If a pc says something and the auditor fails to understand what the pc said or meant, the correct response is:

"I did not (hear you) (understand what was said) (get that last). "

When you are sitting in an auditing session what are the three important communication lines and what is their order of importance?

To do anything else is not only bad form, it can amount to a heavy ARC Break.

1. The first is the Pc's line to his bank. The Itsa Maker line.

2. The second is the Pc's line to the Auditor. The Itsa line.

To say "You did not speak loud enough _____" or any other use of "you" is an invalidation.

3. The third is the Auditor's line to the Pc. The What's-it line.

The pc is also thrown out of session by having responsibility hung on him or her.

Now the definition, "Willing to talk to the Auditor", is very easy to interpret as "Talking to the Auditor". So the Auditor cuts the line the Pc has to the bank in order to get the Pc to talk, because "It's the Itsa line that blows the charge," he says.

The Auditor is responsible for the session. Therefore the auditor has to assume responsibility for all comm breakdowns in it.

So the Auditor cuts the Pc's communication line with his bank in order to bring about an Itsa line – and then he wonders why he gets no TA action and why the Pc ARC Breaks.

This cut communication line is not perceivable to the naked eye. It's hidden because it's from the Pc – a Thetan unseen by the Auditor – to the Pc's bank – unseen by the Auditor.

Far more serious than Invalidation above, is the accidental evaluation which may occur when the auditor repeats what the pc said.

The Auditor is simply there to use the What's-it line in order to get the Pc to confront his bank. The charge blows off it to the degree that it's confronted and this is represented by the Itsa line.

Never repeat anything a pc says after him, no matter why.

The Itsa line is a report on what has been as-ised, that gives it its flow.

Repeating not only does not show the pc you heard but makes him feel you're a circuit.

The sequence of use of these lines in an auditing cycle is 3, 1, and then 2.

The highest advance of 19th Century Psychology was a machine to drive people crazy. All it did was repeat after the person everything the person said.

Where the Auditor neglects this hidden line from the Pc to the Pc's bank, where he doesn't understand that hidden line and can't integrate it or do anything with it he is going to fail.

Children also do this to annoy.

But that isn't the main reason you do not repeat what the pc said after the pc. If you say it wrong the pc is thrown into heavy protest. The pc must correct the wrongness and hangs up right there. It may take an hour to dig the pc out of it.

Further, don't gesture to find out. To say, pointing, "You mean this item, then," is not only an evaluation but a nearly hypnotic command, and the pc feels he must reject very strongly.

Don't tell the pc what the pc said and don't gesture to find what the pc meant.

Just get the pc to say it again or get the pc to point it out again. That's the correct action.

Also, do not shove things at a pc or throw things to a pc. Don't gesture toward a pc. It drives in anchor points and makes the pc reject the auditor.

The reason a person who Rock Slams on Scientology or auditors or the like can't audit well is that they are wary of a pc and feel they must repeat after the pc, correct the pc or gesture toward the pc.

But Rock Slammer or not, any new auditor may fall into these bad habits and they should be broken fast.

A very high percentage of ARC Breaks occur because of a failure to understand the pc.

Don't prove you didn't with gestures or erroneous repeats.

Just audit, please.