6209C25 SHSpec-193 Current Trends

     The main difficulty we are having right now is not clearing people, 2500
years after it was proposed ss a possibility.  Clearing is not something you
achieve because of faith or right belief or any such trap.  Our only interest
in discipline is in getting the job done.  We do need a certain number of
safeguards to see that it is done right, since doing it wrong not only doesn't
get it done, but also gives the subject a bad reputation.  People need to
realize that clearing is a precise activity, not something done casually by
the untrained.

     LRH knows we are successful when we get attacked by squirrels and when we
get counterfeited.  "Concept therapy" is one such counterfeit, picked up in
1952 or so.  The chief movers in that appeared at the clearing congress,
unfortunately.  The ethics of clearing are the effectiveness of clearing.  He
who hasn't been trained cannot do it and should not try, since he can bungle
it.  You can have an unfortunate win when you have a flukey lucky break.  We
want technology that works on everybody.  Dynamic assessments [See pp.
305-308, above.] have this broad applicability.  It becomes unethical to clear
somebody non-standardly in order to keep the rules in use.  "You clear
somebody according to the rules and take advantage of every lucky break," as
long as you realize that it will probably never recur.  But don't go looking
for the break and drop the rules.  Broad clearing technology must be preserved
as it is and safeguarded.

     Confusion occurs when an action that should have occurred did not.  All
of a sudden extraordinary solutions are being required.  Whenever an
extraordinary solution is demanded of you, in auditing, it is only because the
usual has not been followed.  "The unusual [is] demanded of you because the
usual has not been done." When you see a demand for an extraordinary solution,
you should:

     1. Fix whatever is wrong with the PC.

     2. Get the auditor straightened out.  That is vital, or the errors will
        just continue.

     3. Find out who dropped the ball in training the goofy auditor and
        everyone along the line who certified him, and get them to handle.

If you only handle the immediate situation and never handle the source of the
confusion, that confusion and worse will continue to occur.

     When it seems that the situation is totally out of your control, remember
that "you can always turn a force around and make it serve you." This
principle is used in judo.  Tennis players also do this.  This is a trick that
is particularly adapted to this universe.  So when you hear that AMA certified
"auditors" are going to clear the U.S. Army Air Force, set yourself up as a
small civil defense rescue unit; publicize what is happening.  Be very
prepared to scream.  Set up this civil defense unit "to take care of the
emergency".  This may give the would-be malefactor second thoughts, if you
make it very clear to him that you are prepared to handle the disaster.

     We are walking into an emergency situation.  The demand is going to
produce an enormously confused area.  In fact, it has already started to, for
LRH, the same as it did in 1950.  It will all come out all right as long as we
hold to the standard and keep the show on the road and don't tolerate any bad
clearing.  It won't come out right if we all say, "Well, my job is just to
audit." Japan has just blossomed as a new area of interest.  It is a vital,
energetic country that will need translated material, etc.  A nation that is
whipped in war will go from the force band into thought.  The thetan never
gives up, so conquest is still their purpose.  No political philosophy will
handle that situation.  They already have some communistic ideas, along with
an emphasis on individuation and independence.  Buddhism was the first
civilizing influence in Japan.  Suddenly now there is an embrace of
scientology, coming from the west with a total impact.