7. What is auditing?
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This article is from the New Readers Scientology FAQ, by rkeller@netaxs.com (Rod Keller) with numerous contributions by others.
7. What is auditing?
Answer By: Elizabeth McCoy <emccoy@jade.mv.net>
It's where one person sits down and asks questions of another; the
fundamental notion (in my view) being that if someone can bring a
forgotten or mostly forgotten incident into conscious memory, that
incident will hold less or no power over the person's reactions. The
experience can still be used as data, but it won't provoke an unthinking
reaction or lack of reaction.
It's also just "good to do," since having all those mostly-forgotten
incidents cluttering up the "background" of one's mind means that one's
CPU time is being taken up with things that aren't useful. <grin>
Answer By: Dennis L. Erlich <dennis.l.erlich@support.com>
It is the scientology form of therapy; a process by which questions and
directions are given to a subject. These force him to see his mind and
how it functions in a new way and to accept a new model of his
existence. since the model introduced is one of Hubbard's own creation
auditing changes a person drastically and irreversibly into the type of
person Hubbard was (or wanted to think he was).
The basic principles of scientology that are purportedly at work during
auditing are those of communication and as-isness [sic]. These terms
have very specific new meanings in the newby scientologist's model of
his mind. According to Hubbard, unwanted conditions exist in the mind
because they are not properly viewed to see the lies contained within
them. In auditing, the lies are "dug out" using questions and the
e-meter, until the mental "energy" contained in the recording vanishes.
This is called viewing something "as-is".
Supposedly anything can be made to as-is (vanish) if you see all the
lies contained in it that are making it persist. Even solid objects are
solid only to the degree that they contain lies. However they contain a
LOT more lies than "mental mass". Hence it is easier to make stuff
that's all in your mind anyway, vanish.
That's how auditing works.
Answer By: Deirdre <Deeny3@aol.com>
Auditing involves a practitioner who asks questions of a person. The
questions are determined by a case supervisor, who reviews each session
and determines the overall course of a person's progress toward Clear
and OT. The questions asked are related to the ability the person is to
attain, though the relationship may not be immediately obvious to the
person being asked.
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