Reference

Scientology Definitions

Over 200 terms from the AOGP Abridged Scientology Dictionary, based on original LRH source materials updated through 1982.

305 definitions

A=A=A

Anything equals anything equals anything. This is the way the reactive mind (or bank) thinks. Irrationally identifying...

ABERRATION

Irrational or deranged behavior, or thought, on or about a specific subject or subjects. Resulting from the influence...

A.C.C

(an abbreviation for Advanced Clinical Course): These were lectures delivered in concurrent series on a particular...

ACCEPTANCE LEVEL

The degree of a person's willingness to accept people or things freely, monitored and determined by his consideration...

ACCESSIBILITY CHART

A chart that shows how reachable a person is — how much of him you can actually talk to and reason with. It runs from...

ADDITIVES

Anything extra added to an already workable process or procedure which reduces or nullifies the results obtainable from...

ADVANCED PROCEDURE

An early auditing procedure made up of fifteen steps, called Acts, which the auditor takes the person through one after...

AFFINITY

Degree of liking or affection or lack of it. (This is often expressed as an emotion- enthusiasm towards a person...

ALLY

A person who sympathized with or appeared to aid the survival of an individual when he or she was ill, injured or...

ALTER-IS

To change or falsify the way something actually is.

ALTER-IS-NESS

One of the four conditions of existence. It is the consideration which introduces change, and therefore time and...

ALTITUDE

The prestige which anyone has in the eyes of another.

ANALYTICAL MIND

This mind consists of visual pictures, either of the past or the physical universe, monitored and presided over by the...

ANATEN

An abbreviation of "analytical attenuation", meaning a diminution or weakening of the analytical awareness of an...

ANCHOR POINT

One of the points a person puts out to mark the edges or corners of a space. You can think of them as the pegs that...

APPARENCY

The way someone or something appears to be, where this is different from the way that they actually are.

ARC

A acronym made from the initial letters of Affinity, Reality and Communication, which together equate to understanding....

ARC BREAK

A sudden drop or sundering in Affinity, Reality and Communication with or toward someone or something, which is often...

ARC TRIANGLE

It is called a triangle because it has three related points: Affinity, Reality and the most important, Communication....

ART

(The basic definition) ART is a word which summarizes the QUALITY OF COMMUNICATION.

AS-IS

To view anything exactly as it is, without any distortions or lies, at which moment it will vanish and cease to exist.

AS-IS-NESS

One of the four conditions of existence. It is the condition of immediate creation without persistence and is the...

ASSESSMENT

The auditor in a standard model session, calls aloud a list of questions from (a prepared assessment list) to find...

ASSIST

Simple, easily done processes that can be applied to anyone to help them recover more rapidly from accidents, mild...

ATTENTION UNIT

A single small quantity of a person's awareness. People have differing amounts of attention free to put on things, and...

AUDITING

The application of Scientology processes and procedures to someone by a trained auditor. The exact definition of...

AUDITING BY LIST

A technique, - using prepared lists of questions, that relieves and helps the preclear find out more about himself.

AUDITING COMMAND

The exact instruction or question the auditor gives the person being audited. It has to be something he can actually do...

AUDITING COMMUNICATION CYCLE

The communication cycle used in auditing. It consists of (1) The auditor observes the preclear to see if the preclear...

AUDITING SESSION

A precise period of time during which an auditor audits a preclear.

AUDITOR

A listener or one who listens carefully to what people have to say. An auditor is a person trained and qualified in...

AUDITOR PRESENCE

How much the auditor actually registers on the person he is auditing. An auditor with good presence is calm, sure of...

AUDITOR'S CODE

A collection of rules (do's and don'ts) that an auditor follows while auditing someone, which ensures that the preclear...

AUTOMATICITY

Anything one is doing that he is not aware he is doing or is only partially aware he is doing. Also, a sudden, very...

BANK

A colloquial name for the Reactive Mind. (This is what the procedures of Scientology are devoted to disposing of, for...

BASIC

The first incident, such as an engram or overt act, of a chain of similar incidents.

BASIC AUDITING

The fundamental and most important elements of auditing- the skill of handling and keeping the preclear in session,...

BASIC PURPOSE

The purpose a person has had since he was very young — what he is fundamentally here to do. Talent, natural personality...

BASIC-BASIC

The first engram on the time track.

BEEP METER

An early meter built by Volney Mathison, one of the first Dianeticists, to find sore spots for chiropractors. Touch the...

BEINGNESS

The assumption or choosing of a category of identity. Beingness is assumed by oneself or given to oneself or is...

BEINGNESS PROCESSING

Processing that has a person be things — take on identities — as a way of getting him unstuck. Being something is a...

BLOW

A colloquialism for a sudden departure. It is usually used to describe either the sudden dissipation of mass in the...

BLOWDOWN

A definite, rapid drop of the E-Meter tone arm of 0.2 divisions or more, associated with a vanishment of mental mass or...

BOOK AUDITOR

Someone who has successfully applied Scientology from a book to help someone else and who has received a 'Hubbard Book...

BOOK ONE

The everyday name for the first book published on Dianetics — Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, released...

BUTTON

Items, words, phrases, subjects or areas that are easily re-stimulatable in an individual by the words or actions of...

BYPASSED CHARGE

Mental energy or upset that has been stirred up but not recognized or dealt with. In everyday terms, it is the feeling...

BY-PASSED CHARGE ASSESSMENT

Auditing by list to help the preclear find by-passed charge. The moment a correct by-passed charge is found the...

CASE

The way a person responds to the world around him by reason of his aberrations.

CASE GAIN

The improvements and resurgences a person experiences from auditing. CCHs: Four associated processes which bring a...

CASE SUPERVISOR

A highly trained auditor whose job is to direct the auditing of other people's cases. He does not sit in the session...

CERTAINTY PROCESSING

Processing that works on the things a person is certain about. The reasoning is simple: being stuck in "maybe" is what...

CHAIN

A succession of incidents, occurring at various intervals along the time track, that are related to one another by some...

CHARGE

Harmful energy or force accumulated and stored within the Reactive Mind, resulting from the conflicts and unpleasant...

CHART OF ATTITUDES

A chart of the main attitudes people take towards life, arranged in twelve columns. The healthy attitude sits at the...

CHART OF HUMAN EVALUATION

A chart with forty-three columns that lays out how people behave at each level of the Tone Scale. Read across a row and...

CHRONIC SOMATIC

A pain or physical discomfort a person has all the time rather than now and then — the shoulder that always aches, the...

CIRCUIT

as though it were someone or something separate from him or her, and that either talks to him or goes into action of...

CLASS VIII AUDITOR

A very highly trained and skilled auditor in Scientology. Class VIII auditors have completed advanced training to audit...

CLASSIFICATION

A system of classes and grades denoting levels of training and processing in Scientology. Classification refers to the...

CLEAN HANDS

Being free of hidden wrongdoing — nothing withheld, nothing to be found out. A person with clean hands has nothing he...

CLEANING A CLEAN

Attempting to clean up or deal with something that has already been cleaned up or dealt with that wasn't troublesome to...

CLEAR

(noun) A thetan who can be at cause knowingly and at will over mental matter, energy, space and time as regards the...

CLEAR PROCEDURE

Any of several procedures worked out in 1957 and 1958 to take a person all the way from the lowest levels up to the...

CLEARING COURSE

A course taught at Advanced Organizations on which a person audits himself, alone, up to the state of Clear. It is for...

CO-AUDIT

An abbreviation for co-operative auditing. It means a team of any two people who are helping each other reach a better...

CODE OF A SCIENTOLOGIST

A code of conduct covering how a Scientologist deals with the world outside — the press, the public, and matters of...

COFFEE SHOP AUDITING

An activity casually done in odd moments by someone who is trying to show somebody else that he knows something about...

COGNITION

A new realization of life. It results in a higher degree of awareness and consequently a greater ability to succeed...

COMMITTEE OF EVIDENCE

Part of the Ethics system of a Scientology Organization-being a fact- finding group appointed and empowered to...

COMMUNICATION

The interchange of ideas or objects between two people or terminals. More precisely, the definition of communication...

COMMUNICATION COURSE

A basic course made up of drills that teach a person to communicate — to be there comfortably, to listen, to...

COMMUNICATION CYCLE

One complete piece of communication, from start to finish: someone says something, someone else receives it, and that...

COMMUNICATION LINE

The route along which a communication travels from one person to another.

COMMUNICATION PROCESSES

Processes that result in a person being able to communicate freely and easily. Such a person is called a Communications...

CONDITIONS OF EXISTENCE

The three things that make up living: be, do and have. Being is taking on an identity, such as your name or your...

CONFUSION

Any jumble of things, communications, actions, thoughts etc., that don't apparently make sense. More broadly, a...

CONTROL

The ability to start, change and stop things at one's own choice. (With processing a person is capable of controlling a...

COURAGE

(Scientological definition) The availability of inherent ability (free Theta), necessity level, recognition of validity...

CREATIVE PROCESSING

Processing in which the person makes things up in his own mind — pictures, objects, scenes — using his own imagination...

CYCLE

beginning to the conclusion of an intended cycle of action.

CYCLE OF ACTION

The sequence that an action goes through, wherein the action is started, is continued for as long as is required and...

DATA SERIES

A series of policy letters on how to think straight about information: how to tell sound data from unsound, how to spot...

DEADLY QUARTET

Four things that must be present before auditing can do much good: the person has to be willing to be helped, willing...

DESTIMULATION

The action of deleting the moments of re-stimulation of the Reactive Mind or some portion of it, so that it moves away...

DEV-T

Developed and unnecessary traffic in any organization or between organizations, consisting of off-line, off-policy or...

DIANETIC AUDITING

Auditing that works through the painful, half-conscious moments in a person's life and takes the pain out of them....

DIANETIC CASE COMPLETION

One who through Standard New Era Dianetic Counselling by a qualified auditor has become a healthy, happy, high-I.Q....

DIRTY NEEDLE

An E-Meter needle that jerks, ticks and behaves raggedly instead of moving smoothly, and keeps on doing it. There are...

DRAMATIZATION

Thinking or acting in a manner that is dictated by masses or significances contained in the Reactive Mind. When...

DUB-IN

Any unknowingly created mental facsimile that appears to have been a record of the physical universe, but which is, in...

DWINDLING SPIRAL

A slide that feeds itself: the worse a person, a group or a society gets, the more able it becomes to get worse still....

DYNAMIC(S)

The urge, thrust and purpose of life - SURVIVE! - in its eight manifestations. - THE FIRST DYNAMIC...

EFFECT SCALE

A scale that shows how much a person dares cause by measuring how much he is willing to have happen to him. At the top...

EFFORT PROCESSING

Processing that works on the physical effort locked up in a difficulty. The reactive mind stacks up in three layers —...

E-METER

(Hubbard Electrometer) An electronic instrument for measuring mental state, mental mass and its presence or lack...

8C

A slang term meaning good and effective control of an individual or group.

EMOTIONAL TONE SCALE

A scale of emotional tones or states which range from death at the bottom, up through apathy, grief, fear, covert...

ENGRAM

A mental image picture of an experience containing pain, unconsciousness and a real or fancied threat to survival. A...

ENTHETA

Means enturbulated theta (thought or life): especially refers to communications, which, based on lies and confusions,...

ENTURBULATE

Cause to be turbulent or agitated and disturbed.

ESTABLISHMENT OFFICER

A post in an organization whose job is to get a part of that organization set up and keep it that way — staff hired,...

ETHICS

Rationality toward the highest level of survival for the individual, the future race, the group and mankind, and the...

EVALUATION

Any attempt by someone to impose his arbitrary stable datum (whether correct or incorrect data) upon another. The first...

EXPANDED DIANETICS

A branch of Dianetics adapted to the individual person rather than applied the same way to everyone. It is used for the...

EXTERIORIZATION

The state of the thetan being outside his body. When this is done, the person achieves a certainty that he is himself...

FACSIMILE

A mental copy of one's perceptions of the physical universe sometime in the past, and also known as a mental image...

FACSIMILE ONE

A particular incident found on many people's past, involving a machine played over the body in waves and a series of...

FIELD AUDITOR

An auditor working out in the world rather than inside an organization — running his own small practice and auditing...

FILE CLERK

The part of the mind that finds and hands over the right memory when it is asked for. It works like a filing clerk in...

FIRST STAGE RELEASE

(obsolete) A general term that loosely referred to any Grade of Release below Grade V.

FLATTEN A PROCESS

To continue a process as long as it produces change and no longer. The free needle is the most important phenomenon...

FOUNDING CHURCH

The Founding Church of Scientology of Washington, D.C., established in 1955. "Founding" in the name refers to that...

FREE NEEDLE (FLOATING NEEDLE)

This is a needle manifestation of the E-Meter of great importance. When good indicators are present, it indicates the...

GAMES CONDITION

Being stuck in a contest you did not choose and cannot leave. Your attention is fixed on it, you cannot get away from...

GENERALITY

A general or non-specific statement which is applicable to all and used in Scientology to mean a statement made in an...

GENETIC LINE

The long line of the body itself — the unbroken chain of conception, birth and reproduction running back through every...

GOALS ASSESSMENT

An auditing action in which a very full list of a person's goals is written out and then checked over, one by one, to...

GPM

Means Goals Problem Mass. A GPM is composed of mental masses and significances which have an exact pattern, unvarying...

GRADE

A level of auditing on the scientology Grade Chart with a specific ability gained as the desired result of the...

GRADE CHART

The map of the whole route, often called the Bridge. Down the right-hand side are the steps a person goes through as he...

GRADIENT

A gradual approach to something, taken step by step, level by level, each step or level being, of itself, easily...

GRAND TOUR

A process for a person who is exteriorized, in which the auditor asks him to be in one place and then another — his...

GRANTING OF BEINGNESS

Being willing to let someone else be who he is. It is the plain act of allowing another person his own identity, his...

GRIEF CHARGE

An outburst of tears, that may continue for a considerable time, in a session, after which the preclear feels greatly...

GROUP AUDITOR

An auditor who stands in front of a group and audits all of them at once, giving the commands aloud to everyone...

GROUP PROCESSING

Auditing given to a group of people together instead of one at a time. Its job is to bring people out of moments in the...

HAPPINESS

The overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal and, transiently, the contemplation of, or indulgence in,...

HASI

Hubbard Association of Scientologists, International. A membership group of fellow auditors and Scientologists alike....

HAT

Slang for the title and work of a post in a Scientology Organization; taken from the fact that in many professions,...

HAVINGNESS

The concept of being able to reach.

HAVINGNESS SCALE

A scale of what a person can do about things — mass, objects, possessions. It starts at the top with being able to...

HCO BULLETIN

The written issue type that carries the technical material — everything to do with auditing and courses. HCO Bulletins...

HCO POLICY LETTER

The written issue type that carries the material on running a group or an organization, as distinct from the material...

HIDDEN STANDARD

An undisclosed opinion, decision or consideration which an individual formed sometime in the past of how things should...

HUBBARD PROFESSIONAL AUDITOR

The name of the Class III auditor course, and the title of someone who has completed it. The course covers the handling...

IMPLANT

A painful and forceful means of overwhelming a being with artificial purposes or false concepts in a malicious attempt...

INCIDENT

An experience, simple or complex, related by the same subject, location, perception or people that takes place in a...

IN-SESSION

Used to describe a pre-clear who, during an auditing session, is willing to talk to the auditor and is interested in...

INTELLIGENCE

The ability to perceive, pose and resolve problems.

INTENSIVE

A specific number of hours of auditing given to a preclear over a short period of time, as a series of successive...

INTENSIVE PROCEDURE

The Standard Operating Procedure of 1954, published in the book The Creation of Human Ability. It is the full set of...

IS-NESS

One of the four conditions of existence. It is an apparency of existence brought about by the continuous alteration of...

ITEM

Anyone of a list of things, people, ideas, significances, purposes etc., given by a preclear to an auditor while...

ITSA

A coined word, taken from the phrase "It is a," meaning a statement which positively identifies something; especially...

KEY-IN

The moment an earlier upset or painful incident has been re-stimulated.

KEYED-OUT

Released or separated from one's Reactive Mind or some portion of it.

KNOWINGNESS

Simply knowing, without having to look anything up or work anything out. It is not information; it is being certain....

LEVEL OF AWARENESS

That of which a being is aware. (This can be established by finding which general condition of existence he is most...

LEVEL VI

The level which a person is trained to solo audit and at which he audits himself to the state of Whole Track Release.

LIFE CONTINUUM

Taking over the life of someone who has failed, gone away or died — and carrying their troubles in your own body while...

LINE CHARGE

A period of sudden laughter, often uncontrollable, that a pre-clear experiences in a session and that results from the...

LISTEN STYLE AUDITING

A method of auditing in which the auditor just listens to the pre-clear talk without evaluating, invalidating or...

LISTING

A special procedure used in some processes where the auditor writes down items said by the preclear in response to a...

LIVING

Having and following a purpose. (Only if an individual has a purpose toward which he works, can he be said to be truly...

LIVINGNESS

Getting on with living — moving along a course you have chosen, driven by a purpose, with somewhere you mean to arrive....

LOCK

A mental image picture of a non-painful but disturbing experience the person has experienced, and which depends for its...

LOCK WORDS

Words that are not in the GPMs, but which are close in meaning to significances that are part of the GPMs. They keep...

MACHINE

An actual machine in the mind, (like ordinary machinery) constructed out of mental mass and energy, that has been made...

MECHANICS

The physical and quantitative structure and operation of things, and the way they inter-act one with another under...

MEMORY

Any facsimiles of consciously perceived data created or not created by the individual, which can be recalled by the...

MENTAL IMAGE PICTURE

A picture the mind keeps of something that happened. It is not flat like a photograph — it has three dimensions,...

MENTAL MASS

Actual mass carried in the pictures the mind holds. It has weight, size and shape, though it is far thinner and lighter...

MEST

The physical universe. A word coined from the initial letters of Matter, Energy, Space and Time, which are the...

MEST UNIVERSE

The physical universe — the universe of matter, energy, space and time. Planets and their rocks and rivers and oceans,...

MIND

A control system between the thetan and the physical universe. The mind is not a brain.

MINUS RANDOMITY

Anything which has too little motion in it for a person's tolerance.

MINUS TONE SCALE

The sub-tones below the Emotional Tone Scale which are so low as to constitute by the individual a no-affinity,...

MISEMOTION

Emotion which is irrational and inappropriate to the present time situation. Mis- emotion is also emotion which has...

MISSED WITHHOLD

An undisclosed contra-survival act which has been re-stimulated by another but not disclosed. This is a withhold which...

MISUNDERSTOOD WORD

A word a person did not understand, or understood wrongly, and went past anyway. It also covers a symbol, an idea or a...

MOCK-UP

A mental model, construction or picture created by a thetan. A mock-up is distinct from a facsimile in that it is...

MODEL SESSION

The same exact pattern and script (patter) with which every auditing session is begun and ended; the overall form of...

MOTIVATOR

The consideration and dramatization that one has been wronged by the action of another or a group, and which is...

MUZZLED AUDITING

The correct way to audit a preclear using only TR 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4 in textbook fashion without any additives such as a...

NATIVE STATE

What a person is when nothing has been added — able to know everything, and not tangled up in space, energy or mass. It...

NECESSITY LEVEL

This is a person's ability to rise above his or her aberrations when his action is required to handle an immediate and...

NEW ERA DIANETICS

The 1978 summary and refinement of Dianetics, built on nearly thirty years of applying the subject. It brought in a...

NO-GAME CONDITION

A condition in which there is no game at all — either everything is barriers or everything is freedom. Having some...

NOT-IS-NESS

The effort to handle Is-ness by reducing its condition through the use of force. It is an apparency and cannot entirely...

NOT-KNOW

Being able to set something aside deliberately — to put it out of mind by choice rather than by pushing it down or...

NULLING

The auditor's action in saying items from a list to a preclear and noting the reaction of the pre-clear's bank by the...

OBJECTIVE PROCESSES

Processes which familiarize a person with the MEST universe.

OBNOSIS

Observation of the obvious. The only way one sees anything is by observing the obvious: one looks at the is-ness of...

OCCLUSION

Any part of a person's memories that is hidden on the time track and is not available to conscious recall except...

OFF-LINE

An adjective which describes a dispatch or communication in any organization or from one organization to another which...

OFF-ORIGIN

An adjective which describes a dispatch or communication in any organization or between organizations which is...

OFF-POLICY

An adjective which describes a dispatch or communication in any organization or from one organization to another which...

ONLY ONE

A person who is playing on his own behalf alone and on no other team. He is out to have no effect on himself and total...

OPENING PROCEDURE BY DUPLICATION

A process in which a person does the same thing over and over with two different objects, usually a book and a bottle....

OPENING PROCEDURE OF 8-C

A process in which the person moves his body around the room under the auditor's direction until he is genuinely in...

OPTIMUM RANDOMITY

From the viewpoint of the individual, something which has in it the right amount of motion or unexpectedness for his...

ORGANIZING BOARD

A chart showing what an organization does, in what order, and who is responsible for each part. Every position on it is...

O.T

(Operating Thetan): A Clear who has been familiarized with his environment to a point of total cause over matter,...

OTHER-DETERMINISM

The condition of having one's actions or conclusions determined by something or someone other than oneself.

OVER-RESTIMULATION

The condition of having in re-stimulation more charge than one can easily handle, accompanied by a feeling or...

OVERT ACT

A harmful act — something done, or deliberately not done, that does the most harm across the areas of life a person is...

OVERT-MOTIVATOR SEQUENCE

The sequence wherein someone who has committed an overt has to claim the existence of motivators. The motivators are...

PAN-DETERMINISM

Broad determinism: The action of determining not only one's own actions, but the actions of others as well, especially...

PARTS OF MAN

The three parts a person divides into: the spirit, which is the person himself and is called the thetan; the mind,...

PERSONAL EFFICIENCY COURSE

An early introductory course, given over five evenings, on which people new to the subject learned the fundamentals....

PLUS-RANDOMITY

From the viewpoint of the individual, something which has in it too much motion or unexpectedness for his tolerance.

POLICY

The rules and administrative formulas and procedures by which individuals in an organization agree on action and...

POSTULATE

(noun) A conclusion, decision or resolution made by the individual himself on his own self-determinism on data of the...

POTENTIAL TROUBLE SOURCE (PTS)

Any person who, while active in Scientology or a pre-clear, remains connected to a Suppressive Person or Group. (A...

POWER PROCESSES

The processes audited only by very highly trained auditors which make Grade V Power Releases.

PRE-CLEAR

This term covers anyone who is not a Clear; however, it is principally used to describe a person who, through...

PREMATURE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Any habit of agree-able noises, nods or acknowledgement made by the listener before the person has finished saying all...

PRESENT TIME

That which is conceived in the here and now and which becomes the past almost as rapidly as it is observed. It is a...

PRESENT TIME PROBLEM

A special problem that exists in the physical universe now, on which the preclear has his or her attention fixed. One...

PROBLEM

Anything which has opposing sides of equal force, especially postulate counter- postulate, intention counter- intention...

PROCEDURE 30

A set of three processing steps introduced in 1954, dealing with duplication, with problems, and with the ability to...

PROCESS

A set of questions asked by an auditor to help a person find out things about his or her life. More fully, a process is...

PROCESSING

That action or actions, governed by the technical disciplines and codes of Scientology, of administering a process to a...

PROFESSIONAL COURSE

A course that trains someone to audit professionally. There have been a good many different Professional Courses over...

PSYCHOSOMATIC ILLNESS

A physical illness caused by the mind. "Psycho" means mind and "somatic" means body, so the word simply says mind-body....

PSYCHOTIC

Term which refers to the condition a person is in who is fighting or is accompanied by invisible or long dead enemies...

PURIFICATION RUNDOWN

A programme of nutrition, sauna and exercise designed to clean drug and chemical residues out of a person's system....

Q AND A

(noun) A failure to complete a cycle of action. (verb) To fail to complete a cycle of action; to deviate from an...

QUAD GRADES

The expansion of the levels from Dianetics to Grade IV Release to address all FOUR of the present day primary flows;...

RANDOMITY

The ratio of unpredicted motion to predicted motion.

RAW PUBLIC

People who have not met Scientology yet. "Raw" here just means untrained and inexperienced in the subject; it is not a...

REACTIVE

Irrational, reacting instead of acting- behavior dictated by the Reactive Mind rather than the individual's own...

REACTIVE MIND

That portion of a person's mind which works on a stimulus-response basis (given a certain stimulus, it gives a certain...

RECALL

Thinking of, remembering, putting your attention on something that happened in the past, all done from PRESENT TIME.

REDUCE

To take all the charge or pain out of an incident.

RELEASE

A person whose Reactive Mind is keyed out and is not influencing him or her on a given topic, or area of case.

REMEDY OF HAVINGNESS

Restoring a person's ability to have things, and equally to let them go. It does not mean filling him up with more; it...

REPEATER TECHNIQUE

(Historical) The repetition of a word or phrase in order to produce movement on the time track into an engram...

RESPONSIBILITY

The concept of being able to care for, to reach or to be; the ability and willingness to be cause. To accept...

RESTIMULATOR

Anything in the individual's surroundings which is sufficiently similar to something in his or her Reactive Mind that...

RIDGE

Solid accumulations of old, inactive energy suspended in space and time. They are generated by opposing energy flows...

ROUTE 1

A set of processes, numbered R1-4 through R1-15, run only with a person who is already outside his body. They are there...

ROUTINE

A standard process, designed to release an in-session pre-clear on the grade to which it applies.

R6EW

Routine 6 End Words: The process used in solo auditing to release oneself from lock end words and thus become a Grade...

SAD EFFECT

A state of great sadness, apathy and misery. The individual sinks into this condition when a heavy ARC break is...

SAINT HILL MANOR

L. Ron Hubbard's home at Saint Hill, near East Grinstead in Sussex, England, where he lived and worked from 1959 to...

SAINT HILL SPECIAL BRIEFING COURSE

The auditor training course on which a person studies the whole development of Dianetics and Scientology in the order...

SANITY

The ability to evaluate similarities and differences.

SCIENTOLOGIST

One who knows he has found the way to a better life through Scientology and who, through Scientology books, tapes,...

SCIENTOLOGY

An applied religious philosophy dealing with the study of knowledge, which, through the application of its technology...

SCIENTOLOGY 8-8008

A formula, and the 1952 book named after it. Written out, it says: reduce the apparent power of the physical universe...

SEA ORGANIZATION

An organization formed in 1967 that operated from a fleet of ships. Its stated purpose was to get ethics in — first on...

SECOND STAGE RELEASE

An obsolete term used to describe someone who had been released by Power Processing. d'.

SECONDARIES

Mental image pictures containing mis-emotion (encysted grief, anger, apathy etc.) and a real or imagined loss. They...

SECURITY CHECKING

Auditing a person on a prepared list of questions about things he may have done and not told anybody. The purpose is to...

SELECTEE

A person specially chosen or selected for training or processing by a Field Staff Member.

SELF-DETERMINISM

Deciding your own actions. It is the state in which a person can be controlled by what is around him or not, according...

SERVICE FACSIMILE

A computation generated by the individual to make self-right and others wrong, to dominate or escape domination and to...

SIGNIFICANCE

A word which is used in the special sense to denote any thought, decision, concept, idea, purpose or meaning in the...

SIX BASIC PROCESSES

Six processes run one after another, from 1954 and 1955, which bring a person up to the point where higher processes...

SIX LEVELS OF PROCESSING

A 1952 arrangement of auditing into six levels, worked through in order: getting the session set up, then location and...

SOLO AUDITING

An auditor who is trained in the ability of auditing by themselves without accompaniment of another in session on upper...

SOMATIC

Physical pain or discomfort of any kind, especially painful or uncomfortable physical perceptions stemming from the...

SONIC

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

SPOTTING SPOTS

A process in which a person picks out a bare location in space — no colour, no mass, no shape, just a place — and then...

SQUIRRELLING

The action of altering Scientology through doingness.

STABLE DATUM

Any part or factor (which itself may or may not be correct or true) in a confusion that an individual selects out as a...

STAFF MEMBER

Anyone employed in an organization, whether an executive or general staff. A staff member holds a named job with duties...

STANDARD DIANETICS

The 1969 standardization of Dianetics auditing, which brought together everything learned since 1950, simplified the...

STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE

The sequence of steps an auditor followed, from 1952 to 1953, to produce a Theta Clear. It came out in several issues...

STANDARD TECH

Standard Technology: The exact processes and auditing actions laid down and used for the invariable resolution of...

STRAIGHTWIRE

Auditing that uses straight memory. The auditor runs a line from now back to the moment something started, directly and...

STUDENT AUDITOR

A student on a course who is auditing as part of that course, working through the auditing his course requires of him....

STUDENT HAT

A course that teaches a person how to study. It covers how to clear a word, how to check somebody out on material, and...

SUPPRESSIVE ACTS

Actions or omissions undertaken knowingly to suppress, reduce or impede others by harming their survival potential.

SUPPRESSIVE PERSON OR GROUP

One or a group of others who actively seeks to suppress or damage others by suppressive anti-social acts. Usually there...

TECHNIQUE 80

A 1952 technique dealing with harmful acts, with the things that then seem to justify them, with being, and with the...

TECHNIQUE 88

A 1952 body of technique covering the handling of a person as a spiritual being rather than as a body. It is not one...

TECHNIQUE 8-80

A specialized branch dealing with the electronics of human thought and being. In the name, the "8-8" is two infinity...

TECHNOLOGY

The methods of application of an art or science as opposed to mere knowledge of the science or art itself.

TERMINAL

Anything that can receive, relay or send a communication (most common usage); also, anything with mass and meaning.

THETA

Energy peculiar to life or a thetan which acts upon material in the physical universe and animates it, mobilizes it and...

THETA BEING

The person himself — the "I" who is looking. A theta being can create energy and impulses, think without needing...

THETA CLEAR

A person who is certain he is himself and not his body, and who habitually operates from outside it. He no longer needs...

THETA CLEARING

The auditing done to produce a Theta Clear. In practice it means bringing a person up to the point where he can leave...

THETA LINE

The complete line of everything the person himself has been through — his own record, as distinct from the body's. The...

THETA UNIVERSE

Thought matter, thought energy, thought space and thought time, combining into a universe of their own alongside the...

THETA-MEST THEORY

The idea, put forward in the autumn of 1950, that life is a no-substance thing set against a physical universe which is...

THETAN

The being, not the body or name, the physical universe, his mind or anything else. That which is aware of being aware,...

THETAN EXTERIOR

A person who is outside his body and knows it, but who is not yet steady out there. If the body were hurt he would be...

THIRD STAGE RELEASE

(obsolete) A term that referred to what is now Grade VA- Power Plus- Release. TIME TRACK (Track): The consecutive...

TIME TRACK

The running record of pictures the mind has kept, laid down one after another through a person's life or lives. It is...

TONE

Any level of survival and state of being plotted on the Tone Scale and Chart of Human Evaluation.

TONE ARM

Meter control lever on a physical E-Meter or virtual e-meter (software) that has dual meanings. It can mean the level...

TONE ARM ACTION (TA)

Movement of the Tone Arm when it has to be moved more than .2 divisions to keep the needle at set (except during...

TONE 40

Intention without reservation or limit.

TONE SCALE

A scale measuring and relating the various factors of behavior, emotion and thought to levels on the scale. (The book,...

TR 0

Training drill which trains students to confront a preclear or other terminals. This drill has three types done in...

TR 1

Training drill which trains students to reach a preclear or other terminals with their communication.

TR 2

Training drill which trains students to listen to and acknowledge the communication of a preclear or other terminals.

TR 3

Training drill which trains students to get a question answered, also to develop the ability to complete communication...

TR 4

Training drill which trains students to confront, understand and handle smoothly the communications of a preclear or...

TRIPLE GRADES

The expansion of the levels from Dianetics to Grade IV Release to address all three of the primary flows; OUTFLOW (self...

TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION

Communication between two people in which each one takes turns, while the other listens attentively, in expressing...

TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION IN AUDITING

The action of asking the preclear questions (not repetitive) that guide the preclear into talking about the difficulty...

UPPER INDOCTRINATION

The training drills numbered 6 to 9, which teach an auditor to get a command carried out and to hold his position while...

VALENCE

The unwitting assumption by one individual of the characteristics of another individual.

VIEWPOINT STRAIGHTWIRE

A form of Straightwire aimed at making a person able to tolerate any viewpoint at all, in any universe. Its formula is...

VISIO

Ability to see in facsimile form something one has seen earlier so that one sees it again in the same color, dimension...

WHAT'S IT

(verb) A coined word, coming from the phrase, "What is it?" It basically means to ask a question. However, it has come...

WHOLE TRACK

The moment to moment record of a thetan's existence in this universe, in picture and impression.

WITHHOLD

An undisclosed contra-survival act. It is a no action after the fact of action, in which the individual has done or...

WORD CLEARING

The procedures used to find and clear up the words a person did not understand in what he has been studying. There are...

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