persuade others to coax the individual back into a state of beingness.  6. 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.

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