New Checksheet for the Independent Field

This is a Christmas present from our de facto department for Independent Checksheet Compilations — my good friends Dan Koon and John Aaron Williams. It consists of two new checksheets which together re-open the Bridge for the training of auditors capable of making Clears. The organization formerly responsible for doing this job failed to understand the nature of the “sociopathic” personality and in consequence they are gone. They vanished also because they did not yet understand their own vital role as Scientologists and failed to take initiative. They did not understand that being a Scientologist means taking on the hat of Watchdog: being the final autonomous arbiter over right and wrong across all things Scientology — ever vigilant, ready and willing to protect the goal of understanding. Alas, we have learned the hard way there is no such thing as a passive “Scientologist.” One cannot leave it to those at the top. An Independent Scientologist is not one who “follows the leader.” An Independent Scientologist IS his own leader.  — Thoughtful

John Aaron Williams and Dan Koon have added another checksheet to the expanding array of training courses for people wishing to do their auditor training outside of the corporate church. This is the Class V Graduate Auditor checksheet and it is a biggie.

Auditors may find as they are taking their preclears up through New Era Dianetics that certain rundowns might be needed, such as an int Rundown of False Purpose Rundown. The pc may have blown out of his head on Grade 3 and won't be auditable again until his or her Int is handled. A case may become snarled and the stall won't resolve until some non-survival considerations and evil purposes are gotten out of the way. Auditors may find that the case is bugged somehow and a Folder Error Summary is required to locate where things went off the rails. Then, as is fairly commonplace in even a smooth course of auditing, a correction or repair list is necessary to straighten out a particular session. Sometimes a case needs a remedy for a particular condition.

The tech for each of these situations is contained on this new, comprehensive auditor classification checksheet. This checksheet enables an auditor to broaden the tools in his toolbox and keep the preclear progressing in auditing. About the only area of tech not included is PTS handlings and these will be covered on the Independent PTS Detection, Routing and Handling checksheet coming soon. Of course, by frequent observation the PTS situations confronting Independent Scientologists is far, far less than those experienced by the clubbed seals . . . er, the Kool-Aid drinking . . . er, the 3rd mortgage-taking, 6 month-checking, endlessly-donating, Basics-buying parishioners of Scientology Inc.

Today, an Independent training lineup exists from Student Hat, through Pro TRs and Upper Indoc TRs, Academy Levels 0-IV, NED and now Grad V. It undoes the obstacles placed in the road of auditor training over the years, most crucially in 1996, by David Miscavige, which effectively shut down auditor training by making the runway so long that many people simply disappeared off the lines or gave up in frustration.

First, a little backstory. In 1978, LRH formed a unit to assist him in technical compilations. He had used these since the earliest days of Dianetics as he never considered himself an "only one." This new unit was called LRH Technical Compilations, or RTC. Several years later those initials were appropriated for today's RTC and the compilations unit became known as LRH Technical Research and Compilations, or RTRC.

One of the first items of business back in 1978 was the compilation of new checksheets for Academy trainees. LRH had found that auditor training courses in the early 1970s had become lumbered up with basically every new bulletin or rundown released and courses had become cumbersome. He clarified that an Academy auditor should be someone trained to do specific actions well. In other words, he would be somewhat like a technician or a mechanic who could audit the Expanded Lower Grades well and get results with those relatively simple and straightforward processes.

The training lineup for an Academy auditor was meant to be swift, with each level 0-IV taking only two weeks to complete.  LRH ordered RTRC that these new checksheets have all unnecessary issues stripped off and directed that they could contain no more issues than the Academy checksheets from 1968, which were the last earlier checksheets he had seen.

Training was meant to be swift and auditing experience would iron out the auditor with cramming, correction and an internship in Qual.

Let's now compare this to the training lineup that David Miscavige shaped and implemented in 1996 with the Golden Age of Tech.

First of all, the compilation of the Student Hat, directed by Miscavige's now-disappeared wife Shelly, was done in strict chronological order. This meant that the first items studied were the Study Tapes, which were lectures given to advanced trainees on the St. Hill Special Briefing Course. In earlier Student Hat courses, the bulletins that extracted the key points of study tech, such as Three Barriers to Study, always came before the Study Tapes, so the student would know some of the basics of Study Tech before launching into the tapes. But in 1996, this was reversed and the switch unnecessarily lengthened the course for students. They struggled with the nomenclature on the tapes, not knowing basic study tech or basic word clearing tech, which appeared after the tapes.

Next, we come to the Pro TRs Course. LRH envisioned this to be a fast course but one which would still give the trainee a thorough understanding of the most fundamental and important auditor skill of all--the ability to communicate with a preclear using TRs 0-4. LRH even personally directed a training film to demonstrate the expected standard of TRs for Academy auditor trainees and developed fabulous Clay Table processes that helped give the student a subjective understanding of the parts of the communication cycle and its formula. The film was meant to be the standard that students were expected to meet, and by comparing their own TR renditions against the film, a student would almost be able to decide for himself or herself whether or not they had made the grade.

So, how could David Miscavige complicate this simple, straightforward course? There is a saying that the "perfect" is the enemy of the "good," in other words, stop all quantity of students from rapidly passing the course by putting an obsessive concentration on quality at a level utterly unnecessary at that level of training. He exported this insanity from Flag where he sicced his RTC attack dogs on C/Ses and Course Supervisors and entered in arbitrary after arbitrary onto the video critique line where students would cut videos of their TR 4 renditions to demonstrate they had made it. By nitpicking students to death, the RTC Reps threw students into a doubt about whether they had made it and once students were in a spin, their time on course lengthened almost interminably. This was a very clever way to block the training lineup.

After Pro TRs came Pro Upper Indoc TRs and DM did not bother to mess with this course and students rarely had problems completing it in checksheet time. DM had his sights set on the grandaddy of all runway extensions--the New Hubbard Professional Metering Course. He based the course on an LRH advice to then Senior C/S Int David Mayo about putting Solo Auditor course students through the meter drills five times to ensure that a Solo Auditor would become, as LRH put it, "a meter sharpie." Metering is important at all levels, but an Academy auditor gets plenty of metering experience in his training and on his internships. A Solo Auditor may have never even seen the business end of the meter, hence, LRH's direction to put them through the drills many times. Makes sense.

But not for an Academy trainee. The Pro Metering Course also includes drills that no Academy auditor is ever going to use, specifically EM Drill 22, Hidden Date This Life, and EM Drill 25, Whole Track Dating. These drills sometimes took students months to pass, and DM, hammering home his mantra of "Perfection at the expense of everything!", the student had to pass the drill without making any mistakes before he could go on. Five times, no less.

Then, at the end of the course, to prove one's mastery, the student had to submit a video of Assessment Drill TR48Q, which is an assessment of one of the list of fruits, countries, musical instruments, etc., found at the back of the Book of E-Meter Drills. The RTC Reps were masters at rejecting a student's video on the basis of the can squeeze ("Oops, sorry, that was 1/16" short of a third of a dial"), the metabolism test, the length of a read ("Was it a sF of 5/8" or a F of 11/16"?) and anything else they could dream up to stop and spin the student in.

Students took literally YEARS to come out the other end of this gauntlet, if they survived at all. And, because orgs had sent their Course Supervisor trainees to Flag, they became implanted with this same operating basis and brought it back with them to their orgs.

If the trainee made it through this far, he or she was ready for the Academy Levels and, surprisingly, not too much difficulty was encountered on those courses. Sure, some of the drills dreamed up by RTRC were stupid, but reports were sent in and corrected drills went out. For the most part, the lineup from Level 0 to Level IV was smooth as glass compared to simply getting onto Level 0.

Sixteen years of no results have demonstrated that the Golden Age of Tech is a complete flop, even though the basic references on which it was based all came straight from LRH. Sixteen years of a trickle of auditors made demonstrates Miscavige's obvious intention to stop auditors from being made. One should never underestimate DM's "brilliance" at screwing things up.

To remedy that with an eye towards making auditors, what we have done at Independent Checksheet Compilations is to issue training checksheets with the arbitraries stripped out. There is no need for a new auditor trainee to do a Pro Metering Course. None. So, that is gone. There is no need to learn the dating drills before one learns to do Dating and Locating, so those do not appear until Grad V. Only the drills needed for the skills needed at a particular Academy level are included on the checksheet.

The Golden Age of Tech Drills, which were based on the Dianetic Command Training Drills that LRH wrote around 1970 do not appear on Independent Checksheets, not because there are not many drills which are valuable, but because these don't exist in the Independent field. If they did, some would undoubtedly appear on checksheets. There are no Tech Films on these checksheets and these would also be helpful, provided DM had not messed them up as he did by remaking the E-Meter Reads Film with mistimed instant reads. Independent tech films are under production in the Independent field rumor has it, and these will help remedy that lack.

The Independent Checksheets are based on the LRH datum that training should be swift and auditing drawn out. These checksheets are fast and smooth with only the issues that teach the necessary skills included.

Anyone is free to use this new Grad V checksheet or any of the Independent Checksheets to train oneself or others, and the checksheet compilers wish everyone good luck and a great time learning the fantastic, fantastic, fantastic LRH tech on these courses.

The Grad V Internship checksheet is also now done.

Grad V Checksheet:
http://www.thecourseroom.com/checksheets/LevelVNEDChecksheet.pdf

Grad V Internship Checksheet:
http://www.thecourseroom.com/checksheets/GradVInternshipChecksheet.pdf

Enjoy!

Independent Checksheet Compilations