6308C15 SHSpec-295 The Tone Arm

     A meter that only had a tone arm would be useful to teach auditors to
keep the tone arm moving.  It should have the same numbers.  It should
probably also have a one-handed electrode.  It should be very small and
rugged.  Ideally, it should be able to go "through the bottom" with no stop.
You could hang it on the PC with a belt and keep him on it for CCH's.  It
would show discharge of charge.

     The minimum TA you should get is 0.25 divisions per twenty minutes
(0.75divisions per hour).  A small amount of TA is enough for healing.  A
needle blow-off is enough.  R3T or R2T consist of putting in the itsa line and
dating.  Even 0.1 division per twenty minutes is enough to blow a somatic.
That is enough for healing, but not enough to make the PC feel better as a
result of auditing.  This explains the oddity that dianetics heals chronic
somatics, with the PC not realizing that auditing had done anything.  You
would heal the illness, but the person still doesn't believe in dianetics.
You haven't helped the person.  That was what drove us out of healing, not the
medicos.  Auditors found it frustrating.

     Without understanding the TA, it is doubtful if the auditor will ever be
able to predict his result.  If you know about the TA, you will know that if
the PC got no TA in a session:

     1. He is liable to throw the auditor a curve at the end of the session.

     2. He is liable to have some sort of upset within twenty-four hours.

     3. You have restimulated charge, because all auditing restimulates
        charge.

These phenomena are not inevitable.  The reason 0/W is not being stressed is
that not all auditors seem able to restimulate overts.  They accept critical
thoughts and motivators and miss all the PC's withholds.  Any auditing that
requires extraordinary targeting and restimulation becomes more difficult to
do.  A difficult part of auditing is in selecting the significances of
restimulation which the auditor must engage in with the PC.  The degree of
restimulation restimulated in the significance becomes an even greater level
of skill, e.g. the question of how much GPM you have to restimulate to get the
GPM run.  The skillful auditor restimulates only the number of items he wants
to run.  The less skilled the auditor, the more items and GPM's he
restimulates in order to get one pair to run.  The whatsit line regulates
restimulation.  On the whatsit line you should:

     1. Know what you are going for.

     2. Know what you have to get to.

     3. Have a heart, and don't over-restimulate.

     4. Avoid Q and A.

     Auditing works by restimulation and blowing of charge.  You can blow a
charge on an early incident of a chain and have the later charge blow off
without registering on the meter.  That speeds things up.  If you don't put in
the itsa line and let the charge blow off, the PC stacks it up and ARC breaks,
etc., etc.  Not restimulating charge at all or restimulating too little charge
equally result in no-auditing.  This will give an ARC break because the
expectation of auditing not fulfilled will itself bleed charge, which is then
bypassed and will blow up.  Restimulating too little charge or no charge is
worse than restimulating too much charge.  For instance, you will get in bad
trouble if you fail to run the PC through an engram twice because he is in
pain.

     Incidently, a thetan in good shape probably enjoyed pain.  You can pick
this up by asking the PC to "Waste some pain," repetitively.  He will cognite
that he can have it.  Sadism isn't peculiar.  It is a lower harmonic of an
actual fact: any sensation is better than no sensation.  Anything is better
than nothing.  That is different from only being able to enjoy pain.  As a
thetan goes upscale, he can stand more effect.

     Most newspaper reporters are unauditable.  If you try to audit them, all
you get is a lot of missed withholds.  The reporter's attention is all "out
there" He has no attention on his case.  This guy has a lot of ARC breaks.  He
is dramatizing overts.

     Indicating BPC gives the PC control over his charge.

     When you run a circuit with no charge on it, it gets a sponge-like
character.  Then it starts picking up charge, whether you want it to or not,
out of the intention that auditing will occur.  It will still bleed charge out
of the bank, and the PC will still ARC break.

     TA measures the adequacy of restimulation.  It shows that an adequate
amount of charge is being restimulated and that it is adequately dispelled
with the itsa line.  There is really miles of margin for error on either side
of the ideal amount of restimulation, where you will still get TA and case
gain.  You can have the PC swamped and still get TA, or you can be running the
PC pretty shallow and still get TA.  There is a lot of tolerance.  Too much or
too little restimulation, beyond this margin of error, causes cessation of
TA.  The meter doesn't tell you if you are getting too much or too little
restimulation.  Most standard processing is strong enough that you are not
restimulating too little charge.  Auditors therefore don't worry much, as long
as there is some TA motion.  Just doing any auditing at all guarantees some
restimulation.  What you are auditing regulates how much charge you are
restimulating.  Using upper-level processes, you are only going to err by
getting over-restimulation, since Niagaras of charge are available.  If you
are going through GPM's without getting TA, it is not because there is too
little restimulation.  It is over-restimulation.

     If there is too much charge, the PC shuts it down and the TA locks up.
You can say that it is unreal to the PC, but unreality consists of:

     1. Force: uncoordinated, raw force.

     2. Invalidation.

     3. Disagreement (on the thought level).

So to say that something is too unreal to the PC is to say that there is too
much charge on it.  The auditor's problem is delicately to put the whatsit
line in the right place so as to bleed off charge where the PC can confront it.  If the discharge line gets overloaded, the PC will explode in an ARC break.  The problem of the auditor, therefore, is not how to restimulate more charge.  It is not the problem of how to empty the Atlantic ocean but how to bleed a few drops off of it.  The PC may beg you for a one-shot clear process.  Here you see the working of the effect scale.  What the PC needs is some small effect, some line to bleed charge that is small enough not to be dangerous.  He is very careful, because everything is a live wire.

     If you run any PC at too high a level, it can become too much for his
body, while still being OK for continuing to get TA.  E.g. a person with
cancer is in an almost continuous ARC break.  However, if you go above the
charge tolerance, then that's it for the TA.

     [LRH comments on Wilhelm Reich's character armor.] Wilhelm Reich had an
esoteric form of charge that he called "orgone". This sort of charge was
thought to be involved in the buildup of arthritic deposits.  Charge is also
what caused things to break around Jung, and it is what gives people odd
somatics, acute or chronic.  Acute charge destimulates in three to ten days.
If it keeps on being restimulated, with no opportunity to be destimulated or
bled off, one gets chronic somatics.  Even then it takes periodic
restimulation at the end of each lifetime to keep a thetan as unaware and
charged up as he is.  There is a preparation series of GPM's that have thirty
to forty wrong dates apiece, with a command to return, sandwiched between each
of about eighty GPM's.  The goals make life the opposite terminal.  They are
all derogatory goals, like "to be wrong", or "to get caught".

     Your first indication that the PC is nearing his limit of restimulation
is a lessening of TA action.  By this time, the PC is already past the point
of comfortable charge level.  Audit as delicately as possible at this point.
As you go on, be sure the itsa line is very in, and don't let any more charge
get restimulated until you have cleaned up what you have.  Do not let the PC
dive into earlier track, no matter how eager he may be to do so.  That is how
you get stuck TA's.  Haul out of there!  Start getting thorough.  You can
ordinarily trace back any ceased TA to some action that stirred up more charge
than got handled.  For instance, say we run the center goal out of the Bear
implant.  Then we start running the rest of the goals.  Suddenly, we lose TA
action.  We have just restimulated three or four out of five goals.  I.e. we
have three or four GPM's on restimulation.  That amount of charge stirred up
eliminated TA motion.

     The overcharged case is always the high TA case.  It is the whatsit line
that is responsible for this over-restimulation, with resultant high or low
TA, even if it is life or the PC that put the whatsit line in.  The wrong
thing to do is to get wore whatsit.  "Tell me something you have been worried
about," is therefore not a good process.  It is all whatsits for the PC to
look at.  If you want to cure the overcharged case, you could assess his
problems to a central one and ask, "What solutions have you had for this
problem?" This allows the PC to itsa and thus permits the TA to come down.
The "cures" give you the itsa line.  Get all the whatsits already in
restimulation and get the solutions off.  That will give you itsa, bring the
TA down, and get the TA into action.  When you finish one whatsit with itsas,
find another whatsit that is already there and finish it, etc.  This is
guaranteed to fix the TA.  Find something small enough for the PC to let go
of.

     Knowingness and reality don't increase unless you get charge off the
case, so the case knows that nothing has happened, unless you increase his
knowingness.