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This glossary acts as a supplement to Scientology Technical Dictionary. It contains subject cleared definitions for Scientology terms. Original definitions from Hubbard are identified by the designation: (LRH) . These are mainly Hubbard’s definitions from OT materials, which do not appear in the Tech dictionary. For more definitions, please check out,

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ABERRATION
Please see Glossary: Scientology.

ACCEPTANCE LEVEL
Acceptance Level is determined by what you accept and what you do not accept. What you accept is as-ised to some degree. What you do not accept does not as-is and remains within you.

ALLY
A person from whom one had sympathy and was dependent upon.

ALTER-IS-NESS
ALTER-IS-NESS is adding layers of alterations, illusion, deception, etc., which makes the reality cloudier. When someone sees something differently from what it is, he is doing an alter-is. 

When someone sees something differently from what it is, he is doing an alter-is.  Alter-is-ness adds layers of alterations, illusion, deception, etc., which makes the reality cloudier. The person’s position on the reality scale moves lower with alter-is.

When a person’s ability to confront is low, he sees things differently from what they are. He is putting out layers of alterations, illusion, deception, etc., but he is not aware of it. This makes his reality cloudier. This is ALTER-IS-NESS.

ANALYTICAL MIND

1. Origin (analytical): “undoing, loosening.” The analytical mind is the natural state of the mind. It refers to the assimilated parts of the mental matrix.
2. (Scientology) “The conscious aware mind which thinks, observes data, remembers it, and resolves problems. The analytical mind is the one which is alert and aware.”

ANCHOR POINT
We may refer to the ZERO of a dimension as the “anchor point” because all other points in the dimension are anchored to it by some unit.

ANIMAL
Similar to INSECT – a thetan who is an animal, without a body, sticking to other BTs and clusters. (LRH)

ARC
ARC (Affinity, reality and communication) are the components of the thinking and behavior of the organism. These aspects of behavior go hand-in-hand and, together, they seek oneness of all phenomena.

AS-IS-NESS
When someone sees something as it is, through the layers of obfuscation, he is doing an as-is. As-is-ness removes the layers of alterations, illusion, deception, etc. The person’s position on the reality scale moves higher with as-is.

When someone sees something as it is, through the layers of obfuscation, he is doing an as-is. As-is-ness removes the layers of alterations, illusion, deception, etc. The person’s position on the reality scale moves higher with as-is.

When a person confronts suppositional reality, he moves through the layers of alterations, illusion, deception, etc. Finally, he sees something as it is, through all these layers of obfuscation. This is AS-IS-NESS.

ASSESS
ASSESS in Dianetics means choose, from a list or statements, which item or thing has the longest read or the pc’s interest. The longest read will also have the pc’s interest oddly enough.

ASSESSMENT
To minimize unconsciousness, a person approaches unassimilated sensations individually, one at a time. This is done in a systematic manner guided by the substantiality of sensations. Assessment techniques are used to identify the order in which individual sensation should be assimilated. Such assessment techniques have been developed in NEW ERA DIANETICS (NED).

ATTENTION
Please see PM: Glossary.

AUDITING
Please see Glossary: Scientology.

AUDITING BY CONCEPT
In Scientology, a person commonly is able to obtain a concept much more easily than he can obtain a specific facsimile. In this technique, a person holds a concept in his mind, and scans his experience to see what anomalies come up, and then resolves them by looking at them more closely. One may also run an emotional concept this way, such as, not liking dogs. The person may also look at how a concept changes as one moves up the scale, such as, the Know to Mystery scale or the Tone Scale. 

AUDITING BY LISTING
In Scientology, this technique is used on higher grades. The person lists a number of items in response to a “Who” or “What” question. He then arranges those items in a logical order that appeals to him. This then helps him select the most appealing item in response to the question. After handling that item, he may rearrange the remaining items newly to select and handle the item that is most appealing now. One does this until the original question is fully addressed.

AUDITING BY MOCK UP
This technique is also used in Scientology, especially with children. One cannot perceive the contents of a facsimile because it is not assimilated. But one can mock up something to see if it matches the facsimile in its effects. This may take some trial and error but it helps resolve the facsimile.

AUDITING BY RETURNING
This was the technique used in Dianetics. The auditor commands the attention units of a person to return to an incident that needs to be assimilated. The person searches for the incident in his past. When all his attention units are in the past he becomes part of the incident when found, and he cannot evaluate and assimilate the incident without auditor’s assistance. This requires a lot of skill on the part of the auditor.

AUDITING BY STRAIGHTWIRE
This is the technique used in Scientology. The person’s attention remains in present time. The auditor provides the auditing question and keep’s the person focused on it till it is fully answered. The person looks at the answers that come up and gives them to the auditor. The straightwire can be done by the person himself with some discipline without the auditor.

AUDITING QUESTION
The auditing question provides the line of thinking to concentrate on. You notice anomalies in that line of thinking. An anomaly would be something not understood, or having a doubt, perplexity or confusion about. You resolve anomalies by looking more closely at them. 

AUTOMATIC BANK
When a pc gets picture after picture after picture all out of control. This occurs when one isn’t following an assessed somatic or complaint or has chosen the wrong one or one which the pc is not ready to confront or by overwhelming the pc with rough TRs or going very non-standard. Some pcs turn up in their first session with automatic banks. The thing to do is carefully assess the physical complaint for longest or best read and gently handle that chain well.

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BASIC
Please see Glossary: Scientology.

BASIC-BASIC
This belongs in Scientology. It is wholly beyond the scope of Dianetics. It means the most basic basic of all basics and results in clearing. It is found on the Clearing Course. If contacted or run before the pc was brought up through the Scientology Grades, he wouldn’t be able to handle it anyway as experience has shown. So this is part of Scientology, not Dianetics. NOTE: The basic-basic can only be a pure postulate. It can never be a complex incident.

BEAM
In OT materials: A flow of electricity with teeth and rough edges. The definition is illustrated with a picture of a BODY being beamed by another person, the beam being hooked into the body by teeth like a circular saw blade or fish hooks.

BEINGNESS
The beingness is changing from moment to moment. In Buddhism this is viewed as “continual rebirth”. The same thing happens after the body dies. There is a big shift in beingness. There may not be a self until the beingness gets reorganized in a baby body with which it resonates.

BETWEEN-LIVE
According to Hubbard, these are implants that are electronically embedded in a person’s psyche after his death but before his next birth. Such implant is intended to wipe out his memory and identity. However, this seems to point to the anomaly of a person’s confusion about his beingness.

BIRD
Similar to INSECT – a thetan who is a bird, without a body, and sticking to other BTs and clusters. (LRH)

BIRTH ENGRAM
Every person has experienced birth, but not everybody has a memory of it. This is because the sensation of passing through the birth canal, and getting painfully squeezed, were quite traumatic. Those sensations never got assimilated. Such unassimilated sensations persist below the awareness of the person. They, often, express themselves in the form of an autoimmune condition, and/or other diseases in the body. Later in life, when the person is able to access and assimilate the sensations from his birth trauma, he perceives his birth for the first time, which is quite amazing. With this perception of birth, the autoimmune condition and the diseases seem to disappear.

BLACK FIELD
BLACK FIELDis 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 Scientology it can occur (rarely) when the pc is exterior, looking at something black. It responds to standard Dianetics processing (R3R).

BLACKNESS
(1) Blackness is absence of differentiation. There is no visualization. There is only hallucination. (2) Blackness is the desire to be an effect and the inability to be cause.

What appears as blackness are unassimilated sensations.

BLOW
In NOTs it is used in the sense of a BT or cluster departing after being unstuck from other BTs and clusters. (LRH)

In OT materials: It is used in the sense of a BT or cluster departing after being unstuck from other BTs and clusters.

BLOWING BY INSPECTION
You don’t have to do anything, you just look and it blows. (LRH)

BODY-MIND SYSTEM
Body and Mind are not separate or independent of each other. They are part of a single system. This system extends beyond the solid body in the form of invisible electronic and electromagnetic layers. This is similar to the electronic and electromagnetic layers beyond the nucleus of an atom. The nucleus and its layers are all part of the spectrum of substance that is inherently animated.

The animated body-mind system is all that there is. The “I” is the viewpoint of this system. There is no separate soul, or thetan, that goes in and out of the body. In exteriorization, the viewpoint is no longer fixated on the solid body. Its attention moves freely throughout the extents of the body-mind system. There are different degree of exteriorizations. After freeing itself from the fixation on the solid body, it can still be fixated on some idea of “self.”

In death, the body-mind system disintegrates and, in some respects, it becomes part of the body-mind system of the universe. Neither the identity nor the individuality remain. But, then, from the body-mind system of the universe, precipitate new body-mind system with identity and individuality. The new body-mind systems may contain elements of old body-mind systems passed on through DNA.

BODY THETAN (BT)
Please see Glossary: Scientology.

BOUNCER
Bouncer is a hypnotic effect that gets activated when the person tries to access the facsimile. It makes the person move back toward present time away from the facsimile. When the person identifies the possible hypnotic command by trial and error, the bouncer disappears and the facsimile becomes approachable.

BRACKET
This is a process consisting of several auditing questions that are run in a sequence. You repeat this sequence of auditing questions until you reach the end phenomenon. Also see Scientology Technical Dictionary.

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CAUSE
Cause is the ability to postulate.

CCH (Scientology)
CCH stands for Control, Communication Havingness. These are doingness processes which bring a person into better control of his body, put him into better communication with his surroundings, and increase his ability to have things for himself. They bring him into the present, away from his past problems. 

CERTAINTY PROCESSING
It is good to question whatever the mind is taking for granted and its opposite on any subject; and then freely associates the reactions. Have a person hold on to a certainty, and then to its opposite certainty, alternately. Then have him look at the thoughts that come up as he does so. He is actually running out fixations posing as false certainties.  By the processing of opposite certainties, the person may arrive at a point of understanding somewhere on the gradient between them. 

CHAIN
Please see Glossary: Scientology.

CHANGE OF SPACE
This is a process where the person is asked to be at different locations mentally. Commands, such as, ‘Be at the center of this room,’ are used.

CHARGE
Charge refers to the degree of confusion, tension, or conflict in a person’s case. It manifests as the lower emotions of anger, fear, grief or apathy on the tone scale. A heavily charged case means a case with a heavy burden of unassimilated losses. 

The charge that we are most familiar with is electricity. Its primary characteristic is having positive and negative poles. It has a transitional form between continuous and discrete, energy and mass. It forms a layer between the atomic nucleus and the space filled with radiation. It is the subject of Quantum Mechanics.

CIRCUIT:
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.

CIRCUIT PHRASE
A circuit phrase is a “you” phrase. It is a phrase addressed from an exterior “I” to “you.” An example is, “I’ve got to protect you from yourself.” These phrases are received from persons who seek to nullify the independence of judgment of others. 

CLEAR
A Clear is a person who has cleared all his facsimiles but not the underlying misconceptions and mis-postulates.

CLEAR COGNITION
In OT materials: Clear occurs when one stops mocking up bank, or realizes that he is mocking it up or has been mocking it up. That is the clear cognition: the realization that he is or has been mocking up the mass and pictures, etc., that make up the bank.

CLUSTER
In OT materials: A cluster is a group of body thetans (BTs) crushed or held together by some mutual bad experience. The mutual incident is a heavy engram which happened to all the thetans in the cluster and is the exact point in time and space where they “became one”.

A cluster is a complex structure formed by a number of anomalies (BTs). [A cluster is a group of body thetans (BTs) crushed or held together by some mutual bad experience. (HCOB 5.2.70, Iss. II.) The mutual incident is a heavy engram which happened to all the thetans in the cluster and is the exact point in time and space where they “became one”.]

COGNITION
Cognition is something a pc suddenly understands or feels. “Well, what do you know about that?”

COMMUNICATION
When one is communicating, one is sensing what is there without distorting it or adding to it. The purpose is to see the whole picture. If the picture is not whole, one becomes aware of the anomalies. The effort then is bring the is-ness closer to being continuous, consistent and harmonious. 

COMMUNICATION LAG
Communication lag is the interval of time intervening between a posed question and the actual and precise answer to that question. Whether the interval is filled with speech or silence, the definition of communication lag still holds true.

COMPOSITE (MASS)
In OT materials: Used on this RD to describe masses or heavy somatics made up of a number of BTs, clusters, pictures, ridges.

CONSCIOUSNESS SCALE
Consciousness may be plotted on a scale that extends from mystery to knowingness in the following sequence: not-Knowingness (Mystery), Sexingness, Eatingness, Symbolizingness, Thinkingness, Effortingness, Emotingness, Lookingness, Knowingness.

COPY
In OT materials: Thetans in the body (BTs) may obsessively copy the pictures of other thetans. Therefore you can find it seems that the thetan who just left is still there because there is a picture left. Spot the fact that someone else copied it and it usually goes. After an anomaly is resolved, a shadow of it may be left.

BTs will copy. Excessive copying is probably equivalent to fixed attention. Re-stimulation is the result of excessive copying (or attention getting fixed). De-stimulation is fading out of the copies (attention getting less fixed). There is lot of copying of stress. Put attention on the original stress.

CREATE
Origin: “to make.” The ability to create is the ability to visualize something original that is also consistent.

CREATIVE PROCESSING
In creative processing, a person deliberately creates his own reality by envisioning it little by little on a gradient. He thus comes across anomalies with respect to the “universe” in this process. However the process suggests that one should push to imagine one’s own reality despite any alternate reality. A resolution may occur only when the person realizes that the “alternative reality” wasn’t the reality of the universe, but it was his own misunderstanding due to confusion or conditioning.

CROSS-COPYING
When a number of BTs and clusters are restimulated or awoken, each can start making copies of each other’s pictures and copies of the copies – called cross-copying.

A number of anomalies may overlap each other and form a more complex anomaly. 

CROSS-RESTIMULATION
One BT or cluster restimulating another BT or cluster, who then restimulates another BT or cluster.

A chain of anomalies getting activated.

CUMULATIVE CLUSTER
A CUMULATIVE CLUSTER is a group of two or more clusters crushed or held together by some mutual bad experience.

A cumulative cluster is made up of other earlier clusters (see HCOB 29.10.69R for illustration). It is a cluster to which other BTs and clusters have been added by later mutual incidents, all stuck together.

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DARK FIELD
See BLACK FIELD.

DEATH
Death is a phenomenon different from exteriorization. In death, the body-mind-spirit system starts to disintegrates. It takes time for the whole system to disintegrate. The body as a whole ceasing to function is very obvious, but parts of the body still function and take time to die. The disintegration of the mind and spirit is not so obvious, but it also happens over time. The elements of body-mind-spirit get recycled. This is evolution. Hubbard is fixated on survival. He doesn’t quite deal with the higher function of evolution.

DENYER
Denyer is a hypnotic effect that gets activated when the person tries to access the facsimile. It makes the person believe that the facsimile does not exist. When the person identifies the possible hypnotic command by trial and error, the denyer disappears and the facsimile becomes approachable.

DIMENSION POINT
A dimension point is something whose viewable characteristics may be defined by positions on dimensional scales. The dimensional scales are made of postulates.

DIANETICS
Dianetics is a subject researched and developed by L. Ron Hubbard, which was published in 1950 in the book: DIANETICS: The Modern Science of Mental Health. Hubbard says, “Dianetics consists of discovering the aberration in the individual, finding the physically painful experience which corresponds to it, and placing the data therein contained at the disposal of the analytical mind.” Broad concept: “through mind.”

The actual discovery of Dianetics is that the mind is capable of recording the details of events, such as, severe injury, delirium, or surgical anesthesia, while the person appears to be unconscious. These recorded impressions stay below the consciousness of a person and they affect his mind adversely. These impressions may only be removed by bringing them up to awareness.

Buddha (500 BC) knew of these impressions as “samskāra,” and he taught “mindfulness meditation” to help remove their adverse effects. In Dianetics, these impressions are called facsimiles and a trained practitioner, called “auditor,” applies dianetic techniques to a person to handle them. 

DICHOTOMY
In OT materials:

1. A dichotomy in Scientologese means plus and minus. A plus word and a minus word. They are of the same order of things always. A crude example would be “An Apple” and “Applelessness”. That’s a pair, a dichotomy. Plus and minus interchange a current as you will find on any battery. So we don’t want active-passive. (For example, the active such as “Man” and the passive such as “Woman”.) We want the bold PLUS and MINUS, the opposites. The nature of things is a major idea. Each major idea has two parts: a PLUS and a MINUS. These are opposed to each other. They interchange current. The conflict. What is generally agreed to be the unwanted or poor side is minus. What is generally conceived to be all right is plus. For example, in a modern society we would have the major idea that an individual has an ecconomic status. Wealth is the PLUS and Poverty is the MINUS. So a DICHOTOMY means to two parts of a major idea.
2. Opposites : two things which when interplayed cause action.

Dichotomy in the dictionary means “Division into two parts.” The dichotomy in Scientology means two bold opposites. A plus word and a minus word. Two parts of a major idea. They are of the same order of things always. A crude example would be “An Apple” and “Applelessness.” That’s a pair, a dichotomy.

DORMANT BT
These anomalies are more mechanical in nature and fixed in place. 

In OT materials: A BT or cluster in a totally dormant condition, they’re really dead, in states of existence below unconsciousness. They are out of PT (stuck on the track) and are stuck in the past location. They are in a perpetual revive in that time and that location. They can be activated or awoken by the Pre-OT.

These basically represent the mock-ups of a person that use postulates and considerations buried deep in his psyche without his full awareness. Normally, such postulates and considerations are part of a well-structured core that is difficult to destabilize. But Hubbard uses this terminology to create a mystery.

DRAMATIZATION
Dramatization is thinking or acting in a manner that is dictated by an unassimilated impression contained in the mental matrix. When dramatizing, the individual is like an actor playing his dictated part and going through a whole series of actions. Irrational conduct is the result of dramatization.

DYNAMIC
The dynamic is the tenacity of an individual, group or race to life and vigor and persistence in survival. It is the ability to translate solutions into action. The easier an individual can access and freely associate the data from mental matrix, the greater is his drive. The life dynamic may be narrowed down gradually from the universe to spiritual and physical universe to all life, to mankind, cultural, social and political groups, to families to individuals. The universe has evolved through these dynamics to produce men of extraordinary abilities.

DYNAMICS
There could be said to be eight urges (drives, impulses) in life. These we call dynamics. These are motives or motivations. We call them the eight dynamics.

The eighth dynamic is the postulate of the UNKNOWABLE.
The seventh dynamic is the postulate of ONENESS.
The sixth dynamic is the postulate of KNOWABLE.
The fifth dynamic is the postulate of EVOLUTION.
The fourth dynamic is the postulate of HUMAN BEINGNESS.
The third dynamic is the postulate of HUMAN SOCIETY.
The second dynamic is the postulate of CONTINUATION OF HUMANS.
The first dynamic is the postulate of HUMAN INDIVIDUALITY.

From broad to narrow the eight dynamics are as follows:

1. The eighth dynamic is the confrontation with the Unknowable, which requires one to postulate.
2. The seventh dynamic is the collection of all the postulates to bring them together into a oneness.
3. The sixth dynamic is the is-ness (reality) that we experience.
4. The fifth dynamic is the life that we experience and its continuing evolution.
5. The fourth dynamic is reaching the milestone of intelligent life.
6. The third dynamic is the organization of intelligent life.
7. The second dynamic is the continuation of intelligent life.
8. The first dynamic is the unit of intelligent life.

DYNAMIC 8
The eighth dynamic is the urge toward existence as infinity. This is also identified as the Supreme Being. It is carefully observed here that the science of Scn does not intrude into the dynamic of the
Supreme Being. This is called the eighth dynamic because the symbol of infinity ∞ stood upright makes the numeral “8 .” This can be called the infinity or God dynamic.

The Eighth dynamic is the continuous transition from unknowable to knowable through the solving of anomalies. This brings about a continual sense of ecstasy. Here we have the impulse TO KNOW. In terms of knowledge, there is NOTHING ABSOLUTE in the knowable universe because the unknowable is always there.

DYNAMIC 7
The seventh dynamic is the urge toward existence as or of spirits. Anything spiritual, with or without
identity, would come under the heading of the seventh dynamic. This can be called the spiritual dynamic.

The Seventh dynamic is the key characteristic of ONENESS of the system of postulates generated to understand the Eighth Dynamic. This characteristic of ONENESS underlies the knowable universe.

DYNAMIC 6
The sixth dynamic is the urge toward existence as the physical universe. The physical universe is composed of matter, energy, space and time. In Scn we take the first letter of each of these words and coin a word, MEST. This can be called the universe dynamic.

The sixth dynamic is the is-ness (reality) that we experience. Underlying this is-ness are postulates. This is-ness forms a oneness that we need to become aware of.

The Sixth dynamic is the ONENESS OF REASONING that follows from the system of postulates. It appears as the SUBSTANCE of the knowable universe that can be felt.

DYNAMIC 5
The fifth dynamic is the urge toward existence of the animal kingdom. This includes all living things whether vegetable or animal. The fish in the sea, the beasts of the field or of the forest, grass, trees, flowers, or anything directly and intimately motivated by life. This could be called the animal dynamic.

The Fifth Dynamic is the EVOLUTION of the system of postulates to increasingly define the knowable universe. Evolution of consistency: space, energy, mass, Minerals, Viruses, Cellular Life, Plant life, Animal life and human life.

DYNAMIC 4
The fourth dynamic is the urge toward existence as mankind. Whereas the white race would be considered a third dynamic, all the races would be considered the fourth dynamic. This can be called the mankind dynamic.

DYNAMIC 3
The third dynamic is the urge toward existence in groups of individuals. Any group or part of an entire class could be considered to be a part of the third dynamic. The school, the society, the town, the nation are each part of the third dynamic, and each one is a third dynamic. This can be called the group dynamic.

The third dynamic is concerned with organizing intelligent activity among individuals as a group. Here we are looking at a multitude of individualities coming together to act in coherence. There is a continuity, consistency and harmony of intelligence among a group.

DYNAMIC 2
The second dynamic is the urge toward existence as a sexual or bisexual activity. This dynamic actually has two divisions. Second dynamic (a) is the sexual act itself and the second dynamic (b) is the family unit, including the rearing of children. This can be called the sex dynamic.

This dynamic is concerned with the continuation of human life form so that intelligence can continue to be applied. The purpose is to get intelligent activity organized and launched. This activity seeks new avenues and focuses on creativity. A lot of force exists behind this dynamic and proper activities result in great rewards and pleasure. 

DYNAMIC 1
The first dynamic is the urge toward existence as one’s self. Here we have individuality expressed fully. This can be called the self dynamic.

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EATINGNESS
At this level a person has no appreciation of other people and things. They are simply looked upon as means for survival. This is the reality of the dog eat dog world. 

EFFORTINGNESS
In effortingness, a person has got to touch everything and feel everything before he can know anything. He’ll get a mental image picture of a past incident in order to get an idea of what is happening to him in the present. 

EIGHTH DYNAMIC
Please see DYNAMIC 8.

EMOTINGNESS
In emotingness, a person determines the reality by his emotional reaction to things. Do we like it—do we dislike it? The person has all kinds of emotions about things.  

END PHENOMENON
End Phenomena (EP) of a process means that the process has led you to a big realization with a sudden release of tension; or, there has been a gradual increase in awareness with no more answers coming up. Above all, you see no more anomalies in that line of thinking and you feel quite relaxed and comfortable about it.

EP stands for End Phenomenon. It is when no new answers are coming up for a Scientology process in the mind and the person has a happy feeling that he has honestly covered the whole ground, which that command pertains to.

END WORD
In OT materials: An End Word is the final word of a goal. It is always a noun or a condition made into a noun. For example, with a goal such as “To Grab Books”, Books is the end word. Each end word, however, has many verb or action words related to it, thus making up a series of goals. End words are called end words because they come on the end of each of a series of goals. It is the end word that is the common denominator to the whole of a GPM.

ENFORCED ARC
By enforced affinity, reality, or communication is meant the demand on the individual that he experience or admit affinity, reality, or communication when he has not felt it. An individual who has been subjected to enforced affinity, reality, and communication has an interrupted self-determinism.

ENGRAM
Please see Glossary: Scientology.

ENTITIES
In OT materials: The basic definition of “entity” as contained in standard dictionaries is: Something that has a real and separate existence either actually or in the mind; a being or existence which is considered distinct and self contained. There are various types of entities described in the full works on Dianetics and Scientology. For example, a cell is a living animal all by itself. There is the Genetic Entity (“GE”) which is the entity which carries forward from the earliest formation of the MEST body. There can be injected entities or synthetic entities. Some of these are ridges on which facsimiles are planted. Each one of those things can be a thinking entity. It thinks it is alive. It can think it’s a being, as long as energy is fed to it. These follow all the rules and laws and phenomena of single beings. The full subject of entities is not taken up in this glossary. However, for an understanding of the data on entities as contain in Dianetic and Scientology materials, one must first have a good understanding of the basic definitions given above. References in Dianetic and Scientology materials for further data on entities include : HCOB 30 JUL 80, THE NATURE OF A BEING DIANETICS, THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH, Book Two, Chapter IV. THE HISTORY OF MAN, Chapters Two, Five and Ten.

Entities are ridges (fixations of thoughts) in the system of considerations that is not interal to the preclear.  It is merely attached to the preclear and can be easily separated.

ERASURE
Please see Glossary: Scientology.

ETHICS
Raionality.

EXTERIORIZATION
Please see Glossary: Scientology.

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FACSIMILE
Please see Glossary: Scientology.

FLASH ANSWER
The flash answer is the first thing which comes into a person’s head when a question is asked him. Much valuable data can be recovered by clever use of the flash answer. If there is no answer at all, it means that the answer is occluded and there is some kind of a cover-up.

FLAT PROCESS
A process is continued as long as it produces change and no longer, at which time the process is flat. There are no longer any new answers coming up in response to the auditing question. On E-meter, the needle shows no immediate reaction when the auditing question is asked.

FLITTER
Flitter carries a concept similar to radar waves, where the thetan puts out golden clouds of “flitter” (by postulate) that resist, impact and reflect MEST objects. This provides the thetan with pictures of objects around it with all their characteristics. This is direct thetan communication. This activity can become an automaticity.

FLOATING NEEDLE (F/N, E-METER)
This is a Scientology term. Please see Scientology Technical Dictionary.

When the needle is floating on the E-meter dial, the person is no longer reacting to his environment, and he is quite relaxed. The more relaxed he is, the larger is the range of F/N. However, as the person starts to become uptight, there are still no reactions but the range of F/N starts to become smaller and smaller until it becomes still at one position. As the person becomes still more uptight, there are no reactions, but the needle tightens and starts to rise slowly to the right representing increasing resistance.

The idle uninfluenced movement of the needle on the dial without any patterns or reactions in it. It can be as small as one 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 observed on a Mark V E-meter calibrated with the TA (tone arm) between 2 .0 and 3 .0 with pc having good indicators. It can occur after a cognition, blowdown of the TA or just moves into floating. The pc may or may not voice the cognition.

When the needle is floating on the E-meter dial, the person is no longer reacting to his environment, and he is quite relaxed. The more relaxed he is, the larger is the range of F/N. However, as the person starts to become uptight, there are still no reactions but the range of F/N starts to become smaller and smaller until it becomes still at one position. As the person becomes still more uptight, there are no reactions, but the needle tightens and starts to rise slowly to the right representing increasing resistance.

FLOWS
The same process can be run in different flows: (1) Self to another, (2) Another to self, (3) Others to others, (4) Self to others, (5) Others to self, (6) Another to others, (7) Others to another, and (8) another to another. Not all flows may be present.

Flows from C/S Series 32
F-l, flow one, something happening to self. 
F-2, flow two, doing something to another. 
F-3, now three, others doing things to others. 
F-0, flow zero, self doing something to self. 

FREE WHEEL
In OT materials: Free wheel means that the pc goes on automatic continuous run.

—G—

GENETIC ENTITY
Please see PM: Glossary.

GOAL
In Scientology, a goal is something pc wanted to be, to do or to have, whether pc abandoned it, failed in it or not. Goals are postulates. The goal could be something the person decided, or something induced in him.

Goal is a postulate stating the aim towards which effort is directed. For example, a goal would be, “To know the Unknowable.”

GOALS PROBLEM MASS (GPM)
This is a Scientology term. Please see Scientology Technical Dictionary.

Conflicts among goals lead to basic tensions that express themselves as problems and mass in the mind. The mass consists of terminals (term) and opposition terminals (oppterm) that the person has identified with. The “term” and the “oppterm” have significance and the appearance of receiving and giving communication.

If one of the opponents in a problem (Item versus Item) is part of the Goals Problem Mass, that problem will not resolve without resolving at least a portion of the GPM.

When a GPM item exists in present time It constitutes a present time problem (PTP). All non-gain or slow-gain cases have a GPM Item in their present time environment. The companion or opposing Item to the PTP Item is buried out of sight.

GPMs essentially refer to the anomalies at the level of postulates. They propagate themselves as misconceptions.

GPM (goals-problem-mass) are ridges (fixations of thoughts) in the system of considerations that make up the ‘I’ of the preclear.

GRADE VI
Grade VI is called R6EW, where R6 means “Routine 6,” which refers to the core of the “Reactive Mind.” EW means “End Words,” which refers to nouns that express dramatizations, such as, “depression.” On this grade you want to find pair of opposite end words, such as, “depression-elation,” that best describe dramatizations that are real to you in present time.  Finding and listing of pairs of end words release one from subconsciously held conflicts. 

GRADES PROCESSING
Please see Glossary: Scientology.

GRANTING OF BEINGNESS
Granting of beingness is to let the person manage his own reality. If the person is willing you may help him explore and improve his reality. Also see KHTK Glossary: Scientology

GROUPER
Grouper is a hypnotic effect that gets activated when the person tries to access the facsimile. It makes all the information tangled up so that it becomes difficult to trace the facsimile. When the person identifies the possible hypnotic command by trial and error, the grouper disappears and the facsimile becomes approachable.

—H—

HAVINGNESS
Please see Glossary: Scientology.

HOLDER
Holder is a hypnotic effect that gets activated when the person tries to access the facsimile. It makes the person become stuck in the facsimile so cannot fully view it. When the person identifies the possible hypnotic command by trial and error, the holder disappears and the facsimile can be fully viewed.

HOME UNIVERSE
In OT materials:

1. “The universe a thetan made for himself.”

These may be the postulates that created the thetan itself. These postulates act as stable data for the thetan.

HYPNOSIS
Hypnosis is an altered state of consciousness which results in an increased receptiveness and response to suggestion. While associated with relaxation, hypnosis is actually an escape from an overload of message units, resulting in relaxation. Hypnosis can be triggered naturally from environmental stimuli as well as purposefully from an operator, often referred to as a hypnotist.

HYPNOTISM
Hypnotism describes a very vulnerable state in which the guarding mechanisms of the mind are bypassed. In this state, the attention is narrow and focused like a laser beam. It leaves the awareness of present time altogether to focus on some past event of life. It is, therefore, able to penetrate and re-live past moments but with no perspective from the present. No memory of this enactment of the past remains when the person comes out of the hypnotic state. During this hypnotic state, “conclusions” may also be inserted, which, then, influence the thinking activity of the person without any memory of it later.

—I—

IDENTITY
See English Dictionary and Tech Dictionary under “valence” and “beingness”. It is that by which a thetan identifies himself. (LRH)

Origin: “same, always being itself.” When self ascertains what it is, it acquires an identity. Identity is condition that identifies something. In humans, identity is the character as to who a person is, and the qualities, beliefs, etc., that distinguish that person. An identity is an identified object.

A Being is a package of postulates packed neatly inside a wrapper. This wrapper is the individuality (original identity). As things happen in life, a being assumes a new identity blotting out the old during the course of his life. This is like putting a new wrapper over the old wrapper. Thus, layers of identities build up around the being like the layers of an onion.

IDENTITY THOUGHT
“It is a useful and positive principle that whatever confronts or contests the analytical mind of the preclear will also confront and contest the analytical mind of the auditor. When the auditor is acting as the analytical mind of the preclear, whatever emotion or antagonism is directed towards him is the emotion or antagonism which is directed by the reactive mind toward the preclear’s own analytical mind. If a preclear cannot hear what people are saying in his engrams, he has another engram about “can’t hear.” If he cannot feel anything in his engram, it is because he has an engram about “can’t feel.” If he cannot see, he has an engram about not being able to see, and so forth. If he cannot return, he has an engram about going back, or returning to childhood, or some such thing. If he is doubtful and skeptical about what is happening or what has happened to him, it is because he has an engram about being doubtful and skeptical. If he is antagonistic, his reactive mind contains a great deal of antagonism. If he is self-conscious or embarrassed, it is because his reactive mind contains self-consciousness or embarrassment. If he insists on maintaining his own control, refusing to do what the auditor tells him to do (although he is returned), it is because he has an engram about self-control, and so forth and so on. This is identity thought, and is used in diagnosis.” [DTOT, Chapter: DIAGNOSIS]

IMPLANT
To implant is to put or fix firmly. It refers to a thought planted forcefully deep into the psyche of a person, which is not in harmony and generates anomalies. These anomalies are deep misconceptions, such as, fixed ideas and blind spots that generate prejudice, bias, etc.

IMPLANT GPM

1. An Implant GPM is a GPM made up of goals (and their opposing forces) which are not the pc’s own but which have been “implanted” in him. (LRH)
2. An implant is an electronic means of overwhelming a thetan with a significance. (LRH)
3. An implanted goal is a goal the thetan himself has not decided upon—but which has been induced in him by overwhelming force and persuasion. (LRH)
4. In the case of implanted Goals Problem Masses, use was made of the mechanics of the actual pattern of living to impress and entrap a thetan and enforce obedience to behavior patterns. The goal selected was not entirely based on any goal of the thetan but was an entirely arbitrary selection both as to goal and pattern, by those conducting the implanting. (LRH)

INDIVIDUATION
The action of separating oneself out from a group one has been part of; withdrawal into only self. It is a separation from participation and knowingness into isolation and unknowingness. Individuation is the action of asserting that other things are other-determined and that one has nothing to do with them. It is always the result of an ARC Break and, if left unhandled, will lead to overts against the former group or its members. Such an ARC Break can be occasioned by nothing more than a misunderstood word.

INHIBITED ARC
The inhibition of affinity, communication, and reality is no less serious than their enforcement.

INJECTED ENTITY
Injected entities have the characteristics of AI (artificial intelligence). They take on personalities formed out of the person’s thoughts. They are associated with geographical areas in the body. These areas are related to major nerve centers. In auditing out these entities a person must apply the discipline of subject clearing very strictly.

INSECT
ON OT III “insect” means a thetan who is an insect, without a body. These stick to other BTs and clusters. Sometimes you can run into a whole swarm of them. (LRH)

INTERIORIZATION
Interiorization is having one’s attention too fixed on something in an attempt to understand it. Introversion would be a general state of interiorization.

INVERSION
In Scientology, inversion occurs when the thetan thinks that he is the body and that a thetan is running him. 

INVISIBLE FIELD
INVISIBLE FIELD is just a part of some lock, secondary or engram that is “invisible”. It like a black field responds to R-3-R.

IS-NESS
Is-ness is the way things are. It is the reality that exists. Is-ness is as precise as it is continuous, consistent and harmonious. As a person confronts, his sense of is-ness improves.

Is-ness is the way things appear to a person based on his viewpoint. It determines his position on the Reality scale.

ITEM

1. In GPMs, what we now also call items were first called terminals because they interacted with each other electrically. They were always in pairs. (LRH)
2. When one is speaking of either a Terminal or Opposition Terminal and isn’t being specific as to which it is (Term or Oppterm) one says ITEM. (LRH)

Any indicated thing, person, idea, significance, purpose, etc., given by a preclear to an auditor. If the item causes the E-meter to read then it can be used by the auditor in a process to destimulate it. 

On the GPM items, one is looking at “atomic” considerations. They are so basic that you have not thought of them consciously. You repeat the item while letting the mind interpret or visualize it any which way. You remain fully aware as in TR0. You repetitively call out the item until nothing seems to be shifting in the mind.

—J—

—K—

KEY-IN
Please see Glossary: Scientology.

KEY-OUT
Please see Glossary: Scientology.

KNOW
Please see Glossary: Scientology.

KNOWINGNESS
In knowingness, one sees the reality to be continuous, consistent and harmonious as per the Principle of Oneness.

KNOW-TO-MYSTERY SCALE
The Know-to-Mystery Scale is a scale from knowingness down through lookingness, emotingness, effortingness, thinkingness, symbolizingness, eatingness, sexingness and so through to not-knowingness-mystery. A person’s viewpoint may be plotted on this scale. Please see Know-to-Mystery Scale.

In humans, the viewpoint may rise from lower levels up through THINKING, EFFORT, EMOTION, LOOKING, KNOWING ABOUT, NOT KNOWING and KNOWING; in animals, it may rise only to the level of EATING-NESS: in plants, to the level of SEXING-NESS; in cells, to the level of WAITING and MYSTERY; and in minerals, the viewpoint may be considered to stay at the level of UNCONSCIOUSNESS. These levels, together, are referred to as the Know-Mystery scale.

—L—

LAYERED CLUSTER
Several clusters (and/or BTs) in layers, as one layer comes off another layer comes to view. (LRH)

LINE PLOT
Each GPM has a Line Plot. A Line Plot is the pattern of items for every GPM. For example, each full goal, like To Grab Books, would have a Line Plot with items like “Grabbing Books” or just “Grabbed Books”, etc. (LRH)

This consists of a heavy blue 13-inch (foolscap or legal) sheet of paper, kept in the pc’s folder and kept up to date every time a reliable item (or even last item “in”) is found. On this line plot one column, the left-hand one, is reserved for oppterms. The right-hand column is reserved for terms, and the lines indicate whenever terms or oppterms are derived from each other. A reliable item is designated as such on this line plot with the symbol R.I. Nonreliable items are not designated. The date each line plot item was found is added after the item so it can be found again in the auditor’s reports without a scramble.

LIFE STATIC
Please see Glossary: Scientology.

LISTING
The person lists a number of items in response to a “Who” or “What” question. He than arranges those items in some logical order that appeals to him. This then helps him select the most appealing item in response to the question. It also provides him with an order in which to deal with those items. See The Listing Process.

LOCK
Please see Glossary: Scientology.

LOOKINGNESS
In lookingness a person is confronted with discontinuities, inconsistencies and disharmonies. He must look at these anomalies more closely to discover the reality.

—M—

MASS
When Hubbard talks about masses, it means the sensation of heaviness. So, with auditing you are basically handling masses or heavy sensations. When the sensations are too condensed they do not easily break up, and so we have engrams. When sensations need to get further refined we need different gradients of auditing. Thus, we have grades.

MEMORY
Please see Glossary: Scientology.

MEST
Please see Glossary: Scientology.

MIND
Please see Glossary: Scientology.

MISCONCEPTION
Discontinuity

See English Dictionary and Axiom 38. The basic misconceptions are of identity, time, place, form and event; e.g. a misconception of place would be a thetan thinking something that happened in one place, happened in another place. A misconception of event would be a thetan thinking something happened to him, which didn’t happen to him or happened to someone else (Flow 2 or 3). (LRH)

Also see MISCONCEPTION in KHTK Glossary: Subject Clearing. 

MISIDENTIFICATION
Disharmony

A basic misconception of one thetan thinking he is another thetan. It’s a mistake in identity. Thetan “A” thinks it is thetan “B”. Or one thetan thinks he is more than one thetan, etc. (LRH)

MISDIRECTOR
Misdirector is a hypnotic effect that gets activated when the person tries to access the facsimile. It makes the person move in a way that it becomes difficult to trace the facsimile. When the person identifies the possible hypnotic command by trial and error, the misdirector disappears and the facsimile can be traced.

MISEMOTION
Please see Glossary: Scientology.

MISOWNERSHIP
Inconsistency.

A basic misconception of one thetan making the mistake of thinking another thetan’s picture or incident or mock-up is his own. (LRH)

MOTIVATOR
When a person, or one of the dynamics, receive an aggressive or destructive act, it leaves an impression that tends to prompt that one pays it back—it “motivates” a new overt. A person who is always complaining about being victimized, and blaming others, is motivating. His current thinking and behavior are being influenced by some impression of an overt that he received in the past.

MOCK UP
The Incident II includes a picture of pilot saying he is mocking it up. This is Hubbard’s way of saying that all these human aberrations exist because the person is postulating them unconsciously. In other words, underlying all misconceptions are postulates. Postulates mock up a person’s beingness too. According to Hubbard, the source of postulates is the thetan, where the beingness of the thetan itself is made up of postulates. Basically, the thetan is mocking himself up. This amounts to Scientology using circular logic in place of the linear concept of Unknowable.

The problem is that the person unknowingly mocks up a new picture as earlier similar instead of assimilating what is already there. The body is made up of sensations and the person is supposed to assimilate new sensations into body’s existing sensations. Mock-ups cannot be run out (assimilated) because they do not represent  actual sensations received. Hubbard tries to explain this n NOTs (New Era Dianetics for Operating Thetans) using his notion of BT, which just becomes an arbitrary explanation.

MULTIPLE ILLNESS
MULTIPLE ILLNESS means 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.

MUTUAL INCIDENT
A severe engram which happened to a number of thetans, the picture (which they have in common), keeps them stuck together in that incident. It has a precise date down to the second and fractions of a second and a precise location in space. (LRH)

The common characteristic shared by the BTs that made them to combine into a cluster. [A severe engram which happened to a number of thetans, the picture (which they have in common), keeps them stuck together in that incident. It has a precise date down to the second and fractions of a second and a precise location in space.]

MYSTERY
At this level a person is in a terrific confusion about everything. The whole realty has become mysterious to him. He is trying to shut out all reality. 

—N—

NED
New Era Dianetics.

NOTs

1. NED for OTs.

The New Era Dianetics for OTs Rundown is a special handling for OTs who have been run on Dianetics since Clear. Its EP is CAUSE OVER LIFE. The reason Dianetic auditing messes up Clears and OTs is that when an auditor asks for an earlier similar which doesn’t exist, you’ll probably go over into a cluster or BT where it does exist. In other words, the absence of facsimiles activates misconceptions. His own thinking is reflected back at him quite distorted. This requires a very different kind of handling.

NOT-IS-NESS
NOT-IS-NESS is an outright, flat denial of the way things are. Also see KHTK Glossary: Scientology

When a person cannot confront, he denies outright whatever is there. This is NOT-IS-NESS.

—O—

OBJECTIVE
Of or having to do with a material object as distinguished from a mental concept, idea or belief. Means here and now objects in PT as opposed to ‘subjective’. (LRH)

OBJECTIVE PROCESSING
Please see Glossary: Scientology.

ONLY ONE
A person who has the complex of ‘only one’ can never be a team player. He has gotten into a state, ordinarily, where he is the only one who can grant beingness, but he has so long restrained other people from granting life to things that he himself will no longer grant any life to things.

OPPOSITION TERMINAL (OPPTERM)

1. An item or identity the pc has actually opposed (fought, been an enemy of) sometime in the past (or present) is called an opposition terminal. As the person identified himself as not it, he could experience from it only sensation. An opposition terminal when its mental residues (black masses) are recontacted in processing, produces only sensation, never pain. (LRH)
2. Electrically, a terminal is one of the two poles between or through which current flows. (LRH)
3. We got the idea of two different types of terminals in GPMs, because that’s the way they are. One, the pc thinks of as his own or himself. The other he thinks of as an opposition. Hence, we use “terminal” to mean what the pc thinks is his idea and mass in the GPM, and we use “opposition terminal”, or “oppterm” for short, to mean the mass and significance he thinks of as the enemy to the one he is in. (LRH)
4. Both the “terminal” and the “oppterm” in the GPM have mass and significance and have the appearance of receiving and giving communication and so they are called terminals. (LRH)

OPERATING THETAN (OT)
A thetan who can be at cause knowingly and at will over thought, life, matter, energy, space and time, subjective and objective. (LRH)

Apparently, a person is an operating thetan when he operates unrestricted by the consideration of the body. This is interpreted to mean that the person can operate without a body. This is further interpreted to mean that a person is immortal. Therefore, the goal in Scientology is to achieve immortality for one’s individuality. 

According to Subject Clearing, a person is an operating thetan when he no longer has any unassimilated impressions. His postulates and considerations are totally aligned with the natural laws governing thought, energy and matter. He has resolved the anomalies to do with his beingness, and he operates without effort as one with his body and the universe. He is able to pervade the whole universe and resolve anomalies actively as he comes across them. The goal in Subject Clearing is the continual resolution of anomalies to see where it takes us. See The Definition of OPERATING THETAN.

OPTIMUM SOLUTION
An optimum solution is one that is free of all anomalies. But Scientology defines an optimum solution to any problem as “that solution which brought the greatest benefits to the greatest number of dynamics.” 

ORIENTATION POINT
An orientation point is that point in relation to which others have location. The mathematical ‘origin’ acts as an orientation point for other mathematical points. A person may use his childhood home, town or city as his orientation point. A belief or idea may also be used as one’s orientation point.

OT III 
Hubbard says, “Before the beginning of time, thetans existed, separate from one another.”  The level of OT III explains the philosophy of Scientology on which its therapy is based. The fundamental postulate of Scientology is “individuality,” which is referred to  as thetan.

Hubbard postulated further that, the key characteristic of individuality is to control its environment. Since individualities exist in each other’s environment, it is postulated that there is contest among individualities rather than cooperation. Thus, early on the track, thetans implant each other to reduce their capabilities. They are reduced so much that we find thousands of them attached to a single body. A body thetan acts like an implanted thinking circuit. This is how aberrations have come about.

OT III seeks to return the thetan’s power by stripping away implants; so, the thetan can act independently of the physical body, and cause a physical event to occur through sheer force of will. But according to the OT III theory, once the thetans are free, the implanting cycle is bound to occur again. This theory is depressing indeed. It is better to ignore the postulates of this theory and just focus on the therapeutic aspects of it to see where it takes us.

OT III CAUTION
Hubbard says about OT III Incidents, “The implant is calculated to kill (by pneumonia etc.) anyone who attempts to solve it. This liability has been dispensed with by my tech development. One can freewheel through the implant and die unless it is approached as precisely outlined. The “freewheel” (auto-running on and on) lasts too long, denies sleep etc and one dies. So be careful to do only Incidents I and II as given and not plow around and fail to complete one thetan at a time.”

The information about Incident II isn’t going to make you sick or kill you. You can read about it all you want; but this incident cannot be run as a narrative. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO RUN IT BY STRAIGHT MEMORY.

OT III COMMENTS
On OT III people are led by their desire to be completely exterior with full perceptions. These are misstated goals. The original goal from Dianetics is to get rid of all engrams. A similar goal from Buddhism is to assimilate all unassimilated impressions. Subject Clearing puts one back on the original goal.

OT III RUNNING

1. A body thetan (BT) is located as a point of sensation (mass, pressure or feeling) on the surface of the body, inside the body, or in the environment around the body. 
2. If the sensation is spread out and diffused it represents a cluster of BTs. It needs to be broken up into sharper points of sensation (BTs). This is like breaking up the sensation into perceptual elements.
3. Individual BTs are then audited one at a time by putting attention on a point of sensation and mentally moving through the Incident II and then Incident I.
4. As you do this, implanted misconceptions from R6, Clearing Course, and OT II materials come up. These are like anomalies that do not make sense.
5. You look at the misconceptions more closely until the specific point of sensation clears up.

OT PROCESSING
Please see Glossary: Scientology.

OUT OF VALENCE
Assume another’s postulate of individuality, on top of original postulate of individuality. Or, changing the postulate of individuality.

OVERRUN
Overrun means continuing a process past the optimum point. It occurs when the natural process of the mind is interfered with by not letting the unassimilated impressions develop in their natural way. You simply stir too much other confusion while looking for an answer.

OVERT ACT
An overt is an aggressive or destructive act that a person commits against another, or a dynamic. It is the dramatization of some motivator from the past; though it is carried out an effort to resolve a problem.

—P—

PAIN
Pain is something counter to one’s motion. It is a sudden impact. It is too much motion too fast. It is a loss of beingness. Pain consists of the impulses of heat, cold, and electrical. 

Extreme random motion is felt as pain. Random motion has neither consistency nor logic. This is the makeup of the physically painful experience. When such an experience enters the mind it cannot be broken down into fine data elements and assimilated into the mental matrix. The core of this experience appears as a “shock” to the mental matrix, which shuts its awareness down.

PAIR
A set of two; two that go together. (LRH)

PAN-DETERMINISM
The idea of Pan-determinism in Scientology is based on the misconception that “self” cannot expand to higher dynamics. In truth, the whole idea of auditing is to expand the viewpoint of a person to higher dynamics; which means, to expand his “self” so he can postulate on higher dynamics.

PART
The term “part” refers to the individual GPMs which, in their written form, are called Chapters. Where the chapter is split up into two or more separate sections, each of these would also be referred to as a part. (LRH)

PARTIAL BLOW
A BT or cluster not fully blown. Sometimes one will leave from inside the body and stick or hang up on the outer surface of the body. Or one will go as far as the wall or to some distance and hang around. (LRH)

PAST LIFE MEMORIES
Past life memories are all mock-ups. They may make sense only to the degree they are consistent in their character with your experience in your present life. They may act as your “knowingness.”

PERFECT DUPLICATE

1. A perfect duplicate is one which is made in the same time, in the same place, with the same energies as the original. One makes a perfect duplicate by simply duplicating the original with itself, with its own time, mass (particles), space and motion. (LRH)

A perfect duplicate seems to be a deep understanding that is well assimilated in all its elements. Scientology seems to provides a mechanical rendition of it.

PICTURE
See Tech Dictionary under “Mental Image Picture”. (LRH)

PLATEN

1. Platen is a flat plate in a printing press for pressing the paper against the inked type or plate to produce an impression. 
2. In regards to a Scientology procedure, a platen is a card with holes in it that is put on another paper and has in it the line plot mostly written out.

PLEASURE MOMENTS
Please see Glossary: Scientology.

POSTULATE
Please see Glossary: Scientology.

POSTULATE PROCESSING
Postulate processing addresses the postulates and resolves anomalies in the self-determined thought itself. It asks a person to look at his postulates and change them.

POWER
The definition of “power” is “the ability to hold a position in space.” All power comes from the ability to occupy a point. In an electrical generator the base that separates two terminals must be firm or there will be no exchange of energy or power generated. (LRH)

PRESENT TIME PROBLEM
A present time problem is a problem that exists in present time, in a real universe. 

PRESSURE SOMATIC
PRESSURE SOMATIC is, in Dianetics, considered to be a symptom in a lock, secondary or engram, simply part of the content.

PRINCIPLE OF ONENESS
This is a Subject Clearing concept. Scientology opposes this concept. See KHTK Glossary: Subject Clearing.

PROBLEM
A problem is the conflict arising from one thing versus another thing. You’ve got two postulates, two intentions, two forces or two ideas of comparable magnitude that are interlocked. It results in indecision that persists through time. It cannot be resolved easily.

PSYCHOSOMATIC
Broad concept (psyche): “breath, spirit”; (soma): “body.” Definition: “of or relating to a physical disorder that is caused by or notably influenced by emotional factors.” Psychosomatic illness is the physical manifestations of mental aberration.

“[Psychosomatic illness is] the physical manifestations of mental aberration.” (~ Hubbard).

[From regular dictionary] Broad concept (psyche): “breath, spirit.” Broad concept (soma): “body.” Definition: “of or relating to a physical disorder that is caused by or notably influenced by emotional factors.”

PTP
See PRESENT TIME PROBLEM.

—Q—

—R—

REACHING & WITHDRAWING
Reaching and withdrawing are the basic actions as attention moves from one thing to another. When the attention is unable to reach and withdraw, it is fixed on something. 

REACTIVE MIND
The unassimilated parts of the mental matrix influence the thinking of a person into having fixed ideas, and influence his behavior into engaging in actions not supported by reason. This is the Reactive Mind postulated by Hubbard, which works on a totally stimulus-response basis.

REALITY
A person’s reality may be defined as his sense of “is-ness” of things. This “is-ness,” or his personal reality, may be plotted on a scale of reality. As one moves down this scale the reality becomes cloudier as it is being alter-ised. As one moves up this scale the reality becomes clearer as it is being as-ised. The reality is optimum when it is continuous, consistent and harmonious according to the Principle of Oneness.

REALITY SCALE
At its lowest point, a person’s would be unconscious and would have no reality. As he gains consciousness, his reality moves up through the following levels:

(1) MYSTERY: At this level a person is in a terrific confusion about everything. The whole realty has become mysterious to him. He is trying to shut out all reality. He finds himself waiting for things to happen.

(2) SEXINGNESS: At this level, a person thinks that he is not going to survive; so, he starts looking at living through another generation. His reality shrinks to a raw survival mode with attention fixed on sex.

(3) EATINGNESS: At this level a person has no appreciation of other people and things. They are simply looked upon as means for survival. This is the reality of the dog eat dog world. 

(4) SYMBOLIZINGNESS; At this level a person figures with symbols. The symbols consist of mass and significance. He interprets them literally. His sense of reality is very shallow. 

(5) THINKINGNESS; In thinkingness, a person is trying to figure things out all the time. He cannot work or act, so there is no progress. This is the “figure-figure” case. He is hard to get along with.

(6) EFFORTINGNESS: In effortingness, a person has got to touch everything and feel everything before he can know anything. He’ll get a mental image picture of a past incident in order to get an idea of what is happening to him in the present. 

(7) EMOTINGNESS: In emotingness, a person determines the reality by his emotional reaction to things. Do we like it—do we dislike it? The person has all kinds of emotions about things.

(8) LOOKINGNESS: In lookingness a person is confronted with discontinuities, inconsistencies and disharmonies. He must look at these anomalies more closely to discover the reality.

(9) KNOWINGNESS: In knowingness, one sees the reality to be continuous, consistent and harmonious as per the Principle of Oneness.

REHABILITATION
Rehabilitation is reversing the effects of overrun. You simply let the mind settle down naturally. If you are rehabilitating a process, you simply have the person scan through what he got out of that process. It is very light and general action.

RELIABLE ITEM

1. An item which the pc got after the list was nulled, and it’s reliable and can be used to obtain further items. That is a reliable item.
2. Any item that rock slams well on being found and at session end and which was the last item still in after assessing the list. Can be a terminal, opposition terminal, a combination terminal or a significance, provided only that it was the item found on a list and rock slammed.

REPEATER TECHNIQUE
Repeater technique is the repetition of a word or phrase in order to produce movement on the time track into an incident containing that word or phrase. It is not used to de-intensify a phrase or to reduce an engram. It has the liability of hanging a person up in an engram which cannot be contacted and run out.

REPETITIVE COMMAND
A repetitive command in Scientology is equivalent to deep contemplation on the heart of that command in Subject Clearing.

REPETITIVE TO EP
When the process says, “Repetitive to EP,” it means that you should remain engaged with the auditing question until you reach the end phenomenon.

RESTIMULATION
Restimulation is a very simple system of stimulus-response where the environment reactivates a facsimile, which then acts back against the body or the behavior of the person, and causes psychosomatic illnesses and aberrations. Analytical sense is necessary to handle the restimulation of the facsimile. The restimulation ceases permanently when the facsimile is assimilated. At that point the psychosomatic illness and the aberration also fade away.

When the mind senses sensations in the environment that are similar to unassimilated sensations stored in his engram, then that engram get activated. The activated engram then acts back against the body and thinking of the person. The person goes partially or fully unconscious. He is unable to function rationally, but he is not aware of it. This is a very simple system of stimulus-response. 

RETURNING
Returning is the technique in which a person mentally goes back and re-experience an incident. His mental capacity reduces to that in the incident. In other words, in returning, a person’s attention is totally absorbed in the unassimilated impression.

REVERIE
The dianetic reverie is a mild form of hypnosis in which the individual retains enough analytical awareness. It is like daydreaming. It is similar to a meditative state in which one is not avoiding, resisting, denying or suppressing any thoughts, and allowing free association to take place.

REVIV (REVIVIFICATION)
The bringing back to life of an engram in which a pc is stuck. The engram or some portion there of is being acted out in present time by the preclear. It is called a revivification because the engram is suddenly more real to the preclear than present time has ever been. He relives that moment briefly. He does not merely recall or remember it. (HCOB 11.5.65) During research on NED for OTs I discovered that Dormant BTs are stuck in a reviv, i.e. they are stuck down the track in an incident which is present time to that BT. I also discovered that these BTs are reviv’d in a location, meaning that they are stuck in a past location. They are chronically stuck in a past time and place, which for them is still going on. It is “PT” and is where they are, as far as they are concerned. (LRH)

RIDGE (Scientology)
(1) A ridge is an apparent motionlessness like that of a standing wave. It is caused by two energy flows coinciding and causing an enturbulence of energy. Ridge in the mind represents fixation of thoughts. (2) Ridges are delusional beliefs. They are fixed ideas.

RIGHT ACTION
The right action would be spotting and resolving anomalies in the dynamics immediately concerned. But according to Scientology, right action would depend upon its assisting the survival of the dynamics immediately concerned.

RISING TA
The preclear is getting increasingly uptight about what is happening in his auditing. He is “out of session.” He cannot bring himself back into session.

ROCK
This is a Scientology term. Please see Scientology Technical Dictionary.

1. What the pc is always mocking up obsessively. (Vol III-295)
2. Cycle of the rock (object): (1) person failed to communicate himself; (2) he started using some thing to communicate with; (3) he put the last item on automatic and it created for him; (4) it failed. (Vol III-299)
3. “What is a People Pleaser?” primary aberrative object. (Vol III-300)
4. Rock is confrontingness on a via. (Vol III-320)
5. Basic, earliest shift of identity. (Vol III-411)

ROCK SLAMMER
This is a Scientology term. Please see Scientology Technical Dictionary.

A ROCK SLAMMER is a preclear who Rock Slams on a Present Time GPM Item in his or her Immediate Environment. Persons who Rock Slam on “Scientology” or associated Items are considered Security Risks.

R6
R6 is a research designation where ‘R’ stands for ‘Routine’ followed by the research code number.

R6EW
R6 End Word. R6EW simply consists of this: find an end word, preferably the one you are dramatizing (that would mean the one you would be most stuck in).  If it’s a plus you find its minus, and so on.  It sometimes takes some doing. The main rule is always find the pair, don’t leave one.  If you are in trouble after finding an end word, it’s not that end word that’s troubling you. (LRH)

R6 IMPLANT

1. Inc 2 is R6 75 million years ago. Inc I is about 4 quadrillion yoars ago. Both, all thetans on this planet and 21 nearby stars have in common. All thetans in the Universe have Inc. 1. Only those in this Old Confederation have Inc 2 and R6. All CC and OTII materials are in R6 75 million years ago. These are followed by 36 days worth of motion pictures – god devil, space opera, trains, cars, helicopters, crashes, stage etc. This R6 is 75 million years ago and this planet and confederation. (LRH)

With respect to the misconceptions implanted deep into the psyche, Hubbard says, “The pictures contain God, the Devil, angels, space opera, theaters, helicopters, a constant spinning, a spinning dancer, trains and various scenes very like modern England. You name it, it’s in this implant we call in its entirety R6.” Apparently, a lot of force is connected with R6 implant. So, when any part of this implant is resolved, it brings about a sudden release of energy, akin to an explosion. Simple recalls are not adequate to resolve this implant. It can only be resolved using an appropriate gradient.

R3R

1. The Dianetic process, R3R, is a standard set of commands and steps. The Dianetic auditor uses R3R to get a preclear to locate and examine the chains on his time track which cause him discomfort in present time. 
2. The feeling chains are the ones that relieve what’s wrong with the preclear. Therefore, the Dianetic auditor asks for and follows down only feelings. Those can be attitudes, emotions, sensations or pains.
3. By using somatics (meaning discomforts, complaints, sensations, aches, pains) to trace back and by staying on the chain of only one somatic (i.e. headaches) you get back down the single chain without dispersing all over the place into different chains.
4. As each incident is found on the chain, the auditor has his preclear examine it from the beginning to the end.
5. The preclear is guided along his time track to earlier and earlier incidents on the somatic chain until he finds the earliest or BASIC incident on the chain which actually started that chain and that somatic.
6. When one gets down to the basic on a chain (a) it erases and, (b) the whole chain vanishes for good.
7. The Dianetic auditor audits the most available symptom first until the picture causing it is erased. Then find the next one and audit it to erasure of its picture, then the next.

RUDIMENTS
Rudiments are initial actions that handle distractions right now in present time so that a session may proceed.

RUNNING OT III

1. When running OT III the Solo Auditor handles Body Thetans as he would any other pc, for the general idea is to run them standardly and not to ARC Break them. He does not scan through anything in order to find body thetans. (LRH)
2. The best way to audit BTs and clusters is highly impersonal. Not impolite. Not rough, savage, no blame, shame, regret, nothing. Just dead calm. No unfriendliness, no friendliness. A zero attitude. The best way to handle it is just zero everything. If you engage in chatter or conversation with them it just stirs them up more. Getting rid of them angrily, they don’t get rid of. And of course you audit them telepathically, not verbal comm. (LRH)

—S—

SANITY
Sanity is made up of the continuity, consistency and harmony among one’s postulates and considerations. Insanity shall consist of increasing disassociations that induce discontinuity, inconsistency and disharmony in a person’s thinking. Traumatic experiences that affect a person’s basic postulate would be most damaging to his sanity, because the postulates lie at the core of one’s beingness. Normally, the postulates are embedded deep in the psyche so they remain undisturbed. The Dianetics processes are, however, capable of penetrating deep levels of the psyche. Misunderstanding and misapplication of these processes can cause much disassociation.

SCIENTOLOGY
Please see Glossary: Scientology.

SECONDARY
Please see Glossary: Scientology.

SELF-DETERMINISM
Self-determinism is the ability to determine one’s location in time and space. It is the ability to overcome any fixation of considerations regarding one’s location or anything else.

Self-determinism has to do with the ability to resolve anomalies (discontinuities, inconsistencies and disharmonies). This ability is reduced by fixation as represented by possession of objects and use of force.

SELF-DETERMINATION
A person is self-determined to the extent that he is in control of his attention.

SELF-ANALYSIS LISTS
See 1951: Self Analysis (Processing Section).

SENSATIONS
Please see Postulate Mechanics: Glossary.

SERVICE FACSIMILE
When a facsimile serves a person’s interests he doesn’t want to get rid of it. He uses it to make himself right and others wrong. It explains his disability and how he is not responsible. So he is happy to have his disability because he is no longer wrong for not coping. He uses his disability to invite sympathy or cooperation on the part of the environment. 

SESSION
A session is a period of time devoted to the attainment of a definite objective, such as, improvement of the conditions in one’s life.

SET (also “RUN”)
On OT II a “set” or “run” refers to one complete set of 21 GPMs, which are also refered to as a Whole Track Table. (LRH)

SEXINGNESS
At this level, a person thinks that he is not going to survive; so, he starts looking at living through another generation. His reality shrinks to a raw survival mode with attention fixed on sex.

SHELL BT
An anomaly of beingness that distorts a person’s viewpoint. The incidents viewed from that viewpoint may appear to be real, but they are  actually distortions. So, you cannot run them. 

A BT or cluster that surrounds the Pre-OT’s body like a shell. A Clear can go into the valence of, and see the pictures of, this BT or cluster and mistake these as his own, as he seems to be in valence in the picture. (LRH)

The Shell BT is a composite body entity which is a mock-up that thinks (mistakenly) that it is holding the body together. You can collide with that. I suppose that’s really probably what they think is the astral body, a collection of BTs and clusters molded into a semblance of a body structure. As this “astral body” is highly electronic. BTs and clusters can easily get stuck in it even though they themselves are creating it. (LRH)

A shell BT appears to be a piece of corrupted and fixed consciousness that is related to the whole body.

SIX BASIC PROCESSES

1. Two-Way Communication; 
2. Elementary Straightwire; 
3. Opening Procedure of 8C; 
4. Opening Procedure by Duplication; 
5. Remedying Havingness;
6. Spotting Spots in Space.

SOMATIC
Please see Glossary: Scientology.

SOMATIC STRIP
Somatic strip consists of attention units that are detached and can look at the experiences objectively. 

SONIC
The ability to recall a sound so that one can hear it again as he originally heard it — in full tone and volume.

SPOT
A location is space regardless of any substance being associated with it.

STATIC
Please see Glossary: Scientology.

STATIC-KINETIC
Static-kinetic is a duality. The kinetic is pegged around static. For example, a confusion is “kinetic” that is pegged around the “static” of a stable datum. To bring the confusion under control one simply needs to establish a stable datum. The ultimate stable datum on the Dynamics is ONENESS, which is applied to the system of postulates. In Scientology, the ultimate stable datum is STATIC, which is defined as “an actuality of no mass, no wave-length, no position in space or relation in time, but with the quality of creating or destroying mass or energy, locating itself or creating space, and of re-relating time.” 

STILL NEEDLE (E-METER)
A still needle may indicate “fixed attention”. As the intensity of fixed attention lessens, the needle seems to loosen up.

STRAIGHTWIRE
In straightwire, or straight memory, a person is not returning to some past event. Instead he stays in the present time and confronts the sensations that are present. To confront is to face without flinching or withdrawing. As he confronts the sensations they start to assimilate and resolve into perceptions of past events and considerations.

SUBJECTIVE
Consultation with the preclear’s own universe, with his mock ups, and with his own thoughts and considerations. Recall, think, remember or return on the time track processes are subjective. (LRH)

SURVIVAL
Please see Glossary: Scientology.

SYMBOL
A symbol represents something else. It can be a sign, a word, an image, or an object. It is a package of meaning that can be moved around. A symbol may orient itself with respect to other symbols or some fixed point.

SYMBOLIZINGNESS
At this level a person figures with symbols. The symbols consist of mass and significance. He interprets them literally. His sense of reality is very shallow. 

—T—

TECHNIQUE 80
Hubbard calls Technique 80 the “to be or not to be” technique which balances out the motivator, the overt act and the ded. It’s the anatomy of maybe. It becomes an entire subject of how to take apart maybe. How to get an indecision, how to get an involved grouped series of incidents apart. Any method which does this falls under the category of Technique 80.

TERMINAL (TERM)

1. It would be any fixed mass utilized in a communication system. That, I think, is the best of the various definitions that have come out for this. Any mass used in a fixed position in any communications system. Thus you see a man would be a terminal, but a post could also be a terminal. (LRH)
2. An item or identity the pc has actually been sometime in the past (or present) is called a terminal. It is “the pc’s own valence” at that time. In the goals problem mass (the black masses of the reactive mind) those identities which, when contacted, produce pain, tell us at once that they are terminals. The person could feel pain only as himself (thetan plus body) and therefore identities he has been produce pain when its mental residues (black masses) are recontacted in processing. (LRH)

TERMINALS
Terminals are condensed considerations that act as nodes in the universal matrix. They are connected by finely programmed relationships. They are kept in place by the structure of the matrix.

TERMINAL, END OF
A person forms one end of his communication lines. The other end is attached to something the person is communicating with, or simply perceiving.  When something at the other end is not there, the communicate is left incomplete and the attention introverts. There is a feeling of loss which brings about grief. Such feeling may be resolved by visualizing the terminal at the other end of the communication line in creative ways and completing the communication cycles.

THETA
Please see Glossary: Scientology.

THETA BEING
The theta being is the self-aware aspect of the DNA programming, similar in characteristics to AI (artificial intelligence). This is who the person thinks he is. It represents the analytical ability of the mind, which does not exist in animals. The unassimilated impressions associated with the “I” are the most important target of subject clearing. Out of the resolution of these anomalies will come a better understanding of who one really is.

THETA-MEST THEORY
Please see Glossary: Scientology.

THETA is really the impulse to evolve. MEST is really the substance. The Theta-MEST theory comes down to the impulse to evolve substance.

THETAN
Please see Glossary: Scientology.

THETAN HAND TECHNIQUE
“What you do is mock up a “thetan hand” and using the edge of it as a sort of knife, you pass it between the body and black masses and sever them off. These masses are attached to the body by strings or lines or suction cups or beams. You sever the line or string holding them to the body. Sometimes the mocked up hand departs with them, because after all it was mocked up and it would of course vanish.”

THINKINGNESS
In thinkingness, a person is trying to figure things out all the time. He cannot work or act, so there is no progress. This is the “figure-figure” case. He is hard to get along with.

THREE UNIVERSES
The real universe forms out of the postulates from the Unknowable. The three universes are different viewpoints of this universe as theorized by Hubbard. 

TIME TRACK
Please see Glossary: Scientology.

TONE SCALE
Condensing thought produces a spectrum. This spectrum is represented by a Tone Scale in Scientology on which 40.0 represents pure thought as “serenity of beingness”; and 0.0 represents a very condensed thought as “death” or “solidified beingness.” Near the bottom of the scale, thought appears as emotions of exhilaration, enthusiasm, boredom, antagonism, anger, fear, grief, and apathy in that order.

TRAP
The trap is made up of the vibrations in vicinity that set one into motion. Trap is another word for RESTIMULATOR.

TR0 AND MINDFULNESS
TR0 requires another person to confront, but a mindfulness exercise can be done alone in any setting. The purpose both exercises is to confront, but in mindfulness exercise a person is confronting his reaction to a wide variety of things and not just the reaction to another person sitting in front of him. Basically, a person must be comfortable with himself to some degree before he can be comfortable with another person. For example, everybody has skeletons in their closet. These are the things the person does not want others to find out about him, even when they are trivial. On TR0, the student needs to confront all such things about himself that make him flinch and withdraw in the present situation. This is done in depth in auditing. But a gradient of it may be accomplished on the TR0 exercise. The person does not have to tell his secrets to anybody. He just have to make himself comfortable in the presence of those secrets. 

—U—

UNBURDENING
As a basic is not at once available on any chain one usually unburdens it by running later engrams, 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.

UNCONSCIOUSNESS
Unconsciousness is the weakening of a person’s attention and a clouding of his awareness. It downgrades the optimum functioning of both his mind and the body. Unconsciousness occurs when unassimilated sensations are approached in auditing or in mindfulness meditation.

—V—

VALENCE
VALENCE is the form and identity of the preclear or another, the beingness. We are not much concerned with this in Dianetics today. It is handled in Scientology. NOTE: Valence is the postulate of individuality considered to be permanent.

VALENCES AND “SHELL BT”
A “shell BT that surrounds the whole body” is an anomaly of beingness. 

VGIs
VGIs is an abbreviation for very good indicators. It means that the person is relaxed and happy.

VIA 
Via means a relay point in a communication line. To talk via a body, to get energy via eating, alike are communication by-routes… Enough vias make a stop. A stop is made out of vias. (LRH)

—W—

WHOLE TRACK
The Whole Track is the moment to moment record of a person’s existence in this universe in pictures and impression form. (LRH)

The whole track is really a collection of discrete unassimilated impressions (Samskars) 

WHOLE TRACK TABLE
The whole track table consists of sequentially arranged list of GPMs that are processed on the Scientology level of OT II. See The Level of OT II.

WITHHOLD
The dramatization of a facsimile (overt act) that a person is not fully aware of.

WITHHOLD, AUDITING OF
Auditing is all about getting one’s withholds off. The withhold that one already knows about is not a withhold from himself. The withhold he needs to be concerned with what he is not aware of. If a person has attention fixed on a withhold, then there are some elements of that withhold that he is not aware of. He can recover those elements by writing down the withhold as follows:

1. The nature of the withhold,
2. Exact place it happened,
3. Exact time it happened, and
4. The details of the withhold.

He doesn’t have to spill it all to the priest in confession; or to an auditor in session. He just have to clear up the complete withhold from himself.

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