Oasis for Personal Freedom

The following article was written by a good friend of mine who goes by the name of Safepoint. This is an in depth view of what happened to the F/N and how we ended up with the “3 swing F/N”

You’ve just had such a great session.  You and your Auditor are sitting in session laughing and laughing.  Something that has bugged you for eons and eons has just been handled.  The relief is so physical that you feel life and circulation flooding to your fingertips and your body seems to glow.  Your needle is floating and the Auditor quietly ends the session.  The implications and change for your life are profound.  You are so exterior you have fun just trying to stand the body up… laughing all the time.

You find yourself at the Examiner after session.  You sit down in the chair and pick up the cans. Chuckling and beaming at the Examiner you say: “I’ve just had the biggest win in my life!!!”  The Examiner writes it down on the exam sheet looking expectantly at you.  Feeling very pleased, you start to think “…maybe I haven’t told all of my win…” so you say “…my Auditor was great, life is more livable, etc. etc. You try to express and put into words what you barely realize yourself. The Examiner writes it down still looking expectantly at you.  Then, the Examiner asks all the usual things, tight shoes, uncomfortable chair, etc. etc.  You are a trained Auditor, you understand, NO F/N on the meter.  Now, not quite as brightly, you begin to wonder, was something missed?  Did the last incident not quite erase?…or whatever.  You’ve been at the Examiner now for 15 minutes.  Finally, the Examiner says “Thank You”.  You’re dismissed, You’re red tagged.  The greatest win in your life has just been invalidated but good. You feel strange.

Your Auditor takes you back into session.  You check all kinds of correction lists, finally you F/N after handling being invalidated at exam.  You burn up another half-hour or more of precious auditing time.

You go back to the Examiner, now a bit anxious and worried, “…will my needle float?”  Blankly looking at the Examiner, holding the body very, very still, you pray that your needle floats.  After a long, long period of silence the Examiner (sweating, but relieved) says: “Your needle floated”.  Thanking her, you leave the examination room and decide you really don’t want any more auditing.

What is this?  This is overrun.  This is BIs.  This is an ARC-break needle.  This is what is killing Scientology.

Changing the Definition of F/N Without Changing the Definition

Today (2011) an Auditor is expected and trained to have the e-meter needle swing back and forth a minimum of three (3) times before calling an F/N no matter what. Those of you  who trained when LRH was still with us might ask “how can this be?”  The answer is a covert and suppressive “change” in the definition of F/N. Specialized definitions of the words in LRH’s F/N definition are spoon-fed to newly trained auditors- especially “rhythm”. This is done until they “cognite” and conclude that an F/N MUST SWING THREE TIMES TO BE AN F/N.

The reference for clearing words the right way is Word Clearing Series 59 RB “Clearing Words” 23 March 1978RB revised Jan.16 1989:

The first step is to look rapidly over the definitions to find the one which applies to the context in which the word was misunderstood. One reads the definition and uses it in sentences until one has a clear concept of that meaning of the word. This could require 10 or more sentences.

Then one clears each of the other definitions for that word, using each in sentences until one has a conceptual understanding of each definition.

The next thing to do is clear the derivation—which is the explanation of where the word came from originally. This will help gain a basic understanding of the word.

Don’t clear the technical or specialized definitions (math,biology, etc.)  or obsolete (no longer used) or archaic (ancient and no longer in general use) definitions unless the word is being used that way in the context where it was misunderstood.

Most dictionaries give the idioms of a word. An idiom is a phrase or expression whose meaning cannot be understood from the ordinary meanings of the words. For example. “give in” is an English idiom meaning “yield”. Quite  a few words in English have idiomatic uses and these are usually given in a dictionary after the definitions of the word itself. These idioms have to be cleared.

One must also clear any other information given about the word, such as notes on its usage, synonyms, etc., so as to have a full understanding of the word.

If one encounters a misunderstood word or symbol in the definition of a word being cleared, one must clear it right away using this same procedure and then return to the definition one was clearing, (Dictionary symbols and abbreviations are usually given in the front of the dictionary.)

Back in 2007 every field auditor in Los Angeles was pulled into LA Org and tested.  Although every one had been “Golden Age” trained on metering and was supposedly “perfect”, not one passed the test, in spite of the fact that many had successfully audited for forty (40) or more years with excellent stats and PC wins.  Everyone was “crammed” and spoon-fed their “new” cognition on F/N’s.  No reason for this action was given.  No understanding or Source or reference for the action, just do it or else.  Do you ever recall LRH changing anything major without detailed reasons or research results?

So, you see, the definition changed without actually changing the words of LRH’s definition.  There is a technique called propaganda  by the re-definition of words. The reference is HCOPL 5 Oct 1971 “Propaganda by redefinition of words.” “ The trick is– words are redefined to  mean something else to the advantage of the propagandist. Given enough repetition of the redefinition, public opinion can be altered by altering the meaning of a word.” This is a favorite whole-track trick used by politicians and others.  LRH knew all about it (it can also be used for good.)  An example would be to change the meaning of the word “freedom” to be in actuality “slavery” then push an agenda of bringing freedom to everyone until all are enslaved (sounds just like Earth).

Effects

Once this creeping cancer started to invade the field (read: re-training) the PC wins started to dry up and auditing costs and time in auditing skyrocketed! (I’d like to see that stat)  Anyone who protested was shot down in this new PR driven “Golden Age” of the future, where you DON’T NEED TO KNOW ANYTHING just follow the “patter” and use the definitions “handily” provided for you — not just specialized tech terms with exact references and citations, but all terms.

The Biggest Danger

For those who have some Tech training, let me ask you this question: “Which is more important — The PC or The Meter?”  The former, of course, because auditing is for the benefit of the PC, not the PC’s spouse, not his kids, not the Auditor, not the Org, not the world, but the PC.  All the latter will occur if the PC is actually helped. When the F/N and the Meter become more important than the PC and the PC’s communication with the Auditor, then everything is inverted and a piece of MEST is more important than a BEING.

Do some of you remember when the meter was an “aid” to auditing?

If the Tech rests on one key point, it’s the running of a process to its exact end phenomena. If the auditor goes by that because of some arbitraries about F/Ns what will happen is the PCs wins will be bypassed and the PC will go right back into the bank after all the work of pulling him out of it.

There goes the “WOW” factor, There goes the wins, There goes the technology.

What To Do

It’s not all hopeless. I have seen suppressives come and go.  The common denominator of suppression is failure — no results.  The common denominator of success is — “WOW” results, doing what Ron says.

So whether or not the “church” group gets its act together and (reluctantly) admits and recognizes suppression, YOU can get your act together.

Put back in full study-tech on yourself, not the quickie, “helpful” spoon-fed glossaries only — really know ALL of the meanings of the words.  (Did you know that The Primary Rundown, LRH’s answer to full literacy is not even offered anywhere at orgs anymore?)

REALLY train.  Read and listen to LRH and REALLY understand, but then please put it into action so you can help others.  No endless “theory” courses with no “practical”.

Actually AUDIT someone.  Insist, as auditors have always done, that your PC gets the wins, and when he does, let him have them.  Refuse to overrun his F/N which will only  invalidate him. The MEST universe has been doing that long enough.

The real definition of an F/N, applied to all auditing you ever receive and deliver will lead to many many many wins.