“… an Expanded Dianetics auditor has to be very expert in the handling of confessionals.” (LRH, HCOB 24 February 77 Tech Correction Round-Up)

Expanded Dianetics when fully applied can work miracles on the toughest cases you would ever want to find, but like any piece of tech it does not handle areas which it was never addressed. And that is where auditors and C/Ses who know the difference between quickie and fully complete provide a vital ingredient to the success of Ex Dn.

People with Evil Purposes (destructive intentions) towards an area will commit overts on that area in forwarding the Evil Purpose. Where a pc has R/Ses, he will have Evil Purposes and overts. By locating and running out the Evil Purposes with full Ex Dn one can relieve the tendency to continue to commit the overts.

Ex Dn does not consist of looking in a pc’s folder, pulling out the one R/S recorded and calling it completion. Rather it is a thorough workmanlike handling of the pc’s contra-survival intentions in all aspects of life and living, that truly accomplishes changes for the better in behavior, outlook, social presence and conduct. The top auditors and C/Ses can be counted on to put in the time and effort necessary to make a real product.

The actions which most often turn on R/Ses or even cause an Evil Purpose to pop into view are confessionals and pulling overts and withholds. Just pulling the overts would not handle fully. One must locate the underlying Evil Purpose and run it with full Ex Dn before an R/S can be considered handled.

Ex Dn uses confessional to help turn on R/Ses in areas where they are suspected and to expose Evil Purposes for running. A really searching confessional can follow right down the trail of a pc’s most basic aberrations to the R/S and underlying Ev Purp.

While a thorough folder study and culling of all R/Ses Ev Purps, Ethics Whys and computations as well as areas of repeating overts and areas which BD heavily will give you a great deal of ammunition for handling a case, you have no guarantee that you have hit all the areas of aberration that may be hidden away and never touched or brought up in auditing.

Caution: That one has overts or EVPs that one has an R/S on does not make one a psychotic.

An example would be the case that is fixated on the 2D. The folders are full of R/Ses, Ev Purps, BDs on 2D. It’s all he wants handled. And so you handle it with full Ex Dn to some big cognitions and changes and he goes off happy about his 2D but still has trouble in life. Then you find out he’s had 5 jobs in the last year, spends more than he makes and breaks everything he owns. And none of this ever came up in his past auditing because his sessions were always about the 2D. Or it has been an area he has never wanted to bring up because it’s embarrassing or degrading or some such. The net result is a change for the better in one area but not a product.

The handling is simple. Some broad assessments across the dynamics are needed to ensure charged areas do not get missed because they never came up in previous sessions.

Confessionals would be part of “right side” handling as it is used to locate R/Ses and Ev Purps. By folder study the C/S establishes areas and terminals where the pc is failing in life or at least having great difficulty. It could be areas or terminals he totally avoids also. It could be areas of anti-social or compulsive behavior, areas which often show up in O/Ws but basically it’s areas of aberration for the pc. From these the C/S or the auditor can propose a confessional to dig into the area, getting off O/Ws and seeing if one can get an R/S to turn on or an Ev Purp to pop up. These confessionals need not be long for each area but must be well-worded and expertly delivered so nothing is missed. A miss on something like this could be quite explosive.

The original Ex Dn Case Histories contain examples of this. There are Left Side handlings which include assessment of buttons for various dynamics or areas that the pc should have charge on and then AEIs on the reading items. Even R1C was used to go across the dynamics. Ex Dn Tape 1 covers the idea of finding any and all areas of charge to bleed off the case with various assessments.

Where an Ev Purp or R/S turns up the exact wording of what is occurring must be clearly noted and circled in red for Ex Dn handling. This includes marking the Ev Purp or R/S clearly on the Folder Summary and Program. The exact data is vital. When the short confessional is completed the Ev Purps or R/Ses are then handled and the cycle is continued until the pc’s areas of major aberration have been checked and handled. Where R/Ses and Ev Purps have already been noted in the folder they are of course handled and any further address to the same area depends on whether the pc is now “sane” on that area.

Another way to do it would be by confessionals on each dynamic or on reading items from a broad assessment. It may even be possible to observe the pc’s behavior out of session compared to the columns of the Chart of Human Evaluation to pick up areas the pc may not even be aware of. In this way charged areas do not get missed.

Confessionals done on R/Ses should be directed at getting overts, W/Hs, evil thoughts, intentions and motives with regard to the subject area. Where the area of a reported or suspected R/S is not yielding something because either the pc “can’t think of anything” or the read has been submerged, the area can be checked over with the buttons “suppress”, “careful of” and “didn’t reveal”.

Already existing confessional lists can be used where applicable and any previous confessional auditing that the pc has received should be carefully checked to see if it was effective and what was uncovered that would give clues to hot areas.

The whole idea is to get a product who isn’t about to fall on his head because some major aberration was not addressed in his Ex Dn due to it never coming up in his pc folder in the past. There is no substitute for a thorough and well done job and that is all that is ever expected from Ex Dn C/Ses and auditors.

Ex Dn handles the R/Ses and Ev Purps. Confessionals help find the R/Ses and Ev Purps to handle. It’s the Ev Purps and R/Ses we must handle in order to have an Ex Dn Completion of a sane person. That’s all there is to it.