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      HCO BULLETIN OF 1 OCTOBER 1963



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             SCIENTOLOGY ALL



       HOW TO GET TONE ARM ACTION





The most vital necessity of auditing at any level of Scientology 

is to get tone arm action. Not to worry the pc about it but just 

to get TA action. Not to find something that will get future TA. 

But just to get TA NOW.



Many auditors are still measuring their successes by things found 

or accomplished in the session. Though this is important too 

(mainly at Level IV), it is secondary to tone arm action.



1. Get good tone arm action.



2. Get things done in the session to increase tone arm action.



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         NEW DATA ON THE E-METER



The most elementary error in trying to get tone arm action is, of 

course, found under the fundamentals of auditing -- reading an E-

Meter.



This point is so easily skipped over and seems so obvious that 

auditors routinely miss it. Until they understand this one point, 

an auditor will continue to get minimal TA and be content with 15 

divisions down per session -- which in my book isn't TA but a 

meter stuck most of the session.



There is something to know about meter reading and getting TA. 

Until this is known, nothing else can be known.



          TONE ARM ASSESSMENT



The tone arm provides assessment actions. Like the needle reacts 

on list items, so does the tone arm react on things that will 

give TA.



You don't usually needle assess in doing Levels I, II and III. 

You tone arm assess.



The rule is, THAT WHICH MOVES THE TONE ARM DOWN WILL GIVE TONE 

ARM ACTION.



Conversely, another rule: THAT WHICH MOVES ONLY THE NEEDLE SELDOM 

GIVES GOOD TA.



So for Levels I, II and III (and not Level IV) you can actually 

paste a paper over the needle dial, leaving only the bottom of 

the needle shaft visible so the TA can be set by it and do all 

assessments needed with the tone arm. If the TA moves on a 

subject then that subject will produce TA if the pc is permitted 

to talk about it (itsa it).



Almost all auditors, when the itsa line first came out, tried 

only to find FUTURE TA ACTION and never took any PRESENT TA 

ACTION. The result was continuous listing of problems and needle 

nulling in an endless search to find something that "would 

produce TA action." They looked frantically all around to find 

some subject that would produce TA action and never looked at the 

tone arm of their meter or tried to find what was moving it NOW.



This seems almost a foolish thing to stress -- that what is 

producing TA will produce TA. But it is the first lesson to 

learn. And it takes a lot of learning.



Auditors also went frantic trying to understand what an ITSA LINE 

was. They thought it was a comm line. Or part of the CCHs or 

almost anything but what it is. It is too simple.



There are two things of great importance in an auditing cycle. 

One is the whatsit, the other is the itsa. Confuse them and you 

get no TA.



If the auditor puts in the itsa and the preclear the whatsit, the 

result is no TA. The auditor puts in the whatsit and the pc the 

itsa, always. It is so easy to reverse the role in auditing that 

most auditors do it at first. The preclear is very willing to 

talk about his difficulties, problems and confusions. The auditor 

is so willing to itsa (discover) what is troubling the preclear 

that an auditor, green in this, will then work, work, work to try 

to itsa something "that will give the pc TA," that he causes the 

pc to "Whatsit whatsit whatsit that's wrong with me." Listing is 

not really good itsaing; it's whatsiting as the pc is in the mood 

"Is it this? Is it that?" even when "solutions" are being listed 

for assessment. The result is poor TA.



TA comes from the pc saying, "it IS" not "Is it?"



Examples of whatsit and itsa: Auditor: "What's here?" (whatsit) 

Pc: "An auditor, a preclear, a meter." (itsa)



Itsa really isn't even a comm line. It's what travels on a comm 

line from the pc to the auditor, if that which travels is saying 

with certainty "It IS."



I can sit down with a pc and meter, put in about three minutes 

"assessing" by tone arm action and using only R1C get 35 

divisions of TA in 2 1/2hours with no more work than writing down 

TA reads and my auditor's report. Why? Because the pc is not 

being stopped from itsaing and because I don't lead the pc into 

whatsiting. And also because I don't think auditing is 

complicated.



Tone arm action has to have been prevented if it didn't occur. 

Example: An auditor, noting a whatsit moved the TA, every time, 

promptly changed the whatsit to a different whatsit. Actually 

happened. Yet in being asked what he was doing in session said: 

"I ask the pc for a problem he has had and every time he comes up 

with one I ask for solutions to it." He didn't add that he 

frantically changed the whatsit each time the TA started to move. 

Result -- 9 divisions of TA in 2 1/2 hours, pc laden with bypassed 

charge. If he had only done what he said he had he would have had 

TA.



If it didn't occur, tone arm action has to have been prevented! 

It doesn't just "not occur."



In confirmation of auditors being too anxious to get in the itsa 

line themselves and not let the pc is the fad of using the meter 

as a Ouija board. The auditor asks it questions continually and 

never asks the pc. Up the spout go divisions of TA. "Is this item 

a terminal?" the auditor asks the meter. Why not ask the pc? If 

you ask the pc, you get an itsa, "No, I think it's an oppterm 

because ..." and the TA moves.



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Now to give you some idea of how crazy simple it is to get in an 

itsa line on the pc, try this:



Start the session and just sit back and look at the pc. Don't say 

anything. Just sit there looking at the pc. The pc will of course 

start talking. And if you just nod now and then and keep your 

auditor's report going unobtrusively so as not to cut the itsa, 

you'll have a talking pc and most of the time good TA. At the end 

of 2 1/2 hours, end the session. Add up the TA you've gotten and 

you will usually find that it was far more than in previous 

sessions.



TA action, if absent, had to be prevented! It doesn't just fail 

to occur.



But this is not just a stunt. It is a vital and valuable rule in 

getting TA.



RULE: A SILENT AUDITOR INVITES ITSA.



This is not all good, however. In doing R4 work or R3R or R4N the 

silent auditor lets the pc itsa all over the whole track and 

causes overrestimulation which locks up the TA. But in lower 

levels of auditing, inviting an itsa with silence is an ordinary 

action.



In Scientology Levels I, II and III the auditor is usually silent 

much longer, proportionally, in the session, than he or she is 

talking -- about 100 of silence to I of talking. As soon as you 

get into Level IV auditing, however, on the pc's actual GPMs, the 

auditor has to be crisp and busy to get TA, and a silent, idle 

auditor can mess up the pc and get very little TA. This is all 

under "controlling the pc's attention." Each level of auditing 

controls the pc's attention a little more than the last and the 

leap from Level III to IV is huge.



Level I hardly controls at all. The rule above about the silent 

auditor is employed to the full.



Level II takes the pc's life-and-livingness goals (or session 

goals) for the pc to itsa and lets the pc roll, the auditor 

intruding only to keep the pc giving solutions, attempts, dones, 

decisions about his life and livingness or session goals rather 

than difficulties, problems and natter about them.



Level III adds the rapid search (by TA assessment) for the 

service facsimile (maybe 20 minutes out of 2 1/2hours) and then 

guides the preclear into it with R3SC processes. The rule here is 

that if the thing found that moved the TA wouldn't make others 

wrong but would make the pc wrong, then it is an oppterm lock and 

one prepchecks it. (The two top RIs of the pc's PT GPM is the 

service facsimile. One is a terminal, the pc's, and the other is 

an oppterm. They each have thousands of lock RIs. Any pair of 

lock RIs counts as a service facsimile, giving TA.) A good slow 

Prepcheck but still a Prepcheck. Whether running Right-Wrong-

Dominate-Survive R3SC or Prepchecking (the only 2 processes 

used), one lets the pc really answer before acking. One question 

may get 50 answers! Which is, I whatsit from the auditor gets 50 

itsas from the pc.



Level IV auditing finds the auditor smoothly letting the pc itsa 

RIs and lists but the auditor going at it like a small steam 

engine finding RIs, RIs, RIs, goals, RIs, RIs, RIs. For the total 

TA in an R4 session only is proportional to the number of RIs 

found without goofs, wrong goals or other errors which rob TA 

action.



So the higher the level the more control of the pc's attention. 

But in the lower levels, as you go back down, the processes used 

require less and less control, less auditor action to get TA. The 

level is designed to give TA at that level of control. And if the 

auditor actions get busier than called for in the lower levels, 

the TA is cut down per session.



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           OVERRESTIMULATION



As will be found in another HCO Bulletin and in the lectures of 

summer and autumn of 1963, the thing that seizes a TA up is 

overrestimulation.



THE RULE IS, THE LESS ACTIVE THE TA THE MORE OVERRESTIMULATION IS 

PRESENT. (THOUGH RESTIMULATION CAN ALSO BE ABSENT.)



Therefore, an auditor auditing a pc whose TA action is low (below 

20 TA divisions down for a 2 1/2-hour session) must be careful 

not to overrestimulate the pc (or to gently restimulate the pc). 

This is true of all levels. At Level IV this becomes: don't find 

that next goal, bleed the GPM you're working of all possible 

charge. And at Level III this becomes: don't find too many new 

service facs before you've bled the TA out of what you already 

have. And at Level II this becomes: don't fool about with a new 

illness until the pc feels the lumbosis you started on is handled 

utterly. And at Level I this becomes: "Let the pc do the 

talking."



Overrestimulation is the auditor's most serious problem.



Underrestimulation is just an auditor not putting the pc's 

attention on anything.



The sources of restimulation are:



1. Life-and-livingness environment. This is the workaday world of 

the pc. The auditor handles this with itsa or "Since big mid 

ruds" and even by regulating or changing some of the pc's life by 

just telling the pc to not do this or that during an intensive or 

even making the pc change residence for a while if that's a 

source. This is subdivided into past and present.



2. The session and its environment. This is handled by itsaing 

the subject of session environments and other ways. This is 

subdivided into past and present.



3. The subject matter of Scientology. This is done by assessing 

(by TA motion) the old Scientology List One and then itsaing or 

prepchecking what's found.



4. The auditor. This is handled by What would you be willing to 

tell me, Who would you be willing to talk to. And other such 

things for the pc to itsa. This is subdivided into past and 

present.



5. This lifetime. This is handled by slow assessments and lots of 

itsa on what's found whenever it is found to be moving the TA 

during slow assessment. (You don't null a list or claw through 

ten hours of listing and nulling to find something to itsa at 

Levels I to III. You see what moves the TA and bleed it of itsa 

right now.)



6. Pc's case. In Levels I to III this is only indirectly attacked 

as above.



And in addition to the actions above, you can handle each one of 

these or what's found with a slow Prepcheck.



           LIST FOR ASSESSMENT



Assess for TA motion the following list:



  The surroundings in which you live



  The surroundings you used to live in



  Our surroundings here



  Past surroundings for auditing or treatment



  Things connected with Scientology (Scientology List One)



  Myself as your auditor



  Past auditors or practitioners



  Your personal history in this lifetime



  Goals you have set for yourself



  Your case.



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At Level II one gets the pc to simply set life-and-livingness 

goals and goals for the session, or takes up these on old report 

forms and gets the decisions, actions, considerations, etc., on 

them as the itsa, cleaning each one fairly well of TA. One 

usually takes the goal the pc seems most interested in (or has 

gone into apathy about) as it will be found to produce the most 

TA.



Whatever you assess by tone arm, once you have it, get the TA out 

of it before you drop it. And don't cut the itsa.



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         MEASURE OF AUDITORS



The skill of an auditor is directly measured by the amount of TA 

he or she can get. Pcs are not more difficult one than another. 

Any pc can be made to produce TA. But some auditors cut TA more 

than others.



Also, in passing, an auditor can't falsify TA. It's written all 

over the pc after a session. Lots of TA = bright pc. Small TA = 

dull pc.



And body motion doesn't count. Extreme body motion on some pcs 

can produce a division of TA! Some pcs try to squirm their way to 

Clear! A good way to cure a TA-conscious body-moving pc is to 

say, "I can't record TA caused while you're moving."



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As you may suspect, the pc's case doesn't do a great deal until 

run on R4 processes. But destimulation of the case can produce 

some astonishing changes in beingness. Key-out is the principal 

function of Levels I to III. But charge off a case is charge off. 

Unless destimulated, a case can't get a rocket read or present 

the auditor with a valid goal. Levels I to III produce a Book One 

Clear. Level R4 produces an OT. But case conditioning (clearing) 

is necessary before R4 can be run. And an auditor who can't 

handle Levels I to III surely won't be able to handle the one-man 

band processes at Level IV. So get good on Levels I to III before 

you even study IV.



       THE FIRST THING TO LEARN



By slow assessment is meant letting the pc itsa while assessing. 

This consists of rapid auditor action, very crisp, to get 

something that moves the TA and then immediate shift into letting 

the pc itsa during which be quiet! The slowness is overall 

action. It takes hours and hours to do an old preclear assessment 

form this way but the TA flies.



The actual auditing in Level III looks like this -- auditor going 

like mad over a list or form with an eye cocked on the TA. The 

first movement of the TA (not caused by body motion) the auditor 

goes a tiny bit further if that and then sits back and just looks 

at the pc. The pc comes out of it, sees the auditor waiting and 

starts talking. The auditor unobtrusively records the TA, 

sometimes nods. TA action dies down in a couple minutes or an 

hour. As soon as the TA looks like it hasn't got much more action 

in it, the auditor sits up, lets the pc finish what he or she was 

saying and then gets busy busy again. But no action taken by the 

auditor cuts into the TA action. In Levels I to III no assessment 

list is continued beyond seeing a TA move until that TA motion is 

handled.



In doing a Scientology List One assessment one goes down the list 

until the TA moves (not because of body motion). Then, because a 

TA is not very pinpointed, the auditor covers the one or two 

above where he first saw TA and, watching the pc for interest and 

the TA, circles around that area until he is sure he has what 

made the TA move and then bleeds that for TA by itsa or 

Prepcheck.



Yes, you say, but doesn't the auditor do TRs on the pc? One 

question -- one answer ratio? NO!



Let the pc finish what the pc was saying. And let the pc be 

satisfied the pc has said it without a lot of chatter about it.



TA NOT MOVING SIGNALS AUDITOR TO ACT.



TA MOVING SIGNALS AUDITOR NOT TO ACT.



Only the auditor can kill the TA motion. So when the TA starts to 

move, stop acting and start listening. When the TA stops moving 

or seems about to, stop listening and start acting again.



Only act when the TA is relatively motionless. And then act just 

enough to start it again.



Now, if you can learn just this, as given here, to act when 

there's no TA and not act when there is TA, you can make your own 

start on getting good TA on your preclear.



With this you buy leisure to look over what's happening. With 

half a hundred rules and your own confusion to worry about also, 

you'll never get a beginning. So, to begin to get TA on your pc, 

first learn the trick of silent invitation. Just start the 

session and sit there expectantly. You'll get some TA.



When you've mastered this (and what a fight it is not to act, 

act, act and talk ten times as hard as the pc), then move to the 

next step.



Cover the primary sources of overrestimulation listed above by 

asking for solutions to them.



Learn to spot TA action when it occurs and note what the pc was 

saying just then. Coordinate these two facts -- pc talking about 

something and TA moving. That's assessment Levels I to III. Just 

that. You see the TA move and relate it to what the pc is saying 

just that moment. Now you know that if the pc talks about "Bugs" 

he gets TA action. Note that down on your report. BUT don't 

otherwise call it to pc's attention as pc is already getting TA 

on another subject. This pc also gets TA on bugs. Store up 5 or 

10 of these odd bits, without doing anything to the pc but 

letting him talk about things.



Now, a few sessions later, the pc will have told all concerning 

the prime sources of overrestimulation I hope you were covering 

with him or her by only getting the pc started when he or she ran 

down. But you will now have a list of several other things that 

get TA. THE HOTTEST TA PRODUCER ON THIS LIST WILL GET A PC'S GOAL 

AS IT IS HIS SERVICE FAC. You can now get TA on this pc at will. 

All you have to do is get an itsa going on one of these things.



ANY TA is the sole target of Levels I to III. It doesn't matter a 

continental what generates it. Only Level IV (R4 processes) are 

vital on what you get TA on (for if you're not accurate you will 

get no TA at Level IV).



From Levels I to III the pc's happiness or recovery depends only 

on that waving TA arm. How much does it wave? That's how much the 

case advances. Only at Level IV do you care what it waves on.



You're as good an auditor in Levels I to III as you can get TA on 

the pc and that's all. And in Level IV you'll get only as much TA 

as you're dead on with the right goals and RIs in the right 

places and those you don't want lying there inert and 

undisturbed.



Your enemy is overrestimulation of the pc. As soon as the pc goes 

into more charge than he or she can itsa easily, the TA slows 

down. And as soon as the pc drowns in the overrestimulation, the 

TA stops clank! Now your problem is correcting the case. And 

that's harder than just getting TA in the first place.



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Yes, you say, but how do you start "getting in an itsa line?" 

"What is an itsa?"



All right-small child comes in room. You say, "What's troubling 

you?" The child says, "I'm worried about Mummy and I can't get 

Daddy to talk to me and ..." NO TA. This child is not saying 

anything is it. This child is saying, "Confusion, chaos, worry." 

No TA. The child is speaking in oppterms.



Small child comes in room. You say, "What's in this room?" Child 

says, "You and couch and rug ..." That's itsa. That's TA.



Only in R4 where you're dead on the pc's GPMs and the pc is 

allowed to say it is or isn't can you get good TA action out of 

listing and nulling. And even then a failure to let the pc say it 

is it can cut the TA down enormously.



Auditor says, "You've been getting TA movement whenever you 

mention houses. In this lifetime what solutions have you had 

about houses?" And there's the next two sessions all laid out 

with plenty of TA and nothing to do but record it and nod now and 

then.



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    THE THEORY OF TONE ARM ACTION



TA motion is caused by the energy contained in confusions blowing 

off the case. The confusion is held in place by aberrated stable 

data.



The aberrated (nonfactual) stable datum is there to hold back a 

confusion but in actual fact the confusion gathered there only 

because of an aberrated consideration or postulate in the first 

place. So when you get the pc to as-is these aberrated stable 

data, the confusion blows off and you get TA.



So long as the aberrated stable datum is in place the confusion 

(and its energy) won't flow.



Ask for confusions (worries, problems, difficulties) and you just 

overrestimulate the pc because his attention is on the mass of 

energy, not the aberrated stable datum holding it in place.



Ask for the aberrated stable datum (considerations, postulates, 

even attempts or actions or any button) and the pc as-ises it, 

the confusion starts flowing off as energy (not as confusion), 

and you get TA.



Just restimulate old confusions without touching the actual 

stable data holding them back and the pc gets the mass but no 

release of it and so no TA.



The pc has to say, "It's a ________(some consideration or 

postulate)" to release the pent-up energy held back by it.



Thus, an auditor's worst fault that prevents TA is permitting the 

dwelling on confusions without getting the pc to give up with 

certainty the considerations and postulates that hold the 

confusions in place.



And that's "itsa." It's letting the pc say what's there that was 

put there to hold back a confusion or problem.



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If the pc is unwilling to talk to the auditor, that's what to 

itsa -- "decisions you've made about auditors" for one example.

If the pc can't seem to be audited in that environment, get old 

environments itsaed. If the pc has lots of PTPs at session start, 

get the pc's solutions to similar problems in the past.



Or just prepcheck, slow, the zone of upset or interest of the pc.



And you'll get TA. Lots of it.



Unless you stop it.



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There's no reason at all why a truly expert auditor can't get 

plenty of TA divisions down per 2 1/2-hour session running any 

old thing that crops up on a pc.



But a truly expert auditor isn't trying to itsa the pc. He's 

trying to get the pc to itsa. And that's the difference.



Honest, it's simpler than you think.





L. RON HUBBARD

Founder



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