6307C24 SHSpec-289 ARC Breaks and the Comm Cycle

     Current model session is pretty short.  Since-mid-ruds and pulling missed
withholds is better than the previous beginning ruds.  An ARC break assessment
at end of session is much better than any end-ruds we had in the old model
session, if all lines are cleaned up as they read.  Presession stuff is the
same as always.  She rest of the model session goes like this:

     1. Goals for the session.

     2. Since-mid-ruds, if TA up or needle dirty.

     3. Check for and pull any missed withholds.

     4. Body of the session.

          a. Use whatever is necessary to get him through.

          b. Chat a little before ending the body of the session.

     5. ARC break assessment, if the PC is not very happy at end of session.
        The wording of this is still very fixed.  The only problem is on what
        to do if a rud question is clean.  Asking the PC if he agrees it is
        clean can cause an ARC break if the PC feels that it is impossible for
        the question to be really clean.

     6. Take up each goal from (1), above.  Acknowledge the PC for each one
        made.

     7. Ask for any gains made in session.  Don't milk this question.
        Acknowledge these by saying "Thank you for making these gains."

     8. Can squeeze.

     9. End of session.

     The reason for a rough needle on the PC is the auditor's out-TR-2 and
TR-4.  "Clean up TR-2 and TR-4, and you'll clean up more needles than you can
shake a stick at.  It isn't the significance of it, you see.  It's the calm
flow of the auditing cycle." During ARC break assessments, "you normally
consider a dirty needle [to be] a withhold [or] something the PC has done."
But weak or overly heavy TR-2 can do it as well.

     There are two comm cycles in an auditing cycle:

          1. Auditor ------------> PC.

          2. PC      ------------> auditor.

These cycles can operate independently.  Both have to be very acceptable
before you get a good auditing cycle.  The PC doesn't even have to say
anything for communication to exist.  Thus, from the auditor, you can get an
R-factor as an independent comm cycle, and from the PC you can get a PC
origination as an independent comm cycle from the PC, as in TR-4.  In this
case, an acknowledgment is not even really necessary.  An artificial
acknowledgment can knock an origination off its base.  You can handle these
with a head nod or a facial expression.  The PC origination only needs a ghost
of an acknowledgment for the PC to know that the auditor got it.  If it is
something that seems funny to the PC and to the auditor, it is OK for the
auditor just to laugh with the PC.  If you can "project your think tank", you
don't need TR-2.  Sometimes an acknowledgment can indicate no understanding
on the part of the auditor.  The PC only needs to be sure that you
understand.

     A good auditor of children obeys kids' auditing commands.

     In R3R, you don't have to ask the PC whether he has done the command.  On
"Move to the beginning of the incident," he doesn't have to tell you that he
has done it.  You will get a meter-flick when he is there, and you can send
him through from that point.  If the PC gives you gobbledygook, do not tell
the PC that you didn't understand.  That is a powerful phrase to use.
Furthermore, by saying that, all you have done, essentially, is to ask him to
repeat what he has just said.  This is a peculiarity of Homo Sapiens.  You
just get the same words again.  That doesn't help.  You are just asking for a
complete ARC break.  You want the PC to vary the statement.  What you want is
an explanation or a broader statement, so you have to be able to get him to do
that without invalidating him.

     Here we get the basis of the ARC break: there is a bunged-up
communication cycle, whatever else there is.  What is bunged up about it is
that the communication is not fully detected and understood.  Lacking those
points, there is no comm cycle.  The intention of the PC is cause, distance,
effect, and that cycle is interfered with so that the communication is not
fully detected.  This is the woof and warp of all ARC breaks:  communication
that is partially but not fully detected.  Or, you could detect something but
not receive it.  For instance, say the PC says that he feels fine and doesn't
need to continue.  You say, "well, that's fine, but we will continue, to fill
in the time." Here, the PC sees that the communication is not received,
because no action is taken.  You said that it should be something else before
it arrived at you.  Therefore there is a busted communication line.  You can
get a roaring ARC break on this.  This is a primary cause of ARC breaks.  In
this case, A, R, and C are out because U is out.  Actually, the communication
is detected.

     Expectations come into this.  You can yell at a rock.  Since you don't
expect detection, you don't ARC break.  Auditing is different because the
expectations are different.

     There are no other kinds of ARC breaks.  All of them are based on the
communication cycle.  The whole definition of bypassed charge is "partially
detected".  It had to be partially detected, because it must have been stirred
up.  "A comm cycle, once begun, must go through." If it doesn't, there will be
trouble, eventually.

     You would think that people at cocktail parties would always be bypassing
charge on each other, because they are always partially detecting that someone
spoke.  The only reason wog meat bodies don't explode during cocktail parties
is that they are armored.  "They don't expect anybody to hear them, so there's
never any partially detected charge [comm]." It is very dangerous to ask for a
communication and then fail to acknowledge what is received as a result of
your request.  You are inviting an explosion in doing that.

     For instance, an auditor asks for the "earliest incident".  The PC can't
give it and ARC breaks, because the question kicks in an earlier incident than
the one he can see, which he cannot reach.  Thus the PC's bank gets only
partially detected, and you get an ARC break.  If the time track is like a
bunch of mines laid out in a line and activated magnetically, let's say you
want mine number 4.  You throw a magnet to mine number 8, then you wonder why
you get an explosion.  Mine number 8 speaks, but it is only partially
detected.  One way to locate the earlier incident is to find its order of
magnitude of years ago.

     A comm cycle, once begun, must go through, or there will be an upset.
E.g. the President promises to communicate to everyone, but lacks the ability to carry through.  This gives the background for the revolution.

     People who don't know anything about the communication cycle find this
all so threatening and dangerous that they just decide to withdraw from
communicating, because they don't understand what is happening or how to
remedy the upset.  Desperation only enters in when communication goes out.
Think of the sessions when you have gotten desperate.  Your response to the PC
ebbs and flows to the degree that you could put a comm between yourself and
the aberration that's bothering him and straighten it out and see the evidence
of its discharge." You don't worry about a case for any other reason.  When
you can't seem to reach the PC or the bank with your comm, you get worried and
upset.  When you are upset as an auditor, see what communication you are not
getting home to the PC, and you, as an auditor will feel better.

     If the PC is miserable, a comm cycle is awry, but this could happen in
various ways, from the PC's point of view.  "Some comm cycle has begun.  It
hasn't been ... fully detected, ... and it hasn't been understood." That is
the basis of low ARC or ARC breaks in your PCs.  Even when the PC doesn't have
an ARC break, realizing this point will help you understand something about
your PC that you hadn't seen before.  Keep on figuring out whether you are
bypassing any charge.  The basis of low ARC or ARC breaks is:

     1. Some comm cycle has begun.

     2. It hasn't been fully detected, but has been slightly detected.

     3. It hasn't been understood.

Actually, in any PC you are going to see an out comm cycle, because he isn't
OT.  The telepathic cycle is usually out.  There can be the mundane result of
the PC not having ever understood the command and at least faintly knowing
it.  The reason that it is an ARC break is that the non-understanding brings
in A and R.  It is the A and R factors that tend to make the C not
understood.  Something didn't go through.

     "An incomplete comm cycle always results in BPC." You should know that
that simple little outness can bring the living lightning.  You should also
know that the cause and effect always work in that direction.  The
"catastrophe" that you are handling has a simple little outness as its origin,
not a complex bear.

     The basic things that won't go through and get detected are A, R, and C.
And the basic things that these three face are M, E, S, and T.  So you have
the livingness of the person, ARC vs. the material universe, or MEST.  Or it
is the individual vs. time.  That is what keeps the A, K, and C from
completing the communication cycle.  There is a lie in the individual's
communication with time or with time's communication with the individual.

     "Bypassed charge originates as the beginning of a comm cycle" that is not
wholly detected or understood.  Charge is energy excited and channeled to go
in a certain direction.  But it never arrives, because it is not wholly
detected or understood.  So it always remains as BPC, then explodes in a
dispersal of some sort.  It does not always explode.  Sometimes it just
results in a downtone PC who is "not feeling so well, lately".

     "We know the magic of ... the explosive nature of interpersonal
relationships." Knowing these things, you should be able to handle a session
better.  Don't be afraid that "handling" means always doing what the PC says.
Just let the PC know that you got his origination and understood it, and go
ahead and do what you are doing.  "You've got to be an expert in the detection of a communication that has begun.  The better you are, ... the fewer ARC breaks you'll have."

     The ARC break assessment covers the number of types of comm that can be
started and not detected in the activity you are doing, so that you can find
the correct BPC and not have to shotgun it with something like, "An earlier
incident was restimulated." Deciding which list to use could be a problem.
Look in the right place.  "If the ARC break is in the session and you do an
R3R ARC break form, you [won't] find it." Therefore, use the right list.  If
you don't get the BPC, you are using the wrong list.  Get the right one.  Just
realize that deciding which is the right list could be a problem and use
another list if you didn't find she ARC break.  The main mistake you could
make is not to be sure everything is fine with the PC after you have "handled"
the ARC break.  Make sure that you are right about the BPC.

     Lists "locate the type of charge bypassed, the type of comm cycle that
began and was never completed....  Now it's up to you to...  locate and
indicate to the PC the charge.  The charge is not on the list.  It is in the
PC....  The assessment is not the location," even though the magic is good
enough so that you can often get a result just by indicating what was
assessed.  You only actually get a type of charge, not the charge, with the
assessment.  You must still locate and indicate the specific charge.  If you
tell the PC what you got on the assessment and he feels better, fine.  Let
sleeping dogs lie.  But, if he doesn't feel better or if there is still charge
there, find the exact charge that was bypassed.  You may need another list to
get it.

     So there are five steps to handling BPC with an ARC break assessment:

     1. Find out if there is an ARC break.

     2. Assess the appropriate list.

     3. Locate the exact BPC.

     4. Indicate it to the PC.

     5. Check whether the indication was all right with the PC.

If it is a wrong date, check the one's you have gotten, or see if it is in the
first or the last half of the session.