Monica Pignotti wrote: > In article <8gnp09$22eq$4@news6.isdnet.net>,
>
> "roger gonnet" <roger.gonnet@worldnet.fr> wrote:
>>No doubts that these persons were said to R/S while they weren't. For
>>all the some 600 to 800 persons I got behind an e-meter for short sec-
>>checks (before letting them into scieno services) or in auditing,
>>W/clearing, or those I got C/Sed etc, I never saw any R/S... or, I
>>should say, I believed I saw one once, but I was not sure later, as it
>>could have been a cans-touch.
> To take this even further, I've wondered if ~any~ of the so-called
> R/Ses were real and I certainly don't believe that this meter reaction
> has anything to do with the person being an "SP" or crimminal type. I
> saw no evidence whatsoever that this was true. It's easy to get what
> looks like an R/S if the person is wearing rings or like you said
> touching the cans together by accident. I have to wonder if most if
> not all R/Ses are just quirks and anomolies in the functioning of the e-
> meter and I'd be willing to be that they actually mean nothing at all
> except the fact that they are used by the CofS as yet another way to
> keep people in fear and in line. According to Otto Roos's report (he
> C/Sed LRH) he reports that he found R/Ses in LRH's folder which
> resulted in Otto's getting booted out of the SO and the CofS.
I want to add a couple of points for the benefit of non-auditors here. Monica was much more of an auditor than I ever was or probably could have been, BTW. The "dirty needle" meter read can happen because the "tone arm potentiometer" is worn or dirty. This means that when you move the tone arm knob, there are particles of grit where the surfaces touch, so you get an irregular, dirty sort of needle movement. It's like with an old radio where when you turn the tuning knob, the tuning doesn't move evenly and smoothly but advances erratically. Any e-meter that is used a lot will need to have the "TA pot" replaced fairly often or the "dirty needles" will interfere with showing the real meter activity. A "real" dirty needle, not caused by mechanical factors like grit in the TA pot, can and does happen when the auditor's TRs are rough or communication cycles are bad, interruptive, etc. A "real" dirty needle indicates that the PC is not in session but has his attention on the auditor because the auditor's way of communication is not comfortable and natural. One of the e-meter drills that auditors do is to have a coach on the meter and to alternately "dirty" and "clean" the needle's movement by using certain bad and unnantural communication styles, which dirties the needle, and then having the coach talk about the bad communication, which will clean the needle. The "rock slam" read can be caused by mechanical factors such as PC touching the cans together, wearing rings which touch the cans, or bad connections in the wires or in the meter. A Rock Slam is a violent slamming of the needle back and forth as if a switch somewhere was rapidly alternating between on and off, but not rhythmically or regularly. Real R/Ses are associated with something not merely bad, but seriously evil, with respect to the values or morals of one's group. Real R/Ses are not common, especially at the lower levels of auditing. I saw the R/S only once, with a PC who was running R3R Dianetics. She was a good PC and could run that procedure well and reliably. One day she had a somatic "pain under my chin" which led into a whole chain of incidents where she was bitten by vampires in past lives a couple of thousand years ago in eastern Europe. On flow 2, which is where one was the perpetrator rather than the victim, she got a few incidents, then in going earlier, she was totally still and quiet for five minutes and you could have heard a pin drop. Then a wild R/S happened for maybe ten seconds as she located the basic incident on the chain. The R/S recurred four more times as she ran through the incident and each time the phenomenon was shorter and weaker, and the incident and chain erased with usual good "end phenomena". The tech of Expanded Dianetics was the hot new thing in 1972 and 1973. It was an attempt to systematically handle the "Evil Purposes" which some PCs have, generally very well buried, going back to far distant past lives and places. Evil Purposes don't necessarily have anything to with LRH or Scientology or the like. If "Ev Purps" could be run by a good auditor properly using the XDN tech, the PC would benefit greatly. But the tech was pretty complex and given the insanity of Flag and Scn's organization, XDN bogged down and dropped out of sight after a couple of years -- and quite possibly because LRH might have had his own Evil Purposes restimulated. When all those people were wrongly labeled as R/Sers and sent to the RPF in the late '70s, I would guess that what was happening was that LRH (being increasingly paranoid and insane) was going along with a large-scale outness in the tech whereby dirty needles were being regarded as R/Ses. The reasoning was that the dirty needle is a miniaturized version of the R/S; after all the needle jerks erratically, and presumably if you could amplify a dirty needle read enough with a very sensitive meter movement the DN might become an R/S. I imagine that there was widespread neglect of e-meter maintenance and repair, which few people were trained in and those few people tended to be more geeky eccentrics than the Sea Orgers. So all the outnesses conveniently provided a justification for wholesale abuse via RPFing. Ed

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