___________________________________________________________
I figured that auditing with Dianetics would be just like a therapy session.
I was wrong.
They have you close your eyes and count to ten. Then you just have to start remembering things and looking for engrams to erase. There are a bunch of different types of engrams of which I was not familiar.
For example, one type was called a "bouncer." If you started to talk about one memory and then suddenly switched to another memory without notice, you have a bouncer. A bouncer is a phrase like, "Get out of here," or "Leave!" that forces you to leave the memory that you're on. The auditor would say "File clerk**, what is the bouncer?" You are then supposed to come up with the first saying that you think is a bouncer so you can get rid of that engram.
**File clerk:
During auditing and in the book Dianetics, LRH uses the analogy of a file clerk to explain how your brain works. They have you imagine that you have a tiny file clerk in your brain and when an auditor asks you a question, the file clerk spits-out the first answer from your memory. You are not supposed to evaluate the "file clerk's" response. Weirdly enough, this analogy is almost used as a reality by auditors. They speak directly to the imaginary file clerk in your brain, rather than directing a question at you or even your brain itself.**
Whenever I showed up there, there was always somebody that would talk to me and pay special attention to me. I showed up one Saturday before auditing and a girl behind the counter wanted to take me for a walk. She asked me a lot of the same things that the last secretary asked, and then, of course, told me that I should work at the DC.
On a different occasion, I showed up before my class and Molly was working. Before I could go upstairs to the classroom she stopped me.
"Pete. Wait a minute. Come here."
I went over to her desk.
"I want to ask you something."
"Alright," I responded. She sat me down in a chair next to her. She looked me straight in the face and said:
"Are you aware?"
She looked at me and said nothing more.
I came back with the obvious response, "Aware of what?"
They were always particular about how they worded things. I'm pretty sure that the workers are coached to respond as close to the way that LRH wrote the responses in his books.
She took her L. Ron Hubbard Dictionary** out from under her desk and read me the definition of the word "aware." This definition was no different from any other dictionary definition of "aware" that I'd ever heard before.
She gently closed the book and placed it in her lap.
"Now," she began again, "Are you aware?"
"Yes," I said sternly, hoping to convince her and get the hell away from her as soon as I possibly could.
"Good," she nodded.
That was the end of our conversation.
**L. Ron Hubbard Dictionary:
LRH has written an insane amount of books on almost any subject you can think of. I'm not sure why he has his own dictionary. I speculate that he may have written it to explain all of the slang terms that were invented for his organization.**
No comments:
Post a Comment