HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex

     HCO BULLETIN OF 3 DECEMBER 1978

All Auditors
All C/Ses
NED Checksheet


            UNREADING FLOWS

   Refs:
   HCOB 5 Aug. 78    INSTANT READS
   HCOB 25 May 62    E-METER INSTANT READS
   HCOB 28 Feb. 71   C/S Series 24
                     METERING READING ITEMS
   HCOB 8 June 61    E-METER WATCHING
   HCOB 27 May 70R   UNREADING QUESTIONS
     Rev. 3.12.78    AND ITEMS


EACH FLOW OF AN ITEM OR QUESTION IS CHECKED FOR A READ BEFORE 
RUNNING IT. UNREADING FLOWS ARE NOT RUN.

One of the governing laws of auditing is that you don't run 
unreading items. It doesn't matter what you are auditing. You 
don't run unreading items. And you don't run unreading flows. You 
don't run an unreading anything. Ever. For any reason.

Auditing is aimed at reactivity. You run what reacts on the meter 
because it reacts and is therefore part of the reactive mind. A 
read means there is charge present and available to run. Running 
reading items, flows and questions is the only way to make a pc 
better. This is our purpose in auditing. To run unreading flows, 
etc., requires the pc to run "analytical" answers or to "run" 
things that aren't there or to put something there to "run."

The most trouble you can get a pc into is running him on 
uncharged items or flows. For an auditor to sit in session 
watching a meter that didn't read, looking expectantly at the pc 
for an answer to an uncharged question, flow or item is a GAE and 
will wreck cases faster than anything you can do.

So you must check questions, flows or items before running 
anything. If it doesn't read, you just say "Thank you" and go on 
to the next one. You would, of course, use the buttons to ensure 
nothing was suppressed, invalidated or misunderstood before 
leaving an unreading item, flow or question.

This is probably one of the reasons that it has been observed 
that I can audit a pc for two and one-half hours and get the same 
result that another auditor might get in twenty-five hours. 
There's nothing mysterious about it. I never run a pc on things 
that aren't charged. And I don't miss reads.

I expect no less from you.


L. RON HUBBARD
Founder

LRH:jk.gm