Here is where we stand and where we’re going.
An auditor, to make a Clear or OT, has to be able to handle confidently certain skills.
Today we assume that every successful process we ever had is and was a valid process. We are at a point of summation and valuation as we are achieving excellent and steady progress even on the most unlikely cases. I consider that the period of basic mental research has ended and the period of adjustment of skills, on which I will for some time be engaged, has been entered upon.
I list here the auditor skills which are requisite to handle any case.
These constitute, to use another table, the following exact skills:
(Note: The abilities of R3R, R3N and R2H are also listed separately in the above.)
These, briefly, are the skills required to make an OT. They are well taught at Saint Hill. They are practised in Central Orgs as fast as released. HCO Bulletins exist on nearly all this material, except some fine points of R3R which are known but not yet written up, and some of the R3N Line Plots not yet issued.
If you examine the above you will find that where the auditor cannot do the required skill the faults are only one or more of the following:
Given the ability to execute the auditing cycle once or repetitively, handle a session, read a meter and study and apply procedures, all the above listed auditing skills are easily acquired and successfully done.
Therefore in looking for the reasons for no results, one finds the failure to apply the required procedure and in tracing that, one inevitably finds one or more of these five basics amiss in the auditor.
It is no longer a question of whether Scientology works, it is only a question of whether the auditor can work Scientology. If he or she can’t, then the trouble lies in one or more of these basics.
The trouble does not lie with the procedure or with the pc. Of course some procedures above are harder to do than others and some pcs can worry an auditor far more than others, but these are incidental and are very junior to the five basics above.
The lower the case level of the auditor, the harder time he or she will have grasping the know-how and using it. For instance a squirrel is only a dramatizing Case Level 6 or 7. A student having a rough time is a Case Level 6 or 5. Somebody almost heartbreaking to teach is a Case Level 7 or 8. BUT, with alert guidance and even making mistakes, I have seen Case Levels from 3 to 8 alike getting wins and finally smoothing out on the five basics above. I’ve seen it myself in the past two years of training at Saint Hill. So I’ve discarded Case Level as an index of auditing ability, it is only an index of how-hard-to-train.
The question of psychotic or neurotic does not enter. These are artificial states and have no real bearing, surprisingly enough, on Case Level. My belief in an auditor’s ability to audit has far more bearing on his auditing than his or her aberrations.
The only factor left is auditor judgment. This varies about and improves with wins. But processes are so arranged that it is a question only of what is the highest process that gives TA action, rather than pre-session case estimation. Trial and error is the best test. I would use it myself, for I have often found the most unlikely preclear (at first glance) capable of running high level processes and some very “capable” people (at casual inspection) unable to see a wall. So I always run the highest level that I hope pc can run, and revise on experience with the pc if necessary.
As all modern courses and Academies have stressed basic skills as above for some time, no past training has been lost.
Those who learned R2-12 are much better fitted to do R3R and 3N than those who did not.
We look on any auditor today to be able to do repetitive processes but remember, that was sometimes a hard-won ability and old Book and Bottle was developed to assist it.
People who learned Pre-hav assessing or goals finding are definitely well progressed.
Anyone who can do the CCHs successfully will always find them handy.
So I count no training lost. And I am about to collect all earlier processes that worked on psychosomatic ills and publish them, since being careful not to do healing has not protected us at all and we might as well take over the medical profession for I now find that only their trade association has been firing at us in the press. So that opens up a use for almost all training on processes ever given.
If an auditor has learned the above basics he or she can easily do the long list of skills required for Clearing or OT.
We can clear to keyed-out clear or clear stably. I have considered it necessary to stress thorough clearing. We are on a longer road but a more certain and stable road when we erase the Time Track or sections of it. Clear is now Case Level 2.
The main goal, however, is OT, due to the general situation. When we were attacked I decided on a policy of:
Both these policies are being successful in the extreme and I hope you agree with them.
By courtesy, one GPM run gives a first goal clear. No further test is done.
One chain of engrams completed is an R3R one-chain clear. This is easier than you might think.
Theta clear at this time is a Case Level 2 that is exterior. OT is a Case Level 1 complete with skills rehabilitated.
The route to these states is very well established and is contained in the first list above.
Cases require as many hours as they are located on the Case Level Scale. The lower they are the more hours they require. The higher they are the less they require.
As some index, I have had about 800 hours lately including all techniques from R2-12 forward, much of it purely research auditing on myself as a pc, developing procedures and getting line plots. Barely 250 hours of this was effective auditing. And I am definitely on the easy last half to OT.
In a period of about half that, Mary Sue achieved 10 goal clear and has just completed her first assessed R3R chain. This included all the R3 goals work, the research of R2-12 on her as a pc, as well as R3N and R3R. Effective Auditing, given the data now known, amounted to about 150 hours or less.
A guess to OT, given a skilled auditor and training on all modern data as above, and an able pc, would be less than 500 hours to a one chain R3R clear. This expectancy is being fulfilled on the Saint Hill Course for those now in Z Unit. To this would have to be added any processing time necessary to get the pc up to R3R. I consider that OT lies on the sunny side of 1,000 hours of processing now for cases that can be audited.
No case is really easy. A higher state attained is an uphill fight. So don’t underestimate the difficulty of clearing.
We went too long on the Time Track before developing and working at Scientology.
BUT we can do it. And it is a lot more than worthwhile — it is vital that we do do it. If we miss now, we may be finished. For there is no help elsewhere and there never has been this technology or any successful mental technology. And just now nobody cares but us. When we’ve succeeded all the way everybody will want on. But not yet.
My own job is very far from an end. The job of getting the purely technology developed and organized is practically over, unless you consider a recording of the full technology as part of the job. I’ve only recorded essentials and am just writing the last bulletins on those. But ahead is a vast panorama of research on other dynamics and enormous amounts of other technology.