As the commonest difficulties auditors are having and the greatest errors that can be made on a Routine 3 process are the same, I have been working to get around these and may have done so in Routine 3GA.
The difficulties are:
The greatest liabilities in a Routine 3 process are:
As you can see (aside from getting the correct goal), the greatest dangers in the processes are unfortunately the most difficult for an auditor to do correctly by recent experience.
Therefore in Routine 3GA we have the same end product as in Routine 3G (as per HCO Information Letter of 29 April 1962) but, if it works smoothly, without the liabilities.
As listing can be considered processing, I have made it follow the rules of processing in Routine 3GA, to wit, plus and minus and possible stuck flows should be regarded. The principle of the four basic flows is therefore used in Routine 3GA (HCO Bulletin of 25 January 1962).This has four steps only:
This is the most difficult and is done exactly as in Routine 3 or 3G. The goal must
check out to a constant instant tick.
If the goal has an instant “Dirty needle” get the missed W/Hs off it before checking. It will probably vanish as a goal and another goal is the correct one.
Goal finding is made easier by keeping the subject of listing, auditing, the session and the goal free of missed withholds, including the overt of missing withholds on others. A good, clean instant ticking, constantly reacting each time it is said goal is what we want in Step One.
Once it is checked out as THE GOAL we don’t check it again until Step 3 is complete.
This is the innovation. We do not oppterm an item. We oppterm the goal itself. Thus we never really have to find an item in order to oppterm. And even if we found a wrong item, it would not further upset the case.
Further, we use FOUR versions of the goal for our lists. And we do Four lists at the same time.
We take items down on one list until the pc seems draggy. Then we pick up any missed withhold and go to the next list. And so on through four lists, around and around until each list shows no TA action on a few items being read to the pc.
The words “Who or What would WANT....” inserted before the original goal for the first list, the words “Who or What would oppose....” for the second list. The words “Who or What would not oppose....” for the third list. And the words “Who or What would not want....” for the fourth list.
Example:
Goal: To Catch Catfish.
List One: Who or What would want to catch catfish? (Outflow.) List Two: Who or What would oppose catching catfish? (Inflow.)
List Three: Who or What would not oppose catching catfish? (Restrained Inflow.) List Four: Who or What would not want to catch catfish? (Restrained Outflow.)
Use four sheets of paper or four double sheets, legal (foolscap) length, ruled or not. Put the page number and the list question, the date and pc’s name at the top of the first sheet, and the page number and list question on subsequent pages. Don’t tangle up on labelling and numbering as it will be a trick keeping four lists going anyway. And if you fail to label them right or list on wrong sheets, you’ll confuse the session horribly. So be neat and try to shift paper quietly in the session to reduce pc’s getting attention on auditor. When a sheet is full drop it on a common pile on the floor, do a new sheet for that list. Separate the floored lists afterwards.
List a list as long as the pc does it easily. Whether this is 3 items or 30 on one list. Then check for missed withholds: “In this session have I missed a withhold on you?” Clean it as necessary and go on to the next list.
Give the pc the list question only often enough to keep the pc going, not for every item he or she gives.
Put anything on the list the pc wants on it. Don’t let pc mutter and claw around for “the exact item”, just keep the pc naming items.
Try to keep the lists vaguely equal in length.
If the “winds of space” turn on (if pc is getting his or her face pushed in) go a little stronger on Lists l and 3. That takes the pressure off.
If pc thinks they’re all complete, pull any session missed withhold, test one or two lists for TA action by reading a few items to pc, and if TA action is present or if the list question reacts (or other tests including finding if the pc still has somatics or pressures), continue listing.
When lists do not produce TA action, etc, the listing can be considered complete. Do NOT test goal for complete list as a test.
Lists may go to several hundred items each.
Learn to list rapidly. Don’t upset the pc by calling for repeats of earlier items you missed. The pc probably will have forgotten them and get confused.
Don’t pretend you’ve heard an item when you haven’t. Get it correct from pc. He or she will only feel more acknowledged.
Pcs go groggy, lose interest and refuse to list only when session withholds are missed. Running too long on one flow, however, is conducive to withholds developing.
Nul each list with three repeats of the item. Mark it with a slant for “In”, use an X for “Out”. Tell the pc it’s in or out and go on.
If a list is at all live, listing is incomplete. This is not likely to happen in Routine 3GA unless the auditor has made very short lists.
Nul all lists. Try to isolate an item on each.
Be fully prepared to find, with all rudiments well in, no items and to have the goal vanish. You will have made a long step toward clear if all goes out.
If all doesn’t go out and items and goal hang, lists are incomplete.
The goal may also fail to react on only partially completed lists using Routine 3GA, so make sure the TA action is out of the lists before nulling is begun.
Nul List One once down, List Two once down, List Three once down, List Four once down. Then nul List One through any items still reacting, List Two similarly, etc.
It may be found on further data that nulling one page of each list at a time in sequence, List 1, 2, 3, 4, is easier on the pc than nulling a whole list. This is permissible.
Find a new goal as in Step One. You may have to add more goals. You may only need to get missed withholds and invalidations off goals lists and various goals to have a new one pop up.
Repeat Steps 2, 3 and 4.
If the pc has been run extensively on 3D Criss Cross, Routine 3GA should push off all such charge without further attention according to preliminary findings.
A good auditing maxim applies hard to 3GA. When the auditor is faced with the unusual, do the usual.
Use Routine 3GA in preference to any other Routine 3 activity.
Lengthy as this may seem, it is far shorter than finding and auditing items on processes.