6401C07 SHSpec-2 Good Indicators

     [Some of the material in this tape is also contained in HCOB 28Dec63
"Routine VI Indicators -- Part One:  Good Indicators".]

     The good indicators listed in HCOB 28Dec63 don't all apply to all
sessions, but most do.  They don't just apply to R6 sessions.  [For definition
of R6, see p. 568, above.] If you learn what good indicators are, you can spot
bad indicators.

     An auditor tends to look for wrongnesses.  That is the nature of
scientology.  Because if there weren't something wrong with Man, he wouldn't
be here.  Unlike other "-ologies", we see an individual as basically good,
able, and powerful.  This is the reverse of most people's approach, so the way
have to improve Man is also different.  We have tremendous evidence that our
concept is true and that the opposite one is erroneous.  For instance, we
found that children's I.Q.'s drop more and more, the longer they spend in
school, because the longer they stay there, the more false stable data get
shoved down their throats.

     Truth is demonstrated by workability, though some dispute a truth because
its workability challenges their favorite theories.  All present sciences have
built up to their current state on the basis of workability.  The idea of
deleting something in order to bring about a recovery from a bad condition is
not new with us, but the simplicity of asking someone for solutions that he
has had to the condition is a new departure.  You can ask what solutions and
decisions a person has had, relative to his lumbosis, and get a recovery, from
deletion of additives.  This is all part of the idea that adding something to
a being makes him feel worse.  Take a being who is feeling blah:  When we put
in mid-ruds, we are subtracting actions.  We are subtracting the livingness of
some period, and he will feel better.  LRH has made a more extreme test of
this theory.  He subtracted an insane being's body from him, by exteriorizing
him.  When exteriorized, the being was immediately sane.  Back in his body, he
was insane again.  This is not therapeutic.  It is just an experimental
technique.

     The good things of life are havingness at one's own choice.  The
individual's power of choice is the only thing he had to begin with, which
gave him power, capability, etc.  That power of choice has been consistently
and continually overthrown by giving him things he didn't want and taking away
from him things that he did want.

     Someone who solves something and fixes the solution instead of just
confronting the thing is putting himself down in power.  In scientology, the
only right we have to educate anyone is that we are teaching things that are
as close to fact as they can be made.  And the technology of how it is put
together is so close to how it is put together that it runs itself out.  This
is the reason why scientology education doesn't have to usual bad effects of
education.  Scientology education runs itself out because it is so close to
the truth.  Whenever you have a solution to a problem, it gets stuck, except
in the case of scientology.  Scientology is the only solution in the universe
that erases itself.  You can do almost anything with scientology because of
this.  When scientology solves something, "it solves what has solved it."  Its
truths are shown to you so that you can reach other truths.  The data of
scientology is so minor, so sweet, and so pure, compared to all the other
types of solutions -- GPM's, RI's, service facs, electric shock treatment,
etc. -- that we don't come under the heading of adding aberrative data to the
individual as a solution to his difficulties.  Even if scientology data sits
there for awhile on top of some aberration, it will eventually reach through
the thing on which it is sitting, uproot it, and the truth of the data will
cause it to blow (as-is) along with what it "solved".  You are all sitting in
some RI [that could behave in this way].  An individual becomes aberrated by
additives.  His experiences in this universe are calculated to degrade and
depower him.  All you have to do is to pick up, to as-is, the mess, and you
will return him to power.  If you handle his school "education", for example,
his I.Q. will rise.

     The data of scientology "is a restimulation of more basic and fundamental
truths, which, restimulated, tend to blow later data." Some people can just
study scientology and leap out of bed, well.  This adds up to the fact that
Man, to date, is an added-to being.  Everything that has been added to him has
decreased his ability to cope.  We have gotten him dependent on tools and that
sort of thing.  The more you give a person to work with, e.g. the more
machines, etc., he is supposed to work with, the less he works.  His ability
to work is reduced by these additives.  Primitive cultures, with minimal
tools, work long and thoroughly to create aesthetic elements as part of
ordinary workaday objects.  Someone with lots of tools doesn't get much done.
For instance, the Esquimo, with very simple tools, elaborately decorates his
spear, whereas the person with drill presses, lathes, etc., says, "I can't do
this thing, because I have to have that other thing first." There's a
relationship between having to have and getting things done.  The more you
have, the less you tend to get done.  "Have to have" becomes "never do".  The
fellow who has to have and have in order to get anything done does very
little.  The Chinese carpenter, working with hand-made fish bone dowels and a
bow-drill, didn't have to have anything elaborate to drill a hole, etc.  Yet
he was able to get more done, by a good deal, than his western counterpart
with his elaborate tools.  You could have added to the universe of this
Chinese carpenter the postulate that "You can't do without certain tools,"
(Think about that wording:), to the point where he could no longer do.  That
is an aberrative side to some thetans' bent for collecting havingness, e.g.
LRH and his cameras.  In collecting cameras, he has paid less attention to any
one of them, so now he gets fewer pictures with more cameras.  There can be a
minimum amount of equipment needed to get a job done.  But an overwhelmed
being has to have and can't do.  The more you add to the workman, the less he
can accomplish.

     "Because we are in the business of deleting wrongnesses from the
individual, we seldom look at rightnesses.  That is what is wrong with most
auditors." The recognition of the fact that a truth is present to be amplified
or increased is a vital part of auditing.  If you don't notice the rightnesses
present, you don't see the truth present, that can then be used to promote
more truth.  So nothing gets done.  If you only recognize wrongnesses, you
won't be able to pull anything up a gradient, because you won't think that you
have any rightnesses to work with.  Our only purpose in finding wrongnesses is
to increase rightnesses.  You have to look at wrongnesses to remedy them, but
you have to look at rightnesses to increase them.  Progress is built on a
gradient scale of rightnesses by which you delete wrongnesses, and they drop
away." Processing is an action by which wrongnesses can be deleted from the
case to the degree that rightness is present in the session." You cannot take
a case that has no rightnesses present and delete any wrongnesses.  Auditing
is the process of maintaining rightness so that you can delete wrongness.  You
are trying to get a right being.  If you don't continuously encourage right
beingness, you will never get a right being.  To correct a wrongness, you have
to have at least as much rightness present.  If rightness and wrongness are
equally balanced, it is a dangerous situation.  You are better off if the
rightnesses far outweigh the wrongnesses.  This will give you an easier job of
auditing.  The PC's ability to as-is is a rightness of varying magnitude.  A
PC who is pretty overwhelmed can't handle or as-is a large wrongness.  If you
delete good indicators from the session, the PC won't be able to as-is
anything.

     "A PC's ability to as-is or erase in a session is directly proportional
to the number of good indicators present in the session, ... and his inability
to cope in the session rises proportionally to the number of bad indicators in
the session."  If the good indicators have dropped out of the session, the
PC's ability to handle wrongnesses is much less.  You have got to get GI's
back in before you can expect the PC to handle what you want him to handle.
You have to retrograde the process to match the state of the PC, if he becomes
BI's.  For instance, you may have to run the PC on a touch assist or
havingness.

     You must watch, and if a good indicator goes out, you look for the bad
indicator (if you are slow), find out what happened, and correct it.  Bad
indicators don't necessarily appear when good indicators disappear.  They are
separate breeds of cat.  The auditor must always find out what is wrong, in a
session, before the PC finds out.  That is how you maintain altitude.  To
maintain optimal altitude, handle the scene when the good indicator goes out,
but before the bad indicator comes in.  Spotting the absence of a good
indicator and remedying the situation with a remedy of appropriate magnitude
will avoid the expense of auditing time on expensive repairs.  A light
indicator means that you should be alert; a medium indicator requires
correction; a heavy indicator means, "Emergency!" Any process has its own
series of bad indicators.  Bad indicators come in when good indicators go
out.  Don't spend your time looking for bad indicators.  Just know the good
indicators so well that when one of them goes out, climb on and handle.  Be
alert.  But don't always be looking for wrongnesses.

                 Good Indicators in Routine 6 and Lower Levels

1.  PC cheerful.  In R6, no misemotion is allowable.  At lower levels, for
    instance, the good indicator would be the PC getting more cheerful.  In
    R3R, misemotion should be diminishing.  But at Level VI, the PC should be
    running like a grinning idiot.

2.  PC cogniting.  This should happen sometimes on any level.  Lack of
    cognition indicates that the PC has a PTP or an ARC break, or that he is
    running at a level above his reality.  At lower levels, the good indicator
    would be the PC cogniting.  At Level VI, the PC should be cogniting on
    RI's and goals.

3.  PC's items found are the ones that the PC thought they were.  At lower
    levels, it often turns out that what the PC thought was wrong is what was
    wrong.  The PC's fundamental rightnesses assert themselves.

4.  At Level VI: PC listing items briefly and accurately.  At lower levels,
    the good indicator is giving things to the auditor briefly and
    accurately.  The PC is finding things accurately and speedily.

5.  A properly-reading meter.  At Level VI, items found are not
    rocket-reading.  At lower levels, things found give the proper meter
    responses.

6.  At Level VI: short item lists.  At lower levels, it doesn't take a long
    time to get things done.

7.  Items found without a lot of wrassle.  At lower level, this translates as
    being able to get data from the PC without a big hassle.

8.  TA continuing in motion; TA not stuck.  This good indicator can be
    overridden by the good indicator of the PC easily and rapidly flattening
    processes.

9.  Active needle.  The needle is fluid or fluent, moving, not stuck.  A Mark
    V meter can be set at too high a sensitivity, giving the appearance of a
    more fluid-looking needle than you really have.  It moves around.  On the
    other hand, you may need high sensitivity for pulling withholds, etc.,
    where it doesn't matter if you clean a clean once in awhile.  On the other
    hand, if you leave the withhold, by using too low a sensitivity, you have
    had it.  For R6, sensitivity 8 is maximum for listing and 16 for
    mid-ruds.  You can have TA action with a gummy needle.  Watch for that.
    This is still a missing GI.  The needle should be swinging cleanly.

10. PC not being troubled by pains and somatics when answering auditing
    questions.  Or, any somatic the PC runs into discharges very rapidly.  A
    somatic that stays there and gets heavier is a bad indicator.  You want
    change somatics.

11. TA goes down when PC cognites.  You should get a further blowdown of the
    TA when the PC talks about something.

12. PC gets warm and stays warm in auditing or gets hot and unheats in
    auditing.  The PC doesn't get chilled.  Getting chilled is a BI.

13. PC's somatics turn on occasionally.  This is a GI at lower levels.  It is
    a BI in R6.

14. TA range 2.5 to 3.75.  TA range 2.25 to 3.0 is excellent.  This applies at
    any level.

15. Good TA action on spotting things.  The expected TA action for any level
    is the best indicator.

16. Getting reads on what you and the PC think is wrong.

17. PC has no PTP.  This is a good indicator, unless the PC is in total
    propitiation.  The bad indicator would be the PC's developing PTP's about
    the session, in session.

18. PC satisfied after auditing and staying certain of the auditing solution.

19. PC not critical or ARC breaky -- always GI's.

20. PC happy and satisfied with the auditor, regardless of what the auditor is
    doing.

21. PC looking younger by reason of auditing.  This is not common, but it is a
    good indicator.

22. PC without weariness.

23. PC without aches, pains, or illnesses developed in auditing.

24. PC wanting more auditing.

25. PC confident and getting more confident.

26. PC's itsa free, but only extensive enough to cover the subject under
    discussion.  If the PC's itsa is too extensive, he is trying to stop the
    auditor from auditing.  The PC should itsa, but not too much.

27. Auditor understanding why it is the way it is when the PC explains it, or
    how it was the way it was.  The PC is saying things that make sense.  The
    auditor should be able to understand the PC.

[28.  PC there under his own volition. (Taken from next tape)]

If all these good indicators are present, you know that you are doing a good
job.

