5707C17 18ACC-3  Theory and Definitions of Auditing

     The PC is less than or equal to the bank and the auditor is less than or
equal to the bank, but the PC + auditor is greater than the bank.  A person
cannot audit himself because the basic ingredient of all auditing is
communication, and a person cannot really talk to himself, especially in P.T.,
because talking to oneself puts half the cycle out of PT.  Someone could mock
up a circuit that talks back or assume a valence that feeds the past back to
him, where he thinks something is feeding him an effect from the past or
talking to him.  When a person self-audits, he uses these circuits to feed
stuff back to him; it gets him nowhere.  The best he could do would be to
handle a mental image picture which was seeking to handle him, or to handle
the environment.

     The only things in the bank that give the PC trouble are the moments he
didn't handle, the worst moments.  When he gets pictures of these moments, he
tends to go out of control and backs off or boils off.  An auditor would
acknowledge; get him to confront it.  Only communication got him into his
mess; only communication can get him out.  Therefore, there has to be another
terminal for him to communicate to.

     In 1952, we got scientology, a different approach to the problem of the
bank.  Instead of erasing the bank, we put the person himself in good enough
condition, so that he can handle anything.  That's a real clear, not someone
with a blank bank.  The things that are right with a person are the things
that are wrong with the person.  What is wrong with a being is what the being
can do, and what the being is.  Any scale in scientology could be drawn as a
"V"-actually as a flare [exponential, perhaps?]:

                                   FIGURE 3

                        THE FLARE IN SCIENTOLOGY SCALES

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                    [GRAPHICS INSERTED -- LOGARITHMIC FLARE]

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Distance tolerance is the key to the affinity scales.  Distance narrows as a
person gets into worse condition.  He has to ba closer and closer to things to
know they are real.  High on the scale, tremendous distances can be tolerated;
here there is also lots of trust.  At the bottom, no distance is tolerable.  A
person's ability to handle things depends on his ability to handle distance;
he interiorizes into those things that he can't trust, until he is the thing
he distrusts.  A person can control at a distance with comm; as control
diminishes, he loses reach, can't project intention, can't trust, etc.  Tone
goes down with competence going down.  Auditing is an expansion of distance.
A PC starts with inverted distance (trying to escape), or with close distance
(solid comm line, as in CCH-1).  However, running away from things tends to
make them stay with them.  A body of soldiers running away from the enemy goes
to pieces.  They don't reform, regroup; can't sustain discipline.  When you
run away, part of you stays there.  Also, when running away, or being unable
to tolerate proximity, a being has no concept of distance: there's "no place
to hide.  "Anyhow, the part that stay there is the M.I.P.  If one can't occupy some part of the universe, the only recourse is dispersal, which closes actual distance.  [The thetan never gives up.] Running, "What part of that incident could you confront?" loosens it up; unsticks the person from it.  People never have trouble with situations they have confronted, only with those from which they ran away.  This is an example of "That which you resist, you become." The sub-zero tone scale shows the distance going inverted as one tries to run.

     One thing establishes distance: communication.  But it has to be real
communication, not inval and eval.  It has to be to the person.  Space is a
viewpoint of dimension, i.e. lookingness, i.e.  communication.  Communication
can have a closure factor if it is just looking; but two thetans in real two
way communication can hold their distance and go upscale.  If you find that
when two people talk, the longer they talk, the closer they get smashed
together, then one of them isn't communicating.

     When people don't know what something is, they have trouble communicating
with it.

     When someone tries to communicate with the bank, it kicks back and thus
gives the thetan the idea that he is punished for communicating.  But his
facsimiles aren't real.  In dianetics, we thought a person somehow took and
stored all these pictures.  But there is not really a mechanism, like the file
clerk, of taking and storing these pictures.  No.  The object is still there,
grown thin.  That's a picture!  Every consecutive moment of the universe from
its beginning until now is potentially as solid as it was then.  The only
reason it isn't as solid is that you don't to confront it, so you thinned it
down.  The only serious reactive pictures are the "thinnies" one made before
or as one way from something unconfrontable.  This sounds complex, but it's
only a problem in change of space.  You don't carry the pictures.  You left a
viewpoint there when you didn't totally confront something, and it is still
looking.  All you need to do is to get someone to be willing to confront old
universes he wouldn't confront before, and you will have a clear.

     Summary: Auditing is to raise the ability of another person so that he
can handle the bank, the body, others, etc.  It is a communication process.

