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From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com
Subject: RE: Demo of An Assist
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stark@prostar.com (Stark)

>The tape Demo of An Assist consisted of Hubbard performing an
>"assist" on a woman who was having some problem with her throat.

    That particular tape was one of 4 demo tapes with the
    Phattard auditing, which were required for comparison in
    every auditing intern's requirement for a passing taped
    (audio or video) session.  The intern was to listen to and
    compare his TRs to El Rotundo's.  That particular tape was
    the closest thing to standard auditing that Phatso did.  Just
    a simple repetitive command.  Even at that the Phatt Turd had 
    to Q&A, ask leading questions and evaluate for the victim.

>What I found interesting about it was how he asked her such obviously
>leading questions in order to get her to give the type of answers
>he wanted her to.

    Right.  Very bad tek!

>The procedure consisted of him asking over and over again, "From
>where could you communicate to a throat".  Now right off the bat,
>we have a problem here, as this is an almost nonsensical question.
>Communicate to a throat?  As in, "hey there mr. throat, how's it
>going?"  But I'm guessing that this is some odd scieno definition
>of communication, which makes the question make sense somehow.
>
>In the beginning, she gave answers having to do with hospitals, like
>"from an operating room", "from a bed", etc.  Apparently she had had
>her tonsils out at some early point in her life.  She kept giving
>answers like this until Hubbard strongly suggested to her that she
>was confusing this "facsimile" with one from a past life.
>Then he asked her some more, and she immediately began giving answers
>like "a sword" and "men having a swordfight" and other such past
>life sounding answers.
>
>They went on for a while like this, and then it seems her throat
>began to feel better.  (apparently it worked)  Hubbard was obviously
>then trying to bring this process to an end, and eventually told her
>that he was going to keep asking the question until she only gave
>answers coming from PT (present time).  She immediately did that,
>giving answers like "a vase" or "a chair", and the process was ended.

    Totally screwy and against his own Droppings.

>The way this was supposed to work, as far as I can tell, is that the
>question was supposed to first bring up some facsimile/engram/bad
>experience/etc. earlier in this life, and then this would lead back
>to an incident from a past life, which is the real cause of the
>problem.
>
>But would this really happen just on its own?  If you grabbed someone
>off the street who had a sore throat and started asking them "From
>where could you communicate to a throat?", would they really follow
>this pattern without being led into it?  I find it highly doubtful
>that they would.
>
>It would appear that in scientology auditing one learns how to be
>a PC, learns what sort of answer to give when.  If this were not so,