(Ref:  NOTs Series 7, VALENCES
                 NOTs Series 47, VALENCE TECHNIQUE
                                 ADDITION)

This HCOB gives an additional step to the NOTs Valence Technique, and a further clarification of each of the steps of this technique.

The new step consists of "acknowledging the "me" answer". Doing so can guarantee a blow.

A lot of the time there is nothing there to acknowledge because it has already blown. Most of the time this isn't needed, but when used it does prevent a hang-up when the BT hasn't gone. So its actual value is the fact that it can guarantee a blow.

(By the way, you can call one back and acknowledge it, but don't get into that. This is mentioned simply because it is possible to call them back.)

THE FULL STEPS OF THE VALENCE TECHNIQUE

O. Identifying what you are going to handle.

Although this is strictly speaking not part of the Valence Technique, one has to start off by finding a BT or cluster that you are going to blow with the NOTs Valence Technique. This zero step then consists of whatever action one is on, such as Rudiments, a NOTs Program Step, Repair List or whatever, that uncovers a reading charge that one identifies as a BT or cluster. Having found a reading charge one has to identify what that charge is coming from, i.e. a BT or a cluster (and less commonly, "a BT that thinks it's a cluster", or "a cluster that thinks it's a BT").

This step varies depending on what Program step or category you are working on. E.g. on Program Step #17, "Mass Mistaken For the Mass of the Body", you ask the Pre-OT to "Look over the body and tell me if there is any mass." or "...any massy body part or area?", or "...any area of the body that is solid?". When you get a reading area of mass, you then need to identify what this is, i.e. "Is it a BT?", "Is it a cluster?".

On Step #18, "BTs Being Body Parts", you have the Pre-OT look over the various parts of the body until you get a reading body part. Or, you call off various parts, i.e. "Head?", "Face?", "Neck?", "Inside?", "Outside?", etc. until you get a read. In this instance you have the position or area of the body where the BT or cluster is, but still need to identify it by asking: a BT?, a Cluster? (But note that in this instance as in the paragraph above, you have also found where the BT or Cluster is in relation to the body).

But if you are flying ruds, or handling a prepared list, to start with all you have is a reading question. You then find whose charge it is, (per HCOB 20 Deac 79 AUDITING SOMEBODY UNDER CONSTANT AND CONTINUOUS PT STRESS and HCOB 22 Dec 79 FLYING RUDS AT OT III AND ABOVE) by asking: "Is it yours?", "a BT's?, "a cluster's?" or , "Is it also _________'s?". This action identifies what you have found and are now going to handle.

This is really a preliminary step to the Valence Technique in which you are (a) finding something to run, and (b) identifying what you have found. You are establishing whether it is "a BT", "a cluster", maybe "several BTs", or even "more than one cluster", (in the case of a plural, the Pre-OT would need to be told to limit his attention to one of these, so you can handle one at a time.)

Having found a charge and identified what it is, you now can move into the Valence Technique to blow that BT or cluster (unless it has already blown by this point, which is quite often so, many blow by inspection, especially if the Pre-OT is running cleanly and rapidly).

1. "Where is the BT (or cluster)?"

The auditor has the Pre-OT locate where the BT or cluster is by position in relation to the body. The auditor notes the area named by the Pre-OT and whether it reads. When the Pre-OT names the correct place it will read. Do not let the Pre-OT go on looking for additional new areas until the reading area is fully handled.

(As noted above under Step 0, you may have already located where the BT is, in which case you wouldn't then ask the Pre-OT to find where t is.)

The location of a BT or cluster is not always in the body, they can also be on the body, outside the body, even at some distance from the body.

Steps 0 and 1 are not rote. These steps are done to then enable the Pre-OT to limit his attention span to the specific BT or cluster while asking the auditing question. Otherwise you could jump from BT to BT, restimulating other areas than that being worked on.

2. "What are you?"

(Note that any and all listing done follows the HCOB 1 Aug 68 THE LAWS OF LISTING AND NULLING. These have not changed just because they are being used in a different process. An auditor who does not know these should not attempt this step, and should master this HCOB before attemtping this step.)

The auditor has the Pre-OT ask the BT or cluster the question, and relay the answer to the auditor, who writes the answer down and notes whether it read. Only if the first item does not read, do you list further items. Very often the first answer reads and that is the item.

If the first item did not read, you've now got to ask him for another answer, an you have got to make sure that it comes from that exact spot or area. You have got to make sure that he isn't shifting his attention all over his "left side", or you'd get the whole bank in that area alive. You could say: "Now, from that same spot, is there another answer? another? another?". And this is done only to the first reading item. You might have to verify it: "Is that (answer) from the same spot?".

This is why you establish where the BT or cluster is located in Step 1, as you can then ensure that the Pre-OT limits his attention to, and directs the auditing question to, that exact spot. E.g. "Put your attention on the top of your left ear and ask "What are you?"

The auditor indicates the first reading item. (Don't forget that the PreOT can't see the meter, and the auditor must say what read, and must not let the Pre-OT overlist.) You indicate the item by saying "Pc wording of the first reading item") is the item". Don't get sloppy and say "That's the item", as how does he know what you mean by "that"? If "catfish" was the item say, "Catfish is the item",

Normally, but not always, you will get an F/N on finding and indicating the item, but if you do not get an F/N here, you will on the next step.

(Warning: On this step remember that you may have already received the answer in Step 0 or Step 1. BTs and clusters may not be aware of the fact that they are living beings and may not release any charge at all on "BT" or "cluster". But when you ask where they are, you may have gotten an answer to what they are being, simply by asking for body locations. This is not common, but not uncommon either: you asked if the BT was on his foot and you got a big read. In this What step you might have trouble getting a reading item and might miss the fact that you already had the reading item for his What step in "foot". The BT was being a foot and you discovered it by accident without recognizing it, so if you have any trouble with the What step, one of the first things to check is whether or not a "What" already read on asking for the "Where" on Step 0 or Step 1. If you suspect this, put the named body part that read on the list and check it out as part of the list. You won't have to do this often, but you better know about it.)

3. Acknowledgement

The auditor has the Pre-OT acknowledge the item. This is very important (see NOTs Series 7).

Even if you got an F/N on the previous step, you still acknowledge and you will broaden the F/N. And if you didn't get an F/N previously, you will on acknowledging the item. And you'll quite often get a blow on this step.

4. "Who are you?"

Now we have to remember that it is the same spot again and we ask, "Who are you?", and we don't feed them the answer. They sometimes comm lag (don't get impatient with the comm lag), sometimes it's a few seconds comm lag, and then you get the answer. You may have to repeat he question. The "Me" answer will normally LFBD, and if that LFBD isn't very marked, you make sure you do the next step of acknowledging the "Me" answer. In any event you could still acknowledge, but if the LFBD was pronounced the probability is that he's gone.

Now there is a special condition you can run into on the "Who are you?" question if the BT answers with a significance or identity answer. This is covered in NOTs Series 7. But if this continues, suspect that you may have gotten a wrong item on the "What are you?" question, or that the Pre-OT has used too broad an attention span or let his attention wander to other areas and he is getting answers from other BTs or Clusters.

5. Acknowledgement

The auditor has the PreOT acknowledge the BT's "Me"answer. This action can guarantee a blow.

Now if this acknowledgement produces another read then we know it guaranteed a blow. Sometimes you get another LFBD on the acknowledgment step, and sometimes you get a broadening of the F/N.

And that completes the steps of the NOTs Valence Technique.

CAUTION

Sometimes, quite often in fact, this short-circuits. You ask: "What are you?" and the guy says "Me" and blows. And Sometimes you are patiently trying to go through all these steps and you get a series of blows. A blow or a series of blows can occur at any time during NOTs. You don't then continue the steps of this Technique, as that BT or cluster has gone! Sometimes a series of blows or an automatic blow will go into a Persistent F/N or a Floating Tone Arm and in either instance you would end off the session.

Also you can get repetitive blows if a case is running pretty clean, and you can get blows without BDs. There isn't much left on the charge and it isn't registering on the meter to amount to anything.

There is also the case of a "partial blow" and the description and handling for this is given in NOTs Series 45, HCOB 10 Feb 79 PARTIALLY BLOWN BTS.

On "Hello and OK" you sometimes get a blow. The BT or cluster doesn't answer up and you run "Hellos and OKs" repetitively to get it into comm. Rarely, it will suddenly blow, and it would then be senseless to go on trying to run "Hello and OK" or anything else, as that one has gone.

Some auditors have been known to ask a pc if it blew, during the Valence Technique steps. Even nag the PreOT, "Did it blow?", "Has it gone?", "Still around?". This could be due to the auditor's unfamiliarity with his meter, and not recognizing a blow when he sees it occur on the meter. Or, possibly some may have confused another technique, Date/Locate, with this technique. You of course always Date to blow, and Locate to blow, and the auditor could get the idea that he should carry over Date/Locate technique into the Valence Technique.

It is very poor practice to ask the PreOT if it blew during NOTs Valence Technique. You could cause the BT or cluster to submerge or be suppressed, or you could invalidate a blow that did occur.

This doesn't mean that you can't ever ask if it blew. You could ask if it is "still around?" and a read would confirm that it is. But this type of question is asking for a missingness. It's no longer there. There's a large number of pcs that never see the blow, and it isn't something to see, because it's a missingness. This type of question can be difficult for the PreOT to answer, as there is now nothing there for him to perceive as it has gone. If the meter BD'd and F/Ned on the "Me" step, it would be idiocy to then ask if it blew, of course it did! But if your meter didn't tell you it blew, you could be in a quandary and have to solve that problem. But you wouldn't interrupt the Valence Technique to ask if it blew, and you wouldn't get into nagging the PreOT. You just follow on through your steps, and particularly if you had the PreOT ack the "Me" answer, then you got your blow alright. So this concern about whether the BT blew is misplaced.

These points are stated so that the auditor will understand what he is doing, why he is doing it, and what manifestation he can expect to occur, because these manifestations will occur. This technique is a very positive series of steps, and they go in that sequence. If these steps are done as given, you will get the result, and if departed from or if there is an error, you can definitely expect to get that manifestation too, i.e. too broad an attention span and you will get restim.

It is necessary that the auditor and C/S understand these points as this is not a technique that can be done rotely or robotically.

OT III TECHNIQUES

Sometimes you will need to use OT III techniques, especially when you run into a cluster. And it is effective, just like it always was. You sometimes get into a situation where you have an inert mass. You run some "Hellos and OKs" and it actually becomes less inert, but it is still a cluster. That condition can exist but it usually isn't untied with "Hello & OK". It's a cluster and it reads on cluster. Then it's your assessment for mutual incident, "Accident?, Illness?, Impact?, Injury?, etc.", you do the assessment of what is this thing. You get your mutual incident. Sometimes the cluster will explode apart or break up on the assessment alone. You found what was holding it together. Then you wouldn't try to Date/Locate it. You'd have the PreOT pick off individuals and run them on the Valence Technique. But if there was no disintegration of the cluster on finding the mutual incident, you'd carry right on and Date/Locate, Inc II and Inc Is (or NOTs Valence Technique).

Now there's a variation on mutual incidents. You can get a mutual incident that is current, contemporary, like he went PTS or something. Had a big ARC break or something. But it isn't as strenuous as a cluster-making incident. It's a sort of a lock. It isn't a mutual incident like an impact, injury, illness, accident, shock, etc. But a guy can run into a recent heavy upset or general charge of some kind, heavy stress, and you get the reaction described in HCOB 20 Dec 79 NOTs Series 48, under "Routine A". There you had a general total restim - it is actually a mutual incident as it happened to all of them - it's near PT though and they all copy it, and when you hit it you get a sudden BD and a relief. But you are not going to blow any BTs to amount to anything as it isn't a cluster-making incident. So you have to be able to differentiate between these two types of mutual incidents, the recent this life lock, and the heavy impact, injury, explosion type of mutual incident that forms a cluster. The cluster will resolve with the OT III, mutual incident, Date/Locate, Inc II and Inc Is routine. And that's why you start off on the NOTs course with a re-study and clear up any MUs on the OT III [missing line or page]

The original research on somatics was done in the late '50's in Washington, and I found how a somatic comes about. It's based on the fact that one being by himself couldn't have a somatic. You have to have two beings to have a somatic. A cluster can have a somatic. You wouldn't ask a question for a BT with a somatic, that would be a wrong question and is based on a false datum, and is an out-tech question. You could have two or more BTs smashed together somehow producing a somatic, but you would have to take up each of these BTs individually to blow them.

But usually about the only time you will run into a somatic in NOTs is when there has been an error. A wrong item, or something of that sort. It may be that a somatic in NOTs is always an indicator of an error. It seems to be so. And the wise auditor on NOTs should be alerted to the probability of an error of some kind if the Pre-OT does turn on a somatic. You can easily and quickly check for an error in what you have just been running in the session, or use a NOTs Repair List to locate and handle the BPC.

UNDERSTANDING

It is very essential that NOTs auditors and C/Ses understand the NOTs materials, and don't try to insist on a rote set of questions or steps, as NOTs doesn't run well as a rote or robotic rundown. That are very exact steps and manifestations and sequences and you will get these everytime. Anytime there have been flubbed cases on NOTs these have traced to MU's on the part of the auditor and/or C/S. The NOTs course checksheet was specificially designed to prevent this with Supervisor meter checks for MU words frequently throughout the checksheet. But there was an instance of a student who "skipped" the MU word check by the Supervisor, which is a sure route to catastrophe. Any trouble on NOTs has traced back to failure to clear words misunderstood in either the OT III materials or in the NOTs materials. This gives the solution to any auditor or C/S troubles with NOTs. Clear the MU words, and re-study the materials so that you do understand and can apply them. It will certainly make your life as an auditor or C/S much easier, and will enable you to get the rave results that NOTs is known for routinely.

SOCIOLOGICAL IMPACT

Have you considered the sociological impact that you are having by auditing NOTs? You are turning free beings loose in torrents. This is bound to have an effect on society, especially when these start picking up bodies and turn up to join the team at their local org! You are not just auditing one pc at this level, you are churning out cleared beings in volume, and we will start seeing the results sooner or later on society in general. Maybe you have thought about this too, it's nice to recognize the good effects you are creating!

L. RON HUBBARD
FOUNDER

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Copyright (c) 1978
by L. Ron Hubbard
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HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex HCO BULLETIN OF 30 JANUARY 1980   NED for OTs Series 50 C O N F I D E N T I A L NOTs OT DRUG RUNDOWN

           (Ref: HCOB 29 Jan 80 THE OT DRUG RUNDOWN
           WHICH MUST BE STUDIED PRIOR TO STUDYING
           THIS HCOB.)

This issue adds to the OT III HCOB referenced above, and gives additional data and handlings which are limited to NOTs auditors and C/Ses, and which are for use on cases being audited on NOTs. (The OT III handlings of drugs can also be used on NOTs cases.)

As you know from NOTs data, BTs can be being anything. They can be being a particular drug, or being a drug picture or incident, or even an "acid trip" for example.

The way you would handle a NOTs case on drugs is similar in that you would first of all get the person through the Purification Rundown. A case already started on NOTs can be put onto the Purification RD without having been completed on NOTs, in fact, you may not be able to complete some cases without it. You do not have to take the case to a Rest Point. Just ensure that the case is not left incomplete (or messed up) on a specific action or category before starting the Purification RD. Then do not attempt to combine NOTs auditing with the Purification RD until it is completed.

Do not attempt to run Objective processes on a case during NOTs.

The caution of not asking for Drugs or Drug incidents generally also applies to NOTs auditing as such a question would result in a total restim.

What you can do is to add "Drugs" and "a BT being a drug", "a BT affected by drugs", "a BT being a drug trip", "a BT being a drug picture", into a prepared assessment or list.

You can check for a read on drugs on a specific BT or cluster, and then handle that BT or cluster to a blow.

All of the data published on the subject of drugs and their effect in preventing case gain applies to BTs and cluster's cases.

Most commonly drugs have shown up on NOTs cases as either cluster-making incidents , or on individual BTs being the drug or affected by the drug, or copying other BT or cluster pictures of drugs.

Several cases who were stalled on NOTs or who were making minimal gain on NOTs have been resolved by handling drugs as described in this issue.

CASE HISTORIES

The following case histories (reported by FSO C/Ses), of case handling done on NOTs Pre-OTs on drugs are limited to this issue as they contain NOTs techniques and data. These are additional case histories to those given in HCOB 29 Jan 80, THE OT DRUG RUNDOWN, (those cases were also piloted by NOTs auditors and C/Ses, but do not contain confidential NOTs data).

Case 1 :

"Institutional case who had Sodium Pentathol as an anaethetic just prior to 'gong nuts' and then being put in an institution".

"Running NOTs techniques on this drug, BTs stuck in this drug, BTs being this drug, BTs affected by this drug, turned the case sane."

Case 2 :

"LSD some 200 times. Had so far refused any standard Sweat Out program. Case gain totally hung fire on his attempts to get the perception he had when he took LSD."

"From a GF 40 Expanded, drugs read heavily and his first gains from NOTs were acheived in handling cluster-making incidents from LSD trips, BTs/clusters stuck in LSD, being LSD, etc. This was run for approximately one intensive with Pre-OT interest. It didn't crack the case but some headway was made."

(The next action for this case is to get him onto and through the Purification RD, then the full NOTs OT Drug RD.)

Case 3 :

"LSD 220 to 250 times, and alcohol and other heavy street drugs. He was a point where he could hardly walk or articulate".

"Many cluster-making incidents on drugs, LSD, alcohol, were handled through the Rundown. Many were Reviv'd in past locations and some stuck there (i.e. physically)".

"He cognited and BD'd on disturbing a pocket of acid held down by a BT. BTs/clusters restimulated by that were handled, then BTs/clusters stuck in drug trips and copies of drug trips".

"He started recovering physically. Articulation handled and walking improved".

"On NOTs Series 34 handling of illness, alcohol was the item. His speech went back to normal after this - Pre-OT felt tremendous".

"Lots of charge blown on BTs/clusters stuck in hospital drug (ACTH). Result of less numb, more sensation".

"Later a NOTs Series 43 handling was done on alcohol, plus Date/Locate of a cumulative cluster on drugs. His responsibility increased and he was off on a persistent win for almost 2 weeks experiencing automatic/continuous blow phenomena in life".

"Lots of 'stuckness' on the case was tied up in drugs and alcohol. Case is currently doing very well on the Purification RD".

(Although the Purification RD would normally precede such drug handling in NOTs, this case was unable to walk or to talk due to paralysis and was considered incurable by the medicos.)

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"There are also a number of Pre-OTs who have had NOTs Series 12 handlings on Drug RDs and some on drugs."

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NOTs OT DRUG RD PGM

THe NOTs or Drug RD Program is the same program as the OT Drug RD (HCOB 29 Jan 80 THE OT DRUG RUNDOWN). It begins with the Purification RD, it has the same Steps #1 - 5. But the method of handling is by NOTs Valence Technique, rather than Inc II, Inc I. Assessment for mutal incident is the same, but individuals from a broken up cluster would be handled with NOTs Valence Technique.

The categories of: "a BT or cluster being (reading drug) ", "a BT or cluster affected by (reading drug) ", "a BT being a drug trip", "a BT being a drug picture", "a BT or cluster being (mis-emotion) ", "a BT or cluster being (negative item) ", should also be checked for on each reading drug taken up, and these categories may be assessed as part of a prepared list, and should be so assessed at the end of Step 5.

Step 6 is different and would consist of a NOTs Series 24 Repair List assessed and handled, to clean up any loose ends and polish off the case, before returning to the NOTs Advance Program.

ADMINISTRATION AND DELIVERY

The OT Drug Rd may not be audited on Pre-OTs who have had any NOTs auditing, these may only be run on the NOTs OT Drug RD.

Although the NOTs OT Drug RD is done by a NOTs auditor and NOTs C/S, these must be specially trained on the NOTs OT Drug RD and only interested, graduated NOTs auditors and C/Ses may be so trained. These issues are not added to the ACS Courses, nor given to green NOTs auditors or C/Ses.)

The NOTs OT drug Rundown is not mixed in with the NOTs Advance Program, nor is it to be bit and pieced with NOTs, nor given as a blur along with NOTs. It is its own special RD and must be delivered as its own RD, and as its own package. This does not mean that you cannot use the item "drugs" in an assessment for a mutual incident during NOTs, nor that you couldn't handle a BT hung up in a drug during NOTs. But if drugs or drug items are coming up during NOTs, then the case is on the wrong program and should be shifted over to the Purification RD, followed by the NOTs OT Drug RD. Then after these are done, you would resume the NOTs Advance Program. (As well as not mixing the hours on the NOTs OT Drug RD with NOTs hours, there is an important Technical reason for only handling one subject at a time and completing each action and program before starting another. (ref: C/S Series 38, C/S Series 47, & NOTs Series 30.)

One would not interrupt a Pre-OT who is running well on NOTs with good TA action and who is getting rapid blows, but would flatten the action before making a change to the Purification RD and the NOTs OT Drug RD. These Rundowns can be done at any point during the NOTs Advance Program, but ideally they would be entered after the "Past Auditing Repair" steps, or after step 14, after step 15, or at any point thereafter. If drugs are heavily charged and getting in the way, then you would have no choice but to shift programs to handle.

Ideally the NOTs OT Drug RD should be delivered by a specialist team of NOTs auditors and C/S, operating as a unit, who then feed completed cases back to regular and interning NOTs auditors.

The NOTs OT Drug Rundown should help you with cases who hung fire or were resistive previously as well as speeding gains and results on all cases.

The pilot results are excellent, and show what sort of gains can be attained.

L. RON HUBBARD
FOUNDER
As assisted by
Senior C/S Int

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Copyright (c) 1978
by L. Ron Hubbard
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HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex HCO BULLETIN OF 31 JANUARY 1980   NED for OTs Series 51 C O N F I D E N T I A L AUDIT BTs CONCEPTUALLY

(References:

HCOB 26 Sep 78 I             WORD CLEARING AND INFORMATION FOR
                             PRE-PTS ON NED FOR OTs
HCOB 12 Jan 80               ACKNOWLEDGING THE "ME" ANSWER
HCOB 27 Oct 79               VALENCE TECHNIQUE ADDITION
HCOB 17 Sep 78 I             VALENCES.)

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(This HCOB adds to HCOB 26 Sep 78, Issue I, WORD CLEARING AND INFORMATION FOR PRE-OTs ON NED FOR OTS, and is to be used in the indoctrination of Pre-OTs on NED for OTs.)

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When a Pre-OT looks at a BT and gets too laggardly,the BT often turns on a picture. The NOTs Pre-OT could think this picture was the What. It never is. The Whate BT is simpIy making a picture. Answers come through as concepts, not pictures.

The rule is: THE PRE-OT IGNORES THE PICTURE AND DOES THE ACTION IN CONCEPTS.

In NOTs one is not dealing with pictures, one is dealing with the basic of pictures. Pctures are a red herring - wrong target.

L. RON HUBBARD
FOUNDER

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Copyright (c) 1978
by L. Ron Hubbard
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HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex HCO BULLETIN OF 24 MAY 1980   NED for OTs Series 52 C O N F I D E N T I A L URGENT - IMPORTANT NOTs WHAT/WHO L & N STEP

(References:
HCOB 27 Oct 79, NOTs Series 47, VALENCE TECHNIQUE ADDITION
HCOB 12 Jan 80, NOTs Series 49, ACKNOWLEDGING THE ME ANSWER.)

(This HCOB contains important revisions and additional instructions regarding the NOTS What/Who L & N Step, and modifies NOTs Series 47 and 49. It does not other- wise cancel or change the rest of the NOTs Valence Technique, nor does it change the rest of the NOTs procedures or Rundown. This issue must be thoroughly word cleared and star-rated along with the referenced issues by NOT auditors and C/Ses to qualify them to use the NOTs What/Who L & N Step.)

THE RIGHT ITEM, ON THE WHAT L & N STEP

In NOTs Series 47 and 49 it is stated that you take "the first reading item" (regardless of its read). In experience I have found this not always to be true. One can get some small falls on several items before the real item is hit. Sometimes it requires an ack to get an F/N, but the real item always F/Ns.

(E-meter Note: If one were to use other than an operational Mark VI, one could be mislead by the meter. I have noticed that what is a small fall (sF) on an operational Mark VI, is a fall (F) on another meter. This is not good, as the auditor seeing a fall F), could think he has the item, when it is really a small fall. The exaggerated read makes one think wrong items have read when these only gave a small fall. Also, the Mark V tends to just F/N, and gives on the problem of trying to read through an F/N. The Mark V is not sensitive enough. Thus it is essential that an operational Mark VI is used. The sizes of reads referred to here are at the correct Sensitivity setting of one third dial drop on can squeeze per EM-5R. The Sensitivity must not be higher than this during the What/Who L & N Steps.)

The statements in NOTs Series 47 and 49 under Step 3 (Acknowledgement) are correct and the only change here is in the statement that you take "the first reading item", plus a clarification of size of read.

The right What? L & N Step reads are a lot of small falls preceding the right item. THE REAL ITEM ALWAYS F/Ns (even if it sometimes requires an ack to get it to F/N).

THE "WHO" STEP

(Early in the NOTs Rundown, and sometimes later in the Rundown, the being blows easily. Often before all the Valence Technique steps have been done, frequently blowing on inspection. There is the phenomenon (described in earlier NOTs issues) of the cyclic aspect of handling more difficult-to-blow BTs and clusters, followed by a series of easy/rapid blows. Later in the Rundown, after the more available and easier-to-blow BTs and clusters have gone, those remaining tend to be in worse shape as beings. You are then more frequently going to encounter the following phenomenon.)

The being seldom gets much of a read and seldom a blow on the first right answer to the Who? question. It gives an answer, the right answer ("Me"), in many cases and there's no real read. What one does then is ack encouragingly and asks it to repeat the answer ("Me"). Thus encouraged, a BD F/N and blow on the repeated answer occurs.

PIN-POINTING ATTENTION

It is essential that the NOTs PreOT limits his/her attention to the BT/cluster being addressed. You can get a mish-mash if their attention goes onto something else. I have developed TR 8-Q (HCOB 22 Apr 80) which is an exercise in pin-pointing attention as well as asking a question. Requiring a NOTs PreOT to do TR 8-Q will remedy this.

REPAIR LISTS FOR L & N

There are two repair lists for L & N errors that are shorter than the L4BRA, and both of these can be used in NOTs. They are: HCOB 23 Sep 68 "Violation of the Laws of Listing and Nulling", and HCOB 29 Sep 68 "List Correction" (Tech Vol XI, pages 44, 45), and either of these may be used, resorting to the longer L4BRA when necessary. The usual thing to do though would be to recognize what was wrong from the reads noted in W/Ss (or lack of F/N on the What? item), and handle accordingly and as given in earlier NOTs issues.

FES-ING

FESers and C/Ses must know the materials given in NOTs Series 47, 49 and this issue and must inspect worksheets to see whether correct (or wrong) items have been found, and whether the BT or cluster was blown. C/Ses must do this on every session, and FESers when they are looking for errors on a case. Any previous instances of failure to get the right item, or failure to handle a being to a blow can then be taken up in subsequent sessions and properly handled as described in this issue. If the BT/cluster is still around it will read when the PreOT's attention is directed to that position (area) and oriented to the item given in that session. (Remember that it now may be Suppressed or Invalidated, and that the being probably has a Wrong Item and an Incomplete List.) If the error can be found and corrected immediately, do so (such as simply completing the list to correct item, and completing the steps on that being to blow), or, do one of the L & N Repair assessments to find what is wrong and then correct it and handle the being to blow.

AUDITOR AND C/S QUALIFICATIONS

The requirements for an auditor or C/S to use this NOTs L & N technique as given in NOTs Series 47 and 49 are very important and it is a High Crime to violate these. ONLY auditors and C/Ses who can L & N successfully may be permitted to use this technique, and then only after they have completed the stated requirements in NOTs 47, 49, the referenced materials and this issue. Until then, they may only use the other NOTs techniques, but not the L & N Step.

PROGRAMMING THE WHAT/WHO L & N STEP

Note that in NOTs SerieS 47, page 3, under "Warning" it is stated: "...it will be necessary to use this technique of listing for the item, at some point on any case being audited on NED for OTs,...". PreOTs being started on NOTs should not be put onto this technique at the beginning of the NOTs Advance Program, no until the PreOT is well advanced through the Program. The other NOTs techniques are fully adequate and very successful and most of the NOTs 26R Program can be done before resorting to the NOTs L & N technique.

Only shift to the L & N procedure when the PreOT is well advanced through the Program and encounters the phenomenon described in NOTs 47, page 1. Early in the NOTs Program the case is fat with charge that will slough off easily and with the use of NOTs techniques other than the listing technique given in NOTs Series 47. On a case that has been prematurely started on the L & N Step, prefer to use the earlier NOTs techniques and do not overwork the L & N Step until the case is ready for it, (this doesn't mean that one would stop the L & N technique altogether on such a case).

When the case is ready for the NOTs What/Who L & N Step, and provided the auditor and C/S are qualified to run it, then the case is indoctrinated on the procedure and begun (per NOTs 47, 49 and this issue). If all the NOTs auditors and C/Ses are not fully qualified, then the PreOT could be reassigned when ready for the L & N Step.

In general most cases will follow the steps as laid out on NOTs 26R and 27, as this is the research/developmental sequence of NOTs and most cases will follow the same sequence and pattern and phenomena.

NOTs trainees should also follow this same sequence and only train on the later techniques after they have had experience and wins on auditing the earlier NOTs Program steps with the earlier techniques. Those are very easy to do, very rewarding and will enable the new NOTs auditor to gain familiarity and confidence.

L. RON HUBBARD
FOUNDER
as assisted by
Senior C/S Int

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HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex HCO BULLETIN OF 14 FEBRUARY 1981   NED for OTs Series 54 C O N F I D E N T I A L CLARIFICATION ON ACKNOWLEDGING IN THE VALENCE TECHNIQUE

(Ref: NOTs Series 7, VALENCES)

It is very important that you have the Pre-OT acknowledge the answer the BT or cluster gives to the "What are you?" question (see NOTs Series 7). Even if you got an F/N on the answer, you still acknowledge and you will broaden the F/N.

We ask "Who are you?" to he same spot and we don't feed them the answer. They sometimes comm lag, (don't get impatient with the comm lag), sometimes it's a few seconds comm lag, and then you get the answer. You may have to repeat the question (see NOTs Series 7). The "Me" answer will normally LFBD, and if that LFBD isn't very marked, you make sure you do the next step of acknowledging the "Me" answer. In any event you could still acknowledge, but if the LFBD was pronounced the probability is that he's gone. The auditor having the Pre-OT acknowledge the "Me" answer can guarantee a blow. Now is this acknowledgement produces another read then we know it guaranteed a blow. Sometimes you get another LFBD on the acknowledgement step, and sometimes you get a broadening of the F/N.

CAUTIONS

Sometimes, quite often in fact, this short-circuits. You ask: "What are you?" and the guy says "Me" and blows. And sometimes you are patiently trying to go through all these steps and you get a series of blows. A blow or a series of blows can occur at any ime during NOTs. You don't then continue the steps of this Technique, as that BT or cluster has gone! Sometimes a series of blows or an automatic blow will go into a Persistant F/N or a Floating Tone Arm and in either instance you would end off the session.

Also you can get repetitive blows if a case is running pretty clean, and you can get blows without BDs. There isn't much left on the charge and it isn't registering on the meter to amount to anything.

On "Hello and OK" you sometimes get a blow. The BT or cluster doesn't answer up and run "Hellos and OKs" repetitively to get it into comm. Rarely, it will suddenly blow, and it would then be senseless to go on trying to run "Hello and OK", or anything else, as that one has gone.

Some auditors have been known to ask a pc if it blew, during the Valence Technique steps. Even nag the Pre-OT, "Did it blow?", "Has it gone?", "Still around?". This could be due to the auditor's unfamiliarity with his meter, and not recognizing a blow when he sees it occur on the meter. Or, possibly some may have confused another technique, Date/Locate, with this technique. You of course always Date to blow, and Locate to blow, and the auditor could get the idea that he should carry over Date/Locate technique into Valence Technique.

It is very poor practice to ask the Pre-OT if it blew during NOTs Valence Technique. You could cause the BT or cluster to submerge or be suppressed, or you could invalidate a blow that did occur.

This doesn't mean that you can't ever ask if it blew. You could ask if it is "still around?" and a read would confirm that it is. But this type of question is asking for a missingness . It is no longer there. There's a large percentage of pcs that never see the blow, and it isn't something to see, because it's a missingness. This type of question can be difficult for the Pre-OT to answer as there is now nothing there for him to perceive as it has gone. If the meter BD'd and F/Ned on the "Me" step, it would be idiocy to then ask if it blew, of course it did! But if your meter didn't tell you it blew, you could be in a quandary and have to solve that problem. But you wouldn't interrupt the Valence Technique to ask if it blew, and you wouldn't get into nagging the Pre-OT. You just follow on through with your steps, and particularly if you had the Pre-OT ack the "Me" answer, then you got your blow alright. So this concern about whether the BT blew is misplaced.

These points are stated so that the auditor will understand what he is doing, why he is doing it, and what manifestations he can expect to occur, because these manifestations will occur. This technique is a very positive series of steps, and they go in that sequence. If these steps are done as given, you will get the result, and if departed from or if there is an error, you can definitely expect to get that manifestation too, i.e. too broad an attention span and you will get restim.

It is necessary that the auditor and C/S understand these points as this is not a technique that can be done rotely or robotically.

L. RON HUBBARD FOUNDER Assisted by Snr C/S Int Assistant Accepted by the BOARD OF DIRECTORS of the CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY OF CALIFORNIA

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HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex HCO BULLETIN OF 15 JANUARY 1982   NED for OTs Series 55 C O N F I D E N T I A L VARYING THE AREAS

Session by session and item by item, when spotting something to list, it is best to work a different area than the last item.

This is true when there still seem to be more in the last area worked.

Example: one session, top of head; next session, even though head is slightly massy although one has blown, work, let's say, an area in the back where one is spotted. Then, that listed, handled and blown, one can go back to the head.

The operating rule that seems best is not to work the same area twice in succession.

One also must be sure to work behind as well as in front and from different angles from in front and behind. By continuing to work from the front only, on and on, builds up an imbalance that can increase duress.

One also must remember to not always work close in: from time to time check out areas that are as much as many feet from the body.

When one has worked one, two or three areas, one is likely to get a persistent F/N, very wide, and that is the time to lay off for now, end session and begin again later - in a few hours or next day. If you keep plugging on after a good win, you are actually overrunning a persistent F/N and it clears up by simply indicating that.

Forcing forward past a good win can give you a temporary pack up; so you actually make less progress than you would have if you short-sessioned as you are supposed to.

L. RON HUBBARD
FOUNDER

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