Meter Reads Drill Film

"When you sit down across from an auditor who does his E-Metering so well that he never worries about an E-Meter; he does his TRs so well that he never worries about his TRs; he does his Model Session so well that he never worries about his Model Session; he knows what he's supposed to do with the processes he's given, whether they're a Routine 3 or a Prepcheck or anything else, you see, and he does just these things, and honest, the pc, as a pc, he'll just say, "Gosh! you know? Gosh! Huh! It's so easy! I am so comfortable sitting here being audited." How come? What makes this? How did that combination of events take place? Is it because the auditor was born as the seventh son of a seventh son? Is it because he gave a present once to the Witch of Endor? Is it some fantastic prescience of some kind? Is it because his thetan can read your thetan? Well, it doesn't happen to be a single one of these things. It would be because the auditor knew the little points of auditing absolutely perfectly, did them as a whole, with perfection, so that he was under no tension by reason of auditing, because he knew all the parts, and could then apply fundamentals to what he was doing."

"Holy freaking cow, Jonathan! You did it! Wow. Really well done. I think these reads are more real than the film in the church from my memory of it. Incredible....The church has nothing on the independent field." ~ Dan Koon

1. Version 1.4 -- Meter Reads Drill Film (Versions 1.2,1.3,1.4) Copyright 2013 Advanced Organization of the Great Plains.
2. Russian-Greek-Italian-German-Spanish Translations Coming!

NOTE TO STUDENTS AND VIEWERS:

• This film trains the student Auditor to recognize all the known meter needle phenomena.

• Included in the film are a pre-session meter reads section aiding in giving mass to the student in setting up his or her meter for session in the correct sequence per the applicable technical bulletins. A visual demonstration section that gives the student a visual example of each type of meter needle phenomena. The film then drills the student on all of the reads in three separate drills. The drills increase in speed as the student progresses, aiding the students ability to recognize the needle phenomena accurately and swiftly. The film can be used for student Auditors and student solo Auditors alike.

All of the reads displayed in the film are defined on this page.

Video created by Jonathan Burke, who worked very hard to help raise the standards of training in the Field.

Website, page layout and formatting created by Dave LaCroix - content and editing by Jonathan Burke and Carrie Todd of the Advanced Organization of the Great Plains.

E-Meter Essentials

1.) E-Meter Essentials is a handbook of basic knowledge on how an E-Meter works, why it works, and what manifestations can be found in using the meter E-Meter Essentials was originally published in 1960 and then reissued with updates for the newer versions of E-meters that had been released since it's publication and adding more drills in 1988 along with the "E-Meter Drills Hand Book" and "E-Meter Oddities." The books have been sold as a three-book boxed since 1988 to present, at last report. Many have gravitated to the earlier versions of the three boxed set in the late 1980's or even the original 1960 books due to alterations made by the church. One of the largest changes to the metering technology found to date in "E-Meter Essentials," is the number of divisions of Tone Arm acceptable per hour. The 1988 edition has a markedly lower number of divisions per hour in comparison to the 1960 edition.

2.) The "Book of E-Meter Drills" is a compendium of 27 E-Meter Drills, assessment drills, cramming drills, and mock prepared assessment lists to use while drilling, on an internship, or in the qualifications division. Many of the drills require two or more people be present in order to fulfill the student-auditor requirements for passing the drills. None of the Solo auditor E-Meter drills are included in the drill book for confidential reasons. They are found on the Solo 1 Course checksheet and their associated materials.

3.) "E-Meter Oddities" is a handbook that delineates the more unusual phenomena that can occur while using a meter in session with a Pre-Clear. It is the smallest of the three books in the boxed set.

4.) "Understanding the E Meter" gives detailed information about how the e-meter works - theory and examples - including many illustrations. This book clears up many of the misconceptions and incorrect information floating around about the e-meter and how it's used in auditing.

"Understanding The E Meter" is no longer in print from the CoS but can be found on Ebay

pre-session

Fully Charged Meter

Definition of a Fully Charged Meter E-Meter Essentials, Book of E-Meter Drills, and E-Meter Oddities</ref>

1.) A fully charged meter will bounce smartly off of the pin on the right side of the meter dial when the off/on/Test knob is placed on "test." If it does not, it indicates a less than full battery and should be charged.

Basal Metabolism Test

Definition of a Basal Metabolism TestE-Meter Essentials, Book of E-Meter Drills, and E-Meter Oddities

1.) A basal metabolism test is done on a Pre-Clear before session start. For purposes of auditing, metabolism means the oxygen taken into the lungs finds enough food in the body to combine with to make an electrical charge. If there isn't, then the body tends to pull in the bank, which of course contains energy. This test on the meter verifies that the Pre-Clear or Pre-OT is well fed and has enough energy to be reading properly on the meter.

Can Squeeze

Definition of a can Squeeze or Meter Drill 5RB Sensitivity Setting "' E-Meter Essentials, Book of E-Meter Drills, and E-Meter Oddities

1.) It Is a method for setting the sensitivity on a meter with a 1/3 dial drop using a can squeeze by the Pre-clear, thus making for a workable and readable meter.

Floating Needle

Definition of a Floating Needle - Source: "E-meter Essentials "

1.) This is probably the least understood term and needle action in all of E-Metering. It means the same as a floating needle (F/N), which is a rhythmic sweep of the dial at a slow, even pace of the needle, back and forth, back and forth, without change in the width of the swing except perhaps to widen as the pc gets off the last small bits of charge. Note that it can get so wide that you have to shift the Tone Arm back and forth, back and forth, to keep the needle on the dial, in which case you have a Floating Tone Arm.

Man, it's really free.

You'll know one when you see one. They're really pretty startling. The needle just idles around and yawns at your questions on the subject. It can occur after a cognition, blowdown of the Tone Arm, at a release point, or on the erasure of a Dianetic chain.

Use null as a word, not free, if you're in doubt about it. A null needle just doesn't fall on a question. It might fall on a similar question. A free needle wouldn't fall if the psychiatrists surrendered in a body or the Empire State Building fell down. A free needle or floating needle is one of the parts of the end phenomena for any process or action.

Tight needles (stuck) are far from free. A stuck needle can be made to fall by advancing the sensitivity way up. Thus even a "stuck needle" can be "null." But a free needle is not stuck or null. It just floats around. F/Ns (floating needles) can have different significances and handlings, depending on the type of processing being done.

Rock Slam

Definition of a Rock Slam - Source: "E-meter Essentials "

1.) In assessing or running, you occasionally get a rock slam. A rock slam means a hidden, evil intention on the subject or question under discussion or auditing.

2.) A rock slam is a crazy, irregular, left-right slashing motion of the needle. It repeats left and right slashes unevenly and savagely, faster than the eye easily follows. The needle is frantic. The width of a rock slam (R/S) depends largely on sensitivity setting. It goes from one-fourth inch to whole dial. But it slams back and forth.

3.) It means hot item in an assessment and takes precedence over a fall, or it means that you have left rings on the pc's hands or have a loose connection in the leads or meter. If the latter two items verify as not present, you are looking at a rock slam in the pc.

It differs from a theta bop, which has no precedence over a fall, in that a theta bop is even and gentlemanly and a rock slam is as crazy as a psycho. If found in an assessment, use it, but make sure of what turned it on before you buy. It means the item is hot.

If found in running a process, just carry on. It means the going is hot, so for heaven's sake don't stop the session.

Instant Read

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Definition of an Instant Read - Source: "E-meter Essentials"

1.) That reaction of the needle, which occurs at the precise end of any major thought voiced by the auditor.

2.) If the needle reacts within 1/5 to 1/10 of a second after the question is asked, it is an instant read. This is valid. If it reacts 1/2 to 1 second after the question, this is invalid.

3.) VALID INSTANT READS ARE SMALL FALLS, FALLS, LONG FALLS, LONG FALL BLOWDOWNS NOTE: INSTANT FLOATING NEEDLES, ROCKET READ, SLOWED FALL, SPEEDED FALL, AND A ROCKSLAM, CAN BE INCLUDED, AS LONG AS THEY ARE INSTANT PER DEFINITION ABOVE.

NOTE:References to be posted soon (JB) April 12, 2013

Small Fall

Definition of a Small Fall - Source: "E-meter Essentials "

1.) Small Fall (SF) - A one quarter to three quarters of an inch drop of the meter needle to the right on the meter dial.

Fall

Definition of a Fall - Source: "E-meter Essentials "

1.) Fall (F)-A drop of the meter needle to the right, about one to two inches.

Long Fall

Definition of a Long Fall - Source: "E-meter Essentials "

1.) Long fall (LF)- A drop of the meter needle to the right, two to three inches.

Long Fall Blowdown

Definition of a Long Fall Blowdown - Source: "E-meter Essentials "

1.) Long fall blowdown (LFBD) - A Long fall followed by a "blowdown" or TA motion downward. A "BD" is a Tone Arm motion to the left made to keep the needle on the dial.

various needle phenomena

Speeded Fall

Definition of a Speeded Fall - Source: "E-meter Essentials "

1.) Speeded Fall (SPF)-A drop of the meter needle to the right, about one to two inches that speeds up in velocity as it progresses.

Slowed fall

Definition of a Slowed Fall- Source: "E-meter Essentials "

1.) Slowed Fall (SLF)-A drop of the meter needle to the right, about one to two inches that slows in velocity as it progresses.

Rise

Definition of a Rising Needle - Source: "E-meter Essentials "

1.) A rising needle means "no confront." ...Of course a needle must rise at times or the TA would never move. But it still means that the pc has struck an area or something he isn't confronting. One never calls his attention to this. But one knows what it is. The rising needle is, therefore, not much employed, but one should recognize one. It is a steady, constant movement of the needle, fast or slow, from right to left. A needle returning to position after a fall is not a rising needle.

Speeded Rise

: Definition of a Speeded Rise - Source: "E-meter Essentials "

1.) A rising needle that speeds in velocity as it progresses to the left of set on the meter dial.

Slowed Rise

Definition of a Slowed Rise - Source: "E-meter Essentials "

1.) A rising needle that slows in velocity as it progresses to the left of set on the meter dial.

Rocket Read

Definition of a Rocket Read - Source: "E-meter Essentials "

1.) A rocket read takes off with a very fast spurt and does a rapid decay, like a bullet fired into water. It always goes to the right. It's very fast. It looks like it got all of its motive power from its first instant of impulse with no additional motive power being imparted to it by anything. It's kicked off, and it has no further kick, so it rapidly dies out.

Clean Needle

Definition of a Clean Needle - Source: "E-meter Essentials "

1.) A clean needle is one that flows, producing no pattern or erratic motions of the smallest kind, with the auditor sitting looking at it and doing nothing.

2.) A clean needle is not just something that doesn't react to a particular question. It's a lovely slow flow, usually a slow pleasant rise, and less usually, a slow fall. A clean needle has total uniform speed. There is not the faintest tick in it. There is not the faintest speedup. There is nothing. It is just like molasses pouring out of a barrel; that's a clean needle.

3.) A clean needle simply means that the needle isn't dirty or isn't reacting and is a term used to show that the pc doesn't have a dirty needle.

Dirty Needle

Definition of a Dirty Needle - Source: "E-meter Essentials "

1.) This is an erratic agitation of the needle that is ragged, jerky, ticking, not sweeping, and tends to be persistent. It is not limited in size. A dirty needle is caused by one of three things: (a) the auditor's TRs are bad; (b) the auditor is breaking the Auditor's Code; (c) the pc has withholds he does not wish known.

Tick

Definition of a Tick - Source: "E-meter Essentials "

1.) A tick is a small jerk of the needle that is really a tiny fall. Ticks are very important as they show a subject could be hot and could become a fall. A question or item that gives a tick, when explored using the Suppress, Invalidate or other buttons, may develop into a read that can be used.

Rock Slam

Definition of a Rock Slam - Source: "E-meter Essentials "

1.) In assessing or running, you occasionally get a rock slam. A rock slam means a hidden, evil intention on the subject or question under discussion or auditing.

2.) A rock slam is a crazy, irregular, left-right slashing motion of the needle. It repeats left and right slashes unevenly and savagely, faster than the eye easily follows. The needle is frantic. The width of a rock slam (R/S) depends largely on sensitivity setting. It goes from one-fourth inch to whole dial. But it slams back and forth.

3.) It means hot item in an assessment and takes precedence over a fall, or it means that you have left rings on the pc's hands or have a loose connection in the leads or meter. If the latter two items verify as not present, you are looking at a rock slam in the pc.

It differs from a theta bop, which has no precedence over a fall, in that a theta bop is even and gentlemanly and a rock slam is as crazy as a psycho. If found in an assessment, use it, but make sure of what turned it on before you buy. It means the item is hot.

If found in running a process, just carry on. It means the going is hot, so for heaven's sake don't stop the session.

Null Needle

Definition of a Null Needle - Source: "E-meter Essentials "

1.) On a null needle, the question does not change the needle behavior. The needle is slowly drifting, not reacting. In the presence of an ARC break with the auditor, the needle is liable not to register any reaction at all, and to look like a null needle. Therefore, before writing off any item or question as null, be sure to check for and repair any ARC break if there are indicators of one present (such as pc sad).

Stop

Definition of a Stop - Source: "E-meter Essentials' "

1.) A question that stops a rising needle, like a fall, means we have struck something. Further exploration may develop it into a fall.

Stuck Needle

Definition of a Stuck Needle - Source: "E-meter Essentials'"

1.) In a totally stuck needle, the pc would not even register being pinched. It looks stiff.

Theta Bop

Definition of a Theta Bop - Source: "E-meter Essentials"

1.) A theta bop is a small or wide steady dance of the needle. Over a spread of one-eighth of an inch, say (depending on sensitivity setting, it can be half an inch or a whole dial), the needle goes up and down perhaps five or ten times a second. It goes up, sticks, falls, sticks, goes up, sticks, etc., always the same distance, like a slow tuning fork. It is a constant distance and a constant speed, hooking at each end of the swing.

2.) A theta bop means "death, "leaving, "don't want to be here." It is caused by a yo-yo of the pc as a thetan vibrating out and into the body or a position in the body. It's like the needle is jumping between two peaks across a narrow valley. Mention death to anyone (or make them think about it) while they're on a meter and you'll see a theta bop.

3.) Its use is to detect whether a pc is being left stuck in death, or to locate death or departures.

4.) If a pc wants badly to get out of session, he or she may start thetabopping without being stuck in a death. But few theta bops mean pc wants to leave session. It's most often turned on for "desire to leave session" during a Confessional.

If you get a bop turned on during an assessment (or a Confessional), it takes it quite a while, sometimes, to turn off. The next several questions after a bop turns on are therefore seldom validly readable. Just keep on with an assessment, but be careful to go over the ground again and again if you're getting a bop. Theta bops turn on fast and turn off slowly.

They are not very important in diagnosis. They're more interesting than vital.

Stage Four Needle

Definition of a Stage Four - Source: "E-meter Essentials "

1.) 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.

2.) A stage four needle is still important to identify when met, as it means this pc is from no place as a case.

3.) A stage four is below a merely stuck needle. The pc's thoughts and few of your questions have any bearing on the pc's case. This is most promising as CCH stuff. But not only a stage four takes CCH.

Possibly the "change process" or "attention process" may bite here.

4.) 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 pc says changes it (except body reactions). Break through this meter action by pulling withholds or unkind thoughts or the Joburg Confessional or the CCHs or processes, and you have busted the lowest level of the case.

But it's a disheartening phenomenon. The E-Meter just doesn't react to anything except a kick in the head. Up, stick, fall, up, stick, fall. On and on like a metronome set for the "Dead March of Saul." Know it when you see it. Until you break it, there's no case change.

Still Needle

Definition of a Still Needle - Source: "E-meter Essentials "

1.) The still needle does not react on ordinary things on which it should react and is an indicator of withholds. In the presence of an implant the needle can go still.

This is because of the hidden and withhold character of the implant. The needle simply goes very still and unreacting. It is different than the normal needle reaction of the same preclear. It will only get active when you find out what it is that is making it so unresponsive. Something there has frozen the person's wits and comm and he himself may know nothing of it.

Change of Characteristic

Definition of a Change of Characteristic - Source: "E-meter Essentials "

1.) Sometimes, as in old Dynamic Assessment, we cannot get clean falls on what we are looking for. Another guide is change of characteristic of the needle. The needle is doing a pattern of small rises and falls. We ask a question, it stops moving. We ask another question, it resumes idly rising and falling as before. That stop is a change of characteristic. Or the needle is stopped while we ask a long series of questions but suddenly does a small dance. That is a change of characteristic.

2.) Change of characteristic occurs when we hit on something in the pc's bank. It occurs only when and each time that we ask that exact question. As the question or item alone changes the needle pattern, we must assume that that is it and we use it.

3.) A question that stops a rising needle is a change-of-characteristic question, and like a fall, means we have struck something. Further exploration usually develops it into a fall.

By using change of characteristic, we can sometimes get our foot in the door and get into a channel that brings about falls.

A whole assessment can be done by change of characteristic, as well as, by falls, but it is not usual and in fact will develop falls anyway if you are onto something hot. It is not much used but must be known, as it may have to be used sooner or later when we can't get falls.

Recent LRH Definition:

Any pc's meter has a characteristic at any given time. It is important to know that characteristic. When, after much auditing, the meter character is seen to change, the pc's whole case has changed. Such changes might be indicated by Tone Arm higher or lower on the average, needle looser, more or less Tone Arm action per hour of auditing. The needle may display a pattern of left-right movements, which change over the course of auditing. Or, the needle may be chronically sticky or dirty and then clean up over many sessions. These are changes of characteristic.

Body Reactions

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Definition of Body Reactions - Source: "E-meter Essentials "

1.) The deep breathing of a pc, a sigh, a yawn, a sneeze, a stomach growl, can any one of them make a needle react. Get a person on the cans. Turn the sensitivity high. Make him do the following one at a time: sigh, yawn, breathe deeply, cough, laugh, knock the cans together, lift a finger off the electrode (can), convulsively grip the cans, scratch his head while holding the cans, scratch his leg, rub a can against his or her shirt or skirt, rub his fingers together without letting the cans touch, and stretch. Note the needle reactions. Now have the person do all these things again as you read them off. Now turn down the Sensitivity knob so that the needle drops one-third of a dial (about one and a half inches). Now with that setting, read off the list to him and watch the needle.

Do you see now why you don't run with high sensitivity?

These are body reactions.

You can also make a high-sensitivity-set needle jump by "imagining" the pc's hands being better connected to the cans and "seeing" a whitish glow between cans and fingertips-that is, if you're in good shape. You can also do it by "seeing" this glow in the area of a pc's old injury. That's the extent of your influencing the pc and the meter reading outside of auditing.

You can also (after you've been talking to, not processing, a pc) set the meter on yourself, then give the cans to the pc and he or she will read the same adjustments for a few moments.

These are all more or less body reactions. They get in your road as to movement and sneezes and they don't affect your processing as to "crosscurrents" between auditor and pc. So bear up under them and skip them. They're not important once you know what they are.

The meter will also read basal metabolism, interesting because it tells you if the pc really is eating, or has eaten breakfast. Basal metabolism means, simply, the basic chemical change in the body between oxygen and fuel. The body itself, as a body, can be said to be a carbon-oxygen engine.

When the body does not have enough fuel, it does not have energy. Were you to put an energy-starved body on an E-Meter, you would find it tended to absorb any available energy rather than give a meter read. When the body is starved, it tends to drink up current. A body also apparently begins to drink up current as a substitute for rest.

A basal metabolism test should be done at the beginning of each session, after setting the correct sensitivity. The test is done by having the pc take a deep breath, hold it for just a moment and then let it out through his mouth. When the sufficiently fed and rested pc takes in oxygen, it combines with the fuel and you will see a surge of physical energy on the meter. The needle will give a latent fall. On the second or third deep breath let out, the basal metabolism stops registering, so the first time is the test, not subsequent tries.

The metabolism test is important, as the only time you run any risk of a pc spinning is auditing the pc when he hasn't eaten and hasn't slept. It's not something you worry about. You just always set for sensitivity and check for metabolism.

references

• HCO POLICY LETTER OF 21 FEBRUARY 1979 E-Meter Essentials Errata Sheet

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1. one who listens and computes; a Scn practitioner. 2. one who has been trained in the technology of Scn. An auditor applies standard technology to preclears. 3. a person who through church training becomes skilled in the successful application of Dn and Scn to his family, friends and the public to achieve the ability gained as stated on the Gradation Chart for his class of training...more

1. the same exact pattern and script (patter) with which an auditing session is begun and ended; the overall form of all Scn auditing sessions which is the same anywhere in the world. (Scn AD)...MORE

2. getting out of the road all these unrealized goals each one of which has been a defeat for him at some time or another, all of which goals had as their end product havingness. ( SH Spec 18, 6106C22)...MORE

"Prep for preparatory to auditing. It’s a forerunner of ruds." (LRH Def. Notes)...MORE

The application of Scientology processes and procedures to someone by a trained auditor. (Dianetics & Scientology Technical Dictionary (C) 1975)

1. the living unit we call, in Scn, a thetan, that being taken from the Greek letter theta, the mathematic symbol used in Scn to indicate the source of life and life itself. (Abil Ma 1) 2. the awareness of awareness unit which has all potentialities but no mass, no wave-length and no location. (HCOB 3 Jul 59) 3. the being who is the individual and who handles and lives in the body. (HCOB 23 Apr 69)...more

The application of Scientology processes and procedures to someone by a trained auditor. (Dianetics & Scientology Technical Dictionary (C) 1975)

2. Hubbard Electrometer. An electronic instrument for measuring mental state and change of state in individuals, as an aid to precision and speed in auditing. The E-meter is not intended or effective for the diagnosis, treatment or prevention of any disease. (Scn AD)...more

That basic outness found which will lead to a recovery of stats. (HCO PL 13 Oct 70 II)

5. the meter tells you what the preclear’s mind is doing when the preclear is made to think of something. The meter registers before the preclear becomes conscious of the datum. It is therefore a pre-conscious meter. It passes a tiny current through the preclear’s body. This current is influenced by the mental masses, pictures, circuits and machinery. When the unclear pc thinks of something, these mental items shift and this registers on the meter. (EME, p. 8)...more

The methods of application of an art or science as opposed to mere knowledge of the science or art itself. (HCOB 13 Sep 65) Abbr. tech

A list of materials, often divided into sections, that give the theory and practical steps which, when completed, give one a study completion...More

3. a Clear is not an all-knowing being. A Clear is somebody who has lost the mass, energy, space and time connected with the thing called mind . ( SH Spec 80, 6609C08) ...more

1. harmful energy or force accumulated and stored within the reactive mind, resulting from the conflicts and unpleasant experiences that a person has had. Auditing discharges this charge so that it is no longer there to affect the individual. (Scn AD)..more

2. a colloquial name for the reactive mind. This is what the procedures of Scn are devoted to disposing of, for it is only a burden to an individual and he is much better off without it. (Scn AD)...more

Operating Thetan - 7. this state of being is attained by drills and familiarity after the state of Clear has been obtained. A real OT has no reactive bank, is cause over matter, energy, space, time and thought and is completely free. (HCOB 12 Jul 65)...More

5. the meter tells you what the preclear’s mind is doing when the preclear is made to think of something. The meter registers before the preclear becomes conscious of the datum. It is therefore a pre-conscious meter. It passes a tiny current through the preclear’s body. This current is influenced by the mental masses, pictures, circuits and machinery. When the unclear pc thinks of something, these mental items shift and this registers on the meter. (EME, p. 8)...more

the whole sum of past by-passed charge. (HCOB 19 Aug 63)

a crazy, irregular, unequal, jerky motion of the needle narrow as one inch or as wide as three inches, happening several times a second. The needle goes crazy, slamming back and forth, narrowly, widely over on the left, over on the right, in a mad war dance or as if it were frantically trying to escape. It means hot terminal or hot anything in an assessment and takes precedence over a fall...MORE

1. theta is thought, life force, elan vital, the spirit, the soul, or any other of the numerous definitions it has had for some thousands of years. (SOS, p. 4)...More

Tone Arm - 1. meter control lever...MORE

1. an impulse or direction of energy particles or thought or masses between terminals. (HCOB 3 Feb 69)...more

1. a word from the initial letters of Affinity, Reality, Communication which together equate to Understanding. It is pronounced by stating its letters, A-R- C. To Scientologists it has come to mean good feeling, love or friendliness, such as “He was in ARC with his friend.” One does not, however, fall out of ARC, he has an ARC break. (LRH Def. Notes)...more

Advanced Clinical Course - ACC - one of a number of theory and research courses delivered by L. Ron Hubbard during the years 1953 to 1961, which gave a deep insight into the phenomena of the mind and the rationale of research and investigation.

1. a painful and forceful means of overwhelming a being with artificial purpose or false concepts in a malicious attempt to control and suppress him. (Aud 71 ASHO) 2. an electronic means of overwhelming the thetan with a significance. (HCOB 8 May 63) 3. an unwilling and unknowing receipt of a thought. An intentional installation of fixed ideas, contrasurvival to the thetan. (SH Spec 83, 6612C06)

1. a person who, through Scientology processing, is finding out more about himself and life. (The Phoenix Lectures, p. 20) 2. a spiritual being who is now on the road to becoming Clear, hence preclear. (HCOB 5 Apr 69) 3. one who is discovering things about himself and who is becoming clearer. (HCO PL 21 Aug 63) Abbr. PC

Slang, short for - communication

L. Ron Hubbard

Every member of a ship's company has two general types of activities, one of these is as a member of watches, wherein he handles his duties of steering, lookout, engines, etc., including emergency drills. (FO 1109)

Undergo processing. (Science of Survival, p.75)

Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin (technical bulletin) Also colloquially referred to as "red on white" HCOB's are always red ink on white paper.

1. theta is thought, life force, elan vital, the spirit, the soul, or any other of the numerous definitions it has had for some thousands of years. (SOS, p. 4)...More

Church of Spiritual Technology (Senior to, and part of the corporate structure of the churches of Scientology)