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Reference: Hubbard 1950: Dianetics TMSMH

These are some comments on Book Three, Chapter 3, “The Auditor’s Role” from  DIANETICS: THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH.

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The Auditor’s Role

KEY WORDS: Auditor, Auditing, Preclear, Facsimile

The purpose of therapy and its sole target is the unassimilated impressions, or facsimiles. This is approached by addressing conflicting efforts and the emotions and thoughts underlying them. This chapter is about the role of an auditor who addresses the facsimiles in a preclear. Since in Subject Clearing you are auditing yourself, it is your technical precision that we shall be looking at. The primary guiding principle is:

To the extent you are encountering resistance to clearing from your mind you are not on the right track.

Hubbard believed that a person cannot see his own aberrations. The truth is that you know better than anybody else what you want to get handled. When you understand the mechanics of the mind you can also audit yourself better than another person. When running the auditing process on yourself, you are intimately in touch with yourself. You are in a better position to differentiate between a fleeting somatic of engram and an actual pain that requires medical attention.

In early Dianetics application, the auditor often pushed the preclear into supposed facsimiles, which then could not be run. It then required a lot more work to pull the preclear back out from that situation. This is much less likely to happen when you are auditing yourself. You will know better than any other auditor the right gradient that you need to apply. You can then confidently face and run the engram without worrying if it is imaginary. Here is another guiding principle:

If you are having difficulty reaching and running an engram then you are not using the right gradient of clearing.

Hubbard advises that the only way to handle an engram is to keep attacking it. It is true that one should not avoid, deny, resist or suppress anything that comes up during clearing. One should simply be there and confront it calmly. Engrams are heavy facsimiles. To find the engram one guesses at its content in terms of pain or another sensation, and looks for the earliest moment of it. Many times it is necessary to run lighter facsimiles in preparation for running heavy facsimiles. A practical rule is,

Run the facsimile that the mind is offering to you. If you keep doing so, you may soon find yourself running the engram.

One must be technically proficient. Let the sensations, emotions and computations play themselves out just as they come up. You experience them fully when you are not resisting or interfering with them. See Running Scientology Processes with Subject Clearing.

Hubbard talks about the AUDITOR’S CODE. It specifies the professionalism with which the auditor should treat his preclear. In Subject Clearing, it translates into how you should treat yourself in a session. It sums up to applying the techniques of auditing professionally with precision and care.

Most difficulties in Dianetics arise from one person auditing another. Majority of these difficulties are eliminated when a person audits himself as in Subject Clearing. Running an engram can be difficult if you do not follow a gradient approach. Follow the gradient approach of confronting whatever comes up. You may even go unconscious (go to sleep) during your contemplation. Let it happen. You will wake up when the unconsciousness has run itself out. You will always come out better at the other end. 

The safest route for clearing is to follow the natural gradient, and never push yourself, when running facsimiles.

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Reference: Hubbard 1950: Dianetics TMSMH

These are some comments on Book Three, Chapter 1, “The Mind’s Protection” from  DIANETICS: THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH.

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The Mind’s Protection

KEY WORDS: Contemplation, Discipline of Subject Clearing

It has been known for centuries that when one is in a secure environment and does not interfere with the mind, then the mind takes care of itself by gently unwinding its stress. That is why meditation has been successful over the centuries.

The mind is a self-protecting mechanism as long as it is not interfered with. Many of older practices of psychiatry and hypnotism have been injurious to the mind when they have heavily interfered with it. Basically this chapter is saying that Dianetics is safe to apply because it is designed not to interfere with the mind. But it does not mean that Dianetics cannot be injurious when it is misapplied.

Dianetics cautions one against the use of drugs and hypnotism. It also has a theory that provides one with a better understanding of the mind. However, Dianetics is much safer when its principles are applied by oneself in meditation, rather than getting audited by another. The recommended approach is Subject Clearing.

The goal of Dianetics is to assimilate the unknown sensations from the traumas in one’s life. 

These sensations are unknown because they do not become perceptions until they are assimilated. Therefore, it requires certain skill to sort out these sensations while still in the dark. A person can safely apply the meditative and contemplative approach of subject clearing in using the Dianetic technique to heal oneself. 

The comments in the subsequent chapters examines the Dianetics techniques for their use by oneself through the subject clearing approach. 

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Reference: Hubbard 1950: Dianetics TMSMH

These are some comments on Book Two, Chapter 9, “Keying-in the Engram” from  DIANETICS: THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH.

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Keying-in the Engram

KEY WORDS: Key-in

The aberrations and the psychosomatic illness of the organism persist simply because their source is not known. The individual attributes his troubles to certain known incidents, because he cannot perceive the actual source—the hidden engrams. He does so because the known incidents are the key-ins.

The key-in is a mild incident that activates a dormant engram. 

The engram was received some time in the past. But it was dormant waiting to be processed. Now it is activated by an incident that contains something similar to the content of the engram. There could  be many more similar incidents, but none of them are the source of his troubles. The individual is not “conditioned” to act in a certain way because of these “memories.” All such incidents stay in his memory only because of the hidden engram. Nothing short of the processing of the hidden engram shall handle his troubles. When the engram is finally processed and assimilated, all these troubling memories also go away and become a part of experience.

The conscious level incidents described as the causes of trouble, are never the actual cause.

A person may spend an entire youth without displaying any aberration. Then a normal event, such as, marriage and having children, takes place. And, suddenly, we find him acting in a very abberated manner. Maybe something happened when he was weary or ill, that keyed-in the first engram. This may then have the effect of keying-in more engrams. 

We are looking at a key-in when a sudden decline occurs without a traumatic incident present.

Any operation under anaesthetic, any drugging, or hypnotizing of a patient may bring about the keying-in of engrams. Any time the body is tired and weary, an engram may be keyed-in. It is possible that a new engram may key-in old engrams. Engrams are timeless things unless they are arranged properly on the time track. 

These conscious-level experiences are at best guide-posts leading toward the actual seat of trouble.

Corporal punishment shuts down the consciousness to some extent. It restimulates old punishments as minor engrams, which rest usually on major engrams. Punishment only causes reactions, which take one of five forms: attack, flee, avoid, neglect or succumb. Man is usually quite resilient  and acts rationally in spite of engrams. But only when the law of affinity begins to be broken and becomes part of engrams, do human beings become a punishment source and make matters worse in the long run.

Keep up the punishment cycle and the prisons will get more numerous and more full.

The cycle begins with a large number of engrams before birth. It gathers more in the dependent and rather helpless condition post-birth. Punishments of various kinds during childhood key-in the engrams. New engrams enter that also involve the earlier ones. Similar incidents accumulate. Illness occur, and aberrated actions set in.

Short of processing the engrams, some relief may be brought about through environmental change, education and physical treatment. 

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