The following was submitted by Malcolm Cheminais Supervisor on the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course.

Here are some observations I have made on the coaching of E-Meter drills, which I feel could be of use:

A Narrative Item is one which will land the pc in a single incident for which there is no chain.

1. The coach’s needle is dirty. The student’s out comm cycle has cut his comm in some way, but PRIOR to that the coach failed to flunk the part of the comm cycle that went out. Correct flunking by coaches equals students with no dirty needles.

Flagrant example: “The time the horse Baldy dumped me in the Potomac.”

2. If a coach’s TA starts climbing on a drill and the needle gets sticky, it means that the student’s comm cycle has dispersed him and pushed him out of PT. The coach is either (1) not flunking at all (2) flunking the incorrect thing.

Obviously there was only one such incident. If it doesn’t F/N, where are you going to go with R3R? No chain.

3. The correct flunking by the coach of an out comm cycle, which has dispersed him and pushed his TA up, will always result in a TA blow down. If there is no blow down, the coach has flunked the wrong thing.

Example: “When my mother spanked me.” One incident. No chain.

4. Needle not responding well and sensitively on assessment drills, although the needle clean. Coach has failed to flunk TR 1 (or TR 0) for lack of impingement and reach.

Example: “A feeling like catching my hand in a 322 IBM computer on March 3 last year.” Only one incident. No chain.

5. Coach reaching forward and leaning on the table, means TR 1 is out with the student.

Example: “Like being bitten by a dog.” Several examples on a chain but the SOMATIC he is trying to get rid of has a basic on it of being tortured.

6. Students shouting or talking very loudly on assessment drills to try and get the Meter to read by overwhelm. The reason for this is invariably – “but I’m assessing the bank!” They haven’t realized that banks don’t read, only thetans impinged upon by the bank – therefore the TR 1 must be addressed to the thetan. The meter responds proportionately to the amount of ARC in the Session. (See HCOB 29 Jan 70 for lists that don’t read.)

These are by repeating story. By incident description.

There may be 40 billion times his shoe pinched.

Example: “Feeling like a shoe pinching me.” The chain is endless. On the same somatic list was “A painful foot.” This, being a somatic, permits you to get to a basic.

Example: “Feeling like my parents were cross with me.” There may be seven thousand such incidents. You never get to basic.

In old Dianetics, we often ran narratives. They can be run. But now and then there is only one incident and it never arrives at any basic.

Or there are so many similar incidents you go on for days!

The breakthrough came in assessing only somatics, sensations, emotions, attitudes.

There are two types of chains – (1) story or narrative (2) feelings.

The feeling chains (pain, soreness, physical sensation) are the ones that relieve what’s wrong with the pc. You can audit for a long time on narrative or story incidents without relieving any somatics.

Narrative items can give you trouble in R3R.

Somatics, sensations, emotions, attitudes as R3R items not only give you no trouble to audit but deliver the goods.

A sore arm chain can include incidents such as:

1. Being hit by a tree.

2. Run over by a carriage.

3. Being wounded in a duel.

4. Being hit by a stone axe.

If “sore arm” is the item assessed (a somatic) then you get all four incidents listed.

Suppose you assess 3 “Being wounded in a duel” as the item. It’s a narrative item because it describes the incident. So you run 3 only, never get to 4 and leave the pc

with a sore arm.

He’s trying to get rid of a sore arm, not a duel.

Get it?