6207C12 SHSpec-174  Meter Reading,

     Scientific research follows certain laws, and we have been rigorous in
following those laws in scientology.  When you can get a research problem down
to one variable: Voila!  You are there!  During the last couple of months,
having observed that auditors weren't uniformly getting unvarying results, LRH
took every variable out of technology that he could, stripping it down and
testing it, to the point where we now have model session and repetitive
prepchecking.  The meter, once developed, had to be refined, and it was.  Yet
pcs were still wobbly at times.

     So last night, LRH watched three auditors to see what they were doing and
found the one variable: the meter read.  It works out this way.  All you have
to do to louse up a session is:

          1. Clean one thing that is clean.

       or 2. Miss cleaning something that reacts.

There is little to choose as to which is the most serious.

     A person has a certain knowingness, no matter how occluded and packed in
he is.  [The thetan always knows.] There is a instinct, as intuitiveness.  He
knows.  You can't fool a PC.  An auditor who tries is misguided.  A PC knows
when a question is hot, even if he doesn't know the answer.  He also knows
when a question is cold.  He has a something-nothing sensitivity.  He requires
help to know what is there, or to get a high degree of certainty that there is
nothing there.  His intuitive feelingness is not articulate and there is a
need to transfer it over into an analytical knowingness.

     When you invalidate the knowingness of a thetan, you will get trouble.
The thetan can put up with this, but he doesn't have to like it.  He doesn't
like it, even though he is used to it and has put up with a got of it and been
overwhelmed by it.  He has used it as a pitch on others and to overwhelm
others.

     A PC's ARC breaks with his auditor are much more serious than his ARC
breaks with others.  You have heightened the PC's intuitive feelingness by
putting him in session.  Now if you tell him a rud is out when it is in or in
when he knows it is out, he has a long way to fall from his heightened
in-session awareness and elevated tone level.  It is a severe shock, and he
gets an ARC break.  He is now out of agreement with the auditor to the degree
that he was formerly in agreement.  "If you've got an agreement that's built
as high as the Empire State building, the first scrap of disagreement will
appear as high as [that]." The PC will feel awful.  He is finally on the road
to truth after all the trillenia, and here is a falsity.  It is very
upsetting.  Cleaning a clean is the mistake that is most mysterious, because
the PC can't find what is wrong, because it is nothing.

     You can flub once on TR's and still have the session going OK, but if you
leave one flubbed read, your session will go to pot.  If you are accustomed to
auditing with sloppy metering, you have a completely different idea of what
auditing is like.  The things that are supposed to be in a session aren't
there, and auditing is basically a protest, not letting the auditor get too
close.  Auditing is as fast as a PC is in session, since the more he is in
session, the more easily he blows things.

     A PC is there to be audited and is very persistent, as a thetan.  A
thetan can he squashed and overwhelmed.  Yet he never stops trying.  This is
very noticeable in handling children.  A thetan will keep reaching, using
disabilities to do so if all else fails.

     If you set up a perfect session and then and a wild wrongness at some
point, you catch the PC off-balance and he goes into action reactively.  He is
powerless to stop himself from acting.  It is as if you had the bank all
stretched out like a rubber band and someone suddenly let go of one end.  He
is in a mess; he gets overwhelmed and starts dramatizing whatever is handy --
namely, one of thousands of instances where he is still trying.  He will take
such an incident and use it against the auditor.  This can get rather subtle.
The PC can convince the auditor that he has obtained results, but then let
someone else see that he hasn't made any progress.  He does this in such a way
that the auditor will find out about it.

     It is good to know that meter reading is all that is wrong.  Auditors
have learned TR's, model session, and repetitive prepchecking fine.  And we
have taken havingness out of beginning ruds to eliminate that source of
difficulty, when we found that havingness takes the PC's attention off the
bank and extroverts him, which isn't good for putting the PC in session.  It
is better to use O/W to get his havingness up.  This also puts his attention
on the bank.  Your problems with pcs are the same old things:  communication,
control, keeping the PC's attention on what he is doing, getting your question
answered, etc.  You have mastered these things, then sometimes had them
deteriorate, at which point you have been persuaded into unusual solutions, Q
and A, doing something else, getting anxious, etc.  The PC is out of session.
It's baffling.  What happens to cause this out-of-sessionness?  You missed a
meter read.

     This wrongness may be missed by all the instructors and supervisors, who
see all the wrongnesses that follow from it and correct them, to no result.
Lots of other wrongnesses may get located, but they aren't really what wrecks
the session.  The ultimate session wrecker is the mis-read meter.  This ARC
breaks the PC all to Hell.  He will start reading on ARC breaks, not reading
because of ARC breaks, etc., and you wind up with a dog's breakfast.  This
results from the calling of reads that aren't there and missing the ones that
are there: the missed withholds and the missed withholds of nothing.

     If this goes on for many sessions, the PC goes on a self-audit, because
he doesn't trust the meter.  The PC can't have an auditor because he can't
have the meter, so he audits himself.  He gets anxious.  He keeps his own
rudiments in, like a gopher sitting at the edge of his hole, ready to duck.
The PC is running the session on himself purely because of bad meter calls.

     So metering, above all, must be perfect.  There is no tolerance whatever
in it.  You must not miss a single read.  Meter reading must be perfect, or
you become a dangerous auditor.  A dangerous auditor is one who might miss a
read -- just one -- in a session.  If a read is equivocal, say so and check
again.