Critique - Meter Drills and reads
Hi Jonathan; First of all, I want to validate you very much for all of the work that you have done so far putting the Tech together. Thank you very much! I highly appreciate all of the effort for the preservation for future generations.
I have just received the booklet but not the video. I cannot comment on that. But I glanced through the book on the E-Meter drills and the first thing that surprised me was that you ask for a correction from Dan Koon. Let's not forget that he is the main author of the Golden Age of Tech which brought about the arbitraries on the E-Meter Tech. First of all, LRH never intended for a student auditor to do a "professional" meter course, I remember well that in the 70's we did the meter drills enough to understand them and then we went to audit, came back did more drills, audited some more and so on and that is how we became professional: By actually auditing.
I have an observation on the statement on the section 'Known Exceptions' point # 2 A Black South African withholds, read not on the needle alone..." I have a consideration that thetans are thetans no matter what nationality, true different countries dramatize the dynamics differently but at the end of the day, aren't we all equal? Was LRH racist or was that a true observation on this? Anybody reading that section that was written in the 60's has to bear in mind that with the Apartheid and the way life was back then. It is possible that a black person at the time was so suppressed that they went into a reverse vector when questioned and the W/H pulled in consequential masses. That is the only explanation I can give to that. If they told their W/Hs they were hung or punished severely and they violently withheld.
I will consult this with a friend of mine that was in Scn when the first meter drills came out if you don't mind and do research why black SA read differently. That is my 2 Cents so far.
Aida,
The book is from the church as reference for those less than familiar with some of the more recent reads such as "an F/N that springs and does not flow", asan example and only for that purpose.
The video is my creation, feel free to critique it.
Thank you,
Jonathan
Aida, as I remember it, LRH found a tribe of Black Africans that responded differently on the e-meter, not all Black Africans. He was speculating that the genetic system might be different...now that is how I remember the talk of that time. Pat
My understanding is, while a thetan by any other name is still a thetan (smile), the subject of withholds and overts plays against moral codes and social mores and norms and you're auditing the case, or handling the pc's case and "now-I'm-supposed-tos", etc., and so you may get different reactions. But even then, TA can rise on a number of factors when running sessions and then blow down once the charge is gotten off. I often see this in NED as well as FPRD. Anyway, I would put my money on this being an observation by LRH. And Pat, thanks for the added data. Always helps to complete the picture.
Chris
Hi Aida, My own experience is that people with black skin tend to have a TA that goes high more easily. I don't think it has anything to do with the thetan. The meter measures skin resistance and black skin is different from white skin in its electrical responses.