6205C01 SHSpec-140 Missed Withholds [See HCOB 3May62 "ARC Breaks -- Missed Withholds" for a summary of this lecture.] The toughest thing to do is to get the auditor to ask a simple question: "Have I missed a withhold on you?" It's utterly wild! There is even a case of someone letting someone die rather then saying it. There is even another way to say it: "Is there something I should have found out about you?" Auditors' failure to do this makes LRH feel like he is on an involuntary withhold. He feels like he is screaming in a soundproof room. People will actually let a PC sit there yapping and screaming, as though they, the auditor, had no responsibility for what is going on, when all they have to do is to ask for the missed withhold. Missed withholds cause a lot of phenomena. Even GPM's are caused by missed withholds! "It is almost as if the basic principle of existence is: When existence is good, thou hast not missed a withhold, and when existence is bad, thou hath missed a withhold.... A missed withhold, properly asked for -- the meter cleaned -- remedies each one of these ... things and many more:" 1. Pc failing to make progress. We know now that PTP's stem from missed withholds, and they stop progress. 2. Pc critical of or angry at the Auditor. A non-withholdy PC won't get angry at an Auditor goof. It doesn't matter whether the auditor was guilty as charged (by the PC) or not. If the PC natters about it, he has had a withhold missed. It is not what is known -- the thing he is nattering about -- that is wrong with the PC. So you dropped his goals list into the spittoon. So what? If he says, "What the Hell are you doing?", he has had a withhold missed earlier in the session. Don't get reasonable about it. Complaints come from missed withholds. Get then pulled. Don't develop them; don't follow them, just pull them and get on with the session. 3. Pc refusing to talk to the auditor. This happens fifteen to twenty minutes before the blow. Refusal to talk is simply the realization that one can't, because one isn't being heard. Failing to acknowledge can stick the PC with an involuntary withhold that becomes missed. You see this in prayer. A guy talking to God is talking to a circuit if God is talking back. Sooner or later the circuit will blow and he will have a fantastic missed withhold. He will get angry at the Catholic Church, or whatever, when he suddenly gets no answer to his communication. One way to handle this is to acknowledge the living daylights out of the PC; another is to ask if you have missed a withhold. 4. Pc trying to leave session. This is a reverse flow of screaming at the auditor. You create a missed withhold with every failure to acknowledge PC originations or answers. Eventually the PC will scream at you. If you refuse to receive communication from the PC, you can create an ARC break. 5. Any needle pattern. If the needle is active regardless of what you are saying or even when you are not talking, the PC has a missed withhold. All needle patterns are caused by missed withholds. [See 6202C15 SHSpec-145 "New TRs", p. 240, below: "A [needle] pattern is a series of missed withholds culminating in a constantly active needle.' It is a dirty needle that can be wide or narrow. You can and should correct such a pattern. Get the ruds back in."] 6. Pc not desirous of being audited. This applies to anybody, not just pcs. But how could you miss a withhold on a stranger, when you haven't even talked to him? Well, you are the one who is supposed to know, [See p. 184, above, on what a non-scientologist thinks knowledge is: knowledge of his withholds.] so it is automatic. If your presence is good enough, you can get past all the argument and actually pull the withhold. 7. Pc boiling off. Mechanically, this is a stuck flow, but the reason for the stuck flow is a missed withhold. A PC even going a little fuzzy has a missed withhold, however minor it may be. 8. Pc exhausted. This is caused by a missed withhold, as unlikely as it seems. 9. Pc feeling foggy at session end. This is like boil-off. You will get little nit-picky missed withholds, like, "I wanted to take a smoke break an hour ago and didn't mention it." For this, you can preface the missed withhold question with "In this session...". 10. Pc's havingness drops. A missed withhold is a not-reach, isn't it? That's no havingness. Havingness comes up when missed withholds are cleaned up. 11. Pc criticising auditor to others. Here, we are going out into life. Even if the auditor wasn't perceptive, didn't acknowledge, etc., he has still missed his withholds. We only learned this piece of tech fairly recently. And, by the way, people studying scientology think that every time we come out with something new, old things cease to be true, e.g. they think, "The ARC scale [See Scientology 0-8, pp. 102 and 103.] went out because we have just said that the Effects scale exists." This is not true. 12. Pc demanding redress of wrongs. He is saying that you should audit him for free or some such thing. It doesn't matter if everything he says is true. The solution isn't to be found in court but in missed withholds. You can ask, "What should the organization have found out about you?" to handle this. 13. Pc critical of organizations or people of scientology, or of scientology. These things can have enormous effects and yet be trivial, even laudable, in and of themselves. Say a guy donates money to a research foundation and finds out that it has been credited to his account instead. The foundation has missed a withhold on him right there. He has tried to say something and it hasn't been acknowledged. He has tried to communicate something, and the communication has not occurred. Every question you don't answer becomes a kissed withhold. Letter registrars should be aware of this. The missed withhold comes from the "They should know what I'm thinking.... They should have found out." You can end an entheta campaign by sending a detective around to investigate then. They figure you know, and the campaign stops because you have un-missed the withhold. Better out, really find out what as going on and publish the truth. Believe it or not, they won't attack you worse than before. They will leave you alone. The original attack wasn't based on your overts, no matter how many they may have been. It was based only on the withholds missed by you. 14. Lack of auditing results. This is a cousin to #1, above: no progress. Handling this assists organizations immensely. Cleaning up missed withholds gives auditing results, hence new pcs, etc. 15. Dissemination failures. "What have I failed to find out about you?" handles this. The trouble is that it is too simple, so auditors miss it. The missed withhold extends into virtually every other area of scientology: TR-4, the communication formula, not-knowingness, PTP's, havingness, etc.