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BACK TO BATTERY, Slang. an artillery term. A gun, after it fires, is said to go out of battery, which is to say, it recoils. Then after it’s fired it’s supposed to go back to battery, which is sitting the way you see them in photographs. They use the term in slang to indicate somebody who is now fixed up. So this guy will be all right for something or, what he has had will now be over. I could give you a purer definition, and say it is a completed case for that level, but the C/S doesn’t normally think like that. (7204C07 SO II)

BAD CONTROL, a fallacy actually, control is either well done or not done. If a person is controlling something he is controlling it. If he is controlling it poorly, he is not controlling it. A machine which is being run well is controlled. A machine which is not being run well is not being controlled. Therefore we see that bad control is actually a not-control. People who tell you that control is bad are trying to tell you that automobile accidents and industrial accidents are good. (POW, p. 40)

BAD INDICATORS, the condition isn’t getting any better, not getting a lessening of the condition. Because we’re not getting a lessening of the condition we therefore have losses. (SH Spec 3 6401C09) See also INDICATORS.

BAD MEMORY, 1. accumulated occlusion of it all, but it’s nevertheless non-confront. (SH Spec 72, 6607C28) 2. interposed blocks between control center and facsimiles. (HFP Gloss) See also AMNESIA.

BAD NEEDLE, a rock slam or a dirty needle or a stuck needle or a stage four needle. (HCO PL 30 Aug 70)

BANK, 1. the mental image picture collection of the pc. It comes from computer technology where all data is in a “bank.” (HCOB 30 Apr 69) 2. a colloquial name for the reactive mind. This is what the procedures of Scn are devoted to disposing of, for it is only a burden to an individual and he is much better off without it. (Scn AD) 3. merely a combination of energy and significance and this comprises a mass that sits there in its own made up space, and it’s plotted against the pc’s experiential track known as time. (SH Spec 65, 6507C27) See also REACTIVE MIND.

BANK-AGREEMENT, the common denominator of a group is the reactive bank. Thetans without banks have different responses. They only have their banks in common. They agree then only on bank principles. The bank-agreement has been what has made the earth a hell. (HCO PL 7 Feb 65)

BANK BEEFING UP, the sensation of increasing solidity of masses in the mind. (HCOB 19 Jan 67)

BANK MONITOR, the file clerk is the bank monitor. “He” monitors for both the reactive engram bank and the standard banks. (DMSMH, p. 198) See FILE CLERK.

BANKY, Slang. a term which means that a person is being influenced by his bank and is displaying bad temper, irritability, lack of cooperation and the signs of dramatization. He is being irrational. (Scn AD)

BARK, assessments are done to impinge and get a meter to read. The auditor barks the last word and the last syllable so it does impinge. You don’t drop your voice or down curve your voice tone at the end of the line as that will cost you reads.  You punch the last syllable to make it read and to the pc. The accent is at the end of the sentence routinely, not on the earliest part. (BTB 13 Mar 75)

BARRIER, 1. something which an individual cannot communicate beyond. (Dn 55 .1, p. 126) 2. space, energy, matter and time- each is only a barrier to knowingness. A barrier is a barrier only in that it impedes knowingness. (COHA, p. 151) 3. from Scientology Axiom 28: Barriers consist of Space, Interpositions (such as walls and screens of fast-moving particles) and Time. (COHA, p. 18)

BASIC, 1. the first incident (engram, lock, overt act) on any chain. (HCOB 15 May 63) 2. the first experience recorded in mental image pictures of that type of pain, sensation, discomfort, etc. Every chain has its basic. It is a peculiarity and a fact that when one gets down to the basic on a chain, (a) it erases and (b) the whole chain vanishes for good. Basic is simply earliest. (HCOB 23 Apr 69)

BASIC AREA, 1. the time track from the first recording on the sperm or ovum track to the first missed menstrual period of the mother. (SOS Gloss) 2. early prenatal. (DMSMH, p. 224)

BASIC AUDITING, 1. the fundamental and most important elements of auditing-the skill of handling and keeping the preclear in session, proper use of the auditing communication cycle, the repetitive use of the auditing communication  cycle to flatten a process, the correct application of the technology of Scn, and the ability to use and read and E-meter correctly. (Scn AD) 2. the handling of the pc as a being, the auditing cycle, the meter. (HCOB 26 Nov 63)

BASIC-BASIC, 1. this belongs in Scn, not Dn. It means the most basic basic of all basics and results in clearing. It is found on the Clearing Course. (HCOB 23 Apr 69) 2. the first engram on the whole time track. (HCOB 15 May 63) 3. any similar circumstance repetitive through a person’s whole track has a first time it occurred and that first time that it occurred we call basic-basic. (SH Spec 69, 6110Cl9)

BASIC CYCLE OF ACTION, create, resist effects (survive) and destroy; create an object, have it resist effects (survive) and then destroy it; create a situation, continue it and change it, and destroy or end it. (COHA, p. 249)

BASIC ENGRAM, the earliest engram on an engram chain. (DTOT, p. 112) See also BASIC.

BASIC GOAL, that goal native to the personality for a lifetime. It is second only in importance to survival itself. It is incident to the individuation of the person. A child of two knows its basic goal. It is compounded from genetic generations of experience. It can be found and reduced in some long past heavy effort facsimile such as death. It is neither advisable nor inadvisable to tamper with it. Much experience aligns on it. Desensitized, it would be supplanted by another basic goal. (AP&A, p. 42)

BASIC INDIVIDUAL, 1. the basic individual is not a buried unknown or a different person, but an intensity of all that is best and most able in the person. The basic individual equals the same person minus his pain and dramatizations. (DTOT, pp. 36-37) 2. basic individual and Clear are nearly synonymous since they denote the unaberrated self in complete integration and in a state of highest possible rationality. A Clear is one who has become the basic individual through auditing. (DTOT, p. 34) See also CLEAR.

BASIC LIE, the basic lie is that a consideration which was made was not made or that it was different. (PXL, p. 181)

BASIC OVERT ACT, making somebody else want mest. (HCOB 17 Mar 60)

BASIC PERSONALITY, 1. a person’s own identity. (FOT, p. 31) 2. the basic personality, the file clerk, the core of “I” which wants to be in command of the organism, the most fundamental desires of the personality, may be considered synonymous for our purposes. (DMSMH, p. 394) 3. the individual himself. (DMSMH, p. 394) Abbr. B.P. (BP) .

BASIC PRINCIPLE OF EXISTENCE, the basic principle of existence is survival and that is only true for the body. A spirit cannot help but survive whether in heaven or in hell or on earth or in a theta trap. (Ability Mag 5)

BASIC PROGRAM, the program laid out in the Classification and Gradation Chart. (HCOB 12 Jun 70)

BASIC PURPOSE, it is a clinical fact that basic purpose is apparently known to the individual before he is two years of age: talent and inherent personality and basic purpose go together as a package. They seem to be part of the genetic pattern. (DMSMH, p. 238)

BASICS OF SCIENTOLOGY, axioms, scales, codes, fundamental theory about the thetan and the mind. (HCOB 3 May 62).

BASIC TRUTH, a static has no mass, meaning, mobility, no wave-length, no time, no location in space, no space. This has the technical name of “basic truth.” (PXL, p. 180)

BD, Blow-down. (SH Spec 309, 6309C19)

BEAUTY, beauty is a wave-length closely resembling theta or a harmony approximating theta. (Scn 8-80, p. 26)

BE, DO, HAVE, see CONDITIONS OF EXISTENCE.

BEFORE EARTH, a theta line incident. There is a before earth and a before mest universe in all banks. The incidents are not dissimilar. The only thing remarkable about these before incidents is that they are a very definite degradation and condemnation of the preclear. (HOM, p. 66) Abbr. B.E.

BEGINNING RUDIMENTS, 1. rudiments at the beginning of session involve: (1) getting pc comfortable in environment; (2) getting pc willing to talk to auditor about pc’s own case; (3) getting off withholds; (4) checking for and handling PTPs. The above are the beginning rudiments. (HCOB 14 Dec 61) 2. are normally devoted to getting the atmosphere and the environment out of the road, so you can audit the pc. (SH Spec 45, 6108C24)

BEHAVIOR PATTERNS, conflicts in the commands contained in engrams and conflicts between the basic drive and the engramic contents combine into behavior patterns. (DTOT, p. 55)

BEING, 1. a viewpoint; he is as much a being as he is able to assume viewpoints. (Scn 8-8008, p. 17) 2. an energy production source. (Scn 8-80, p. 33) See also THETAN.

BEINGNESS, 1. the assumption or choosing of a category of identity. Beingness is assumed by oneself or given to oneself, or is attained. Examples of beingness would be one’s own name, one’s profession, one’s physical characteristics, one’s role in a game-each and all of these things could be called one’s beingness. (NSOL, p. 50) 2. the person one should be in order to survive. (SH Spec 19, 6106C23) 3. essentially, an identification of self with an object. (COHA, p. 76).

BEINGNESS OF MAN, essentially the beingness of theta itself  acting in the mest and other universes in the accomplishment of the goals of theta and  under the determination of a specific individual and particular personality for each being. (Scn 8-8008, p. 11)

BEINGNESS PROCESSING, is an alter-isness process. When a case is extremely inverted it is necessary to get the case up to a level where it can identify itself with something. Beingness is essentially identification of self with an object. In running beingness processing it will be discovered that the imagination of the preclear revives to a marked extent. Beingness processing recovers the various valences which the thetan is trying to avoid. The matter of valences is also a matter of packages of abilities, and where an individual is unable to be something which has certain definite abilities, he also cannot achieve those abilities, and this, in itself, is the heart of disability. (COHA, pp. 76-79)

BEING OTHER BODIES, 1. out of valence; being another identity than his own. He’s in one body and he’s being another body. (5904C08) 2. that’s shame. There is an emotion of shame connected with being other bodies. One is ashamed to be oneself, he is somebody else. (5904C08)

BENEFIT, defined as that which would enhance survival. (Scn 8-8008, p. 6)

B.E.R., bad exam report. (BTB 5 Nov 72R III) See also RED TAG.

BETRAYAL, 1. a betrayal is help turned to destruction. When help fails, destruction occurs, or so goes the most basic consideration behind living. (HCOB 6 Feb 58) 2. the knock-in of anchor points. One’s anchor points are pulled out and then they are suddenly knocked in. That operation, when done exteriorly by somebody else is betrayal. (Spr Lect 17 5304CM08)

BETTER, negative gain, things disappear that have been annoying or unwanted. (HCOB 28 Feb 59)

BETTERMENT, to us, is a lessening of a bad condition. (SH Spec 3, 6401C09)

BETTERMENT LAG, how many hours you have to process a preclear before he can become cause. (5410CM06)

BETWEEN-LIVES AREA, 1. the experiences of a thetan during the time between the loss of a body and the assumption of another. (PXL, p. 105) 2. at death the theta being leaves the body and goes to the between-lives area. Here he  “reports in,” is given a strong forgetter implant and is then shot down to a body just before it is born. At least that is the way the old Invader in the earth area was operating. (HOM, p. 68)

BETWEEN SESSIONS, we don’t mean overnight. We mean solely, strictly, completely and utterly if they get out of the auditor’s sight at any time during a break. (SH Spec 7, 6106C05)

BIG MIDDLE RUDIMENTS, the big mid ruds can be used in the following places: At the start of any session. Examples: “Since the last time I audited you . . .” “Since the last time you were audited . . .” “Since you decided to be audited . . .” In or at the end of any session. Examples: “In this session . . .” On a list. Examples: “On this list . . .” “On (say list question) . . .” On a goal or item. Example: “On (say goal or item) . . .” Here is the correct wording and order of use for big mid ruds. “. . . has anything been suppressed?” “. . . is there anything you have been careful of?” “. . . is there anything you have failed to reveal?” “. . . has anything been invalidated?” “. . . has anything been suggested?” “. . . has any mistake been made?” “. . . is there anything you have been anxious about?” “. . . has anything been protested?” “. . . has anything been decided?” (HCOB 8 Mar 63) Abbr. B.M.R.

BIG THETA BOP, one-third of the dial back and forth or one-half of the dial back and forth, something like that. That’s a bop on the loss of and still trying to hold onto the home universe. (PDC 15)

BIG TIGER, the same drill as the tiger drill except that it additionally uses nearly found out, protest, anxious about and careful of. One shifts to big tiger when making sure of the last item in on the list or a goal that fires strongly. (HCOB 29 Nov 62) See also TIGER DRILL.

BIRTH, 1. birth is one of the most remarkable engrams in terms of contagion. Here the mother and child both receive the same engram which differs only in the location of pain and the depths of “unconsciousness.” Whatever the doctors, nurses and other people associated with the delivery say to the mother during labor and birth and immediately afterwards before the child is taken away is recorded in the reactive bank, making an identical engram in both mother and child. (DMSMH, p. 136) 2. birth is ordinarily a severely painful unconscious experience. It is ordinarily an engram of some magnitude. Anyone who has been born then possesses at least one engram. (DTOT, p. 52)

BIs, bad indicators. (BTB 6 Nov 72RA IV)

BLACK AND WHITE, 1. the name of a string of incidents where the theta body was implanted with electronic waves. (5208 CM07C) 2. the two extreme manifestations of perception on the part of the preclear. Seeing whiteness or color the thetan is able to discern or differentiate between objects, actions and spatial dimensions. Energy can also manifest itself as blackness. (Scn 8-8008, p. 50) 3. a rapid process which eliminates the need for running single incidents, locks, or secondaries, and is effective only in occluded cases. Wide-open cases cannot see black or white, but see color. These black areas, which are curtains over occluded facsimiles along the time track, erase, or become white, when attention is centered on them, and turning the field white by concentrating on the aesthetic band is the only concern of the auditor or preclear. Heavy somatics may be expected during “black and white” processing, but these can be avoided by keeping the field white. (Scn 8-80 Gloss).

BLACK DIANETICS, 1. hypnotism. (5109C17A) 2. unscrupulous groups and individuals have been practicing a form a Black Dianetics on their fellow man for centuries. They have not called it that but the results have been and are the same. There are those who, to control, resort to narcotics, suggestion, gossip, slander-the thousands of overt and covert ways that can be classified as Black Dianetics. (Scn Jour Iss 3G)

BLACK FIELD, just some part of a mental image picture where the preclear is looking at blackness. It is part of some lock, secondary or engram. In Scn it can occur (rarely) when the pc is exterior, looking at something black. It responds to R3R. (HCOB 23 Apr 69)

BLACK FIELD CASE, a case that could not run engrams because he could not see them. (HCOB 14 Jan 60)

BLACK FIVE, 1. a heavily occluded case characterized by mental pictures consisting of masses of blackness. This is a “step V” in early procedures such as Standard Operating Procedure 8 . (PXL, p. 141) 2. a level of non- perception, whether the person is seeing blackness or invisibility. (SH Spec 271, 6305C20) 3. a no-responsibility case. (COHA, p. 161)

BLACKNESS, 1. usually the protective coating between the preclear and the pictures. (Abil SW, p. 15) 2. both of these conditions regarding blackness exist. The machine that makes blackness and having a black picture in restimulation; there is also simply the blackness of looking around inside a head. (Abil SW, p. 15) 3. the blackness on the case is indicative of a scarcity of viewpoints, a necessity for safeguarding and protective “screens,” a defensive and propitiative attitude towards existence, too much loss of allies and good, too much loss of space and finally and most importantly, loss of those who have evaluated for the preclear. The sudden departure of the person who has evaluated for the preclear results in loss of that viewpoint which the preclear unwittingly had assumed. (PAB 8) 4. either the pc’s unwillingness to face things or his basic bank. It cures if you do Dianetics by gradients. (HCOB 3 Apr 66)

BLACKNESS OF CASES, the blackness of cases is an accumulation of the case’s own or another’s lies. (PXL, p. 183)

BLACK PANTHER MECHANISM, 1. in Dn considerable slang has been developed by patients and Dianeticists and they call the “Black Panther Mechanism” a neglect of the problem. One supposes this stems from the ridiculousness of biting black panthers. (DMSMH, p. 147) 2. there are five ways in which a human being reacts toward a source of danger. Let us suppose that a particularly black-tempered black panther is sitting on the stairs and that a man named Gus is sitting in the living room. Gus wants to go to bed. But there is the black panther. The problem is to get upstairs. There are five things that Gus can do: (1) he can go attack the black panther; (2) he can run out of the house and flee the black panther; (3) he can use the back stairs and avoid the black panther; (4) he can neglect the black panther; and (5) he can succumb to the black panther. These are the five mechanisms. All actions can be seen to fall within these courses. And all actions are visible in life. (DMSMH, pp. 147- 148).

BLAME, 1. it’s simply punishing other bodies. (5904C08) 2. when one individual assigns cause to another entity, he delivers power to that entity. This assignment may be called blame, the arbitrary election of cause. (DAB, Vol. II, p. 233) 3. blame is the negation of your responsibility. You can blame self, that’s the last stage, or you can blame somebody else. That’s an effort not to be responsible. (5112CM28B)

BLANKET, to settle down over a mest body (one or more mest bodies). (5206CM26B)

BLANKETING, this incident consists of throwing oneself as a thetan over another thetan or over a mest body. Blanketing is done to obtain an emotional impact or even to kill. It is strongest in sexual incidents where the thetan throws two mest bodies together in the sexual act in order to experience their emotions. (HOM, p.62)

BLINDNESS, extreme unawareness. (PAB 117)

BLIND REPAIR, when no FES is done, or when the pc has lost his folder, one is doing a blind repair. The progress program and advance program may have holes in them. (HCOB 6 Oct 70)

BLINKLESS TR 0, there is no such thing. Sitting with any attention on the body just isn’t confront-you aren’t doing the drill right. If your body blinks then OK, but if you are making it blink by having attention on the eyes then your TR 0 is out. (HCOB 8 Dec 74)

BLOW, n .1. the sudden dissipation of mass in the mind with an accompanying feeling of relief. (Scn AD) 2. a definite manifestation and the pc must say “something blew” or “it disappeared” or “it’s gone” or “it vanished,” not “I feel lighter.” (HCOB 24 Sept 71) 3. the phenomena of obsessive efforts to individuate. (HCOB 12 Jan 61) 4. departures, sudden and relatively unexplained, from sessions, posts, jobs, locations and areas. (HCOB 31 Dec 59)-v. Slang. 1. unauthorized departure from an area, usually caused by misunderstood data or overts. (HCOB 19 Jun 71 III) 2. leave, get out, rush away, cease to be where one should really be or just cease to be audited. (BCR, p. 23)

BLOW-DOWN, 1. a tone arm motion to the left made to keep the needle on the dial. (HCOB 29 Apr 69) 2. a period of relief and cognition to a pc while it is occurring and for a moment after it stops. When the auditor has to move the tone arm from right to left to keep the needle on the dial and the movement is .1 divisions or more, then a blowdown is occurring. (HCOB 3 Aug 65) 3. a movement of the needle from left to right as you face a meter with a hang-up at the right. That’s got to be included in training. It’s whether or not the needle stays over to the right that makes the blowdown, not what you do with the tone arm. (SH Spec 21, 6406C04) 4. the meter reaction of having found the correct by-passed charge. (HCOB 19 Aug 63) Abbr. BD.

BLOW-OFFS, see BLOW.

BLOW-UP, in the low tone arm case, means a sudden approach of the tone arm from a non-optimum (below 2.0) reading toward the optimum read. (HCOB 1 Sept 60).

BOARD TECHNICAL BULLETIN, color flash-red ink on cream paper. These are the issues of the Boards of Directors of the Churches of Scientology and are separate and distinct from those HCO Bulletins written by LRH. Only LRH issues may be printed red on white for Technical Bulletins and only LRH issues may have the prefix HCO. These Board issues are valid as tech. The purpose of this distinction is to keep LRH’s comm lines pure and to clearly distinguish between Source material and other issues and so that any conflict and/or confusion on Source can easily be resolved. (BPL 14 Jan 74R I) Abbr. BTB.

BODHI, 1. one who has attained intellectual and ethical perfection by human means. This probably would be a Dn Release. (PXL, p. 18) 2. B o d h i means enlightenment or, alternately, one who has attained intellectual and ethical perfection by human means. (HOA, Intro)

BODY, 1. a carbon-oxygen engine which runs at 98 .6°F. The theta being is the engineer running this engine in a Homo sapiens. (HOM, p. 42) 2. a solid appendage which makes the person recognizable. (PAB 125) 3. an identifying form or non-identifiable form to facilitate the control of, the communication of and with, and the havingness for the thetan in his existence in the mest universe. (HCOB 3 Jul 59) 4. the thetan’s communication center. (CFC, p. 9) 5. a carbon-oxygen engine which runs on low combustion fuel, generally derived from other life forms. The body is directly monitored by the genetic entity in activities such as respiration, heartbeat and endocrine secretions; but these activities may be modified by the thetan. (Scn 8-8008, p. 8) 6. a physical object. It is not the being himself. As a body has mass it tends to remain motionless unless moved and tends to keep going in a certain direction unless steered. (HCOB 10 May 72)

BODY IN PAWN, an incident of protecting bodies. Societies have gone totally batty on the track with this and we call it bodies in pawn. (5904C08)

BODY MOTION, any motion of the body which causes the tone arm to move falsely up or down. Body motion is never recorded in a session. (EMD, p. 25)

BODY-PLUS-THETAN SCALE, from 0.0 to 4.0 on the tone scale, and the position on this scale is established by the social environment and education of the composite being and is a stimulus-response scale. (Scn 8-8008, p. 76)

BODY REACTIONS, one of the ten main needle actions of an E-meter. The deep breathing of a preclear, a sigh, a yawn, a sneeze, a stomach growl can any one of them make a needle react. They’re not important once you know what they are. (EME, pp. 18-19)

BODY VALENCE, human identity. (HCOB 14 Jul 56)

BOGGED STUDENT, he is groggy or puzzled or frowning or even emotionally upset by his misunderstood words. When not caught and handled he will go to sleep or just stare into space. (HCO PL 26 Jun 72)

BOIL-OFF, v. to become groggy and seem to go to sleep. (HFP, p. 100)-n. 1. usually a flow running too long in one direction. (7204C07 SO III) 2. a manifestation of unconsciousness, is very mild, and simply means that some period  of the person’s life wherein he was unconscious has been slightly restimulated. (Scn Jour ISS. 14-G) 3. a state of unconsciousness produced by a confusion of effort impinging upon one area. It is a slow motion unconsciousness. (PDC 29) 4. a condition of somnolence which is sometimes indistinguishable from sleep. (SOS, Bk. 2, p. 133) 5. boil-off was originally and sedately named “comatic reduction,” but such erudition has been outvoted by the fact that it has never been used. (DMSMH, p. 303) 6. it actually is a flow which is run too long in one direction. That’s what boil-off, anaten, etc. is. (SH Spec 229, 6301C10)

BONUS PACKAGE, occasionally you get a bonus package off one list. In addition to the item you are looking for, sometimes two R/Sing items will show up on the same list opposing each other and blow. They oppose each other, not what you’re listing. (HCOB 23 Nov 62) Abbr. BP.

BOOK AND BOTTLE, Opening Procedure by Duplication. It's goal is the separating of time, moment from moment. This is done by getting a preclear to duplicate the same action over and over again with two dissimilar objects. In England this process is called “Book and Bottle,” probably because these two familiar objects are the most used in doing Opening Procedure by Duplication. (Dn 55!, p. 114)

BOOK AUDITOR, 1. someone who has successfully applied Scn from a book to help someone else and who has received a Hubbard Book Auditor certificate for doing so. (Scn AD) 2. someone who has studied books on Scn and listens to other people to make them better. (Abil 155)

BOOK ONE CLEAR, Mest Clear. (Abil 87) See also MEST CLEAR.

BOOK ONE OF DIANETICS, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. (HCO PL 25 Jan 57)

BOOK ONE OF SCIENTOLOGY, Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought. (HCO PL 25 Jan 57)

BOREDOM, 1. boredom is not just not doing anything. Boredom is an eddying back and forth which on its lower harmonic becomes pain and on a lower harmonic becomes agony. (2ACC28B, 5312CM20) 2. boredom is not a state of inaction. It is a state of idle action, vacillating action where penalties are yet in existence, and where they are grave, but a state in which one has decided he can’t really do anything about them. It’s just a high-toned apathy. (PDC 59)

BORROWED FACSIMILES, facsimiles that aren’t yours. That is to say they are borrowed from people or they’re photographed or they’re taken right straight out of other theta beings, just outright stolen; we call it borrowing. (5207CM24B).

BOTTOM TERMINAL, the terminal farthest from present time.  (SH Spec 306, 6309C11)

BOUNCER, 1. an engram which contains the species of phrase, “can’t stay here,” “Get out!” and other phrases which will not permit the preclear to remain in its vicinity but returns him to present time. (DTOT, p. 129) 2. the preclear may be in an engram and yet be bounced into present time. This creates a situation in which the preclear seems to be in present time but is actually under considerable tension being held in an engram. (SOS, p. 106)

B .P ., basic personality. The attention units called basic personality. (DMSMH, p. 124)

BPC, by-passed charge. (HCOB 23 Aug 65)

BRACKET, 1. the standard bracket is a five-way bracket. The general form of this is as follows: you . . . terminal; terminal . . . you; terminal . . . another; another . . . terminal; terminal . . . terminal. (HCOB 30 Apr 61) 2. the word bracket is taken from the artillery, meaning to enclose with a salvo of fire. A bracket is run as follows: first one gets the concept as happening to the preclear. Then one gets the concept of the preclear making it happen (or thinking or saying it) to another. Then one gets the concept as being directed by another at others. (Scn 8-80, p. 40) 3. with these three things: the thetan trying to put up mock-ups of his own which persist; trying to divert the mock-ups of others; and trying to observe what others are doing to others; we have what we call a bracket in Scn. (PAB 11) 4. the individual does it himself, somebody else does it, others do it, or the individual does it to somebody else, or somebody does it to him or others do it to others. (PDC 31)

BRAIN, 1. another part of the nervous system which receives and sends impulses to the body parts. (SPB) 2. a neuro-shock absorber. It has very little to do with thinking. (SH Spec 75, 6608C16) 3. a very mechanical rattletrap sort of a switchboard that’s been thrown together by you in order to translate thought into action and to coordinate energy. (5203CM03B)

BREAK-ENGRAM, 1. a late engram which crosses chains of engrams would be a “cross engram.” If such an engram resulted in a loss of sanity it would be called a “break-engram.” (DMSMH, p. 144) 2. the secondary engram after the receipt of which the individual experienced a lowering of general tone to 2.5 or below and became therefore unable to cope with his environment. (DTOT Gloss)

BREAKING A CASE, Slang. meaning that one breaks the hold of the preclear on a non-survival facsimile, never breaking the preclear or his spirit, but breaking what is breaking the preclear. (NFP Gloss)

BRIDGE, THE, 1. the route to Clear, the Bridge , which we call the Classification, Gradation and Awareness Chart. (Aud 107 ASNO) 2. a term originating in early Dn days to symbolize travel from unknowingness to revelation. (Aud 72 ASNO).

BROKEN, Slang. used in the wise of “breaking a case,”  meaning that one breaks the hold of the preclear on a non-survival facsimile. Used in greater  or lesser magnitude such as “breaking a circuit” or “breaking into a chain” or “breaking a computation.” Never breaking the preclear or his spirit, but breaking what’s breaking the preclear. (NFP Gloss)

BROKEN DRAMATIZATION, where the individual has been prevented from carrying out the commands of the engram which is restimulated by present time environmental perceptics. (SOS, Bk. 2, p. 118)

BROKEN DRAMATIZATION LOCKS, locks in which the chief factor is that the individual has been prevented from completing the dramatization of a restimulated engram. These are most abundant at the 1.5 level. (SOS Gloss)

BUBBLE GUM INCIDENT, 1. an incident on the track where you are hit with motion and finally develop an obsession about motion. (I wish you to carefully note these very technical terms like bubble gum.) (5206CM23A) 2. the first incident on the track that has any words in it and is usually the last incident on the track of any magnitude that has any words in it for millions of years afterward. It sits there all by itself. It’s a verbal implant, a thought implant. (5206CM25B)

BUDDHA, simply one who has attained bodhi. There have been many buddhas and there are expected to be many more. (PAB 32)

BUGGED, the word bugged is slang for snarled up or halted. (HCO PL 29 Feb 72 II)

BULL-BAITING, in coaching certain drills, the coach attempts to find certain actions, words, phrases, mannerisms or subjects that cause the student doing the drill to become distracted from the drill by reacting to the coach. As a bullfighter attempts to attract the bull’s attention and control the bull, so does the coach attempt to attract and control the student’s attention, however the coach flunks the student whenever he succeeds in distracting the student from the drill and then repeats the action until it no longer has any effect on the student. Taken from a Spanish and English sport of “baiting” which means “to set dogs upon a chained bull,” but mainly “to attack or torment especially with persistent insult, criticism or ridicule.” Also “to tease.” (LRH Def. Notes)

BUTTERED ALL OVER THE UNIVERSE, 1. a preclear who does not know where he is. The preclear has used remote viewpoints, and has left remote viewpoints located all over everywhere to such a degree that the preclear thinks he is anyplace rather than where he is. (Dn 55!, pp. 145-146) 2. in his failures to control the individual withdraws from things he has attempted to control but leaves himself connected with them in terms of “dead energy.” Thus we get the manifestation of buttered all over the universe. (COHA, p. 123) 3. Colloquial; a thetan unknowingly in contact with a large part of a universe. (COHA, p. 74) 4. the lower harmonic of exteriorization, which is: “I don’t want to be there and I’ve backed out in spite of myself.” (5411C29) 5. the super reach case. He isn’t withdrawing, he’s reaching, compulsively and he can’t stop himself. (2ACC-29A, 5312C M20).

BUTTON(S), 1. items, words, phrases, subjects or areas that cause response or reaction in an individual by the words or actions of other people, and which cause him discomfort, embarrassment, or upset, or make him laugh uncontrollably. (Scn AD) 2. things in particular that each human being finds aberrative and has in common. (HFP, p. 127) 3. restimulators, words, voice tones, music, whatever they are-things which are filed in the reactive mind bank as parts of engrams. (DMSMH, p. 74) 4. (suppress button, invalidate button, etc.), it is called a button because when you push it (say it) you can get a meter reaction. (HCOB 29 Jan 70)

BUTTON CHART, chart of attitudes toward life. This might be called a “button chart” for it contains the major difficulties people have. (HFP, p. 38)

BY-PASS CIRCUITS, see DEMON CIRCUITS.

BY-PASSED CHARGE, 1. mental energy or mass that has been restimulated in some way in an individual, and that is either partially or wholly unknown to that individual and so is capable of affecting him adversely. (Scn AD) 2. when one gets a lock, a lower earlier incident restimulates. That is BPC. It isn’t the auditor by-passing it. One handled later charge that restimulated earlier charge. That is BPC (tech of ‘62), and that is all that the term means. (HCOB 10 Jun 72 I) 3. reactive charge that has been by-passed (restimulated but overlooked by both pc and auditor). (BCR, p. 21) Abbr. BPC.

BY-PASSED CHARGE ASSESSMENT, 1. auditing by list to help the preclear find by-passed charge. The moment the correct by-passed charge is found the preclear feels much better. (Scn AD) 2. a BPC assessment is actual auditing (Level III). Here one cleans each smallest read of a question (but not cleaning cleans), before going onto the next question, handling originations by the pc and acknowledging. One never does this with an ARC broken pc. With an ARC break one just ploughs on looking for a big read and indicates it to pc. (BCR, p. 41) 3. a by-passed charge assessment is auditing because you clean every read of the needle on the list being assessed. The pc is acked, the pc is permitted to itsa and give his opinions. But you never do a by-passed charge assessment on an ARC broken pc. These two different activities (by-passed charge assessment and ARC break assessment) unfortunately have the word assessment in common and they use the same lists, therefore some students confuse them. (HCOB 7 Sept 64 II)

BY-PASSED ITEM, when a list has been made and includes a reliable item and that reliable item was not used to find an item in opposition to it, the item which was not so found is called a by-passed item. (HCOB 17 Nov 62)