The Chart of Human Evaluation shows that the lower the tone of the preclear, the higher the tone of the auditor has to be. If the tone level of the preclear is 1.1 or lower, the auditor tone level must be at least 3.5.

Perhaps this comes from the auditing rule –

“The auditor plus the preclear is greater than the preclear’s bank.”

It appears that the less theta the preclear has available, the more theta the auditor must have and provide to offset the lack of theta on the preclear’s part.

The Chart of Human Evaluation also has a column called Free Theta. At tone 40 the Free Theta is 1000. Down around apathy the Free Theta is 1.

Now, with the above in mind, let’s look at the tone level of the BT’s and clusters that are being addressed on Excalibur. They are mostly in the below-death tone levels. That means they have almost no Free Theta left, almost all of their theta has become entheta.

Thus the Excalibur auditor must be high toned, indeed, and have sufficient volume of Free Theta to handle BTs and clusters that are that enturbulated. It is a bit of a trick to do this because the entheta, tone level, attitudes and somatics of the below-death BTs and clusters impinge on the auditor and his body.

The auditor needs to allow the impingement while at the same time retaining enough unenturbulated Free Theta to maintain the auditor viewpoint and hat. And that is the trick. It can be done. Even when the entheta of the BTs and clusters has knocked the auditor almost unconscious, with his head laying on the table, he can still retain sufficient Free Theta to carry on with his auditor functions.

Under the worst somatics, the Free Theta of the auditor still knows it is going to get the BT or cluster through this and turn it into a win for everyone. He never loses faith.

New Excalibur auditors will fumble around with this at first, but with some practice will finally get the hang of it.

Finally, this brings up another reason that it is important for the Excalibur auditor to keep his ethics in and not commit overts. If the Excalibur auditor has his ethics out and thereby commits overts, that will drop his tone level and result in him being too down tone to handle the entheta of the below-death BTs and clusters in the Excalibur case.

 

LRH lecture 5 March 1952 HCL-5 Thought and Preclears

“A preclear who is forced to run the incident without any good reason, and is simply forced and pushed and hammered and chopped into running this incident and then harassed and beaten through the incident, is going to turn up at the other end of the session lower on the Tone Scale, because you've applied force or threat of force.

So it's much easier, actually, to get a preclear to run by forming ARC with this preclear. ARC: affinity, communication and reality - reason, in other words. No matter how long it takes, you aren't going to get anyplace with this preclear, bringing him up the Tone Scale, if you just drive him into everything. So it tells you something about auditing tone, tells you something about that.”

“And actually you don't need to know much more than this. If you persuade him, if you are pleasantly emotional, not misemotional - angry, afraid and the rest of this, you'll get the incident run. And you'll be surprised what a preclear can run for a reasonable, pleasant-mooded auditor - just run anything for him.”

“You're working with thought, and thought is as effective as it knows, as effective as it trusts, as effective as it has faith in itself.

It is faith by the way - it doesn't have faith.

I'm not, by the way, asking you to "have faith in me." I am asking you to be faith.”