DIRECTIVE LISTING is defined as that Routine 3 activity which directs the pc’s attention while listing to the form of the inevitable reliable item, providing it can be predicted.
This is a new departure in Scientology auditing. It could be a dangerous one if carried into directing goals or Routine 2-12 RIs. It applies therefore only to the inevitable reliable items to be found in Routine 3 line plots.
It is so much more upsetting to the pc and clearing to miss the right RI that the practice is excused.
Indeed it must be done.
The law governing this is:
A PC’S ABILITY TO CONFRONT IS DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE AMOUNT OF CHARGE REMOVED FROM THE GPMs; THE PC’S ABILITY TO CONFRONT IS NOT PROPORTIONAL TO THE AMOUNT OF CONFRONTING DONE IN A GPM.
There are only a few things to be careful of in directive listing:
Definitions: A directed reliable item is one guided on to the list by the auditor. It is one derived from the form of the GPM common to all cases.
The auditor knows that in every GPM (except truncated ones which, being the 1st GPM from present time, may have the top missing) the majority of the RIs are common to all GPMs. (See HCO Bulletin of 17 April 1963, A COMPLETE GPM PATTERN, and subsequent line plots.) Most of these, particularly top and bottom groups, never change.
Therefore the auditor, with the pc’s help, determines what the inevitable RIs should be, confirms it with the meter, gets the charge off the question by getting some more items on the list and gives the pc the right RI for that point in the bank or works with the pc to obtain that exact RI. The first command that starts a new GPM being audited is:
“Give me the ultimate achievement of your goal in a noun form.”
Get several of these nouns. One will consistently RR. That’s the pc’s RI. Give it to the pc. Do not overlist. Do not compromise with these rules.
The top terminal is then gotten by the question “Who or what would oppose (noun form you just got).” Get the right one by suggesting its probable form to the pc. Get the charge off the question. Do not overlist. (You must stop pc’s listing on RI oppose lists and check the question.)
You then go through the proper 3M2 steps for tests, etc. Give pc the right top terminal that has been found.
List “Who or what would (top terminal) oppose?” Suggest it to the pc as it is known. Make sure the 2nd top oppterm gets on the list. Etc., etc.
If you don’t select for the pc the inevitable RIs as you list them, the chances of the pc getting them in the first 3 GPMs is so remote as to be nonexistent. The pc will go through agony if they’re missed, and you’ll lose his or her RR as this is the roughest part of the GPM. Further, their undischarged mass will be carried down into all additional auditing and the pc will not lose the mass and may gain weight. And you’ve set the stage for ARC breaks galore.
Further this gives you the rightness of the goal at once with no mess-up of the pc by reason of long listing. (If the obvious top oppterm isn’t there it either isn’t the goal or is a truncated GPM).
An auditor must become expert at preselecting RIs for any given goal.
Study HCOB 17 Apr. 63, A COMPLETE GPM PATTERN, and subsequent issues. [Editor’s Note: HCOB 17 Apr. 63 A COMPLETE GPM PATTERN was cancelled by HCOB 23 Apr. 63 R3-M2.]
If the pc ARC breaks or starts getting a dirty needle after you’ve given him a selected RI, you’ve bypassed one.
But pcs will protest their top terminal quite often as discreditable. So it’s discreditable. Does it RR and discharge the top oppterm? If so, it’s the pc’s. Give it to the pc and the pc will cognite and the TA will blow down. If it’s still wrong, you’ll soon run out of RR as you find more RIs.
There are no GPM RIs above the top terminal or oppterm as shown on line plots for any given GPM. But there may be another full GPM.
A recently, only partly formed GPM has no top.
If a GPM has its top complete, there’s probably another goal above it (nearer present time).