6109C21 SHSpec-57  Smoothness in Auditing

     If an auditor keeps going for total perfection in his auditing, he will
miss the state of acceptable mediocrity in his frantic figure-figure
desperation for technical perfection.  It is better to do some personalized
auditing with a majority of rightnesses and have wins.  The PC forgives
anything but no auditing.  If the auditor is worried about the ritual instead
of getting in comm with the PC, the PC has no person to talk to and goes out
of session.  If the PC is already starting to tell you about his case before
you get him in the chair, don't worry about the formal procedures; just audit
the PC.  The session starts when the PC recognizes you as the auditor, not
when you say, "Start of session!"

     Difficulties in starting sessions always come because the auditor doesn't
recognize the start of session.  The PC may be leery of going into session
because he's been denied sessions too often, but you can handle it with ruds.
If you see that a PC is interested in his case and starting to talk to you
about it, you'll see he's in session.  If if happens in public, say, "I'm
sorry.  Here's my card.  Come see me at 2:00 Tuesday ." This will work to have
him not be ARC broken.  LRH's difficulty is getting people out of session, not
into session.

     If you work very hard to start a session, you'll have a corresponding amount of trouble doing it.  How do you handle the situation of the PC telling you before you've "started" the session, about his case?  You hear him out, but not all the way.  There's a difference between just listening to the PC and auditing the PC, The liability of letting a PC run on and on is that he'll lower his havingness and slip downtone.  Auditing consists in directing the attention of the PC.  Your questions are what direct his attention to where you want him.  How do you interrogate?  You should have knowledge enough of the mind to know what to ask.  Be smooth; don't ARC break him.  If he's nattering away about something, you want to get him to look at his own overt.  You don't get far with a direct, "What did you do?" You can always ask, "When did it all start?"

     You don't want to shift the PC's attention too abruptly.  You can ask him
a question he can't answer immediately and put him in the chair during his
comm lag.  You've got to size up the situation, obnose what needs handling,
and direct his attention there.  You'll seem very smooth to the PC if you can
shift his attention deftly, without his awareness of being pushed around.
This gives you altitude.

     You may be weak at directing the PC's attention because you have low
reality on the PC's ability to direct it himself.  His attention must at one
time have been a restraining factor for keeping things from coming in on him.
When we get on the subject of something he's been restraining from coming in
on him, the PC's attention wanders or disperses because he can't control it,
because it has been overwhelmed.  That's what aberrated him.  If the auditor
doesn't direct his attention, it will be directed by the valence he's in.  And
the valence will do God knows what with it.  If you leave a session on
automatic, you're asking for it to be taken over by the valence.  Don't blame
the PC, who has very little energy to exercise at this point, for what goes
wrong in the session.  You can almost predict how he'll react, once you know
his terminal, if you lose control of the session.

     How do you direct the PC's attention?  The PC has put his hope for
survival (which is totally useless, since he can't help surviving) in a
beingness, a valence, to do it for him.  So these beingnesses have a lot of
survival mixed up in them.  Once you have survival on a via, however, it
becomes succumb.  A valence's actions are usually out of time.  It is
incapable of change because its characteristics are all set for survival, i.e.
continuing unchanged.  Past civilizations have tried to use punishment to
change a valence.  That doesn't work.  If you do break the valence, you have
nothing, not even a person.  An operating valence is better than nothing, but
a person is far better.  A genetic entity is a super packaged valence.

     A meat body isn't necessarily a bad body form.  It should be possible to
smash it into a wall without even bruising it.  If you can heal a body with an
assist, it must have been the thetan who was perpetuating the process of
destruction.  There's no real liability in running a meat body in our
mechanized society, unless one is in a body oriented to fighting lions.  A
fixed condition of a valence which is unchangeable and out of date, will make
an unhappy person.  Medicine has never been able to handle a readjustment of
beings or handling valences.  Processing does have an effect of valences,
which will object to it.

     The most basic processes don't clear someone unless his valence gets
audited out.  The PC is unaware of being who he is being.  The valence is of
no help to him.  It is an addiction to some skill and beingness package.  You
can't excel when operating as a valence because it is a non-sentient
operation, an operation in the absence of knowingness.  When a thetan is overwhelmed and has totally given up, so that he becomes the valence that did him in, he can't even do a good job as that valence, because of his own overts against that valence/beingness.  The PC's basic impulse toward the valence is destruction of the valence.  Every time the thetan wakes up even slightly, in a situation requiring decision, it will be a destructive decision for the valence.

     This should make your job as an auditor very easy.  You'll also
understand the activities of men better.  And what you are trying to do is to
direct the PC's attention toward eradication of all the points on the track
which made him a slave to a valence.  If you fail to direct his attention,
there's nothing else there.  If you overwhelm him, he'll dramatize the
valence.  The more you know about the valence, the easier it is to audit the
PC and to predict what the valence will do.  So when the PC does that, you
know you'd better get ruds in.  You need ways to observe the PC to know better
when he's out of session.  If he's in the valence that he dramatizes, he has a
rudiment out.  You don't necessarily put ruds in at the exact point you see
it.  If he's in the middle of some engram, you'd do better to direct his
attention to keep control from the valence.

     Anything you're doing which detracts from directing the PC's attention,
overcoming valences, rehabilitating the thetan so he can operate again, is
utterly unnecessary.  Don't worry about directing your attention and your
technical perfection.  Do direct the PC's attention.  Fortunately, auditor and
PC very rarely have the same terminal.