GRADIENT
From the AOGP Abridged Scientology Dictionary — based on original LRH source materials, updated through 1982.
Usage
In Scientology training, a student learns complex subjects by taking them on a gradient — step by step, with each level easily surmountable before moving to the next. The same principle applies in processing, where a preclear is guided through gradual steps toward higher states of being.
Why It Matters
The gradient principle makes it possible to achieve difficult or complex results by breaking them into manageable steps. Violating the gradient — attempting something too advanced too soon — is a recognized barrier to learning and progress in both training and auditing.
Related Concepts
- SCIENTOLOGY — An applied religious philosophy dealing with the study of knowledge, which, through the application of its technology can bring about desirable changes in the conditions of life.
- PROCESSING — That action or actions, governed by the technical disciplines and codes of Scientology, of administering a process to a preclear in order to release or free him or her.
- PROCESS — A set of questions asked by an auditor to help a person find out things about his or her life.
- ALLY — A person who sympathized with or appeared to aid the survival of an individual when he or she was ill, injured or unconscious, and whom the individual now reactively regards as necessary to his or her continued…
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