The most likely list („Who or what would be most likely to achieve this goal?“) for the first GPM contacted is proving to be longer on most pcs than was expected.

List this list by the rules of the old goal-oppose source list, which is to say 50 items past the last RR or R/S.

You will find that on subsequent goals the list is shorter, but it still must be complete, 50 past last RR or R/S.

A list is as long as it has to be to have a clean needle and only one RR on the list.

On the most likely list at the beginning and the goal-oppose list at the end of the GPM (done after it is complete) the 50 past the last RR and R/S serves best.

The RR can be anywhere on a source list.

When you X out an item in nulling, be sure the item did not react on the needle. To do otherwise is dishonest in the extreme. X means no reaction on needle.

Overlisting causes a dirty needle through Protest and Decide. Underlisting causes a dirty needle and lots of items to react.

There are then, still 2 kinds of lists for each GPM:

1. The stable RI forms.

1. The source list.

2. The RI oppose list.

There are only two of these „source lists. “

a. The „most likely list“ at the start of each GPM, done before any RIs are found and

The first three oppterms from the top in each GPM above are stable forms. Any goal has these. Different goal types (be, do, have) have slightly different three top oppterms. A “To be Condition” goal has a “Condition,” “Being Condition” and “People Who are Condition,” in that order.

b. „The goal as an RI oppose list“ at the bottom of the GPM, done after all the RIs of the GPM are found.

The first six terminals from the bottom never vary except as to significance of the goal. (The fifth and sixth sometimes change places but all else is constant.)

The „most likely list“ results (if completed) in a high oppterm of the GPM. From this the remaining RIs are found.

The top three terminals vary a bit more but are quite similar to the examples given.

It is not absolutely necessary to do a „most likely“ list if you can get the top of the GPM by doing „RI Oppose Lists“ from within the GPM itself; a common occurrence in second and onward GPMs.

There are other similarities between these banks given and other GPMs but they are not as fixed and invariable.

The „goal as an RI oppose“ list at the bottom is done only after all the RIs in the GPM are found. It results in finding the goal of the next GPM.

An auditor should be able to look at a goal and know at once and exactly its three top oppterms, its first six terminals and have a good idea of the three top terminals. The remainder of the RIs of the goal will be much more variable.

Between these two are the „RI oppose lists. “

The two „source lists“ are long, 50 items past the last RR or R/S, and the RI will be anyplace on them, usually an item that did not RR when listed but RRs on nulling.

The area in the center of a GPM is the crossover. This means the RIs which cause the pc to become an opponent of his own goal.

The „RI oppose lists“ are relatively short. They tend to be longer in the first and second GPMs than in later ones. But they are never very long. They go perhaps 20, 30 items in the first GPM, fewer in the second, as few as 5 or 10 in the third and remaining GPMs.

In at least one term and oppterm, the reason for the shift of attitude is plain.

The „RI oppose lists“ are listed until neither the RI being listed from or the question tick. This is the actual listing rule. Just list and test the RI being listed from and the question frequently (about every 5 items). You can add 5 for good measure or not.

Pcs most easily find the crossover and are liable to try to give the crossover of some other GPM if you bypass an RI in the one you’re working. The usual “How does this RI relate to ‘To ‘ ” test is almost always adequate, however.

Overlisting an „RI oppose list“ tends to bypass RIs. Underlisting tends to bypass RIs.

The crossover is only important as a guide as to whether or not you are still in the GPM. Otherwise the middle items are not easily detected as belonging to the goal.

It is perfectly all right, on an overlisted list to take an earlier RR than the last one seen on listing. Sometimes the pc overlists and „goes around the corner“ to the next RI.

This is particularly true in later GPMs. Then you have the actual RI earlier than the last RR. It is more usual, however, to extend the list a bit when this happens, as the pc will put the first RI back on, now after the „next RI. “ The „next RI“ will not now RR and only the pc’s actual RI will RR.

Only the first goal on the whole track is postulated without reason. Contrary to what we earlier believed, all other goals are closely related.

Sometimes pcs argue and get ARC broke when their RI „occurs earlier than the last RR. “ This, however, is an infallible sign of an incomplete list. It needs two or three even, non-reading items to complete it and the pc will put back his insisted-upon RI which now is the last RRing item on the list.

A pc’s goals, listed out in chronological order, first on the track to the one in PT (first goal contacted), give a story. This makes it easy to locate consecutive goals once you’re in the GPMs.

In all listing, nulling and taking RRing items off any list, a certain amount of judgment is required. It can’t all be machinelike. But that judgment doesn’t include two RRs or one RR and one R/S firing at the same time on a list, nor does it include giving the pc an item that „read once on Careful Of,“ nor does it include not trying to get the right RI.

The arrows above give the optimum order with which to find items. The banks are lived in reverse order to the arrows above.

A skillful auditor becomes an adept pilot in listing, nulling, finding the pc’s RI and giving it to the pc. And in learning to become one, an auditor makes mistakes. That’s okay.

There are many more RIs to an actual GPM than those given above, particularly later on the track (closer to PT). I have given here just essential RIs which show the ones always there, the crossover and the general picture.

You’ll also invent some shortcuts. That’s okay, too, as you’ll soon find that dropping the safety factors costs you more auditing time than you save and that the innovations introduced come hard against the unalterable rules of listing and nulling. Then you’ll be happy to do it right, do it well and pick up a speed that will list a whole later GPM in a single session. All by the rules.

Given these plots, if your pc just can’t seem to get the top of a bank, and “most likely lists” are difficult, get him to figure out the top oppterm from these plots or, more crudely, give it to him and let him work with it until you find the RRing top oppterm. Don’t waste time in clearing. After the third or fourth bank the pc will be listing by plot anyway.

Behavior of the goal is given for only one plot but is similar in all line plots.

If the pc dopes off while listing, it’s a missed withhold. However, the missed withhold can also be that the question or item being listed from is wrong or the item is not on the list.

If a pc doesn’t list brightly and easily on any list, the pc has missed withholds or has Protested or Decided out. Or is being listed on a wrong question or from a wrong item.

Always try to pull missed withholds first if a pc dopes off or isn’t listing well. Consider the 3M mechanics that might be causing the dope-off second. If you’re listing an RI wrong-way-to, however, the trouble is more than boil off. The pc just can’t do it without being whipped. So don’t force a pc to list. Find out why he can’t.

The two „source lists“ are nulled by elimination. Say the item three times, mark it in or out. When the end of the list is reached, go back over the items left in. Go over all items on the list, not just those that RRed. The RI you find will seldom have RRed on listing on a „source list. “ The item you will find possibly didn’t RR when listed.

If a „source list“ is complete, it looks like this on nulling:

A CATFISH X

A TIGER RR X

A WATERBUCK / X

A WILLOW WAND X

A GAME WARDEN X

THE WIND / RR

If a „source list“ is incomplete, not only will the needle be dirty but it nulls like this:

A CATFISH /////// X

A TIGER RR ////// X

A WATERBUCK /// X

A WILLOW WAND X

A GAME WARDEN //////// X

THE WIND /////////////

You must not have more than one R/S or RR on any list (source or RI oppose). This is invariable.

If you find an RR on a source list, you need only go on until you are sure there is no other RR or R/S on the list before giving the pc the item.

Nulling the „RI oppose list“ is entirely different. The best system is:

l. Tell pc you’re going to read last R/S (if any) on list and do so. It must not R/S or RR. If it does, continue list.

2. Tell pc you’re going to read the next-to-the-last rocket reading item on list. Do so. If it RRs, continue list.

3. Tell pc you’re going to read the last rocket reading item on list. Do so. If it RRs, say „That rocket reads. “ If it doesn’t RR, read the items above and below. Go up as high as five items and down as many. If still no RR, read earlier RRs on list. If still no RR, null the whole list by elimination. If still no RR, retest reliable item it’s listed from. If it reacts, extend list until it doesn’t react. Repeat above numbered steps. If you still can’t get an instant, easily found RR, examine earlier RRs. If one ticks, the list from which it came must be extended.

On an „RI oppose list“ you almost never put ruds in on an item to make it fire. When no RR fires without coaxing, the list is either over – or underlisted. If overlisted, find an earlier item that DRs on nulling and put in the three left-hand buttons on it, Suppress, Careful Of, Fail to Reveal. However, overlisting is rarer than you’d think, and treat it as an underlist until it gets to looking long and pc is getting edgy. If still no RR appears on reading to pc, go back and find an earlier RI that ticks and extend the list it came off from.

RRs on an „RI oppose list“ should fire off right now the moment read with no BMRs.

Factually, doing „RI oppose lists“ is a piece of cake, a walk in the park. You should get an RI every seven minutes in the fourth or fifth GPM including administration and session actions if you’re going well.

In doing „source lists“ you should get an RI off one, listing and nulling, in about three hours in the third or fourth GPM.

All the rules of listing the GPM are known. Any variation in how they’re set forth in HCO Bulletins comes from observing auditors having trouble, or possible shortcuts.

All rules given about listing in any HCO Bulletin are true. The only question has been how does one accomplish them.

The above version of R3M-2 Listing and Nulling will be found very rapid. Only the RI oppose lists require alertness and some care.

Auditors are making, as a general comment, far, far, far more trouble in running a GPM than is there to be had.