6404C14 SHSpec-15 The Classification and Gradation Program

     The classification program applies to auditors.  For PCs, there is the
gradation, or levels, program.  Such a program became necessary as it became
evident that no one was bringing people up the line from no reality to higher
levels.  The levels became necessary to bring the general public up the line
on a gradient.  What gave auditors trouble was that PCs didn't know anything
about what they were doing or where they were going.  In the West, there is no
tradition of philosophy in practical life.  The healing tradition is one of
failed help.  Since time immemorial, members of the public have had nothing
but failed help.  That is what the member of the public compares us to:
psychiatry, etc.  So people have no tradition of treatment, healing,
improvement, ability, etc.  There is no tradition of self-betterment.  Our
biggest task is to define scientology to people, where there is no datum to
compare it to, no gradient, and no common communication ground, so they can't
get their wits wrapped around scientology.  The PC just sits there in the
midst of confusion, getting "processed", without knowing what processing is.
So we have to create, not only a science, but also a communication.  Eighty
percent of untrained people will vanish because they never got out of earlier
practices that they didn't like.  Auditors were losing these PCs because of
not getting the PCs educated to know what they were in.

     Furthermore, the auditor in the field was upset about PCs having to take
a formal course, to get up to Class IV.  So there is a compromise.  The PC
must get educated as he gets processes, but the training is done by the
auditor, and the PC must pass training requirements.  LRH proposes a
checksheet to go before each grade, on which the PC will get checked out,
before going on to the next level.  The PC learns definitions.  He gets an
idea that there is something here that aligns with his goals.  The PC failed
in his goals a long time ago and is in apathy unless someone else helps him.
Going on up to Level IV, the PC would have to be trained on a clay table.
This would never have been possible without line plots and goals plots.  Even
now, the PC needs good training to understand GPM's and to be able to follow
commands about them.  What's more, when he gets on up the line, he won't be a
completely ignorant OT.

     There are three routes to getting up the line:

     1.  The PC route.

     2.  The co-auditor route.

     3.  The classed (professional) auditor route.

On the PC route, a grade is something a PC has, that compares with the levels
of scientology.  The PC is not well-disciplined.  LRH says that he has found
it hard to audit someone right off the street or even to get him to answer a
sensible question.  Such a person re-interprets it, etc.  This gets
straightened out as he goes up the grades.  Each grade has an ability that the
PC attains.  The PC's conquest of the environment is the index of his grade.
This gives him a measure of his advancement.  The grades are a gradient scale
of confront of the environment.  For instance, at Level III, the PC is not
always dwelling on things that happened in the past.  He has relative freedom
from the past.  There is a difference between hurting and worrying about
hurting.  At Level IV, the PC has stopped trying to make everybody wrong and
himself right.  Thus the levels are defined in terms of "abilities regained".
Processing improves confront of the environment; so does training.  Training
gives the PC something to look forward towards instead of providing merely
negative gain.  A book can evaluate for a PC without the auditor having to.

     An auditor can process a PC up to the Class that the auditor is trained
to.

     The second route is that of the co-auditor.  On this route, a person
isn't classified, but receives a certificate as a co-auditor.  He may not
charge for his processing or call himself a professional.  He has been through
the training courses, but he hasn't been classified.  The co-auditor can get
an HCA certificate, but not an HPA certificate.  Someone who goes on through
the academy and gets classed, gets the HPA certificate.  He has been formally
trained, examined, judged competent to audit PCs, etc.  A person can co-audit,
getting auditing in exchange for auditing.  Sooner or later he will either get
up to getting professional Class VI auditing or he will get on a Class VI
course at a central organization and go up that way.

     The professional or classed auditor gets his training, gets his
classification, and now has some selectivity about his co-audit.  He probably
gets audited by another pro.  He is likely to get more precise processing this
way, and any errors would be remedied quickly.  He would probably get up the
levels rapidly.  Furthermore, PCs can help him get further trained by getting
him more PCs.

     There are points in training that are easily overlooked or forgotten, no
matter how much they are emphasized and stressed.  These get straightened up
when auditors come to Saint Hill.

     The classifications for auditors are stiffened up, changing the original
issue to this degree.  Someone can go to the academy and get his certificate,
but when he wants to be classed, he has to be good at that level.  If someone
has certificates up to Level IV but no classifications, he would have to get
classed up from Class I on a tough requirement for actual performance.

     All training and all courses depend on:

     1.  Having valuable material or data to impart.  We've got that in
         scientology.

     2.  The material must be codified.  In must be in a condition in which it
         can be imparted to others, so that it communicates.

     3.  The material must be instructed, because the questions that will
         arise will be individual to the student.  Instruction consists of
         handling those questions by showing where the correct answer is.

The second point is being handled now:  to clarify, codify, and simplify the
available material down to the necessary amount.  There are only about thirty
operations that cover all of auditing at all levels.

     Instruction is the most random area, since different levels of
application and understanding may be demanded of the person being checked out
on a certain piece of data.  Education should not be merely to keep someone
occupied.