6210C30 SHSpec-204 Pre-hav Scales And Lists

[LRH comments on Z unit progress. (See HCOPL 8Dec62 "Training -- Saint
Hill Special Briefing Course -- Summary of Subjects by Units"). The SHSBC at
that time had a new streamlined form, consisting of V, W, X, Y, and Z units,
with Z being the most advanced unit. The material of the Z unit consisted of
additional clearing data, the form of the course, and scientology plans.
Auditing requirements were goal found on self and goal found on PC. This
would give a Class IV certificate if all check sheets complete, a Class III
cert if Y unit complete and above auditing requirement completed, a Class II
cert if Y unit auditing requirements met (R2-12 (See page 339, below), CCH's,
Assists, and Prepchecking) and only X unit checksheets complete. Also some
general comments on rigorous training. See also HCOB 13Oct62 "Processes".]

Any former data on the subject of assessing scales was prior to the
experience of nulling goals. We have learned that items can disappear from a
list without being out or appear on a list without being in. All nulling of
lists is therefore to be done as follows: We have a scale or list from some
source and we have a lot of words, verbs, terminals, or whatever. Old style
assessment by elimination is superseded by a new style that is much faster
then tiger drilling the items. It is done by reading each item in turn. The
ones that produce a disturbance of the needle, not necessarily an instant read
at this point, are in. The time to judge whether it is a proper read is when
it is still in at the end. Keep the questionable ones in until you have
eliminated most.

Having assessed each line, mark the ones that read, no matter how they
read, in. This means that they disturbed the needle. When the PC is in a
rock slam area, the PC is all over the place. The read can be early, late,
etc. For instance, a read could appear latent because the rising portion of a
rock slam could obscure the first part of the read. If the PC is out of
session, you may get prior reads. But goals almost always instant read. In
assessing a scale, the time to get picky about reads is when you have an item
still in and it is one of the few remaining. Now you get nice about it.
Rocket reads are consistent; rook slams are not. The item with the slam has
far more authority than the auditor. The to may sit there, cogniting
silently, having forgotten the auditor altogether.

On a dynamic assessment, as you go down the list, pay attention to the
PC's somatics on the different levels. You would be foolish to go headlong
down the items list and pay no attention to the somatics that the PC is
getting. You may find the PC's valence at one of these levels. He is likely
to hit an item which is where he has been for millenia, and if you don't watch
what you are doing, you will go on, leaving him there.

Standard assessment by elimination is not likely to work, except with a
really good auditor who maintained real two way comm with the PC, no inval or
eval, no out ruds, etc. Items on the rock slam chain must be right.
Therefore, the procedure must be revised. The revised version is easy to do,
especially if you can see the meter read. It does require precise meter
reading. The PC must know what you are doing and what you are trying to find,
or the whole list can be a protest. Be sure you can read the list before you
try to assess it, so that you can give the items right. If the PC is a
rockslammer on scientology and you give an item wrong, the item could
rockslam. At the very least, it can make the PC protest. A wrong or
irrelevant item on a list, read back to the PC, is being asserted by the
auditor and protested by the PC. Therefore, it will read. The PC may get
caught up in an oppterm and may get protest reads from that.

Another phenomenon is everything on the list reacing. That is by-passing
the item. All the items can stop reading, too. Either one of these two
phenomena indicates that the mid-ruds of the session, not the list, are out.
One item in every now and then is what looks right. If the mid-ruds are out,
the PC is handling the out-rud on down the list and everything can read on
that out-rud. When this happens, the auditor's voice, reading anything,
creates a greater effect on the PC and the item has a greater effect on the
meter. The PC is vulnerable as in Bridge, because a partial win becomes a
missed withhold. So the auditor's voice, no matter what he says, will produce
a reaction. The PC really has a missed withhold, whichever rud is out. If
this phenomenon is increased further, nothing will read.

However, if you put session mid-ruds in too often, the PC will be driven
out of session by cleaning cleans. If you assess for awhile without noticing
that nothing was reading, when you see the column of X's the next time
through, call these items again, to be sure.

This system is to prevent reads from being wiped out by out-mid-ruds and
to let you select the right item by tiger drilling [See p. 295a for tiger
drill procedure]. It is best to err on the side of having too many items left
in to be tiger drilled. You should leave, say, five items in. Mid-ruds may
not be out enough to screw up the session, but they may be out enough to screw
up a particular item. So the procedure is:

1. Assess by elimination to a few (between three and eight) items,
keeping mid-ruds in.

2. Start tiger drilling, using a six-button tiger drill, unless the PC is
protesty, in which case you can make it seven by adding "protest".

After tiger drilling, you are looking for a slam. If an item stays in
with a mere dirty needle, circle it, but don't necessarily buy it. Buy the
biggest read. You should get a bigger read on the right item and a smaller
read on the wrong item, after tiger drilling. You don't necessarily do this
with a big polish operation, because you don't have the same need to be
precise as with a goal. Just tiger drill it enough to make sure.

This should not take more than three minutes. Don't pay any attention to pain
and sensation while you are doing this. Just dust them off. If you can't
make up your mind, tiger drill them harder.