A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
ABBREVIATIONS LIST
ACC: Advanced Clinical Course 
AESP: Attitudes, emotions, sensations, pains
ARCU: Affinity, reality, communication, understanding
ARC-X: (ARCX:) ARC break
CDEINR: Curious, desired, enforce, inhibit, no, refuse
ARF: Auditors report form
AT: Antagonistic Terminal
BD: Blowdown
BER: Bad exam report
BI's: (BI: BIs:) Bad indicators (on pc)
BPC: By-passed Charge
C&A: Certificates and awards
CC: Clearing Course
CL: Class (level)
Class Chart: Classification chart
Cog: Cognition
Comm Cycle: Communication cycle
C/S: (CS:) Case supervisor:, case supervision,
Case supervisor's written instruction
CT: Clearing Technology
Demo: Demonstration
D of P: Director of Processing
Dn: Dianetics®
DN: Dirty Needle
DR: Dirty Read
DYN: Dynamics
E/S: ES: Earlier similar
EP: End phenomena
E/O: EO: Ethics Officer
EXT: Exterior or exteriorization
F: Fall, flow
HAV: Havingness
FES: Folder Error Summary
FS: Folder Summary
FL: Flow
F/N: FN: Floating needle
FFT: Full Flow Table
GAE: Gross Auditing Error
GF: Green form
GI's: GI: GIs: Good indicators
GR: Grade
HF: Health form
HE&R: Human emotion and reaction
HCOB: Hubbard Communications Office
Bulletin, technical paper.
HGC: Hubbard Guidance Center 
Inval: Invalidation
INT RD: Exteriorization/Interiorization Rundown
L1C: Repair List for upset pc's
L4 Short: L4: Repair List for L&N actions
L4RB: Long Repair List for L&N actions
LCRE: Confessional Repair List
LF: Long fall
LFBD: Long fall Blowdown
L&N: Listing and nulling
LRH: Lafayette Ron Hubbard.
MO: Medical officer
MU: Misunderstood word or symbol
MWH: (M/W/H:) Missed Withhold
O/R: (OR:) Overrun
OT: Operating thetan
Pn: Pain
PC: Preclear
PR: Public relations
Pro: Professional
PTP: Present time problem
PT: Present time
PTS: Potential trouble source
Q&A: Question and Answer
R3RA: Routine 3 Revised-A
REHAB: Rehabilitate/rehabilitation
Restim: Restimulation
RR: (R/R:) Rocket read
RS: (R/S:) Rock slam
R/S item: Rock slam item
RUDS: Rudiments
SCN: Scientologie
SF: Small Fall
SH: Saint Hill
SHSBC: Saint Hill Special Briefing Course
SOM: Somatic
SP: Suppressive person
ST: Standard Clearing Technology. Same as Clearing Technology in Clearbird.
SUPP: Suppress
TECH: Technology or technical
TA: Tone Arm or Tone arm action
TR: (TRs: TRs:) Training Routine
TWC: (2WC:) Two-way communication
VBI: Very bad indicators
VGI: Very good indicators
WCCL: Word Clearing Correction List
W/H: (WH:) Withhold
 
 
  
  
 
DEFINITIONS 
A: 
A=A=A=A: Anything equals anything equals anything. This is 
the way the Reactive Mind thinks, irrationally identifying thoughts, people, 
objects, experiences, statements, etc., with one another where little or no 
similarity actually exists. Example: Mr. X looks at a horse, knows it's a house, 
knows it's a school teacher, so when he sees a horse he is respectful. This is 
the behavior of the Reactive Mind. Everything is identified with everything on a 
certain subject.
Academy: 
That area of the Technical Division in which courses and training are delivered.
Additive: 
a thing which has been added. This usually has a bad meaning in that an 
"additive" is said to be something needless or harmful which has been done in 
addition to standard procedure. "Additive" normally means a departure from 
standard procedure.
Admin: (Administration:) 
A contraction or shortening of the word "administration". "Admin" is used as a 
noun to denote the actions involved in "administrating" an organization. The 
clerical and executive decisions, actions and duties necessary to the running of 
an organization such as originating and answering mail, typing, filing, sending 
memos and emails, applying policy, and all those actions, large and small, that 
make up an organization. 
Admin: (in auditing) is also used about the action or fact of keeping auditor's reports, summary reports, worksheets and other records related to an auditing session. "He kept good "admin"" meaning that his summary report, auditor's report and worksheets were neat, exactly on pattern, in proper sequence and easily understood, as well as complete.
Affinity: 
Degree of liking or affection or lack of it. Affinity is a tolerance of 
distance. A great affinity makes you feel 'close' to somebody or something. It's 
a tolerance of or liking of closeness or close proximity. A lack of affinity 
would be an intolerance of or dislike of closeness. Affinity is one of the 
components of understanding, the other components are reality and communication. 
One's level of affinity is expressed on the so-called tone scale. 
Ally: 
is a person from whom sympathy came when the preclear was ill or injured. An 
ally coming to the preclear's defense of his words or actions aligns with the 
individual's survival.  The Reactive Mind of the preclear gives that ally the 
status of always being right--especially if this ally-relationship originally is 
coming from a highly painful Engram. The alley is seen as a person that has to 
be blindly followed or supported as 'he can do no wrong'.
Alter-is: 
To change or falsify the way something actually is.
Analytical: 
means capable of resolving, such as problems and situations. The 'Analytical' 
mind would be the conscious aware mind which thinks, observes data, remembers it 
and resolves problems. It would be essentially the conscious mind as opposed to 
the unconscious mind.  In CT  the Analytical mind is the one which is alert and 
aware and the Reactive Mind simply reacts without Analysis. 
The word "analytical" is from the Greek, "analysis", meaning resolve, undo, 
loosen, which is to say take something to pieces to see what it is made of. This 
is one of those examples of the shortcomings of the English language since no 
dictionary gives the word "analytical" any connection with thinking, reasoning, 
perceiving, which in essence is 
what it would have to mean, even in English.
Anaten: 
An abbreviation of "analytical attenuation," meaning lowering or weakening of 
the analytical awareness of an individual for a period of time (long or short). 
It is a degree of unconsciousness. Anaten is a mental  phenomenon; it stems from 
the restimulation of an Engram which contains pain and unconsciousness.
ARC: 
A word made from the initial letters of Affinity, Reality and Communication 
which together equals understanding. ARC is ronounced as three letters A-R-C.
ARC Break: (ARC brk:) 
1) A sudden drop or cutting of one's affinity, reality, or communication with 
someone or something. It is pronounced by its letters "A-R-C break".
2) A sudden drop or cutting of one's affinity, reality or communication with 
someone or something. This is in common language known as an upset or a 
condition of being shocked, disappointed, surprised, offended, etc. The A-R-C 
break gives an inside look in the anatomy of what is going on.
ARC break Assessment:
Reading a prepared auditing list which applies to the activity. The list is read 
to the pc while on a Meter. In the ARC Break Assessment the auditor only locates 
and then indicates the charge found to the pc. It is used on very upset pc's 
where actual auditing is not possible. If auditing is possible you can do 
Auditing by Lists. The same list can be used but here you actually run a process 
to handle each read to F/N VGIs.
ARCU CDEINR: 
Stands for affinity, reality, communication, understanding. And curious, 
desired, enforced, inhibited, no, and refused. These are the points assessed by 
an auditor on the Meter when handling an ARC break. First he assesses ARCU, 
finds the most charged one and indicates it to the pc. Then he assesses CDEINR, 
finds the most charged one and indicates it to the pc. Example: The first 
Assessment finds 'Reality'. This is indicated. The second assessment could end 
up with "Inhibited Reality". This is indicated to the pc who will feel relief.
As-is:/As-is-ing: 
To view anything exactly as it is, without any distortions or lies, at which 
moment it will  be fully understood. When a problem is As-is-ed it will vanish 
and cease to exist as a problem.
Assess:
means to choose, from a list of statements - which item or thing has the biggest 
read on the Meter. The longest read usually will also have the pc's interest.
Assessment: 
is done by the auditor between the pc's Bank and the Meter. There is no need in 
assessing to look at the pc. Just note which item has the longest fall or 
Blowdown. The auditor looks at the Meter while doing an Assessment. Also the 
action of an auditor reading down a list to find out which item on the list 
reacts more than the other items on the list, using a Meter, and so choose which 
item to handle.
(See also, Prepared Lists).
Assist: 
A simple auditing action given as a first aid. Does not replace medical first 
aid. An action undertaken by an auditor to assist the spirit to confront 
physical difficulties. 
Attention: 
When interest becomes fixed, we have attention. Attention is aberrated by 
becoming unfixed and sweeping at random, or becoming too fixed without sweeping.
Attention unit: 
Could be considered a theta energy unit of awareness existing in the mind in 
varying numbers from person to person. This would be the theta endowment of the 
individual; attention units are what he enjoys with, thinks with and works with. 
Attention units can be caught up in incidents on the Time Track and be locked up 
in these incidents, in problems and so on. A person who is 'not there' mentally 
has most of his attention units locked up. See also theta.
Auditing: 
Also called Processing, the application of CT processes and procedures to a 
person by a trained auditor. The exact definition of auditing is: the action of 
asking a preclear a question (which he can understand and answer), getting an 
answer to that question and acknowledging him for that answer.
Auditing by Lists. 
Is used to handle Bad Indicators on pc's related to a specific situation or 
auditing action. You use a Prepared List. If auditing is possible you can do 
Auditing by Lists. You assess the list and handle each read to F/N VGIs with a 
process. The same list can be used to do an ARC Break Assessment, but here you 
only assess and indicate the charge. 
See also ARC Break Assessment.
Auditing Comm Cycle:
 This is the auditing communication cycle that is always in use:
You drill different parts of this thoroughly in the Training Routines (TRs).
Auditing Session:
A period in which an auditor and preclear are in a quiet place where they will 
not be disturbed. The auditor gives the preclear certain and exact commands 
which the preclear can follow. 
 
Auditor: 
A person trained and qualified in applying CT processes and procedures to 
individuals for their betterment; called an auditor because auditor means "one 
who listens." 
 
Auditors Code: 
The technical or professional code of CT auditors; a list of "do's" and 
"don'ts". The rules are based on experience and have proven themselves to be 
necessary to ensure optimum progress in auditing a case; the governing set of 
rules for the general activity of auditing.
2) Important set of rules, which guides the auditor's professional behavior and 
attitude. The purpose of these rules is to develop maximum trust between auditor 
and pc. Maximum trust leads to quickest and most lasting results. It's a joy to 
be audited by an auditor, who sticks to this code rigorously all the time. 
Remember the important rule: Auditor plus pc is greater than pc's Bank (aud. + 
pc>Bank).
Auditors C/S: 
A sheet on which the auditor suggests the case supervision instructions 
for the next session. It has to be approved by the C/S before being carried out.
Auditors Report 
Form:
This shows in summary form what actions were taken in session and how they 
went. The ARF is made out at the end of each session and is an outline of what 
happened during the session. (Abbreviation: ARF).
Automatic Bank: 
When a preclear gets picture after picture after picture all out of control. 
This applies especially to CT-5, Engram Clearing. Automatic Bank can occur when 
the auditor isn't following an assessed somatic or complaint or has chosen the 
wrong one or one which the preclear is not ready to confront.  
Automaticity: 
Something one is doing but is unaware or only partially aware be is doing; 
something the preclear has "on automatic."
Axioms: (Axiom:) 
Statements of natural laws on the order of those of the physical sciences.
B:
Bad indicators: 
(Bls:, BI's:) 
Those observable indications on the pc and Meter that things are not going well 
for a preclear.
Bank: 
Reactive Bank; Reactive Mind; Engram Bank. 
The mental image picture collection of the preclear. It comes from computer 
technology where all data are in a "Bank"; portion of the mind which contains 
Engrams, Secondaries and Locks.
Basic: 
The first incident (such as Engram, Lock, Overt act, or traumatic experience) on 
any Chain. The first experience recorded in mental image pictures of the
type of pain, sensation, discomfort, etc. Every Chain has its basic. 
Beingness: 
The assumption of or choosing an identity. Beingness is assumed by oneself or 
given to oneself, or is attained. Examples of beingness would be one's name, 
one's profession, one's physical characteristics, one's role in a game--each and 
all of these could be called one's beingness. "Grant beingness:" To grant life 
to something; to permit or allow other people to have beingness.
Black field: 
This is just some part of a mental image picture where the preclear is looking 
at blackness. It is part of some Lock, Secondary or Engram. In CT it can occur 
(rarely) when the pc is exterior, looking at something black. It responds to 
R3RA (Engram running process).
Black V: (black 5:) 
A heavily occluded case characterized by mental pictures consisting of masses of 
blackness.
Blow: 
1) Something that suddenly disappears (such as a problem or charge in general) 
is said to have blown.
2) To depart without authorization from an area. To leave suddenly without 
explanation. It can be used as a noun and as a verb.
 
Blowdown: (BD:) 
A Tone Arm motion to the left (0.1 of a division or more on the Tone Arm dial of 
the Meter), made to keep the needle on the dial. It signals some mass dissipated 
or As-is-ed in the pc's mind; the pc will experience some relief as a result. He 
may express it as "I feel lighter" or "Things suddenly cleared up" or show signs 
of relief. It can also be defined as, the Meter reaction of having found the 
correct By-passed Charge.
Body: 
The organism with limbs, head, etc. It's the physical part of a human being or 
animal - whether living or dead.
Book One ™ 
"Dianetics®, 
The Modern Science of Mental Health".
Book One™ Auditing: (book one:, book 1:). See, Engram Running, 1950 Style.
Bouncers: 
Command phrases in the Bank that throw the pc backward, forward, up or down from 
the Time Track and so makes it apparently unavailable. It's a command phase from 
an Engram.
Bullbaiting:  
In coaching certain drills the coach attempts to distract the student auditor by 
doing Bullbaiting. This should be done by play acting situations that could 
occur in session, but other things can be used from time to time. As a 
bullfighter attempts to attract the bull's attention and control the bull, so 
does the coach attempt to attract and control the student auditor's attention; 
however the coach flunks the student auditor whenever he succeeds in distracting 
the student from the drill and then repeats the action until it no longer has 
any effect on the student (see also Buttons).
Bulletin: 
In the manual 'bulletin' refers to Ron Hubbard Communications Office Bulletins 
(HCOBs). 
See technical bulletin.
Button:
1)  Words, phrases, subjects or actions used by other people, that causes a Bank 
reaction in an individual, resulting in discomfort, embarrassment or upset, or 
in making him laugh uncontrollably. Buttons are found and pushed in 'TR-0, 
Bullbaiting' and worked over until 'flat',
meaning until the person can confront it without any discomfort or reaction.
2) Items, words, phrases, subjects or areas that are easily restimulated in an 
individual by the words or actions of other people, and which cause him 
discomfort, embarrassment or upset, or make him laugh uncontrollably. 
Button: (auditing button)
3) This term is also used to refer to specific words or phrases (such as 
"invalidate" or "suppress") used in auditing, because when the auditor says it 
to the pc (pushes it) he can get a Meter reaction. When a Button reads, it is a 
valid read. Example: "On 'Apples' has anything been suppressed" gives a read. 
This is taken to mean 'Apples' is charged and can be taken up.
By-passed Charge: 
(BPC: bypassed charge:) 
1. Mental energy or mass that has been restimulated in some way in an 
individual, and that is either in part or wholly unknown to that individual and 
so is capable of affecting him negatively.  
2. reactive charge that has been by-passed (restimulated but overlooked by both 
pc and auditor). When found and indicated the pc will experience relief. On a 
Meter you would see a Blowdown. 
 
C: 
Cal-Mag Formula: (Cal Mag:) 
The Cal-Mag Formula is designed as a natural "Painkiller" without side 
effects. 
1. Put 1 level tablespoon of calcium gluconate in a normal sized drinking glass.
2. Add 1 / 2 level teaspoon of magnesium carbonate.
3. Add 1 tablespoon of cider vinegar (at least 5 percent acidity).
4. Stir it well.
5. Add 1 / 2 glass of boiling water and stir until all the powder is dissolved 
and the liquid is clear. (If this doesn't occur it could be from poor grade or 
old magnesium carbonate.)
6. Fill the remainder of the glass with lukewarm or cold water and cover. The 
solution will stay good for two days.
Case: 
The sum of aberrated conduct or behavior resulting from the influences of the 
Reactive Mind. 
When a practitioner is displaying 'case' they are acting in an irrational and 
also unprofessional manner.
Case gain: 
The improvements and resurgences a person experiences from auditing and 
training; any case betterment according to the pc.
Case Progress Sheet:
is a sheet which details the Levels of processing and training the pc has 
achieved while moving up the Grade Chart. It also lists incidental Rundowns and 
set-up actions the pc has had. The sheet gives at a glance the pc's progress to 
OT.
Case Supervision: (C/S: CS:)
The inspection of auditing, by a qualified Case Supervisor (using auditor 
reports, session worksheets and Examiner reports); the ordering of standard 
actions and remedies to ensure maximum gains for the preclear. The written 
instructions of a case supervisor.
C/S 53: (CS 53:)
This Repair List was originally designed to handle high or low TA. It is 
assessed M5 and the reads are handled in the sequence laid out on the list. It 
has been called "The Champion of Repair Lists", as it has proven itself to 
enable a good auditor to handle all kinds of case difficulties - way beyond 
cases with TA troubles; the C/S 53 is still the list to use for High/Low TA. C/S 
53 contains "all the elements known to us that bring about case foul-ups."
C/S Mini Dictionary: Contains special terms used 
in C/Sing. Part of C/S Mini Hat 
(Link). 
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Caved in: 
a slang term meaning mentally overwhelmed.
Certs and Awards: (C&A: Certificates and Awards:) 
The office, which issues certificates and awards for the successful completion 
of courses and auditing cycles. It is located in the Qualifications Division.
Chain: 
A series of incidents of similar nature or similar subject matter. When running 
a Chain the pc is sent earlier and earlier until it the Chain fully handled.
Chain of incidents: 
A whole adventure or activity of many incidents, related to each other by the 
same subject, general location or people. It can go way back in time.
Charge: 
The stored quantities of energy on the Time Track; stored energy or stored or 
re-createable potentials of energy. The electrical impulse on the case that 
activates the Meter. Harmful energy or force accumulated and generated in the 
Reactive Mind, resulting from the conflicts and unpleasant experiences that a 
person has had.
Chart of Attitudes:
A chart which contains the major attitudes and difficulties people have. It 
shows the 
attitudes towards life taken by people. A person's attitude improves and his 
difficulties lessens when a person moves up on the tone scale. The chart comes 
with the book "Science of Survival"  by Ron Hubbard. The book gives an in-depth 
description of the chart. 
Chart of Human Evaluation:
A chart organized in very early 1951 by Ron Hubbard. It has various columns and 
gives behavior characteristics. It is plotted out mathematically on the basis of 
ARC; a very good chart to use in order to predict people.
Check: 
A checkmark (V) is shorthand; can mean a word check-marked has been cleared with 
the pc.
Checklist: 
A list of actions or inspections to do to make an activity or machinery or 
object ready for use, etc.  This is different from a "checksheet"; " Checksheet" 
is reserved for study steps.
Check-out: (checkout:) 
The action of verifying a student’s knowledge of an item given on a checksheet. 
This is much like a verbal examination in school. But special attention is given 
to definitions of words and the student's ability to demonstrate principles with 
a demo kit.
Checksheet: 
(check-sheet:) 
A Checksheet is a printed form that sets out the items to be studied or done by 
a student, item by item, on a course. It lists all the materials and drills of 
the course in the order in which they are to be studied.
Circuit: 
is a part of an individual's Bank that behaves as though it were someone or 
something separate from him and either dictates or takes over his actions. 
(Circuits are the result of engramic commands.)
Class: (Level:) 
Class 0 (Level 0) Communication 
Class I (Level I) Problems 
Class II (Level II) Overts/Withholds 
Class III (Level III) ARC Breaks 
Class IV (Level IV) Service Facsimiles 
Class V (Level V) Engram and Secondaries
Clay Demo: 
Clay Demonstration. Making an  illustration of the principles studied in model 
clay. The student demonstrates definitions, principles, etc. in clay to obtain 
greater understanding by translating significance into actual mass.
Cleaning a Clean:
Demanding more than is there. Used when the auditor resorts to harassing a pc to 
get an answer the pc honestly doesn't have.
Clean needle: 
One which show no reaction or change of characteristics. A Clean needle produces 
no pattern or erratic motions of the smallest kind on a question.
Clear: 
1) A person (thetan)  who can be at cause knowingly and at will over mental 
matter, energy, space and time as regards the first dynamic (survival for self). 
The state of Clear is above the release Grades (Grade 0-4) of CT (all of which 
has to be done before you get to Clear). 
2) A Being, who no longer has his own Reactive Mind. 
Clear read: 
The Tone Arm reading on the Meter on a body of 2.0 for females and 3.0 for 
males.
Clearing: 
Various techniques directed at improving abilities and awareness leading to the 
state of Clear. The activity done in auditing.
Clearing Technology: (CT:)
A clearing technology, mainly defined and developed by Ron Hubbard. It's 
applied by an auditor to a preclear in a formal session. The goal is the 
spiritual betterment of the preclear. The application of the processes and 
technology will bring about this change and a change in the pc's conditions and 
life. For short we use the letters CT to mean Clearing Technology in this 
manual.
Coach:
The person who helps another student understand or apply a particular text or 
drill. He is a one-on-one instructor. Usually students take turns being coach 
and student. 
In Drilling: The one, that directs the student. She is the instructor of 
the drill, the one that calls the shots. The term 'coach' is best known from 
sports; he instructs the players and shows them what to do. During a game he 
gives the players practical advice from the sideline. 'Coach' is also used about 
a private instructor teaching a student.
Coaching: 
Training intensively by instruction, demonstration and practice. In training 
drills, one twin is made the coach and the other the student. The coach helps 
the student to achieve the purpose of the drill. He coaches with reality and 
intention following the materials pertaining to the drill to get the student 
through it. When this is achieved the roles are reversed--the student becomes 
the coach and the coach becomes the student.
Co-auditing: 
An abbreviation for co-operative auditing. It means a team of two people who are 
using CT processes to help each other reach a better life. Sometimes three or 
more people make up a class of co-auditors who audit each other.
Cognition: (cog:) 
A pc origination indicating he has "come to realize." It's a "What do you know? 
I . . ." statement. A new realization of life. It results in a higher degree of 
awareness and consequently a greater ability to succeed with one's endeavors in 
life. 
 
Comment: (TR-3: TR 
3:)
In TRs (TR-3) it is defined as an attempt to distract student auditor or an 
attempt to blow session. Different from Origination (se Origination). 
  
Comm Formula: 
See communication. 
  
Comm lag: (Communication Lag:) 
The time that passes between a question and an actual answer. It can be 
hesitation or reflection, but it can also be not answering the question by 
talking about something that isn't an answer. In study comm lag in a check-out 
is flunked. It shows the student doesn't know the materials 100%. In auditing 
comm lag is just an indicator. A long comm lag means there is aberration in the 
area.
Communication: 
1) The interchange of ideas or objects between two people or terminals. More 
precisely the definition of communication is the consideration and action of 
impelling an impulse or particle from source point across a distance to receipt 
point, with the intention of bringing into being at the receipt point a 
duplication of that which emanated from the source 
point. The formula of communication is: cause, distance, effect, with intention, 
attention, duplication and understanding. Communication by definition does not 
need to be two-way. Communication is one of the component parts of 
understanding. 
2) The exchange or interchange of ideas or objects between two people or 
designated locations (terminals). More precisely the definition of communication 
is the consideration and action of impelling an impulse or particle from source 
point across a distance to receipt point, with the intention of bringing into 
being at the receipt point a duplication and understanding of that which 
emanated from the source point.
Communication, Control, Havingness Processes (CCHs: 
CCH: CCH's:) 
Processes which bring a person into better control of his body and surroundings, 
put him into better communication with his surroundings and other people, and 
increase his ability to have things for himself. They bring him into the 
present, away from his past problems.
Communication cycle: 
(comm cycle:) 
A completed communication, including origination of the communication, receipt 
of the communication, and answer or acknowledgement of the communication.
Completion: 
A "completion" is the completing of a specific course or an auditing Grade, 
meaning it has been started, worked through and has successfully ended. The 
student or pc usually receives a certificate as a proof.
Computation: 
technically is that aberrated evaluation and postulate that one must be 
consistently in a certain state in order to succeed.
Confessional Repair List: (LCRE:) 
This list is used to repair Confessional Auditing. It is used in a Confessional 
session in progress per Confessional Procedure. It is also used to handle 
troubles from other O/W actions such as O/W write-ups. If the person after any 
such action has Bad Indicators or if he gets sick or upset or messes up, this 
list is assessed and handled.
Confront: 
To face without flinching or avoiding. Confronting is actually the ability to be 
there comfortably and perceive.
Contact assist: 
A process which can be self-administered in which an injured body part is 
brought into contact with whatever caused the injury in as nearly as possible 
the same position and circumstances as it originally occurred. You do it only 
after hot objects have cooled of, turning off electricity, stopping the machine 
that caused the injury, etc.
Control: 
The ability to start, change and stop things at one's own choice.
Correction list: 
(Repair List:, Prepared list:) 
is a list of prepared questions on a printed sheet which is used by the auditor 
for the repair of a particular situation, action, or Rundown.
Cramming: (cramm:) 
A special service that handles students' and practitioners' difficulties 
one-on-one, using interviews, Word Clearing and other remedies. It usually takes 
from a couple of hours to a day to complete a cramming.
Cramming officer: 
That person in Cramming who helps students or auditors overcome their 
difficulties with materials they have misapplied. He also helps auditors who 
wish to be brought up to date on current technical materials.
C/S 1: (CS 1:) 
An action done by an auditor to prepare a preclear to run in auditing. Usually a 
C/S 1 consists of going through basic definitions and instructions.
C/S 53: (CS 53:) 
The basic prepared list used in auditing to get the Tone Arm up or down into 
normal range. It can handle a long list of case difficulties, whether the pc has 
high/low TA or not. 
CT: See Clearing Technology.
CT Meter: 
Electro-psycho meter, E-meter or simply Meter. An electronic instrument 
for measuring the mental state and change of state in individuals as an aid to 
precision and speed in auditing. 
 Its purpose is to assist the auditor to locate in his pc's areas of mental 
charge so that be can assist in the relief of spiritual suffering.
The CT Meter is not intended for medical or physical treatment or the diagnosis, 
treatment or prevention of any disease. By itself it does nothing and is 
strictly not to be employed for medical purposes.
D: 
Demo Kit: Demonstration Kit: 
A bunch of rubber bands, batteries, fuses, corks, caps, paper clips, coins or 
whatever, will do. These are kept in a box or container (tobacco tins or dairy 
cartons are good). These are used to demonstrate ideas with material objects and 
so increase understanding of the idea.
Denier: 
An engramic command that obscures a part of the track by implying it is not 
there or 
elsewhere (a misdirector) or should not be viewed. "It's not there", "It's over 
there", "don't look; it's dangerous!" and variations thereof would be examples 
of this.
Destimulation: 
The action of deleting the moments of restimulation of the Reactive Mind or some 
portion of it, so that it moves away from the preclear and he is no longer 
connected to it. 
Dianetics:™ 
Subject developed by Ron Hubbard. "Man's most advanced school of the mind". From 
the Greek "dia", through, and "noos", soul, thus "through soul" or "through 
thought."
In CT it is called Engram Clearing due to trademark issues.
Director of Processing: (D of P:)
 The person who is responsible for having auditors available and preclears to 
audit, assignment of preclears to auditors, scheduling of preclears and 
sessions. He also checks up on the well being and progress of pc's. He can 
do metered interviews on pc's on his own authority or the C/S can ask him to do 
metered interviews of a pc to get data.
The head of the Department of Processing in the Technical Division.
Dirty Needle: (Symbol 
DN:) 
A needle reaction on the Meter where the needle moves with a ragged, jerky, 
ticking motion. It is usually a small reaction. 
Dirty Read: (Symbol DR:)
A more or less instant response of the needle which is agitated by a major 
thought. It is an instant tiny (less than a quarter of an inch agitation of the 
needle). It is related to a rock slam, but is not a rock slam. It does not 
persist.
D of P Interview: See Director of Processing.
An interview of a pc by a D of P or available person. It is usually done on a 
Meter. The purpose is to get data for programming and C/Sing a case. It is not 
auditing.
Dope off: 
The phenomena of a person getting tired, sleepy, foggy (as though doped).
Dramatization: 
Dramatize: 
To repeat in action what has happened to one in experience. It's a replay out of 
its time period now of something that happened then. The person is going through 
the motions of some incident as if he was an actor, but he does the re-enacting 
unknowingly.
Dub-in: (Dub in:) 
Any unknowingly created mental picture that appears to have been a record of the 
physical universe but is in fact only an altered copy of the Time Track. Dub-in 
is of no concern to auditors as it is handled no differently than any other 
mental pictures. It is run in auditing 
exactly the same as any Lock, Secondary or Engram. It will eventually get 
straightened out; the pc will realize what really happened.
Dynamics: (Dynamic:) 
The urge, thrust and purpose of life--SURVIVE!--in its eight manifestations. 
THE FIRST DYNAMIC is the urge toward survival of self; 
THE SECOND DYNAMIC is the urge toward survival through sex, or children. 
This dynamic actually has two divisions. The Second Dynamic (a) is the sexual 
act itself and Second Dynamic (b) is the family unit, including the rearing of 
children; 
THE THIRD DYNAMIC is the urge toward survival through a group of individuals or 
as a group. Any group or part of an entire class could be considered to be a 
part of the Third Dynamic. The school, the club, the team, the town, the nation 
are examples of groups; 
THE FOURTH DYNAMIC is the urge toward survival through all mankind and as all 
mankind; 
THE FIFTH DYNAMIC is the urge toward survival through life forms such as 
animals, birds, insects, fish and vegetation, and is the urge to survive as 
these; 
THE SIXTH DYNAMIC is the urge toward survival as the physical universe and has 
as its components matter, energy, space and time, from which we derive the word 
MEST; 
THE SEVENTH DYNAMIC is the urge toward survival through spirits or as a spirit.
Anything spiritual, with or without identity, would come under the Seventh 
Dynamic. A sub-heading of this dynamic is ideas and concepts such as beauty and 
the desire to survive through these; 
THE EIGHTH DYNAMIC is the urge toward survival through a Supreme Being, or more
exactly, Infinity. 
 
E: 
 
Earlier Similar: 
(ES: E/S:)
When the auditor is checking the rudiments, he may run into the situation, that 
the difficulty doesn't resolve right away. To resolve the situation he will have 
the pc look for an earlier similar incident.
Earlier, means it happened before or further back in time, than the 
incident they were just talking about.
Similar, means it was somewhat the same type of incident. Maybe having to 
do with the same person or persons, the same place or the same surrounding 
circumstances.
To ask for an earlier similar incident is used in many processes, as the reason the present incident does not resolve is because it unknowingly reminds the pc about earlier times. When he is sent earlier and the exact circumstances get known to him the subject matter will clear up.
8C: (8-C:) 
A slang term meaning good and effective control of an individual or group. (Name 
stems from a drill).
End Phenomena: (EP:) 
Those indicators in the pc and Meter which show that a Chain or process is 
ended. In Engram running It shows that basic on that Chain and flow has been 
erased.
Engram: 
is a mental image picture of an experience containing pain, unconsciousness, and 
a real or fancied threat to survival. It is a recording in the Reactive Mind of 
something which actually happened to an individual in the past and which 
contained pain and unconsciousness, both of which are recorded in the mental 
image picture called an Engram. It must, by definition, have impact or injury as 
part of its content. These Engrams are a complete recording, down to the last 
accurate detail, of every perception present in a moment of partial or full 
unconsciousness. 
Engram Clearing: 
This is CT Grade 5 - Engram Clearing. It uses Engram running by Chains, 
Routine-3-RA as its main process. It routinely lead to the state of Clear. There 
are other processes that will take the pc to the state of Clear in the case this 
doesn't happen. But they will have to be done under the guidance of a 
professional auditor/ case supervisor.
Engram Running: 
Techniques used to run Engrams with. Also the activity of applying these 
techniques to a pc.Today the principal process used is R-3-RA.
Engram Running, 1950 Style:, Auditing out Locks, Secondaries and Engrams by using the original techniques of 1950.
Entheta: 
Enturbulated ("en") thought or life ("theta"), especially destructive 
communications based on lies and confusions in an attempt to overwhelm or 
suppress a person or group. Entheta has no power in itself but feed on theta in 
a parasitic fashion.
Enturbulated: 
Stirred up, agitated or turbulent.
Enturbulation: 
When a person's environment has been stirred up, become agitated, or turbulent.
Erase:/Erasure: 
The action of erasing, (rubbing out) Locks, Secondaries or Engrams.
Erase, to go over an Engram 
repeatedly until it has vanished entirely. There is a distinct difference 
between a reduction and an erasure. Erasure  is accomplished when you find the 
earliest part of the earliest incident on a Chain and get the postulate made at 
the time. 
When the postulate comes off the incident will be erased.
E/S, see Earlier Similar
Ethics: 
Rationality toward the highest level of survival for the individual, the future 
race, the group and mankind. Ethics is reason and the contemplation of optimum 
survival.
In terms of administering auditing Ethics is defined this way:
1) The purpose of Ethics is to remove counter intentions from the environment. 
And having accomplished that the purpose becomes to remove other-intentionedness 
from the environment. What we have then, in Ethics, is a system of removing the 
counter-efforts to the activity. 
2) All ethics is for, is that additional tool necessary to make it possible to 
get technology in. That's the whole purpose of Ethics; to get technology in. 
When you've got technology in, that's as far as you carry an Ethics action.
Ethics Officer: 
(E/O:) 
A person who handles ethics. The Ethics officer counsels pc's to sort out their 
lives in a practical manner so they can receive auditing with the full benefit. 
E/Os routinely handle pc's who have a PTS situation or other problems of a 
physical universe nature that needs a physical universe handling. This can 
include schedules, relationships, unethical habits or routines, bad situations 
and involvements that take pc action to straighten out. These situations are 
'out-rudiments' of a physical nature that needs to be handled to enable the pc 
to be fully in session and benefit from the auditing. Ethics has to be in for 
auditing to work.
Evaluate: 
To judge and determine the meaning, correctness, value, and consequence of a 
datum (verb).
Evaluation:  
1) Evaluation: The act of evaluating. The result of something being evaluated 
(noun). 
A student has to evaluate the data studied. On the other hand he should not try 
to evaluate for somebody else. Each student should arrive to a result based on 
their own efforts. Only in this way will anybody achieve sufficient certainty.
2) In auditing: Telling a pc "what's wrong with him" or why he is the way he is 
is incorrect. In auditing the auditor guides the pc to find explanations and 
solutions for himself. It is against the Auditors Code to evaluate for a pc in 
session. When a person is allowed to do his own evaluations he achieves greater 
certainty.
3) Any attempt by someone to impose his data or knowledge upon another. An 
example would be someone telling another why he is the way he is instead of 
permitting or guiding him to discover it for himself.
Evil purpose: (Ev 
Purp:) 
Destructive intention. A non-survival course aimed at destroying something. 
Examiner: Preclear 
Examiner: 
1) The person to whom preclears are sent immediately after any auditing session. 
The Examiner says nothing to the preclear in this situation, noting only what 
the pc's Tone Arm position and state of the needle on the Meter and recording 
what the pc says, if anything. The Examiner is also the person a preclear sees 
if he wishes to make any sort of statement regarding his case, or if there is
something he wants handled regarding his case.
2)  In a bigger organization there is a so-called Examiner. The Examiner 
is there to give pc an independent inspection after session. He will seat the pc 
and have him hold the Meter cans for a moment. He won't say anything, but simply 
note down pc's appearance and Meter response. Pc can (and should) give a 
statement about the session to him.
Exam Report: 
The report made out by the Examiner when the pc goes to exams after sessions or 
goes on his own volition. It contains the Meter details, pc's indicators and the 
pc's statement.
Exterior: Exteriorized:
The state of the thetan being outside the body, with or without full 
perception.
Exteriorization: 
The act of moving out of the body with or without full perception. 
Becoming exterior.
Exteriorization Rundown: See Interiorization Rundown.
Ext-Int: Exteriorization-Interiorization: See 
Interiorization Rundown. 
 
Flow: Direction of energy or action. Most 
processes of Grade 0-5 are audited on 4 flows. (see Flow).
F1: Flow one: another doing something to self.
F2: Flow two: doing something to another.
F3: Flow three: others doing things to others.
F0: Flow zero: person doing something to self.
Facsimile: 
"Any" mental image picture that is unknowingly created and part of the Time 
Track, whether an Engram, Secondary, Lock or pleasure moment. Originally means, 
"make similar".
False TA Check List:
It is a check list to use, when False TA is suspected. It goes through all the 
physical causes (like dry or moist hands) that can cause the TA to be in a false 
range, that don't reflect the state of case. This list is not assessed on the 
Meter. It is used as a checklist for physical inspections.
Fall: Symbol F: 
An Meter needle read in which the needle moves rapidly to the right, from one to 
two inches.
Firefight: 
The action of a quarrel between an auditor and a pc.
Flash answer: 
Instantaneous reply, the first thing that flashes into the preclear's mind at 
the snap of the auditor's fingers upon asking a question.
Flat: 
No longer producing change or a reaction. Or, in Engram running, referring to an 
Engram, erased.
Flatten: 
To continue to do (something) until it no longer produces a reaction.
Flatten a process: To continue a process as long as it produces change and no longer. In Engram running it is to continue running a Chain of incidents until basic on that Chain is reached and erased. With CCHs, it is three commands getting equal comm lag response with the pc doing the process.
Floating Needle: (FN: or F/N:) 
A floating needle is a certain needle behavior on a Meter. It is a harmonic 
motion sweep of the needle over the dial at a slow, even pace. A valid  floating 
needle is always accompanied by very good indicators in the pc.
2) The idle uninfluenced movement of the needle on the Meter dial without any 
pattern or reactions in it. It can be as small as 1-inch or as large as dial 
wide. It does not fall or drop to the right of the dial. It moves to the left at 
the same speed as it moves to the right. It is usually observed on a Meter 
calibrated with the Tone Arm between 2.0 and 3.0 with good indicators in on the 
pc. It can occur after a cognition, Blowdown of the Tone Arm, or just moves into 
floating. The pc may or may not voice the cognition.
Flow:
A stream of energy between two points. An impulse or direction of energy 
particles or thought or objects between terminals. In processing the auditor 
works with four main flows:
FLOW 1: something happening to self. Another doing something to you.
FLOW 2: doing something to another. You doing something to another.
FLOW 3: others doing things to others. You see it happen as a spectator.
FLOW 0: self doing something to self. You do something to 
yourself.
Free needle:
(Same as Floating Needle) 
Floating TA: 
The pc is so released the needle can't be gotten onto the dial. The needle is 
swinging wider than the Meter dial both ways from center and appears to lay 
first on one side and then the other. The Tone Arm can't be moved fast enough to 
keep the extreme floating needle on the dial.
Flow: 
Impulse or direction of thought, energy or action between terminals.
Flow lines: 
Refers to the administrative lines of an organization which facilitate the 
delivery of auditing and training. 
  
Flunk: 
1) To make a mistake. Fail to apply the materials learned. Opposite of pass. 
Also used by coaches as a command: "Flunk!", to tell the student a mistake was 
made. 
  
Fly a Rud: Fly a rudiment: 
The auditor must get a free needle (floating needle) on one of the rudiment 
questions (ARC breaks, PTPs, Missed Withholds.) This is done to get a pc ready 
to run a Major Action.
Folder: 
A folder sheet of cardboard which holds all the session reports and other items 
related to one pc's auditing. The folder is A4 or Legal size file folder made of 
light cardboard.
Folder Error 
Summary: (FES:) 
A summary of auditing errors in a folder and on a pc's case not corrected at the 
time the summary is done. When something is corrected later it is clearly marked 
in the FES.
Folder Summary: 
Sheets located inside the front cover of a pc folder giving an adequate summary 
of actions taken on a pc in consecutive order. It gives the content of the pc 
folder. The auditing history session by session, if you will.
Free Needle: See floating needle.
Free track: 
That part of the Time Track that is free of pain and misadventure, in that the 
pc doesn't freeze up on it.
G:
GF M5: Green Form Method 5
This means assessing of the Green Form by an auditor once through marking the 
length and Blowdown of all reads as they occur when the questions are asked of 
the pc. Those questions which read are then handled one at a time (when the 
assessment is completed) in order from the largest read to the smallest.
GF 40: Green Form 40:
1) This is a prepared list designed to handle resistive cases. If a pc does not 
seem to make any progress or respond to good auditing, regardless of any past 
errors completely handled, this list can be used to find the exact reason and 
will give you a handling for it.  
2) This is item number 40 on the green form and is a special prepared list of 
items with specific actions to be done for each item. It is designed to handle 
resistive cases (see also 'Seven Resistive Cases'). 
There exist a Green Form 40 Expanded, which is a separate list. It uses the same 
categories of 'resistive cases', but they are assessed in greater detail in 
order to find the exact reason for the pc's resistiveness to progress in 
auditing.
Goals-Problems-Mass:, 
(GPM:) 
Persistent masses, ridges and problems in the pc's Bank with a certain anatomy. 
The basis of this is beingnesses the person has been. Each beingness was 
motivated by a specific goal - a certain direction and method of survival. These 
goals and beingnesses changed over time. Thus we can find goals and beingnesses 
on the pc's track in direct opposition to each other. This created a problem and 
ridge. The problem was created by two or more opposing goals, which being 
opposed, balanced, and unresolved, made a mass. 
It's a mental energy mass. So you will find items (valences) in opposition to 
one another. Any pair of these items, in opposition to each other, constitute a 
specific problem called a GPM. 
Good indicators: (GI: GIs: GI's:) 
Those observable indications that all is going well for a preclear. The pc is 
bright, happy and winning. Pc smiling and happy.
Grade Chart: 
This chart shows all the levels of Clearing Technology auditing and training. It 
is the map of the road to Clear.
Grade: 
A series of processes culminating in an exact ability attained, examined, and 
attested to by the pc.
Grades: 
A series of steps or levels in which a preclear regains specific abilities and 
loses specific inabilities on a gradient to becoming clear. They are achieved 
with auditing. See also release.
Grades 0-4 are Release Grades. These are sometimes called Expanded Grades.
Grade 5, Engram Clearing, is different as Engram running goes for permanent 
erasure of traumatic incidents. Engram Clearing routinely leads to the state of 
Clear.
Grade 0: (Grade Zero: Communication release:) 
Grade 1: (Grade One: Problems release:) 
Grade 2: (Grade Two: Relief release:) 
Grade 3: (Grade Three: Freedom release:) 
Grade 4: (Grade Four: Ability release:)
Gradient: 
Something that starts out simple and gets more and more complex. The essence of 
a gradient is just being able to do a little bit more and a little bit more and 
a little bit more until you finally make the Grade.
Green Form: (GF:) 
1) A standard form used in Review auditing. It's called Green Form because it 
was originally printed with green ink on white paper. It handles out-rudiments 
and odd case problems caused by life rather than earlier faulty auditing. 
 2) The Green Form is used to detect the peculiarities and 
elements of a pc's life which are causing case trouble or preventing gains. (It 
is not used to cure high or low TA.) Per Auditors Rights it can be used by the 
auditor in case the rudiments won't fly. In this case it is assessed Method 3 
and handled, not going beyond F/N VGIs. But its real use is Method 5 and then 
sent to C/S for programming.
Green Form 40: See GF 40.
Grinding: Grinding out 
Going over and over and over a Lock, Secondary or Engram without obtaining an 
actual erasure. The sense of the word comes from the action of using an emery 
wheel on a hard substance with it not getting much smaller or thinner no matter 
how long it is done. It specifically applies to Engram running. It's a bad 
indicator.
Grouper: 
Is anything which pulls the Time Track into a bunch at one or more points. When 
the grouper is gone the Time Track is perceived to be straight. Usually means an 
engramic command, such as "we are all together", "we are all one", and the like, 
causing the Grouper phenomenon.
Gung-ho Group: (Gung ho:)
Gung-ho: means "pull together" in mandarin. It pulls together other groups in 
the community to work towards the betterment of society and of the area. The 
groups program works on the motto: a community that pulls together can make a 
better society for all. 
 
Hand space mimicry: 
A CCH process.
Handwriting Drill: 
(handwriting:)
If the C/S can't read the worksheets due to bad handwriting or lack of data he 
sends the folder back to the auditor for clarification. The auditor should 
overprint unreadable words with a red pen. The C/S sees to that his auditors 
catch up on writing understandable reports the first time and can have them 
train in handwriting drills to catch up on speed and clarity. The auditor should 
not have to spend a lot of time after session clarifying worksheets. He simply 
have to drill to write fast and readable, keep to essentials and quickly clarify 
worksheets after session. He may have to work on his handwriting letter for 
letter to make it easier to read.
Hat: 
Slang term for the work and title of one's post in an organization. (derived 
from railroad use of distinctively different hats to indicate different jobs.)
Havingness: 
The concept of being able to reach. Owning, possessing, experiencing. Affinity, 
reality, communication with the environment.
Hidden standard: 
(HS:) 
A problem a person thinks must be resolved before auditing can be seen to have 
worked. It's a standard by which to judge CT or auditing or the auditor. This 
hidden standard is always an old problem of long duration. It is a postulate 
counter-postulate situation--the source of the counter postulate was suppressive 
to the pc.
High TA: 
Tone arm reading above 3.5 on the Tone Arm dial.
  
I:
Implant: 
A painful and forceful means of overwhelming a being with artificial purposes or 
false concepts in a malicious attempt to control and suppress him.
Implanter: One who implants. See Implant.
In: 
Things which should be there and are or should be done and are, are said to be 
"in," i.e., "We got scheduling in."
Incident: 
The recording of an experience, simple or complex, related by the same subject, 
location or people understood to take place in a short or finite time period 
such as minutes or hours or days.
Indoctrination: 
To teach a doctrine, belief, or principle to; to teach. Indoctrination means two 
things, (1) To instruct in a body of knowledge, and (2) to teach to accept a 
system of beliefs or convictions uncritically.
in-session: 
Interested in own case and willing to talk to auditor.
Intensive: 
A specific number of hours of auditing given to a preclear over a short period 
of time, as a series of successive sessions at regularly scheduled intervals. 
Twenty-five hours of auditing administered over a five-day period or occupying 
10 evenings would be examples of intensives. Auditing is sometimes sold in 
Intensives, each intensive is  12 1/2 hours of session time.
Interiorization:
The action of going in; a thetan becoming interiorized in a body. An analogy 
would be stepping through a doorway into a room or getting into an automobile.
Interiorization Rundown: (Int RD: Int Rundown: or 
Int/Ext RD:) 
A remedy designed to permit the pc to be further audited after he has gone 
exterior. It is NOT meant as a method of exteriorizing the pc; originally named 
the Exteriorization Rundown or Ext RD.
Interiorization Rundown Correction List: (Int RD 
Correction List: ICL:) 
A prepared list that is used after a pc has had an Int RD but continues to have 
difficulty with Interiorization. It is used NOT to solve the case but to make 
Interiorization cease to read and be clean as a subject by isolating the exact 
points missed in earlier handling or handlings. 
Interne: (intern:) 
An advanced graduate or recent graduate of an auditing level who is auditing to 
get practical experience under professional supervision.
Internship: 
Apprenticeship served by an Interne.
Invalidation: 
Means a degrading, 'trashing', ridiculing, discrediting or denying something 
someone else considers to be a fact or of value.
Invisible field:
This is just a part of some Lock, Secondary or Engram that is "invisible." It, 
like a black field, responds to R3RA, Engram Running by Chains.
Is-ness: 
Something that is persisting on a continuum.
Item: 
Any one of a list of things, people, ideas, significances, purposes, etc., given 
by a preclear to an auditor while listing; any separate thing or article; in 
particular, one placed on a list by a pc.
Itsa: 
A term made from "It is a"; a term for a pc's action of answering an auditor's 
question in which the pc positively identifies something with certainty.
Itsa-maker line: 
(Itsa maker: Itsa-maker:) 
Communication line from the preclear to his own Bank. The pc is inspecting his 
Bank and is somewhat introverted. It's the most important part of the auditing 
comm cycle as the pc is confronting his Bank and finding answers.
 
J:
Jonathan: Livingston: Seagull: A symbolic book by Richard Bach about a seagull perfecting the ability to fly (symbolic for wisdom and ability). He teaches it to other selected seagulls. The seagull is the symbol for CT.
K:
Key in: (Key-in:)
Is a moment where an earlier upset or earlier incident has been restimulated and 
affect pc in a negative way. 
The action of recording a Lock on a Secondary or Engram; the moment an earlier 
upset or earlier incident has been restimulated.
Key out: (Key-out:)
The action of a reactive  incident (or many related incidents) dropping away 
without the mental image pictures being erased. The picture is still there but 
now far away. The pc feels released or separate from his Reactive Mind or some 
portion of it. An action of an Engram or Secondary dropping away without being 
erased. Released or separate from one's Reactive Mind or some portion of it.
Know-to-Mystery: 
Scale: 
The scale of affinity from Knowingness, down through Lookingness, Emotingness, 
Effortingness, Thinkingness, Symbolizingness, Eatingness, Sexingness, and so 
through to Not-knowingness to Mystery. 
 
L:
L1C: 
Repair List used by auditors in session when an upset occurs, or as ordered 
by C/S. It handles ARC Broken, Sad, hopeless or nattery pc's. Questions can be 
prefaced with "Recently", "In this life", "On the Whole Track", or used without. 
It is not to be used to handle high or low TA.
L3RH: 
A prepared list used for locating and handling all errors and trouble in Engram 
running sessions. The repair list for all problems with R3RA and Engram running.
L4 Short: (L4:) 
This is a short version of list correction. It contains all the most common 
errors. It is valid on listing in progress or recently done. If it doesn't 
resolve the difficulties a full L4BRB can be used (see below).
L4BRB: 
1) A prepared list used in CT for handling all Listing & Nulling errors, when 
trouble occurs on a listing (L&N) process, when TA goes high or pc gets sick or 
upset after a session that included listing actions.
2) Used to sort out all possible errors related to L&N. The L4 is designed to 
sort out an L&N action in progress. If that doesn't handle, there may be prior 
or other problems that need to be addressed. The L4BRB is thus designed to cover 
a broader area.
Latent read: 
If (the needle) doesn't fall or react for a second or more (after the question 
is asked) and then reacts. This is a latent read. They are used in auditing to 
steer a pc to charged areas in the pc's Bank (see Steering the pc).
List: 
As part of auditing procedure: Items given by a pc and written down by the 
auditor. Prepared List: A printed form with questions used for assessment on a 
pc.
Listing: 
A special CT procedure used in some processes where the auditor writes down 
items said by the preclear in response to a question by the auditor, in the 
exact sequence that they are given to him by the preclear.
Listing and Nulling: L & N:
A CT procedure in auditing done according to very exact rules as given in the 
Laws of Listing and Nulling. This is taught on CT-3.
Locational processing: 
(Locational:)
1) Processing which establishes confront and communication with the environment. 
It brings the person into present time; he becomes more alert and responsive. It 
can be run on one pc or on a whole class of students at the same time with 
benefit. 
2) Processing which establishes a stability in the environment of the preclear 
on the subject of objects and people. It can be run in busy thoroughfares, 
parks, confused traffic or anywhere that there is or is not motion of objects 
and people. It is used in the auditing room itself to orient the preclear.
Lock: 
A mental image picture of an incident where one was knowingly or unknowingly 
reminded of a Secondary or Engram. It does not itself contain a blow or a burn 
or impact and is not any major cause of misemotion. It does not contain 
unconsciousness. It may contain a feeling of pain or illness, etc., but is not 
itself the source of it. A Lock is a mental image picture of a non-painful but 
disturbing 
experience the person has experienced and which depends for its force on an 
earlier Secondary and Engram which the experience has restimulated.
Long Fall: Symbol LF: 
A Meter needle reaction in which the needle moves rapidly to the right; length: 
from two to three inches.
Long Fall Blowdown: 
Symbol LFBD: 
A Meter reaction in which the needle moves rapidly to the right and requires 
that the Tone Arm be adjusted in order for the needle to remain on the needle 
dial.
Low TA: 
Tone Arm reading below 2.0 on the Tone Arm dial. 
 
M:
Machine: (Mental Machine:) 
An actual machine in the mind (like ordinary machinery) constructed out of 
mental mass and energy, that has been made by the individual to do work for him, 
usually having been set up so as to come into operation automatically under 
certain pre-determined circumstances.
Major Action: (Major:)
any auditing action designed to change a case or general considerations or 
handle continual illness or improve ability. This means a process or even a 
series of processes like four flows. It doesn't mean a Grade. It is any process 
the case hasn't had.
Mass: 
A composition of matter and energy existing in the physical universe.
Mental mass: is 
contained in mental image pictures.
1)  Mocking up matter, energy, space and time. Its proportionate weight would be 
terribly slight compared to the real object which the person is mocking up a 
picture of. 
2)  Mental matter, energy, space and time. It exists in the mind and has 
physical existence, that can be measured by a Meter. Its proportionate weight 
would be terribly slight compared to the real object which the person is making 
a picture of. The Meter registers mental mass; changes of the position of the 
needle indicates changes of the mass in pc's mind.
Mental image 
pictures: (MIP:)
Mental pictures; facsimiles: a copy of one's perceptions of the physical 
universe of some time or incident in the past. It can also be mock-ups, meaning 
produced by the thetan with his imagination and not a copy of an actual 
incident.
Mental pictures:
Facsimiles and mock-ups; usually a copy of one's perceptions of the physical 
universe sometime in the past.
MEST: 
Word coined from the initial letters of Matter, Energy, Space and Time; the 
physical universe and its component parts; also used as an adjective in the same 
sense to mean physical, as in "MEST universe," meaning "physical universe."
Meter, see CT Meter
Method 3:
(M3: M 3: M-3: Assessment:) 
An Assessment in which each reading question is taken up and handled with the 
preclear when it is seen to read and before continuing the Assessment.
Method 5:
(M5: M 5: M-5: Assessment:) 
Assessing a prepared list once through marking the length and Blowdown of all 
reads as they occur when the questions are asked of the pc. Those questions 
which read are then handled one at a time in order from the largest read to the 
smallest.
Mind: 
A control system between the thetan and the physical universe. It is not the 
brain. The mind is the accumulated recordings of thoughts, conclusions, 
decisions, observations and perceptions of a thetan throughout his entire 
existence. The thetan can and does use the mind in handling life and the 
physical universe.
Minerals:, see Vitamins/Minerals.
Misemotion: 
Anything that is unpleasant emotion such as antagonism, anger, fear, grief, 
apathy or a death feeling; mis-aligned emotion, irrational or inappropriate 
emotion. Misemotion is also emotion which has been 
suppressed and which remains part of the individual's Locks and Secondaries 
unless he is audited.
Missed Withhold: 
(M/W/H: M/WH: MWH:) 
A Withhold, which has been restimulated by another but not disclosed. 
This is a Withhold which another person nearly found out about, leaving 
the person with the Withhold in a state of wondering whether her hidden deed is 
known or not. The Missed Withhold is different from the Withhold as the 
pc's main worry is, if the other person found out or not. The action of the 
other to nearly find out or maybe he found out or guessed it is 
why it's called a Missed Withhold.
Mock-up: (Mockup: Mock 
up:)   
Any "knowingly created" mental picture that is not part of a Time Track; 
Can be used as noun: "It's a mock-up" or a verb: "to mock-up something".
Model Session: 
The same exact pattern and script with which CT sessions are begun and ended.
Motivator: 
Actions which were directed against the preclear by others or another, used by 
him to justify (used as a "motive" for) Overts; an aggressive or destructive act 
received by the person.
Multiple illness:
The preclear is physically uncomfortable or ill from several Engrams of 
different types all restimulated. One runs one somatic Chain at a time, running 
each new symptom that is assessed or stated by the preclear.
Narrative Chain: 
(Narrative:) 
A Chain of similar "experiences" rather than similar somatics. A Chain of 
incidents of similar description or event. In such a Chain there may be hundreds 
to millions of events or incidents. Narrative Chains can be run in Engram 
running but sometimes the Narrative Chains are very long without reaching the 
basic of the Chain. More specifically, a Chain in which the similarity of 
content is of "events" "story" content ("falls downstairs," "fight with 
brother").
Narrative Item: 
One which will land the pc in a single incident for which there is no Chain. You 
run recent accidents and losses as Narrative Items.
Natter: 
Criticalness; unnecessarily and ineffectively talking about someone or something 
in a negative way; the word is coined from negative chatter.
Non Interference 
Zone: (Non-interference:) 
The rule that preclears and pre-OTs from Clear to OT 3 may not be audited on 
anything else but those levels or necessary repair to get them back on those 
levels and through OT 3.
Not-is; Not-is-ness:, 
Not-is-ing: 
The effort to reduce an unwanted condition of existence by force. It can cause 
the person 'to forget about it' or make a thing look smaller, but does not 
handle the underlying difficulty. See also As-is
Null: 
1)To nullify or to reduce the value or effect of something to nothing. 
2) means there was no reaction of the needle on the needle dial of the Meter 
when the auditor had asked a question of the preclear; or simply it didn't read.
Nulling: 
The auditor's action in saying items from a list to a preclear and noting the 
reaction of the preclear's Bank on a Meter. 
2) In Listing & Nulling: The auditor reads back the list of items the pc just 
gave him in order to find only one item that is still reading. This is done 
under the Laws of L&N.
Null Item: or Null List:
An item or list of items which when called out by the auditor, as in an 
Assessment, produces no Meter needle reaction. 
 
O:
Objective Havingness:
Processes which increase a preclear's havingness by increasing his objective 
duplication.
Objective Processes: 
(Objective Process:) 
CT Level 1 processes which familiarize a person with his environment, the 
physical universe. Objective processes increase a pc's control, communication, 
and havingness on the environment.
Obnosis: 
A word put together from the phrase, "observing the obvious." 
OCA Graph: (OCA:) 
A specially prepared graph which plots ten traits of a pc's personality from a 
personality test taken by the pc. OCA = Oxford Capacity Analysis. The 
personality test is also known as the APA = American Personality Analysis.
Operating Thetan: 
(OT:) 
A being who can be at cause knowingly and at will over thought, life, form, 
matter, energy, space and time, subjective and objective. The goal of the 
Advanced Ability Levels.
Op Pro by Dup: 
Opening procedure by duplication. A process which increases the preclear's 
ability to duplicate and so increases his ability to communicate. A type of 
objective process.
Original Thesis:
A book by Ron Hubbard, written in 1949. Later published under the title 
'Dynamics of Life'.
Origination: 
In auditing: A remark or statement from the pc, that concerns his 
ideas, reactions or difficulties. It is something he says, that is important to 
him, but isn't an answer to the auditor's question. It usually comes 
unexpectedly. It is different from a comment, that is defined as an 
attempt to distract auditor or an attempt to blow session. An auditor is trained 
in handling originations on TR-4.
Out: 
Things which should be there and aren't or should be done or aren't are said to 
be "out," i.e., "Enrollment books are out."
Out Int: (Out-Int: Out Interiorization: Out 
Int-Ext:) 1) Out-int means charge has built up on the pc's case after the fact 
of pc going exterior. Going exterior is usually a great win, but sometimes it 
later leads to this case condition known as Out-Int. This type of charge is an 
'out rudiment' situation so severe that nothing else but this should be 
addressed on the case.
2) Out Interiorization. 
Symptoms are: Headaches, odd body aches and pains. Effort, Pressures from 
environment. It can also be unwillingness to go into things, down to a physical 
back-off (claustrophobia). An urge to leave can also sometimes be traced back to 
Out-Int. The main symptom is high TA at session start or TA up at Examiner after 
EP at session end. Not all Out-Int cases suffer from high TA, but all who have 
high TA after lots of auditing should first of all be checked for having been 
audited past exterior.
Out-point: (Out point:)
Any one datum that is offered as true that is in fact found to be illogical.
Out Tech: 
Out technology; means that CT is not being applied or is not being correctly 
applied.
Overrun: 
1) Continuing to run an auditing action (in error) past the preclear's 
attainment of its end phenomena. A person can also be overrun on things in life 
outside of auditing. This is doing something too long that has Engrams connected 
with it. As a result Engram Chains are being restimulated by life or auditing. 
2) Accumulating protests and upsets about something until it is just a mass of 
stops.
Overt: 
1) Overt act; an Overt is an aggressive or destructive act by the individual 
against one or more of the eight dynamics (self, family, group, mankind, animals 
or plants, mest, life or the infinite).
2) A harmful act. A bad deed.  An Overt act is an act of omission or commission 
which does the least good for the least number of dynamics or the most harm to 
the greatest number of dynamics. 
3) An aggressive or destructive act by the individual against one or more of the 
eight dynamics
4) That thing which you have done to others, but you aren't willing to have 
happen to yourself.
Overt-Motivator Sequence: 
(O/M: Overt Motivator:) 
1) The reactive series of events in which someone who has committed an Overt 
"has to" claim the existence of motivators (acts by others against self). 
Motivators are thus used to justify Overts and tend to be used to justify 
further Overts.
2) A chain of events of 'pay-back' or revenge that gets worse and worse. 
 
P:
Pain:
1) The result of an impact or hurt. 
2) (in its various forms) is the indication of an Engram. Composed of heat, 
cold, electrical and the combined effect of sharp hurting. If one stuck a fork 
in his arm, be would experience pain. When one uses pain in connection with 
auditing one means awareness of heat, cold, electrical or  hurting stemming from 
the Reactive Mind. According to experiments done at Harvard, if one were to make 
a grid with heated tubes going vertically  and chilled tubes going horizontally 
and were to place a small current of electricity through the lot, the device 
touched to a body would produce a feeling of pain. It need not be composed of 
anything very hot or cold or of any high voltage to produce a very intense 
feeling of pain. Therefore what we call pain is itself heat, cold and 
electrical. If a pc experiences one or more of these from his Reactive Mind, we 
say he is experiencing pain. 
"Electrical" is the bridge between sensation and pain and is difficult 
to classify as either pain or sensation when it exists alone. 
Its symbol is PN.
Pan-Determinism: (Pan 
determined:) 
Broad determinism; the action of determining not only one's own actions, but the 
actions of others as well, especially to determine the activities of two or more 
sides of a game simultaneously; to become 
pan-determined it is necessary to view a dispute, struggle or game from both 
sides.
Pc, see Preclear.
Picture:
 An exact likeness; image. A mental image.
Pleasure moments: 
(Pleasure: Moment) 
These are mental image pictures containing pleasure sensations. One seldom 
addresses them unless the preclear is fixated on some type of "pleasure" to a 
point where it has become highly aberrated.
Postulate: 
A conclusion, decision or resolution made by the individual himself; to 
conclude, decide or resolve a problem or to make a plan or set a pattern for the 
future or to nullify a pattern of the past (like in New Years resolutions). We 
mean, by postulate, a self-created truth. A postulate is, of course, that thing 
which the individual uses to start a directed desire or order, or inhibition, or 
enforcement;  it is in the form of an idea. Postulate means to cause a 
thinkingness or consideration.
Potential Trouble Source: 
(PTS:) 
1. Somebody who is connected with an SP who is invalidating him, his beingness, 
his processing, his life, or even his group. It is a technical thing. It results 
in illness and mood swings and is the cause of illness and irrational mood 
swings. 
2. The PTS guy is fairly obvious. He's here, he's way up today and he's way 
down tomorrow and he gets a beautiful session and then he gets terribly ill. 
That's the history of his life. 
3. The mechanism of PTS is environmental menace that keeps something 
continually keyed-in. This can be a constant recurring somatic or continual, 
recurring pressure or a mass. The menace in the environment is not imaginary in 
such extreme cases. The action can be taken to key it out. But if the 
environmental menace is actual and persists it will just key-in again. This 
gives recurring pressure unrelieved by usual processing.
Power: 
Grade given if pc did not go Clear on Engram Clearing, Power Processing 
(formerly Grade 5 and 5a). See also Release.
Practical:
In Study, The drills and actions which permit the student to use in practice 
the theory he has been taught.  
Preclear: (PC:) 
From pre-Clear, a person not yet Clear; generally a person being audited, who is 
thus on the Road to Clear; a person who, through CT processing, is finding out 
more about himself and life.
Preclear Information 
Sheet: (White Form: PC Info Sheet:) 
A form done with new preclears, or pc's who haven't been audited for some time 
(years). Doing the Form with a pc gives certain basic data that is necessary for 
the Case Supervisor. It is done by an auditor in session.
Pre-Hav: (Havingness) Scale
A scale giving degrees of doingness or not doingness.
Pre-OT: (Pre OT: PreOT:) 
A person, having achieved the state of Clear, now working towards the state of 
OT, Operating Thetan.
Prepared List:
The auditor, trained in using a Meter, can use prepared (printed) lists to find 
the specific problem or difficulty he needs to address to get the preclear out 
of an unpleasant or puzzling situation in session. The list will contain all the 
possible difficulties for that action and the Meter will tell the auditor which 
ones to take up. A prepared list may turn up one thing or many things, that 
should be tackled before the routine process should be taken up again. Prepared 
lists can also be used to address a troubling area of pc's life and 'clean it 
up'.
Prep-check: (Prepcheck: 
Prep check:) 
An auditing action in which a subject found to be charged is discharged by the 
use of a prepared list of buttons (called the Prep-check Buttons). Buttons such 
as 'Suppressed', 'Invalidated', 'Didn't Reveal', etc. are used to find charge 
and reactivity connected with the subject being prep-checked. There are 20 
Prep-check buttons on the list.
Present Time: 
That which is now and which becomes the past almost as rapidly as it is 
observed. It is a term that refers to the environment as it exists now, not as 
it existed; as in the phrase "the preclear came up to present time," it means 
the preclear became aware of the existing matter, energy, space and time of now.
Present Time Problem: (PTP:)
A specific problem that exists in the physical universe now, on which a person 
has his attention fixed. This can be practical matters he feels he ought to do 
something about right away. Any set of circumstances that occupies the pc's 
attention, so he feels he should do something about it instead of being 
audited.
Pressure Somatic: 
(Pressure: Somatic) 
In Engram running, considered to be a symptom in a Lock, Secondary or Engram, 
simply part of the content. The pc feels a physical pressure stemming from the 
Bank.
Prior Assessment: 
(Prior: Assessment) 
An Assessment done in Engram running in which a time period prior to a 
significant occurrence, accident, or change happened in pc's life. Example: In 
the Engram Drug RD you find what somatics, misemotions and pains the pc had 
prior to taking drugs. The idea is, those troubles caused him to take up drugs 
and may still be present.
Prior read: (Prior: 
read) 
Reads which occur prior to the completion of the major thought. (Major thought 
is the complete thought being expressed in words by the auditor.) It is not used 
in auditing.
Problem: (Prob: Probl:) 
Anything which has opposing sides of equal force; especially 
postulate-counter-postulate, intention-counter-intention or idea-counter-idea; 
an intention-counter-intention that worries the 
preclear.
Process: 
A specific technique used in auditing (processing). There are many processes. 
They consist of carefully worded questions and commands. The are used by an 
auditor in a formal session to help his preclear.
Processing: See Auditing.
Product: 
A finished high-quality service or article in the hands of the consumer in 
exchange for a valuable.
Program: 
A program is the overall plan of auditing of a specific pc. A program is the 
sequence of actions session by session to be undertaken on a case by the C/S in 
his directions to the auditor or auditors, 
auditing the case.
Psychosomatic: 
(Psycho-somatic: Psycho somatic:) 
"Psycho", of course, refers to mind and "somatic" refers to body; the term  
psychosomatic means the mind making the body ill or illnesses which have been 
created physically within the body by derangement of the mind. 
  
 
Q:
Quad Flows: (Quad: 
Quads:) 
(Four Flows) To run a process Quad Flows means,  the four flows--another to 
self, self to another, another to another, and self to self --are run on a 
preclear by an auditor.
Q and A: (Q&A:) 
Stands for Question and Answer. A failure to complete a cycle of action; to fail 
to complete a cycle of action; to deviate from an intended course of action; 
questioning the preclear's answer; in auditing, it's a failure to complete a 
cycle of action on a preclear.
Qual:  
The Qualifications: Division - office taking care 
of quality control.  Students, auditors, and pc's can receive different services 
here: students and auditors are examined and they may receive cramming or 
special  assistance. Also where students and pc's are awarded a certificate upon 
completion of training and  auditing (see also Review).
Qual Sec: 
Qualifications Secretary:, the head of the Qualifications Division.
Quickie: 
Means omitting actions, for whatever reason, that would satisfy all demands or 
requirements and instead doing something superficially and accomplish less than 
could be achieved. 
 
R:
Randomity: 
The ratio of unpredicted motion to predicted motion.
Reach/Withdraw:
(Reach: Withdraw:) 
Basic process in assists. Works also well when processing animals, small 
children, or people who are ill.
Reactive Bank: See Reactive Mind, Bank.
Reactive Mind:
The portion of the mind which works on a stimulus-response basis (given a 
certain stimulus it will automatically give a certain response) which is not 
under a person's volitional control and which exerts force and power over a 
person's awareness, purposes, thoughts, body and actions. The Reactive Mind 
never stops operating. Pictures of the environment, of a very low order, are 
taken (recorded) by this mind even in some states of unconsciousness.
Read: 
The action of the needle on the Meter dial falling (moving to the right); SF, F, 
LF, LFBD are reads.
Reality:
Has to do with agreement (or lack thereof). It is the agreed upon apparency of 
existence. A reality is any data that agrees with the person's perceptions, way 
of thinking and education. Reality is one of the components of understanding. 
Reality is what is.
Recall: 
Present time remembering something that happened in the past. It is "not" 
re-experiencing it, reliving or re-running it. You are in present time, thinking 
of, remembering, putting your attention on something that happened in the 
past--all done from present time.
Rehabilitation: 
(Rehab: Rehabilitate:) 
The restoration of some former ability or state of being or some more optimum 
condition.
Release:
A preclear whose Reactive Mind or some major portion of it is keyed out and is 
not influencing him. In CT processing there are five major Grades of Release. 
They are, from the lowest to the highest: Grade 0, Communications Release, Grade 
1, Problems Release, Grade 2, Relief Release, Grade 3, Freedom Release, Grade 4, 
Ability Release. Beyond that other Grades have been developed: Grade V Power 
Release, Grade VA Power Plus Release, Grade VI Whole Track Release. 
These additional Grades are unnecessary if pc goes Clear on Engram Clearing. 
Each is a distinct and definite step toward greater levels of awareness and 
ability. (See also Grade).
Repair: 
Patching up past auditing or recent life errors. This is done by prepared lists 
and other processes or completing an incomplete process.
Repeater technique: 
A Engram running technique given in the book "Dianetics: The Modern Science of 
Mental Health" (1950) in which the auditor would have the preclear repeat over 
and over certain phrases found in Engrams being run. It was often used to handle 
command phrases with.
Repetitive Process: 
A process, where the same auditing question or command is given many times to 
the pc. The pc is finding new answers every time. The auditor will state the 
command as it has never been asked before in a new unit of time, but with no 
variation of words; he will acknowledge the pc's answer and handle the pc 
origins by understanding and acknowledging what the pc said. This type of 
process will permit the individual to examine his mind and environment 
thoroughly and sort out relative importances.
Resistive Case: See Seven Resistive Cases.
Restimulation: 
(Restimulate:) 
Condition in which part of the Bank has been "triggered" by something in the 
person's environment (a restimulator) causing some greater or lesser degree of 
reactive behavior or condition; doing something unknowingly, unwittingly and 
without any understanding of what one is doing.
Retread: 
The student auditor's weak areas are located and the auditor is Word Cleared on 
the appropriate materials and he then restudies selected materials. The auditor 
is given a longer study assignment that covers possible areas of his 
difficulties. It has to cover more than the obvious points since those points 
were already covered in previous Cramming Actions. A retread can take from one 
to several days to complete.
Reverie: 
The preclear is placed in a light state of "concentration" which is not to be 
confused with hypnosis. The analytical mind of the preclear while reduced in its 
potential and under direction, is still capable of thinking its own thoughts and 
forming its own opinions.
Review: 
When a preclear is having difficulty of some sort that is not immediately 
resolving with the actions being done, he may be sent to the Qualifications 
Division, where his case folder is carefully checked over or "reviewed" and the 
necessary corrective actions taken to resolve the difficulty. The actions done 
in this manner are collectively called "review".
R-Factor: 
Reality factor; explanation, information, data, etc., given to a person in order 
to bring about sufficient understanding for him to be able to perform a specific 
action. It is usually very short, like a few sentences.
Ridges: (Ridge:) 
Are solid accumulations of old, inactive energy suspended in space and time. 
They are generated by opposing energy flows hitting one another and continue to 
exist long after the energy flows have ceased. Ridges exist in suspension around 
a person.
Rise: 
A needle phenomena where the needle moves to the auditor's left (auditor facing 
the Meter); a rising needle means "no confront"--the preclear has struck an area 
or something he isn't confronting. One never calls his attention to this but one 
knows what it is. It is not taken up in CT auditing.
Rock Slam: (Symbol RS: 
R/S:) 
This is a crazy, irregular, jerky motion of the needle of the Meter, narrow as 
one inch or as wide as three inches happening several times a second. The needle 
"goes crazy," slamming back and forth, narrowly, widely, over on the left, over 
on the right, in a mad war dance or as if it were frantically trying to escape. 
It means "hot terminal" or "hot" anything in an Assessment and takes precedence 
over a fall.
Roller coaster: 
1. A case that betters and worsens. A roller-coaster is always connected to a 
suppressive person and will not get steady gains until the suppressive is found 
on the case or the basic suppressive person earlier. Because the case doesn't 
get well he or she is a potential trouble source to us, to others and to 
himself. 
2. Case gets better, gets worse, gets better, gets worse.
Rudiments 
 First principles, steps, stages or conditions. The basic actions done at the 
beginning of a session to set up the pc for the major session action. The normal 
rudiments are ARC breaks (upsets), Present Time Problems (worries) and Withholds 
(something pc feels he shouldn't say) - they are explained under each heading.
Routine-3-RA: (R3RA: R-3-RA:)
Engram running by Chains, Routine-3-RA is main process used in Engram Clearing, 
CT-5.
Run: 
Undergo processing; run out; erase.
Rundown: (R/D: RD:)
A series of specific auditing actions done on a case designed to produce a 
specific result. 
 
S:
Sad effect: 
When an ARC break is permitted to continue over too long a period of time and 
remains in restimulation a person goes into a "sad effect" which is to say they 
become sad and mournful.
Scientologie: 
(Scientology: Scn:) 
 (Scn): An applied religious philosophy. It deals with the study of knowledge, 
which through the application of its technology can bring about desirable 
changes in the conditions of life. (Taken from the Latin word scio, knowing in 
the fullest sense of the word, and the Greek word logos, to study.) A body of 
knowledge which, when properly used, gives freedom and truth to the individual. 
It was originally founded by the German philosopher A. Nordenholz, who in 1934 
published a book "Scientologie" in Munich, Germany. In it's present form it is 
based in its entirety on Ron Hubbard's work, that saw it as his purpose to 
gather wisdom and truth from many sources, refine it and make it into one body 
of work. As this is an effort pursued by many philosophers through the ages, we 
keep the spelling of A. Nordenholz: 'Scientologie'. We use however 'Scn' 
throughout the manual. Ron Hubbard called his main body of work for 
Scientology™.
You could say CT is the auditing technology part of Scn. Scn is a broader subject. It includes philosophy covering the character of life, death, Man, the spirit, the mind, and the physical universe; but also subjects like, Ethics, Administration and Management, Logic and Data Analysis.
Scientology:™
Scientology™ is a trademarked word. Since wisdom and trademarks are inconsistent 
with each other, we use Scientologie. Trademarks belong to commercial interests. 
Wisdom belong to culture and scholars.
Search and Discovery: (S&D: S 
& D: S and D:) 
A listing & Nulling process to find a suppressive person on a case and thus 
handle a PTS person.
Seagull:
Jonathan Livingston Seagull. A symbolic book by Richard Bach about a seagull 
passing the ability to fly (symbolic for wisdom and ability) onto new 
generations of seagulls. The seagull is the symbol for CT and Clearbird 
Publishing, who publishes CT.
Sec: Secretary:, security:
Secondary: 
A Secondary is a mental image picture of a moment of severe and shocking loss or 
threat of loss which contains misemotion such as anger, fear, grief, apathy or 
"deathfulness." It is a mental image picture recording of a time of severe 
mental stress. It may contain unconsciousness.
Second Dynamic: ( 2 Dyn: 2D:) See Dynamics.
Self-auditing: 
1) The manifestation of going around running concepts or processes on one's 
self. It violates auditor plus PC is greater than the Bank ("Auditors Trust").
2) Trying to run processes on oneself. Processes are designed to be administered 
by an auditor on a pc. The communication and control of the auditor is what 
makes auditing effective. 
Self Analysis: (SAL:) 
A book by Ron Hubbard. Teaches recall processes that a pc can run on 
himself.
Self-Determinism:
The ability to regulate and take responsibility for one's own considerations and 
actions; motivation by the thetan rather than by the environment.
Sensation: 
(In its various forms) is the indication of a Secondary, which precedes the 
actual Engram. All uncomfortable perceptions stemming from the Reactive Mind are 
called sensation. These are basically "pressure," "motion," "dizziness," "sexual 
sensation," and "emotion and misemotion." 
There are others, definite in themselves but definable in these five general 
categories. If one took the fork in the pain definition above and pressed it 
against the arm, that would be "pressure." "Motion" is 
just that, a feeling of being in motion when one is not. "Motion" includes the 
"winds of space," a feeling of being blown upon especially from in front of the 
face. "Dizziness" is a feeling of disorientation and includes a spinniness, as 
well as an out-of-balance feeling. "Sexual sensation" means any feeling, 
pleasant or unpleasant, commonly experienced during sexual restimulation or 
action. "Emotion and misemotion" include all levels of the complete tone scale 
except "pain"; 
emotion and misemotion are closely allied to "motion," being only a finer 
particle action. A Bank solidity is a form of "pressure," and when the sensation 
of increasing solidity of masses in the mind occurs, we say "the Bank is beefing 
up." All these are classified as sensation. 
Symbol SEN.
Service Computation: or
Service Facsimile: (Service Fac: Service Comp:)
Serv Fac, a CT Level 4 term. The service computation is that computation 
generated by the preclear (not the Bank) to make self right and others wrong; to 
dominate or escape domination and enhance own survival and injure that of 
others.
Session: 
1) A precise period of time during which an auditor audits or processes a 
preclear. That's an auditing session.
2) In coaching it is a precise period during which the coach instructs the 
student in a specific drill using his coaching instructions and written 
materials to correct the student. That's a coaching session.
Seven Resistive Cases
Seven types of Resistive Cases, including drug history, former practices, and 
severe illness. Assessment on a resistive case is done to locate and solve the 
reasons for its resistiveness. 
This is item number 40 on the Green Form (GF 40). It is a 
specially prepared list of items with actions to be done for each item to 
resolve the situation.
Small Fall: Symbol SF
A Meter needle reaction in which the needle moves rapidly to the right a quarter 
to half an inch.
Somatic: 
Essentially body sensation, illness or pain or discomfort. "Soma" means body; 
hence Sensations or pains stemming from the mind. A pain or ache, sensation and 
also misemotion or even unconsciousness. There are a thousand different 
descriptive words that could add up to a "feeling". Pain, aches, dizziness, 
sadness--these are all FEELINGS. Thus in Incident running we ASK FOR AND FOLLOW 
DOWN ONLY FEELINGS. 
Those can be aches, pains, sensations, misemotion--any FEELING. 
"Somatics:" This is a general word for uncomfortable perceptions coming from the 
Reactive Mind. Its genus is early Engram running and it is a general, common 
package word, used by CT practitioners to denote "pain" or "sensation" with no 
difference made between them. To understand the source of these feelings, one 
should have a knowledge of Engrams, ridges and other parts of the Reactive Bank. 
Anything is a SOMATIC if it emanates from the various part of the Reactive Mind 
and produces an awareness of reactivity. Symbol SOM.
Stable Datum: 
Any body of knowledge, more particularly and exactly, is built from one datum. 
That is its stable datum. Invalidate it and the entire body of knowledge falls 
apart. A stable datum does not have to be the correct one. It is simply the one 
that keeps things from being in a confusion and on which others are aligned.
Stage Four: 
A needle reaction on the Meter in which the needle rises, sticks, falls, about 
once a second or two. It is very regular, always the same distance, always the 
same pattern, over and over. It reacts on nothing the auditor or pc says. 
ST: In Clearbird's publications Clearing Technology was formerly (2004 and earlier editions) called Standard Clearing Technology and abbreviated ST.
Standard Clearing Technology: The same as Clearing Technology in Clearbird's publications. The same as Standard Technology (see below).
Standard Technology: 
(standard tech:) 
That tech which has absolutely no arbitraries; correct exact duplication of 
Source in application; the exact processes and auditing actions laid down and 
used for the invariable resolution of cases. This was defined this way by Ron 
Hubbard in 1968. 'Source' being a name or title for Ron Hubbard. Clearing 
Technology defines it differently. We are only interested in if it works. In 
practice Standard Tech and Clearing Technology is the same thing.
Static: 
"A life static has no mass, no motion, no wave length, no location in space or 
in time. It has the ability to postulate and to perceive" (Axiom 1). A 
philosophical word for the thetan, (used in the Axioms) implying native state 
before the thetan had contact with the physical universe and got all messed up. 
(see Axioms)
Steering the pc: (Steering:) 
The only use of latent or random reads. You see a read the same as the instant 
read occurring again when you are not speaking but after you have found a whole 
thought reacting. You say "there" or "that" and the pc, seeing what he or she is 
looking at as you say it recovers the knowledge from the Reactive Bank.
Sticky needle: See Dirty needle.
Summary Report Form: 
Written by the Auditor after the session on a fill-in type standard form and is 
simply a short record of what happened and what was observed during the session. 
It is stapled onto the top of the worksheets.
Supervisor: 
The supervisor is the person that runs a training course. He or she is neither a 
teacher nor an instructor. The supervisor ensures the students use the Study 
Technology correctly and gets the students through the course to a good result.
Suppressive Person: (SP:) 
One who is battling constantly in covert ways to make others less powerful and 
less able because of imagined danger to himself. The SP is actually stuck on the 
Time Track at some point in the distant past long forgotten. Such a person may 
even appear sane but in fact is quite insane and incapable of viewing anything 
for what it actually is, regarding others as constant threats to himself and 
operating to destroy those around him. 
 
T:
Technical bulletin:
Hubbard Communications Office Technical Bulletin 
(HCOB:). These essays and research papers contain the original statement of most 
of the technology contained in CT and were written by Ron Hubbard between 1961 
and 1982.
Technical Division: Tech Div: 
That part of an organization which routinely delivers auditing and training 
services. 
It handles the technology, thus it is the Tech Div.
Technology: 
The know-how needed for  practical and useful application of an art or science 
as opposed to mere knowledge of the science itself. 
2) A technology is how you do something or a device or field based on 
scientific principles that has a practical purpose, such as 'computer 
technology'. Abbr. Tech.
Terminal: 
Anything that can receive, relay or send a communication (most common usage); 
also, anything with mass and meaning. "Terminal" means in our language "the end 
point of a communication line". It can be a person or a thing.
Theta: 
Energy peculiar to life or a thetan which acts upon the material in the physical 
universe and animates it, mobilizes it and changes it; natural creative energy 
of a thetan which he can direct toward survival 
goals, especially when it manifests itself as high-toned constructive 
communications.
Theta Bop: 
A small or wide steady dance of the needle. Over a spread of one-eighth of an 
inch and, depending on sensitivity setting, it can be as wide as half an inch. 
The needle goes up and down perhaps five or ten times a second. It goes up, 
sticks, falls, sticks, goes up, sticks, etc., always the same distance like a 
slow tuning fork. It is a constant distance and a constant speed. A theta bop 
means "death," "leaving," "don't want to be here." It is caused by a yo-yo of 
the preclear as a thetan vibrating out 
and into the body or a position in the body.
Thetan: 
From THETA (life static), a word taken from the Greek symbol or letter: 
theta, traditional symbol for thought or spirit. The thetan is the individual 
himself--not the body or the mind. The thetan is the "I"; one doesn't have or 
own a thetan; one is a thetan.
Tick: 
Small jerk of the needle.
Time track: Track 
1) The endless record complete with 55 perceptions of the pc's entire past; the 
consecutive record of mental image pictures which accumulates through the 
preclear's life or lives. It is very exactly dated. 
2) The consecutive record of mental image pictures which accumulates through the 
preclear's existence. The Time Track is a very accurate record of the 
pc's past, very accurately timed and very obedient to the auditor. If a motion 
picture film were 3D, had fifty-two perceptions and could fully react upon the 
observer, the Time Track could be called a motion picture film. 
(See also: Time track illustrated in Engram Clearing)
Tone Arm: TA: 
Meter control lever on the Meter.
Tone arm action: 
(TA: TAA:) 
Movement of the Tone Arm of the Meter,  when it has to be moved more than one 
tenth of a division to keep the needle at set (except during body movement).
These many small motions are added up and you get  the total number of divisions 
a Tone Arm has moved in a period of time such as twenty minutes or two and a 
half hour session. Tone arm action denotes a change, and therefore, that case 
gain for the preclear is occurring.
Tone 40: 
Intention without reservation or limit; an execution of intention.
Tone scale: (Tonescale: Tone-scale:) 
The basic tone scale is a scale of emotions, from apathy to enthusiasm. 
Different levels of the tone scale have other characteristics visible in 
behavior and as potential survival (see also Uptone).
Touch Assist: 
An assist that brings the person's attention to injured or affected body areas. 
When attention is withdrawn from them, so is circulation, nerve flows and 
energy, which for one thing limits nutrition to the area, and for another limits 
the drainage of waste products. Some ancient healers attributed remarkable flows 
and qualities to the "laying on of hands." Probably the workable element in this 
was simply heightening awareness of the affected area and restoring the physical 
communication. 
Training Routines: ( TRs: TRs: TR:) 
Training drills: on CT courses which train students to prefect their 
communication skills to the level needed by an auditor in session. 
The TRs take up and drill the component parts of communication. Good TRs are 
the 'Carrier wave' needed to make processes work.  Specific auditor skills in 
communication and smooth session control are gained in doing the TRs.
Two-way comm: (TWC: 
2WC:) 
Two-way communication: Are the precise process of getting somebody to open up 
and give emotional or personal information about himself. It is not chatter. It 
is governed by the rules of auditing. 
Twin: 
The study partner with whom one is paired. Two students studying the same 
subject who are paired to checkout or help each other are said to be "twinned."
 
U:
Unburdening: 
(unburden:) 
In Engram running: As a basic is not at once available on any Chain one usually 
"unburdens" it by running later Engrams (closer to present time), Secondaries 
and Locks. The act of unburdening would be digging off the top to get at the 
bottom as in moving sand. As you run off later incidents, the ability of the 
preclear to confront it also increases and basic is easy to run when finally 
contacted.
Understanding: 
Composed of affinity, reality and communication. These three things are 
necessary to the understanding of anything. One has to have some affinity for 
it, it has to be real to him to some degree and he needs some communication with 
it before he can understand it. Greater 
understanding comes about by increasing any one of these three factors. 
Unmocking: (Unmock:) 
Attempting to reduce or make disappear, make nothing of.
Upper Indoc: (indoctrination) TRs (TRs 6 to 9)
Purpose of these four training drills is to bring about in the student the 
willingness and ability to handle and control other people's bodies and to 
cheerfully confront another person while giving that person commands. Also to 
maintain a high level of control under any circumstances.
Uptone: (Up-tone:) 
At a high level of survival or state of being, plotted on the tone scale. A 
person who is uptone, or high-toned, has a greater ability to handle his 
facsimiles, to control his environment and has a greater 
degree of survival than someone who is downtone, or low-toned. 
 
V:
Valuable Final Product: (VFP:)
Something that can be exchanged with other activities in return for 
support/money.
Valence: 
Is the assumption at the reactive level by one individual of the characteristics 
of another individual. An individual may have a number of valences which he puts 
on and off as he might hats. Often these 
changes are so marked that an observant person can notice him dropping one 
valence and putting on another. The shift from valence to valence is usually 
completely outside the awareness and control of the individual doing so. In 
other cases an individual has one valence, not his own, in which he is 
thoroughly stuck.
Visio: 
Perceptic. Ability to see in facsimile form something one has seen earlier so 
that one sees it again in the same color, dimension scale, brightness and detail 
as it was originally viewed.
Vitamins:/Minerals: Table
The tables below provide the basic data on how the vitamins and minerals should 
be mixed to make up a balanced supplement. They are the basic supplement 
recommended to be used after the Cleansing RD is complete. This basic mega-dose 
is recommended to take while in auditing. The higher body weight the closer to 
the maximum the pc should take. You may want to consult the book "Clear Body, 
Clear Mind" and also your local health food store. Pre-packed small bags with 
all the needed vitamins/minerals may be available as a commercial product. 
Vitamins Table (IU = International Units. Mg= milligrams)
This table shows the vitamins and the daily dose recommended during auditing.
Niacin 50-100 mg.
Vitamin A 5000 IU
Vitamin D 400 IU
Vitamin C 250 to 1000 mg.
Vitamin E 800 IU
Vitamin B complex: 2 tablets.
Vitamin B1 350 to 600 mg.Mineral Table
The following table shows the approximate mineral amounts found to give best results. Amounts in milligrams (mg). Usually it will be found in this ratio in tablets commercially sold. Calcium and Magnesium may be in separate tablets. Consult a health food store.Calcium: 500 to 1000 mg
Magnesium: 250 to 500 mg
Iron: 18-36 mg
Zinc: 15-30 mg
Manganese: 4-8 mg
Copper: 2-4 mg
Potassium: 45-90 mg
Iodine: 0.225 to 0.450 mgCal-Mag: 1-2 glasses (Calcium-Magnesium drink. Available in powder form under different commercial names. See Cal-Mag Formula).
(Note: The number of each vitamin/mineral tablet to be taken would depend upon the strength of the tablets used. Several smaller tablets are easier to absorb for the body than one large one.)
W:
What's it: (Whats it:)
Pc saying 'what's-it what's-it what's-it that's wrong with me."
What's-it-line: 
(Whats-it line:) 
From the auditor to the pc. The auditor is saying "what is it?" This causes the 
Tone Arm to move upwards, indicating restimulated but unresolved charge. The pc 
using the itsa line, from pc to auditor, says "Itsa" it-s-a, and the charge 
flows off the case causing the TA to go down and the charge to disintegrate.
Whole Track: 
The moment to moment record of a person's existence in this universe in picture 
and impression form.
Withhold:
An undisclosed harmful (contra-survival) act. After having committed an Overt, 
the person wants to keep it hidden or secret. So he/she withholds the Overt.
Word:
A symbolic sound-code (spoken word). Words are symbols, part of the physical 
universe because they are designed to be transmitted through a physical universe 
system. It can be spoken words or printed words.
Word Clearer:
A practitioner who is qualified in and uses the technology of word clearing. 
Word Clearing: 
 Procedures used to locate and clear words the student or preclear has 
misunderstood in his studies of CT or earlier subjects. There are nine methods 
of Word Clearing (see below). Some are informal use of a dictionary, some use a 
Meter to locate the exact word and trace it to earlier misunderstood words.
Word Clearing Correction List:, (WCCL:), 
1) Used to handle any upsets or high or low TA occurring during or shortly after 
word clearing. Assessed M5 . EP is all reading items handled to F/N and pc again 
running well or ready to go back to study.
2) The Word Clearing Correction List is the list to use when any form of 
Word Clearing runs into real trouble. Any and all troubles with Word Clearing 
should be corrected by assessing and handling this list. The WCCL has been 
designed to handle errors made in Word Clearing. It is not to be used to try to 
correct study or the person's case. It is used in in context with Word Clearing 
actions to correct Word Clearing errors only.
Word Clearing Methods
Different techniques for locating and handling ( clearing) misunderstood words. 
There are nine methods of word clearing. They are listed below:
Word Clearing Intensive (method 1: M1: Method 
One:), 
1. by meter in session. A full Assessment of many, many subjects is done. The 
auditor then takes each reading subject and clears the Chain back to earlier 
words and or words in earlier subjects until he gets an F/N. 2. assess, take the 
reading items from the best read on down and with E/S pull each one to F/N. Get 
each word you find to F/N. There can be many F/Ns per subject. End off with a 
win on the subject.  3. the action taken to clean up all misunderstoods in every 
subject one has studied. It is done by a word clearing auditor. The result of a 
properly done Word Clearing Intensive is the recovery of one's education. Abbr. 
M1.
Word Clearing Method Two: (Method 2: M2:), 
1. by meter in classroom. The earlier passage is read by the student while on a 
Meter and the misunderstood word is found. Then it is fully defined by 
dictionary. The word is then used several times in sentences of the student's 
own verbal composing. The misunderstood area is then reread until understood.  
2. (M2) means word clearing Method 2. A method of locating and handling 
misunderstood words, using a Meter, in which the student reads aloud from 
written materials and each reading word cleared.  3. Method 2 is done with the 
pc reading the materials aloud and each reading word is taken to F/N before 
re-reading the relevant section and proceeding. Abbr.M2.
Word Clearing Method Three:, (Method 3: M3:)
1. verbal in classroom. The student says he does not understand something. The 
supervisor has him look earlier in the text for a misunderstood word, gets the 
student to look it up, use it verbally several times in sentences of his own 
composition, then read the text that contained it. Then come forward in the text 
to the area of the subject he did not understand.  2. a method of word clearing 
used in the classroom where the misunderstood word is located and handled 
without the use of a Meter. In the study materials M3 means only word clearing 
Method 3.  Abbr. M3.
Word Clearing Method Four:, (M4:) 
1. Method 4: fishes for the misunderstood word, finds it, clears it to F/N, 
looks for another in the area until there are no more with an F/N VGIs. Then 
moves to another area, handles that, eventually all misunderstoods that resulted 
in the cramming order or non-F/N student are handled. 2. a method of word 
clearing in which a Meter is used to rapidly locate any misunderstoods in a 
subject or section of materials. It is used in the classroom by the course 
supervisor.  Abbr. M4.
Word Clearing Method Five:, (Method 5: M5:) 
a system wherein the word clearer feeds words to the person and has him define 
each. It is called material clearing. Those the person cannot define must be 
looked up. This method is the method used to clear words or auditing commands or 
auditing lists.  Abbr. M5
Word Clearing Method Six:, (Method 6: M6:) 
is called key word clearing. It is used on posts and specific subjects. The word 
clearer makes a list of key (or most important) words relating to the person's 
duties or post or the new subject. The word clearer without showing the person 
the definitions, asks him to define each word. The word clearer checks the 
definition on his list for general correctness. Any slow or hesitancy or 
misdefinition is met with having the person look the word up. Abbr. M6.
Word Clearing Method Seven:, (Method 7: M7:) 
whenever one is working with children or foreign-language persons or 
semi-literates Method 7 Reading Aloud is used. The procedure is have him read 
aloud. Note each omission or word change or hesitation or frown as he reads and 
take it up at once. Correct it by looking it up for him or explaining it to 
him.  Abbr. M7.
Word Clearing Method Eight:, (Method 8: M8:) 
Usually an alphabetical list of every word or term in the text of a paper, a 
chapter or a recorded tape is available or provided. The person looks up each 
word on the alphabetical list and uses each in sentences until he has the 
meaning conceptually. Method 8 is used in the Primary Rundown where one is 
studying study tech or where one is seeking a full grasp of a subject. Its end 
product is superliteracy. Abbr. M8.
Word Clearing Method Nine:, (Method 9: M9:) 
the procedure is, (1) student or staff member reads the text out loud. He is not 
on the Meter. (2) the word clearer has a copy of the text and reads along with 
the student silently. (3) if the student leaves out a word or stumbles or 
exhibits any physical or verbal manifestation while reading the text, the word 
clearer immediately asks for the misunderstood word or term and gets the 
meanings cleared with a dictionary and put into sentences until the word is 
understood and VGIs are present. 
Word List:
is simply a list of words taken from a body of data. A word list can be made for 
a tape lecture, a mimeo issue, a chapter of a book, etc. The word list contains 
all the words listed in alphabetical order.
Worksheet: (W/S: WS:)
The sheets on which the auditor writes a complete running record of the session 
from beginning to end, page after page, as the session goes along. 
 
Y: 
Yellow Sheet: 
A sheet detailing each correction list or set of commands which have been word 
cleared. It also lists the pc's current Havingness process and the type of cans 
the pc uses. It's kept in the pc folder inside the back flap. 
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