6202C27 SHSpec-115  Prepchecking

     Don't take withholds you, the auditor, have and assume the PC has them.
This does tend to happen.  If you ask an auditor to list the withholds he
thinks the PC has, he will list his own, especially if he doesn't know the PC
very well.  You could take that list and check it against the auditor's list
of withholds and come out pretty close.

     Sometimes the auditor doesn't even realize what chain he is running.  He
may recognize it afterwards.  This happens especially if the auditor doesn't
take some time at the beginning of session to sort out the area.  For
instance, once LRH started from a PTP, then, after 5 1/2 hours, he realized
that the subject of the chain was women.  Once the auditor knows the basics of
metering and repetitive questions, TR's, etc. and the mechanics of
prepchecking.  he just needs to practice doing it until one day he finds it
quite natural.  Nobody can lay down what the PC will give you as withholds, so
you can't make it into a totally rote procedure.

     Don't try to impose your moral code on the PC, and don't let yourself get
talked out of pulling a withhold because it doesn't offend your mores, when it
does bother the PC.

     A 3DXX item that gives the PC pain is the PC's terminal; an item that
gives sensations and misemotion is the PC's oppterm.  To prepcheck a terminal,
take whatever the terminal's doingness is and get what the O/W in the area is,
even if it is totally backwards.  E.g. the item could be "a moral man", the
zero question for this would be, "Have you ever been moral?" You can get into
the whole area of laudable withholds.  If the terminal was withheld, all the
terminal's actions were also withheld; there is also a lot of withholding just
in the laudable withhold area, which could add up to withholding oneself from
living.

                     [More details on running Routine 3DXX]

     An item isn't a winner; it is only an apparent suppressor of other things
and items.  There are two kinds of withholds for each terminal: the withholds
of dramatizing it and the withholds of not dramatizing it.  So, if you
dramatize the item, you are obviously wrong, and if you don't dramatize it,
you are wrong.  So you get withholds off both doing it and not doing it.

     The easiest time to start to clear the PC is when the PC is clear, of
course.  Now you have all the data you need to do it; you know all about it.
But you have to apply the mechanics of scientology to a case at a time when
you don't have all the data.  What you do have is all the rules, axioms, parts
of the mind, be, do, have, etc.  You also have procedural systems like the
withhold system to get what is keeping the PC from communicating.  But what
are the withholds?  How are they formed up?  It is up to you to find that
out.  You will find that if you give the PC a good, controlled session, going
right down the groove of something the PC can talk about because it is on the chain of withholds the PC can talk to you about, that are real to the PC as withholds, and if you can keep the PC's attention directed and if you make the PC go on and look, you will find that the PC makes his goal and gets gains.

     A test of whether you are doing well with the PC is whether you know more
every few hours about what makes this case tick., whether you have a higher
understanding of the PC and of the human mind.  That is what you would expect
of a prepcheck activity, as well as the PC making his goals and gains.  If
your prepchecking is bad, it could be because your auditing is bad, or it
could be that you can audit but you can't prepcheck.  You may have been
expecting the PC to grow wings during prepchecking.  If prepchecking seems
very arduous to you, you are probably not doing it right.  It is really easy
when you are doing it well, like riding a bicycle.  It is easier than other
auditing and gives more gains per unit of time than any other auditing.