6106C09 SHSpec-11  Reading E-meter Reactions

     Auditing latent reads is auditing the analytical mind.  It is the
reactive mind that we are interested in auditing.  The reactive mind is a mind
that acts without inspection on the basis of stimulus.  It puts into action
solutions to problems it fancies must exist, which may never have existed, or
which haven't existed for billions of years.  Put in any part of the problem,
and the reactive mind goes into forming the solution.  A thetan is trying to
survive, who has no necessity for trying to survive at all, which is the first
idiocy.  So the mind is trying to solve a nonexistent problem.  Then it
addresses itself to the survival of form, the perpetuation of an existing
state, which would take out all the MEST in a sensible state and "garbleize"
it.  The reactive mind is the individual's accumulated goals for the survival
of forms.  The reason it destroys is to get something to survive.  It creates
to get a form to survive.  The reactive mind is the part of the cycle of
action that will never move, because its keynote is survival of a form.  So it
is trying to make something survive that is already dead: old bodies,
identities, etc.

     You could remember it if you weren't trying so hard to make it survive,
but because of the survival effort, when you try to remember it, you get a
restimulation as if you were still in the period, because all the impulse to
survive has been trapped and rides up to PT.  All of these forms have nothing
to do with PT, but here they are.  So the reactive mind has a starvation for
the other parts of his old games, e.g. the opponents, and it acts without
inspection and very fast.  To get a form to survive, you can't take time for
inspection.  This leads to such idiocies as people attacking their own planes
or ships in war when they'd gotten used to attacking enemy ones.  The "safe
thing to do" is not to inspect, under battle conditions.  The jam of the time,
not taking time to inspect, results in no-inspection.  When you speed up
things in the physical universe to too great a degree, on the false basis that
you are prone to non-survival, but in the interest of keeping something
surviving, you'll run into the timeless reactivity of action without
inspection.

     So therefore, what you are after is instant reads.  Your auditing target
is the reactive mind, not the PC.  The only thing wrong with the PC is the
reactive mind, and there is no inspection involved there, so he can't see what
is wrong with him.  If he could see it, it wouldn't be wrong.  This is also
why the reactive mind is more in control of the auditor than the PC: the
no-inspection factor.  He can't think on the reactive subjects; you can.  So
if you take his instructions on what to do or handle, you'll always do the
wrong things.  One of the PC's goals is to make his reactive mind survive, so
he won't let you near any part that should be audited.  It dictates to you
that it must survive; it throws you red herrings.  "When you turn around and
look; when you're running from a [battle that you're losing], you normally get
speared.  Therefore it's very very bad to look at the things that are pursuing
you ..., so you mustn't ... so you had better prevent the auditor from ...
looking at the things that are pursuing you.

     There is another obscuring element: withholdingness is the comm bridge
between the PC and the reactive mind.  When a withhold comes out of the
reactive mind, the PC will do what the reactive mind tells him to do, which is
to withhold it.  Withholdingness is part and parcel of survival; it is
protection of forms from attacks and destruction.  It's a non-duplication too:
you withhold your form from duplicating the form of someone you've killed.
This sets the mechanics going for survival: it's actually prior to the actual
idea of survival.  So the PC gets into withholding thought.  The withholding
of form is super-basic to all sorts of other things, e.g. individuating.  The
PC also withholds his body from destruction.

     When the PC gives up a withhold, he's conquered a dictate of the reactive
mind by being controlled by a being (the auditor), rather than by his bank.
This is the mechanics by which he feels better when he gets the withholds
off.  Because withholds add up to keeping him separated from the human race.
He can always be counted upon to dramatize the withhold when it comes up.  On
the meter, there's first a tick, then a fall as the PC spots it.  The
secondary action is not to get the withhold off the PC, but to keep the PC
from dramatizing his reactive bank.  So we say, "What was that?" When
withholding, the PC is reactive -- he is dramatizing -- otherwise, he's
talking to you analytically or at the dictates of the reactive mind.  Early in
the case, auditing the PC is like auditing the light bulb to fix the
generators in the power plant.  The E-meter helps you locate all the parts in
the generator.

     If the PC is left with a withhold in session, he'll ARC break half an
hour later.  What you're trying to do is to keep the PC from being fooled
about himself.  If you avoid the reactive mind, you're just doing a Q and A
with the PC.