In 1972, L. Ron Hubbard carried out a sociological study in and around New York City. Through the remainder of the year and into 1973, he researched vitamins and nutrition. The research of which became a significant factor in his breakthroughs handling the residual effects of drugs.
The series recorded in 1972
February 1972
LRH Model Session Demonstrations - Training Regimens (TR's)
10 lectures
Within the archive this series carries a single date code of 26 February 1972, but that date marks a reissue rather than a recording. The collection is the LRH Model Taped Sessions — five actual auditing demonstrations by L. Ron Hubbard, recorded between 1957 and 1962 in Washington, D.C., Melbourne and at Saint Hill Manor in England, and gathered under one cover in 1972 to serve auditors in training as models of session delivery. The early 1970s brought a renewed insistence on flawless TRs and exact session form, and these recordings were returned to service so that a student would not have to imagine what a session conducted from the source sounded like; the tapes supplied it.
The earliest of the five comes from the Freedom Congress of July 1957 in Washington, D.C. — the same congress at which the training drills themselves were demonstrated to the assembled auditors. In it Hubbard demonstrates Steps 1 through 4 of the CCHs, the control-communication-havingness processes in which the auditor's intention and physical precision, rather than verbal cleverness, bring the preclear into present time. Two years later, on 9 November 1959 at the opening of the First Melbourne Advanced Clinical Course, he recorded the Demonstration of an Assist, showing the direct, unhurried handling by which an auditor addresses injury or upset with simple commands and exact duplication.
The remaining three sessions are closed-circuit television demonstrations from the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course, recorded in May 1962, when Hubbard regularly audited before his students at Saint Hill Manor in Sussex. Patching Up 3D Criss Cross Cases, of 16 May 1962, shows him repairing preclears whose listing on Routine 3D Criss Cross had gone astray. From 23 May 1962 come two companion pieces: Check on "What" Questions and Havingness Probe, a working display of Prepchecking craft in which a What question is verified and the preclear's correct havingness process is hunted down, and Fish and Fumble — Checking Dirty Needles, in which he traces a dirty needle on the E-Meter back to its source and cleans it.
The procedures on these tapes belong to several distinct stages of technical development, and that is not why they were compiled. What the five sessions hold in common is the auditor. Across them a listener hears the training regimens — the TRs — doing the work they were designed for: confront that does not flinch, commands delivered with intention, acknowledgments that genuinely end cycles of communication, originations and upsets handled without breaking ARC, and easy, certain control of a session from beginning to end. Heard this way, the set is less a survey of earlier processes than a sustained demonstration of TRs 0 to 4 and model session conduct in their natural setting, with real preclears in real sessions rather than drilling-room practice.
Each demonstration is preserved in two parts, following the sides of the original tapes, giving the ten recordings of this series. They occupy a particular place in the chronology: captured across the span from the Washington congresses through the first years of the Briefing Course, and reissued in 1972, when the standards of auditor training they embody were being reasserted across the field.
March–April 1972
The Expanded Dianetics Lectures of 1972
4 lectures
At the end of March 1972, aboard the Sea Organization flagship Apollo, L. Ron Hubbard delivered the first of four lectures introducing a new branch of auditing technology: Expanded Dianetics. The opening lecture, Expanded Dianetics, was given on 30 March 1972; the remaining three — Expanded Dianetics and Word Clearing, Auditor Administration, and Illness Breakthrough — followed together on 7 April. Spoken to the auditors and technical personnel then training in the subject, and arriving alongside the HCO Bulletin of 31 March 1972 that opened the written Expanded Dianetics Series, these talks constitute the founder's own briefing on the subject at the moment of its release.
The occasion was rooted in the daily technical life of the ship. The Apollo had by then served for several years as Hubbard's research base and the home of Flag's most advanced auditing and training, and when the results being obtained in Dianetic auditing aboard fell short of what he considered attainable, he took up the question of whether Dianetics — by then regarded as the dependable, broadly applied lower-level technology, in contrast to the precision procedures of the upper classes — could be adapted to resolve the particular case conditions that resisted general handling. The answer was Expanded Dianetics: not a replacement for Standard Dianetics but an extension of it, applying Dianetic procedure in special ways for specific purposes, tailored to the individual preclear rather than run in a uniform fashion. The new subject was positioned on the Classification and Gradation Chart just above Class IV, its practitioners designated Class IVA, and its programs were addressed directly against the preclear's Oxford Capacity Analysis graph and the Chart of Human Evaluation from Science of Survival.
The four lectures map the territory the new technology was built to handle. The opening lecture sets out Expanded Dianetics itself — its rationale, its scope, and its difference from the standard application of R3R. Expanded Dianetics and Word Clearing ties the new procedures to the research line on the misunderstood word that Hubbard had been developing through 1971 and 1972, examining how undetected misunderstoods can stall case progress and how Word Clearing serves the Expanded Dianetics auditor. Auditor Administration takes up the unglamorous but decisive matter of session administration — worksheets, folders, and reports — as the backbone on which a case supervisor's ability to program a difficult case depends. Illness Breakthrough addresses the anatomy of psychosomatic illness and the mechanisms by which engramic material holds chronic physical conditions in place, the line of research from which the subject drew much of its force.
Expanded Dianetics was aimed at the hard cases: preclears burdened with chronic psychosomatic conditions, those suppressed or PTS, and those whose progress was blocked by held-down evil purposes and destructive intentions. In the weeks following these lectures the written series grew rapidly — Suppressed PCs and PTS Tech on 20 April 1972, PTS Interviews on 24 April, and a sequence of case histories drawn from actual folders later that year — while Hubbard personally case-supervised the first Expanded Dianetics deliveries aboard the ship through the spring of 1972. That period of direct, hands-on case supervision by the founder makes these lectures unusual: they belong not to a course delivered at arm's length but to a technology being proven on live cases under his own direction.
Originally issued as confidential Sea Organization lectures, the four talks have circulated far less widely than Hubbard's major public courses, and they document a juncture in the chronology that the formal course materials alone do not capture — the moment between Standard Dianetics of 1969 and New Era Dianetics of 1978 when Hubbard returned Dianetics to the research bench and sharpened it against the cases that had defied it. The listener encounters Hubbard as researcher and case supervisor at once: assessing what his auditors were producing, isolating why certain cases did not move, and laying out, in his own voice, the handling that became Expanded Dianetics.
1972
The Establishment Officer Series of Lectures
1 lecture
In the first week of March 1972, L. Ron Hubbard delivered a concentrated series of twelve lectures aboard the flagship Apollo, then serving as Flag, the Sea Organization's senior training and management base. Given on six consecutive days, the 1st through the 6th of March, with each day's briefing recorded in two parts, the lectures were addressed to the Sea Org members then in training as the first Establishment Officers. Designated ESTO-1 through ESTO-12, the recordings were held for years as Sea Organization course materials, studied alongside the Establishment Officer Series of policy letters that Hubbard began issuing that same week, beginning with "The Establishment Officer" of 7 March 1972.
The series belongs to the high period of Hubbard's administrative research aboard the Apollo. The seven-division org board, the Organization Executive Course policy, and the Data Series were already in place, and the Flag Executive Briefing Course, delivered aboard the same vessel in 1970 and 1971, had trained executives from orgs around the world in the product officer and org officer system. Yet a stubborn pattern persisted: organizations would be built up, boom, and then quietly come apart. In the opening lecture Hubbard traces the problem all the way back to the first Dianetics Foundations of 1950, where his own withdrawal from the lines was followed by prompt collapse, and surveys twenty-two years of organizational booms and depressions. His finding is that establishment itself, the posted, hatted, trained being on a functioning line in a held form of organization, is the unrecognized key to an org's prosperity and longevity, and that the constant ebb and flow of personnel in a restless society is the primary disestablishing factor an organization faces.
The answer presented across these lectures is the Establishment Officer, the Esto, a being whose entire hat is to establish and maintain the establishment of an organization: procuring and posting personnel, hatting and training them, getting in lines, spaces, and materiel, and keeping all of it there, so that executives can remain on production without the org dissolving beneath them. Hubbard remarks that the post might better be called the Establishing Officer, since in a quicksilver society the work of establishing is never finished, and he lays out the handling of instant, medium, and long-range establishing targets as the Esto's constant juggling act. The fifth day's lectures, "Revision of the Product-Org Officer System," directly recalibrate the system taught on the Flag Executive Briefing Course in light of a year's experience, placing the Esto network alongside the product and org officers as a parallel echelon dedicated wholly to establishment.
Across the six days a listener encounters the full anatomy of the new system. "ESTO's Instant Hat" gives the immediate knowingness an Establishment Officer must have on assuming post. "Evaluation and Handling of Personnel" and "Handling Personnel" take up the actual beings who make up an org: how to assess them, post them, and bring them to competence rather than shuffle them. "Hold the Form of the Org" addresses why organizations lose their shape and what keeps an org board real rather than nominal. The closing pair, "F/Ning Staff Members," carries the standards of the auditing room onto the third dynamic, with the ideal of every staff member at cause and at a floating needle on post, and hatting, word clearing, and the handling of dev-t traced to unhattedness as the means of getting there. Threaded through it all are concepts that became fixtures of the Establishment Officer Series, among them the positive postulate as the proper basis of an executive's orders.
These are working briefings rather than formal public lectures, delivered with the directness of shipboard instruction to people about to take up the post, rich in anecdote and in the hard-won data of two decades of running organizations. Together with the Esto Series policy letters they form the foundation of the Establishment Officer system, the bridge Hubbard built in 1972 between the technology of auditing and the technology of organization, and they remain the core study of any Establishment Officer Course.
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