As the only weak spot in S.O.P. Goals is assessing for the right goal and terminal, I have given this a lot of study and am utilizing something new I have observed that should cancel out any doubts about rightness in the auditor’s mind.

Do all S.O.P. Goals steps in Model Session form. This gives you two cracks at the withholds and ARC breaks. If in doubt about how the pc is standing up to a long assessment end the session, give pc a short break and start a new session.

To do Goals, get pc to give you every goal he or she can think of. Then start using the meter to find goals and keep on finding goals until when you ask for one you get no drop on the meter. In other words, look for goals like you look for withholds.

Ask for:

Secret goals.

Withheld goals.

Anti-social goals.

Childhood goals.

Goals you’ve just remembered.

Silly goals.

Goals you’ve failed at.

Your resulting list may be as long as a hundred or more or as short as fifty. Just clear the meter on the subject. Make sure you write down every goal you get.

Now to assess the goals. Tell pc he or she doesn’t have to answer aloud, and start reading the goals off to the pc. Write down how much each goal fell by divisions or fractions of divisions. Lightly cross out every goal that does not fall.

Go over list to pc again, still watching needle. Read off to pc every goal that fell before. You will find some of these have gone nul. Mark present divisions of fall for each goal. Cross out every goal that now does not fall.

Read remaining goals off to pc. Mark divisions they fell and cross out those that went nul.

Read now the goals that remain and cross out those that go nul. Keep doing this until you have only two or three goals.

Discuss these with the pc. They may be all the same goal. Get a better definition of the goal.

Now read the remaining goals to pc and cross out the ones that go nul.

You will have at least one heavily falling goal left that does not go nul on two way comm. This of course has to be run.

This assessment is assessment of goals by elimination.

We have the goal. Now to get the terminal.

We get the pc to suggest terminals that represent this goal we have found. We keep on urging the pc to give us more terminals for that goal.

We list every terminal the pc thinks up. We are not content until we have a list of about thirty possible terminals.

We now treat this list exactly as we did the goals list.

We read the list to the pc, marking divisions of fall and crossing out terminals that don’t fall now.

We take the uncrossed-out terminals and read these to the pc. We mark divisions they fall and cross out those that no longer fall.

We keep doing this until we are left with one terminal.

This is our terminal. The only way it will nul is by auditing. This is terminal assessment by elimination.

Commands are pretty easy to get.

The best command is the five-way bracket as follows: You terminal.

Terminal you. Terminal another. Another terminal. Terminal terminal.

The How type of command is very good.

The additional data on terminals commands is to add “bad” or “badly” at the inverted levels.

On the Pre-Havingness Scale you should add WASTE below FAILED ABANDON.

You should add REGRET, SHAME and BLAME going upwards from somewhere around PROTECT. I will give you the full Pre-Hav chart in a week or two, but you need these right now.