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A, affinity. (5904C08)

AA, attempted abortion. (DMSMH, p. 245)

A=A=A, 1. 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. (Scn AD) 2. all differences are probably identities and all identities are different and all similarities are imaginary. We have a broad dissertation on this in Dianetics: the Modern Science of Mental Health as it affects insane behavior. Everything is everything else. 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. (HCO PL 26 Apr 70R) 3. this is the behavior of the reactive mind. Everything is identified with everything on a certain subject. (PDC 20)

ABCD, 1. these are the steps designation of the second run through of R3R as given in the commands for R3R. Usually the auditor simply writes ABCD on his worksheet which shows he has given the command required and designated under A, under B, under C, under D, as and when he gives them to the preclear. (LRH Def. Notes) 2. after the first time through an incident in Dn and when pc has recounted it, the auditor tells pc, A. “Move to the beginning of the incident.” B. “Tell me when you are there.” C. When pc has said he is, “Scan through to the end of the incident.” D. “Tell me what happened.” (BTB 6 May 69R II)

ABERRATE, to make something diverge from a straight line. The word comes basically from optics . (Dn 55!, p . 65) -adj. Aberrated, departed from rationality, deranged. (EOS, p. 14)

ABERRATED BEHAVIOR, destructive effort toward pro-survival data or entities on any dynamic or effort toward the survival of contra-survival data or entities for any dynamic. (Scn 0-8, p. 86) See ABERRATION.

ABERRATED PERSONALITY, the personality resultant from superimposition, on the genetic personality of personal characteristics and tendencies brought about by all environmental factors, pro-survival and aberrational. (SOS Gloss)

ABERRATION, 1. 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, in 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 to perceive truth and bring about an aberrated view of situations which then would cause an aberrated reaction to them. Aberration is opposed to sanity, which would be its opposite. (LRH Def. Notes)  2. an aberrated person wanders from his self-determined course. He no longer goes where he wants to go now, but goes where he has wanted to go in the past. His course is, therefore, not rational, and he seems to go wherever the environment pushes him. He has as many aberrations as he has hidden contra survival decisions in his past. (Abil 114A) 3. mental derangement, any irrational condition. (DMSMH, p. 102) 4. the aberree’s reactions to and difficulties with his current environment. (DTOT, p. 127) 5. the manifestation of an engram, and is serious only when it influences the competence of the individual in his environment. (Scn Jour 28-G) 6. the degree of residual plus or minus randomity accumulated by compelling, inhibiting or unwarranted assisting of efforts on the part of other organisms or the physical (material) universe. (Scn 0-8, p. 86).

ABERRATIVE VALENCE, people from whom one felt that one could not withhold anything were the most aberrative valences on the case. We thus have a new definition for aberrative valences, namely the “cannot withhold from” valence. (PAB 128)

ABERREE, 1. a neologism meaning an aberrated person. (DMSMH, p. 22) 2. a person not released or cleared. (DMSMH, p. 286) 3. anybody who has one or more engrams. (EOS, p. 90) 4. was sometimes used in the early days of Dn to designate an aberrated person. (LRH Def. Notes)

ABILITY, to observe, to make decisions, to act. (SH Spec 131, 6204C03)

ABILITY GAIN, the pc’s recognition that pc can now do things he could not do before. (HCOB 28 Feb 59)

ABILITY RELEASE, expanded Grade IV release. (CG&AC 75) See GRADE IV RELEASE.

ABILITY TO THINK, the capability of the mind to perceive, pose and resolve specific and general problems. (DASF, p. 90)

ABRIDGED STYLE AUDITING, (Level III style), by abridged is meant “abbreviated,” shorn of extras. Any not actually needful auditing command is deleted. In this style we have shifted from pure rote to a sensible use or omission as needful. We still use repetitive commands expertly, but we don’t use rote that is unnecessary to the situation. (HCOB 6 Nov 64)

ABSOLUTE OVERT ACT, a n absolute overt act would be something destructive on all eight dynamics. (5901C04)

ABSOLUTE RIGHTNESS, the immortality of the individual himself, his children, his group, mankind and the universe and all energy-the infinity of complete survival. (DASF, p. 80)

ABSOLUTE WRONGNESS, the extinction of the universe and all energy and the source of energy-the infinity of complete death. (DASF, p. 80)

ABSOLUTE ZERO, 1. something that does not have mass, doesn’t have wave-length, doesn’t have location and does not have time. (UPC 11) 2. absolute z e r o would be a no-motion, a no-temperature condition. (SH Spec 96, 6112C21)

ACAD, Academy. (BPL 5 Nov 72R).  

ACADEMY, in Scn the academy is that department of the technical division in which courses and training are delivered; Department 11, Division 4. (BTB 12 Apr 72R) Abbr. Acad.

ACC, Advanced Clinical Course. (PAB 71)

ACCELERATION PROCESS, this was an experimental rundown run in 1970- 1971. It consisted of running down prior ARC breaks preceding engrams; it was superseded by L-10 and Expanded Dianetics. Mentioned in HCOB 21 Dec 69, Solo Auditing and R6EW. (LRH Def. Notes)

ACCEPTABLE EFFECT, one which is real. The person is certain that an effect of some kind or other has occurred. (5707C25)

ACCEPTANCE LEVEL, 1. the degree of a person’s actual willingness to accept people or things, monitored and determined by his consideration of the state or condition that those people or things must be in for him to be able to do so. (PXL Gloss) 2. what he really could have. (XDN No. 4, 7204C07)

ACCEPTANCE LEVEL PROCESSING, that process which discovers the lowest level of acceptance of the individual and discovers there the prevailing hunger and feeds that hunger by means of mock-ups until it is satiated. The process is not a separate process itself, but is actually a version of Expanded Gita. (PAB 15)

ACCESSIBILITY, 1. the willingness of the preclear to accept auditing and the ability of the auditor and the preclear to work as a team to increase the position of the preclear on the tone scale. (SOS, Bk. 2, p. 187) 2. the accessibility of an individual has to do with his own ability to communicate with his environment and to communicate with his own past. (5011C22) 3. generally, the desire of the individual to attain new and higher levels of survival and the betterment of mind and body. (SOS, Bk. 2, p. 185)

ACCIDENT-PRONE, a case where the reactive mind commands accidents. He is a serious menace in any society for his accidents are reactively intentional and they include the destruction of other people who are innocent. (DMSMH, p. 153))

ACK, acknowledgement. (HCOB 23 Aug 65)

ACK’ED, acknowledged. (BCR, p. 23)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, something said or done to inform another that his statement or action has been noted, understood and received. “Very good,” “Okay,” and other such phrases are intended to inform another who has spoken or acted that his statement or action has been accepted. An acknowledgement also tends to confirm that the statement has been made or the action has been done and so brings about a condition not only of communication but of reality between two or more people. Applause at a theater is an acknowledgement of the actor or act plus approval. Acknowledgement itself does not necessarily imply an approval or disapproval or any other thing beyond the knowledge that an action or statement has been observed and is received. In signaling with the morse code the receiver of a message transmits an R to the sender as a signal that the message has been received, which is to say acknowledged. There is such a thing as over-acknowledgement and there is such a thing as under-acknowledgement. A correct and exact acknowledgement communicates to someone who has spoken that what he has said has been heard. An acknowledgement tends to terminate or end the cycle of a communication, and when expertly used can sometimes stop a continued statement or continued action. An acknowledgement is  also part of the communication formula and is one of its steps. The Scientologist, sometimes,  in using Scientologese abbreviates this to “Ack”; he “acked” the person. (LRH Def. Notes)

ACT, a stage of processing. Applies solely to the particular process in use at a certain case level. (AP&A Gloss)

ACTION, 1. a motion through space having a certain speed. (SH Spec 42, 6410C13) 2. action=motion or movement=an act=a consideration that motion has occurred. (FOT, p. 19) 3. doingness directed towards havingness. (Scn 8-8008, p. 26) 4. action consists of energy outputs and inputs. Action is energy interchanges on a gross mest level. (5203CM05A)

ACTION CYCLE, the creation, growth, conservation, decay and death or destruction of energy and matter in a space. Action cycles produce time; an action cycle goes from 40.0 to 0.0 on the tone scale. (Scn 0-8, p. 25)

ACTION DEFINITION, see DEFINITIONS, TYPES OF.

ACTION PHRASES, 1. words or phrases in engrams or locks (or at 0.1 in present time) which cause the individual to perform involuntary actions on the time track.  Action phrases are effective in the low tone ranges and not effective in the high ranges. As a case progresses up the scale, they lose their power. Types of action phrases are bouncer, down bouncer, grouper, denier, holder, misdirector, scrambler, and the valence shifters corresponding to these. (SOS Gloss) 2. those which seem to order the preclear in various directions. The action phrases are bouncers such as, “Get up,” “Get out”; holders such as “Stay here,” “Don’t move”; misdirectors such as “Don’t know whether I’m coming or going,” or “Everything is backwards”; downbouncers such as “Get under,” or “Go back”; groupers such as “Everything happens at once,” “Pull yourself together”; callbacks such as “Come back,” “Please come”; and one other, the denier, which states that the engram does not exist, such as “There isn’t anything here,” “I can’t see anything.” There is also the valence shifter which shifts the individual from his own identity to the identity of another; the valence-bouncer, which prohibits an individual from going into some particular valence; the valence denier, which may even deny that the person’s own valence exists; and the valence-grouper, which makes all valences into one valence. These are all the types of action phrases. (SOS, pp. 181-182)

ACTUAL, that which is really true; that which exists despite all apparencies; that which underlies the way things seem to be; the way things really are. (FOT, p.20)

ACTUAL CYCLE OF ACTION, CREATE, create-create-create, create-counter-create, no creation, nothingness . CREATE = make, manufacture, construct, postulate, bring into beingness= CREATE. Create-create-create=create again continuously one moment after the next=SURVIVAL. Create-counter-create=to create something against a creation=to create one thing and then create something else against it=DESTROY. No creation =an absence of any creation=no creative activity. An ACTUAL cycle of action then consists of various activities, but each and every one of them is creative. The cycle of action contains an APPARENCY of SURVIVAL, but this is actually only a continuous creation. (FOT, pp. 20-21)

ACTUAL GOAL, the dominating significance of the thetan’s own causation which binds together the masses accumulated by the reliable items of an actual GPM. (HCOB 13 Apr 64, Scn VI Part One Glossary of Terms)

ACTUAL GPM, the composite black mass of all the pairs of reliable items and their associated locks, dominated and bound together by the significance of an actual goal and having a definite location as a mass on the time track. (HCOB 13 Apr 64, Scn Vi part One Glossary of Terms)

ACTUALITY, (Scientology Axiom 27), an actuality can exist for one individually, but when it is agreed with by others it can then be said to be a reality. (PXL, p. 175) 2. one’s attitude towards his own universe. (Scn 8-8008, p. 28)

ACUTE, immediate, right now. It doesn’t mean exaggerated. Medically it means simply right now, and rather temporary. (SH Spec 31, 6401C28)

ACUTE INSANITY, one which flares into existence for a few moments or a few days and then subsides, leaving a relatively normal person. (DASF, p. 77)

AD or A.D., after Dianetics (1950) e.g. 1965=AD 15. (HCOB 23 Aug 65)

ADAPTIVE POSTULATE, a pre-Dianetic error that an individual was healthy so long as he was adjusted to his environment. Nothing could be less workable than this “adaptive” postulate. Man succeeds because he adjusts his environment to him, not by adjusting himself to the environment. (SA, p. 112)

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 Dn and Scn it definitely means to add something to the technology procedure resulting in undesirable results. (LRH Def. Notes)

ADMINISTRATION (ADMIN), a contraction or shortening of the word administration, admin is used as a noun to denote the actions involved in administering 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. “His admin was bad”; from the scribble and disorderly keeping of records of the session while it was in progress one could not make out what had happened in the session. You will also see the word admin in connection with the three musts of a well-run organization. It is said that its ethics, tech and admin must be “in,” which mean they must be properly done, orderly and effective. The word derives from minister, which means to serve. Administer means to manage, govern, to apply or direct the application of laws, or discipline, to conduct or execute religious offices, dispense rights. It comes from the Latin, administrate, to manage, carry out, accomplish, to attend, wait, serve. In modern English, when they use administration they mean management or running a government or the group that is in charge of the organization or the state. (LRH Def. Notes)

ADMIN TRs, the purpose of these TRs is to train the student to get compliance with and complete a cycle of action on administrative actions and orders, in spite of the randomities, confusions, justifications, excuses, traps and insanities of the third and sixth dynamics, and to confront such comfortably while doing so. (BTB 7 Feb 71)

ADMIRATION, 1. is the very substance of a communication line, and it is that thing which is considered desirable in the game of the three universes. (COHA, p. 203) 2. a particle which unites and resolves, like the universal solvent, all types of energy, particularly force. (PAB 8)

ADVANCED CLINICAL COURSE, 1. basically a theory and research course which gives a much further insight into the phenomena of the mind and the rationale of research and investigation. (PAB 71) 2. L. Ron Hubbard’s special courses personally taught by him, scheduled by him, and sponsored for him by an HCO office. (HCO PL 24 Feb 60) Abbr. ACC.

ADVANCED COURSES, 1. Solo Audit Course, Clearing Course or OT courses. (HCO PL 12 Aug 71 II) 2. above VA processes, one enters the field of advanced courses, specifically dealing with materials of which one has to solo audit in order to attain the stable gains of the grade. (HCO PL 28 Mar 70) Abbr. Ad Crses.

ADVANCED ORGANIZATION, 1. the advanced courses were at first separate in the Office of LRH at Saint Hill and then became the Advanced Orgs (AOs) under the Sea Org. (HCOB 8 Oct 71 II) 2. that organization which runs the advanced courses. Its products are Clears and OTs. (FO 508).

ADVANCE PROGRAM, 1. the major actions to be undertaken to get the case back on the class chart from wherever he had erroneously gotten to on it. The advance program consists of writing down in sequence every needful step and process missed on the class chart by the case which is now to be done. It gets the preclear or pre-OT up to where he should be. (HCOB 14 Jun 70) 2. this is what was called a “return program” in the C/S Series. The name was changed from “return” to “advance” as more appropriate. (HCOB 25 Jun 70 II)

A.E.S.P., attitudes, emotions, sensations, pains. (BTB 8 Jan 71R)

AESTHETIC MIND, that mind which, by an interplay of the dynamics, deals with the nebulous field of art and creation. (SOS, Bk. 2, p. 234)

AESTHETIC PRODUCT, Dn Axiom 169: any aesthetic product is a symbolic facsimile or combination of facsimiles of theta or physical universes in varied randomities and volumes of randomities with the interplay of tones. (AP&A, p. 99)

AESTHETICS, the study of ideal form and beauty-it is the philosophy of art, which itself is the quality of communication. (B&C, p. 15)

AFFINITY, 1. the feeling of love or liking for something or someone. Affinity is a phenomena of space in that it expresses the willingness to occupy the same place as the thing which is loved or liked. The reverse of it would be antipathy, “dislike” or rejection which would be the unwillingness to occupy the same space as or the unwillingness to approach something or someone. It came from the French, affinite, affinity, kindred, alliance, nearness and also from the Latin, affnis, meaning near, bordering upon. (LRH Def. Notes) 2. the ability to occupy the space of, or be like or similar to, or to express a willingness to be something. (SH Spec 83, 6612C06) 3. the relative distance and similarity of the two ends of a communication line. (Dn 55!, p. 35) 4. emotional response; the feeling of affection or the lack of it, of emotion or misemotion connected with life. (HCOB 21 Jun 71 I) 5. the attraction which exists between two human beings or between a human being and another life organism or between a human being and mest or theta or the Supreme Being. It has a rough parallel in the physical universe in magnetic and gravitic attraction. The affinity or lack of affinity between an organism and the environment or between the theta and mest of an organism and within the theta (including entheta) of the organism brings about what we have referred to as emotions. (SOS Gloss) 6. in its truest definition which is coincidence of location and beingness, that is the ultimate in affinity. (9ACC-10, 5412CM20)

AFFINITY SCALE, 1. a scale which refers to the individual’s relation with other people. The affinity scale may refer, at any particular time, to just one or to a small number of people. But as affinity is suppressed repeatedly, the individual will begin to take on an habitual tone level, on the affinity scale, an habitual  reaction to almost all people. (NOTL, p. 102) 2. the affinity scale includes most of the common emotions, apathy, grief, fear, anger, hostility, boredom, relief, contentment, enthusiasm, exhilaration, inspiration. (SOS Gloss)

AGAINST SCIENTOLOGY, attention off Scientology and protesting Scientology behavior. (HCOB 19 Aug 63)

AGAINST SESSION, attention off own case and talking at the auditor in protest of auditor, PT auditing environment or Scn. (HCOB 19 Aug 63) See also OUT OF SESSION.

AGE FLASH, the auditor says, “When I snap my fingers an age will occur to you. Give me the first number that comes into your mind.” He then snaps his fingers, and the preclear gives him the first number which comes into his head. (SOS, Bk. 2, p. 51)

AGONY, is the deep emotion of boredom. Boredom, in essence, is the warning signal that agony is on its way. (5312CM20)

AGREEMENT, 1. a mutual knowingness, a mutual postulatingness towards certain end products. (SH Spec 71, 6110C25) 2. two or more people making the same postulates stick. (SH Spec 62, 6110C04) 3. ability to co-act with or mimic or be mimicked by. (5303M24) 4. a specialized consideration, it is shared in common, and this we call an agreement. (5702C26)

ALL THE WAY SOUTH, Slang. that state of mind at the extreme bottom where the fellow must have total effect on self and could not possibly make any effect of any kind on anybody else. It’s below death. (5707C25)

ALLY, 1. this is a noun which means an individual who cooperates with, supports and helps another for a common object; a supporter, a friend. In Dn and Scn, it basically means someone who protects a person who is in a weak state and becomes a very strong influence over the person. The weaker person, such as a child, even partakes the characteristics of the ally so that one may find that a person who has, for instance, a bad leg, has it because a protector or ally in his youth had a bad leg. The word is from French and Latin and means to bind together. (LRH Def. Notes) 2. by ally in Scn, we mean 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. (HCOB 20 Mar 70)

ALLY COMPUTATION, little more than a mere idiot calculation that anyone who is a friend can be kept a friend only by approximating the conditions wherein the friendship was realized. It is a computation on the basis that one can only be safe in the vicinity of certain people and that one can only be in the vicinity of certain people by being sick or crazy or poor and generally disabled. (DMSMH, p. 243)

ALTER-IS, 1. a composite word meaning the action of altering or changing the reality of something. Is-ness means the way it is. When someone sees it differently he is doing an alter-is; in other words, is altering the way it is. This is taken from the Axioms. (LRH Def. Notes) 2. to introduce a change and therefore time and persistence in an as-is-ness to obtain persistency. An introduction of an alter-is is therefore the addition of a lie to the real which causes it to persist and not to blow or as-is. (HCOB 11 May 65).

ALTER-IS-NESS, 1. the consideration which introduces change, and therefore time and persistence into an as-is-ness to obtain persistency. (PXL, p. 154) 2. the effort to preserve something by altering its characteristics. (PXL, p. 53)

ALTER-IST, the control case, the person obsessively controlling things, and himself, is an alter-ist. He’s got to change, change. Well, he’s lost too much. Now he’s got to change everything but he’s not satisfied with anything. (PXL, p. 54)

ALTERNATE, 1. occurring by turns; succeeding each other; one and then the other. (HCOB 10 May 65) 2. in auditing, alternate means two questions run one after the other, consecutively, one command positive followed by one negative. (HCOB 4 Dec 59)

ALTERNATE CONFRONT, (PROCESS), “What can you confront?" What would you rather not confront?” (HCOB 16 Jun 60)

ALTITUDE, 1. a prestige which the auditor has in the eyes of the preclear. A somewhat artificial position of the auditor which gives the preclear greater confidence and therefore greater ability to run than he would otherwise have. (SOS Gloss) 2. a difference of level of prestige-one in a higher altitude carries conviction to one on a lower altitude merely because of altitude. (D M S M H, p. 343)

AMNESIA, a guy who is so spooked that he doesn’t dare remember ten seconds ago. He has had some experience earlier than which he is not going to remember, including the experience, so he’s only willing to remember some moment after that experience. (SH Spec 72, 6607C28)

ANALYTICAL, capable of resolving, such as problems, situations. 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. (LRH Def. Notes)

ANALYTICAL ATTENUATION, see ANATEN.

ANALYTICAL MIND, 1. 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 Dn and Scn the analytical mind is the one which is alert and aware and the reactive mind simply reacts without analysis. (LRH Def. Notes) 2. that mind which combines perceptions of the immediate environment, of the past (via pictures) and estimations of the future into conclusions which are based upon the realities of situations. The analytical mind combines the potential knowingness of the thetan with the conditions of his surroundings and brings him to independent conclusions. This mind could be said to consist of visual pictures either of the past or the physical universe, monitored by, and presided over, by the knowingness of a thetan. The keynote of the analytical mind is awareness, one knows what one is concluding and knows what he is doing. (FOT, pp. 57-58) 3. the awareness of awareness unit plus some evaluative circuit or circuits, or machinery to make the handling of the body possible. (Dn 55!, pp. 11-12) 4. that part of the being which perceives, when the individual is awake or in normal sleep (for sleep is not unconsciousness, and anything the individual has perceived while he was asleep is recorded in the standard memory banks and is relatively easy for the auditor to recover). (SOS, Bk. 2, p. 230) 5. we say the analytical mind is kind of a misnomer because most people think it’s some kind of computing machine, and it’s not, it’s just the pc, the thetan. (SH Spec 23, 6106C29)

ANALYTICAL THOUGHT, 1. thought which directly observes and analyzes what it observes in terms of observations which are immediately present. (COHA, p. 196)  2. rational thought as modified by education and viewpoint. (DMSMH, p. 79)

ANALYZER, the analytical mind. (DMSMH, p. 44)

ANATEN, 1. 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.) (Scn AD) 2. simply a drop in ARC to an extreme. (PAB 70) 3. the physiological by-product of unconsciousness. (SOS, Bk. 2, p. 170) 4. dope-off. (Abil 52)

ANATOMY OF THE HUMAN MIND COURSE, a basic Scn course which teaches observation and understanding of the fundamentals of the human mind. It includes demonstrations of the parts of the human mind. There are no prerequisites for this course. (CG&AC 75) Abbr. AHMC.

ANCHOR POINTS, 1. assigned or agreed-upon points of boundary, which are conceived to be motionless by the individual. (PDC 13) 2. points which are anchored in a space different to the physical universe space around a body. (FOT, p. 63) 3. those places which we called in Advanced Procedures and Axioms the sub-brains of the body; control centers, epicenters. (5410ClOD) 4. the points which mark an area of space are called anchor points, and these, with the viewpoint, alone are responsible for space. (Scn Jour, Iss 14-G) 5. a specialized kind of dimension point. (Scn 8-8008, p. 16) 6. any kind of a point, any kind of a particle, any kind of electron, or anything which anybody believes is an actual point. There is nothing more real than a real anchor point. (2ACC-lA 5311CM17)

ANGER, 1. true anger is a hate hold. At exactly 1.5 on the tone scale we have a total ridge. It’s hate. When we move a little above or a little below 1.5 we get a dispersal. (5904C08) 2. anger is simply the process of trying to hold everything still. (5203CM09A)

ANSWER HUNGER, an unfinished cycle of communication generates what might be called answer hunger. An individual who is waiting for a signal that his communication has been received is prone to accept any inflow. When an individual has, for a very long period of time, consistently waited for answers which did not arrive, any sort of answer from anywhere will be pulled in to him, by him, as an effort to remedy his scarcity of answers. (Dn 55!, p. 66).

ANTAGONISM, at the level of tone 2.0, affinity is expressed as antagonism, a feeling of annoyance and irritation caused by the advances of other people toward the individual. (SOS, p. 56)

ANTI Q AND A TR, 1. commands: basically “Put that (object) on my knee.” Student is to get the coach to place the object that he has in his hand on the knee of the student. Purpose: (a) to train student in getting a pc to carry out a command using formal communication NOT tone 40. (b) to enable the student to maintain his TRs while giving commands. (c) to train the student to not get upset with a pc under formal auditing. (HCOB 20 Nov 73 I) 2. to get this disease (Q&A) out of an HGC requires that auditors go through an anti Q and A handling. (HCOB 20 Nov 73 II)

ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY, 1. there are certain characteristics and mental attitudes which cause about 20 per cent of a race to oppose violently any betterment activity or group. Such people are known to have antisocial tendencies. (ISE, p. 9) 2. we’re calling it a suppressive because it’s more explicit. (SH Spec 78, 6608C25) See also SUPPRESSIVE PERSON.

ANXIETY, constant irresolute computation. Constant computation on a certain point or a certain problem. That is what worry is and that is what anxiety is. (T-80-2A 5205C20)

AO, Advanced Org. (HCOB 8 Oct 71 II)

AP, aberrated personality. (DMSMH, p. 124)

APA, American Personality Analysis, the personality test. (BTB 3 Nov 72R) See OCA.

APATHY, 1. complete withdrawal from person or people. There is in apathy no real attempt to contact one’s self and no attempt to contact others. Here we have a null point of dissonance which is on the threshold of death. (SOS, p. 57) 2. a very docile and obedient, if sick, state of not-beingness. (HFP, p. 56) 3. no effort, all counter-effort. (AP&A, p. 33) 4. apathy actually is a motionless enturbulence. It’s an enturbulence canceling itself out to the degree that it appears to be motionless. (5206CM25A) 5. apathy, near death, imitates death. If a person is almost all wrong, he approximates death. He says, “What’s the use? All is lost.” (NOTL, p. 20).

APPARENCY, 1. noun, something that seems to be, that appears to be a certain way; something appears to be but is different from the way it looks. It is from the Latin, apparere, to appear. In Dianetics and Scientology it is used to mean something that looks one way but is, in actual fact, something else. “Gives an appetency of health” whereas it’s actually sick. (LRH Def. Notes) 2. what appears to be as distinct from what actually is. (FOT, p. 19)

APPARENT CYCLE OF ACTION, create, then survive, then destroy; or creation, survival, destruction. (FOT, p. 18)

APPETITE OVER TIN CUP, Slang. a pioneer Western U.S. term used by riverboat men on the Missouri; it means thrown away violently, like “head over heels,” “bowled over.” (LRH Def. Notes)

APPLIED PHILOSOPHY, one which has to do with doing and action. One which applies to living-not just a theory, but one where the theory can be used to help you get on better in life. (BTB 4 Mar 65R)

ARBITRARY, 1. something which is introduced into the situation without regard to the data of the situation. (SH Spec 83, 6612C06) 2. an order or command introduced into the group in an effort to lay aside certain harm which may befall the group or in an effort to get through a period, fancied or real, of foreshortened time. (NOTL, p. 136) 3. an order or command which was issued without explanation, and demanded instantaneous action on the part of other members of the group. (NOTL, p. 131)

ARC, 1. a word from the initial letters of Affinity, Reality, Communication which together equate to Understanding. It is pronounced by stating its letters, A-R- C. To Scientologists it has come to mean good feeling, love or friendliness, such as “He was in ARC with his friend.” One does not, however, fall out of ARC, he has an ARC break. (LRH Def. Notes) 2. ARC=Understanding and Time. A=Space and the willingness to occupy the same space of. R=Mass or agreement. C=Energy or Recognition. (HCOB 27 Sept 68 II) 3. affinity is a type of energy and can be produced at will. Reality is agreement; too much agreement under duress brings about the banishment of one’s entire consciousness. Communication, however, is far more important than affinity or reality, for it is the operation, the action by which one experiences emotion and by which one agrees. (PAB 1) 4. the triagonal manifestation of theta each aspect affecting the other two. (SOS Gloss)

ARC BREAK, 1. a sudden drop or cutting of one’s affinity, reality, or communication with someone or something. Upsets with people or things come about because of a lessening or sundering of affinity, reality, or communication or  understanding. It’s called an ARC break instead of an upset, because, if one discovers which of the three points of understanding have been cut, one can bring about a rapid recovery in the person’s state of mind. It is pronounced by its letters A-R-C break. 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, usually without knowing what is causing it. This condition is handled by finding the earliest ARC break on the chain, finding whether it was a break in affinity, reality, communication, or understanding and indicating it to the person, always, of course, in session. (LRH Def. Notes) 2. an incomplete cycle of some kind or another. It’s a lowering of Affinity, Reality and Communication, so we call it an ARC break. It’s a sudden down curve. It’s a highly technical term. It means exactly what it says but its incept and so forth is an incomplete cycle of action. (SH Spec 65, 6507C27) Abbr. ARCX.

ARC BREAK ASSESSMENT, 1. reading an ARC break list appropriate to the activity to the pc on a meter and doing nothing but locating and then indicating the charges found by telling the pc what registered on the needle. (HCOB 7 Sept 64 II) 2. it isn’t auditing because it doesn’t use the auditing comm cycle. You don’t ack what the pc says, you don’t ask the pc what it is. You don’t comm. You assess the list between you and the meter, same as no pc there. Then you find what reads and you tell the pc. And that’s all. (HCOB 7 Sept 64 II)

ARC BREAK LONG DURATION, spotted by a person who has led a sad or subdued or rather suppressed sort of life and is probably around .8 on down on the tone scale. (LRH Def. Notes)

ARC BREAK NEEDLE, 1. a “floating needle” occurring above 3.0 or below 2.0 on a calibrated Mark V E-meter with the pc on two cans. An ARC break needle can occur between 2.0 and 3.0 where bad indicators are apparent. (HCOB 21 Oct 68) 2. An F/N with bad indicators is an ARC break needle. These include propitiation. It is quite usual that a pc has just mentioned grief when the ARC break needle turns on, or some gloomy idea. A real F/N means the pc is out the top; an ARC break needle means he’s out the bottom. He ceases to mock up, through grief. (HCOB 5 Oct 68) 3. may be dirty, stuck or sticky, but may also give the appearance of floating. The pc will be upset and out of comm at the same time. (HCOB 21 Sept 66)

ARC BREAK STRAIGHTWIRE, “Recall an ARC break.” “When?” (HCOB 3 Feb 59)

ARC BROKEN PCs, they gloom and misemote. They criticize and snarl. Sometimes they scream. They blow, they refuse auditing. If an auditor’s pc isn’t bright and happy, there’s an ARC break there with life or the bank or the session. (HCOB 29 Mar 65)

ARC ENGRAM, see SECONDARY ENGRAM. (NOTL, p. 35)

ARC LOCKS, 1. a type of lock which results when affinity, communication, or reality is forced upon the individual by the environment when he does not want it, when it is not rationally necessary, or when one or more of these is inhibited or denied to the individual by others in the environment. (SOS, p. 113) 2. “permanent” encystments of entheta resulting from the enturbulation of theta by enforcements or inhibitions of affinity, reality or communication and the trapping of this enturbulated theta by the physical pain of some engram or chain of engrams whose perceptics are approximately in the present-time enturbulation. Locks are analytical experiences. (SOS Gloss)

ARC SECONDARIES, ARC locks of such magnitude that they must be run as engrams in processing. Or, since locks are often run as engrams, ARC locks of great magnitude. (SOS Gloss). 

ARC STRAIGHTWIRE, see STRAIGHTWIRE.

ARC STRAIGHTWIRE RELEASE, recall release . Freedom from deterioration; has hope; knows he/she won’t get any worse. (Scn 0-8, p. 137)

ARC TRIANGLE, 1. it is called a triangle because it has three related points: affinity, reality and the most important, communication. Without affinity there is no reality or communication. Without reality or some agreement, affinity and communication are absent. Without communication, there can be no affinity or reality. It is only necessary to improve one corner of this very valuable triangle in Scn in order to improve the remaining two corners. The easiest corner to improve is communication: improving one’s ability to communicate raises at the same time his affinity for others and life, as well as expands the scope of his agreements. (Scn AD) 2. this triangle is a symbol of the fact that affinity, reality, and communication act together as a whole entity and that one of them cannot be considered unless the other two are also taken into account. (NOTL, p. 20)

ARCU, Affinity, Reality, Communication, Understanding. (HCOB 6 Aug 68)

ARF, see AUDITOR REPORT FORM.

ART, a word which summarizes the quality of communication. It therefore follows the laws of communication. Too much originality throws the audience into unfamiliarity and therefore disagreement, as communication contains duplication and “originality” is the foe of duplication. Technique should not rise above the level of workability for the purpose of communication. Perfection cannot be attained at the expense of communication. (HCOB 30 Aug 65)

AS-IS, to view anything exactly as it is without any distortions or lies, at which moment it will vanish and cease to exist. (Scn AD)

AS-IS-NESS, 1. the condition of immediate creation without persistence, and is the condition of existence which exists at the moment of creation and the moment of destruction and is different from other considerations in that it does not contain survival. (PXL, p. 154) 2. as-is-ness would be the condition created again in the same time, in the same space, with the same energy and the same mass, the same motion and the same time continuum. (PXL, p. 68) 3. something that is just postulated or just being duplicated-no alteration taking place. As-is-ness contains no life continuum, no time continuum. (PXL, p. 91)

ASSERTED, another name for suggested, used mainly in check out of a goal to be sure, and occasionally in routine nulling when pc is declaring “it is my goal.” (HCOB 1 Aug 62).

ASSESS IN DIANETICS, means choose, from a list or statements which item or thing has the longest read or the pc’s interest. The longest read will also have the pc’s interest oddly enough. (HCOB 23 Apr 69)

ASSESSING BY ELIMINATION, 1. doing it twice because of a possible instant read fault. Assessing by elimination is done on double (2 item) reads. But a hot auditor does it on best largest instant read. (BTB 11 Apr 74) 2. after the first assessment the auditor continues to assess the reading items on the list by elimination down to ONE item. Sometimes some items will read three or four times, but the action is the same. The auditor assesses the reading items by elimination down to one item. (BTB 20 Aug 70R) [N.B. This action is revised by HCOB 14 Mar 1971R, F/N Everything and HCOB 20 Apr 72 Iss.II, C/S Series 78 Product, Purpose and Why and WC Error Correction. ]

ASSESSING, METHODS OF, 1. the auditor starts at the top and takes up each read until he gets one to F/N. In this case the auditor does not do “Itsa earlier itsa.” He just cleans each read. (HCOB 28 May 70, Correction Lists, Use of) 2. the auditor starts from the top and on each read cleans it and does itsa earlier itsa to F/N or to a clean no-read and goes on. (HCOB 28 May 70, Correction Lists, Use Of) [N.B. the actions described in 1 and 2 above are revised according to HCOB 14 Mar 1971R, F/Everything.] 3. method 3-you take a prepared list and you read it to the pc, and you read the next one to the pc, and the first one that reads you then take it down earlier similar earlier similar, earlier similar, earlier similar, until it F/Ns. (ilO6C12) 4. the whole list is rapidly assessed over and over until one item stays in and that is given to the pc. (HCOB 28 May 70, Correction Lists, Use Of) [N.B. this action in 4 above is revised according to HCOB 14 Mar 1971R, F/N Everything. ] 5. method 5-all the way through and then you sort out the reads accordingly, and get them into a sequence that will F/N. (7106C12) 6. method 6-the L-10 method of assessing a prepared list. You look at the pc and ask him directly every question on the list. (7106C12)

ASSESSMENT, an inventory and evaluation of a preclear, his body and his case to establish processing level and procedure. (HCOB 3 Jul 59, General Information )

ASSESSMENT, 1. is an action done from a prepared list. There is no other word that goes with that. Assessment does not go with anything else but that. That is all that assessment means. It is associated with a prepared list. Only a prepared list. (Class VIII No. 11) 2. asse6sment isn’t auditing, it is simply trying to locate something to audit. You say the word right to the pc’s bank. (Class VIII No. 11) 3. 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 BD. The auditor looks at the meter while doing an assessment. (HCOB 21 May 69) 4. the whole action of obtaining a significant item from a pc. (HCOB 5 Dec 62) 5. any method of discovering a level on the pre-hav scale for a given pc. (HCOB 7 Nov 62 III)

ASSESSMENT BY INSTANT READ, E-meter drill 24. Purpose: to train the student auditor to assess a list accurately and rapidly by instant read. (EMD, p. 47)

ASSESSMENT BY TONE ARM, E-meter drill 23. Purpose: to train the student auditor to assess a list accurately by selecting that item which, upon brief discussion, produces the most movement of the tone arm. (EMD, p. 46)

ASSESSMENT FOR LONGEST READ, calling off the items the pc has given and marking down the reads that occur on the meter. The pc is not required to comment during this action and it is better if he does not. (HCOB 29 Apr 69)

ASSESSMENT TRs, used to get a list to read. Assessment questions are delivered with impingement, the auditor accenting or “barking” the last word and syllable. An assessment is done crisply and businesslike with real punch (not shouting)  so each line is to the pc. This is not to say that an assessment is done tone 40 or with antagonism. It’s friendly but businesslike and impinges. (BTB 13 Mar 75)

ASSESS ON PRE-HAV, to assess the whole pre-hav scale. (HCOB 13 Jul 61)

ASSIST, 1. an action undertaken by a minister to assist the spirit to confront physical difficulties which can then be cared for with medical methodology by a medical doctor as needful. (Abil MA, 41) 2. anything which is done to alleviate a present time discomfort. (Abil 7) 3. simple, easily done processes that can be applied to anyone to help them recover more rapidly from accidents, mild illness or upsets. (Scn AD) 4. the processing given to a recently injured person in order to relieve the stress of live energy which is holding the injury in suspension. (Scn 8-8008, p. 38) See also CONTACT ASSIST, TOUCH ASSIST, AUDITING ASSIST.

ASSIST ENGRAM, in the case of the manic, the fanatic or the zealot an engram has entirely blocked at least one of the purpose lines deriving from a dynamic. The engram may be called an assist engram. Its own surcharge (not the dynamic force) leads the individual to believe that he has a high purpose which will permit him to escape pain. This “purpose” is a false purpose not ordinarily sympathetic with the organism, having a hectic quality derived from the pain which is part of it, even though that pain is not wittingly experienced. This assist engram is using the native ability of the organism to accomplish its false “purpose” and brings about a furious and destructive effort on the part of the individual who, without this assist engram could have better accomplished the same goal. The worst feature of the assist engram is that the effort it commands is engramic dramatization of a particular sort, and if the engram itself is restimulated the individual becomes subject to the physical pain and fear which the entire experience contained. Therefore, the false purpose itself is subject to sporadic “sag.” (DTOT, p. 77)

ASSOCIATIVE DEFINITION, see DEFINITIONS, TYPES OF.

ASSOCIATIVE RESTIMULATORS, 1. those things connected with the restimulator. (DMSMH, p. 354) 2. a perceptic in the environment which is confused with an actual restimulator. (DTOT Gloss)

ASSUMPTION, 1. the name given to the act of a theta being taking over a mest body. This is occasionally found to be part of the record of the GE strong enough to be audited. It is the sensation of being taken over thoroughly, sometimes contains the shock of contact. The assumption takes place in most cases just prior to birth for every GE generation. (HOM, p. 37) 2. assumption point: where the thetan has taken over the body. (PAB 8)

ASTRAL BODIES, somebody’s delusion. Astral bodies are usually mock-ups which the mystic then tries to believe real. He sees the astral body as something else and then seeks to inhabit it in the most common practices of “astral walking.” Anyone who confuses astral bodies with thetans is apt to have difficulty with theta clearing for the two things are not the same order of similarity. (Scn 8-8008 Gloss)

ATTENTION, 1. when interest becomes fixed, we have attention. (COHA, p. 99) 2. a motion which must remain at an optimum effort. Attention is aberrated by becoming unfixed and sweeping at random or becoming too fixed without sweeping. (Scn 0-8, p. 75)

ATTENTION UNIT, 1. a theta energy quantity of awareness existing in the mind in varying quantity from person to person. (HCOB 11 May 65) 2. actually energy flows of small wavelengths and definite frequency. These are measurable  on specifically designed oscilloscopes and meters. No special particle is involved. (Scn 8-80, p. 45)

ATTENTION VALENCE, 1. the valence one has assumed because it got attention from another valence. (PAB 95) 2. one has become the valence B because one wants attention from C. Example-one becomes mother because mother received attention from father while self did not. (FOT, p. 95)

AUD, auditor. (HCOB 23 Aug 65)

AUDIO IMAGERY, when a person can recall things he has heard by simply hearing them again. (Exp Jour Winter-Spring 1950)

AUDIO-SEMANTIC, part of the standard banks, a special part of sound files; the recording of words heard. (DMSMH, p. 46)

AUDIT FOREVER CASE, the grind case, the audit forever case is an afraid to find out case. (HCOB 15 Mar 62)

AUDITING, 1. the application of Scn processes and procedures to someone by a trained auditor. (BTB 30 Sept 71 IV) 2. 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. Auditing gets rid of unwanted barriers that inhibit, stop or blunt a person’s natural abilities as well as gradiently increasing the abilities a person has so that he becomes more able and his survival, happiness and intelligence increase enormously. (BTB 30 Sept 71 IV) 3. Scn processing is called auditing by which the auditor (practitioner) listens, computes, and commands. (FOT, p. 88) 4. to get a result on a pc. (SH Spec 71, 6607C26) 5. an activity of an auditor taking over the control of and shepherding the attention of a pc so as to bring about a higher level of confront ability. (SH Spec 48, 6108C31) 6. directing the pc’s attention on his own case and directing his ability to talk to the auditor. (SH Spec 49, 6109C05) 7. the reversing of other-determined flows by gradient scales, putting the pc at cause again. (HCOB 7 May 59) 8. a communicating process or a communication process with the end goal of raising the ability of another person so that he can handle his bank, body, others, and environment in general. (5707C17) 9. the process of bringing a balance between freedom and barriers. Auditing is a game of exteriorization versus havingness. (Abil 25)

AUDITING ASSIST, an assist done by a trained auditor using an E-meter. It consists of “running out” the physically painful experience the person has just undergone, accident, illness, operation or emotional shock. This erases the “physical trauma” and speeds recovery to a remarkable degree. (HCOB 2 Apr 69)

AUDITING BY LIST, 1. a technique using prepared lists of questions. These isolate the trouble the pc is having with auditing. Such lists also cover and handle anything that could happen to a student or staff member. (LRH ED 257 Int) 2. the earlier genus of this process was sec checking on the Joburg. Any list can be used. The questions asked are generalized and without time limiters; i.e. Has a withhold been missed? Have you been given a wrong goal? etc. If the line when asked has an instant read, say “That reads” then “What do you consider this could be?” or “What considerations do you have about this?” Let the pc answer all he wants to. This is continued until the line goes clean. If the line does not read say “That’s clean” and move on to the next line of the list . This process gets charge off the case. (HCOB 23 Apr 64) [This process was later revised as follows.] 3. we now F/N everything, we do not tell the pc what the meter is doing. This changes auditing by lists in both respects. We do not say to the pc, “That’s clean” or “That reads.” Use any authorized published list . Green Form for general review, L1C for ARC breaks, L4B for listed items, list errors. You are looking for an instant read that occurs at the end of the exact syllable of  the question. If the question reads look expectantly at the pc. You can repeat the question by just saying it again if pc doesn’t begin to talk. (HCOB 3 Jul 71) [The above is a brief summary only. The full exact procedure can be found in the referenced HCOBs.]

AUDITING COMMAND, 1. a certain, exact command which the preclear can follow and perform. (FOT, p. 88) 2. an auditing command, when executed, has had performed exactly what it said and nothing else. An auditing command has no 'understoods' about it. There is no pre-arrangement about an auditing command except maybe knowing the language. (SH Spec 25, 6107C05)

AUDITING COMMAND CYCLE, auditor asks, pc replies and knows he has answered, auditor acknowledges. Pc knows auditor has acknowledged. That is a full auditing command cycle. (HCOB 12 Nov 59)

AUDITING COMM CYCLE, this is the auditing comm 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 to bank for answer (itsa maker line), 4) pc receives answer from bank, 5) pc gives answer to auditor (cause, distance, effect), 6) auditor acknowledges pc, 7) auditor sees that pc received ack (attention), 8) new cycle beginning with (1). (HCOB 30 Apr 71)

AUDITING CYCLE, 1. the basic of auditing is an auditing cycle of command which operates as an attention director. Call it a restimulator if you want, but it’s an attention director, eliciting a response from the pc to as-is that area and who knows he has done so when he receives from the practitioner an acknowledgment that it has occurred. That is the auditing cycle. (SH Spec 189, 6209C18) 2. there are basically two communication cycles between the auditor and the pc that make up the auditing cycle. They are cause, distance, effect with the auditor at cause and the pc at effect, and cause, distance, effect, with the pc at cause and the auditor at effect. These are completely distinct one from the other. (HCOB 23 May 71R IV)

AUDITING GOOFS, minor unintentional omissions or mistakes in the application of Scn procedures to a person by a trained Scientologist. (ISE, p. 37)

AUDITING PROCEDURE, the general model of how one goes about addressing a preclear. (FOT, p. 96)

AUDITING SESSION, 1. a precise period of time during which the auditor listens to the preclear’s ideas about himself. (Abil 155) 2. 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. (FOT, p. 88)

AUDITING SUPERVISOR, on the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course and in academies, supervision of the auditing section is done by the auditing supervisor, and auditing instructor or instructors. The auditing supervisor (or in some cases the course supervisor as at Saint Hill) assigns all sessions and teams. (HCO PL 21 Oct 62)

AUDITOR, 1. one who listens and computes; a Scn practitioner. (HCOB 26 May 59) 2. one who has been trained in the technology of Scn. An auditor applies standard technology to preclears. (Aud 18 UK) 3. a person who through church training becomes skilled in the successful application of Dn and Scn to his family, friends and the public to achieve the ability gained as stated on the Gradation Chart for his class of training. (FBDL 18, 2 Dec 70) 4. Scn processing is done on the principle of making an individual look at his own existence, and improve his ability to confront what he is and where he is. An auditor is the person trained in the technology and whose job it is to ask the person to look, and get him to do so. The word auditor is used because it means one who listens, and a  Scn auditor does listen. (Scn 0-8, p. 14) 5. the word auditor is used, not “operator” or “therapist,” because auditing is a cooperative effort between the auditor and the patient, and the law of affinity is at work. (DMSMH, p. 175) Abbr. Aud.

AUDITOR CLEARANCE, 1. rudiment: “Is it all right if I audit you?” (HCOB 21 Mar 61) 2. beginning rudiment: “Are you willing to talk to me about your difficulties?” (HCOB 21 Dec 61)

AUDITOR COMM LAG, lack of speed in giving commands. (HCOB 9 Aug 69)

AUDITOR C/S, a sheet on which the auditor writes the C/S instructions for the next session. (BTB 3 Nov 72R)

AUDITOR EXPERTISE DRILLS, drills to improve the quality of auditing by familiarizing auditors with the exact procedure of each auditing action through the use of drills. These drills are numbered as Expertise Drill-1 (ED-1), Expertise Drill-2 (ED-2), etc. (BTB 20 Jul 74)

AUDITOR PRESENCE, 1. the impingement on a pc; familiarity, certainty that something is going to happen, not scared of confronting; ability to make an impact. (6102C14). 2. the auditor is as real and has as much presence to the pc as the rudiments stay in and has as little presence as the rudiments go out. (SH Spec 78, 6111C09)

AUDITOR REPORT FORM, 1. an auditor’s report form is made out at the end of each session. It gives an outline of what actions were taken during the session. (BTB 6 Nov 72R VI) 2. they give the details of the beginning of the session, condition of pc, what’s intended, the wording of the process, total TA action. (HCOB 24 Jul 64) Abbr. ARF.

AUDITOR RUDIMENT, 1. O/Ws off on Auditor or Auditors or PCs until OK to be audited. (HCOB 8 Jan 60) 2. Auditor Clearance is the most important of the rudiments because if the Auditor is not cleared negative results will be obtained on the profile of the preclear. To handle charge on the Auditor, TR 5N should be run if charge does not blow on a little two-way comm. Overt-Withhold on the Auditor is far too accusative and invalidates the PC. (HCOB 25 Jan 61) 3. Auditor Clearance, “Is it all right if I Audit you?” if not, clear objection, or use TR5N or “Who should I be to Audit you?” or “Who am I?” depending on nature of the difficulty. (HCOB 21 Mar 61) [Note this HCOB was later revised by the next referenced HCOB] 4. Auditor Clearance, “Are you willing to talk to me about your difficulties?” (HCOB 21 Dec 61)

AUDITOR’S CODE, 1. a list of the things one must or must not do to preserve the theta-ness of theta and to inhibit the enturbulation of theta by the auditor. (SOS, Bk. 2, p. 12) 2. a collection of rules (do’s and don’ts) that an auditor follows while auditing someone, which ensures that the preclear will get the greatest possible gain out of the processing that he is having. (Scn AD) 3. the governing set of rules for the general activity of auditing. (FOT, p. 88) 4. the Auditor’s Code was evolved from years of observing processing. It is the technical code of Scientology. It contains the important errors which harm cases. It could be called the moral code of Scn. (COHA, p. 3)

AUTOGENETIC, there are two kinds of illness: the first could be called autogenetic, which means that it originated within the organism and was self-generated, and exogenetic, which means that the origin of the illness was exterior. Psychosomatic illness would be autogenetic, generated by the body itself. (DMSMH, p. 92)

AUTOMATIC BANK, when a pc 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 which the pc is not ready to confront or by overwhelming the pc with rough TRs or going very nonstandard. (HCOB 23 Apr 69)

AUTOMATICITY, 1. a sudden very rapid machine-gun fire outflow of answers given by the preclear. (HCOB 10 May 65) 2. non-self-determined action which ought to be determined by the individual. The individual ought to be determining an action and he is not determining it. That’s a pretty broad consideration. It’s something not under the control of the individual. But if we said, something not under the control of the individual, as a total, unqualified definition of automaticity, we would have this, then: that car that just went down the street would be an automaticity to you. You didn’t have control of it. So this is not a precision definition. The precision definition has “which ought to be under the control of the individual.” (Abil 6) 3. anything that goes on running outside the control of the individual. (Abil SW) 4. something set up automatically to run without further attention from yourself. (2ACC-6A 5311CM20) 5. there are three kinds of automaticities, those which create things, and those which make things persist, and those which destroy things. (2ACC-19A 5312CM09)

AUTOMATIC MOCK-UP, a picture of something which didn’t really happen. (PAB 99).

AWARENESS, 1. the ability to perceive the existence of. (HCOB 4 Jan 73)  2. awareness itself is perception. (2ACC-8B 5311CM24)

AWARENESS LEVEL, see AWARENESS SCALE.

AWARENESS OF AWARENESS UNIT, 1. an actuality of no mass, no wave-length, no position in space or relation in time, but with the quality of creating or destroying mass or energy, locating itself or creating space, and of re-relating time. (Dn 55!, p. 29) 2. the individual himself. (5410CM20) 3. the thetan is the awareness of awareness unit. (5410C10D)

AWARENESS SCALE, there are fifty-two levels of awareness from Unexistence up to the state of Clear. By “level of awareness” is meant that of which a being is aware. A being who is at a level on this scale is aware only of that level and the others below it. (HCO PL 5 May 65)

AXIOMS, 1. the Axioms are agreed-upon considerations. They are the central considerations which have been agreed upon. They are considerations. A self-evident truth is the dictionary definition of an axiom. No definition could be further from the truth. In the first place, a truth cannot be self-evident because it is a static. So, therefore, there is no self-evidency in any truth. There is not a self-evident truth, never has been, never will be. However, there are self-evident agreements and that is what an axiom is. (5501C21)  2. statements of natural laws on the order of those of the physical sciences. (DMSMH).