      HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE

Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex



     HCO BULLETIN OF 11 DECEMBER 1964



Remimeo

Franchise

Sthil Students

Sthil Co-audit



              SCIENTOLOGY 0



               PROCESSES





The whole case gain to be expected from a pc at Level 0 is an 

increase of ability to talk to others.



At Level 0 we do not expect or lead people to expect any sudden 

miracle of physical or mental recovery. Rather, we emphasize that 

we are getting their feet on the ladder and as they progress up 

through levels they will achieve all they ever hoped for and 

more.



Jumping to higher levels leaves the lower-level disabilities 

untouched, and while trying to audit somebody at, say, Level III, 

we will find ourselves struggling with things that should have 

been handled at Level 0.



Further, this target is the one that beginning pcs make the most 

gains on in my experience. I recall one near miracle on a girl 

who couldn't bring herself to talk to her parents, and all I did 

was get her to tell me what she'd say to them if she could talk 

to them.



Recalling is too steep for a starting pc. They can't recall well 

really until about Level IV when they can be cleaned up on their 

ARC breaks with life.



Here we have the whole design of Level 0:



"Recover the pc's ability to talk to others freely."



If you realize that a pc can't be in-session unless he is willing 

to talk to his auditor, you will also realize that he can't be in 

life until he is able to communicate freely with others.



Thus, any process that does not forward this end is not for Level 

0, no matter how frantic the case may be to become Clear 

yesterday.



The more hysterical a pc is about getting advanced processes or a 

case gain, the less strenuous the process administered must be. 

The psychiatrist erred on this one point and it wiped him out as 

a social benefactor. The more desperate the case, the more 

desperate were his measures. He was just echoing his patients. It 

is very important for an auditor to realize this one datum for it 

is the second guiding rule of Level 0. It is a very senior datum. 

One must not become desperate and use desperate measures just 

because the pc is desperate or the family or society is desperate 

about the pc. The worse off the pc, the lighter the approach to 

that pc must be.



Psychotics (real, gibbering ones) are below auditing treatment in 

sessions. The measure used for them should be just rest and 

isolation from their former environments. And the first process 

used should be just getting the person to realize you are safe 

and safe to talk to.



So, although a few cases are psychotic, this still holds good. 

The auditor must get the pc to realize he is safe -- won't 

punish, scold, reprimand or betray confidences -- and that the 

auditor will listen.



It doesn't give the auditor a withhold to not speak of another's 

withholds. One can only withhold what one oneself has done. What 

the pc did or said isn't even subject for a session on the 

auditor, for withholding it had no aberrative value.



Even when we're Class VI, we still start all our pcs at the pc's 

level, which is, for a beginning pc, Level 0.



So what we are trying to do with our pcs at Level 0 is the 

following:



1. Recover the pc's ability to talk to others freely;



2. Teach the pc by example the auditor is safe to talk to and 

won't scold, reprimand, punish or betray, and



3. Refuse to engage in desperate measures just because the pc is 

desperate; and therefore get a real, lasting gain for the pc.



                ROUTINES



A routine is a standard process, designed for the best steady 

gain of the pc at that level. The remedy is different. It is an 

auditing process which is designed to handle a nonroutine 

situation. The only real remedy at Level 0 is patching up having 

failed to hear or understand the pc. The rest is all done by 

routine. The case remedies are at Level II, and while we all 

realize that every Level 0 case needs a lot of Level II remedies, 

we also know that no remedy will work well until the pc is able 

to talk to others. When you run into trouble at Level 0, there 

are only three reasons possible:



1. The pc was not run in a direction or on a process to improve 

his or her ability to communicate to others;



2. The auditor failed to understand the pc's statements, either 

words or meanings, or



3. The auditor engaged in desperate measures, changed processes 

or scolded or did something to lower the pc's feeling of security 

in the session.



That's all. As you go on up through the levels, you will find 

many other ways a pc can get upset. But at Level 0, the pc is not 

close enough to reality on his own case to even be touched by 

these at first. The pc is a long way off when he first starts 

getting audited. He can only approach his own case by degrees. So 

a pc, no matter how wildly he or she dramatizes at Level 0, is 

really only capable of a reality of the smallest kind about sell. 

And such a pc must be able to talk before anything else can 

happen. Pcs can he ruined by someone who doesn't grasp that 

simple fact. Psychiatrists, failing to grasp it, murdered several 

million people -- so it's no light matter. It's an important one.



A pc at Level 0 usually can't even conceive of an overt (a 

harmful act) done by himself. When they can, they go religiously 

guilty and seek to atone or some such thing. Become a monk. Or 

commit suicide.



The reason 33 1/3 percent of all psychoanalytic patients are said 

to have committed suicide in their first three months of 

treatment is not that they "came too late" but that a lot of wild 

data was thrown at them to get at their "source of guilt" and 

they went head-on into the reactive bank, sought to demonstrate 

their "guilt" by making others guilty and killing themselves.



You don't want anything out of the pc but an increased ability to 

talk relaxedly to others without fear, embarrassment, suspicion 

or guilt. So all processes at Level 0 are arranged accordingly.



                 WORDINGS



To give all possible wordings of routines that will accomplish 

the above is completely beyond need.



Once you have the idea of it straight, you can invent them by the 

dozens.



One doesn't even have to think of a particular pc. All Level 0 

processes are good only when they apply to all pcs.



         ROUTINE 0-0 (ZERO-ZERO)



The starting routine is the most basic of all auditing routines. 

It is simply



"What are you willing to talk to me about?"



Pc answers.



"What would you like to tell me about that?"



At Level II, the first question alone becomes a remedy. Here the 

two questions make a routine -- and a very effective one it is!



               ROUTINE 0A



This is how the auditor puts together Routine 0A:



1. Make a list of people or things one can't generally talk to 

easily. That includes parents, policemen, governments and God. 

But it's a far longer list. The auditor must do this. It must 

never be published as a "canned" list.



2. Using any one of the listed items: "If you could talk to 

______ (listed item), what would you say?"



All right, that's all there is to finding the commands for 

Routine 0A.



One doesn't get the pc to do the list. The list isn't done in 

session. The auditor does it himself on his own time. And each 

auditor must do his own list for his pcs and add to it from time 

to time as he thinks of new ones.



The pc isn't necessarily given any choice of items. The auditor 

picks one he thinks may fit. That's easy to do after one session. 

The pc keeps complaining about parents. Okay. Run 0A on parents.



And flatten it!



By flatten is meant to use that one subject until the pc is 

darned sure he or she could now talk to the item chosen. If the 

pc still wants to abuse the item, it isn't flat. If the pc still 

wants to do something about the item, it is not flat. When the pc 

is cheerful about the item or no longer fascinated with it, it's 

flat.



Remember, there's no need to find out what the pc can't talk to. 

In fact, most cases, you're better off just to take an item of 

your own for 0A and use it. May seem strange, but you'll have a 

smoother time of it with the pc. Further, you'll not restimulate 

(churn up) the pc's bank so hard.



                ROUTINE 0B



The second routine consists of things to talk about.



One puts the routine together this way:



1. The auditor makes a list (not from the pc but himself) of 

everything he can think of that is banned for any reason from 

conversation or is not generally considered acceptable for social 

communication. This includes nonsocial subjects like sexual 

experiences, water closet details, embarrassing experiences, 

thefts one has done, etc. Things nobody would calmly discuss in 

mixed company.



2. An item from the list is included in the auditing command, 

"What would you be willing to tell me about ______?" Add the item 

you choose.



3. When they have "run down" (as in clocks), ask them, "Who else 

could you say those things to?"



4. Rechoose a subject on the list.



5. Repeat (2) and (3).



6. Continue to repeat (4) and (5).



Above all, don't be critical of the pc. And very calmly hear and 

seek to understand what the pc said. (You never, by the way, seek 

to find out why the pc reacted or responded in some way. A real 

blunder at Level 0 is "Why did you feel that way?" Or "Why do you 

think you can't say that?" You're not after causes of things at 

Level 0. You will find out why at Level VI!) At Level 0, just 

keep them talking while you listen. And you use only the subject 

chosen to keep them talking.



               ROUTINE 0C



Routine 0C is, of course, old R1C renamed. It is done without a 

meter and it has any subject under the sun included in its 

command. It is elsewhere covered.



In all the above routines, it is vital not to alter the commands 

given above.



And it is vital to audit with the Auditor's Code in full force.



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There are many more possible routines. But to be a Level 0 

routine it must have as its goal only freeing up the ability of 

the pc to talk freely to others.



This is not a level to be regarded with a brush-off. It takes a 

lot of skill to restore a pc's ability to communicate freely.



When an auditor has that skill, he will succeed at all higher 

levels.



When a pc has that skill regained, his world will look to him to 

be a far, far better place.



So it is very important to get over this first hurdle. And very 

important not to dodge it and try to climb the hill anyway. It 

will become an awfully steep hill.





L. RON HUBBARD

Founder



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