There are many valid issues on TRs, all of which remain in full force.
The following issues are hereby canceled for the reasons stated in this issue:
The only source of technical data is LRH HCOBs, books and tapes.
The issues listed above have introduced false data, verbal data and technical alter-is. See HCOB 23 Oct 75 TECHNICAL QUERIES, HCOB/HCO PL 9 Feb 79 HOW TO DEFEAT VERBAL TECH, HCOB/HCO PL 15 Feb 79 VERBAL TECH PENALTIES.
The specific points of out-tech introduced by these canceled issues are given here, so that all will know what the specific out-tech is that is being canceled.
This BTB is canceled because it states that if the student reads on “overrun?” that he is passed on the TR. This has given rise to false passes and the idea that the TR student has a case on course.
TRs are not processes, they are drills. The student passes the TR when he can do it competently.
This BTB is canceled because it introduces the idea of a “Major Stable Win,” stressed that the 2 hour confront had been lifted and not to overrun a person on TRs. It also states “It may take minutes to hours to a hundred hours to achieve the major win.”
Of course wins are gotten on doing TRs. But TRs are drilled until the student does the TR competently and passes. The idea that TRs could take “hundreds of hours” to get in is completely false. A competent Supervisor, using LRH tech and not omitting any of it, should be able to get students through the TR Course in a couple weeks at the most.
This BTB gives the idea that wriggling around, moving, fidgeting, watering red eyes and blinking and swallowing are OK.
These manifestations show that a person is not confronting, is nervous, afraid, flinching, or in grief. Of course the coach never insists that the student mustn’t blink, nor that he mustn’t ever swallow. He coaches the student to do the TRs until he can do them comfortably and competently, at which point those manifestations of nonconfront are no longer present. A good auditor can be there comfortably and would never distract a pc.
This issue omitted mention of the Hard TRs Course as an Academy prerequisite, as a result of which the Hard TRs Course was dropped out of the training for auditors.
A Hard TRs Course is essential to the ability to audit at any level of auditing.
“Pat-a-cake” (meaning child’s game) TRs were originally used in Div 6 for raw public to get them on a co-audit in London in the ‘50s and still might be of some small value for raw public that never intended to be auditors. But they sure won’t pass or make a real auditor. In this era of permissive education, forget the permissiveness. The day we dropped out hard TRs, we entered an era of less case gain for pcs.
This issue stresses the same points covered in No. I and No. 2 above and gave rise to false passes and quickying.
This issue states that interns and auditors do daily TRs and gave rise to the false idea that one’s TRs could go out overnight and you’d have to get them in again the next morning!
Once an auditor’s TRs are in, they are IN. The way to get your TRs in is to do the TRs Course. This doesn’t mean that you can’t do TRs again; it is usual to check an auditor’s TRs in Cramming and handle any outnesses. But once TRs have been done fully and honestly, they are in! And they stay in from there on out.
The earlier system, the one I originally used was successful. The trouble was that others added in the idea “it takes a hundred hours,” and actually thought it would take them months to get through a TRs Course and were sticking students in on one TR. Cycling through the TRs remedies that but one must ask what it is remedying? It’s remedying a bunch of knuckle-headedness and invalidation in the first place!
Cycling through the TRs has been given a new definition and action. The student goes up through the TRs until he or she sticks, and then starts back at the beginning of the TRs. It is a technical fact, that when one cannot do a lower level TR, one is not likely to do an upper level TR. Get the student through the TRs the Hard Way, each one to a pass, one at a time. If the student hangs up or fails on a later TR, start him or her from the beginning of the TRs again.
This issue has been misinterpreted by some who figured that because the coach doesn’t flunk the student for a blink, that it was then OK for the student to blink excessively in a distracting manner. This issue also points out that the person is a thetan and not a body, but that doesn’t mean that it is OK for the student to writhe nervously in the chair and call that TR 0.
The coach does not flunk a person because he blinked, nor does he flunk the person because he breathed! But there’s a big difference between someone who can’t confront who blinks excessively and squirms around nervously and an auditor who can comfortably be there without flinching or being distractive in any way to the preclear — which would be an Auditor Code break. A good auditor is never distractive to a pc. And a person who can confront doesn’t have excessive body motion of any kind, he can be there comfortably confronting.
“Blinkless TR 0” needs to be defined. It means that when a person’s TR 0 is in he doesn’t exhibit any manifestation of inability to confront including blinking nervously, flinchingly or doing anything else that shows a nonconfront.
Automatic body functions don’t have anything to do with TRs and are not taken up by the coach or Supervisor.
Nor do you do “pat-a-cake” TRs and you never pass someone who makes reactive body motions. Get the student able to confront. Any good auditor or Scientologist takes this ability for granted.
Totally blinkless wide open staring-eyed TR 0 and TR 0 Bullbait are not a requirement for pass but any truly competent auditor can do it.
This issue called for “daily TRs,” the same error as is covered above in No. 6.
Both these issues introduced the false idea that an auditor should make a question sound like a statement when assessing. This is incorrect as a statement can be accusative or evaluative. This idea was a misinterpretation of the fact that an assessment should have impingement.
The correct way to do assessments is covered in HCOB 22 Jul 78 ASSESSMENT TRs.
This issue stated “It may take weeks to get through plain TR 0.” That false idea gave TR Course students and Supervisors the idea that a TR Course could take a long time and set everybody up for a lose.
Honestly, TRs the Hard Way can be done fully, thoroughly and to a result of excellent TRs in a very short time. I can get somebody through TRs in three days, and often have.
False data on TRs, and how “difficult” they are to do, were entered into the original tech. The tech then got dropped out of use and “permissive TRs” crept in and then the TRs Course the Hard Way got dropped out of the training of an auditor. There’s no such thing as an auditor who can’t do TRs. Excellent TRs are the hallmark of a good auditor. Scientologists are known for their TRs. But an auditor can’t get results without TRs and a good auditor gets case gain on a pc on his TRs and comm cycle alone.
All the tech on TRs and TR training is available. Use it and make real professional auditors who get results on every pc, every time.