- called "auditing" by which the auditor (practitioner) "listens and commands." The auditor and the preclear (patient) are together out of doors or in a quiet place where they will not be disturbed or where they are not being subjected to interrupting influences. The purpose of the auditor is to give the preclear certain and exact commands which the preclear can follow and perform. The purpose of the auditor is to increase the ability of the preclear. The Auditor's Code is the governing set of rules for the general activity of auditing. (PAB 87)
- the principle of making an individual look at his own existence, and improve his ability to confront what he is and where he is. (Aud 21 UK)
- a series of methods arranged on an increasingly deep scale of bringing the preclear to confront the no-confront sources of his aberrations and leading them to a simple, powerful, effective being! (HCO PL 18 Sept 67)
- the verbal exercising of a patient (preclear) in exact Scn processes. (PAB 87)
- processing is not getting data out of the preclear; it is not assembling his life for him as a complete, consecutive play—it is increasing his self-determinism and his right to reason. (DAB, Vol. II, p. 70 1951-52)
- a procedure by which an individual recovers his self-determinism. No procedure which does not bring about increased self-determinism is processing. (Abil 114A)