6206C26 SHSpec-164  E-Meter Quality

     [Some of the data in this tape is contained in HCOB 28Jun62 Dirty Needles
-- How to Smooth Out Needles".]

     The whole crux of auditing today is the sensitivity of the E-meter and
the ability of the operator to read one.  There is a recent bulletin on how to
clean up a needle.  [See above reference.] Needles can get rough and active.
A clean needle reacts when the auditor speaks and does nothing the rest of the
time.  There is a gradient running from occasional ticks and tocks on up.  A
clean needle reads right.  It gives instant reads, not prior reads.  A needle
that is twitchy gives prior reads, because the PC is, as it were,
segmentalized mentally.  Next there is a needle that is reacting continuously
enough that one of its actions coincides with your instant read, and you get
reads that are equivocal because the needle is so active that you can't read
it.  The most extreme dirty needle is in such constant and continuous motion
that you could never get an instant read on it, because it has no blank spot
for the end of the sentence to go into.  Fortunately, you can smooth out this
kind of needle with havingness.  [See p. 249 for more data an the effect of
havingness on reads.] This is fortunate because you can't use the needle to
find anything wrong and fix it.

     The path of thought transmission is from the thought in one person, th
the recorded symbol, to a relay in someone else's mind, to the thought again.
That is why you can find a goal in English which was originally expressed in
Phoenician.  [The thought is there prior to the symbol by which it is
transmitted .]

     The dirtiest needle would be the one [from the bank] that registered the
least thought and generated the most thought:  auto-generated reactive
thought.  You are watching a circuit go "Zip!" and "Zap!".  The auditor has no
impingement on this bank.  The restimulations that the mind is getting are
often, in this case, from the external environment at all.  This person is
totally introverted and is just auto-generating restimulation.  Circuits are
making each other think of things.  The PC thinks of a cat.  Then a circuit
thinks of another cat, and another circuit then thinks of a tiger.  Then
another one thinks of tank cars, which leads to milk.  He has had sufficient
restimulation in the past to last for trillenia.  He is wholly on the
backtrack, and the physical universe doesn't even exist.

     There is a worse one yet: the stage four needle.  This is the same
restimulation going on all the time.  The stage four needle is like a rotating
neon light.  It won't react even to the auditor kicking the PC in the shine.
There isn't even cross-restimulation.  There is also a reverse stage four
needle that goes down stick, swoop up.  These stage four needles represent a
fixed condition: one thought.

     There is another condition: the stuck needle, which doesn't move or
react.  This could be a stage four needle stuck in a ridge, as though the neon
sign got stuck while rotating.  With high sensitivity, you will get some read
out of this PC.

Any needle that doesn't clean isn't all right.  The reason you are running
CCH's, havingness, prepchecking, rudiments, and so forth, is to get a clean
needle.  If you've got a clean needle why bother doing it?  A clean needle
reads when you say so.  It may rise and fall a bit as the PC breathes, but
that's all.  If you have that, you can go ahead with your goals assessment.
There is no reason not to.

     What is the best operation to clean a needle?  LRH has cleaned some up
with fish and fumble, hitting the middle of circuits, etc., but the best
method is to put the PC into a state of confidence.  This is done with
predictability of sessions.  In most cases, it is a mistake to try to sort nut
all the needle actions, particularly on a needle that is continually
agitated.  How can you fix that one up?  It is the case that most needs 3GA,
which, however, you can't run on it.  A person with a dirty needle has had his
purpose shifted too many times.  He has lots of conflicts.  CCH's, run very
gently, would help.  You must be minimally random and maximally predictable.
Excessive randomness is the main mistake of psychiatry.  The more drastic the
case, the more drastic the measures they use.  What insane people need is
utter predictability and no randomity at all, just motionless objects and
quiet space.  The crazier the person is, the more predictable is the
handling.  Get quiet attendants.  Spread people out so that they can ignore
each other.  Have some motionless figures around that will be there tomorrow.
Allow no mail or phones.  Get some boulders.  Food, rest, and predictability
are the keynote.

     You have no business auditing someone who is really nutty.  They are a
bundle of alter-is.  Give them a chance for the confusion to blow off, and
they will be OK.

     It is not true that an index to insanity is a constantly moving needle.
As an auditor, you can create a dirty needle in anyone, just by not getting
ruds clean, being unpredictable in a session, forgetting things, leaving them
out, and changing frequently without completing cycles.  But the PC wouldn't
be driven insane, and some insane people would have perfectly clean needles.
You could sit them down, find their goal, and audit them on out to clear.
This is true because insanity is a specialized condition.  It is the sensation
of trying to reach and not being able to.  You can turn on this sensation in
someone by saying, "Get the idea that you must reach but you can't reach, and
that you must withdraw but you can't withdraw." If he gets these ideas, he
will feel stark raving mad for a fraction of a second.  Insanity is more of a
sensation than anything else.  Total unpredictability produces almost the same
effect.

     Running havingness tends to key-out circuits, although not invariably.
Predictability also does this.  So if the auditor ran a smooth, gentle series
of CCH's, circuits would key out and the PC's needle would clean up.  If this
doesn't happen, either you are not being predictable or this person needs to
confide in you and you need prepchecking, the high-scale companion to CCH's.
Or he needs rudiments and havingness.

     If you have audited the PC for four to five sessions and his needle is
getting dirtier, you have been auditing on too high a gradient of
unpredictability.  If you are running CCH's and prepchecking, you will have to
undercut it by dropping back to model session, CCH's and havingness, with no
complicated actions on the CCH's.  The dirtier the needle, the simpler you
need to get.  Decide to get simpler after about three sessions.  Your
concentration should be in the direction of a clean needle.

     If the needle is getting dirtier as you audit the PC, suspect the meter
first, assuming that you are reading it right and doing perfect model session
and ruds.  Evidently, the meter isn't getting the rudiments in.  Maybe the
leads are disconnected or the battery may be down, or the meter may be
broken.  This is the test: say to the PC, "Do you have a PTP?" You see the
meter is clean.  Ask the PC if he wanted to say anything about that.  If he
has generally got something to add, the fact is that your meter doesn't go as
far south as you have to go to get rudiments in.  Auditing with rudiments out
is the only thing that will dirty up a needle.  After a session where the
rudiments are actually, but unobservably, out, the PC feels as roughed up as a
violin being used for a canoe paddle.  And after a session where the rudiments
were thoroughly in, the PC feels sleek as a cat who has been fed fish.

     If your meter never detects anything reactive on a PC, it isn't sensitive
enough.  This can happen when the PC is near clear also, when there is not
enough reactivity left to show on the meter.  At this point also, you have to
ask the PC if there is anything else.  Oddly enough, you will still get reads
adequate for goals.

     If you run a PC with rudiments only partially in, the PC will wind up
rough.  If you run a session with rudiments thoroughly in, the PC winds up
very smooth.  The needle gets dirty because circuits are pulled in.  Circuits
are pulled in because the PC is 'way back on the track and low on havingness.
You get the PC out of circuits and up to PT by running extroversion processes
and bringing his havingness up.  The worse you audit the PC, the lower his
havingness will be and the more you will get circuits keyed in and the dirtier
the needle will get.