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DANGEROUS AUDITOR, 1. an auditor who consistently does things that are upsetting to a pc’s case. (HCOB 12 Feb 66) 2. the auditor who gets off safe withholds is dangerous and the auditor who gets off unsafe withholds is safe. An auditor who will not pull dangerous withholds from the pc is a dangerous auditor. (SH Spec 113, 6202C20) 3. the auditor who is afraid to find out, afraid to be startled, afraid to discover something, afraid of what they will discover. This phobia prevents the “auditor” from flattening anything. This makes missed withholds a certainty. (HCOB 3 Mar 62)

DANGEROUS ENVIRONMENT, see SCIENTOLOGY ZERO.

DATA, consists of the postulates or assignment of value of thetans; that’s data, that’s all data is. (15ACC-12, 5610C30)

DATA ALTITUDE, signifying that the individual has a fund of knowledge gathered from books and records, or sometimes from experience, with which others are not familiar. The college professor has a data altitude. (SOS Gloss)

DATE FLASH, the auditor says to the preclear, “When I snap my fingers, a date will flash. Give me the first response which comes into your mind,” (snap!). The preclear then gives the first date which comes into his mind. (SOS, Bk. 2, p. 51)

DATE/LOCATE, a process to date and locate a flat point in a process that appears overrun. (HCOB 24 Sept 71) Abbr. D/L.

DATUM, 1. a piece of knowledge, something known. Plural, data. (BTB 4 Mar 65) 2. anything of which one could become aware, whether the thing existed or whether he created it. (Scn 8-8008, p. 6) 3. an invented, not a true, knowingness. (COHA, p. 151) 4. anything which proceeds from a postulate. (PDC 14) 5. a theta facsimile of physical action. (Scn 0-8, p. 78) 6. a facsimile of states of being, states of not being, actions or inactions, conclusions, or suppositions in the physical or any other universe. (Scn 0-8, p. 67)

DB, degraded being. (Abil 272)

DEAD BODY, physical universe matter, energy, space and time minus life energy. (SA, p. 27)

DEAD HORSE, Slang. 1. a list which even with good auditing, failed for any other reason to produce a reliable item. (HCOB 5 Dec 62) 2. if no slam occurs anywhere on a listing list with the mid ruds in for the session, that’s a dead horse. (SH Spec 219, 6211C27) 3. an item listed from a non-reading question will give you a dead horse (no item). (HCOB 1 Aug 68)

DEAD-IN-’IS-’EAD CASE, Slang. a case totally associating all thought with mass. Thus he reads peculiarly on the meter. As he is audited he frees his thinkingness so that he can think without mass connotations. (HCOB 17 Mar 60)

DEAD LIST, null list. (HCOB 29 Jan 70)

DEADLY QUARTET, these processes are four in number. They are designed as classes of processes to handle these four points:.(1) help factor, (2) control factor,  (3) pc communication factor, (4) interest factor. Unless these four points are present in  a session, it is improbable, in a great number of cases that any real, lasting gain will  be made. (HCOB 21 Apr 60)

DEAD THETAN, 1. doesn’t put out any current. Doesn’t react on a meter. Only the body reacts so it looks like a clear read (false read). An ARC break of long duration reads the same way. (LRH Def. Notes) 2. a false clear read. (HCOB 17 Oct 69) 3. clear read without tone arm motion and tight needle. That’s your lowest case range, save one. There is one below that. (SH Spec 300, 6308C28). 4. he’s so “dead in his head” he thinks he’s elsewhere while he’s there. (SH Spec 1, 6105C07) 5. he thinks of himself as dead and he is totally incapable of influencing the E-meter. (SH Spec 1, 6105C07)

DEAFNESS, the individual simply shutting out sounds. Some deafness is occasioned by entirely mechanical trouble with the recording mechanism but most deafness, particularly when partial, is psychosomatic or caused by mental aberration. (SA, p. 85) DEAR ALICE, see TR-1.

DEATH, 1. a state of beingness rather than an action. It means a fellow’s no longer inhabiting a body. (SH Spec 15X, 6106C15) 2. a separation occurs between the thetan and the body. However, he takes old facsimiles, energy phenomena and bric-a-brac that he feels he cannot do without, with him and attaches it to the next body he picks up. (PAB 130) 3. cessation of creation. An individual becomes sufficiently morose on the idea of creation hat he can actually bring about the condition of inability to create. (FOT, p. 67) 4. death equals life minus thought equals mest. (NOTL, p. 14) 5. death is abandonment by theta of a life organism or race or species where these can no longer serve theta in its goals of infinite survival. (Scn 0-8, p. 75) 6. life’s operation of disposing of an outmoded and unwanted organism so that new organisms can be born and can flourish. (SA, p. 30) 7. a limited concept of the death of the physical part of the organism. Life and the personality go on. The physical part of the organism ceases to function. And that is death. (SA, p. 30) 8. a name assigned to what is apparently the mechanism by which theta recovers itself and the bulk of its volume from the mest, so as to be able to accomplish a more harmonious conquest of the mest in a next generation. (SOS, Bk. 2, p. 249)

DEATH FACSIMILE BOP, a little hunt, a little nervous twitch of the needle. (5410CM21)

DEATH TALKER, at 1.5 on the tone scale is the death talker who is going to save something from destruction by creating great havoc. This person will not listen to a creative and constructive plan unless he can see ways and means of using it to destroy. Warmongers and dictators are markedly in this band. (SOS, p. 145)

DEATH WISH, succumb postulates. (HCO PL 27 Apr 69).

DEATH ZONE, below 2.0 on the tone scale is the death zone, and here as the tone lowers increasingly, more danger exists that all the remaining theta will suddenly at one fell swoop become entheta. (SOS, Bk. 2, p. 13)

DEBUG, to get the snarls or stops out of something. (HCO PL 29 Feb 72 II)

DE-CERTIFICATION, cancellation of an auditor’s certificates. Certificates “pulled” is a measure taken by HCO when these conditions exist: (a) the auditor has consistently refused supervised processing; (b) the auditor has committed antisocial acts liable for prosecution under criminal law, or (c) continues to associate with a de-certified auditor and balks efforts of HCO to bring the person into an HGC for auditing. (HCOB 22 May 60)

DECLARE, an action done in Qual after a pc has completed a cycle of action or attained a state. The pc or pre-OT who knows he made it must be sent to Exams and Certs and Awards to attest. A declare completes his cycle of action and is a vital part of the action. (HCOB 19 Jun 71 II)

DECLARE?, “Preclear has reached a grade or release. Please look at preclear and pass on to Certs and Awards.” (HCOB 23 Aug 65)

DED, 1. an incident the preclear does to another dynamic and for which he has no motivator-i.e... he punishes or hurts or wrecks something the like of which has never hurt him. Now he must justify the incident. He will use things which didn’t happen to him. He claims that the object of his injury really DEserveD it, hence the word DED, which is a sarcasm. (HOM, p. 75) 2. an overt act without having a justification for it in the first place. The motivator is on the wrong side of the overt act and that motivator on the wrong side of an overt act is called a DED. It’s a deserved action. (5206CM24C)

DED-DEDEX, 1. the overt-motivator sequence went backwards. You hit Joe, then he hits you. Although it went this way you had it figured out that he must have hit you first. So you invented something that he did to you to motivate your hitting him. (SH Spec 83, 6612C06) 2. overt-motivator sequence; when somebody has committed an overt, he has to claim the existence of motivators-the Ded-Dedex version of Dn. (HCOB 7 Sept 64 II) 3. where the preclear all out of his own imagination has done something to somebody else and then it has been done to him. (PAB 18)

DEDEX, 1. an incident which happens to a preclear after he has a DED. It is always on the same chain or subject, is always after the DED. It means the DED EXposed. It is covered guilt. (HOM, p. 75) 2. deserved action explained would be one interpretation of DEDEX. The deserved action. This is why the action was deserved. This is why he blew Joe Blink’s head off, because twenty years later a fellow by the name of Cuffbah tapped him on the temple. (PDC 29) 3. motivator. (Scn 8-80, p. 32)

DEEP PROCESSING, deep processing addresses basic cause and locates and reduces moments of physical pain and sorrow. (SA, p. 61)

DEFINITION PROCESSES, the first thing to know about definition processes is that they are separate and distinct and stand by themselves as processes. Remedy A and Remedy B. The purpose of definitions processing is fast clearing of “held down fives” (jammed thinking because of a misunderstood or misapplied data) preventing someone getting on with auditing or Scn. (HCOB 21 Feb 66)

DEFINITIONS, TYPES OF, (a) differentiative definition-one which compares unlikeness to existing states of being or not being. (b) descriptive definition-one which classifies by characteristics, by describing existing states of being. (c) associative definition-one which declares likeness to existing states of being or not being. (d) action definition-one which delineates cause  and potential change of state of being by cause of existence, inexistence, action, inaction, purpose or lack of purpose. (AP&A, pp. 65-66)

DEGRADATION, 1. the lower harmonic of apathy. (SH Spec 70, 6110C24) 2. an inability to handle force. (PDC 48) 3. being big and getting small and not at your own request. (PDC 34)

DEGRADED BEING, 1. the degraded being is not a suppressive as he can have case gain. But he is so PTS that he works for suppressives only. He is a sort of super-continual PTS beyond the reach really of a simple S&D and handled only at Section 3 OT Course. The degraded being is not necessarily a natively bad thetan. He is simply so PTS and has been for so long that it requires our highest level of tech to finally undo it after he has scaled up all our grades. (HCOB 22 Mar 67) 2. very degraded beings alter-is, refuse to comply without mentioning it. Find ANY instruction painful as they have been painfully indoctrinated with violent measures in the past. They therefore alter-is any order or don’t comply. A degraded being is not a suppressive as he can have case gain. But he is so PTS that he works for suppressives only. Degraded beings, taking a cue from SP associates, instinctively resent, hate and seek to obstruct any person in charge of anything. (HCOB 22 Mar 67) Abbr. DB.

DEI SCALE, Desire-Enforcement-Inhibit Scale. (PAB 50)

DELUSION, 1. a belief in something which is contrary to fact or reality resulting from deception, misconception or misassignment. (HCOB 11 May 65) 2. what one person thinks is, but others don’t necessarily. (SH Spec 72, 6607C28) 3. the postulation by the imagination of occurrences in areas of plus or minus randomity. (Scn 0-8, p. 90) 4. delusion is imagination out of control. (Scn Jollr, Iss. 14-G)

DEMO, abbreviation for demonstration. Usually refers to either a clay demo or to a demonstration done with a “demo kit.” (BTB 12 Apr 72R)

DEMO KIT, demonstration kit. Consists of various small objects such as corks, caps, paper clips, pen tops, batteries-whatever will do. These are kept in a box or container. Each student should have one. The pieces are used while studying to represent the things in the material one is demonstrating. It helps hold concepts and ideas in place. A demo kit adds mass, reality and doingness to the significance and so helps the student to study. (HCOB 19 Jun 71 III)

DEMON, Slang. a by-pass circuit in the mind, called demon because it was long so interpreted. Probably an electronic mechanism. (DMSMH Gloss) 2. a bona-fide demon is one who gives thoughts voice or echoes the spoken word interiorly or who gives all sorts of complicated advice like a real, live voice exteriorly. (DMSMH, p. 88) 3. Dn use of the word is descriptive slang. (EOS, p. 16)

DEMON CIRCUIT, 1. that mental mechanism set up by an engram command which, becoming restimulated and supercharged with secondary engrams, takes over a portion of the analyzer and acts as an individual being. Any command containing “you” and seeking to dominate or nullify the individual’s judgment is potentially a demon circuit. It doesn’t become a real live demon circuit until it becomes keyed-in and picks up secondary engrams and locks. (NOTL, p. 80) 2. a heavily charged portion of the analytical mind which has been captured by the reactive mind and does its bidding, walled off by charge into a separate entity. (SOS, p. 67) 3, any circuit that vocalizes your thoughts for you. That’s not natural. It’s an installed mechanism from engrams and it slows up thought. (DASF)

DENYER, 1. a phrase which obscures a part of track by implying it is not there or elsewhere or should not be viewed. (HCOB 15 May 63) 2. any phrase that you could think of in any language that would deny a person knowledge of something would be classified as a denyer. (SH Spec 81, 6111C16)  3. a species of command which, literally translated, means that the engram doesn’t exist. “I’m not here,” “This is getting nowhere,” “I must not talk about it,” “I can’t remember,” etc. (DMSMH, p. 213) 4. a command which makes the pc feel there is no incident present. (DMSMH, p. 213)

DEPLETION OF HAVINGNESS, the truth of something, even when arrived at by the route of subjection and force, will as-is the something and cause its vanishment, and thus it is no longer had. This is called by auditors the depletion of havingness. (5601C31)

DEPOSIT, a deposit is a confused solid ridge area in the body. (5206CM24B).

DERAILER, a type of phrase in an engram which throws the preclear “off the track” and makes him lose touch with his time track. This is a very serious phrase since it can make a schizophrenic and something of this sort is always to be found in schizophrenia. Some of its phrases throw him into other valences which have no proper track, some merely remove time, some throw him bodily out of time. “I don’t have any time” is a derailer. “I’m beside myself” means that he is now two people, one beside the other. “I’ll have to pretend I am somebody else” is a key phrase to identity confusion, and many more. (DMSMH, p. 335)

DESCRIPTION PROCESSING, processing which uses as-isness in present time to remedy the restimulations beheld by the thetan. The total command content of description processing is the phrase “How does . . . seem to you now?” This is used over, and over, and over by the auditor. In the blank he puts any difficulty the preclear is having. (COHA, p. 85)

DESCRIPTIVE DEFINITION, see DEFINITIONS, TYPES OF.

DESTIMULATE, 1. settle out. (HCOB 16 Aug 70) 2. to take away the restimulation. Destimulate does not mean the erasure of the original incident, it means simply the knock out of the point of restimulation. (SH Spec 84, 6612C13)

DESTIMULATED, simply knocking out the key-ins of the original charge, you didn’t knock out the original incidents, you just knocked out the moments when the original incident was keyed in. (SH Spec 300, 6308C28)

DESTIMULATION, 1. the action of deleting the moments of restimulation of the reactive mind or some portion of it, so that it moves away from the preclear and he is no longer connected to it. (Scn AD) 2. to pull the pc out of the charge not try to erase the charge. To knock out the key-ins that keep the charge pinned to the individual. (SH Spec 9, 6403C10).

DESTROY, create-counter-create=to create  something against a creation=to create one thing and then create something else against it=destroy. (FOT, p. 20)

DESTRUCTION, the apparent cycle of action contains destruction, but the actual cycle of action tells us what destruction is. Destruction, in terms of action, is a creation of something against a creation of something else. There is another type of destruction and this is no more creation. If one stops making something completely and ceases to be a party to its manufacture, it no longer exists for one. (FOT, pp. 21-22)

DETACHED, 1. chronically out of valence to the point of no case gain. (HCOB 10 Sept 68) 2. the person that you run into that takes no responsibility for anything in life and that sort of thing. He isn’t where he is looking from, see? He’s detached. We use that word advisedly. You see, he’s detached from existence, he hasn’t got anything to do with it. Existence is up here and he’s sitting back, “has nothing to do with me.” (SH Spec 48, 6411C04)

DETECTING METER, a meter which detects flows and ridges around your preclear. (PDC 29)

DHARMA, the name of a legendary Hindu sage whose many progenies were the personification of virtue and religious rites. Dharma is a mythological figure and we have the word Dharma almost interchangeable with the word Dhyana. But whatever you use there you are using a word which means knowingness. That’s what that word means. (7ACC-25, 5407C19)

DHYANA, 1. the word Dhyana is almost interchangeable with the word Dharma. But whatever you use, you are using a word which means knowingness. Dhyana-that’s knowingness. It means knowingness. It means lookingness. (7ACC-25, 5407C19) 2. Dhyana could be literally translated as Indian for Scn, if you want to say it backwards. (7ACC-25, 5407C19)

DIANAZENE, a formula combined with vitamins and other minerals to make the intake of nicotinic acid more effective. Dianazene runs out radiation-or what appears to be radiation. It also proofs a person up against radiation in some degree. It also turns on and runs out incipient cancer. (AAR, pp. 123-124)

DIANETIC ASSESSMENT LIST, a list of somatic items given by a pc and written down by the auditor with the reads marked that occur on the meter. (BTB 7 Nov 72 IV)

DIANETIC ASSIST, 1. the auditor may take an individual who has been injured and run the injury as an engram even though it contains extensive unconsciousness. The last engram on the case has had relatively little chance to become charged up by locks and secondaries, and so is available for auditing regardless of the pre-existing engrams on the case. (SOS, Bk. 2, p. 157) 2. running out the physically painful experience the person has just undergone, accidents, illness, operation or emotional shock. This erases the “psychic trauma” and speeds recovery to a remarkable degree. (HCOB 2 Apr 69)

DIANETIC AUDITING, 1. the application of Dn procedures to an individual to help him become well and happy. (DPB, p. 11) 2. the tracing of experience. (SH Spec 70, 6607C21) 3. Dianetic auditing includes as its basic principle, the exhaustion of all the painfully unconscious moments of a subject’s life. By eradicating pain from the life of an individual, the auditor returns the individual to complete rationality and sanity. (DTOT, p. 68)

DIANETIC AUDITOR, 1. a person capable of resolving mental and physical problems by his ability to find and run engrams and secondaries. (HCOB 6 Apr.69)  2. a Dianetic auditor would use Dn to handle the lack of well-being of the pc. (HCOB 6 Apr 69 II) 3. one who has had case gain on Dn, and has been able to administer Dn so as to give case gains with it and that is what a Dianetic auditor is. It is not somebody who has been through the check sheets a large number of times or somebody who knows the Director of Certs and Awards. (6905C29)

DIANETIC CASE COMPLETION, 1. all somatic chains that were in restimulation have been traced to basic and blown. The pc is now happy and healthy. Other engrams and chains can exist back on the track but as they are not in restimulation they have no effect on the person. (Dn Today, p. 63) 2. a healthy, happy, high IQ human being; freedom from those things which make a person susceptible to, or “hold in place” physical illness. (Scn 0-8, p. 137)

DIANETIC CLEAR, 1. there is such a state. Only about two per cent actually go clear on Dn. A Dn Clear as any other Dn pc now goes on up through the grades of Scn and onto the proper Clearing Course. The Dn Clear of Book I was clear of somatics. The Book I definition is correct. This is the end phenomena of Dn as per the class chart and Book I. Two percent, no more, make Dn Clear accidentally. They still need expanded lower grades to make Scn Clear. (HCOB 25 Jun 70 II) See also DIANETIC CASE COMPLETION.

DIANETIC FLOW TABLE, a chronological list of Dn items run, from earliest to latest, with the flows that have been run. (HCOB 3 Nov 72R)

DIANETICIST, a skilled user of Dianetic therapy. (DTOT Gloss)

DIANETIC LIST, in Scn lists there’s only one item. On Dn lists there can be a dozen, for a Dn list isn’t really a list. It isn’t trying to isolate the mental troubles of the pc. A Dn list is simply the pc’s physical aches and pains. (HCOB 21 May 69)

DIANETIC PRECLEAR, one who is being processed toward the objective of a well and happy human being. (HCOB 6 Apr 69)

DIANETIC RELEASE, 1. the release has reached a point where he no longer has psychosomatic illnesses, where he has good stability and where he can enjoy life. If one simply took all the secondary engrams off a case, one would have a Dianetic Release. (SOS, p. 19) 2. a preclear in whom the majority of emotional stress has been deleted from the reactive mind. Has had many large gains from Dn, is not yet a Dn Case Completion. (DTOT Gloss)

DIANETIC REVERIE, see REVERIE.

DIANETICS, 1. DIA (Greek) through, NOUS (Greek) soul deals with a system of mental image pictures in relation to psychic (spiritual) trauma. The mental image pictures are believed on the basis of personal revelation to be comprising mental activity created and formed by the spirit, and not by the body or brain. (BPL 24 Sept 73 V) 2. Dn addresses the body. Thus Dn is used to knock out and erase illnesses, unwanted sensations, misemotion, somatics, pain, etc. Dn came before Scn. It disposed of body illness and the difficulties a thetan was having with his body. (HCOB 22 Apr 69) 3. a technology that runs and erases locks, secondaries and engrams and their chains. (HCOB 17 Apr 69) 4. Dn could be called a study of man. Dn and Scn, up to the point of stable exteriorization, operate in exactly the same field with exactly the same tools. It is only after man is sufficiently exteriorized to become a spirit that we depart from Dn; for here, considering man as a spirit, we must enter the field of religion. (PAB 42) 5. a precision science. It stems from the study and codification of survival. (COHA, p. 148) 6. a system of coordinated axioms which resolve problems concerning human behavior and psychosomatic illnesses. (5110CM08B) 7. Dn is not psychiatry. It is not  psycho-analysis. It is not psychology. It is not personal relations. It is not hypnotism. It is a science of mind. (DMSMH, p. 168) 8. the route from aberrated or aberrated and ill human to capable human. (HCOB 3 Apr 66) Abbr. Dn.

DIANOMETRY, 1. that branch of Dn which measures thought capacity, computational ability and the rationality of the human mind. By its axioms and tests can be established the intelligence, the persistency, the ability, the aberrations and existing or potential insanity of an individual. (DASF) 2. “Thought measurement,” derived from the Greek for thought, and, unscholarly enough, the Latin for mensuration. (DASF)

DICHOTOMY, 1. can-can’t is the plus and minus aspect of all thought and in Scn is called by a specialized word, dichotomy. (FOT, p. 100) 2. a pair of opposites, such as black-white, good-evil, love-hate. (COHA Gloss) 3. opposites; two things which when interplayed, cause action. (5209CM04B)

DIFFERENTIATION, 1. the ability to locate things in time and space. (5209CM04B) 2. simply the distance between the particles. (PDC 28)

DIFFERENTIATIVE DEFINITION, see DEFINITIONS, TYPES OF.

DILETTANTISM, is supposed to mean good at many things, but actually I would rather extend its meaning a little bit to saying unprofessional at everything. (SH Spec 33, 6408C04)

DIMENSION, the distance from the point of view to the anchor point that is in space. (Spr Lect 14, 5304CM07)

DIMENSION POINT, any point in a space or at the boundaries of space. As a specialized case, those points which demark the outermost boundaries of the space or its corners are called in Scn anchor points. (Scn 8-8008, p. 16)

DINKY DICTIONARIES, (dinky: small, insignificant); in learning the meaning of words small dictionaries are very often a greater liability than they are a help. The meanings they give are often circular. Like “CAT: an animal.” “ANIMAL: a cat.” They do not give enough meaning to escape the circle. The meanings given are often inadequate to get a real concept of the word. The words are too few and even common words are often missing. (HCOB 19 Jun 72)

DIP, a falling needle. (EME, p. 14) See FALL.

DIR, director. (BPL 5 Nov 72RA)

DIR CERTS AND AWARDS, Director of Certificates and Awards. (HCOB 23 Aug 65)

DIRECTION-REVERSAL, confuses left and right. (PAB 12).

DIRECTIVE LISTING, that Routine 3 activity which directs the pc’s attention while listing to the form of the inevitable reliable item, providing it can be predicted. (HCOB 8 Apr 63)

DIRECT STYLE AUDITING, (Level IV style), by direct we mean straight, concentrated, intense, applied in a direct manner. By direct, we don’t mean frank or choppy. On the contrary, we put the pc’s attention on his bank and anything we do is calculated only to make that attention more direct. (HCOB 6 Nov 64)

DIRECT VALENCE, a valence by which the pc has transferred identity with someone who has directly confronted him. (PAB 95)

DIRTY NEEDLE, 1. symbol D.N.-erratic agitation of the needle which covers less than a quarter of an inch of the E-meter dial and tends to be persistent. (HCOB 8 Nov 62) 2. ragged, jerky, ticking needle, not sweeping. (HCOB 15 May 69) 3. a dirty needle is any needle which departs from the appearance of a clean needle. (SH Spec 224, 6212C13) 4. a dirty needle is only a little, tiny persistent rock slam. (SH Spec 184, 6208C14) 5. one that jerks, tips, dances, halts, is stuck or has any random action on it with the auditor sitting looking at it doing nothing. (HCOB 30 Dec 62)

DIRTY READ, symbol D.R.-a more or less instant response of the needle which is agitated by a major thought; it is an instant tiny (less than a quarter of an inch) agitation of the needle and is in fact a very small cousin of a rock slam but is not a rock slam. It does not persist. (HCOB 8 Nov 62)

DIRTY 30, Opening Procedure by Duplication has been doing things to cases hitherto untouched by extensive and intricate auditing. Because this process is very arduous to run on people below boredom on the tone scale and because it has very often been used on people on whom it should not be used, it was early called “Dirty 30.” Actually “Dirty 30” is Procedure 30 which encompassed what is now R2-17 and two other steps. (PAB 48)

DISAGREEMENT REMEDY, a procedure for handling disagreements which is done by a Class III or above auditor. (BTB 22 Mar 72R)

DISASSOCIATION, mis-identification. (17ACC-4, 5702C28)

DISCHARGED, 1. an incident which is discharged is no longer capable of restimulation. It is not now an inert incident, it is a gone incident. The batteries in it have been short-circuited. That’s the end of it. (SH Spec 300, 6308C28) 2. where you get a condition of restimulation which is then let off, that is not discharged, it is destimulated. Discharged means that the incident is now incapable of being restimulated. (SH Spec 300, 6308C28)

DISCHARGING, erasing. (SH Spec 300, 6308C28)

DISHONESTY, one would not be dishonest unless he wished to seek advantage for himself or his group at the expense of some other self or group. That’s dishonesty. It is seeking an illegitimate advantage and it’s illegitimate just because it violates somebody’s survival too much. (5108CM13B)

DISINTEGRATING ROCKET READ, a read that starts out like a mad thing, and turns into a fall. (SH Spec 274, 6306C13).DISPERSAL, a series of outflows  from a common point. A dispersal is, primarily a number of flows extending from a common center. The best example of a dispersal is an explosion. There is such a thing as an in-dispersal. This would be where the flows are all traveling toward a common center. One might call this an implosion. Outflow and inflow from a common center are classified under the word dispersal. (Scn 8-8008, p. 17)

DISPERSED, hiding oneself, being vague, not there most of the time. (FOT, p. 29)

DISPERSION, theta turning into entheta and the inhibition of the flow of free theta. (SOS, p. 114)

DISSEMINATING SCN, getting the materials of Dn and Scn disseminated widely and by efficient presentation. (BPL 15 Mar 60)

DISTRACTION, a distraction is something that is not relevant to the pc’s case and is ineffective. (SH Spec 78, 6111C09)

DIVISION OF TA, one division of TA is from 1 to 2 or similarly from 2 to 3. It doesn’t matter which way it moves. (SH Spec 1, 6105C07)

DIZZINESS, a feeling of disorientation and includes a spinniness, as well as an out-of- balance feeling. (HCOB 19 Jan 67)

D/L, date/locate. (HCOB 29 Oct 71R)

Dn, Dianetics. (HCOB 23 Aug 65)

D .N ., dirty needle. (HCOB 17 May 69).

DO A BUNK,  1. an English slang term which meant “run away or desert.” (7204C07 SO III) 2. the body goes collapse; the heart is still beating, the lungs are still breathing, because the G.E. runs those, but the thetan-he’s done a bunk. (PDC 9) 3. that’s what we say colloquially, means on his way over the hills and far away and he’s just now passing Galaxy 18 . (PDC 46) 4. the person shoots out of his head and he’s on his way. He hit the dispersal just adjacent to a ridge. (PDC 23)

DOCTRINE OF THE STABLE DATUM, a confusing motion can be understood by conceiving one thing to be motionless. Until one selects one datum, one factor, one particular in a confusion of particles, the confusion continues. The one thing selected and used becomes the stable datum for the remainder. A stable datum does not have to be the correct one. It is simply the one that keeps things from being in a confusion and on which others are aligned. (POW, pp. 23-24)

D OF P, Director of Processing. (HCOB 23 Aug 65)

D OF T, Director of Training. (HCOB 23 Aug 65)

DOG CASE, Slang. 1. a case nobody can make anything out of. (HCOB 5 Mar 71 II) 2. the pc is not running well. Such a case is the result of a flub always. (HCOB 19 Mar 71, C/S Series 30)

DOG PC, an auditor who cannot audit, whose TRs are out, whose metering is bad and who never keeps the code always says his pcs are “dogs.” (HCOB 15 Jun 72)

DOING, the action of creating an effect. An effect in creation is action. (FOT, p. 31)

DOING A BUNK, see DO A BUNK. 

DOINGNESS, what one ought to be doing in order to get creation or do creation. (SH Spec 19, 6106C23)

DOING THE FOLDER, refers to the technical supervision of case reports. (ISE, p.45)

DO-IT-YOURSELF PROCESSING, the HAS co-audit which seeks to improve cases and further interest people in Scn so that they will take individual HGC processing and individual training. (HCO PL 14 Feb 61).

DOMINATION, forcing the  other person to do exactly what is desired with the mechanism of recrimination and denial of friendship or support unless instant compliance takes place. It seeks by anger and outright criticism, accusations, and other mechanisms to pound another individual into submission by making him less. (SA, p. 167)

DOMINATION BY NULLIFICATION, this is covert and quite often the person upon whom it is exerted remains unsuspecting beyond the fact that he knows he is very unhappy. This is the coward’s method of domination. The person using it feels that he is less than the individual upon whom he is using it and has not the honesty or fortitude to admit the fact to himself. He then begins to pull the other individual “down to size,” using small carping criticisms. The one who is seeking to dominate strikes heavily at the point of pride and capability of his target and yet, if at any moment the target challenges the nullifier, the person using the mechanism claims he is doing so solely out of assistance and friendship or disavows completely that it has been done. (SA, p. 167)

DOPE-OFF, 1. the phenomenon of a person getting tired, sleepy, foggy (as though doped ). One of the phenomena of going past a misunderstood word. (BTB 12 Apr 72) 2. a state of lessened awareness, still above unconsciousness, and manifested principally by communication lag. Dope-off is also caused by impaired havingness. (COHA Gloss)

DOUBLE ACKNOWLEDGMENT, 1. double acknowledgment is not, repeat not, the giving of more than one good or thank you. Double acknowledgment only occurs when the auditor assumes the cycle has ended but the preclear then draws the auditor’s attention to the fact that it didn’t end and the auditor has to acknowledge again in order to end that cycle. (BTB 29 Jun 62) 2. this occurs when the pc answers up, the auditor then acknowledges, and the pc then finishes his answer, leaving the auditor with another acknowledgment to do. (HCOB 12 Nov 59) 3. multiple acks (such as “OK Good.” and “All right Thank you OK.”) are not OK and must be knocked out by drilling the auditor so he learns to ack with one ack. TR 2 repeated makes an overack. (BTB 13 Mar 75)

DOUBLE ASSESS, (Expanded Dianetics term from tape 7203C30, “Expanded Dianetics”) the act of taking various parts or terminals of the pc’s environment as mentioned in worksheets or health form such as “home,” “job,” “Ohio,” etc., making it into a list, assessing it for best read (assessment number one ) and then taking that item (such as “home”) and listing out the pains, sensations, emotions and attitudes connected with it (assessment number 2) and running it with Dianetics, or otherwise using the result in processing. (LRH Def. Notes)

DOUBLE QUESTION, a type of Q and A. The auditor asks a question. The pc answers. The auditor asks a question about the answer. (HCOB 24 May 62)

DOUBLE TERMINALING, 1. the process known as double terminaling is an assist. One double terminals as follows: he has the preclear mock up something or someone facing its duplicate, then he gets another such pair beside, in any position, the first pair. It will be noted that the mock-ups discharge one against the other like electrical poles. A double terminal may also consist of an unmatched pair such as a mock-up of a husband facing a wife and, parallel to this, the husband facing the wife again. Or a person facing an inanimate object, then, beside that pair, the same person as another mock-up facing the same object as another mock-up. It will be observed that when TWO pairs are used, there are, even so, only TWO COMMUNICATION LINES. The lines are more important than the terminals; one wants two communication lines, parallel to each other. This, of course, requires four terminals. (PAB 1) 2. double terminaling simply puts up two pairs of matched terminals. The pairs may each be of two different things but each pair contains one thing the same as the other pair; in other words, husband and wife is one pair and husband and wife is the other pair. These, parallel, give the two terminal effect necessary for a discharge. (COHA, p. 213) 3. there are a number of processes which could include double terminals.  One terminal made to face another terminal in terms of mock-up can be discharged one against the other in such a way as to relieve aberration connected with things similar to the terminal thus mocked up. One takes two pairs of such terminals and standing them in relationship to each other, discovers that he has now four terminals but these four terminals furnish only two lines. These two lines will discharge one against the other. (Scn 8-8008, p.32)

DOUBLE TERMINALS, you mock up four of the same person or two of one person, two of another person, in such a way as to give you four terminals with an identical line. (Spr Lect 13, 5304CM07)

DOUBLE TICK, dirty needle. (HCOB 25 May 62)

DOUBT, doubting expresses the inability to find out. (SH Spec 39, 6108C15)

DOWN-BOUNCER, this type of phrase is one which tells the person to “get down” or “get back” and keeps the preclear below the actual incident in which he is held. (SOS, p. 106)

DOWN SCALE, on the tone scale to go down scale one must decrease his power to observe. (COHA, p. 200)

DOWN THE TRACK, not in present time. (HCOB 16 Jul 69)

D.R., dirty read. (HCOB 23 Aug 65)

DRAMATIZATION, 1. to repeat in action what has happened to one in experience. That’s a basic definition of it, but much more important, it’s a replay now of something that happened then. It’s being replayed out of its time and period. (SH Spec 72, 6607C28) 2. the duplication of an engramic content, entire or in part, by an aberree in his present time environment. Aberrated conduct is entirely dramatization. The degree of dramatization is in direct ratio to the degree of restimulation of the engrams causing it. (DTOT, p. 74) 3. complete dramatization is complete identity. It is the engram in full force in present time with the aberree taking one or more parts of the dramatis personae present in the engram. (DTOT, p. 75) 4. thinking or acting in a manner that is dictated by masses or significances contained in the reactive mind. When dramatizing, the individual is like an actor playing his dictated part and going through a whole series of irrational actions. (PXL Gloss)

DRAMATIZE, to go through the cycle of action demanded by an engram.  (SOS, Bk.2, p. 29)

DRAMATIZING PSYCHOTIC, the dramatizing psychotic is not always looked upon as insane. Whether or not he is classified as insane depends upon whether or not he is of obvious menace to other Homo sapiens. He is fixed in one facsimile which he plays over and over to the environment around him. He is controlled by his environment to the extent that anything in his environment turns on his dramatization. He is disastrous to have around. Inaccessible persons passing for normals are sometimes dramatizing psychotics who dramatize infrequently-perhaps only once or twice a day. The dramatizing psychotic lives mainly in the illusion of his own facsimile with its surroundings, not actual surroundings. He is definitely not in present time at any time. (AP&A, p. 38)

DREAM, 1. a pretended knowingness about location. (SH Spec 50, 6109C06)  2. the imaginative reconstruction of areas of randomity or the re-symbolization of the efforts of theta. (Scn 0-8, p. 90) 3. a dream in its normal function is that powerful and original mechanism called the imagination compositing or creating new pictures. (DTOT, p. 89) 4. a frantic effort to orient, just to locate himself so that he can feel secure, that’s what a dream is and a dream of course is pretended knowingness because he is at none of these places. (SH Spec 39, 6108C15)  5. dreams follow a sudden loss. It’s an effort to orient oneself and get something back. (HCOB 29 Mar 65)

DRIFT DOWN, not actual tone arm action. The pc is just drifting toward the read of an item. In this the tone arm does not go up or down, back and forth. It just drifts slowly and evenly down and stays there. (HCOB 11 Apr 62)

DRIFT UP, occurs during prepchecking or listing. The constantly rising needle gradually raises the tone arm up to a high read which finally just stays there. This drift up is not actually tone arm motion. It is just the pc’s refusal to confront. (HCOB 11 Apr 62)

DRILLS, exercises, processes. (PAB 82)

DRIVE, the dynamic thrust through time toward the attainment of the goal. (DTOT, p. 29)

DROP, a falling needle. (EME, p. 14) See FALL.

DRUG CASES, cases who seek in processing the delusions or madness which exhilarated them on drugs. (HCOB 25 Nov 71 II)

DRUG REHAB, see CHEMICAL RELEASE. See REHABBING DRUGS .

DRUG RUNDOWN, the drug rundown consists of: (1) TRs 0-4, 6-9 FLAT. (2) Full C/S 1, where not done, to fully educate the pc. (3) Objectives-full battery to full EPs per basic books and early HCOBs on them. (4) Class VIII Drug Handling-list and rehab all drugs, 3-way recalls, secondaries and engrams of taking and giving drugs. (5) AESP’s on each reading drug listed separately and handled with R3R, each drug to full F/N assessment of drug list. (6) “No interest” drug items-all reading ones run where they exist. (7) Prior assessment- AESP’s listed separately and run R3R, prior to first drug or alcohol taken. (HCOB 31 Aug 74)

DRUGS, 1. by drugs (to mention a few) are meant tranquilizers, opium, cocaine, marijuana, peyote, amphetamine and the psychiatrists’ gift to Man, LSD which is the worst. Any medical drugs are included. Drugs are drugs. There are thousands of trade names and slang terms for these drugs. Alcohol is included as a drug and receives the same treatment in auditing. (HCOB 15 Jul 71 III) 2. drugs essentially are poisons. The degree they are taken determines the effect. A small amount gives a stimulant. A greater amount acts as a sedative. A larger amount acts as a poison and can kill one dead. This is true of any drug. (HCOB 28 Aug 68 II)

DRY RUN, a no-auditing situation. You’re running an electrical circuit with no current. (SH Spec 295, 6308C15).

D . SCN, Doctor of Scientology, honorary award for the application of Scn processes, principles, books or literature.  (HCOB 23 Aug 65) See DOCTOR OF SCIENTOLOGY.

DTS, Director of Tech Services. (HCOB 23 Aug 65)

DUB-IN, 1. any unknowingly created mental picture that appears to have been a record of the physical universe but is in fact only an altered copy of the time track. (HCOB 15 May 63) 2. the phrase out of the motion picture industry of putting a sound track on top of something that isn’t there . ( SH Spec 78, 6608C25) 3. a recording which is being manufactured by a recording. (5811C07) 4. imaginary recall-there is no pain dub-in. (DASF)

DUB-IN CASE, this guy is manufacturing incidents and saying they’re real. (5206CM24F)

DUNNAGE, Slang. 1. the stuff you put around the cargo to keep it straight in a ship. (PXL, p. 244) 2. extra and relatively meaningless talk. (PAB 38) 3. irrelevant remarks aimed solely to stay in communication with the preclear. (COHA, p. 88)

DUPLICATION, 1. cause, distance, effect, with the same thing at effect as is at cause. (5411CM01) 2. the flow of creation. Duplication is the process by which a thing persists. (2ACC-13A, 5311CM30)

DUPLICATIVE QUESTION (TR-3), a drill to teach a student to duplicate without variation an auditing question. Each time newly, in its own unit of time, not as a blur with other questions, and to acknowledge it. (HCOB 16 Aug 71 II)

DWINDLING ROCK SLAM, one which diminishes item by item, written thing by written thing. It’s less and less and less and less, and finally a dirty needle. Then there isn’t even a dirty needle and it’s gone. (SH Spec 194, 6209C25)

DWINDLING SANITY, a dwindling ability to assign time and space. (Scn 8-80, p. 44)

DWINDLING SPIRAL, 1. one commits overt acts unwittingly. He seeks to justify them by finding fault or displacing blame. This leads him into further overts against the same terminals which leads to a degradation of himself and sometimes those terminals. (HCOB 21 Jan 60, Justification) 2. as life progresses, more and more theta becomes fixed as entheta in locks and secondary engrams, and less and less theta is available to the organism for purposes of reason. This is called the dwindling spiral. It is so called because the more entheta there is on the case, the more theta will be turned into entheta at each new restimulation. It is a three-dimensional vicious circle which carries the individual down the tone scale. (SOS, Bk. 2, p. 26)

DYNAMIC, 1. any one of the eight subdivisions of the dynamic principle of existence-SURVIVE. (PXL, p. 49) 2. dynamic is the ability to translate solutions into action. (HFP, p. 171) 3. the tenacity to life and vigor and persistence in survival. (DMSMH, p. 38)

DYNAMIC ASSESSMENT, you run on the E-meter a dynamic assessment and pick up any dynamic that gives a change of needle pattern or take any dynamic which makes needle drop no matter how slight. Having located the dynamic we now ask the pc for any terminal he or she thinks would represent that dynamic. (HCOB 4 Feb 60)

DYNAMIC ASSESSMENT BY ROCK SLAM, listing and assessing to find the rock slam on the pc. (SH Spec 204, 6210C30).

DYNAMIC DEFINITION, action definition . (5110CM08B) See DEFINITIONS, TYPES OF.

DYNAMICS, there could be said to be eight urges (drives, impulses) in life. These we call dynamics. These are motives or motivations. We call them the eight dynamics. The first dynamic -is the urge toward existence as one’s self. Here we have individuality expressed fully. This can be called the self dynamic. The second dynamic-is the urge toward existence as a sexual or bisexual activity. This dynamic actually has two divisions. Second dynamic (a) is the sexual act itself and the second dynamic (b) is the family unit, including the rearing of children. This can be called the sex dynamic. The third dynamic-is the urge toward existence in groups of individuals. Any group or part of an entire class could be considered to be a part of the third dynamic. The school, the society, the town, the nation are each part of the third dynamic, and each one is a third dynamic. This can be called the group dynamic. The fourth dynamic-is the urge toward existence as mankind. Whereas the white race would be considered a third dynamic, all the races would be considered the fourth dynamic. This can be called the mankind dynamic. The fifth dynamic-is the urge toward existence of the animal kingdom. This includes all living things whether vegetable or animal. The fish in the sea, the beasts of the field or of the forest, grass, trees, flowers, or anything directly and intimately motivated by life. This could be called the animal dynamic. The sixth dynamic-is the urge toward existence as the physical universe. The physical universe is composed of matter, energy, space and time. In Scn we take the first letter of each of these words and coin a word, mest. This can be called the universe dynamic. The seventh dynamic-is the urge toward existence as or of spirits. Anything spiritual, with or without identity, would come under the heading of the seventh dynamic. This can be called the spiritual dynamic. The eighth dynamic-is the urge toward existence as infinity. This is also identified as the Supreme Being. It is carefully observed here that the science of Scn does not intrude into the dynamic of the Supreme Being. This is called the eighth dynamic because the symbol of infinity stood upright makes the numeral “8 .” This can be called the infinity or God dynamic. (FOT, pp. 36-38)

DYNAMIC STRAIGHTWIRE, do a survey, one time on the pc, not every session, to discover any errors in his dynamics. On pcs not familiar with Scn terms use the following words: self, sex, family, children, groups, mankind, the animal kingdom, birds, beasts, fish, vegetables, trees, growing things, matter, energy, space, time, spirits, souls, gods, God. Assess with this question only, “Tell me something that would represent (each of the above, one after the other).” When one changes the pattern of the needle action or when it is definitely balmy, write it down. When list is completed take these items written down and run: “Think of something you have done to (selected terminal you wrote down).” “Think of something you have withheld from (selected terminal, same one).” Run these terminals one each, one after the other, until pc seems flat. (HCOB 16 Feb 59).