From: jerry@lds-az.loral.com (J Barbera)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Definitions.
Date: 23 Nov 92 10:09:56 GMT
Organization: Loral Defense Systems Arizona


 
Small Selection of Scientology Definitions
 
(First Edition)
 
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Definitions quoted verbatim from the glossaries of several Scientology books
and other Scientology literature.  (Note: italics ommitted.)
 
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aberration: a departure from rational thought or behavior.
 
admin: a contraction or shortening of the word administration.  It is used as
a noun to denote the actions involved in administering an organization.  The
clerical and executive decisions, actions and duties necessary to the running
of an organization, such as organizing and answering mail, typing, filing,
dispatching, applying policy and all those actions, large and small, which
make up an organization.  Admin refers to the organizational functions of a
job, as opposed to its technical aspects.  Admin is also used to denote the
action or fact of keeping auditor's reports, summary reports, worksheets
and other records related to an auditing session.  "He kept good admin"
meaning that his summary report, auditor's report and worksheets were neart,
exactly on pattern, in proper sequence and easily understood, as well as
complete.  "His admin was bad" -- from the scribble and disorderly keeping
of records of the session while it was in progress one could not make out
what had happened in the session.
 
ARC: a word made from the initial letters of Affinity, Reality and
Communication which together equate to understanding.  These are the three
things necessary to the understanding of something -- one has to have some
affinity for it, it has to be real to him to some degree and he needs some
communication with it before he can understand it.
 
auditing: the application of Dianetics or Scientology processes and
procedures to someone by a trained auditor.  The exact definition of
auditing is: The action of asking a person a question (which he can
understand and answer), getting an answer to that question and
acknowledging him for that answer.
 
auditor: a person trained and qualified in applying Dianetics and/or
Scientology processes and procedures to individuals for their betterment;
called an auditor because auditor means one who listens.
 
awareness of awareness unit: the thetan.  (see also thetan)
 
bank: (see reactive mind)
 
beingness: the assumption or choosing of a category of indentity.
 
Book One: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.
 
Bridge, The: the route to Clear and OT, which we call the Classification,
Gradation and Awareness Chart.  It is a term originating in eary Dianetics
days to symbolize travel from unknowingness to revelation.
 
case: a general term for a person being treated or helped.  It also
refers to his condition, which is monitored by the content of his reactive
mind.  A person's case is the way he responds to the world around him by
reason of his aberrations.
 
case gain: the improvements and resurgences a person experiences from
auditing; any case betterment according to the pc.
 
case supervision: referring to the actions of the Case Supervisor.  The
C/S directs what auditing actions are done for each individual preclear
under his care.  All case supervision is for the benefit of the preclear.
 
case supervisor: (see case supervision)
 
chains: successions of incidents, occuring at various intervals along the
time track, that are related to one another by some similarity of either
subject, general location, people or perception.  Such a succession of
similiar incidents may span a brief period or a very long period of time.
 
charge: harmful energy or force accumulated and stored within the reactive
mind, resulting from the conflicts and unpleasant experiences that a person
has had.  Auditing discharges this charge so that it is no longer there
to affect the individual.
 
circuit: a part of an individual's bank that behaves as though it were
someone or something separate from him and that either talks to him or
goes into action on its own accord, and may even, if severe enough, take
control of him while it operates.  A tune that keeps going around in
someone's head is an example of a circuit.
 
Clear: the name of a state achieved through auditing or an individual
who has achieved this state.  A Clear is a being who no longer has his
own reactive mind.  A Clear is an unaberrated person and is rational in
that he forms the best possible solutions he can on the data he has and
from his viewpoint.  The Clear has no engrams which can be restimulated
to throw out the correctness of computation by entering hidden and false
data.
 
co-audit: an abbreviation for cooperative auditing.  It means a team of
any two people who are helping each other reach a better life with
Dianetics or Scientology processing.
 
communication: the interchange of ideas across space.  Its fullest
definition is the consideration and action of impelling an impulse or
particle from source-point across a distance to receipt-point, with the
intention of bringing into being at the receipt-point a duplication and
understanding of that which emanated from source-point.  The formula
of Communication is Cause, Distance, Effect, with Intention, Attention
and Duplication with Understanding.
 
C/S: (see case supervision)
 
determinism: power of choice; power of decision; ability to decide or
determine the course of one's actions.
 
doingness: the action of creating an effect.  An effect in creation is
action.
 
dramatizations: duplications of engramic content, entire or in part, by an
aberree (aberrated person) in his present time enviornment.  Aberrated conduct
is entirely dramatization.  The degree of dramatization is in direct ratio
to the degree of restimulation of the engrams causing it.  When dramatizing,
the individual is like and actor playing his dictated part and going through
a whole series of irrational actions.
 
dwindling spiral: a three-dimensional "vicious circle" which carries the
individual down the Tone Scale.  The worse an individual gets, the more
capacity he has to get worse.  That is the dwindling spiral.  You get a
compounding destruction.
 
dynamics: there could be said to be eight urges (drives, impulses) in life.
These we call dynamics.  These are motives or motivations.  These are urges
for survival as or through (1) self, (2) sex and family, (3) groups,
(4) all mankind, (5) living things (plants and animals), (6) the material
universe, (7) spirits, and (8) infinity or the Supreme Being.
 
E-Meter: an electronic device for measuring the mental state or change of
state of Homo sapiens.  It is not a lie detector.  It does not diagnose
or cure anything.  It is used by auditors to assist the preclear in
locating areas of spiritual distress or travail.
 
engrams: mental image pictures of experiences containing pain,
unconsciousness and a real or fancied threat to survival; they are recordings
in the reactive mind of things which actually happened to an individual in
the past and which contained pain and unconsciousness, both of which are
recorded in mental image pictures called engrams.
 
evaluate: to impose data or knowledge upon another.  An example would be
someone telling another why he is the way he is instead of permitting
or guiding him to discover it for himself.
 
exteriorization: the act of the thetan moving outside the body.  When this
is done the person achieves certainty of his beingness or identity
completely apart from that of the body.
 
facsimile: a recording in energy of an incident or part of an incident
from the past.  The facsimile contains all the perceptics of the original.
It is an involuntary duplicate or copy (not a perfect duplicate).
 
Grade(s): a series of processes which are run on a preclear with the purpose
of bringing him to particular state of Release.
 
Grade Chart: (see The Bridge)
 
Hubbard, L. Ron (LRH, Ron): Founder and Source of Dianetics and Scientology.
 
implant: an enforced command or series of commands installed in the
reactive mind below the awareness level of the individual to cause him
to react or behave in prearranged wat without his "knowing it."
 
implanted: installed in the reactive mind as an implant.  (see also implant)
 
individuation: a withdrawl out of groups and into only self.  The mechanics
of individuation are first, communication into, and then refusal to
communicate into.
 
intention: something that one wishes to do.  It is an impulse toward
something, an idea that one is going to accomplish something.  It is
intentional, which means one means to do it.
 
interiorization: the action of going in; a thetan becoming interiorized in
a body.  An analogy would be stepping through a doorway into a room or
getting into an automobile.
 
invalidate: refute, degrade, discredit or deny something someone else
considers to be fact.
 
key out: to cause to drop away without erasing.
 
machines: actual machines in the mind (like ordinary machinery), constructed
out of mental mass and energy, that have been made by the individual to do
work for him, usually having been set up so as to come into operation
automatically under certain predetermined circumstances.
 
MEST: the physical universe.  A word coined from the initial letters of
Matter, Energy, Space and Time, which are the component parts (elements)
of the physical universe.  Also as an adjective, in the same sense to
mean "physical" -- as in "MEST universe", meaning the "physical universe."
 
mission: a group granted the privilege of delivering elementary Scientology
and Dianetics services.  The purpose of a mission is to get new people in
and up the line to orgs.  (see also organization)
 
mock up (verb): knowingly create a mental image picture that is not part of
the time track; get an imaginary picture of.
 
mock-ups (noun): knowingly created mental pictures that are not part of the
time track.  They are self-created images a person can see.
 
New Era Dianetics: a summary and refinement of Dianetics based upon thirty
years of experience in the application of the subject.  New Era Dianetics
was released in 1978.
 
occlusion: something hidden.  An occlusion of memory is something forgotten,
i.e., not available to conscious recall.  An occluded case is one whose
memory is usually largely occluded and whose field of awareness is black
or very dark.
 
Operating Thetan: 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.
 
org: (Scientology slang) an organization that delivers Dianetics and
Scientology training and processing.
 
organization: (often shortened in Scientology to org) a church of Scientology.
Most Scientology and Dianetics activities are carried on at either Scientology
organizations (churches) or Scientology missions.  A church (org) is
authorized to deliver higher levels of Scientology and Dianetics services
than a mission.  (see also mission)
 
OT: Operating Thetan.
 
other-determinism: the condition of having one's actions or conclusions
determined by something or someone other than oneself.
 
outpoint: any one datum that is offered as true that is in fact found to
be illogical; the anatomy of insanity.
 
pan determinism: the ability to regulate the considerations of two or more
indentities, whether or not they are opposed.  A much broader concept
than self-determinism, since the latter makes a randomity of anything
not considered "self."
 
pc: preclear.
 
pluspoint: a datum of truth.
 
postulates: conclusions, decisions or resolutions made by the individual
himself to resolve a problem or to set a pattern for the future or to
nullify a pattern of the past.
 
preclears: from pre-Clears, people not yet Clear; generally people being
audited, who are thus on the road to Clear; people who, through Dianetics
and Scientology processing, are finding out more about themselves and life.
 
pre-OT: a thetan beyond the state of Clear who, through the pre-OT levels,
is advancing to the full state of Operating Thetan (OT).
 
present time problem: a special problem that exists in the physical universe
"now" on which the pc has his attention fixed.  It is any set of circumstances
that so engages the attention of the preclear that he feels he should be
doing something about it instead of being audited.
 
process: a set of questions asked or commands given by an auditor to help
a person find out things about himself or life and to improve his condition.
 
processes: continuous actions, operations or series or changes taking place
in a definite manner.
 
processing: the action of asking a preclear a question (which he can
understand and answer), getting an answer and acknowledging him for that
answer.  Also called auditing.
 
Q-and-Aing: giving session control over to the pc.  The term Q and A means
that the exact answer to a question is the question, a factual principle.
However, it came to mean that the auditor did what the pc did.  The pc
does something, so the auditor also does something in agreement with the
pc.  The auditor following the pc's lead is giving no auditing and the pc
is left on "self-audit."
 
reactive mind: that portion of a person's mind which works on a totally
stimulus-response basis, which is not under his volitional control and which
exerts force and the power of command over his awareness, purposes, thoughts,
body and actions.  The reactive mind is where engrams are stored.
 
Release: the term for what occurs when a person separates from his reactive
mind or some part of it.
 
restimulations: reactivations of past memories due to similiar circumstances
in the present approximating circumstances of the past.
 
ridges: solid accumulations of old, inactive energy suspended in space and
time.  They are generated by opposing energy flows which hit one another
and continue to exist long after the energy flows have ceased.
 
rundown: a series of steps which are auditing actions and processes designed
to handle a specific aspect of a case.
 
Scientologist: one who knows he has found the way to a better life through
Scientology and who, through Scientology books, tapes, training and
processing, is actively attaining it.
 
Scientology: Scientology applied religious philosophy.  It is the study and
handling of the spirit in relationship to itself, universes and other life.
Scientology means scio, knowing in the fullest sense of the word and logos,
study.  In itself the word means literally knowing how to know.
 
self-determinism: control by the awareness of awareness unit of that which
it conceived to be its identity.
 
service facsimile: a computation generated by the individual to make self
right and others wrong, to dominate or escape domination and to enhance
own survival and injure that of others.  This computation will cause the
individual to deliberately hold in restimulation selected parts of his
reactive mind to explain his failures in life.  For example, a person
may keep an old injury in restimulation so that his family has to look
after him.
 
session: a precise period of time during which an auditor audits a preclear.
 
squirreling: altering (materials, procedures, etc.) from the original.
 
static: an actuality of no mass, no wavelength, no position in space or
relation in time, but with the quality of creating or destroying mass or
energy, of locating itself or creating space, and in rerelating time.
 
theta: the life force, life energy, divine energy, elan vital, or any other
name, the energy peculiar to life which acts upon the physical universe
and animates it and changes it.
 
Theta Clear: a relative, no 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.
 
thetan: the person himself -- not his body or his name, the physical
universe, his mind, or anything else; that which is aware of being aware;
the identity which is the individual.  The term was coined to eliminate
any possible confusion with older, invalid concepts.  It comes from the
Greek letter Theta [circle with horizontal line in center], which the
Greeks used to represent thought or perhaps spirit, to which an n is
added to make a noun in the modern style used to create words in
engineering.  It is also [theta symbol to the nth], or "theta to the
nth degree," meaning unlimited or vast.
 
theta trap: a means used to trap a thetan.  All theta traps have one thing
in common: they use electronic force to knock the thetan into forgetting,
into unknowingness, into effect.
 
Tone Scale: a scale which shows the emotional tones of a person.  These,
ranged from the highest to lowest, are, in part, serenity (the highest
level), enthusiasm (as we proceed downward), conservatism, boredom,
antagonism, anger, covert hostility, fear, grief, apathy.
 
track: time track; the consecutive record of mental image pictures which
accumulates through a person's life or lives.  It is very exactly dated.
 
valence: personality.  The term is used to denote the borrowing of the
personality of another.  A valence is a substitute for self taken on after
the fact of lost confidence in self.  A preclear "in his father's valence"
is acting as though he were his father.
 
whole track: the moment to moment record of a person's existence in this
universe in picture and impression form.
 
wide-open case: the case who recalls with vivid perception things that never
happened.  This is called, sarcastically, the wide-open case.
 
win: gain or realization.  Also, intending to do something and doing it or
intending not to do something and not doing it.  For example, if one intends
to be able to communicate better with his boss and does so, that is a win.
Or if one intends to no longer be shy around girls and accomplishes that,
it is a win.
 
winning valences: the valences of greatest determinism.  In the case of a
woman beaten by her husband, the engram contains just two valences.  Who
won?  The husband.  Therefore it is the husband who will be dramatized.
(see also valence)
 
withhold: an unspoken, unannounced transgression against a moral code by
which the person was bound.  Something the preclear did that he or she is
not talking about.
 
Word Clearing: Scientology procedures used to locate and clear up words the
student or preclear has misunderstood in his studies of Dianetics and
Scientology or earlier subjects he has studied.
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