Nov 97
This is a brief "how to" for people who are already trained auditors but who never got to do a solo auditors course.
Since I am going to assume that the reader already knows a great deal about auditing, this may be incomprehensible to people who do not already have some training in the subject.
I am currently working on a self clearing book which will make no assumptions about prior knowledge of Scientology, it should be on the net before the end of the year. That one should be useful to both trained auditors and beginners alike. It will be an unrestrained attempt to reach from the ground all the way up to OT states far beyond what the org is delivering.
But many trained auditors will also want to do the OT levels as delivered by the org.
There are many trained auditors who have been sitting on the fence for a long time. They are hesitant to step back into an organization that is behaving very badly and will drive them up the wall with all sorts of stops and wrong actions. They are also hesitant to burn their bridges and walk into a freezone organization because they have been so heavily third partied against these people and are afraid that the tech isn't really there or is so badly "squirreled" as to be unworkable.
In actual fact, a good class 4 auditor already has enough skill to go it alone and even to chart his own course safely. But because of the waves of PR and Secrecy, he doesn't know that.
Simply reading an article like this is not a bridge burning kind of step. A loyalist can look it over and, if it seems fishy, simply excuse it away as "seeing what those evil squirrels are up to" so as to better defend the subject, and in that way avoid any serious trouble with Ethics.
This gives them a chance to know before they go, to stick their toe in the water before they dive in.
So here it is, a basic briefing on Solo for the professional auditor.
1. The Solo Course
Almost everything on the solo course has already been covered in regular auditor training though class 3. It is there to teach untrained public various basic actions such as how to fly ruds.
All that you are missing is the solo comm cycle and solo emeter drills.
In solo, you hold the solo cans in one hand and work the meter and write on the worksheet with the other hand.
The solo cans have less skin contact (only one hand) so you set the sensativity higher ( 1/2 or 2/3 of a dial can squeeze) and the TA will read higher (which is a false TA and can be ignored, use 2 cans if you want to see the real TA position).
The solo comm cycle is very simple. Wearing your auditor's hat, you ask the question (silently) of yourself, and then you be the PC and answer it (again silently), writting the answer on the worksheet. Then you shift back to being the auditor and handle exactly as if you were auditing a PC. Your "acknowledgement" is simply recognizing that you have answered the question.
The meter will instant read if you think the questions precisely.
The solo e-meter drills consist of doing the ordinary e-meter drills solo on a one hand electrode. You would, for example, assess "what is your favorite fruit", thinking each one clearly and seeing if it instant reads.
It is actually much easier than doing the ordinary e-meter drills because you have an internal comm cycle that is fully under your control. Perfect TR-1 is almost automatic.
If you have already done ordinary meter drills, these will be easy and you can do them by yourself.
That's it. That's all of it. Nothing else on the course that you don't know already. Just do everything else
the same way as when you are auditing a PC.
They don't teach you to solo L&N on the solo course. But they do on the Solo Nots course. And its nothing that you don't already know if you have done class 4.
Except for a couple of bulletins which explain solo, as given above, you get the same HCOBs as you do on an ordinary auditor training course. The same bulletins as always on the subject of ruds, assessing, and so forth.
2. Basic Solo Actions
The solo internship consists of doing some simple processes which you already know how to do.
The most important are flying your own ruds and running self analysis on yourself (metered and in session).
The ruds are exactly as you would do them on a PC. You ask yourself "Do I have an ARCX" and if it reads and you think that you do, then you handle it. If it doesn't read but you have one, you put in suppress and inval as always. If it reads but you know you don't have one, then you put in false.
The beauty of it is that you as the auditor have absolute certainty as to whether or not the PC has an ARCX, so you have no doubts about whether to use false etc. and you will never misduplicate what the PC is saying.
It is actually much easier than ordinary auditing.
If they are dealing with untrained public, the solo CSes will send them to review for just about anything.
But if they are CSing for a professional auditor, they have you run your own green forms and repair actions and will only send you to review (if ever) if you really make a bad mess of things.
The green form and other correction lists are very easy to do solo if you can already do them on a PC. They don't even hat you up on this. They just assume that you can do it if you are trained to do it on a PC.
3. Going Clear
Most class 4 auditors will find that they have already gone clear.
The clear cog is often repeated in the materials and its such an everybody knows that most auditors have trouble realizing that it is the clear cog and wouldn't even bothering mentioning it as a cog in session because they've known it since they started training.
It is simply that its you who is mocking up your bank and pictures. It is on pleanty of lower level tapes and is obvious from the axioms etc.
But knowing it in theory is not the same as having it as a cog and being aware of it. You do have to
see it for yourself.
There are two important side effects when you really make it.
First of all, you stop flinching from the pain in past incidents. Its not that your track is gone or that you don't have incidents or out ruds or whatever, its simply that your not afraid of a picture just because there was some pain at the time that it happened.
Second, and quite important, is that you see that you are not your bank and you are not the product of your bank. You are at cause rather than effect.
There is a lot of incorrect sales hype about the state of clear. It is simply being senior to the force in mental pictures. The grades (PTPs, overts, and ARCXs) go much more basic and can be run back to a time prior to the force and the pain and the implants to address the earlier abberated games that caused you to postulate being the effect of force.
But you need to knock the stuff on the OT levels out of the way before you can get the grades to run early enough on the track.
So don't invalidate the state of clear just because many abberations are still present. It is an important state and it lets you think without flinching from pains and so forth.
If you haven't made it yet, you can either run painful incidents on a gradient until you can really confront force, or you can run implant platens until you get control over mocking up the items.
If you have made it, you first step is to rehab and acknoledge it. Strip off any inval or false data if necessary.
3. Running OT levels
The platens and materials are available on the internet. I wouldn't repeat the data here so you don't have to be afraid of getting in too much trouble by reading this.
There are basically 3 categories of upper level processes.
First there are the OT drills. These are like running Creation of Human Ability solo. Currently the only one like this is OT 1. It also includes the old (pre-NOTS) OT 5 and 6. These were all quickie levels consisting of only a small number of drills. The results were probably unstable for this reason. There are thousands more of these processes back in the 1950s materials and that would be the way to expand these levels and really make gains.
Don't worry about mockup processes being forbidden. Ron put some on the old OT 5 and 6. Create is an item in
some implants. So you shouldn't do too much creative processing before clear, but it shouldn't
matter after clear.
There are the ones with implant platens. These are easy to run. Much easier than flying your ruds. The current levels are the clearing course and OT2. Many other platens are available, both in the 1963 tech volume and in my Super Scio book.
The tech on flattening an implant platen is given in the clearing course instruction booklet which is available on the internet. Read that first. The procedure is used on OT 2 as well as on the clearing course, so it can be done by a clear, but after clear many things just FN instead of reacting.
You might also want to pick up the "Master of GPMs" and "Pattern of the Bank" transcripts which are available on the internet. This gives you a bit more data on GPMs.
But the big disappointment is that the clearing course does not handle Actual GPMs. Its just a bigger more basic implant. The actual GPM research line seems to have been abandoned. Some clears think that there are no actual GPMs to be handled and others think that Ron planned on handling them on some super high OT level above NOTS. I took a stab at researching actual GPMs and wrote it up in chapter 3 of my Super Scio book which is available on the internet.
When Dianetic clear came out and people started bypassing the clearing course, they began by doing the OT 2 platens. Then they would get the CC platens to check over on old OT 4. But I think that you might as well do the CC platens as part of OT 2 if you are dianetic clear. Just run them lightly, FNing through whatever will FN instead of grinding them to death like the CC students try to do.
Note that you do run implant platens after clear. You sill need to confront the specific items. There are things like postulates and so forth which you made as a result.
Although it is not in the OT materials, there is a 1963 bulletin which says that you should also get the postulates made at the time of an implant. Based on adding postulates to NED, I would suggest that you also add this as a step after flattening any implant platen (chapter of OT 2 or whatever).
The third area is OT 3 and Nots. The materials are available. I think that Nots is a better approach and an easier gradient than OT 3, so I would be inclined to do that first and only use OT 3 to try and stir up some more when Nots flattens. I also think that there are some outpoints. See chapter 6 of my Super Scio book.
4. Running Everything Else
You can pretty much run any process safely except for Dianetic repeater technique. That one is
trouble and may drag an implant into restimulation.
So Ron was right in saying that DMSMH style Dianetics should not be self audited. As soon as they moved beyond Dianetics in 1951-52, self auditing was quite acceptible and Ron encouraged trained auditors to use the processes on themselves.
This continued until the 1960s.
People trying to solo audit quickie grades got in trouble. So Ron told them to stop doing that. But actually, everybody got in trouble on quickie grades, so it was not a valid test.
You will find that you can pretty much run anything successfully as long as the command directs your attention adequately. The only processes that may fail are general "two way comms" that do not have a specific target to Itsa, and you might sometimes have trouble with a prepcheck because the questions are a bit too vague. But it is not actually dangerous to try these.
The easiest things to do are correction lists and simple muzzeled processes.
There are thousands of processes. They work. They can be run solo. Have fun.
May the tech be with you,
The Pilot
PS, I'm posting this to both ARS and ACT, but many of my tech and freezone related posts go to ACT only.