6106C07 SHSpec-9 Points in Assessing

The problem with communicating scientology is that there are no
agreed-upon realities ready-made in words. If you give a person one of these
concepts and its name and definition, he will recognize the truth of it, but
it will take awhile for him to really grasp it. and he has to get the concept
first. This is almost like processing. People read DMSMH and got an
understanding that changed their physical condition. But the ideas of
dianetics and scientology haven't been familiar to Man, so it takes awhile, or
it takes familiarity with them, to grasp them. You could teach someone the
principles of scientology by teaching him the vocabulary.

You've got to get the PTP of long duration off the PC's case if he has
one, before you can go on with goals processing, because the PTP LD is more
real to the PC than anything else on his case. His attention is fixed on it.
If the PC has his attention fixed on the hidden standard, you've practically
got a computation right there. It has to be gotten out of the way to get case
gain. It is always right on the goals chain, or it wouldn't be a PTP of long
duration, so when you get it out of the way, you've got the case flying. It
has been a mistake not to assess the hidden standard, finding out who had it,
when, and what. [This is Presession 38 -- a dianetic assist. See HCOB
23Feb61 "PT Problem and Goals".] Or a more certain method would be to run the
hidden standard with a terminals assessment by elimination (Whose might it
be? What might it be?, etc.) This line of questioning is interesting, both to
the PC and casewise, because the hidden standard is the primary source of
individuation for the PC. It is what makes him different from everyone else.
It is the least well duplicated part of the bank, so it will fire off as an
automaticity, because it is the area that is most out of communication and
most out of control. The PC could get lots of terminals from this.

The hidden standard is a substitute for the case of the PC. It is more
real to him than any case or life difficulties the PC may have. It is a form
of individuation. The PC is the one with the earache. This distinguishes him
from others.