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SAD EFFECT, 1. 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. this is a state of great sadness, apathy, misery and desire for suicide and death. (HCOB 14 Mar 63)

SAFE TECHNIQUE, is that technique which always deals in things of which the preclear is certain. (COHA, p. 220)

SAINT HILL (SH), the name of LRH’s home in East Grinstead, Sussex, England, and location of the world-wide headquarters of Scn, and the UK Advanced Organization and SH (AOSH UK). LRH taught the original Saint Hill Special Briefing Course at Saint Hill from 1961 to 1965 . The term SH now applies to any organization authorized to deliver those upper level Scn services hence we also have the “American Saint Hill Organization” (ASHO) and the “Advanced Organization and Saint Hill in Denmark” (AOSH DK) and “Saint Hill Europe” (SH EU). (BTB 12 Apr 72R)

SAINT HILL SPECIAL BRIEFING COURSE, the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course has certain distinct purposes. The course was begun to do two things: (1) to study and resolve training and education; (2) to assist people who wanted to perfect their Scn. There has been no change in these purposes. The first is succeeding very well. The second is achieving world-wide recognition through people who have graduated the SHSBC. (HCO PL 9 Jul 62) Abbr. SHSBC.

SALVAGE, to save from ruin. (HCO PL 23 Oct 65)

S AND D, search and discovery. (HCOB 13 Jan 68)

S AND D TYPE S, is “Who or what are you trying to stop?” (HCOB 13 Jan 68)

S AND D TYPE U, there are several types of S and D (Search and Discovery). The type is determined by the first letter of the key word in the listing question. S and D Type U is “Who or what has attempted to unmock you?” (HCOB 13 Jan 68)

S AND D TYPE W, is “Who or what are you trying to withdraw from?” (HCOB 13 Jan 68).

SANITY, 1. the ability to recognize differences, similarities and identities. (HCO PL 26 Apr 70 R) 2. a tolerance of confusion and an agreed-upon stable datum on which to align the data in a confusion are at once necessary for a sane reaction on the eight dynamics. This defines sanity. (Scn 0-8, p. 36) 3. the computation of futures. (Scn 0-8, p. 89) 4. a balance of creation and destruction is sanity. The individual is sane wherever he will create and destroy. (Scn 8-8008, p. 99) 5. the legal definition of sanity is the “ability to tell right from wrong.” (PAB 63) 6. the ability to tell differences. The better one can tell differences, no matter how minute, and know the width of those differences, the more rational he is. The less one can tell differences and the closer one comes to thinking in identities (A=A) the less sane he is. (DMSMH, p. 338) 7. sanity is the measure of how ably an individual assists things which assist survival, and inhibits things which inhibit survival. (5109CM24A) 8. the degree of rationality of an individual. (DASF) 9. rationality. A man is sane in the ratio that he can compute accurately, limited only by information and viewpoint. (EOS, p. 42) 10. an absolute perfection in reasoning, which would resolve problems to the optimum good of all those concerned. (5203CM03A) 11. sanity is certainty, providing only that that certainty does not fall beyond the conviction of another when he views it. (COHA, p. 187)

SCALE OF REALITY, 1. the reality scale refers to the individual’s hold on reality and his agreement with others on what reality is. (NOTL, p. 103) 2. at the bottom there is nothing, above that there is a communication line, the line becomes more solid, then above that terminals begin to materialize lightly and the line becomes less solid, then above that you have the terminals and you don’t have any lines, and above that the terminals are there mostly by agreement, above that there is agreement, and above agreement there is consideration, individual consideration, and above that there is postulate. That is the Scale of Reality. (PAB 154)

SCANNING, 1. the action of rapidly glancing through an incident from beginning (earliest moment of the incident) to the end of the incident. (HCOB 12 Dec 71 IX) 2. one contacts an incident and recognizes it as a concept of an incident. The preclear then goes forward from this incident to the next one of a similar type that he can recognize. (SOS, Bk. 2, p. 126)

SCHIZO, nickname for schizophrenic. It is an odd misnomer in that it means split personality and the trouble with a schizo is that he needs splitting, not that he’s split. He’s in another’s valence and what is required is to remove or split the preclear out of that other’s valence. (PAB 106)

SCHIZOPHRENIC, 1. the original definition of schizophrenic or “scissors personality” was in observation of shift of identity. A case which is very heavily charged goes into valences so completely that the person sharply and distinctly changes personality and appearance when shifted from one valence to another. (SOS, Bk. 2, p. 200) 2. the schizophrenic is an individual who has several portions of the analyzer segmented off by different circuits, which are actually valences, and who goes from one to another of these portions of the analyzer, only occasionally, if ever, becoming himself. (SOS, Bk. 2, p. 49) 3. an idea that one is two persons, which is remediable by a discovery of the life continuums being dramatized by the individual. (PDC 14) 4. the multi-valent aberee. (DMSMH, p. 125).

SCIENCE, 1. a science is an organized body of knowledge which knowledge, where, when you look, knowledge will be found. It doesn’t have variables in it. (5009CM23 General Dianetics-Part 1 ) 2. a science is not merely a collection of facts, neatly arranged. An essential of a science is that observations give rise to theories which, in turn, predict new observations. When the new observations are made, they, in turn, give rise to better theories, which predict further observations. (Scn 8-80, p. 8)

SCIENTIFIC TRUTH, something which was workably and invariably right for the body of knowledge in which it lay. (DASF)

SCIENTOLOGIST, 1. one who betters the conditions of himself and the conditions of others by using Scn technology. (Aud 73 UK) 2. one who controls persons, environments and situations. A Scientologist operates within the boundaries of the Auditor’s Code and the Code of a Scientologist. (PAB 137) 3. one who understands life. His technical skill is devoted to the resolution of the problems of life. (COHA, p. 12) 4. a specialist in spiritual and human affairs. (Abil Ma 1)

SCIENTOLOGY, 1. it is formed from the Latin word scio, which means know or distinguish, being related to the word scindo, which means cleave. (Thus, the idea of differentiation is strongly implied.) It is formed from the Greek word logos, which means THE WORD, or OUTWARD FORM BY WHICH THE INWARD THOUGHT IS EXPRESSED AND MADE KNOWN: also THE INWARD THOUGHT or REASON ITSELF. Thus, SCIENTOLOGY means KNOWING ABOUT KNOWING, or SCIENCE OF KNOWLEDGE. (Scn 8- 80, p. 8) 2. Scientology addresses the thetan. Scientology is used to increase spiritual freedom, intelligence, ability, and to produce immortality. (HCOB 22 Apr 69) 3. an organized body of scientific research knowledge concerning life, life sources and the mind and includes practices that improve the intelligence, state and conduct of persons. (HCOB 9 Jul 59) 4. a religious philosophy in its highest meaning as it brings man to total freedom and truth. (HCOB 18 Apr 67) 5. the science of knowing how to know answers. It is a wisdom in the tradition of ten thousand years of search in Asia and Western civilization. It is the science of human affairs which treats the livingness and beingness of man, and demonstrates to him a pathway to greater freedom. (COHA, p. 9) 6. an organization of the pertinencies which are mutually held true by all men in all times, and the development of technologies which demonstrate the existence of new phenomena not hitherto known, which are useful in creating states of beingness considered more desirable by man. (COHA, p. 9) 7. the science of knowing how to know. It is the science of knowing sciences. It seeks to embrace the sciences and humanities as a clarification of knowledge itself. Into all these things-biology, physics, psychology and life itself-the skills of Scientology can bring order and simplification. (Scn 8-8008, p. 11) 8. the study of the human spirit in its relationship to the physical universe and its living forms. (Abil 146) 9. a science of life. It is the one thing senior to life because it handles all the factors of life. It contains the data necessary to live as a free being. A reality in Scientology is a reality on life. (Aud 27 UK) 10. a body of knowledge which, when properly used, gives freedom and truth to the individual. (COHA, p. 251) 11. Scientology is an organized body of scientific research knowledge concerning life, life sources and the mind and includes practices that improve the intelligence, state and conduct of persons. (Abil Mi 104) 12. knowledge and its application in the conquest of the material universe. (HCL 1, 5203CM03A) 13. an applied philosophy designed and developed to make the able more able. In this sphere it is tremendously successful. (HCO PL 27 Oct 64) 14. an applied religious philosophy dealing with the study of knowledge, which through the application of its technology, can bring about desirable changes in the conditions of life. (HCO PL 15 Apr 71R)

SCIENTOLOGY CLEAR, see CLEAR.

SCIENTOLOGY CROSS, a cross about three inches high and is of simple but effective design without lettering or other ornament. The model of the cross came from a very ancient Spanish mission in Arizona, a sand casting which was dug up by Ron. The cross is a regular Roman cross with four additional short points between the four long points, a true eight dynamic Scn cross; the sunburst cross. (Abil 14)

SCIENTOLOGY 8-8008, 1. was a formula. It said: the attainment of infinity, that is the first eight is achieved by the reduction of the physical universe from infinity, that is the second eight, to zero, which is the first zero and the building of one’s own universe from zero to an infinity of one’s own universe and by that one achieves the attainment of infinity. (9ACC 14, 5412CM24) 2. the roadmap of a process. And it says, the attainment of infinity by the reduction of the apparency of the mest universe is infinity to zero and the increase of one’s own apparent zero to an infinity of his own universe. (PDC 31) 3. the original definition of Scientology 8-8008 was the attainment of infinity by the reduction of the apparent infinity and power of the mest universe to a zero for himself, and the increase of the apparent zero of one’s own universe to an infinity for oneself. Infinity (stood upright makes the number eight. (Scn 8-8008, p. 31)

SCIENTOLOGY PRECLEAR, a well and happy human being who is being processed toward total ability and spiritual freedom. (HCOB 6 Apr 69)

SCIENTOLOGY PROCESSES, could be described as methods of “unhypnotizing” men to their own freer choice and better life. (COHA, p. 251)

SCIENTOLOGY RELEASE, a series of major levels of gain wherein Scn processing frees the person from the principal life difficulties or personal “blocks” stemming from the mind. Called release grades, each of these levels must be completed for one to be ready to undertake Scn clearing. (DTOT, p. 151)

SCIENTOLOGY SYMBOL, 1. the S and double triangle. The S stands for scio (knowing in the fullest sense). The lower triangle is the ARC triangle, its points being affinity, reality, communication which combined give understanding. The upper triangle is the KRC triangle. The points are K for knowledge, R for responsibility and C for control. (6001C03)

SCIENTOMETRIC TESTING, IQ and personality tests reworked and modernized and co-ordinated with an electro-psychogalvanometer. The results are more accurate than psychological tests. This is Scientometry. This is not psychology. These tests are more modern, being electronically co-ordinated. (HCO PL 24 Nov 60)

SCL, Study Correction List. (BTB 1 Nov 72).SCN, Scientology. (HCOB 23 Aug 65)

SCOUTING, this is a two-way comm activity. Guide the pc carefully around his life until he gets on a sticky point. Then sort it out, attempting to get parts of it to clear up. Do not let pc linger on matters which do not stick. Responsibility sorts the matter out. His realization (cognition) of various zones are what does him good. (HCOB 28 Jul 58)

SCP, Standard Clearing Procedure. (HCOB 29 May 58)

SCRAMBLER, scrambles incidents and phrases. (I’m confused, I’ll take mine scrambled, stir it up, it’s all mixed up and I’m in the middle.) (SOS Gloss)

SCRATCHY NEEDLE, for some reason or other the term scratchy needle didn’t survive but dirty needle did. (SH Spec 202A, 6210C23)

SCREAMER, 1. a case which has maximum charge but not a great deal of circuitry. The supercharge on the case is so great on the reactive bank that the case bleeds quickly. This is your screamer. Emotion releases suddenly. (NOTL, p. 70) 2. people who ordinarily “run” (undergo processing) in Dn quite noisily. (SOS, p. 75)

SCREEN, 1. the cycle of the preclear who has been taught to hate things is that he begins to resist them and eventually piles up energy against them to such a degree that he makes an actual deposit which is an occlusion and which has on his side of it complete blackness and on the reverse side of it the piled-up facsimiles of that thing which he is resisting. This screen, then, has a hunger for the thing which it was resisting; and if this screen is fed whatever it was set up to resist, it will dissolve. (PAB 8) 2. the screen is actually a ridge that is formed for a special purpose of protection. (Scn 8-80, p. 43)

S-C-S, Start-Change-Stop. (HCOB 23 Aug 65)

SEA ORGANIZATION, 1. in 1968 the Sea Org became a good-will activity and an efficient administrative arm of Scientology. The Sea Org runs the advanced organizations and is the custodian of the Clear and OT processing materials. (Ron’s Journal 1968) 2. is that organization which functions at a high level of confront and standard. Its purpose is to get ethics in on the planet and eventually the universe. This organization operates with a fleet of ships dedicated to this purpose around the world. Being mobile and separate from the pull of land is an absolute necessity to accomplish its plans, missions and purpose: to get ethics in. (FO 508)

SEARCH AND DISCOVERY, as a process is done exactly by the general rules of listing. One lists for persons or groups who are or have suppressed the pc. The list is complete when only one item reads on nulling and this is the item. (HCOB 24 Nov 65) Abbr. S AND D. (HCOB 13 Jan 68)

SEC CHECK, security check. (HCOB 23 Aug 65)

SECONDARY, 1. a mental image picture of a moment of severe and shocking loss or threat of loss which contains misemotion such as anger, fear, grief, apathy or “deathfulness.” It is a mental image recording of a time of severe mental stress. It may contain unconsciousness. Called a secondary because it itself depends upon an earlier engram with similar data but real pain, etc. (HCOB 23 Apr 69) 2. depends for its charge on an engram which contains pain and unconsciousness. It’s secondary. It does not contain pain and unconsciousness. It contains emotion, any emotion or misemotion. But of course pleasure doesn’t make a secondary and it also doesn’t make an incident. (SH Spec 70, 6607C21) 3. every moment of great emotional shock, where loss occasions near unconsciousness, is fully recorded in the reactive mind. These shocks of loss are known as secondaries. (SOS, p. xiii) 4. a mental image picture containing misemotion (encysted grief, anger, apathy, etc.) and a real or imagined loss. These contain no physical pain-they are moments of shock and stress and depend for their force on earlier engrams which have been restimulated by the circumstances of the secondary. (PXL, p. 250) 5. a moment of misemotion where loss is threatened or accomplished. Secondaries contain only misemotion and communication and reality enforcements and breaks. (SOS, p. 112) 6. a very severe moment of loss. It’s either anger against losing, fear of losing, or fear because one has lost, or the recognition that one has lost. (PDC 4) 7. a mental image picture of a moment of severe and shocking loss or threat of loss which contains unpleasant emotion such as anger, fear, grief, apathy or “deathfulness.” It is a mental image recording of a time of severe mental stress. A secondary is called a secondary because it itself depends upon an earlier engram with similar data but real pain. (DPB, p. 6)

SECONDARY ENGRAM, 1. defined as a period of anguish brought about by a major loss or a threat of loss to the individual. The secondary engram depends for its strength and force upon physical pain engrams which underlie it. (SOS, Bk. 2, p. 136) 2. the secondary engram is called secondary because it depends upon an earlier physical pain engram to exist being itself occasioned by a conscious moment of loss. It is called an engram in order to focus the attention of the auditor on the fact that it must be run as an engram and that all perceptics possible must be exhausted from it. (SOS, Bk. 2, p. 149) 3. secondary (A-R-C) engrams, have more charge than locks. These charges on the A-R-C are so-called because they charge up the case. Engrams won’t have charge without later incidents. If you could get all the grief off a case and do nothing else, you would have a release. You are trying to blow these charges so the engrams will not very badly affect a person. (NOTL, p. 35) 4. there are three types of secondary engrams impinged on physical pain engrams: ( 1) painful emotion-grief-broken affinity, (2) encysted communication, (3) invalidated reality. (NOTL, p. 29)

SECONDARY SCALE, the pre-havingness scale contains a primary scale and a secondary scale. The secondary scale contains nearly all simple verbs in the English language, properly placed for level and repeated on other levels. (HCOB 23 May 61).

SECONDARY STYLE, every level has a different primary style of auditing. But sometimes in actual sessions or particularly in assists this style is altered slightly for special purposes. The style altered for assists or for a particular process in a regular session is called a secondary style. It is done a precise but different way to accomplish assists or to assist a pc in a regular session. This variation is called the secondary style of that level. (HCOB 21 Feb 66)

SECONDARY UNIVERSE, it isn’t really his universe. It’s pictures of the physical universe which he retains in lieu of. We’re talking of the reactive mind, the facsimiles, engrams, energy pictures, as a secondary universe which is formed by reason of not being able to have the physical universe. And that’s how the reactive mind gets born and where it comes from. These secondary universes could just as well be called reactive universes. (Abil 34, 1956)

SECOND-DYNAMIC, see DYNAMICS.

SECOND FACSIMILES, are “photographs” of the memories of another. They are still pictures usually. Their characteristic is that they show up with only two or three pictures of some long situation. (HOM, p. 36)

SECOND GPM, the next-to-the-latest GPM on the track. (SH Spec 251, 6303C22)

SECOND PHENOMENON, the second phenomenon is the overt cycle which follows a misunderstood word. When a word is not grasped, the student then goes into a non-comprehension (blankness) of things immediately after. This is followed by the student’s solution for the blank condition which is to individuate from it-separate self from it. Now being something else than the blank area, the student commits overts against the more general area. These overts, of course, are followed by restraining himself from committing overts. This pulls flows toward the person and makes the person crave motivators. This is followed by various mental and physical conditions and by various complaints, fault-finding and look-what- you-did-to-me. This justifies a departure, a blow. (HCO PL 24 Sept 64)

SECOND POSTULATE, know. (PAB 66)

SECOND STAGE RELEASE, see STAGES OF RELEASE.

SECRET, 1. withheld thought. (PAB 131) 2. it is the answer which was never given and that is all a secret is. (Dn 55!, p. 76)

SECURITY, 1. security itself is an understanding. Men who know are secure. Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge. All security derives from knowledge. (POW, p. 16) 2. self-confidence alone is security. Your ability is your security. There is no security but you. (HFP, p. 53) 3. is not a static thing. Security would lie only in a man’s confidence in reaching his goals and indeed, in his having goals to reach. (SOS, Bk. 2, p. 86)

SECURITY CHECKING, 1. remedying the compulsion or obsession to commit actions which have to be withheld, i.e. we are remedying unreasonable action. (SH Spec 100, 6201C16) 2. a check made to see whether a person has any counter-intentions toward Scn or Scientology Churches. (Abil 218) Abbr. Sec Checking or Sec Cing.

SELF, thetan, plus machines plus body plus reactive bank (in Dn). (8ACC-13, 5410C19)

SELF ANALYSIS IN SCIENTOLOGY, is a group technique aimed at the rehabilitation of one’s own universe so as to bring it up to a level of comparability with one’s own observation of the mest universe, and can be delivered to groups of children or adults by a person trained only through the text of Self Analysis in Scientology. ( COHA, p. 245)

SELF ANALYSIS LISTS, 1. the lists of questions by which the individual can explore his past and improve his reactions toward life. Dianetically speaking, this self-processing section could be called “straight wire.” It is not “auto processing.” The reader is actually being processed by the author. (SA, p. 62) 2. the auditor is assisted by these lists in that they open a case for the running of engrams and secondaries and raise the preclear on a tone scale. These lists are used repetitively; that is to say the individual goes over them again and again. There is no finite period to the work. The reason the recall of these questions is important is that they reveal and discharge locks which have formed above the basic engrams (moments of physical pain and unconsciousness) and secondaries (moments of acute loss as death of a loved one). The discharging of these locks renders engrams and secondaries relatively ineffective. (SA, p. 62)

SELF AUDITING, 1. the manifestation of going around running concepts or processes on one’s self. One is doing this because he has been made afraid, through his failure on others, of his ability to control his own engrams, facsimiles, thoughts and concepts, and he seeks to control them through auditing. (Dn 55!, p. 121) 2. solo auditing occurs in session with a meter. Self-auditing is out-of-session wondering and chewing on bank. (HCOB 10 Apr 72) 3. the manifestation of being overwhelmed by masses etc., and pulling only think out of the bank. Pulling out think then pulls in more force which gives more self-audit. (HCOB 19 Jun 70 II) 4. self-auditing is done ordinarily out of valence and results in the preclear expending counter-efforts against himself. Thus he succeeds only in hurting himself. (AP&A, p. 31)

SELF-COACHING, the student tending to introvert and look too much at how he is doing and what he is doing rather than just doing it. (HCOB 24 May 68)

SELF-CONFIDENCE, 1. nothing more than belief in one’s ability to decide and in one’s decisions. (HFP, p. 142) 2. is self-determinism. It is one’s belief in one’s ability to determine his own causes. (DAB, Vol. II, 1951-52, p. 166)

SELF-DETERMINED, one can only be self-determined when one can observe the actual situation before one; otherwise a being is delusion-determined or other-determined. (HCOB 6 Nov 64)

SELF-DETERMINISM, 1. the ability to locate in space and time, energy and matter; also the ability to create space and time in which to create and locate energy and matter. (Scn 0-8, p. 25) 2. self-determinism in the field of motion consists of, by own power of choice, permitting the object or body to be still or not to be still; permitting a thing to be changed or not to be changed; permitting a thing to be started or not to be started. (CMSCS, p. 18) 3. self-determinism is that state of being where in the individual can or cannot be controlled by his environment according to his own choice. In that state the individual has self-confidence in his control of the material universe and the organisms within it along every dynamic. He is confident about any and all abilities or talents he may possess. He is confident in his interpersonal relationships. He reasons but does not need to react. (AP&A, p. 53) 4. entirely and solely the imposition of time and space upon energy flows. By imposing time and space upon objects, people, self, events, and individuals, is causation. (Scn 8-80, p. 44) 5. the theta control of the organism. (Scn 0-8, p. 83) 6. full responsibility for self , no responsibility for other side of game. (Scn 0-8, p. 119) 7. means the ability to direct himself. (2 ACC 30A, 5312CM21) 8. the individual can only determine something from his own viewpoint . ( SH Spec 83, 6612C06) 9. a condition of determining the actions of self . It is a first ( self) dynamic action and leaves the remaining seven undetermined or, in actuality, in opposition to the self. Thus if one wants to take on the rest of life in a free-for-all fight, one could be entirely insistent upon total self-determinism. One is Self-determined, then, in any situation in which he is fighting. He is pan-determined in any situation which he is controlling. (FOT, p. 50) 10. self-determinism meant, in essence, control by the awareness of awareness unit of that which it conceived to be its identity. (Dn55!, p. 98)

SELF-INVALIDATING ENGRAM, the engram which contains the phrases, “never happened,” “can’t believe it,” “wouldn’t possibly imagine it,” and so on. (DTOT, p. 129)

SELF-INVALIDATION, a person who makes huge overts out of every little action, which is in essence self-invalidation, has behind that someplace a huge overt-big enough to set the police of several galaxies after them. (BTB 11 Dec 72R)

SELFNESS, not selfishness but just being himself. (Aud Spec Iss. 1973 ASHO)

SELF-PERPETUATING ENGRAM, implies that “It will always be this way,” and “It happens all the time.” (DTOT, p. 130)

SELF-PROCESSING, the action of a person trying to run processes on himself or continually thinking about his own case or trying to work out what is wrong with himself. It is an improper action which will only lead to a worsening of the person’s case. (BTB 12 Apr 72) See also SELF-AUDITING.

SEMI-ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, half acknowledgements. When you acknowledge what the pc said without ending the cycle of the auditing command and then say the next auditing commands. (SH Spec 25, 6107C05)

SEN, sensation. (HCOB 23 Aug 65)

SENSATION, 1. uncomfortable perceptions stemming from the reactive mind (except pain) are called sensation. These are basically “pressure,” “motion,” “dizziness,” “sexual sensation,” and “emotion” and “misemotion.” There are others, definite in themselves but definable in these five general categories. If one took a fork and pressed it against the arm, that would be “pressure.” “Motion” is just that, a feeling of being in motion when one is not. “Motion” includes the “winds of space.” A feeling of being blown upon, especially from in front of the face. “Dizziness” is a feeling of disorientation and includes a spinniness, as well as an out-of-balance feeling. “Sexual sensation” means any feeling, pleasant or unpleasant, commonly experienced during sexual restimulation or action. “Emotion” and “misemotion” include all levels of the complete tone scale except “pain”; emotion and misemotion are closely allied to “motion,” being only a finer particle action. A bank solidity is a form of “pressure,” and when the sensation of increasing solidity of masses in the mind occurs, we say “The bank is beefing up.” All these are classified as sensation. Symbol: Sen. (HCOB 8 Nov 62) 2. all sensation is energy. (2 ACC 26A, 5312CM17)

SENSITIVITY BOOSTER, the meter can be made more sensitive by turning the sensitivity booster to 32 which will double the sensitivity or to 64 which quadruples the sensitivity (64 or 128 in later models). (BIEM, p. 25)

SENSITIVITY KNOB, 1. on the E-meter the sensitivity knob magnifies the movement of the needle. (BIEM, p. 25) 2. the sensitivity knob increases the swing of the needle. (EME, p. 13)

SEPARATENESS, the object of separateness in locational processing is to establish and run out identifications. Commands: Select an object from which you are separate. Select an object which is separate from you. (Op Bull No. 1, 20 Oct 55)

SERENE VALENCES, when people are in serene valences it means they are wholly overwhelmed as a thetan. (HCOB 5 Jun 61)

SER FAC, service facsimile. (HCOB 23 Aug 65)

SERIES, see GOAL SERIES.

SERIOUS, when interest is important because of penalty. (PDC 59)

SERIOUSLY PHYSICALLY ILL CASES, cases where the illness makes too much PTP in PT. (HCOB 25 Nov 71 II)

SERVICE FACSIMILE, 1. these are called “service facsimiles.” “Service” because they serve him. “Facsimiles” because they are in mental image picture form. They explain his disabilities as well. The facsimile part is actually a self-installed disability that “explains” how he is not responsible for being able to cope. So he is not wrong for not coping. Part of the “package” is to be right by making wrong. The service facsimile is therefore a picture containing an explanation of self condition and also a fixed method of making others wrong. (HCOB 15 Feb 74) 2. this is actually part of a chain of incidents which the individual uses to invite sympathy or cooperation on the part of the environment. One uses engrams to handle himself and others and the environment after one has himself conceived that he has failed to handle himself, others and the general environment. (AP&A, p. 7) 3. it is simply a time when you tried to do something and were hurt or failed and got sympathy for it. Then afterwards when you were hurt or failed and wanted an explanation, you used it. And if you didn’t succeed in getting sympathy for it, you used it so hard it became a psychosomatic illness. (HFP, p. 89) 4. every time you fail, you pick up this facsimile and become sick or sadly noble. It’s your explanation to yourself and the world as to how and why you failed. It once got you sympathy. (HFP, p. 89) 5. that facsimile which the preclear uses to apologize for his failures. In other words, it is used to make others wrong and procure their cooperation in the survival of the preclear. If the preclear well cannot achieve survival, he attempts an illness or disability as a survival computation. The workability and necessity of the service facsimile is only superficially useful. The service facsimile is an action method of withdrawing from a state of beingness to a state of not beingness and is intended to persuade others to coax the individual back into a state of beingness. (AP&A, p. 43) 6. that computation generated by the preclear (not the bank) to make self right and others wrong, to dominate or escape domination and enhance own survival and injure that of others. (HCOB 1 Sept 63)

SESSION, see AUDITING SESSION.

SESSION ARC BREAK, occurs when the session inadvertently brought into view someplace on the back track, something which was not acknowledged. A heavy charge on the back track moved in just to the fringes of consciousness of the pc and he reacted, and his affinity, and reality, and communication went by the boards. (SH Spec 60, 6505C11)

SESSION MISSED WITHHOLD, a missed withhold picked up in a session is anything the pc thinks, anything the pc is withholding. It doesn’t matter. That’s a session missed withhold. Pc didn’t tell the auditor he was uncomfortable, etc. (SH Spec 142, 6205C03)

SETTLE OUT, 1. which is to say, permits the temporarily enturbulated theta to disenturbulate and the “frozen” entheta to convert, in some minute quantity, to free theta. (SOS, Bk. 2, p. 8) 2. destimulate. (HCOB 16 Aug 70)

SET UP, getting an F/N showing and VGIs before starting any major action. Such may require a repair action and rudiments as well. (HCOB 23 Aug 71)

SETUP PROGRAM, a repair program to eradicate case mishandling by current life or auditing errors. (HCOB 12 Jun 70)

SEVEN RESISTIVE CASES, these are the only cases which hang up: (1) unaudited cases (lies about grades, etc.); (2) drug cases (who seek in processing the delusions or madness which exhilarated them on drugs); (3) former therapy cases (in this or past lives); (4) out of valence cases; (5) cases who continue to commit overts on Scn; (6) cases “audited” with their ruds out or grades out; (7) seriously physically ill cases (where the illness makes too much PTP in PT). (HCOB 23 Sept 68)

SEVENTH DYNAMIC, see DYNAMICS.
SEVERITY, an increase in that discipline believed necessary by the people to guarantee their security. (PAB 96)

SEX, 1. the body’s single effort to make something out of nothing is resident in sex, and in this culture at our time sex is a degraded and nasty thing which must be hidden at best and babies are something not to have but to be prevented. Thus even sex has been made to parallel the something-into-nothing impulse. (PAB 14) 2. sex has been overweighted in importance in old psychotherapy, an importance more or less disgraced at this time. Sex is only one of numerous creative impulses. An anxiety about sex, however, occurs when an individual begins to believe that there will not be a body for him to have during the next lifetime. (FOT, p. 67) 3. sex finds no space tolerable for present beingness but looks to other and future beingnesses as the only chance for universes. (PAB 33) 4. a harmonic of aesthetics and pain. (Scn Jour 18-G) 5. an interchange of condensed admiration particles which forwards new bodies into being. (COHA, p. 205) 6. the super-condensed many times via’d activity of creating other life forms. The only thing which makes it more complex is the fact that it is considered to be more complex. (5410CM20)

SEXUAL SENSATION, any feeling, pleasant or unpleasant, commonly experienced during sexual restimulation or action. (HCOB 19 Jan 67)

SF , small fall, (a quarter to half an inch). (HCOB 29 Apr 69)

SH, Saint Hill. (HCOB 23 Aug 65)

SHAME, 1. effect one creates is unworthy, shouldn’t have done it. (HCOB 6 Feb 60) 2. being other bodies, 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)

SH DEMO, Saint Hill Demonstration. (HCOB 29 Sept 66)

SHIFT OF VALENCE, that merely means taking on the identity of another mass. (5410CM12)

SHOCK, 1. a person can be broken down on the emotional scale so steeply, sharply and suddenly that they can be killed. That’s what’s known as shock. (5203CM05A) 2. an expression of an unwillingness to duplicate. (5410CM21)

SHORT 8, a short form of Standard Operating Procedure 8 of Scn 8-8008 . (COHA, p. 243)

SHORT LIST, by short, we don’t mean 539 pages, or three items either. A short list is enough items to get the pc sure he or she has covered the lot. (HCOB 1 Jul 65)

SHORT SESSIONING, 1. starting, continuing for a few minutes, a session, and ending the session. It has good gain qualities for a pc who has poor concentration. (HCOB 24 Mar 60) 2. means that two or more sessions can be run in one auditing period. (HCOB 21 Dec 61)

SHORT SPOTTING, 1. one version of TR-10, “You notice that (nearby object).” It is spotting right up close. (SCP, p. 10) 2. a process called short spotting, wherein the auditor has the preclear spot things that are very close to him. (SCP, p. 22)

SHORT TERM PTP, is in terms of months or weeks. (SH Spec 5, 6106C01) SHPA, Special Hubbard Professional Auditors Course (London). (HCOB 29 Sept 66)

SHSBC, 1. Saint Hill Special Briefing Course. (HCO PL 11 Feb 63) 2. the purpose of the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course was first foremost and only to make clearing auditors. (HCO PL 12 Nov 62)

SHUT-OFFS, there is a whole species of commands which shut off pain and emotion simultaneously. “I can’t feel anything” is the standard, but the command varies widely and is worded in a great many ways. (DMSMH, p. 347)

SICK BEING, one who has been bent upon violence and was suppressed, or one who was bent upon constructiveness and was suppressed. (HCO Info Ltr 2 Apr 64).

SICKNESS, 1. the result of engram chains in restimulation. (HCOB 16 Aug 69) 2. is a covert effort to die. (SH Spec 40, 6108C16) 3. invalidation of a terminal. (SH Spec 46, 6108C29)

SIGHT, light waves, coming from the sun, moon, stars or artificial sources, reflect from objects and the light waves enter the eyes and are recorded for present time action or as memory for future reference. Light sources are also recorded. This is the sense perception called sight. (SA, p. 79)

SIGNIFICANCE, 1. a word which is used in the special sense to denote any thought, decision, concept, idea or meaning in the mind in distinction to its masses. (The mind is basically composed of masses and significances.) (Scn AD) 2. a thetan can postulate or say or reason anything. Thus there is an infinity of significances. (HCOB 16 Jun 70)

SIGNIFICANCE PROCESSING, significance processing had the preclear take some picture or object and assign innumerable significances to it. This is an excellent process for those who are always looking for deeper significances in everything. (COHA, P- 79)

SIMULATED CLEAR, we called it a “keyed-out clear” quite properly. The person has been released from his reactive mind. He still has that reactive mind but he’s not in it. (HCOB 2 Apr 65)

SINCE MID RUDS, see BIG MIDDLE RUDIMENTS, MIDDLE RUDIMENTS.

SINGLE, by “single” is meant “to self” flow 1. (HCOB 5 Oct 69)

SIX BASIC PROCESSES, THE, (1) Two-Way Communication; (2 ) Elementary Straightwire; (3) Opening Procedure of 8C; (4) Opening Procedure by Duplication; (5) Remedying Havingness; (6) Spotting Spots in Space. (PAB 42)

SIXTH DYNAMIC, see DYNAMICS.

SKIPPED GRADIENT, a skipped gradient means taking on a higher degree or amount before a lesser degree of it has been handled, one has to go back and handle the missed degree or thing or else one will have just loses on a subject thereafter. (HCOB 2 Jun 71 I)

SKUNK, “skunk” has a slang definition of “to lose out,” to be “skunked.” (LRH Def. Notes)

SKUNKED, a list with RSes on it in listing that failed to produce a reliable item. (HCOB 5 Dec 62)

SLAM, see ROCK SLAM.

SLANT (/), 1. if the item is alive constantly or sporadically but doesn’t go null for three consecutive reads you put a slant. (SH Spec 137, 6204C24) 2. the auditor, to null the list marks each item that stays in with a (/). (HCOB 5 Dec 62)

SLAVERY, being positioned in another’s time and space. (Scn 8-8008 Gloss).

SLOW ASSESSMENT, by slow assessment is meant letting the pc itsa while assessing. This consists of rapid auditor action, very crisp to get something that moves the TA and then immediate shift into letting the pc itsa during which, “Be quiet!” The slowness is overall action. It takes hours and hours to do an old preclear assessment form this way but the TA flies. (HCOB 1 Oct 63)

SLOW BOAT AUDITING, auditing done without an ability to estimate the ARC of the pc or know where the basic processes fit on the tone scale. (Abil Ma 5)

SLOW GAIN CASE, committing overts the auditor doesn’t see. Therefore a little discipline in the environment speeds the slow gain case. (HCOB 29 Sept 65)

SMALL TIGER, it is however simply called Tiger Drill. Big Tiger is always called Big Tiger. Only the following buttons are used in Small Tiger: suppressed, invalidated, suggested, failed to reveal and mistake. (HCOB 29 Nov 62)

SMELL, is evidently activated by small particles escaping from the object, which is thus sensed traveling through space and meeting the nerves. Taste is usually considered to be a part of the sense of smell. (SA, p. 87)

SNAPPING TERMINALS, the reason an engram comes into being and expresses itself on a preclear’s body is a lack of communication, the communication has become solid. It expresses itself as an engram, as a facsimile, as a lock, as a secondary. This expression comes about through absence of two-way communication. The moment that one runs two-way communication in upon the process, the spot has a tendency to go back to its original location. This is the phenomenon known as snapping or closing terminals. (PAB 51))

SOCIAL MACHINERY, action without awareness. He’s doing it all the time but he never noticed it. What the individual is aware of and what the individual is doing are not the same thing, ever. (Aud 31)

SOCIAL PERSONALITY, the social personality naturally operates on the basis of the greatest good. He is not haunted by imagined enemies but he does recognize real enemies when they exist. The social personality wants to survive and wants others to survive. Basically the social personality wants others to be happy and do well. (ISE, p. 19)

SOFT TRs, there has been such a thing as “soft TRs”. In being “soft” and “nice” about TRs, you are not doing anyone a favor. If anything, it would be the greatest disservice you could give a being. In Scn we get results and we get them by following our technology relentlessly to the letter. (BTB 18 Aug 71R)

SOLDERED-IN, the engram acts as if it were a soldered-in connection to the life function regulator and the organic coordinator and the basic level of the analytical mind itself. By soldered-in is meant “permanent connection.” This keying in is the hook-up of the engram as part of the operating machinery of the body. (DMSMH, p. 78).

SOLID, when the meter needle is not floating the TA is registering mass, mental mass. When you see a TA going up, up, up you know the picture isn’t erasing but is getting more solid. The solidness is visible right on the TA dial. (HCOB 25 May 69)

SOLIDITY, 1. could be said to be stupidity. (COHA, p. 139) 2. barriers. (HCOB 10 Mar 70)

SOLO AUDITING, 1. the action of “solo auditing” is not self-auditing. Solo auditing is done in a regular session in model session form. (HCOB 8 Dec 64) 2. in solo auditing the auditor is also the pc. This means that once the auditor has duplicated and understood the item or question the pc has also. (BTB 12 Dec 71 IV)

SOLUTION, 1. what will cause the problem to dissipate and disappear. (PXL, p.182 )  2 . something which solves the problem. Thus the as-isness is the problem is the solution for it would vanish the problem. (COHA, p. 109)

SOM, symbol for somatic. (HCOB 19 Jan 67)

SOMA, body. (HCOB 23 Apr 69)

SOMATIC, 1. by somatic is meant a pain or ache sensation and also misemotion or even unconsciousness. There are a thousand different descriptive words that could add up to a feeling. Pains, aches, dizziness, sadness-these are all feelings. Awareness, pleasant or unpleasant, of a body. ( HCOB 26 Apr 69) 2. body sensation, illness or pain or discomfort. “Soma” means body. Hence psychosomatic or pains stemming from the mind. (HCOB 23 Apr 69) 3. this is a general word for uncomfortable physical perceptions coming from the reactive mind. Its genus is early Dn and it is a general, common package word used by Scientologists to denote “pain” or “sensation” with no difference made between them. To the Scientologist anything is a somatic if it emanates from the various parts of the reactive mind and produces an awareness of reactivity. Symbol: SOM. (HCOB 8 Nov 62) 4. the word somatic means, actually, bodily or physical. Because the word pain is restimulative, and because the word pain has in the past led to a confusion between physical pain and mental pain, the word somatic is used in Dn to denote physical pain or discomfort, of any kind. It can mean actual pain, such as that caused by a cut or a blow; or it can mean discomfort, as from heat or cold; it can mean itching-in short, anything physically uncomfortable. It does not include mental discomfort such as grief. Hard breathing would not be a somatic; it would be a symptom of misemotion suppression. Somatic means a non-survival physical state of being. (SOS, p. 79)

SOMATIC CHAIN, 1. chains, held together by somatics. The body condition o r somatic is what keeps the chain in association. Somatic chains go quickly to basic and are the important chains. (HCOB 23 May 69)

SOMATIC LOCATION, the technique available to the auditor by which the moment of reception of the somatic is located, in an effort to discover whether it is received in this engram or to find an engram containing it. (DMSMH, p. 226)

SOMATIC MIND, 1. the mind that works in a purely stimulus response way, contains only actingness, no thinkingness, and can be used to set up certain physical machines. (HCO Info Ltr 2 Sept 64) 2. that mind which, directed by the analytical or reactive mind, places solutions into effect on the physical level. (Scn 0-8, p. 65) 3. this is an even heavier type of mind than the reactive mind since it contains no thinkingness and contains only actingness. The impulses placed against the body by the thetan through various mental machinery, arrive at the voluntary, involuntary, and glandular levels. These have set methods of analysis for any given situation and so respond directly to commands given. (FOT, p. 61) 4. the somatic mind would be that mind which takes care of the automatic mechanisms of the body, the regulation of the minutiae which keep the organism running. (SOS, Bk. 2, p. 233)

SOMATIC SHUT-OFF, the somatic may be shut-off in the incident or elsewhere, either earlier by command or late by painful emotion. The patient who wriggles a great deal or who does not wriggle at all is suffering from a pain or emotion shut-off or late painful emotional engrams or both. There is a whole species of commands which shut-off pain and emotion simultaniously: this is because the word “feel” is homonymic. “I can’t feel anything” is the standard, but the command varies widely and is worded in a great many ways. (DMSMH, pp. 346-347)

SOMATIC STRIP, the somatic strip is so called because it seems to be a physical indicator mechanism which has to do with time. The auditor orders the somatic strip. There is this difference between the file clerk and the somatic strip: he works with the file clerk but commands the somatic strip. On command, the somatic strip will go to any point of the preclear’s life, unless the entheta on the case is so heavy that the somatic strip is frozen in one place. The somatic strip goes to the point of return, but it is not the same as completely returning since the preclear’s “I” can stay in present time and the somatic strip can be sent back to earlier periods of his life. This is a very useful mechanism. The somatic strip can be sent back to the beginning of an engram and will go there. The somatic strip will advance through an engram in terms of minutes counted off by the auditor, so that the auditor can say that the somatic strip will go to the beginning of the engram, then to the point five minutes after the engram began, and so forth. (SOS, Bk. 2, p. 163)

SONIC, 1. ability to hear the sound in pictures. (HCOB 20 May 69) 2. by the word sonic in Dn is usually meant sonic recall, rather than hearing sound6 outside the body. Sonic means hearing the sounds which have been remembered. Those sounds which the individual has heard in the past are all recorded, either in the analytical standard memory bank or in the reactive bank. (SOS, p. 65) 3. recalling a sound by hearing it again is called “sonic” in Dn and is a desirable circumstance which can be returned to the individual. (SA, p. 85)

SONIC CIRCUITS, are very easily recognized, for they speak audibly inside the head of the preclear or give him faint sonic impressions. (SOS, Bk. 2, p. 205)

SONIC SHUT-OFF, 1. it’s a person trying to stop the energy wave of sound. (5110CMOlB) 2. sonic shut-off may be quite selective: the individual may be able to hear sounds but not voices. Selective shut-offs are caused both by charge on the case and by selective sonic shut-off commands, such as “You cannot hear your wife,” or “You pay no attention to me.” (SOS, p. 66)

SOP, Standard Operating Procedure. (Scn 8-8008, p. 85)

SOP-8, Standard Operating Procedure 8. This operating procedure retains the most workable methods of preceding procedures and, in itself, emphasizes positive gain and the present and future rather than negative gain of eradication of the past. The goal of this procedure is not the rehabilitation of the body but of the thetan. Rehabilitation of a body incidentally ensues. The goal of this procedure is Operating Thetan. (Scn 8-8008, p. 115)

SOP 8A, a process; employed the moment it is discovered the pc’s very uncertain of his own mock-ups or if he is occluded. (PAB 2)

SOP-8-C, might be called SOP-8 modified for clinical, laboratory, and individual human applications. The goal of the system of operation is to return to the individual his knowledge, skill and knowingness, and to enhance his perception, his reaction time and serenity. (COHA, p. 246)

SOP 8-D, this procedure is for use by a trained Scientologist. Its primary goal is the delivery of heavy cases; however it can be extensively applied to all cases. (COHA, p. 174)

SOP GOALS, this is Standard Operating Procedure Goals. There is a great deal to know about SOP Goals. It is the right way to use the pre-hav scales. With skilled use this can produce releases and Clears. (HCOB 23 Mar 61)

SOUND, 1. sound consists of the perception of waves emanating from moving objects. An object moves rapidly or slowly, and sets into vibration the air in its vicinity which pulses. When these pulses strike the eardrum they set into motion the individual’s sound recording mechanism and the sound is registered. Sound is absent in a vacuum and is actually merely a force wave. (SA, p. 84) 2. sound is a by-product of communication. It is the carrier wave of communication and is not itself communication. (Dn 55!, p. 131) 3. sound has several parts. The first is pitch. This is the number of vibrations per unit of time of any object from which sound is coming. The second is quality or tone which is simply the difference between a jagged or ragged sound wave and a smooth sound wave as in a musical note. The third is volume, which merely means the force of the sound wave, its loudness or quietness. (SA, p. 85)

SOURCE, 1. the point of origin, or it would be the originator, or where something was begun or dreamed up or mocked up. (Class VIII, No. 18) 2. that from which something comes or develops; place of origin: cause. (HCOB 11 May 65)

SOURCE LIST, 1. the goal oppose as covered in steps 1-7 (of R3M). This is called a “source list.” (HCOB 22 Feb 63) 2. there are only two of these “source lists.” (a) the “most likely list” at the start of each GPM, done before RIs are found. “Who or what would be most likely to achieve this goal?” And (b) the “goal as an RI oppose list” at the bottom of the GPM, done after all the RIs of the GPM are found. “What goal would (the goal just done) oppose?” (HCOB 8 Apr 63)

SOURCE-POINT, if you consider a river flowing to the sea, the place where it began would be the source-point or cause and the place where it went into the sea would be the effect-point and the sea would be the effect of the river. (PAB 86)

SOUTH, very, very rough cases. The common denominator is: nothing they think has any effect on anything. They’re all on automatic and what they’ve got left under analytical control is so scrappily tiny that it’s a wonder they move at all. (6102C14) See ALL THE WAY SOUTH.

SOUTH OF THE AUKS, “South” is used as “below” or more basic or “more lost.” South of the AUKS would be even further south than the South Pole, Antartica being inhabited by a flightless bird, the AUK. (LRH Def. Notes) SP, suppressive person. (HCOB 5 Feb 66)

SPACATION, 1. the subject of space. We call the process spacation, and spacation would be the subject of space. (PDC 1) 2. a process having to do with the rehabilitation of the creation of space. (PDC 1) 3. constructing own apace with eight anchor points and holding it stable without effort. (Scn 8-8008, pp. 116-117) 4. the subject of the creation, handling of, or concept of apace. (PDC 11)

SPACE, 1. space is a viewpoint of dimension. It doesn’t exist without a viewpoint. (531lCM17A) 2. apace is not nothingness. Space is the viewpoint of dimension, and that is what space is. It is how far we look and if you didn’t look you wouldn’t have any apace. (5608COO) 3. space is caused by looking out from a point. The only actuality of space is the agreed-upon consideration that one perceives through something and this we call apace. (FOT, p. 71) 4. space is made by the attitude of a viewpoint which demarks an area with anchor points. (Scn 8-8008, p. 17) 5. can be defined of course in reverse by its own terms in terms of time. Space is something that to go from the left side of the table over to the right side of the tabletop would require space. They define against each other (time and space). (5203C03B)

SPACE OPERA, a novel, motion picture, radio or television play, or comic strip usually of a stock type featuring interplanetary travel, beings of outer space often in conflict with the people of earth and other similar science fiction themes. (Webster's Third International Dictionary)

SPECTRUM, gradations of something which are really the same thing but which have wider and wider scope or range. (DMSMH, p. 196)

SPECTRUM PRINCIPLE, a yardstick whereby gradations from zero to infinity and infinity to infinity were used and absolutes were considered utterly unobtainable for scientific purposes. (DMSMH, p. 336)

SPEECH, 1. a specialized portion of sound and sight. Speech is learned by the mimicry of the sounds of action. (NOTL, p. 39) 2. a symbolized package of perception. (Spr Lect 3, 5303M24)

SPERM DREAM, patients sometimes have a feeling that they are sperms or ovums at the beginning of the track; in Dn this is called the sperm dream. (DMSMH, p. 294)

SPHERES OF INTEREST, the spheres of interest are the eight dynamics. A series of concentric sphere6 each one larger than the last with the first dynamic at center and the eighth dynamic at the extreme of any universe gives a spatial picture of interest. (COHA, p. 99)

SPINNER, THE, a chair device was used to spin the thetan until he had no orientation. This is the probable source of the slang term, spinning, meaning going insane. (HOM, pp. 72-73)

SPINNINESS, a variety of dizziness; a sensation. (HCOB 19 Jan 67)

SPINNING, slang term meaning going insane. (HOM, p. 73)

SPIRALS, 1. the thetan lives his life in segments: the largest segment is composed of spirals, as he goes through the mest universe, he is involved in a series of spirals each one less in terms of years, ordinarily, than the last. The length of this spiral might serve to indicate how much longer the thetan can continue. By a spiral would be meant a more or less continuous cycle of action. (HOM, p. 50) 2. a term of lives, or a term of existences, or a single existence which bear an intimate relation, one to the other. (PDC 16)

SPIRIT, a thetan, after the Greek symbol of thought  and spirit - theta. (Abil 146)

SPORADIC SLAM, this slam is occasionally turned on. (SH Spec 194, 6209C25)

SPOT, a simple location, not a spot that has a mass, temperature, or characteristics. A location is simply a location, it does not have mass, it does not have color, it does not have any temperature. (Dn 55!, p. 119)

SPOTTING SPOTS, 1. the goal of the process is to bring the preclear to a point where he can spot locations in space which do not have color, mass or shape, but which are simply locations, and spot that same location repeatedly without variation. (PAB 51) 2. this is a precision action-you want him to spot a spot in space and then be able to spot it again. That spot is only a location. It doesn’t have mass, and you want him to be able to put his finger on it and take his finger off of it, and put the finger of his other hand on it, and take it off, and move his body into it and move his body out of it and so forth. This is a location and the more certain he becomes of these locations the better he is, and the next thing you know-why, he’s able to tolerate space. (PXL, p. 262)

SPRINGY, needle reaction-reads which bounce back to set position. (HCOB 8 Jul 64 II)

SQUIRREL, 1. a squirrel is doing something entirely different. He doesn’t understand any of the principles so he makes up a bunch of them to fulfill his ignorance and voices them off on a pc and gets no place. (SH Spec 77, 6111C08) 2. those who engage in actions altering Scn, and offbeat practices. (ISE, p. 40)- v. to change and invent processes. (HCOB 23 May 69)

SQUIRRELLING, 1. it means altering Scn and offbeat practices. It is a bad thing. (HCO PL 14 Feb 65) 2. squirrelling is not really different processes-it is careless, incomplete, messed up auditing procedure. (HCOB 15 Jan 70 II)

STABILITY, what we will call a stability for want of a better word at this time would be one who can, without the assistance of mest eyes, perceive with complete certainty the three universes from many viewpoints, a Clear. (PAB 2)

STABLE DATUM, 1. 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. (POW, p. 23) 2. any body of knowledge is built from one datum. That is its stable datum. Invalidate it and the entire body of knowledge falls apart. A stable datum does not have to be the correct one. It is simply the one that keeps things from being in a confusion and on which others are aligned. (POW, p. 24) 3. a datum which keeps things from being in a confusion and around which other data align. (NSOL, p. 66) See also DOCTRINE OF THE STABLE DATUM.

STAGE FOUR NEEDLE, 1. means somebody who isn’t registering by reason of being stuck in machinery. A stage four needle rises and sticks and then falls. (5811C07) 2. this is the sole survivor of an old system (20th ACC) that used four stages of meter reaction as a test of state of case. A stage four needle is still important to identify when met as it means this preclear is from no place as a case. A stage four is below a merely stuck needle. A stage four needle goes up about an inch or two (always the same distance) and sticks and then falls, goes up, sticks, falls, about once a second or so. It is very regular, always the same distance, always the same pattern, over and over on and on, and nothing you say or the preclear says changes it (except body reactions). It’s a disheartening phenomenon. Until you break it, there’s no case change. (EME, p. 19)

STAGES OF RELEASE, First Stage Release. 1. this occurs in auditing up to Grade IV. It is not very stable. The person is very well off and definitely a release, but he or she can now postulate and in postulating sometimes gets into the R6 bank. 
The first stage release is eased out of the bank but subject to call back. (HCOB 28 Jun 65) 2. to obtain first stage release, one must have had lower grade auditing of some sort. This removes the locks (the distressful moments of life) off the reactive mind. As these pinned one to it, one can now get out of it. (HCOB 5 Aug 65) Second Stage Release. Power Process Release. This is very stable and should be called a Second Stage Release or a Power Release to be technically exact. You can run only power processes on a First Stage Release. These knock out all factors of the track that force a person back into the R6 bank and leave the person able to go into or get out of the R6 bank easily. This second stage release is definitely Homo novis. The person ceases to respond like a Homo sapiens and has fantastic capability to learn and act. (HCOB 28 Jun 65) 
Third Stage Release. 1. certain advanced power processes make a Third Stage Release. These mainly recover knowledge and smooth out one’s understanding of the awareness of the environment achieved by Second Stage Release on power processing. (HCOB 12 Jul 65) 2. (called for a few days a second stage before terminology was firm) is an improved Second Stage Release in that selective areas of learning are handled to return special skills to the person. The case state does not necessarily improve but certain zones of knowledge have been polished up. (HCOB 28 Jun 65) 
Fourth Stage Release. to obtain Fourth Stage Release one has to take the lock end words off the R6 bank. He has to be an R6 auditor himself to do this properly. With these gone, the R6 bank is left on its naked basics and one can be very free of it for quite a while. (HCOB 5 Aug 65) 
Fifth Stage Release. 1. to obtain a Fifth Stage Release, one has to have run out the whole remaining reactive mind. That’s done by a process known as R6- GPMI or GPM’s by Items (HCOB 5 Aug 65) 2. Fifth Stage Release would be Clear. (SH Spec 65, 6507C27)

STALE-DATED C/S, a C/S that is a week or two old. This is called a stale-dated C/S meaning it is too old to be valid. (HCOB 23 Aug 71)

STALE-DATED PROGRAM, a repair (progress) program that is a month or two old. This is called a stale-dated program meaning it is too old to be valid. (HCOB 23 Aug 71)

STANDARD, 1. a definite level or degree of quality that is proper and adequate for a specific purpose. (Class VIII, No. 4) 2. “Standard” in standard tech auditing is a precise activity, done with good TRs, exact grade processes and exact actions. (HCOB 10 Sept 68).

STANDARD AUDITING CYCLE, a standard auditing cycle includes only those items which appear on the paid completions HCOB 30 Aug 71RA Issue II, Revised 21 Oct 73, Paid Completions-Second Revision. (HCO PL 21 Oct 73R)

STANDARD DIANETICS, modern Dn auditing is called Standard Dianetics and new Dianetics. It is a precision activity. (LRH ED 9, 11 May 69)

STANDARD MEMORY BANKS, 1. the analytical mind has its standard memory banks. To operate, the analytical mind has to have percepts (data), memory (data), and imagination (data). Whether or not the data contained in the standard memory banks is evaluated correctly or not, it is all there. The various senses receive information and this information files straight into the standard memory bank. (DMSMH, p. 45) 2 . those in which experience is stored for use in the estimation of the effort necessary for survival and are concerned with analytical thought. (Scn 8-8008, p. 8) 3 . recordings of everything perceived throughout the lifetime up to present time by the individual except physical pain, which is not recorded in the analytical mind but is recorded in the reactive mind. (SOS, Bk. 2, p. 230)

STANDARD PATTERN OF A TRACK, the standard pattern of a track should be counter-effort, overt act, thought pattern. (5206CM24F)

STANDARD TECH, 1. a standardization of processes so that they apply to 100 per cent of the cases to which they are addressed. (Class VIII, No. 19) 2. the accumulation of those exact processes which make a way between humanoid and OT, the exact method of organizing them, the exact method of delivering them, and the exact repair of any errors made on that route. (Class VIII, No. 2) 3. that terribly narrow path which we now call standard tech is composed of those things which if they are out inhibit and prohibit all case gain. (Class VIII, No. 1) 4. standard tech is not a process or a series of processes. It is following the rules of processing. (HCOB 26 Feb 70) 5 . that tech which has absolutely no arbitraries. (HCOB 23 Aug 68)

STANDING WAVE, a wave form comes up and either because it meets another wave form or for some other reason it just becomes a rigid form. If you could imagine an ocean wave not any longer rolling but just sitting there all peaked. Well, electricity strangely enough will do this, and a thetan is very good at this. (7204C07 SO III)

STAR-RATE CHECKOUT, a very exact checkout which verifies the full and minute knowledge of the student, of a portion of study materials and tests his full understanding of the data and ability to apply it. (HCOB 21 Sept 70)

STAR-RATED, 100 per cent letter perfect in knowing and understanding, demonstrating and being able to repeat back the material with no comm lag. (HCO PL 8 Mar 66)

START-CHANGE-STOP, the anatomy of control. This is a cycle of action. There is continue (persist) on the middle of the curve and other cycles within cycles of action, but the most important factors are start, change, and stop. These three parts of control are run flat individually. Then pick up the other part of the cycle and run that flat in this order: we run change flat, and then run start very flat and then we run stop flat. (PAB 97)

STATE OF CASE SCALE, 1. this is the state of case scale. All levels given are major levels. Minor levels exist between them. Level (1), no track-no charge. Level (1) is of course an O.T. (HCOB 8 Jun 63) Level (2), full visible time track-some charge. Level (2) is the clearest clear anybody ever heard of. (HCOB 8 Jun 63) Level (3), sporadic visibility of track-some heavily charged areas. Level (3) can run engrams. (HCOB 8 Jun 63) Level (4), invisible track (black or invisible field), very heavily charged areas exist. Level (4) can run early track engrams if the running is skilled. Level (4) includes the Black V case. (HCOB 8 Jun 63) Level (5), dub-in-some areas of track so heavily charged pc is below consciousness in them. Level (5) has to be run on general ARC processes. (HCOB 8 Jun 63) He has an uncertainty about everything. He has to figure about everything; he has to know before he goes, and he has to hide but he knows he can’t hide, and he depends on logic to serve for all of his predictions because he can’t look. (PAB 2) This guy can’t confront it to the degree that if he tries to confront it he makes a picture of it. He’s got a picture of a picture. (SH Spec 2751 6306C18) Level (6), dub-in of dub-in. Many areas of track so heavily charged, the dub-in is submerged. Level (6) has to be run carefully on special ARC processes with lots of havingness. (HCOB 8 Jun 63) A (6) is neurotic. He’s unable to easily recall the things in the next to the last list of Self Analysis; something really real, a time he was really in communication, and so forth. (5304M07) There’s nothing that distinguishes the (6) from the dub-in case except the degree of franticness which the case goes into, and the amount of delusion which can turn on. What characterizes this case is the terrible automaticity of the bank. (SH Spec 274, 6306C13) Level (7), only aware of own evaluations -track too heavily charged to be viewed at all. Level (7) responds to the CCHs. (HCOB 8 Jun 63) Level (8), unaware-pc dull, often in a coma. Level (8) responds only to reach and withdraw CCHs. (HCOB 8 Jun 63) In actuality on some portion of every time track in every case you will find each of the levels except (1) momentarily expressed. The above scale is devoted to chronic case level and is useful in programming a case. Now, what makes these levels of case? It is entirely charge. The more heavily charged the case, the lower it falls on the above scale. It is charge that prevents the pc from confronting the time track and submerges the time track from view. (HCOB 8 Jun 63)

STATES OF RELEASE, there are five state6 of release (Grades O-IV) up to Power Release (Grade V). Above this is a Whole Track Release (Grade VI) and above that is a state we call Clear. Clear is followed by the state of OT (Operating Thetan), attained in sections. (Aud 107 ASHO)

STATIC, 1. a static is something without mass, without wavelength, without time, and actually without position. That’s a static and that is the definition of zero. (5410CM06) 2. a static by definition, is something that is in a complete equilibrium. It isn’t moving and that’s why we’ve used the word static. Not in an engineering sense but in its absolute dictionary sense. (5608C--) 3. 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) 4. something which has no motion. The word is from the Latin, sto meaning stand. No part of mest can be static, but theta is static. Theta has no motion. Even when the mest it controls is moving in space and time, theta is not moving, since theta is not in space or time. (Abil 114A) 5. has no motion, it has no width, length, breadth, depth; it is not held in suspension by an equilibrium of forces; it does not have mass; it does not contain wave-lengths; it has no situation in time or space. (Scn 8-8008, p. 13) 6. the simplest thing there is is a static, but a static is not nothingness. These are not synonyms. We speak of it carelessly as a nothingness. That’s because we say nothingness in relationship to the space and objects of the material universe. Life has a quality. It has an ability. When we say nothingness we simply mean it has no quantity. There is no quantitative factor. (5411CM05) 7. A static, in physics, is called something which is “an equilibrium of forces.” (Dn 55! p. 27)

STEERING THE PC, 1. this is the only use of latent or random reads. You see a read the same as the instant read occurring again when you are not speaking but after you have found a whole thought reacting you say, “There” or “That” and the pc, seeing what he or she is looking at as you say it recovers the knowledge from the reactive bank and gives the data and the whole thought clears or has to be further worked and cleared. (HCOB 25 May 62) 2. each time the needle twitches the auditor says, “That” or “There” to help the pc see what is twitching. This prompting is the only use of latent reads in Scn. (HCOB 3 May 62).

STENOGRAPHIC AUDITING, the auditor is writing down every word the pc says (like a stenographer). (BTB 10 Jul 69)

STEP V, Black V. (PXL, p. 167) See also STATE OF CASE SCALE .

STEP SIX, 1. I had known about help for some years and in 1957, autumn, used it with Step 6 in clearing people. The first clears made easily by others were done with meter assessments and five way help brackets on terminals. It was found that Step 6, being a creative process, was bad on some cases. The clearing formula was help and Step 6 . (HCOB 12 May 60) 2. establish pc’s control over mest subjective. (HCOB 13 Mar 75) [The full rundown is contained in Scientology Clear Procedure, Issue One. ]

STEP SIX PHENOMENON (OF SCIENTOLOGY CLEAR PROCEDURE), when what you are asking the pc to do is at great variance with the basic goal of the pc, you get an increase of mass in the bank by reason of mocking things up. (SH Spec 160, 6206C12)

STEP 6 SOP-8C, that step which includes the solution of problems posed by symbolism. The solution which resolves symbolism is the definition of Step 6. (2ACC-llB, 5311CM27)

STHIL, Saint Hill. (HCOB 23 Aug 65)

STICK, needle definitely stops (if it was moving) or simply remains fixed with no movement in either direction. (HCOB 30 Apr 60)

STICKERS, they are stuck phrases in modifiers. “Stay right here and wait no matter how long it takes.” That would not be unusual to find in a modifier. It parks the person on the track very effectively. (SH Spec 81, 6111C16)

STICKY NEEDLE (sticky or rigid needle), one which does not change, but if it does, changes very slightly and with a jerk. (Scn Jour 1-G 1952)

STILL TA, 1. occurs when the auditor did not have to move the TA in order to read the needle. (SH Spec 234, 6302C07) 2 . only one-eighth of a division of motion on the tone arm dial-e.g., an eighth of the distance from 4 to 5 . (HCOB 11 Apr 61)

STIMULUS-RESPONSE, mechanism whereby the individual is restimulated or upset or stimulated by the environment. (HFP, p. 32)

STOP, 1. motionlessness. (SCP, p. 17) 2. a stop is made out of vias. (COHA, p. 108)

STOPPED READ, would be one that froze the needle. (HCOB 3 Jun 71)

STOP SUPREME, a variation of S-C-S processes. Stop Supreme is a heavy emphasis on stop and it will be found that after the three processes of start, change and stop are flat, one can move rather easily into Stop Supreme. The idea behind Stop Supreme is that stop or motionlessness, is probably the most thetan ability a thetan has. Thus the rehabilitation of this particular ability is worthwhile and does produce considerable results. (SCP, p. 17)

STRAIGHT LINE MEMORY, in straight line memory you don’t put the preclear in reverie or let him close his eyes. It can cure a person by remembering pleasant things in the past. You don’t want him to remember only the concept, but to remember the exact moment. (NOTL, p. 113)

STRAIGHT MEMORY, 1. the process of recovering data, springing locks by straight memory and setting up the case in such a way that it’ll go into reverie. It’s getting your earliest locks, getting him to remember this and that and the bad things he thinks about himself. (5011CM30) 2. straight wire. (SOS, Bk. 2, p. 64)

STRAIGHTWIRE, 1. when we say straightwire, we’re simply talking about stringing a line from cause to effect through the past. (5410CM07) 2. straight memory is also called straightwire because the auditor is directing the memory of the preclear and in doing so is stringing wire , much on the order of a telephone line, between “I” and the standard memory bank. (SOS, Bk. 2, p. 64) 3. a technique of direct memory. (5009CM23B) 4. in 1950 in the early HDA lectures we described this as the act of stringing a line between present time and some incident in the past, and stringing that line directly and without any detours. (Abil SW, p. 11) 5. straightwire is-the recovery of the actual, time, place and object. (5410CM0)

STRAY RI, a stray RI is an RI from a GPM of another goal than the one being worked. (HCOB 18 Mar 63)

STRESS ANALYSIS, using the E-meter to isolate the exact point of a man’s difficulty with a subject or equipment and clearing this up, or finding the exact point where equipment is not well adapted to man. Its use in study can pin-point the exact thing that has halted the flow of comprehension. Thus it can be cleared up. (HCOB 13 Jun 70 II)

STRIPPING, the action of stripping is done by taking every aspect of every factor in the problem and running it back to the postulate the preclear made to be concerned about that aspect of the factor. (AP&A, p. 46)

STUCK FLOW, 1. a flow which runs too long in one direction can “stick.” It will not flow longer in that one direction. It now has to have a reverse flow run. (HCOB 5 Oct 69) 2. one-way communication. The flow can be stuck incoming or it can be stuck outgoing. (Dn 55!, p. 79)

STUCK IN A WIN, a person is stuck in “win” only when he intended to lose and won. A runner never expected to win. He was simply part of the field most of his career and then spectacularly and almost by accident, he won. It is certain that he will be stuck in that win. Therefore the only wins that a person gets stuck in are those which were not intentional. (PAB 91)

STUCK IN PRESENT TIME, 1. the condition of a person being incapable of moving on the time track into the past. In actuality the preclear is in some incident which forces him to be in the apparent present. (HCOB 11 May 65) 2. a person cannot be stuck in present time. The engram might give him the illusion of being stuck in present time, but actually he is stuck in an engram. (NOTL, p. 127) 3. when a case is stuck in present time it is highly charged with occluded emotion and it is obeying a restimulated engram to the effect that it must go all the way to now and stay there. (DMSMH, p. 285)

STUCK IN THE PAST, one holds onto things in the past on the postulate that they must not happen in the future. This sticks the person in the past. (PAB17).

STUCK NEEDLE, 1. in a totally stuck needle the preclear would not even register being pinched. It looks stiff. (EME, p. 14) 2. you ask the pc a question and the needle just stays stuck with no movement whatsoever. (BIEM, p. 40) 3. it simply means that the fellow has flowed out or flowed in too long in one direction. (5207CM24B)

STUCK ON THE TRACK, 1. a phenomenon where a person can believe himself to be at some distant point in the past. (Dn 55!, p. 15) 2. that means he’s got too much energy in one lump about something that he has nothing further to do with. (PDC 54) 3. the anatomy of being stuck on the track is “this part of the track must not duplicate, and I must stay here to make sure that it doesn’t.” (2ACC-24A, 5312CM15)

STUCK PICTURE, is when a pc can’t audit the chain he should be on because the picture keeps coming in. (HCOB 13 May 69) STUDENT, a student is one who studies. He is an attentive and systematic observer. A student is one who reads in detail in order to learn and then apply. As a student studies he knows that his purpose is to understand the materials he is studying by reading, observing, and demonstrating so as to apply them to a specific result. He connects what he is studying to what he will be doing. (BTB 26 Oct 70 II)

STUDENT AUDITOR, a student enrolled on a course auditing as stipulated on his checksheet for course requirements. (HCO PL 4 Dec 71 V)

STUDENT FOLDER, the folder contains all of the routing forms and attached invoices, all pink sheets issued to the student, all essays the student has done on the checksheet, all written drills, and the finished checksheet itself. (HCO PL 18 Jul 71 II)

STUDENT HAT, a course; the product of this course is a student who has a good working knowledge of study tech, completion of this checksheet does not entitle the student to superliterate status which is granted only on full completion of Primary Rundown or Primary Correction Rundown. (HCO PL 12 Apr 72RA-1 II)

STUDENT RESCUE INTENSIVE, 1. this is a speed up for study. It is terribly effective providing always that the person’s case is in normal condition. (LRH ED 57 INT, 14 Dec 69) 2. a rundown which came about when a supervisor found that engrams and secondaries gather around the subject of study and developed some material on it which I tested and redeveloped. (HCOB 23 Nov 69R III)

STUDENTS’ RABBLE ROUSE LINE, this is the line on which students can scream when there is an outness on their course which is not being immediately corrected. (HCO PL 20 Nov 70 II)

STUDY, to apply the mind in order to acquire knowledge or skill. (BTB 4 Mar 65R)

STUDY CORRECTION LIST, used to handle outnesses in a person’s earlier studies which prevent him from progressing well on current study or make him antipathetic towards study . Done as part of the Primary Correction Rundown. It is not used as a substitute for correct application of study tech on the person’s current course. Assessed M5 EP is all reading items fully handled and an F/Ning list on final assessment. The full EP of pc willing and able to study well would require each step of Primary Correction RD completed in sequence if pc had been having study trouble. (BTB 11 Aug 72RA)

STUDY STRESS ANALYSIS, see STRESS ANALYSIS.

STUPIDITY, 1. the mechanical definition of stupidity is the unknownness of time, place, form and event. (5408CM20) 2. the definition of stupidity is simply this - having lost the time, the place, and the object. (AX-3, 5410CM07) 3.stupidity is the unknowness of consideration. (PXL, p. 182)

S 2 , “From where could you communicate to a victim?” (BTB 9 Oct 71RA II)

STYLE, a method or custom of performing actions. (HCOB 6 Nov 64)

SUB-APATHY, a state of disinterest, no affinity, no reality, no communication. There will be social machinery, valences, circuits, etc., but the pc himself will not be there. (BTB 6 Feb 60)

SUB-ITSA, significances or masses so charged that the pc is unable to locate, identify or describe them. They are below the depth he is able to itsa to. (HCOB 13 Apr 64, Scn VI Part One Glossary of Terms)

SUBJECTIVE (a standard dictionary definition), “proceeding from or taking place in an individual’s mind.” (HCOB 2 Nov 57RA)

SUBJECTIVE CONFRONT PROCESSES, subjective duplication increase. (HCOB 29 Sept 60)

SUBJECTIVE DUB-IN, the manifestation of putting, unknowingly, perceptions which do not in actual fact exist, into incidents on the time track. (HCOB 11 May 65)

SUBJECTIVE ENVIRONMENT, is the environment the individual himself believes is there. (HFP, p. 153)

SUBJECTIVE HAVINGNESS, one way to run this is to ask the preclear what he can mock up. Then have him mock up what he can, and shove it into his body. That is the most elementary way of running this. (PAB 154)

SUBJECTIVE PROCESSES, 1. processes which intimately address the internal world of the preclear. (COHA, p. 166) 2. an out of sight, in-his-own-mind process. (Dn 55!, p. 121) 3. consultation with the preclear’s own universe, with his mock-ups, and with his own thoughts and considerations. (COHA, p. 167) 4. think processes. (HCOB 29 Oct 57) 5. recall, think, remember or return on the time track processes are subjective. (HCOB 2 Nov 57RA)

SUB-MIND, the reactive mind. (SOS, p. xii)

SUBVOLITIONAL, actions, decisions, choices and goals occurring below the level at which the pc has any conscious control. Inevitable activities. (HCOB 13 Apr 64, Scn VI Part One Glossary of Terms)

SUB ZERO RELEASE, the Awareness Levels from the Gradation Chart are assessed from the bottom -34 up. When the PC’s awareness level is called the needle will float. This will be most real to the PC and he will probably comment on it. The Examiner stops at that instant, indicates the floating needle. The examiner notifies the Auditor that a Sub Zero Release has been obtained. (HCOB 2 Jan 67) See also MINUS SCALE RELEASE.

SUCCESS STORY, 1. means an originated written statement by the pc. (HCO PL 29 Aug 71) 2. the statement of benefit or gains or wins made by a student or a preclear or pre-OT to the success officer or someone holding that post in an org. (HCOB 19 Jun 71 III) See also RAVE SUCCESS STORY.

SUCCUMB, 1. survive has its dichotomy, succumb. When one is below 2 .0 on the tone scale, all survival looks evil to him. Live=evil in the succumbing case. (COHA, p. 147) 2. the point marked by what one might call the death of the consciousness of the individual. (SA, p. 22) 3. The failure to survive is to succumb. (SOS, Bk. 2, p. 31) 4. succumbing is the ultimate penalty of non-survival activity. This is pain. Failures bring pain and death. (SOS Gloss)

SUICIDE, suicides are assisted normally by engrams which specifically demand suicide. But suicide is a natural manifestation, apparently, a fast means of separating theta and mest and gaining death quickly. Suicide is always psychotic. (SOS, p. 28)

SUMMARY REPORT FORM, a report written by the auditor after the session on a fill-in type standard form and is simply an exact record of what happened and what was observed during the session. (BTB 3 Nov 72R)

SUPER-LITERATE, 1. the ability to comfortably and quickly take data from a page and be able at once to apply it. (HCOB 7 Sept 74) 2. being a super-literate is like hearing and seeing and reading for the first time. Reading a text or instruction or book is comfortable. One has it in conceptual form. One can apply the material learned. It is a new state. (HCOB 21 Jun 72 IV) 3. super- superiority in size, quality, number or degree. Literacy- the ability to read and write. What is really needed is the ability to comfortably and quickly take data from a page and be able at once to apply it. Anyone who could do that would be Super-literate. Super-Literacy is the end product of a Primary Rundown or a Primary Correction Rundown. (HCOB 7 Sept 74)

SUPERSTITION, an effort, for lack of education, to find pertinent data in too wide a zone or to fix the attention upon irrelevant data. (SOS, Bk. 2, p. 9)

SUPERVISOR, a course must have a supervisor. He may or may not be a graduate and experienced practitioner of the course he is supervising but he must be a trained course supervisor. He is not expected to teach. He is expected to get the students there, rolls called, checkouts properly done, misunderstoods handled by finding w hat the student doesn’t dig and getting the student to dig it. The supervisor who tells students answers is a waste of time and a course destroyer as he enters out-data into the scene even if trained and actually especially if trained in the subject. The supervisor is NOT an “instructor” that’s why he’s called a “supervisor.” (HCO PL 16 Mar 71R)

SUPERVISOR CHECKOUT, a checkout done by the supervisor of a course or his assistant. (HCOB 19 Jun 71 III)

SUPERVISOR’S DUTY, communication of the data of Scn to the student so as to achieve acceptance, duplication and application of the technology in a standard and effective manner. (HCOB 16 Oct 68)

SUPPRESS, to squash, to sit on, to make smaller, to refuse to let reach, to make uncertain about his reaching, to render or lessen in any way possible by any means possible, to the harm of the individual and for the fancied protection of a suppressor. (SH Spec 84, 6612C13).

SUPPRESSED LIST, no further items on the assessment list read but the pc still has some symptoms. The list isn’t null. It is suppressed or invalidated. (HCOB 29 Jan 70)

SUPPRESSION, suppression is “a harmful intention or action against which one cannot fight back.” Thus when one can do anything about it, it is less suppressive. (HCO PL 26 Dec 66)

SUPPRESSIVE ACTS , 1. acts calculated to impede or destroy Scn or a Scientologist. (HCO PL 23 Dec 65) 2. actions or omissions undertaken to knowingly suppress, reduce or impede Scn or Scientologists. (HCO PL 23 Dec 65)

SUPPRESSIVE GROUPS, are defined as those which seek to destroy Scn or which specialize in injuring or killing persons or damaging their cases or which advocate suppression of mankind. (HCO PL 29 Jun 68)

SUPPRESSIVE PERSON, 1. he’s solving a present time problem which hasn’t in actual fact existed for the last many trillenia in most cases, and yet he is taking the actions in present time which solve that problem. The guy’s totally stuck in present time, that is the whole anatomy of psychosis. (SH Spec 61, 6505C18) 2. a person who rewards only down statistics and never rewards an up statistic. He goofs up or vilifies any effort to help anybody and particularly knifes with violence anything calculated to make human beings more powerful or intelligent. A suppressive automatically and immediately will curve any betterment activity into something evil or bad. (SH Spec 73, 6608C02) 3. a person who doesn’t get case gain because of continuing overts. (SH Spec 67, 6509C21) 4. the person is in a mad, howling situation of some yesteryear and is “handling it” by committing overt acts today. I say condition of yesteryear but this case thinks it’s today. (HCO PL 5 Apr 65) 5 . an SP is a no-confront case because, not being in his own valence he has no viewpoint from which to erase anything. That is all an SP is. (HCO PL 20 Oct 67) 6. those who are destructively antisocial. (HCO PL 30 Aug 70) 7. a person with certain behavior characteristics and who suppresses other people in his vicinity and those other people when he suppresses them become PTS or potential trouble sources. (SH Spec 78, 6608C25) 8. is one that actively seeks to suppress or damage Scn or a Scientologist by suppressive acts. (ISE, p. 48) 9. a person who has had a counter-postulate to the pc you are handling. (SH Spec 68, 6510C14) Abbr. SP

SUPPRESSOR, the impulse to forbid revelation in another. This of course, being an overt, reacts on one’s own case as an impulse to keep oneself from finding out anything from the bank, and of course suppresses as well the release of one’s own withholds. So it is more fundamental than a withhold. A “suppressor” is often considered “social conduct” insofar as one prevents things from being revealed which might embarrass or frighten others. (HCOB 15 Mar 62)

SUPREME TEST, the supreme test of a thetan is his ability to make things go right. (HCOB 19 Aug 67)

SURGES (NEEDLE REACTIONS), sudden long sweeps to the right. (LRH Def. Notes)

SURPRISE, rapidity of change of state, unpredicted. (HCOB 17 Mar 60)

SURVIVAL, 1. is a condition susceptible to non-survival. If one is “surviving,” one is at the same moment admitting that one can cease to survive, otherwise one would never strive to survive. (Scn 8-8008, p. 47) 2. survival might be defined as an impulse to persist through time, in space, as matter and energy. (Scn 8- 8008, p. 5) 3. survival is understood to be the basic single thrust of life through time and space, energy and matter. Survival is subdivided into eight dynamics. (SOS, p. x).

SURVIVAL GOAL, an optimum solution to existing problems. (DAB, Vol. II, p. 37, 1951-52)

SURVIVAL SUPPRESSOR, is the combined and variable threats to the survival of the race or organism. (DMSMH, p. 25)

SURVIVE, the dynamic principle of existence is survive. At the opposite end of the spectrum of existence is succumb. (SOS Gloss)

SW, Straightwire. (BTB 20 Aug 71R II)

SWEETNESS AND LIGHT, a person who cannot conceive of ever having done anything bad to anybody or anything. (HCOB 3 Sept 59)

SYMBIOTE, 1. the Dn meaning of symbiote is extended beyond the dictionary definition to mean “any or all life or energy forms which are mutually dependent for survival.” The atom depends on the universe, the universe on the atom. (DMSMH, p. 32) 2. all entities and energies which aid survival. (EOS, p. 101)

SYMBOL, 1. an object which has mass, meaning and mobility. (COHA, p. 54) 2. something which could represent an idea. It is a piece of energy which is agreed to represent a certain idea. (2ACC-20A, 5312CM10) 3. an idea which is cloaked in energy of any kind is actually a symbol. That is the definition of a symbol It’s any idea which is fixed in any space with energy. (2ACC22A, 5312CM13) 4. pieces of thought, which represent states of being in the material universe. (5203CM06A) 5. a symbol is an idea fixed in energy and mobile in space. (CONA, p. 259)

SYMBOL FOR THETA, eighth letter of the Greek alphabet. Ancient Greeks used this to represent spirit or thought. Symbol: (ø). (HCOB 23 Aug 65)

SYMBOL OF DIANETICS, the Greek letter Delta is the basic form. Green for growth, yellow for life. The four stripes represent the four dynamics of Dianetics: Survival as I Self, II Sex and Family, III Group and IV Mankind. This symbol was designed in 1950 and has been used since. (Dian Today).

SYMPATHY, 1. a terrible thing but is considered to be a very valuable thing. The survival value of sympathy is this: when an individual is hurt or immobilized, he cannot fend for himself. He must count on another or others to care for him. His bid for such care is the enlistment of the sympathy of others. This is practical. If men weren’t sympathetic, none of us would be alive. The non-survival value of sympathy is this: an individual fails in some activity. He then considers himself incapable of surviving by himself. Even though he isn’t sick actually he makes a bid for sympathy. A psychosomatic illness is at once an explanation of failure and a bid for sympathy. (HFP, p. 122) 2. sympathy is commonly accepted to mean the posing of an emotional state similar to the emotional state of an individual in grief or apathy. It is on the tone scale between 0.9 and 0.4 . Sympathy follows or is based upon overt action by the preclear. Sympathy can be mechanically considered as the posing of any emotion so as to be similar to the emotion of another. (AP&A, p. 23) 3. sympathy is a co-flow, it’s sort of a co-beingness. One individual goes onto the wave-length of another individual. (PDC 23) 4. “I am him” which is what sympathy is; it’s a low level interchange of energy. (5209CM04B) 5. equal motion, equal plane, similar space. (Spr Lect 1, 5303CM23)

SYMPATHY COMPUTATION, if a patient had a tough engramic background, then broke his leg and got sympathy he thereafter tends to go around with a simulated broken leg-arthritis, etc. etc. This is the sympathy computation. It makes a patient “want to be sick.” Sickness has a high survival value says the reactive mind. So it tailors up a body to be sick. (EOS, p. 93)

SYMPATHY ENGRAM, 1. an engram of a very specific nature, being the effort of the parent or guardian to be kind to a child who is severely hurt. (DTOT, p. 95) 2. a sympathy engram would go something like this: A small boy, much victimized by his parents, is extremely ill. His grandmother attends him and while he is delirious soothes him and tells him she will take care of him, that she will stay right there until he is well. This puts a high “survival” value on being sick. He does not feel safe around his parents; he wants his grandmother present (she is a winning valence because she orders the parents around), and he now has an engram. (DMSMH, p. 107) 3. the sympathy engram is one which comes forward and stays chronic as a psychosomatic illness. (DMSMH, p. 107)

SYMPATHY EXCITER, a sympathy exciter is any entity on any dynamic for which the individual has felt sympathy of the variety between 0.9 and 0.4 . Sympathy exciters are most commonly parents, allies and pets. (AP&A, pp. 44-45)

SYMPTOMS, 1. pains, emotional feelings, tiredness, aches, pressures, sensations, unwanted states of the body, etc. (HCOB 19 May 69) 2. is from either the body directly (such as a broken bone, a gallstone, or immediate physical cause) or is part of the content of a mental image picture-lock, secondary or engram. (HCOB 23 Apr 69)

SYNTHETIC, dub-ins. (PAB 99)

SYNTHETIC VALENCE, 1. an artificial person or the valence command which makes a person like every stage actor he sees. Valences commonly exist for household pets and it is not uncommon for a little girl to be in the valence of her dog or her cat and express herself with imitated mannerisms. (SOS, Bk. 2, p. 201) 2. those valences which have never actually confronted the preclear in the flesh. The Devil of course is the championship synthetic valence of all time. (PAB 95) 3. valence described to pc and assumed. (HCOB 14 Jul 56) 4. a synthetic valence is a description by one personality of a non-present personality. (5703C10).