Scientology --- ARS Acronym/Terminology FAQ v3.0

ARS Acronym/Terminology FAQ v3.0

Posting frequency: once every week Size: 117kb ******************************** ARS Acronym/Terminology FAQ v3.0 ******************************** *Notes on this release: I have tried to make the definitions less circular by using more plain English in the body of the definitions in an attempt to make the FAQ more accessible to newcomers to the subjects of Dianetics and Scientology and the newsgroup alt.religion.scientology. The example sentences at the end of the main body of the definitions will be realistic Scientology-speak, and may be quite circuituous and hard to understand; they are included to provide a background in Scientologese, the language of the Scientology cult. The original idea of the FAQ was that someone would read the entire lot, and by hunting through definitions within definitions and following word-chains the FAQ user would come to a good understanding of an essentially new language. This idea has been rethought in light of the size of the FAQ as it stands now; the FAQ user at present is seen as someone who really just wants to know what is meant by an unfamiliar new term seen on alt.religion.scientology. Enjoy!

1.1 see One One.

AA, attempted abortion. According to L. Ron Hubbard's book Dianetics, pregnant mothers routinely tried to kill their unborn babies with knitting needles and douches, thus most people are filled with AA engrams or hidden memories of pain.

"The Preclear had 51 AA incidents in her bank."

Aberrated, Hubbard's term for derangement or insanity. "The wog world is heavily aberrated."

Aberration, an instance of insanity. Also, another term for an engram, or a hidden memory of pain and unconsciousness. "You are putting Dev-T on my lines because of your fucking aberrations."

ABLE, Association for Better Living and Education. One of many Scientology front-groups. The purpose of these front-groups is to escape from the increasingly bad name Scientology has earned over time by implementing its surprisingly vicious and vindictive policies such as SP declares (in which perceived enemies of Scientology are labelled as suppressive or destructive to Scientology's aims), disconnection (whereby family members are told to stay away from the rest of their family who are not Scientologists), Fair Game (in which Scientology's enemies may be sued, tricked, lied to, or destroyed, as per Scientology policy), etc.

Academy, the area in an Scientology organization (known as an Org) in which the advanced training is carried out. Lower level training is done in the Div 6, public division course room. "Route the raw meat out of Div 6 and down into the academy to boost the stats."

Ack, see Acknowledgement.

Acknowledgement, used to end a cycle of communication in Hubbard's rather stilted communication theory. Usually a "good", "ok", "I got that", or "thank you." "Give me an Ack, or I'll ramble on and on until I ARC break."

ACT, alt.clearing.technology. Often in small letters, "act", or with periods, "a.c.t." The hangout for the relics of the cult who still practice the strange "technology" or rituals developed by Hubbard, but who have left the cult of Scientology proper. Of course, some people have it that the group actually deals with acne pimple remedies... See also ARS.

Action, an auditing or processing regimen; an instance of the application of Scientology's "technology" on a person.

AD, after Dianetics. Used on issues such as HCOB's and HCOPL's (Hubbard Communication Office Bulletin's and Policy Letters) to show the year. It's based on the Christian calendar, but with a base year of 1950 with the release of hubbard's book "Dianetics"; thus AD 15 = anno Domini 1965.

Admin, administration. Detailed bureaucracy taken to new heights; thousands of green on white issues written by L. Ron Hubbard (Hubbard Communication Office Policy Letters) cover the design of this monumental testament to inefficiency that would make IBM proud. The OEC Vols (Organization Executive Course or Green Volumes) cover most of the Admin policy.

Admin Dictionary, a large green Scientology dictionary made up of quotes from L. Ron Hubbard that defines some of the thousands of new terms Scientology introduced with its massive administration bureaucracy.

Admiral, L. Ron Hubbard. A final self-bestowed promotion, given humbly to himself (there was no one else to do it) by Hubbard just before his death. L. Ron Hubbard was also referred to as Ron, Source (capitalized), LRH and the Commodore.

Affinity, used as a synonym for love or like.

Affluence, a condition or level of high and climbing production. Aptly named, as higher production means more money. "The stats will be in screaming affluence again this Thursday at 2:00."

Alter-Is, to alter the way something really is, and thus to create a persistence. See As-Is. "If the Flag Rep keeps Alter-Ising the Tech, she'll be K/R'ed!"

Amends Project, a way for a down-stat (not producing enough or looking less than fixedly happy) Scientologist to get back in good graces. Usually involves long hours scrubbing toilets, and such. "Jan's doing an Amends Project, as part of his Ethics Cycle."

AO, Advanced Organization. A Scientology group that delivers the higher parts of the Bridge, such as Operating Thetan (OT) 1-8, the L's (lists that are shouted out to the patient), etc.

Apollo, was one of L. Ron Hubbard's ships in his toy navy. Ron loved to play sailor-man. See Flag.

ARC, Affinity, Reality, and Communication; when a cultie meets a cultie, a comin' through the rye. ARC is used as a synonym for love or like or general warmth to be applied to raw meat marks (green Scientologists) to smooth the earlier stages of brainwashing. ARC = understanding, according to L. Ron Hubbard. The ARC triangle is inferior to the KRC triangle, which stands for Knowledge, Responsibility, and Control...which equal money. "Use a little more ARC when you reg people in, Sam."

ARC break or ARC-X, a break in affinity, reality or communication between two people causing upset, anger or tears.

ARC breaky, describing someone who is prone to ARC breaks, q.v.

ARS, alt.religion.scientology; the newsgroup this FAQ is posed to. Often lower-case; "30,000 people a month read ars, according to Arbitron." (ars) after a definition shows that the source of the term is ars; terms which are sourced from Scientology itself have nothing after them. (act) is for terms from alt.clearing.technology, while (Eng) indicates the term is plain English, with no special Scientology meaning, included because of frequent use, topicality, or confusion with Scientologese. (net) refers to terms gleaned off the Internet.

ARSCC, Alt.Religion.Scientology Central Committee; It's a game.

The OSA Scientologists have tried to represent opposition to Scientology as emanating from one or other focus--at first, it was Dennis Erlich. Later, it was FactNet. At other times and in other contexts the opposition has been represented as 'psychs' and 'CAN' (the Cult Awareness Network). ARS CC (Alt.Religion.Scientology Central Committee) is just a kid's game, a troll, like the game of 'there is no Cabal' which is played on newbies on alt.culture.usenet. There is no ARS CC, so it's no use begging me to send you the Red and Blue codebooks. Even if I had them, I'd have to deny their existence. There is a real inspiration for this. At various times, Hubbard would allude in his bulletins to shadowy organizations such as 'Smersh' and 'The Tenyaka Memorial';

another example, taken from his mythology, is 'The Fifth Invader Force'. Another time, he described the opposition as just twelve highly powerful suppressives (yes, bankers and financiers). He just loved to spin yarns, and in honor of this, we do the same. (Tony Sidaway <tony@sidaway.demon.co.uk>) ASI, see Author Services Incorporated.

As-is, to look at something and make it vanish like magic. "Jim as-ised and blew some charge is session today." See Alter-Is.

Auditing, the action of running Scientology or Dianetic processes on a PC (a preclear; someone receiving Scientology processing). Auditing usually involves a Meter, with the PC holding onto the soup cans electrodes, and the Auditor taking down notes and asking questions. "Auditing in the HGC costs over $500 per hour."

Auditor, the person who uses an E-Meter (a simple, ineffective lie detector used in Scientology with a needle and soup cans for electrodes) to find Overts (undisclosed acts) and Engrams (incidents of pain and unconsciousness) and audits them out of the person receiving auditing or preclear.

Author Services Incorporated, a Scientology front-group who's purpose is to skim money out of the organization and channel it to the person at the top, formerly L. Ron Hubbard. Also called ASI or just Author Services.

B-1, bureau one. A segment of the Guardian's Office (the cult's intelligence, dirty deeds and strong-arm tactics branch; now called the Office of Special Affairs or OSA) responsible for covert intelligence; its functions are now taken over by OSA.

Bank, the reactive mind; supposedly packed with "overts," or undisclosed acts, and engrams or moments or pain and unconsciousness. Also, anything negative seen as coming from the reactive mind. "All you'll find on alt.religion.scientology is just bank talking."

Barratry, the use of frivolous lawsuits to harass. "Scientology has been found guilty of barratry, given the thousands of useless lawsuits they have brought to court and wasted taxpayer's money on." (Eng) Basher, a person who is critical of Scientology. A Freezone term, q.v. "Don't listen to him; he's just a basher." (act) Basic Basic, the earliest incident on a chain of engrams, sometimes just called Basic.

Beingness, a word Hubbard probably plagiarized from Nordenholz.

Implies the rewarding experience of being something, assuming a valence (another personality) or hat (an office or post in Scientology). Hubbard fit beingness into a triptych with doingness and havingness. "She has so much beingness on her shiny new post!"

Big Win, something seen as being of great benefit, but tends to be ephemeral or nebulous. A Big Win may be incomprehensible to Scientology outsiders. "I had such Big Wins all week on the Purif. I began to see what really lies behind my case!" See "Win", "Success Story."

Billion-Year Contract, the newly-indoctrinated SO (Sea Organization; a tough inner core of Scientologists, some of whom may be found on the cult's ships, while others are settled in land bases) member signs one, supposedly coming back life after life to fulfill it. LSD users need not apply.

BIS, Bodies In the Shop. how many people are in the Scientology organization and on lines; an important Org Statistic.

Black Hats, the bad guys. Ron wrote corny Westerns for a while, which might explain where the term came from. "Ars is full of SP's wearing their Black Hats."

Blow, 1. To leave suddenly. Also, the person who does this.

"Sam Blew off post today; he's our third Blow this week!" 2.

To get rid of the charge or mass of an engram (a moment of pain and unconsciousness). "I blew so much mass in my session!"

Body Raisins, a grape name for BT's, or Body Thetans, evil spirits which permeate our bodies, according to L. Ron Hubbard. See BT's. (ars) Body Route, to steer public into a Scientology Organization, get them on lines, sell them services, and make some money off them. The idea being that public are such low-toned wogs (a common Scientology derogation of Scientology outsiders) that they have no self-determination, and need to be led like sheep to the slaughter.

Body Thaytans, see BT's. (ars) Body Thetans, see BT's.

B of I, board of investigation. A Scientology kangaroo-court-like internal Ethics board. "A B of I will be convened for Harry next Tuesday."

Boo-Hoos, along with clams and Grim Weepers, these are Wholetrack (a person's last 74 trillion years or so of existence in this universe) ancestors to Man, and are responsible for the origin of human belching, gasping, sobbing, choking, shuddering and trembling. Also called "Grim Weepers", and just "Weepers."

Book One, another name for L. Ron Hubbard's book "Dianetics."

Also describes auditing "therapy" as laid down in "Dianetics."

See DMSMH.

BPC, bypassed charge. Charge that has been turned on, or restimulated, without being as-ised, blown, or gotten rid of;

in other words, an unpleasant memory that has been recalled, but hasn't been fully dealt with or erased. See "Charge."

BPI, 1. See Bridge Publications. 2. Broad Public Issue; a notification on Hubbard Communication Office Bulletins (HCOB's) and HCOPL's (HCO Policy Letters) showing issue authority and distribution.

BPL, Board Policy Letter, a precursor to the HCOPL, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, q.v.

Bridge, the bridge to total freedom; the list of auditing actions needed to get to the highest OT (operating thetan) level, currently OT 8. The Bridge costs roughly $300,000 US, and is depicted on the Gradation Chart of Human Awareness and Abilities. L. Ron Hubbard's "Bridge to total freedom" has two sides. One is auditor or therapist training classes or classifications, the other is receiving auditing or "therapy"

such as Grades (q.v.) and OT levels. At the lower levels the grades and classes or classifications correspond, this pretty much stops after Class 6 (Saint Hill Special Briefing Course).

Bridge Publications, the cult's publishing business; also called simply Bridge or BPI (Bridge Publications International.)

BT, Body Thetan. Usually plural. Evil spirits which need to be exorcized. "OT 5 consists entirely of running out BTs; what a bore."

BTB, Board Technical Bulletin, a precursor to the HCOB, Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin, q.v. Hubbard decided that only he knew the true path of technological enlightenment of the wallet.

Bullbaiting, a training routine involving two students; one is to sit silent, unblinking and unmoving, while the other does everything s/he can to get a reaction. The receiving student must simply accept whatever is done to him or her, in what is basically a lesson in passivity. The stated purpose is to train the student to be unresponsive to a PC's (preclear; a person receiving Scientology "therapy") originations during the auditing or "therapy" session. "The noise next door is coming from the students doing their bullbaiting."

Cal Mag, Calcium/Magnesium mixture of unlimited restorative powers, according to self-proclaimed scientist, L. Ron Hubbard. See Guk Bomb.

CAN, the Cult Awareness Network, a loose-knit educational and group-therapy association. A Scientology target for special hatred in the form of Suppressive (describing a person or group who goals are at odds to Scientology's goals) status.

Cancelbunny/Cancelpoodle, these refer to the ubiquitous OSA (Office of Special Affairs; the cult's private CIA/KGB) cancellers who frequent alt.religion.scientology and visit it with their censorship of people's posts. (ars) Cans, soup cans used as electrodes for the Scientology E-Meter or lie detector. The PC (patient) holds them in his or her hands. "I was on the Cans for three hours today!"

Case, The sum of one's problems, bad memories, Engrams (moments of pain and unconsciousness), BTs (Body Thetans or evil spirits infesting the body), Overts (undisclosed harmful acts), Etc. "My Case has really improved by doing the Sunshine Rundown." See Bank, Reactive Mind.

Case Gain, improvement in a PC's (patient's) case (problems) due to auditing or Scientology-style "therapy." "Paul had tremendous case gain running Grade Zero."

Case Supervisor, see C/S.

Cave in, to destroy someone by forcing them over into the dark side of the bank or reactive mind (the sum of one's memories.)

"Helena Kobrin wants to cave in the critics on ars."

CC, Celebrity Center. There are several of these around the world, incorporated with the intention of luring in actors and other prominent people to give the cult a shiny PR image, the theory being that if John Travolta and Kirsty Alley are Scientologists, other people will want to join up and sign away their life savings. One large CC is located right in Hollywood, and run as a ritzy hotel, utilizing the slave labor of Scientology's Sea Organization staff to provide all the amenities to the first class citizens and celebrities.

CCHR, the newspeak-named Citizen's Commission on Human Rights, run by a Scientologist by the name of Dennis Clarke. CCHR's main purpose is clearing away the "Psyches" (mental health professionals; seen by Scientology as evil aliens from the fifth galactic invader force) to make way for Scientology's advance into society. CCHR is a front group for Scientology.

Cedars, the short name for the giant blue Cedars of Lebanon complex in Los Angeles, formerly a hospital, now the world headquarters of Scientology, and home to many Organizations including ASHO (the American Saint Hill Organization), AOLA (the Advanced Organization of Los Angeles), CCHR (the Citizen's Commission on Human Rights), IHELP (the International Ecclesiastical League of Pastors), OSA (the Office of Special Affairs), and many others.

Celebrity Center, see CC.

Central Committee, see ARSCC.

Chain, a run of memory incidents or engrams of a similar type, or with the same content.

Charge, mental mass in restimulation, or constant upheaval, contained in the reactive mind, or memory bank. This may not make much sense, but then, many things in Scientology are like that. In colloquial usage, charge refers to areas a person may be touchy about. "Jim has a lot of charge on the word `critic.'"

Clam, a derogatory term for a Scientologist. See Ronbot, Hubbardite. (ars) Clams, Man descended from them according to "History of Man" by L. Ron Hubbard, and the incident gives us painful engrams (memories) of being dropped onto rocks by birds, and extreme jaw pain from the bivalve's hinge. This has become a running joke on ars, with threads about clambakes, clamchowder, snapping clams, clams in .sigs, etc.

Class, a means of defining how high an Org (Scientology organization), Auditor (Scientology therapist), C/S (Case Supervisor, a person who oversees Auditors), etc. is on the Bridge (Scientology's chart of levels of enlightenment);

corresponds to Level or Grade, q.v. See Bridge.

Class IV Org, see Org.

Class XII Org, see Org.

Class 0, A Class 0 auditor (therapist) can audit a person on Grade 0 after which they can supposedly talk to anyone about anything (except that Scientology says they shouldn't talk to suppressives, or criticize the church, or talk about their auditing except to certain people, or talk about OT levels and the material on them (etc. etc. etc.) See Grade 0.

Class 6, Saint Hill Special Briefing Course. See SHSBC. Also Class VI.

Class 8 auditor, A class 8 auditor is highly "trained" and can audit anyone on repair stuff up to OT 4 (or the grades, etc.)

Also, Class VIII.

Class 8 C/S, a Case Supervisor (q.v.) trained to C/S folders up to a high level. Also, Class VIII.

Class XII Auditor, trained to deliver the very expensive L Rundowns or L's at Flag in Clearwater, FLA, that use a form of auditing involving yelling listing items at the PC. Tree! Oak?

Elm? Cottonwood?

Clay Demo, a Scientology Study Tech method of training involving making little figures out of Plasticine (tm) on a table. "I've done 54 clay demos so far this week on the Pro TRs."

Clear, a person audited enough to be free of the "bank," or reactive mind. (The sum of the memories of pain and unconsciousness the person has) A low-level superman-type person; a baby OT (Operating Thetan). "Samantha just had her Clear Certainty Rundown, and is now considered a clear!"

Cluster, a bunch of Body Thetans, evil spirits inhabiting the body, all stuck together. "I had a cluster blow from my forehead during session!"

CMO, the Commodore's (L. Ron Hubbard) Messengers Organization.

A Sea-Org run power center within the cult, started by the teenyboppers in hot pants who used to serve as Hubbard's mouthpieces onboard his ships. CMO Int (International) is based in LA, in a large building across the street from the Cedars of Lebanon Center.

COB RTC, Chairman of the board for the Religious Technology Center, the copyright holding body of Scientology, currently former Commodore's Messenger David Miscavige.

Coffee Grinder Incident, this is where some evil implanters, people or aliens who instill bad memories, used a little box to play a push-pull wave of energy over you and lay in a bone-deep somatic or pain, remember?

Cognition, a sudden realization about oneself having to do with Scientology. "Fanny had a cognition about how her father was a big Suppressive during Session; now she's on the PTS/SP course."

Cognitive dissonance, a Psych term! (Disparaging Scientology slang for Psychiatrists) Horrors! It simply means the inability to fit two disparate concepts into one's mind. For example, a dichotomy like "I spent $300,000 dollars for all this" and "It's all a bunch of garbage." The flip side of cognitive dissonance is that if you get someone to do something, it is easier to make them believe something, and vice versa. (Eng) Commodore, the name Hubbard gave himself, no doubt based upon his stellar naval career. "A picture of the Commodore hangs in every Academy." See "Ron."

Comm Ev, a Committee of Evidence; a cult "justice" action.

"Fred was declared at his Comm Ev; now he's an SP, and subject to Fair Game."

Conditions, the Ethics formulas of Scientology. They are, in descending order, Power, Power Change, Affluence, Normal Operation, Emergency, Danger, Non-Existence, Liability, Doubt, Enemy, Treason, Confusion. All the conditions have formulas, and they are designed to get cult members to produce more, ie, make more money for Scientology. Thus, conditions are deemed very important, and Scientologists are often seen scurrying about trying "improve their condition."

CoS, Church of Scientology. Also, C of S, CofS, COS, Co$. Some people on ars take "Co$" to mean "Cult of $cientology."

Cracked, describing a Case Gain (q.v.) of such proportions that one's Bank or Reactive Mind (memories of pain and unconsciousness) is knocked back forever. "I finally had my case cracked on OT 2; it was a big win!"

Cramming, an action taken to remedy a small Scientology "tech"

"outpoint", a failing of some kind. "I had a cram cycle on my metering after failing to get VGI's on my PC."

C/S, noun. Case Supervisor. The person in charge of assigning auditing regimens to Preclears or patients; s/he tells the Auditor or Scientology therapist what processes to run on the mark, and reviews the written worksheets of processing sessions.

CSI, Church of Scientology international. Officially a non profit 501 (c) organization.

C/Sing, verb. The action of reviewing and prescribing Scientology processing or "therapy" actions. "The C/S at AOLA C/Sed my case this week."

D/A, verb. Dead Agent; to spread malicious lies and rumors about an Anti-Scientologist person or organization, in an attempt to so thoroughly discredit them that everyone concerned will be disgusted with them, and not listen to the information they have to give about the cult. Many attempts to Dead Agent CAN (the Cult Awareness Network) and FACTnet (Fight Against Coercive Tactics network; a BBS that supplies information about the cult) have been posted to ars.

(alt.religion.scientology) Day, one of the two divisions Class IV (a lower-level Scientology Organization) cult centers are cut up into. Hours roughly are from 8am - 6pm, Monday to Friday. See Foundation.

DB, Degraded Being. Someone so infested with Body Thetans, evil spirits, as to be in-auditable or insane; used as a derogatory term.

DC-8, Douglas jet aircraft resembling the Boeing 707, and used for trans-Atlantic flights starting in the late 1950's.

Hubbard said they were used millions of years ago as spaceships to ferry people about the galactic confederation.

Perhaps someday Scientology will apply for a patent, and sue Douglas for copying their design?

Dead Agenting, see D/A.

Declaring, the act of blacklisting within the cult; the result is an "SP" (Suppressive Person, someone who does not like Scientology) who can be "Sued, tricked, lied to, or destroyed"

as per the cult's policy. "Eric was declared Suppressive at his Comm Ev."

Degraded Being, see DB.

Deprogramming, a desperate ploy to recover lost children involved in a cult, usually at the parent's behest; employs kidnapping and coercive persuation to re-invoke the cult victim's former personality from before involvement. Now largely discredited in favour of exit counselling, which is only done on a consentual basis.

Dev-T, Developed traffic. A particle (a person or form) sent unnecessarily to the improper terminal; a waste of time or an item which slows down the all-important production inside Scientology.

Dianazene, a formula combined with vitamins and other materials (such as benzedrine) to make the intake of nicotinic acid more effective. Dianazene runs out radiation - or what appears to be radiation. It also proofs a person up [sic] against radiation to some degree. It also turns on and runs out incipient cancer. (All About Radiation, pp. 123-124) Strangely, Hubbard thought that drugs were destructive enough to warrant a Purification Rundown to try to eliminate them.

Recommended reading.

HQS, Hubbard Qualified Scientologist course.

Hubbard, L. Ron Hubbard. See "Ron."

Hubbardese, see Scientologese.

Hubbardite, a derogatory term for a Scientologist, coined by Science-Fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein. See Clam.

IAS, International Association of Scientologists. The first six months is free; after that, it gets very expensive. To receive Scientolological services, IAS membership is mandatory; even staff are required to pay up, thus sacrificing their entire meagre salary for the fee, frequently. See HASI.

I/C, In Charge. Someone running a Program or project. "She's the Tech Field Hatting I/C."

I-HELP, International Ecclesiastical League of Pastors; a cult front-group headquartered in Los Angeles across the street from the main building of the old blue Cedars of Lebanon complex.

Illegal PC, a Preclear who cannot be audited by virtue of actually needing some kind of help. Auditing is only for the able, or people who don't need help, as per policy; it is for making the able more able, or bilking them for more money.

This paradox is explained by the fact that people who actually need help are harder to turn a profit on. Specifically, an Illegal PC is one who has had psychiatric treatments in the past, or appears to Scientologists like they have (a streetperson or prostitute, for example) and is deemed too damaged to touch, and a serious security risk to boot. "Jack Farmer is an Illegal PC; he may not receive the next auditing level he needs and wants."

Implant, a hypnotic suggestion smashed into one's mind millions or billions of years ago in Hubbard's Space-Opera Scientology Cosmology. "One Implant was installed using giant movie screens."

Incident One, 4 quadrillion years ago we were implanted with visions of cherubs blowing horns, chariots, and blackness.

That's right; 4 *quadrillion* (4*10^15th, or 4,000,000,000,000,000 years!) What's that you say? 250,000 times the age of the universe? Don't let that stop you from believing, and anteing up the hundreds of thousands of dollars it takes to get to this level of brainwashing.

Incident Two, 75 million years ago Xenu, the evil galactic overlord, froze us, then blew us up with H-bombs on Hawaii, remember? Also called the wall of fire, or the OT 3 incident.

The cover of Dianetics is meant to symbolize this cataclysmic event, and compel Wogs to buy the book by restimulating them.

Indicate, to read on the E-Meter. Generally used as a synonym for ringing true. "Boy, that really indicates for me!"

In-Ethics, describing a person who is upstat (increasing his or her production) and not violating any of the crimes of Scientology. "The new ED of VANF is very In-Ethics on her post."

Interiorization, the unfortunate condition of being stuck in one's body. "I was so Interiorized yesterday; my sinuses ached from it!"

Invalidation, to belittle or make nothing of. "Andy felt so invalidated by the SP's on ars, he caved in, and left."

Issue Authority, the right to publish certain of L. Ron Hubbard's works.

Key-In, to restimulate (make active) and turn on an engram or memory incident of pain and unconsciousness so that the PC (Preclear) patient manifests behavior from it. "John was Keyed-In by the sound of the plane crash."

Key-Out, to be released from the bad effects of one's Reactive Mind; the section of the mind, according to Hubbard, where painful and unconscious engrammatic memories are stored.

"Dianetics can really Key you out, man!"

Kha Khan, an award supposedly given by Hubbard to those who did him a great service. The awardee gets spared the death sentence ten times.

KoX, Knights of Xenu. They found the evil galactic overlord Xenu of Hubbard's quaint Scientology philosophy locked up in a box, and let him out, the naughty net.surfers! (ars) KR or K/R, Knowledge Report, a write-up of a cult member's supposed "crimes" given to the Ethics division; cult members are encouraged to report each other's transgressions a la Orwell's "1984."

KRC, Knowledge, Responsibility, Control. The senior of the two Scientology triangles, ARC/KRC (ARC stands for Affinity, Reality, and Communication.) Control is senior to Affinity, get it?

KSW, Keeping Scientology Working. A series of HCOPL's, Hubbard Communication Office Policy Letters, designed to ensure Scientology lasts for hundreds of years, and also that Hubbard's fondest wish, that his name be smashed violently into the history books, becomes a reality. (Didn't Manson have a similar desire?) KSW course, a course based on the KSW, Keeping Scientology Working, policy letters.

KTL Course, the Key To Life course. Involves lots of pretty pictures to drive home the brainwashing. Quite expensive.

L's, L10, L11, and L12. Special, extremely expensive Rundowns done by Class XII auditors (Scientology "therapists") who shout at the PC (patient) holding the soup cans electrodes of the Scientology E-Meter. The L's material mentions the fact that the Reactive Mind, the storehouse of engrams or memories of pain and unconsciousness, is composed solely of Body Thetans or evil spirits.

Lazarus, a program written by Homer to tell posters to ars when their posts have been cancelled by the cult censor on Netcom known affectionately as the "Cancelpoodle." Thanks, Homer!

(ars) Level, see Class, Grade.

LF, Long Fall. A swing of the Meter needle to the left of a couple inches.

LFBD, Long Fall BLow Down. An E-Meter read involving a swing of the needle to the left, and a consequent need to move the Tone Arm (potentiometer) of the Meter to keep the needle on the dial.

Life Repair, see Grades.

Lines, the cult's auditing ("therapy") and academy (training) services. "Ken isn't on lines at Flag anymore."

Locational, a light auditing ("therapy") technique that gets the thetan (spirit or soul) centered in the MEST (Matter, Energy, Space, and Time) universe, so he knows where he is.

Technique involves making the PC (Preclear; patient) look at trees, cars, people, touch books, etc. "Gary is outside doing a locational on Robert."

L. Ron Hubbard, Lafayette Ronald Hubbard. Mediocre pulp-sf writer. Said in 1947 "If you really want to make millions, the fastest way is to start your own religion." Scientology cult founder; author of the turgid "Dianetics"; born 1911 in Tilden, Nebraska, USA; died 1986. See "Ron."

M1, or M1 Word Clearing, one of the 7 to 9 methods of word clearing used in Scientology. M1 is done on a Meter, and locates charge or upset on words misunderstood on the wholetrack or last 75 trillion years. M1 makes the recipient Superliterate, and able to fast flow through course checksheets without doing clay demos or checkouts.

MAA, Master At Arms. A Sea Org (highly indoctrinated Scientologists who sign billion-year contracts) Ethics Officer, responsible for keeping Ethics in (keeping the all-important production up; someone who produces well in Scientology is almost always regarded as being in-Ethics; the ends justify the means is policy.)

Marcab Confederacy, a galactic confederation and the denizens thereof. It's a star system in the astronomy charts. It is also supposed to be the source of most of the destructive suppressive influences attacking the Earth at this time and in the past. For the last 100,000 years they've been driving cars, wearing business suits and fedora hats, using telephones, and flying spaceships. Remember that episode of Star Trek?

"The Marcabians are coming to Earth, and they're going to lay waste to it, according to Captain Bill."

Meatball, A derogatory Freezone (people who practice Scientology "tech", but who have left the cult proper) term for people who don't believe in their strange ideas. (act) Mental Image Picture, a picture in the Reactive mind, the repository of memories of painful and unconscious moments.

"Bob has a stuck mental image picture of an atom bomb going off on top of his head 200 trillion years ago."

Merchant of Chaos, a cult synonym for an anti-Scientologist or Suppressive Person. A bad person; a person who speaks ill of Scientology, and should therefore be punished.

MEST, Matter, Energy, Space, and Time; the constituents of the physical universe, or the physical universe itself. Seen as a lesser domain than the spiritual or Theta realm.

Misemotional, describing a display of inappropriate emotion;

for example, crying for no reason. "Mary has been misemotional since her last action; she needs a repair."

Mission, the Newspeak-corrected term for a cult franchise. Last heard, the package used to set up a Mission could be bought for $20,000. Trouble is, if your Mission ever makes it, it will be taken away from you. Also, a set of orders given to Missionaires (Sea Org members sent to clay demo and carry out some orders) to go out and do an action, usually gathering money from other (lower-level) Scientology Orgs.

Missionaire, a Sea Org member specially trained to do a Mission, and given orders, (which are often clay-demoed) and sent out to get something done. "The Missionaires from Up-Lines arrived, and demanded $25,000 from our local Org."

Mock Up, to make up; particularly mental imagery, but may also apply to physical things. Scientologists may often confuse external reality with imagination or fantasy, and may well not see the difference between imagining a wall, and taking a hammer and nails and building one. "Mock up a wall. Thank you.

Now destroy that wall. Thank you."

Motivator, a nasty thing that one "pulls in" as a result of having prior overts, undisclosed naughty acts. In other words, anything that happens to you is your own fault; you deserved it because you are essentially evil. "The cult of Scientology has lots of motivators; they keep saying `look what they did to us!'"

M/U, Misunderstood word. The cult is fanatical about not going by one, and insists that everyone look things up in dictionaries and go through every definition. This becomes quite tedious with words like "to", "set", and "be." "Look up your M/U's and quit your nattering Mister, or I'll have you busted down to Ethics!"

M/U Phenomena, the emotional upset leading to Blows, disappearances from the organization, that follows going by a misunderstood word, according to the cult's "study tech." M/U Phenomena is the only reason someone gives up on Scientology, according to Hubbard. If you think it is all nonsense, it's because you went by a word you didn't understand. If you think it's dangerous, and that the RPF (Rehabilitation Project Force; the cult's Gulag) is repressive and sick, you just have an M/U. If you think the Purification Rundown is bizarre, you have an M/U, and it's your problem. Get it?

Narconon, a cult front-group that purportedly cures drug addition. Narconon is used for cult recruitment; it's techniques have been called unscientific, medically unsound, and possibly dangerous.

Natter, to say negative things; to give off bad vibes. Natter is said to be caused by going past Misunderstood words, and having Overts or undisclosed bad acts, and can thus lead to Blows. "If you don't stop Nattering, you're going to the RPF!"

NED, New Era Dianetics. Dianetics on the wholetrack, your last 75 trillion years. NED for OT's is abbreviated NOTS, and as this is done solo, with the soup-can electrodes of the E-Meter in one hand so the other is free to write up the session, it is then called Solo NOTS. See Grade 4.5, OT 5.

Net, used after a definition in this FAQ to show that the term is sourced from the Internet. See ARS.

Newspeak, George Orwell's "1984" explication of applied semantics. "1984" provides much insight into the cult of Scientology, BTW. (Eng) Non-E, Non-Existence. A production level; someone is said to be in Non-E when they are new on their post, not known to all the other Org terminals (people), and not producing anything.

There is a formula for getting out of Non-E all the way up to Power, the best condition, or measure of an individual's production. It's all about making more money. See Conditions.

NOTS, NED (New Era Dianetics) for OTs (Operating Thetans). See NED, OT 5.

OEC, Organization Executive Course. An executive training course and its associated policy in HCOPL's, Hubbard Communication Office Policy Letters, collected into a set of eight large numbered green volumes, also called the "Green Vols." A person knowing the data in these volumes fully and applying it could completely reverse any down-trending statistics, or even a bring back a failing company, Hubbard says. "OEC 0 is the Basic Staff Volume; read it before you commit a crime on post." See also "Red Vols."

Off lines, not paying and taking Scientology training or "therapy". See lines.

One One or 1.1, someone stuck at 1.1 on Hubbard's emotional Tone Scale, an SP (Suppressive Person; someone who disagrees with Scientology and deserves to be destroyed because of their beliefs.) See Tone Scale.

On lines, taking Scientology services in the form of processing "therapy" or training. Also used loosely as meaning in contact or communication with, as "Mary has a Psych on her lines." See lines.

On Source, following Hubbard exactly as written; being true to Hubbard's word. See Source.

Operation Freakout, a plan to carry out the Fair Game policy, the policy of attacking perceived Scientology enemies, on Paulette Cooper, the author of the book "The Scandal of Scientology." The GO (Guardian's Office, the cult's KGB-like security organization responsible for covert operations and dirty tricks of all kinds) operation involved framing Ms.

Cooper with a bomb threat made to the Arab Consulate, among other things.

Operation Snow White, see Snow White.

Op-Term, a situation of opposition to a terminal or person, giving a reason to fight. "Sue started Op-Terming with the SPs on ars; she would have been better off not giving them a game."

Org, Noun. Organization; a cult group, internally called a "Church." Org usually refers to a Class IV Org; Higher up than a low level Mission or franchise, but lower than a Class XII Org, or Advanced Org, (AO), or Saint Hill Org. ASHO stands for the American Saint Hill Org, while AOLA stands for the Advanced Org, Los Angeles. Both ASHO and AOLA are higher up the power chain than a Class IV Org.

Organization Executive Course, see OEC.

Org Board, a map to the massive cult bureaucracy; details every post, division, department, executive, etc. that go to make up a Scientology Organization. Some Org Boards contain seven divisions, some have nine; they all have a large number of specifically defined posts. See Division.

OSA, Office of special affairs. The "dirty work" department, the cult's KGB. Took over from the GO, Guardian's Office, when the GO's leaders went to jail for infiltrating government offices, stealing and altering official files that put the cult in a bad light.

OT, Operating Thetan, one who is above Clear, a state of partial enlightenment, and who is not just free of unconscious impulses, but is free of other things too so that they can operate, and be causative over the physical universe.

OT I, (or OT 1); consists of walking about and counting people until one has a "win", and similar god-like procedures. EP (End Phenomena) is to extrovert a being, and bring about an awareness of himself in relation to others and the physical universe. Also called OT (Operating Thetan) orientation. BTW, there's this swamp land I've got for sale in FLA...

OT II, (or OT 2); consists of hundreds of boring "implants"

written in Hubbard's hand like "to be or not to be", followed by "spotting the light" that accompanied the "implants." EP (End Phenomena; the final result of processing "therapy") is rehabilitation of intention and ability to project intention.

With an EP like that, it can't fail!

OT III, (or OT 3); Operating Thetan (level) three, also called the wall of fire. Deals with Incident 2, Xenu, the evil galactic overlord, and the H bombs on Hawaii 76 million years ago. Hubbard said that anyone who was exposed to this level casually would "freewheel" through it, become a chronic insomniac, then get sick and die. <cough, cough.> See Incident Two.

OT IV, (or OT 4); the Operating Thetan drug rundown. Gets rid of the effects of taking drugs in past lifetimes for a few thousand dollars. You should really see this land in FLA; it's near Clearwater...

OT V, (or OT 5); get rid of those damn Body Thetans! EP (End Phenomena) is cause over life. Should be cause over your debt;

you'll need it. OT 5 starts what is call New Era Dianetics for Operating Thetans, NED for OT's or NOTS, reputed to be for removing BT's (Body Thetans; evil spirit infestations) that didn't respond on OT3. Physical universe familiarization, for only a few 'thou.

OT VI, (or OT 6); what, more body thetans? OT 6 teaches the sucker, the Pre-OT, to do NOTs, New Era Dianetics for Operating Thetans, solo. OT ability drills for a few 'thou more.

OT VII, (or OT 7); and still more? On OT 7 one does NOTS, New Era Dianetics for Operating Thetans, solo (usually for a long time; depends on how deep one's pockets are.) Projection of intention and polish up for a few more 'thou...and you thought shouting was all you needed to project your intention.

OT VIII, (or OT 8); Hubbard is finally revealed as a god, and Jesus as a fraud. After $300,000, Hubbard had better be god, goddamn it! Otherwise, you've just been duped royally. Will you gain god-like abilities yourself? Plonk down the $300,000 and find out...or you could rent a clue for ten cents. OT VIII is the top of the current Grade Chart; OT IX won't be released until all the present Orgs are the size of the old Saint Hill Organization in East Grinstead, England, in the 60's. Not until hell freezes over, in other words. The Bridge, or Gradation Chart of Human Awareness and Abilities, tops out at OT 15, in some versions. OT 8 is a big expensive mystery, only delivered on the ship for public, the ship being the newspeak-named Scientology liner "Freewinds."

OT Eligibility, a series of Sec Checks or confessionals a Pre-OT must go through to prove they are ethical enough to do the OT (Operating Thetan) levels. (And a useful source of blackmail material should the Pre-OT decide they don't like the OT levels, and want their money back.)

OT levels, solo-audited (self-metered; the soup-can electrodes of Hubbard's crude ohm-meter are held in one hand, and notes are jotted down with the other; saves money (for Scientology) over having an auditor do it) and expensive processes at the top of the Scientology "Bridge." The levels currently run from OT I to OT VIII.

Out 2D, Illegal or immoral (in cult terms) sex.

Out-Ethics, not obeying like a good little slave. Welcome to the exciting world of the totally free. "She is so Out-Ethics, she has to be declared to get the Tech in on her." See In-Ethics.

Out Point, something that doesn't fit, or doesn't help to "make it go right." A reason why something fails. "Jake's program failed because of the out-points in dealing with suppression."

Overt, an evil or Suppressive (damaging to Scientology) act. Of course, it's only an Overt if it hurts Scientology; shooting an SP (Suppressive Person; an anti-Scientologist) under the Fair Game Law (Suppressives may be tricked, sued, lied to, or destroyed, as per policy) could be redefined as not being an Overt, as you did it to help to "clear the planet", and it "did the least harm to the least number of dynamics." "She has committed so many Overts, she can't see her own Case anymore."

O/W, Overts and Withholds, undisclosed naughty (anti-Scientology) acts and the attempt to hide them from public view. Also called O/W "tech".

PAB, Professional Auditor's Bulletin. An issue type for Scientology auditors or therapists. Some of Hubbard's "technical" writings to his flock of auditors may be found in these.

Particle, a person seen as a thing to be routed, or a piece of information in the cult's communication theory.

PC, preclear. Someone who is getting auditing (spiritual counselling) who is not yet "Clear," Clear being that state of being free of unconscious impulses that cloud your judgement, and not having any memories of pain and unconsciousness (engrams.) PC or Preclear is also used loosely to mean anyone taking Scientology "therapy," whether Clear or not.

PDC, the Philadelphia Doctorate Course; dates from 1952. Now offered as a series of tapes of Hubbard's lectures known as the PDC lectures.

Perceptics, the list of senses, extended far beyond the usual five by Scientology.

Piltdown Man, a ancestor of man with huge jaws and a nasty habit of using them to eat his wife, according to Hubbard. NB, this was a fraud perpetrated on the scientific community from 1912 until 1953, when it was proved to be a hoax, of a human cranium and an ape jaw "discovered" near Piltdown, Sussex, England by Charles Dawson. However, Hubbard never withdrew his ridiculous claim that Dawson's hoax was a direct ancestor to modern man.

Poodle, a pet name for David Miscavige, the dictator of the cult of Scientology. (ars) Postulate, to wish into existence. "David postulates that the Psyches will all be destroyed by the year 2000."

Prenatal, an Engram (moment of pain and unconsciouness) received while in the womb. Hubbard guessed the womb was a nasty place, full of bumps and grinds and horrible noises.

Process, an auditing or "therapy" action.

Processing, the action of auditing a PC or patient. A coldly distant term for Scientology's "therapy", which itself can be very cold and distant; the term shows Hubbard's lack of respect for the people he conned out of their money for his quack cult "therapy".

Pro TRS, the Professional Training Routines for auditors or therapists, involving long hours staring at another student, reciting verses out of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland", Bullbaiting or insulting each other, and doing lots of Clay Demos, or figures in Plasticine (tm). "Our son was made into a zombie on the Pro TRs."

Psychs, psychiatrists and psychologists. Seen by the paranoid cult as being the ultimate in evil and corruption on Earth;

out to destroy us all by cutting out our brains with transorbital leucotomies, or zapping us into submission with electro-convulsive therapy (ECT), or zombifying us with selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRI's) like Ritalin and Prozac. The cult front-group called the Citizen's Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a la Orwell, is dedicated to destroying these evil beings known as Psychs, but who are really members of the fifth galactic invader force, q.v.

PT, Present Time, the here and now. "SPs are stuck in an incident in the past; they need to be brought up to PT."

PTS, Potential Trouble Source. Someone who is in contact with an SP, a Suppressive or anti-Scientology person, and therefore may cause trouble to the cult. "Mary is a PTS type III."

Adjective; "She is PTS to that Wholetrack SP on her lines."

PTS/SP Course, a training pack that deals with how to handle and disconnect from SP's (Suppressive Persons; people who disagree with Scientology) that are enturbulating (disturbing) you, usually in one's immediate family.

PTS Type 3, or PTS Type III; a person suffering a psychotic breakdown due to connection with an anti-Scientologist or psychiatrist.

Purif, the Purification Rundown. A cleansing process, intended to remove drugs supposedly stored in body fat through running, taking megadoses of vitamins and minerals, and sweating in a sauna for hours every day. The Purif costs roughly $1,500, and takes about two weeks to do. There is no scientific evidence to back up the cult of Scientology's claims about the supposed benefits of the Purif. See Grades, Guk Bomb, Dianazene.

q.v., Latin for which see; used after a term to indicate that a reference or definition to it is contained in this FAQ.

Raw Meat, A derogatory term for the ordinary public or non-Scientologists. "Body route some more Raw Meat into this Org, Sam, or I'll send you to Ethics!"

RD, Rundown. An auditing or "therapy" process.

Reactive Mind, the place where Engrams, memories of pain and unconsciousness, are stored. On a higher level, Engrams are revealed to be none other than Body Thetans or evil spirits infesting our bodies by the thousands. Also called the Bank.

Reality, "basically an agreement", sputtered Hubbard. Trouble is, the general population doesn't agrees with that definition.

Red Vols, the huge set of red "technical" volumes that contain the Scientology "technology." See OEC, Green Vols.

Reg, register, registrar or registration. To sell Scientology services or the salesmen of the Org. "Your next step after course completion is to see the Reg, Sally." "We need to get more Reging done to boost GI by next Thursday!"

Repair, a fixer-upper for when the "100% standard" uniformly workable "tech" of Scientology fails or goes wrong; a common occurrence. "Beth just paid $2,500 for a repair."

Restimulate, to turn on unpleasant memories. "By reading the OT 3 materials posted to ars, my Case has become heavily Restimulated."

R-Factor, Reality Factor, a harsh and brutal cussing out by a superior, usually given to one who is downstat, or not making enough money.

Rice and Beans, naughty SO (Sea Organization) member's diet regimen. Guaranteed to lose weight, or gums and teeth, or resistance to Scientology's weird concepts...whichever comes first.

RICO, Racketeering, Influence, and Corrupt Organizations Act.

An American bill put forward to curtail organized crime, like Scientology, for example. (Eng) Ridge, a solid mass which purportedly develops when two flows collide. "He's creating such a ridge by arguing with the public." "I still have that ridge in my forehead from the baseball that hit me."

Rock Slam, an erratic E-Meter needle movement, see RS.

Ron, Lafayette Ronald Hubbard. L. Ron Hubbard is often called "Ron" by his followers. Other names frequently used for him are "L. Ron Hubbard", "The Commodore", "Source", and "The Admiral." Born in 1911 in Tilden, Nebraska; died in 1986.

Ronbot, a derogatory term for a Scientologist. See clam.

RPF, Rehabilitation Project Force, the cult's internal gulag where bad people are sent for punishment or "rehabilitation";

a brain washing and penal organization.

RS or R/S, Rock Slam, a type of "read" that registers on the E-Meter, indicating that you have an evil intention. The needle swings violently back and forth.

RTC, Religious Technology Center. David Miscavige is COB, Chairman of the Board, of the RTC, which holds the cult's "trademarks" and "copyrights." That's right; "trademarks" and "copyrights!" Scientology is the only "religion" (so it claims) around to try to patent spiritual freedom. Of course, it's all a money-making scam; if the laughable "tech" was made free and public, on the Internet for example, who would pay $300,000 for it?

Rundown, an auditing or "therapy" process. "The Sunshine Rundown sells for $5,000."

Running Program, in an effort to help tired executives who only worked 18 hour days, Hubbard devised a program of taking megadoses of mineral supplements and running circles around a pole or tree for five hours a day in desert heat. "David Mayo was on the Running Program at Happy Valley in California."

Saint Hill, the manor Hubbard bought in East Grinstead, England, with his ill-gotten gains. See SH.

Scieno, a term for Scientologist, which is a bit long to type out over and over and over. (ars) Scieno-speak, see Scientologese. (ars) Scientologese, a term used to describe the strange new language used within the cult of Scientology; an odd mixture of rather illiterate English and thousands of new terms that Hubbard introduced in his extensive writings. Also called Scieno-speak, Hubbardese. (ars) Scientology, Hubbard's money-making venture into religion;

started after Dianetics. Word comes from Nordenholz's book "Scientologie 34."

Scn, short for Scientology.

Sec Check, confessional dirty-laundry type Scientology "therapy." See "Sec Checking."

Sec Checking, Security Checking. Running lists of questions on a PC or patient using the Meter to find criminal behavior that can be used as potential blackmail, should the PC ever blow or become critical of the cult. Similar to a confessional; the PC is lied to and told the revealed secrets and Overts will remain confidential, yet the cult often publishes and distributes the items found by Sec Checking, which are written down in folders at the time of the session. Term comes from Hubbard's extreme paranoia about Communist, governmental, or psychiatric infiltration of Scientology, and the need to run Security checks on new Scientologists.

Ser-Fac, Service Facsimile. A mental image picture the PC (Preclear or patient) uses to make himself or herself right, and others wrong. "If you keep pulling down stats in my area by dramatizing your Ser-Facs, I'll write a KR on you!" See Grade 4.

Session, an auditing or "therapy" regimen; PC patient holds the cans, Auditor "therapist" behind the Meter. Also called Processing, Auditing, q.v.

SH, Saint Hill manor, in East Grinstead, Sussex, England.

Hubbard set up Scientology's worldwide headquarters there for several years, until he was kicked out of the UK by the government's Home Office.

Shore Story, a lie told to cover up illegal activity or give a good PR facade to fool wogs, non-Scientologists. "Your Shore Story while on mission will be that you are working for an independent research facility out of Dallas."

SHSBC, the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course for auditors, ("therapists") given at Saint Hill in England originally, and now given at any Saint Hill Org, like ASHO (the American Saint Hill Organization.) The SHSBC is mostly on tapes, and is very long, arduous, and expensive. It is meant to give a very high level of training to the auditor "therapist", and is now a prerequisite to the higher OT, Operating Thetan levels. See Class 6.

Snow white, the code name for a cult espionage operation. Snow White's goal was to infiltrate government offices and purge their files of incriminating material that made the cult look bad. 30,000+ documents were stolen from the IRS, the DEA, the Coast Guard, and the US Attorney's office. Hubbard's wife, Mary Sue, was sentenced to four years in jail for the operation, which was carried out by operatives in the GO (Guardian's Office; a precursor to OSA, the Office of Special Affairs, the cult's answer to the KGB.)

SO, the Sea Org, the commanding and controlling element in the cult, partly working off ships, partly land-based at Flag in Clearwater, FLA, and other places, most notably the Cedars Complex in Los Angeles.

SO 1 Line, Standing Order number one line. All communications sent to Hubbard, so we were were told, actually went to him, and were read by him, and answered by him. Not true; there was a team of letter readers/writers to deal with the volume, right down to forging Hubbard's signature on the replies.

"When all else fails, there's always the SO 1 Line!"

Solo auditing, a self-auditing procedure used at the higher levels of the cult's "Bridge," or levels of enlightenment chart. The E-Meter cans are stuck onto a plastic holder and held in one hand. Saves money for the cult, as solo levels aren't any cheaper, but there's no need for an auditor or "therapist," only a C/S, Case supervisor (the person in charge of running "therapy" actions on the Preclear or patient. Solo violates one of Hubbard's primary rules of auditing, that the PC (Preclear) cannot audit himself.

Solo NOTS, self-auditing, solo "therapy" NED for OTs, New Era Dianetics for Operating Thetans; the running out of Body Thetans or evil spirits. See NED.

Somatics, pains and aches restimulated or turned on during a "therapy" session, or contained within an engram or memory incident. "The PC got a heavy somatic in her jaw while auditing a clam incident."

SOS, Science of Survival; an L. Ron Hubbard book that details the dynamics of life, and the principle that we are all just trying to survive. Recommended reading.

Source, L. Ron Hubbard is the Source (capitalized) of Scientology; his written orders in the form of Policy and Tech, and his spoken words on tape are Source. "I feel so much better after getting back on Source."

SP, Suppressive Person, an evil person; someone who criticizes Scientology in any way.

Squirrel, a person who subverts Hubbard's "Tech" by alteration.

The name probably came from the idea of squirrels burying, or being associated with, nuts. In the cult jargon, Squirrel refers to someone who is too insane to follow Standard Tech.

"Mayo was a Squirrel because he altered Source." May also be used as a verb denoting the action of subversion of Scientology "Technology," as "Koos has been squirrelling auditing tech."

Standard Tech, theoretically, all Scientology is 100% Standard Tech, meaning it is just workable, and yet full of errors needing repair actions on PC's (patients). "Flag has the most 100% Standard Tech on the planet!"

Stats, Statistics. Each Scientologist has to monitor his or her success, which is transmitted to control organs, e.g. the EO, Ethics Officer. Stats must be up every Thursday by two (pm), or the hapless cult indoctrinee is punished by being made to do Conditions or extra work.

Straightwire, an auditing technique, using hypnosis to place the PC (Preclear) right back in the memory incident, to see and hear it all over again.

Student Hat, an approximately $1,500 dollar course that teaches students to never go by a word they don't understand, and do little clay demos out of Plasticine (tm). A good revenue source, as most of the course is done from audio tapes, and requires little effort from the Supervisor or teacher.

Study Tech, the cult's training methodology, involving ensuring the student never goes past a word he or she doesn't understand, making little Plasticine (tm) figures, and demoing by shuffling a kit of small blocks and toys about with the hands. "Stewart payed $1,500 to learn Study Tech on the Student Hat course."

Success Story, a coerced write-up required to complete any auditing "therapy" action. Success Stories are usually filled with bland, often meaninglessly nebulous statements about "blowing mass", "having cognitions", and "big wins." See "Win", "Big Win."

Sunshine Rundown, an expensive auditing "therapy" routine similar to a locational, in which the Preclear (patient) is told to look at things about them. See Grade 4.5 Superliterate, referring to a Scientologist who has done the Student Hat course and M1 word clearing to enable him or her to fastflow through course checksheets. Superliteracy mainly means that the Scientologist has no upset on misunderstood words, not that they are really super literate, although this is sometimes implied and tacitly agreed to.

TD, Technical Dictionary; the cult's wonderful study of semantics gone awry; complements the Admin Dictionary.

Recommended reading. Hubbard recommends certain dictionaries in the Student Hat course, and gives several reasons why certain dictionaries are bad. His own dictionary fits snuggly into his own definition of a bad dictionary. Sometimes called the Tech Dictionary, Tech, short for "technology", the quasi-scientific auditing "therapy" processes and actions of Scientology, as found in HCOBs, Hubbard Communication Office Technical Bulletins, collections of which are found in the Red Vols, q.v. "You are hereby declared an SP, Sam, for committing Out-Tech."

Teegeeack, Earth. Its old name. 75 million years old, according to Hubbard.

Terminal, a fully hatted (trained) person on their post (job), to which particles (people or paper) can be sent to and from.

A dehumanizing term for people, but not a derogatory word inside the cult. "After being Declared, your only Terminal is the International Justice Chief."

Theta, 1. Uptone. "That was a really Theta speech Miscavige gave about how we are stopping the Psyches from taking over the world." 2. Life force. "This universe was constructed by Theta."

Theta-L, the Theta List, an Internet Mailing list where Scientologists hang out and exchange anonymous and pointless "success stories."

Thetan, Spirit, Soul. "I now realize I am a Thetan, not a body."

Thursday at 2:00, the end of the week of production and making money in the cult of Scientology. "The Execs are adding up our week's statistics now; you better hope you're upstat by Thursday at 2:00."

Tone Forty or Tone 40, the top of the emotional tone scale, seen as a godlike state of command and control of others.

Tone Forty Command, an order given at Tone Forty, and therefore filled with mystical OT, Operating Thetan intention that must be instantly obeyed.

Tone Scale, the list of all human emotional states, arranged beside an arbitrary scale number from -40 (total failure), through 0 (death), to +40. "SPs are at 1.1, Covert Hostility, on the Tone Scale."

Touch Assist, a cult medical regimen meant to reduce ridges (afflicted areas due to impact) in the body due to injury.

Several methods are used. One involves repeatedly touching the injured part back to the object which caused the injury.

Another involves using the hands to smooth away the supposed built-up ridges or force lines from impact between objects or flows. Yet another involves sticking a finger on the body, and saying "feel my finger" repeated, as always, ad nauseum.

Track, the timeline of life's memories; both this life and earlier ones.

TR's, Training Routines. Designed to train the auditor "therapist" to be unresponsive to the PC patient. Side effect is creating a cold and distant "thousand-mile stare" in Scientologist's eyes.

TTYL, often ttyl, talk to you later. (net) UFZA, United Freezone Alliance, a loose affiliation of former cult members who still can't throw off the tatters of Hubbard's "tech". See Freezone. (act) Up Lines, towards the top of the cult hierarchy of Organizations. "All the money from Class IV Orgs goes Up Lines."

Up Stat, describing a condition of having the all-important production statistics going up, indicating increased output and more money coming in. Also, a general term of goodness or cleanliness, showing a kind of Scientological glow. After all, what could be better than having more money? "You should see the new ASI offices in LA; they are so incredibly Up Stat it would blow your mind." See Down Stat.

Valence, possession by another personality or evil spirit. "You sure mock up a good SP valence!"

Verbal Tech, the cardinal sin of describing the cult's "Tech"

by word of mouth, or through one's own writing, deemed a "High Crime." "If you don't shut up with your originations of what you think a Fall means, I'm sending you to Ethics for spouting Verbal Tech!"

VGIs, Very Good Indicators. A bright, shining, smiling face expected and rewarded after a feedback session with an auditor "therapist" and an E-Meter. "Sally was F/Ning with VGI's after her Sunshine Rundown."

Wall of Clay, the extensive clay demos of Plasticine (tm) done on the Pro Trs (professional training routines for auditor "therapists.") A whole chapter from a book needs to be clay demo'ed. It can take over a week of 16 hour days, if doing TR's (training routines) the hard way, according to SO (Sea Org) standards.

Wall of Fire, the OT 3 incident with atomic bombs being dropped on our frozen souls on Hawaii. See Incident Two, OT 3.

WDC, the Watchdog Committee. A high-level cult security arm designed to keep an eye on the other branches.

Wholetrack, the timeline of trillions of years of memory Scientologists claim to have. "Sally has major Overts from six million years ago on her Wholetrack."

Why, a reason to explain why something happens; a cause. "We need to find the why behind the failure of Operation Snow White."

Win, a success from a Scientology perspective. "David Miscavige announced some Big Wins we had in Germany in 1994." See "Big Win", "Success Story."

WISE, World institute of Scientology enterprises. Business department of Scientology. Licenses L. Ron Hubbard's "Tech" to corporations and then infiltrates them in high-level takeovers. A cult front-group.

Withhold, after committing an Overt (undisclosed bad act), people try to hide it or Withhold it; thus a Withhold is what you're hiding. "Sit down and write up your Overts and Withholds."

Wog, a derogatory and racist term the cult co-opted from British slang, and now uses to refer to people outside of Scientology's purview.

Wog world, the mundane society away from the totally free supermen inside the cult of Scientology, seen as an aberrated sea of insanity and criminality to be feared and avoided.

Xenu, sometimes spelled Xemu, the evil galactic ruler that packaged us all up, put us on Hawaii, and blew us up with H bombs 75,000,000 years ago, according to L. Ron Hubbard, author of Dianetics. The picture on the cover of Dianetics is meant to restimulate this incident implanted by Xenu, and force us to buy a copy. What's that you say? Hawaii didn't exist 75,000,000 years ago? Shhh! You'll wake him!

********************************************************** Some definitions from the cult's literature, provided by sdraper, xpolitic@ix.netcom.com, nobody@c2.org (Anonymous User), Xenu's Sister, and several others.

********************************************************** Aberrate, to make something diverge from a straight line. The word comes basically from optics. *Aberrated*, departed from rationality, deranged. (from TD) Anaten, a composite of two words, "analytical and attenuation, or partial or complete dilution or weakening of the functions of the analytical mind. The preclear goes "unconscious" for a moment in the session. (HCOB 11 May, AD 15) Anaten, 1. an abbreviation of analytical attenuation meaning diminution or weakening of the analytical awareness of an individual for a brief or extensive period of time. If sufficiently great, it can result in unconsciousness. (It stems from the restimulation of an engram which contains pain and unconsciousness.) (Dianetics and Scientology Technical Dictionary) 2. simply a drop in ARC to an extreme. (Scn AD) (PAB 70) 3. the physiological by-product of unconsciousness.

(SOS, Bk. 2, p. 170) 4. dope-off. (Abli 52) (dope-off is also defined...basically means "sleepy, foggy (as though doped)."

Anger, 1. True anger is a hate hold. At exactly 1.5 on the tone scale we have a total ridge. It's hate. When we move a little above or below 1.5 we get a dispersal. 2. Anger is simply the process of trying to hold everything still. (from SOS glossary) Antagonism, at the level of tone 2.0, affinity is expressed as antagonism, a feeling of annoyance and irritation caused by the advances of other people toward the individual. (from SOS glossary) Apathy, 1. Complete withdrawal from person and people. There is in apathy no real attempt to contact one's self and no attempt to contact others. Here we have a null point of dissonance which is on the threshold of death. 2. A very docile and obedient, if sick, state of not-beingness. 3. No effort, all counter-effort. 5. Apathy, near death, imitates death. If a person is almost all wrong, he approximates death. He says, "What's the use? All is lost." (from SOS glossary) Attention Unit, a theta energy quantity of awareness existing in the mind in varying quantity from person to person. (HCOB 11 May, AD 15) Beingness, 1. The assumption or choosing of a category of identity. *Beingness* is assumed by oneself or given to oneself, or is attained. Examples of *beingness* would be one's own name, one's profession, one's physical characteristics, one's role in a game - each and all of these things could be called one's *beingness*. 2. The person one should be in order to survive. 3. Essentially, an identification of self with an object. (from TD) Boil-off, v. 1. to become groggy and seem to go to sleep. (HFP, p. 100) n. 1. usually a flow running too long in one direction. (XDN No. 4, 7204C07) 5. boil-off was originally and sedately named "comatic reduction," but such erudition has been outvoted by the fact that it has never been used. (DMSMH p. 303)"

Boredom, 1. Boredom is not just not doing anything. Boredom is an eddying back and forth which on its lower harmonic becomes pain and on a lower harmonic becomes agony. 2. Boredom is not a state of inaction. It is a state of idle action, vacillating action where penalties are yet in existence, and where they are grave, but a state in which one has decided he can't really do anything about them. It's just a high-toned apathy.

(from SOS glossary) Conservatism, at 3.0 on the tone scale we have the person who is democratic, but who is somewhat more conservative than the liberal at 3.5 in his attitudes and more given to social regulations, being more in need of them. (from SOS glossary) Counter-effort, 1. The *effort* which *counters* one's survival. 2. Any *effort* the environment can exert against you. 3. What we're talking about when we talk about a *counter-effort is the force of impact of an engram. The force of impact which gives the pc an engram is a *counter- effort*.

(from TD) Counter-emotion, any *emotion* that is *countering* an existing *emotion*. (from TD) Counter-thought, you think one thing somebody else thinks another. Their *thought* is *counter* to your thought. (from TD) Covert hostility, around 1.1 on the tone scale we reach the level of covert hostility. Here the hatred of the individual has been socially and individually censured to a point where it has been suppressed, and the individual no longer dares demonstrate hate as such. He yet possesses sufficient energy to express some feeling on the matter, and so what hatred feels comes forth covertly. All manner of subterfuges may be resorted to. The person may claim to love others and to have the good of others as his foremost interest: yet, at the same moment, he works, unconsciously or otherwise, to injure or destroy the lives and reputations of people and also to destroy property. (from SOS glossary) Criminal, 1. One who is unable to think of the other fellow, unable to determine his own actions, unable to follow orders, unable to make things grow, unable to determine the difference between good and evil, unable to think at all on the future.

Anybody has some of these; the criminal has ALL of them. 2.

One who thinks help cannot be on any dynamic or uses help on anyone to injure and destroy. 3. Criminals are people who are frantically attempting to create an effect long after they know they cannot. They cannot then create decent effects, only violent effects. Neither can they work. (from TD) Delusion, a belief in something which is contrary to fact or reality resulting from deception, misconception, or misassignment. (HCOB 11 May, AD 15) E-meter, 5. The meter tells you what the preclear's mind is doing when the preclear is made to think of something. The meter registers before the preclear becomes conscious of the datum. It is therefore a pre-conscious meter. It passes a tiny current through the preclear's body. This current is influenced by the mental masses, pictures, circuits and machinery. When the unclear pc thinks of something, these mental items shift and this registers on the meter. (from TD) Engram, a mental image picture of an experience containing pain, unconsciousness, and a real or fancied threat to survival; it is a recording in the mind of something which actually happened to the preclear in the past which contained pain and unconsciousness, both of which recorded in the mental image picture called an engram. (HCOB 11 May, AD 15) Ethics, 2. Ethics actually consist, as we can define them now in Dn, of rationality toward the highest level of survival for the individual, the future race, the group, and mankind, and the other dynamics taken collectively. The highest ethic level would be long-term survival concepts with minimal destruction, along any of the dynamics. (from TD) Facsimile, 1. Any mental picture, that is unknowingly created and part of the time track is a *facsimile*, whether an engram, secondary, lock or pleasure moment. 2. A theta recording. All physical perceptions, all effort, emotion and thought which a person experiences are recorded continuously, and these recordings are called *facsimiles*. They are not dependent upon an organism for their continued existence. Any *facsimile* which has been recorded is there to be recalled - when the individual has risen high enough on the tone scale, when he has regained enough of his self-determinism. 3. An energy picture made by a thetan or the body's machinery of the physical universe environment. It is like a photograph. It is made of mental energy. It means copy of the physical universe.

4. The pictures contained in the reactive mind. 5. A full *facsimile* is a sort of three-dimensional color picture with sound and smell and all other perceptions plus the conclusions or speculations of the individual. 6. A simple word meaning a picture of a thing, a copy of a thing, not the thing itself.

7. A *facsimile* is an energy picture which can be reviewed again. A *facsimile* contains more than fifty easily identified perceptions. It also contains emotion and thought. 8. Means the physical universe impression on thought and it means that section of thought which has a physical universe impression on it and it has a time tag on it. (from TD) Fear, 1. A condition of alertness for counter-efforts that threaten survival. 2. A fast uncontrolled flow. 3. The emotion of fear and the dispersal of energy are one and the same thing because the dispersal of energy makes one feel like he wants to run away. (from SOS glossary) Fifth invader force, a thetan from the fifth invader force believes himself to be a very strange insect-like creature with unthinkably horrible hands. He believes himself to be occupying such a body, but is in actuality simply a unit capable of producing space, time, energy and matter. (Scn.

8-8008, p. 132) Firefight, the action of a quarrel between an auditor and a pc is called a firefight. (HCOB 21 Apr. 71RB) Fixed Attention Units, attention units which are caught somewhere down the time track in one incident or another in the form of entheta. (HCOB 11 May, AD 15) Generality, a general or non-specific statement which is applicable to all and used in Scientology to connotate a statement made in an effort to either hide cause or to overwhelm another person with the all-inclusive. (HCOB 11 May, AD 15) Grief, 1. A ridge and is occasioned by loss. 3. Grief takes place where one recognizes his loss and failure as in the death of somebody he loved and tried to help. (from SOS glossary) Invalidation, 1. Refuting or degrading or discrediting or denying something someone else considers to be fact. 2. Any thought, emotion or effort, or counter-thought, counter-emotion or counter-effort which denies or smothers the thought, emotion or effort of the individual. 3. *Invalidation* by words is the symbolic level of being struck. 4. Basically, non-attention. Attention itself is quite important for attention is necessary before an effect can be created. 5.

*Invalidation* is force applied. You apply enough force to anybody and you've *invalidated* him. How *invalidated* can he get? Dead! (From TD) Marcab Confederacy, various planets united into a very vast civilization which has come forward up through the last 200,000 years, [it] is formed out of the fragments of earlier civilizations. In the last 100,000 years they have gone on with a sort of a decadent kicked-in-the-head civilization that contains automobiles, business suits, fedora hats, telephones, spaceships. A civilization which looks [like an] almost exact duplicate but is worse off than the current U.S. civilization.

(SH Spec 291, 6308C06) Megalomaniac, a person who has delusions of grandeur, wealth, power, etc. (HCOB 11 May, AD 15) Mest, 1. A coined word, meaning *matter*, *energy*, *space* and *time*, the physical universe. (from TD) Misemotional, 1. Such a word would indicate that a person did not display the *emotion* called for by the actual circumstances of the situation. 2. Being *misemotional is synonymous with being irrational. (from TD) Mock-up, verb. To get an imaginary picture of. (from TD) Mock-up, noun. 1. *Mock-up* is derived from the World War II phrase which indicated a symbolized weapon or area of attack.

Here, it means in essence, something which a person makes up himself. 2. A *mock-up* is more than a mental picture; it is a self-created object which exists as itself or symbolizes some object in the mest universe. It is a thing which one can be.

3. A full perceptic energy picture in three dimensions created by the thetan and having location in space and time. Now, that's the ideal definition. 4. We call a mental image picture a *mock-up* when it is created by the thetan or for the thetan and does not consist of a photograph of the physical universe.

5. Any knowingly created mental picture that is not part of a time track. (from TD) Motivator, 1. An aggressive or destructive act received by the person or one of the dynamics. It is called a *motivator* because it tends to prompt that one pays it back - it *motivates* a new overt. 2. Something which the person feels has been done to him, which he is not willing to have happen.

3. An act received by the person or individual causing injury, reduction or degradation of his beingness, person, associations or dynamics. 4. An overt act against oneself by another. In other words, a *motivator* is a harmful action performed by somebody else against oneself. (from TD) Neurotic, 1. Considered to be below 2.5. The neurotic has thorough concern about the future to the degree that he has many more fears about the future than he has goals in the future. He spends much of his time pondering the past. He acts and wonders if he has acted correctly and is sure he has not.

Thoughts to him are as solid as mest. He is overwhelmed by sudden counter- efforts. He is operating on a subcontrol center which has been itself very blunted. He is ill much of the time to a greater or lesser degree. He has colds. He brings "bad luck" and disaster. He is Homo Sapiens at his irrational worst. 2. A neurotic is a person who has some obsession or compulsion which overmasters his self-determinism to such a degree that it is a social liability. 5. The computation of present time only. (?) Operating Thetan, 1. A *thetan* exterior who can have but doesn't have to have a body in order to control or *operate* thought, life, matter, energy, space and time. 2. Willing and knowing cause over life, thought, matter, energy, space and time. And that would of course be mind and that would of course be universe. 3. An individual who could *operate* totally independently of his body whether he had one or didn't have one. He's now himself, he's not dependent on the universe around him. 4. A Clear who has been refamiliarized with his capabilities. 5. A being at cause over matter, energy, space, time, form and life. *Operating* comes from "able to *operate* without dependency on things" and thetan is the Greek letter *theta* which the Greeks used to represent "thought" or perhaps "spirit" to which an "n" is added to make a new noun in the modern style used to create words in engineering. 6. By *operating thetan* we mean theta clear plus ability to operate functionally against or with mest and other life forms. 7.

This state of being is attained by drills and familiarity after the state of Clear has been obtained. A real *OT* has no reactive bank, is cause over matter, energy, space, time and thought and is completely free. (from TD) Overt Act, 1. An *overt act* is not just injuring someone or something; an *overt act* is an *act* of omission or commission which does the least good for the least number of dynamics or the most harm to the greatest number of dynamics.

2. An intentionally committed harmful *act* committed in an effort to resolve a problem. 3. That thing which you do which you aren't willing to have happen to you. (This term is usually shortened to *overt* and is used as a noun.) (from TD) Paranoid, a person with delusions, as of grandeur or, especially, persecution. (HCOB 11 May, AD 15) Present Time, the time which is now and which becomes the past almost as rapidly as it is observed. It is a term loosely applied to the environment existing in now, as in "preclear came up to present time", meaning the preclear became aware of the existing matter, energy, space, and time of now. The point on anyone's time track where his physical body (if alive) may be found. "Now". (HCOB 11 May, AD 15) Psychotic, 1. Does not know what is going on in his environment and does not know what is going on inside himself. It is all unknown and therefore unobservational-unobserved. He doesn't know what's happening into receive or is the effect. 4. When a person has lost his ability to impose time and space upon his facsimiles and his memories he's psychotic, he's gone. 5. An avoidance of both the future and present time and a shift into the past. 10. Computation only of past situations. (?) Responsibility, 1. The ability and willingness to assume the status of full source and cause for all efforts and counter-efforts on all dynamics. 2. When one speaks of responsibility he means "the determination of the cause which produced the effect." 7. Admission of control of space, energy and objects. 8. Willingness to own or act or use or be. 10.

"Admit causing", "able to Withhold." (from TD) Revivification, the bringing back to life of an engram in which a preclear is stuck. The engram or some portion thereof is being acted out in present time by the preclear. It is called a revivification because the engram is suddenly more real to the preclear than present time has ever been. He relives that moment briefly. He does not merely recall or remember it.

(HCOB 11 May, AD 15) Secondary, a secondary engram is a mental image picture at a moment in the past containing misemotion anger, fear, grief, apathy - where loss either is threatened or accomplished.

However, a secondary can not exist unless an engram underlies it. (HCOB 11 May, AD 15) Security Checking, 2. Withholds don't add up to Withholds. They add up to overts, they add up to secrecies, they add up to individuation, they add up to games conditions, they add up to lot more things than O/W. Although we carelessly call them Withholds, we're asking a person to straighten out their interpersonal relationships with another terminal. Our normal security check is addressed to the individual versus society or his family. It's what people would consider reprehensible that makes a Withhold. In a Catholic society, not having kept Mass would be a reprehensible action. In a non-Catholic society, nobody would think twice about it. So, most of our security checks are aimed at transgressions against the mores of the group. That is the basic center line or the security check.

It's a moral code that you're processing in one way or the other. You're straightening out somebody on the "Now, I'm supposed to's." They've transgressed, they are now individuated. If their individuation is too obsessive, they snap in and become the terminal. All of these cycles exist around the idea of the transgression against the "Now I'm supposed to." That's what a security check clears up and that is all it clears up. It's a great deal more than a Withhold.

(from TD) Straightwire, 1. When we say *straightwire*, we're simply talking about stringing a line from cause to effect through the past. 2. Straight memory is also called *straight wire* because the auditor is directing the memory of the preclear and in doing so is stringing *wire*, much on the order of a telephone line, between *I* and the standard memory bank. 3. A technique of direct memory. 4. In 1950 in the early HDA lectures we described this as the act of stringing a line between present time and some incident in the past, and stringing that line directly and without any detours. 5.

*Straight wire* is - the recovery of the actual time, place and object. (from TD) Stuck in Present Time, the condition of a person being incapable of moving on the time track into the past. In actuality the preclear is in some incident which forces him to be in the apparent present. (HCOB 11 May, AD 15) Suppress, to squash, to sit on, to make smaller, to refuse to let reach, to make uncertain about his reaching, to render or lessen in any way possible by any means possible, to the harm of the individual and the fancied protection of a suppressor.

(?) Suppressive Person, 1. A person who rewards only down statistics and never rewards an up statistic. He goofs up or vilifies any effort to help anybody and particularly knifes with violence anything calculated to make human beings more powerful or intelligent. A suppressive automatically and immediately will curve any betterment activity into something evil or bad. 2. The person is in a mad, howling situation of some yesteryear and is "handling it" by committing overt acts today. I say condition of yesteryear but this case thinks it's today. 3. An SP is a no-confront case because, not being in his own valence he has no viewpoint from which to erase anything. That is all an SP is. (4) Those who are destructively antisocial. 5. A person with certain behavior characteristics and who suppresses other people in his vicinity and those other people when he suppresses them become PTS or potential trouble sources. (?) Theta Clear, 1. It is a person who operates exterior to a body without need of a body. 2. That state wherein the preclear can remain with certainty outside his body when the body is hurt.

3. A *theta clear*, then can be defined as a person who is at cause over his own reactive bank and can create and uncreate it at will. Less accurately he is a person who is willing to experience. *Theta clear* is stable. 4. *Theta clear* would mean clear of the mest body or cleared of the necessity to have a mest body. 5. There are two types of *theta clear*, the theta being which is cleared of its necessity or compulsion to have a body and a theta being which is cleared all the way on the track. 6. The basic definition of *theta clear* is: no further necessity for beingnesses. 7. This is a relative not an absolute term. It means that the person, this thought unit, is clear of his body, his engrams, his facsimiles, but can handle and safely control a body. 8. In its highest sense, means no further dependency on bodies. 9. An individual who, as a being, is certain of his identity apart from that of the body, and who habitually operates the body from outside, or exteriorized. (from TD) Time Track, the consecutive mental image pictures recording the consecutive moments of "now" through which the individual has lived. It consists of locks, secondaries, and engrams. (HCOB 11 May, AD 15) Tone Scale, a scale which shows the emotional tones of a person. These, ranged from the highest to the lowest, are, in part serenity (the highest level), enthusiasm (as we proceed downward), conservatism, boredom, antagonism, anger, covert hostility, fear, grief, apathy. (from SOS glossary) Tone Scale, the intention to exert effort bridges into the body by emotion. In other words, the physical-mental bridge is called the energy manifestation of affinity. As used in Dn, emotion could be called the index of state of being. In the English language, 'emotional' is often considered synonymous with 'irrational.' This would seem to assume that if one is emotional one cannot be reasonable. No more unreasonable assumption could possibly be made. (From the TD) Withhold, 1. A Withhold is an unspoken, unannounced transgression against a moral code by which the person was bound. 2. The unwillingness of the pc to talk to the auditor or tell him something. 3. A Withhold is something that a person believes that if it is revealed it will endanger their self- preservation. 4. When a person should be reaching and is withdrawing that's a Withhold. 9. Is always the manifestation which comes after an overt. Any Withhold comes after an overt.

(from TD) ******************************************************* The below was written by sdraper, and posted to alt.religion.scientology with the definitions from the Technical Dictionary and Science of Survival. The reasons for including it should be obvious; it provides a prime example of the tortuous windings of the thought processes of an active-phase cult member, while also using many of the cult's terms and stock phrases in their natural context. There's a startling similarity in phraseology between Scientologists...reading this excerpt from sdraper will provide much insight into how a Scientologist thinks and speaks. The heavy strains of the cult's cruel Ethics system, as when sdraper talks about "criminals," is strangely juxtaposed with such words as "freedom" and "spiritual." In addition, the paranoid thread that runs throughout the organization as a living testament to Hubbard's own insanity is clearly seen in the lines about sec-checks, being "under attack," the omnipresent "chaos merchants" and "criminal organizations."

************************************************************* In my words:- I provide these definitions from Scientology materials so as the interested reader may apprise themselves of the component parts of the basics of ethics. Scientology is a religion founded on ethical systems and conduct, by using the understanding that freedom is found for the individual by that individual taking responsibility for their past, present and future. Some criminal organizations have recognized this as a threat to their survival or criminal intent to rob mankind of spiritual freedoms and have thus gone about in quite a methodical fashion to undermine the work of Scientology in the community. The E-meter and auditor combination can be used to locate and find criminal acts and criminal persons within the Scientology organizations using security check procedures. This is done so that either criminal actions can be repaired; the person is relieved of their criminal impulses or the criminal can be expelled from the organization. Scientology as a religious practice is about the individual taking responsibility for themselves and others across the dynamics.

It is a good organization under attack, from ignorance, from evil intent and from those who are not into taking responsibility in general. It is my personal belief that their are suppressive individuals in society, suppressive groups, chaos merchants and the like who knowingly attack the truth either consciously or unconsciously. They are repelled by the fact that others wish to stop criminal action. They are repelled by a group that has the capability to find them out.

They are repelled by concepts of freedom, love and honour and higher spiritual concepts. I don't mean to say that CoS or other Scientology type organizations are error free, or pure of overt acts or anything else. This is no justification for errors made in the past. But the interested reader needs to understand that this is what the subject is about, these are the basic issues involved. If this is not being done then Scientology it isn't!

******************************* My own words on the FAQ follow:

******************************* I have waited patiently for the cult to come up with a list of definitions, as it is a suppressive act, according to their dogma, to let anyone go by a misunderstood word. They were first asked to post a list of cult terms in 1994; they have failed in their duty. They are suppressive according to their own definitions and dogma; deliberately trying to cave people in with MU's...just as they use the R6 Bank symbols on the cover of their books to cave people in.

If you, or anyone reading this has any further acronyms you don't understand not in this list, feel free to send e-mail to uo880@freenet.victoria.bc.ca (Martin Hunt), and it will be added to the FAQ. Keep in mind that this list cannot include all the cult's terminology as contained in the Tech and Admin dictionaries. Only terminology which is current, frequently used on ars, or generally informative will be considered for inclusion in the FAQ.

See any corrections? Same deal; send it along. But keep in mind it would be preferred to keep the descriptions a few lines long...no essays on one term, please!

Worried about my evident bias? Too bad! I was in the cult, and I see no reason to call it a religion. If it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, quack quack quacks like a duck, then it must be Scientology. Call a spade a spade, I always say.

Note that this FAQ was written for the purpose of cutting through the recondite cult semantics, using humour and wit. As such, it is not intended to be scholarly or "technically"

accurate; many of the definitions have been gathered from ars, and many more I wrote myself based on my experience within Scientology. Only the definitions from sdraper, nobody, and xpolitic can be considered accurate, unless you believe the cult's language is irrational nonsense, and in need of explanation by an inside expert.

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