6305C25 SHSpec-269 Handling ARC Breaks

[Some of the data in this tape is contained in HCOB 27May63 " ... Cause
of ARC Breaks".]

LRH has discovered the common denominator to all ARC breaks: by-passed
charge. An ARC break is defined as "the PC's transfer of attention from the
bank to the auditor and a dramatization of the bank directed at the auditor."
Charge that has been restimulated in session may provide a background booster
for a session upset. When you drag the PC's attention to the auditor, the
charge that has been deliberately restimulated in the session doesn't get
as-ised, and the PC ARC breaks. Thus, something that, outside the session,
could not cause an ARC break, may and will cause an ARC break if it happens in
session. The ARC break is not caused by a social faux pas. It is caused by
the sudden shift of attention, the unleashing of charge that was held back by
the fact that the PC's attention was on it. As long as the PC has his
attention on the bank, he is cause over its charge. "The moment his attention
is flicked off of it he is ... the effect of that charge ... and the PC then
dramatizes [it]."

Any tone level or know-to-mystery scale level that is higher than the
chronic tone of the PC, being higher than the PC, is cause over the PC and is
therefore dramatized. It should be noted that apathy is a high tone for a
PC. The tone level contained in the incident is what the PC, unintentionally,
dramatizes. He could dramatize anything, e.g. boredom, effort (e.g. breaking
a chair), or a manic. And the auditor is a good target. The PC himself is
helpless to restrain himself from dramatizing. He will be surprised at
himself, amazed to react that way, etc.

An ARC break comes about whenever charge is bypassed that then puts the
PC at its effect point. The PC dramatizes the charge that has been bypassed.
[This charge is unknown to him and can therefore affect him adversely.] The
remedy is to locate and indicate the exact bypassed charge, at which point the
ARC break ceases. That is the mechanics of it. You don't have to go into a
"do" and run the ARC break and run all engrams connected with it, etc. No.
You only have to indicate bypassed charge. The remedy is not continuous
auditing.

You know now how to turn off someone's anger by saying that someone
missed his withholds. That often works, but when it doesn't, it is because
you indicated the wrong bypassed charge. You could assess a number of
possibilities, e.g. "missed GPM", "missed goal", "missed RI". He will stop
being ARC broken when you get the right one. In session, only a few charges
can be missed: goals, RI's. engrams, refutation of reality, rejection of
affinity, more basic incident, failure to acknowledge. That pretty well
covers it.

These things occur in life also. "Rage is an automaticity... in such a
delicate balance that almost anything can make it slip." A neurosis is
actually hard to maintain. That explains the simple effectiveness of
correctly locating and indicating bypassed charge. The psychiatrist's failure
comes about from two sources:

1. Lack of technology.

2. An interest in insanity's being very hard to solve.

ARC breaks are not hard to handle if you know the cause and handling of
them. Don't back off or fear them. Just develop the skill to find and
indicate the right BPC, or you will get loses in auditing and eventually give
up. "Temporary or permanent conditions of misemotional stress are something
that you have to face up to as an auditor, ... 0r just get out of the auditing
chair. [So] I want you to get confidence that ... you can find the BPC, ...
and then, by indicating it to the PC, realize the tool that is in your power!"
That a PC ARC breaks is no guarantee that the PC is in poor case shape or
difficult to get gains on. Just indicating the correct BPC turns off the ARC
break.

You may find that the charge was bypassed two sessions ago, or the ARC
break doesn't get handled because you can't find what it was until somewhat
later. Then, when you indicate it, the PC calms down. But "you shouldn't let
an ARC break last more than two or three minutes," because ARC breaks multiply
on a steep curve.

Governments these days are run by riot, because they are so scared of ARC
breaks. England's matter-of-fact handling of the "ban the bomb" movement is
an exception to this rule, like an auditor who doesn't get thrown by or
governed by ARC breaks. Governments have also been run by fear of
assassination. This is just a dramatization of the Helatrobus implants. You,
as an auditor, could be governed by ARC breaks if you can't handle them. "You
are never governed by that which you can handle with ease." So learn to handle
ARC breaks until ARC breaks become just another phenomenon, like a runny
nose. "Your attitude on ... ARC breaks must never be one whereby you are
driven by the ARC break, because you will be driven, then, into not getting
the items clean, ... into taking the PC's orders, ... [which] are the direct
result of dramatizations. The orders are the significance contained in what
you just put him at the effect of:" the BPC.

Don't, for instance as a registrar, get reasonable in the face of
dramatization. Hunt and peck around for bypassed charge. The rage is an
automaticity. Psychosis is very tenuous and easy to break.

Number of ARC breaks is not correlated with the success of auditing. ARC
breaks multiply as the square of time. The greater the facility with which
you handle ARC breaks, the less you are governed by them.

PC's who are continually ARC broken in session can be run on the
three-way ARC break process. This process, however, is not for use every time
the PC ARC breaks. For instance, for an auditor messed up with ARC breaky
PCs, you could run the following:

_
|what attitude has been refused?"
|
"In auditing, |what reality has been rejected?"
|
|what communication has not been acknowledged?"
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This works better than mid-ruds. It is the successor to ARC break
straightwire, which, in 1958, could go into engrams and even implants. It
works, because what it does is directly to locate and indicate BPC.

If you let the ARC broken PC control you, you will be taking his orders,
because he is dramatizing not only the emotion but also the significance
contained in the BPC. This is dangerous to the PC. So you should:

1. Learn to handle ARC breaks.

2. Be good enough as an auditor never to bypass charge.

You can bypass charge by not finding any. You press on with the session
in the teeth of a PC who is dramatizing apathy. Then the PC gives you a wrong
goal and you take it, thereby bypassing more charge. "The harder you are
driven [by ARC breaks] into doing a bad job, the more charge you bypass." It
won't run well.

Bypassed charge is always prior to the charge on what you are doing. So
the ARC break is a blessing in disguise, since it tells you that there is more
charge, which you have bypassed. It is more accurate than the meter, in this
case. ARC breaks are cumulative in their effects. You do still have to peel
enough charge from later incidents to get to the earlier ones, but the PC
won't ARC break if you indicate to the PC, as an R-factor, what you are
doing. If you tell the PC that there is a basic on the chain, he won't ARC
break, even if you don't run the basic, because you have indicated the earlier
charge. Indicating that there is earlier charge also makes it possible for
the PC to run the later stuff.

The PC can ARC break in the rudiments because he has out-ruds in the
incident. That is just BPC, and you can indicate it. So when you chicken out
of cleaning an Rl because the PC is protesty and ARC broken, you have set
yourself up for more ARC breaks on subsequent items. Don't buy an RI that
doesn't rocket read a full dial. If it won't, there is BPC to clean up.

Bypass the charge? ... Keep it a secret? ... You will get an ARC break.
Don't bypass charge!