Issue 49 [1957, ca. late June] The Magazine of DIANETICS and SCIENTOLOGY from Washington, D.C.	Issue 50 [1957, ca. early July] The Magazine of DIANETICS and SCIENTOLOGY from Washington, D.C.
What About Validation?	Levels of Skill
L. Ron Hubbard	L. Ron Hubbard
Almost at once we are going to have a Congress.	From the earliest days of Dianetics there have always been four grades of auditing FIRST of these was the Book Auditor (bless them), the people with the verve to do or be damned with Dianetic or Scientology written material but without formal training.
We are calling it the Freedom Congress because it starts July 4, 1957 and because it is all about freedom from human confusion.	SECOND of these was the generally certified auditor — the HDA, the HCA, who had been formally trained at one or another central organization school. Trained over seven years, their skills were varied by the period in which they were trained. These were the “backbone” of the subject, the leaders of groups, the authorities in areas.
But there’s something we’ll have to take up at this Congress beyond Freedom, and that’s Validation.	THIRD were the specially coached or trained auditors, BScn, HAA, DScn, who by repeated training kept abreast and who had a large span of schooling and training skill.
It isn’t good sense that I try to handle this Validation Program without knowing how you feel about it. And so I am asking you to help me.	FOURTH were the Staff Auditors of central organizations. As could be expected these were trained against the necessity of producing sweeping results to uphold the repute of the Foundation or the HASI or the Founding Church. Their skills were above and beyond certification and their degrees were anything from HDA to BScn. They spent, and spend even today, many hours of training in any week just to hold their own with the subject and the repute of the “clinic.”
Here’s the situation current:	Now something new has happened. A plateau of training and processing skill has been reached. With Advanced Processes and the ferocity of the Training Drills, we can divide up processes and processing to match these four grades. We are rich in skill now, broadly so.
We have come to a plateau of training and technology. I do not say we are at any peak of peaks. But we are on a very high plateau.	We have been producing excellent results for a long time. But now we can produce results on lower level and higher level cases than ever before.
We can do these things:	Thus a book auditor, using the below described processes, without much training could produce fair results on average homo sapiens, patch up the environment and live better.
We can accurately and predictably process a day-old baby, a person in a coma, a catatonic schitz, a no-reality case or a person in very good shape. Of course that’s news, but it also changes several things.	Thus a generally certified auditor, without further training, using the processes in which he was trained, could do very well on preclears. Remember, they were and are good processes. And this is true of pre-1957 upper grade auditors. However, the processes, even so, do not go “all the way south” or “all the way north.”
We can also train well and thoroughly any person of good will in a few weeks of arduous drill. We arrived at a plateau of results and at the same time arrived at a plateau of training skills.	But here enters a new grade and level, more or less equivalent to the upper grade auditor of yesterday. This is the VALIDATED AUDITOR who has been drilled up to the level of this plateau and could go all the way south on cases if not, perhaps, all the way north. As I am so sure of this now, we have stopped looking southward. That’s what makes it a plateau. Such an auditor could audit a person in a coma or a day-old baby or somebody 10 years shocked in a spin-bin. So there’s a positiveness about the grade never before possible.
Without these skills learned in heavy training, the processing results do not occur.	It is not probable that a staff auditor rating will ever be superseded. This level is what it is and is independent of quality of degree. Just now central organization staff auditors are at grips with fully grasping the fact that they can go all the way south and soon will be happy with that and will then be trying for “all the way north.” (The nearest approach possible to absolute clear is now the research line and will someday soon be the “clinic” auditing line.)
Better than 50’ YO of the result depends upon the skill of the auditor.	Hence, we get 4 levels of auditors and 4 levels of processes in Scientology.
If this is Scientology today, then it had better be Scientology everywhere, not just here in Washington or amongst recent Academy graduates.
LEVELS OF AUDITORS	LEVELS OF PROCESSES
Rumor has probably told you already much misinformation about levels of Indoc and CCH. The truth is I’m just now finding time to hand-train enough people in these two things to make them get a reality on them. You might say the real thing wasn’t released until I went to London in April and, in the U.S., until I returned in May.
(1) The Book Auditor.	(1) Processes not requiring more skill than that acquired by reading and home practice.

Truth is, these things are man-killers. An auditor not well schooled in all levels of Indoc cannot get results of any consequence with CCH (actually CDCCtH *C for Control, D for Duplication, C for Communication, Ct for Control of thought = H for Havingness, See also P.A.B. 122, “The Five Levels of Indoctrination and Procedure CCH.” ). No older auditor credits this until he faces it in a training room. But an old auditor does better with older processes — those released up to December 31, 1956. Those were pretty hot, too, remember.

The present situation, then, is as follows: We have many good auditors who can get fine results with pre-57 processes. We have some less able auditors who get poor results with pre-57 processes. We have a series of training skills and processes which would permit both to get much finer, faster results.

The past situation, beginning in 1950, was this: We had a vision of what could be done. We saw it done by some. We were trying to learn how so that all could do it. To learn we had to train and process. Our results were better than Man had ever experienced before but here and there the results did not match the hopes of some — to put it mildly. Therefore, I considered it was up to us to better the processes and to better training so that people could do the processes developed.

Well, I miscalculated. For certain, those processes which could tear a case apart and make a clear fast, would also tear a homo sapiens auditor apart. And so it has transpired. Full-scale CDCCtH tears up auditors fast.

Book Auditor processes would include:

Thus I had to recapitulate and find a new route to make a new man. That route is loosely called Indoctrination but it isn’t at full dress parade what you’ve seen. It’s 13 levels of skill, each one more advanced, which wind up with a clear-acting auditor.

Engram Running as described in the first edition, Book One, Dianetics. The Modern Science of Mental Health.

These levels of training make, when thoroughly administered, a synthetic clear without proofing a person against being audited to clear all the way.

The Fifteen Acts of Scientology, the ''Handbook for Preclears.

Now in 1950 I did a lot of talking and made a lot of promises. And in 1957, seven years of study and work later, only now can they all be kept. To reach our present plateau I had to get a lot of people trained. Every one of those has coming to him a full realization of ability to help and handle others.

Self Analysis ''in its entirety.

All right. That’s the project. It’s big enough. Thousands of auditors should now have everything that’s been learned and developed about auditing.

The Processing Section of Scientology. The Fundamentals of Thought.

If they get that to which they’re entitled, no force on Earth can stop Scientology. So what do we do about it?

The various “assists” which have been listed in many publications.

There’s the old HDA, there’s the person who was trained in L.A. or Wichita or Elizabeth. Maybe he’s auditing now, maybe not. But he’s entitled to his ability to clear his fellow man. These were people of great heart, great willingness to serve. I did all I could for them — it was always, until 1957, not enough. But a wider look bade me learn how to train and then to speak.

The Co-Auditors' Manual processes.

I have learned. I am speaking.

All the above books are easily obtained. Their age has nothing to do with their workability on average people and they produce some startling results not otherwise attainable by any other practice on Earth despite the “lack of training” of the book auditor. This was the way the subjects started and this is the way they will continue to be used.

Further, I am asking for help in solving this great problem. How do we bring up to ability every auditor ever trained by a central organization?

A book auditor requires no more okay than the writings and his own raw courage.

How do we find some of these people? We’re not now interested in no-comm lists or other nonsense. The battle for knowledge is won. And unlike in so many battles, all can share in the victory.

People feel, of late times, that book auditing is “frowned upon.” Only by medicos and head-shrinkers (a technical term for psychiatrist), not by us. Scientologists respect the nerve of the book auditor!

How do we finance such a project? Do these people pay for retraining (or, actually for training in full, not retraining)? How do we handle people lately trained (1956) in this wise? How can we do this without invalidating the real ability of many auditors and without upsetting too many people?

My feeling today is that there isn’t enough book auditing. Any book auditor, reading backwards and half drunk can do more for a man than ten thousand years at Mayo Brothers or Menninger’s Squirrel Cage. If we had a hundred thousand book auditors, the AMA, the APA and the American Society of Brainwashing would fade and die.

Your help is needed in assisting me to answer such questions.

The Generally Certified Auditor was trained in good processes and he has always gotten results. His only stumbling block is the case all the way south. These tend to break his heart (which is why I kept my spyglass trained south for seven years!). Unless he runs into one of these unsuspectingly, he’s in clover.

They wanted to be clear. They wanted to help their fellow man. All I know now is how to do the clearing and the training on a major scale.

There is no need to list his repertoire. It is tremendous. And in the main successfully so.

I have some proposals on this. I am going to give the right to coach other auditors to every successful graduate of the 18th ACC — with high standards for successful graduation. To do this I’ll have to work the 18th ACC people through July and into mid-August harder than anybody has been worked yet. But they can take it.

The Validated Auditor, having passed through all the TRs (Training Drills ‘57), not being human anymore, can run thorough-going CDCCtH.* Any generally certified auditor can become a Validated Auditor with drills and training.

I can validate recent graduates partly trained on this but I don’t think it would be entirely fair.

The Staff Auditor — lord knows what he’ll be doing. He’ll be trying for the Moon and OTs — a neglected subject these last 5 years because of the southward project.

Well, there it is. It’s the Validation Program. But what is it? It’s what you and I decide it will be at the July 4th Congress.

Well, there’s the way it seems to fit together. What do you think of it?

Would you please bring your thoughts on it and your proposals to the Congress or send them to me here.

Validation U.S. means a lot. But it can’t be done at all until I know how you feel it should be done.

1. Should it be done at all.

[* C for Control, D for Duplication, C for Communication, Ctfor Control of thought = H for Havingness. See also P.A.B. 122, “The Five Levels of Indoctrination and Procedure CCH.”]

2. If so, how should it be done. Could I have your help?