Reference: The Book of Scientology
Facsimiles
Please see the original section at the link above.
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Summary
Hubbard says, “The best description of facsimiles is to be found in Electro psychometric Auditing. A facsimile is an energy picture which can be reviewed again.”
More accurately, a facsimile is a thought phenomenon that can be triggered again. I have modified Hubbard’s definition because a differentiation must be made between thought and energy. Thought is not the same type of substance as energy. A loose identification between thought and energy can create confusion. Besides, a person is not aware of the facsimile, while he is under its influence. Auditing reduces the facsimile into a memory, and only then the person becomes aware of it.
A facsimile is a mental impression of some experience. It affects a person’s thinking, and makes him react emotionally. The reaction may express itself physically with adverse consequences. The person is not aware that he is reacting. He thinks that he is acting on his own volition, but he is puzzled by it.
A heavy facsimile may be created by a traumatic experience like a car accident. A light facsimile may simply consist of an innocent misunderstanding. A facsimile can be anywhere on the spectrum from heavy to light, depending on the experience.
When a person puts his attention on the facsimile consciously, there is still a reaction but it is subdued. When the person re-experiences the facsimile several times with full awareness, the facsimile rapidly reduces in its intensity. With conscious attention, the facsimile may ultimately disappear. The person then fully realizes what the underlying experience was. When that facsimile is cleared up, the person is no longer triggered by its subject, and he can deal with that area thoughtfully.
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Comments
In auditing one asks questions to locate a facsimile related to a specific condition. When the facsimile comes up it generates the known reaction. One then traces the details of that facsimile using the same reaction, until the person becomes fully aware of it, at which point the reaction disappears. One follows the same procedure with an E-meter using the reaction of the needle. The accuracy lies in tracing the same needle reaction.
A needle reaction on an E-meter is easy to trace when it is large and unique. Difficulty arises when the needle reaction is small and not very distinguishable from the background noise of other reactions. It is then easy to jumps from one reaction to a similar reaction related to a different facsimile. The auditing then gets bogged down.
In Scientology, a person is usually audited by an auditor, who uses an E-meter to trace the reaction. This works well on the beginning Dianetic auditing where the facsimiles are heavy and the meter reads are large. But when the person has improved and is now running Scientology processes, the facsimiles are much lighter and the meter reads are small. The chances of auditing getting bogged down increase greatly.
Therefore, on Grade auditing and above, the subject clearing approach works much better and faster. It does not require an E-meter.
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