It has been brought home to me by careful study of many cases that Security Checks and Problems Intensives are vital to easy assessment and accurate clearing by the new and very important Routine 3D.
The command value of the auditor over the pc, the response value to life and present time of the pc have been so low in all cases studied who have not had Sec Checking that it is a waste of auditing time not to give a pc at least a Sec Check and a Problems Intensive before attempting assessment.
It may take up to 200 hours to assess some ‘raw meat’ accurately on Routine 3D, and that with a magnifying glass on the E-Meter.
It may take up to 75 hours to assess on Routine 3D a Scientologist or processed person who has not been given 1A or a Problems Intensive or a thorough Security Check on a standard Pol Ltr form.
I can state, and your experience will bear out, that it is wasted time and causes agony to the pc to do a clearing 3D assessment on a person who has not had:
To do these may require up to 100 hours of auditing. To try to assess accurately through the messes of withholds, hidden standards and PTPs of the preclear will require up to 100 hours and may arrive at an improper assessment which will waste all the preclear’s auditing — and painful auditing it was.
Now the Scientologist with his prior processing moves into his or her own. It all counts. Scientologists are easier to assess by half. Raw meat is either unassessable or assessable with difficulty unless the auditor has enormous altitude.
If anyone thinks he is saving time getting assessed for clear at once, let him or her think again. The whole period may be wasted and nothing come of it because:
The whole of the preliminary steps may have to be done anyway after assessment if not done before to let the pc survive ‘going through the knothole’, which is to say, running Routine 3D levels.
These are very hard to get through. Only one pat set of commands (Nov 30, 1961) get a pc moving through to Dynamic Clear.
Now as to auditor training, no auditor who does not have a quick enough eye and Meter experience enough to Security Check and run a Problems Intensive will ever be able to do an accurate Routine 3D Assessment.
Therefore it is economy to train an auditor to Class II level before permitting him or her to assess.
Class II requires a high ability on the Meter, perfect Model Session, TRs and a perfect knowledge of Sec Checking.
Sec Check Meter reactions are larger than 3D Assessment reactions. If an auditor cannot Sec Check, he or she surely can’t read a 3D Meter Assessment.
A pc being given a Routine 3D Assessment for clear by an auditor who has no perfect rating on the Meter is in for endless wasted hours of upset and misery. These might better be spent on Rising Scale or Class I processes (all processes up to February 1961, really). ARC Straight Wire, ‘Something you wouldn’t mind forgetting’ or even old Dianetic Engram running would do more for the pc than fumbling assessment. Accurate fast assessment does marvels for a case, but only if done by an accurate fast auditor.
Class II skills of Sec Checking, Problems Intensives, or even Routine 1A, produce definite plus gains for the pc, greater than those obtainable by Class I if done by an expert Class II auditor.
A Class III auditor can only become one if he or she has already become a Class II by examination and you have a rapid assessment on new Routine 3D toward a high stability as clear — providing that the pc has also had Sec Checks and other preparatory processes.
So there it is. Economy in auditing time entails the auditor becoming a Class II by examination and the pc becoming fit to be assessed through Class II skills. Very neat.
Micawber, a creation of my old friend Dickens, used to claim that twenty shillings earned, nineteen and six spent brought happiness, but that twenty shillings earned and twenty-one spent brought MISERY. I can paraphrase him broadly by saying, Class II skills reached by auditor and attained by pc bring happiness. Class I skills on Class III processes bring misery to auditor and pc alike.
In signing up anyone for auditing, in delivering any auditing, please point out these facts, please?