GLOSSARY





A=A=A=A: anything equals anything equals anything equals anything. This is the way the reactive mind thinks, irrationally identifying thoughts, people, objects, experiences, statements, etc., with one another where little or no similarity actually exists. Everything is everything else. Mr. X looks at a horse knows it's a house knows it's a school teacher. So when he sees a horse he is respectful.

Abnormal Dianetics: a book written in 1948 by L. Ron Hubbard which presented the basic causes of human behavior and the resolution of mental aberration and psychosomatic illness. It was later published as Dianetics: The Original Thesis and today is entitled The Dynamics of Life.

ad infinitum: (Latin) endlessly; forever; without limit. It literally means to infinity.

Adler, Alfred: (1870-1937) Austrian psychiatrist and psychologist.

Advanced Clinical Course: one of a number of theory and research courses delivered by L. Ron Hubbard which gave a deep insight into the phenomena of the mind and the rationale of research and investigation. Abbreviation ACC.

Aesculapian: of or relating to medicine or the art of healing. (Aesculapius: Roman Mythology. The god of medicine and healing.)

agglutinousness: condition of uniting or fastening, as with glue.

Alexander the Great: (356 B.C. – 323 B.C.), king of Macedonia, an ancient kingdom located in what is now Greece and Yugoslavia.

algae: group of related organisms, mostly aquatic and often independently mobile, containing chlorophyll but lacking true stems, roots or leaves. Some algae are single-celled and form scum on rocks; others, such as seaweed, are multicellular and may be very large.

Allied: referring to the Allies or countries that fought against Germany in World War II, specifically, Britain, France, the United States and U.S.S.R., which jointly occupied Germany after its defeat.

analyzer: the analytical mind: that portion of the mind which perceives and retains experience data to compose and resolve problems.

anaten: an abbreviation of analytical attenuation, meaning diminution (lessening) or weakening of the analytical awareness of an individual for a brief or extensive period of time. If sufficiently great, it can result in unconsciousness. (It stems from the restimulation of an engram which contains pain and unconsciousness.)

Anaxagoras: (c. 500 – 430 B.C.) Greek philosopher. He believed the earth to be a flat disk and the present cosmic order to have evolved from an original chaos. He argued that all forms of organic life are animated by the soul and cosmic intelligence in varying degrees and that perception results when the sense organs are irritated.

anchor points: dimension points which demark the outermost boundaries of a space or its corners. Anchor points, along with the viewpoint, are responsible for space. An anchor point is a dimension point that stays rather still, to keep the space created.

animalcule: a microscopic animal.

anthropoidal: of the nature of man or resembling man in nature or structure.

antithesis: the direct opposite.

apex: highest point; tip.

appetite over tin cup: a pioneer Western U.S. term used by riverboat men on the Missouri; it means thrown away violently, like "head over heels," "bowled over."

archangels: chief angels; angels of high rank.

ARC Straightwire: a recall process which gets the preclear to remember times of affinity, reality, communication and understanding.

as-ised: viewed exactly as it is, without any distortions or lies, at which moment it vanishes and ceases to exist.

assists: simple, easily done processes that can be applied to anyone to help them recover more rapidly from accidents, mild illness or upsets; any processes which assist the individual to heal himself or be healed by another agency by removing his reasons for precipitating (bringing on) and prolonging his condition and lessening his predisposition (inclination or tendency) to further injure himself or remain in an intolerable condition.

atavistic: having to do with the appearance in an individual of some characteristics found in a remote ancestor but not in nearer ancestors.

A to Izzard: from beginning to end. Izzard is an archaic word meaning the letter z.

atomic fission: the splitting of the nucleus of an atom accompanied by conversion of part of the mass into energy. This is the principle of the atomic bomb.

Auditor's Code: a collection of rules (do's and don'ts) that an auditor follows while auditing someone, which ensures that the preclear will get the greatest possible gain out of the processing that he is having. It was evolved from years of observing processing.

Auditor's Handbook: Scientology: Auditor's Handbook including Intensive Procedure: a handbook published in 1954 which contained a combination of all the procedures of major workability developed and tested during a series of seven Advanced Clinical Courses given at the time. Many additional processes and materials were later added to the book by Ron and it was republished as The Creation of Human Ability. See also Advanced Clinical Course in this glossary.

Auditor's Manual: a book about Dianetics processing published by staff in 1952.

automaticities: things set up automatically to run without further attention from the person himself. There are three kinds of automaticities: those which create things, those which make things persist and those which destroy things.

automatic transmission: an automotive transmission requiring either very little or no manual shifting of gears.

avidity: eagerness; greediness.

Axioms: statements of natural laws on the order of those of the physical sciences. For a full list of the Axioms of Dianetics and Scientology, see the book Scientology 0-8: The Book of Basics.

Babylon: ancient city which was the capital of Babylonia, an ancient empire in southwest Asia in what is now southern Iraq. It flourished between 2100 and 689 B.C.

Bachelor of Scientology: a graduate of professional auditor training courses given in 1953 and 1954.

banks: lateral inward tilts of a vehicle or other moving object when taking curves.

Battle of Jutland: (31 May – 1 June 1916) the greatest naval battle of World War I, involving the British and German fleets in the North Sea off the western coast of Denmark. The result was indecisive. The British lost three battle cruisers, three armored cruisers and eight destroyers, while the Germans lost one battleship, one battle cruiser, four light cruisers and five destroyers. The British lost 6,097 men to the German loss of 2,545. Though the Germans claimed victory, pointing out the greater losses of the British fleet, the German fleet was driven back to its own ports and rarely, in the two remaining years of the war, was it able to leave them.

Beatty, Clyde: a world-famous circus performer, known for his acts with wild jungle animals.

beingness: the assumption or choosing of a category of identity. Beingness is assumed by oneself or given to oneself or is attained. Examples of beingness would be one's own name, one's profession, one's physical characteristics, one's role in a game – each and all of these could be called one's beingness.

Beingness Processing: a process by which a person who cannot exteriorize easily, because he is below the level of being a body, is brought up to a level where he can be a body so he can exteriorize from it.

Bible Belt: those regions of the U.S., particularly areas in the South and Middle West, where fundamentalist beliefs prevail and Christian clergymen are especially influential.

Bierce, Ambrose Gwinnett: (1842 – 1914?) American satirist, short-story writer and journalist. One of the many stories written by Bierce is called The Damned Thing. In this story, he writes "As with sounds, so with colors. At each end of the solar spectrum the chemist can detect the presence of what are known as actinic rays [the violet or ultraviolet parts of the spectrum]. They represent colors – integral colors in the spectrum of light – which we are unable to discern. The human eye is an imperfect instrument; its range is but a few octaves of the real chromatic scale. I am not mad; there are colors we cannot see. And, God help me! the DAMNED THING is of such a color."

big brother: of or characteristic of the head of a totalitarian regime that keeps its citizens under close surveillance. (From George Orwell's novel, 1984.)

birdmen: aviators.

black field: some part of a mental image picture where the preclear is looking at blackness.

Black Five: a heavily occluded case characterized by mental pictures consisting of masses of blackness. The term Black Five came from application of SOP 8, wherein the auditor tests the preclear at each step of the process to find a step the preclear can do and begins processing at that step. A preclear who had to be started at Step V of the process was called a "Case V." This level of case could not get mock-ups but only blackness. See also Standard Operating Procedure 8 and blackness in this glossary.

blackness: a state or condition of being black, in terms of facsimiles or masses the preclear is looking at. See also Black Five in this glossary. blather: talk or utter foolishly; talk nonsense.

Boeing: aircraft manufacturing company, founded in 1916, which produced a wide variety of civilian and military planes.

boil down: to amount to when briefly stated.

Bolitho, William Ry'all: British journalist and author. His work Twelve Against the Gods was a biography of twelve famed personalities, including Alexander the Great, Mohammed and Napoleon.

Book One: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. For further information, see the bibliography of this volume.

boot: a navy or marine recruit, especially one in training camp.

bop: theta bop, a small or wide steady dance of the needle on an E-Meter.

bouncers: action phrases which send the preclear up the track toward present time. (Get up, get out, don't touch me, leave me alone, I've got to get ahead.)

Brahmin: a member of the highest or priestly class among the Hindus.

breed of cat: kind or type of thing.

BTU: (physics) British thermal unit, the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit.

bubonic plague: a very dangerous contagious disease, accompanied by high fever, chills and swelling of the lymph glands. It is usually carried to human beings by fleas from rats or squirrels.

bum: of poor, wretched or miserable quality; worthless.

buttered all over: a condition whereby a thetan is unknowingly in contact with a large part of a universe. In his effort to control, a thetan spreads himself further and further from the universe, and in his failures to control, withdraws from things he has attempted to control but leaves himself connected with them in terms of "dead energy." Thus we get the manifestation buttered all over the universe.

buttons: restimulators, words, voice tones, music, whatever they are – things which are filed in the reactive mind bank as parts of engrams.

Caesar, Julius: (100 B.C. – 144 B.C.) Roman general and statesman. After ten years of military campaigning across Europe, in which he conquered all of what is present-day France and portions of Germany, he returned to Rome, seized power through military action and effectively wiped out opposition to his rule.

CalTec: California Institute of Technology, a private engineering university in Pasadena, California, founded in 1891.

cat-foot: move in a cat-footed manner; go furtively like a cat.

CECS: Committee of Examination, Certificates and Services, a committee of five Doctors of Scientology which was the principle authority and court of appeals of Scientology in 1954, and controlled the certificates of Dianetics and Scientology.

chain fission: (fission means a splitting apart, dividing) larger atoms such as atoms of uranium can fission (split) into smaller atoms such as atoms of Iodine and Bromine. This process can be designed so that each fission will cause another fission, thereby setting off a chain reaction. The atomic bomb is an example of a chain fission.

Chaldea: province of Babylonia, the ancient empire in what is now southern Iraq.

Chanel Number 2: a perfume marketed by French fashion designer Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel (1882 – 1971).

Chart of Human Evaluation: a chart organized in very early 1951 by L. Ron Hubbard. It has various columns and gives behavior characteristics. It is plotted out mathematically on the basis of ARC; a very good chart to use in order to predict people. (For further information on this chart, read Ron's book Science of Survival.)

chemistry: the science dealing with the composition and properties of substances, and with the reactions by which substances are produced from or converted into other substances.

chimerical: unreal; imaginary.

chronic somatic: any "illness" generated by an engram or engrams. The word somatic means bodily or physical. Because the word pain is restimulative, and because the word pain has in the past led to confusion between physical pain and mental pain, the word somatic is used in Dianetics to denote physical pain or discomfort of any kind.

circuitry: having to do with a 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 of 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.

clink: a jail; prison.

closed terminals: the phenomenon of things collapsing into each other. In Scientology, this is also called closing or snapping terminals (people, fixed masses, etc.). The mechanics of this are: That which you fear, you bring to you. Why? Because all you have to do is be it and it is no longer possible for that to hurt you, or even be bad. But the second you run away from it, if you have anchor points in it you bring the anchor points in, too, and that collapses the terminal on you, so you become something bad.

co-auditing: the action of two people auditing one another. It is 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.

cockeyed: (slang) foolish; absurd.

Code of a Scientologist: a code which governs the activity of a Scientologist in general. For the entire code, see the book The Creation of Human Ability.

Columbia University: a large private university in New York City, founded in 1754.

comm lag: abbreviation for communication lag: the length of time intervening between the asking of the question by the auditor and the reply to that specific question by the preclear. The question must be precise; the reply must be precisely to that question. It does not matter what intervenes in the time between the asking of the question and the receipt of the answer. The preclear may outflow, jabber, discuss, pause, hedge, disperse, dither or be silent; no matter what he does or how he does it, between the asking of the question and the giving of the answer, the time is the communication lag.

congress: an assembly of Scientologists held in any of various cities around the world for a presentation of Dianetics and/or Scientology materials. Many congresses were addressed directly by Ron. Others were based upon taped LRH lectures or films on a particular subject. A congress also sometimes included seminars and co-audits for attendees.

conservation of energy: the principle that in a system that does not undergo any force from outside the system, the amount of energy is constant, irrespective of its changes in form.

consideration: thinking, believing, supposing, postulating. Consideration is the highest capability of life, taking rank over the mechanics of space, energy and time.

cropper, come a: experience a sudden or violent failure or collapse.

Curtis turbines: steam engines widely used for electric power plants and marine propulsion, developed by Charles G. Curtis (1860 – 1953), in the 1890s in the United States.

Dear Souls area: the term used to describe an area of the whole track dating back to trillions of years ago. The Dear Souls area was a saccharine-sweet sort of a universe, characterized by lots of enforced ARC. The beings in this area (called the "Dear Old Souls") educated one to be religious and to love one's neighbor and so on.

DED: an incident the preclear does to another dynamic and for which he has no motivator, i.e., he punishes or hurts or wrecks something the like of which has never hurt him. Now he must justify the incident. He will use things which didn't happen to him. He claims that the object of his injury really DEserveD it, hence the word DED, which is a sarcasm.

DEDEX: an incident which happens to a preclear after he has a DED. It is always on the same chain or subject, is always after the DED. It means the DED Exposed. It is covered guilt.

demon circuitry: mental mechanisms set up by engrams which take over portions of the analyzer and act as an individual being. A bona fide demon is one who gives thoughts voice, or echoes the spoken word interiorly, or who gives all sorts of complicated advice like a real, live voice exteriorly.

denominations: characteristic or qualifying names given to things or classes of things.

denyers: action phrases which deny existence of phrase(s) or incident(s). (No, don't, I won't, I can't tell, you mustn't, it's not here, never, impossible, unknown, unthinkable, you know [no] everything.)

Descartes, Renι: (1596 – 1650) French mathematician and philosopher. Known as the father of the modern scientific method and originator of analytical geometry.

Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science: the first broadly published work on Dianetics written by L. Ron Hubbard. It was published in the widely read magazine Astounding Science Fiction shortly before the release of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.

Dianometry: "thought measurement." The term is derived from the Greek for thought and the Latin for mensuration. It is that branch of Dianetics which measures thought capacity, computational ability and the rationality of the human mind.

Dirty 30: an auditing procedure in which the auditor first gets into two-way communication with the preclear and keeps up this communication to get an idea of some sort of present time problem, if the preclear has any, and tackle this problem, if found, head on. The auditor and preclear would tackle any possibility that this individual was unable to duplicate a command many times. Then the auditor runs three processes: first, Opening Procedure by Duplication; second, Straightwire on the subject of problems using the question "Give me some problems that you don't have to solve at this moment"; and third, Granting of Beingness using the question "Who would grant beingness to ... ?" And in the blank may be placed anything the auditor might think of, each time until the preclear replies without communication lag. Also called Procedure 30. See also present time problem; Opening Procedure by Duplication; Straightwire; Granting of Beingness; comm lag in this glossary.

discombobulated: confused or disconcerted; upset; frustrated.

dives: sudden movement of the E-Meter needle to the right.

dog off: adaptation of the phrase "dog it," meaning to avoid work; shirk responsibility.

Doolittle's bombers: bombers under the command of General James "Jimmy" Doolittle (1896 – ) which conducted the first American bombing raid against the Japanese mainland in April, 1942, during World War II.

down pat: mastered or learned perfectly.

D. Scn: Doctor of Scientology: around the time of these lectures, a degree awarded after a Bachelor of Scientology had completed a series of cases and had completed a paper demonstrating his application of Scientology.

Dutch, in: (slang) in trouble or disgrace.

Effort Processing: there are three distinct levels of processing. The first is thought, the second is emotion, the third is effort. Effort Processing is done by running moments of physical stress. These are run either as simple efforts or counter-efforts or as whole precise incidents. Such incidents as those which contain physical pain or heavy stress of motion, such as injuries, accidents or illnesses, are addressed by effort.

eidetic recall: recall of mental images that are unusually vivid and almost photographically exact.

eight dynamics: there could be said to be eight urges (drives, impulses) in life. These we call dynamics. These are motives or motivations. We call them the eight dynamics. 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.

Einstein: Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955), German physicist, U.S. citizen from 1940: formulator of the theory of relativity; Nobel prize, 1921.

electrons: any of the negatively charged particles that form a part of all atoms, and can exist on their own in a free state.

encyst: to enclose or become enclosed in a cyst, capsule or sac.

End-of-Cycle Processing: an additional process to Remedy of Havingness and is an effective way of remedying havingness. An End-of-Cycle process run subjectively would be, "What are you willing to destroy?" "What are you willing to have destroy you?"

erase: to cause an engram to "vanish" entirely, at which time it is filed as memory and experience and ceases to be part of the reactive mind.

E-Therapy: a squirrel technique of setting up a circuit in the mind called "the examiner" and then trying to have this circuit run out engrams. It was called Examiner Therapy or E-Therapy and did not work.

Euphrates: river flowing from east central Turkey generally southward through Syria and Iraq.

evaluate: to impose data or knowledge upon another. An example would be to tell another why he is the way he is instead of permitting or guiding him to discover it for himself.

exorcists: people who drive evil spirits out or away with ritual prayers, etc.

Expanded GITA: a process whereby the preclear is first tested to see if he can get a mock-up that he can see, no matter how vague, then is made to waste, accept under duress, desire and finally be able to take or leave alone each of the items on a list of certain isolated factors – these factors being those which are more important to minds than others. The term GITA comes from GIve and TAke processing. See also mock-up in this glossary. For more information on Expanded GITA, see the book Scientology 8-8008.

Fac Ones: Facsimile One: the first proven-up, whole track incident which, when audited out of a long series of people, was found to eradicate such things as asthma, sinus trouble, chronic chills and a host of other ills. It was originally laid down in this galaxy about one million years ago. Fac One was an outright control mechanism, invented to cut down rebel raids on invader installations. For further information, see the book Scientology: A History of Man.

Fifth Invader Force: one of two invader forces attacking earth in the neighborhood of 1135 B.C. – 1230 B.C.

figure-figure: a particular type of aberration which consists of always having to have a "reason for" or a significance. Given a fact, there must always be a reason for the fact.

fits and starts, by: irregularly starting, stopping, beginning again, and so on.

fluid: able to change easily; not fixed or firm.

fluxes: (physics) rates of flow of fluid, particles or energy.

flying wires: external bracing wires, usually of streamlined shape, which carry the weight of the fuselage in flight. Also called lift wires.

foible: a minor weakness or failing of character; slight flaw or defect.

Fort Knox: a military reservation in Kentucky, location of U.S. federal gold depository since 1936.

Fort McDowell: military outpost located in Arizona in the late 1800s. It was located near several Apache trails, making it possible for troops from McDowell to make fast expeditions whenever there was trouble with the Indians.

frauleins: (slang) young, unmarried German women.

Freud, Sigmund: (1856 – 1939) Austrian neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis.

frieze: a horizontal band, often ornamented with sculpture, between the cornice (ornamental molding that projects along the top of a wall, pillar or side of a building) and architrave (main beam resting on the top of a column or row of columns).

Fromm-Reichmann, Frieda: (1889 – 1957) psychoanalyst, psychiatrist and author: pioneered in psychotherapy with schizophrenic patients. See also schizophrenic in this glossary.

fulcrums: supports on which levers turn or rest in moving or lifting things. G's: units of force exerted on a body by the pull of gravity. The force exerted on a body at the earth's surface is 1 G. An accelerating body may experience a force of several G's.

gallstones: pebblelike masses, chiefly of cholesterol and mineral salts, that sometimes form in the gallbladder or one of its ducts. When one or more gallstones stop the flow of bile, there is usually pain, and sometimes jaundice results.

gamma: a high-frequency, penetrating type of radiation emitted from radioactive atoms.

Geiger counter: a device which is used to measure radioactivity.

general semanticist: an adherent or professor of general semantics, a philosophical approach to language, developed by Alfred Korzybski, exploring the relationship between the form of language and its use, and attempting to improve the capacity to express ideas. See also Korzybski, Alfred Lord in this glossary.

Gibbon, Edward: (1737 – 94) English historian, noted for his masterpiece The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. gimping: limping; walking in a halting manner.

glee of insanity: a specialized case of irresponsibility. A thetan who cannot be killed and yet can be punished has only one answer to those punishing him and that is to demonstrate to them that he is no longer capable of force or action and is no longer responsible. He therefore states that he is insane and demonstrates that he cannot possibly harm them as he lacks any further rationality.

Gordian knot, cut through this: to act quickly and decisively in a difficult situation; solve a problem boldly. Refers to an intricate knot tied by Gordius, legendary king of Phrygia, to be undone only by the person who should rule Asia. Alexander the Great cut it through with his sword.

Gφtterdδmmerung: (German Mythology) the day of the great battle between the gods and the forces of evil, signaling the end of the world. Literally, twilight of the gods. Also, an opera (1876) by Richard Wagner, the last of his tetralogy of The Ring of the Nibelung.

Gott mit uns: (German) God with us.

gradient scale: a scale of condition graduated from zero to infinity. On the scale of right and wrong, everything above zero or center would be more and more right, approaching an infinite rightness, and everything below zero or center would be more and more wrong, approaching an infinite wrongness. Absolutes are considered to be unobtainable. Also called a graduated scale.

grant beingness: to grant life to something; to permit or allow other people to have beingness.

Granting of Beingness: a process which rehabilitates the preclear's ability to grant beingness. See also grant beingness in this glossary.

groupers: engramic commands (such as "I have no time," "Put them all together," etc.) which collapse the time track and bring many incidents together. See also time track in this glossary.

gullets: throats.

Gunther, John: (1901 – 70) American journalist and writer, European correspondent for various newspapers (from 1924); author of such books as Inside Europe (1936), Inside Asia (1939), Inside Latin America (1939), etc.

hair, take down our: to speak candidly or frankly; remove or reduce restraints.

Handbook for Preclears: a book written by L. Ron Hubbard in 1951 to fill the need for an advanced personal workbook for auditors and preclears.

hang fire: be slow in beginning; be delayed; wait.

HASI: Hubbard Association of Scientologists International: around the time these lectures were given, the HASI was an organization which provided professional training and processing services also handled the publication of materials, and additionally functioned as a research and investigation unit.

HCA Course: abbreviation for Hubbard Certified Auditor Course, an exactly laid out course of theory and practical learning which qualifies an auditor to deliver certain types of processing to preclears. Today, the HCA Course is known as Academy Level II and is available in Church of Scientology Academies.

HDA: Hubbard Dianetic Auditor: a person who has completed auditor training specializing in Dianetics theory and application in the Phoenix Certification Course in late 1954. Today, an HDA is a person who completes the Hubbard Dianetics Auditor Course.

Hebrew: of or concerning Judaism, the religion of the Jews, which teaches belief in the same God as Christianity but holds that the Messiah is still to come.

held-down fives: jammed thinking because of a misunderstood or misapplied datums.

hellebore: any of several poisonous or medicinal substances obtained from plants of the genus Helleborus.

Hemingway, Ernest: (1899 – 1961) American novelist and short-story writer. His novel For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) takes its title from the quote "Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee," from John Donne's poem Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1624).

hepped: (slang) in agreement or willing to cooperate; going along.

Hercules: (in Greek and Roman myths) a son of Zeus; a hero who possessed such great strength and courage that he was able to perform twelve extraordinary labors imposed on him by Hera, wife of Zeus.

Hindus: adherents of Hinduism, a religious and social system, especially in India, with belief in reincarnation, worship of several gods, and caste as a basis of society.

Hippocrates: (460? B.C. – 370? B.C.) Greek physician, known as "the father of medicine."

Hitler, Adolf: (1889 – 1945) dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945. In rising to power in Germany, he fortified his position through murder of real or imagined opponents and maintained police-state control over the population. He lead Germany into World War II, resulting in its nearly total destruction.

hookers: (slang) concealed problems, flaws or drawbacks; catches.

Hudson: an automobile company which existed from 1909 to 1957, when it merged with American Motors.

"I Will Arise" Burial Society: made-up name for a group.

immutable: never changing or varying; unchangeable.

insouciant: free from concern, worry or anxiety; carefree; nonchalant.

Intensive Procedure: standard operating procedure of 1954; a sequence of steps to be taken by an auditor for the resolution of all cases. The goal of Intensive Procedure is to bring about a complete tolerance and comfort on the part of the preclear for the physical universe, his exteriorization, and general rehabilitation.

internal-combustion engine: an engine in which power is produced by exploding a mixture of fuel and air inside the engine itself, usually inside cylinders. Gasoline engines and diesel engines are internal-combustion engines.

invalidate: refute, degrade, discredit or deny something someone else considers to be a fact.

ion: atom or group of atoms having a negative or positive charge as a result of having lost or gained one or more electrons.

iron curtain: an imaginary wall or dividing line separating the Soviet Union and the countries under Soviet control or influence from other nations after World War II.

Journal, The: Journal of Scientology, publication of the Hubbard Association of Scientologists International, Phoenix, Arizona, from 1952 to 1955.

Jung: Carl Gustav Jung (1875 – 1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist.

Kaiser Bill: William II (1859 – 1941) emperor of Germany (1888 – 1918). (Kaiser is German for "emperor.") Through inept handling of his power and authority as emperor, he helped cause the circumstances leading to World War I and thereby the deaths of millions of men on the battlefields.

keyed in: restimulated. The environment around the awake but fatigued or distressed individual is itself similar to the dormant engram. At that moment the engram becomes active.

kick: (slang) cause for complaint; complaint; objection.

kinetics: branch of physics that deals with the effects of forces in causing or changing the motion of objects.

Know to Sex Scale: a scale of behavior, patterned on the Tone Scale, which starts at the top with Know and goes downscale to Sex. This was an earlier version of the Know to Mystery Scale. See also Mystery to Know Scale in this glossary.

Korzybski, Alfred: (1879 – 1950) American scientist and writer; president and director of the Institute of General Semantics, Chicago, 1938 – 50. See also general semanticist in this glossary.

lock: a mental image picture of a nonpainful but disturbing experience the person has had, which depends for its force on earlier secondaries and engrams which the experience has restimulated (stirred up).

lock-scan: perform Lock Scanning, a process which starts the preclear from a point in the past with which he has made solid contact up through all similar incidents without verbalization. This is done over and over, each time trying to start at an earlier incident of the same kind, until the preclear extroverts on the subject of the chain.

Look magazine: American weekly pictorial magazine published between January 1937 and October 1971.

MacFadden, Bernarr: (1868 – 1955) American publisher and physical culturist. At one time MacFadden published over a dozen magazines, including Physical Culture, True Romances, Liberty, True Detective Mysteries, etc.

matter: something of consequence.

Maupassant, Guy de: (1850 – 93) French short-story writer and novelist. His short story "Piece of String" concerns an old man in a Norman village who sees a piece of string one day as he was walking along. As he bends down to pick it up, he sees an old enemy of his, and not wanting the enemy to know what he is doing he surreptitiously picks up the string. When a pocketbook of money is reported lost in the village, the old enemy informs the authorities that he saw the old man picking something up on the road and suggests the old man found the pocketbook and kept it. The old man is questioned and shows that he didn't have the pocketbook or the money and is let go. He starts telling the story of finding the string, but no one believes him. When another pocketbook disappears, again the villagers think he took it. He continually repeats the story of the piece of string. As he has in the past been very skilled at deception, no one will believe him. He soon realizes that there is no way that he can prove that he did not find the pocketbook, that all he found was a piece of string. On his deathbed a few years later he softly mutters "a piece of string, a piece of string."

Mayo Clinic: a clinic in the United States, located in Rochester, Minnesota, which in the early 70s had a staff of about 500 physicians. It was established by three generations of the Mayo family, who were pioneers in the practice of group medicine.

McCarthy: Joseph Raymond McCarthy (1908 – 57) U.S. Senator who dominated the early 1950s by his sensational but unproved charges of communist subversion in high government circles. Working alone and as chairman of the Government Operations Committee of the Senate, and of its permanent subcommittee on investigations, McCarthy became the main protagonist in a nationwide, militant anticommunist "crusade." On 2 December 1954 in a rare move he was officially censured for unbecoming conduct by his Senate colleagues, thus ending the era of McCarthy-ism. The term McCarthyism was used to describe his methods and the atmosphere he created.

MEST universe: the physical universe; the universe of matter, energy, space and time.

Middle West: region of the northern central U.S. between the Rocky Mountains and the eastern border of Ohio, north of the Ohio River and the southern borders of Kansas and Missouri.

Miles, General: General Nelson Appleton Miles (1839 – 1925), American army commander, engaged in frontier Indian fighting (1869 – 80), leading campaigns against Apache and Sioux Indian tribes.

mock up: (verb) knowingly create a mental image picture that is not part of the time track; get an imaginary picture of.

mock-up: a self-created object which exists as itself or symbolizes an object in the MEST (physical) universe. It is something that the thetan puts up and says is there. We call a mental image picture a mock-up when it is created by the thetan or for the thetan and does not consist of a photograph of the physical universe.

modus operandi: mode of operation; way of doing or making; procedure.

Mohammedan: of the Moslem religion.

motivator: an aggressive or destructive act received by the person or one of the dynamics. The reason it is called a motivator is because it tends to prompt that one pays it back – it "motivates" a new overt.

Mystery to Know Scale: a scale which includes: Not-Know, Know, Look, Emotion, Effort, Think, Symbols, Sex, Eat, Mystery, Wait, Unconsciousness. Everything on the Mystery to Know Scale is simply a greater condensation or reduction of knowingness. (Also called the Know to Mystery Scale.) For further information, see the book Scientology 0-8: The Book of Basics.

mysticism: a doctrine of an immediate spiritual intuition of truths believed to transcend ordinary understanding, or of a direct, intimate union of the soul with God through contemplation or ecstasy.

Napoleon Bonaparte: (1769 – 1821) French military leader. He rose to power in France by military force, declared himself emperor and conducted campaigns of conquest across Europe until his final defeat by armies allied against him in 1815.

necromancy: magic; sorcery.

neurotic: the state or condition where one is insane or disturbed on some subject (as opposed to a psychotic person, who is just insane in general).

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm: (1844 – 1900) German philosopher and poet. He denounced all religion and promoted the "morals of masters," the doctrine of perfecting man through forcible self-assertion and glorification of the "superman." His theories are regarded as having influenced the German attitudes in World War I and the Nazi regime.

non compos mentis: (Latin) not of sound mind; mentally incapable of managing one's affairs.

noumena: things that seem real but cannot be truly understood, although people have some intuitive idea of it, as God or the soul.

nuclear physics: nuclear means pertaining to the nucleus, or central core of an atom. Nuclear physics is the branch of physics dealing with atoms, their nuclear structure, and the behavior of nuclear particles. See also physics in this glossary.

off the beat: (slang) off the main topic.

olfactory: of or relating to the sense of smell.

"only one": an individual just above zero on the Tone Scale who must have no effect on self and total effect on everything and everybody else. He is in the category of "only one." Such a person can never communicate on a team basis.

Opening Procedure by Duplication: a process which has as its goal the separating of time, moment from moment. This is done by getting a preclear to duplicate his same action over and over again with two dissimilar objects. In England this process is called "Book and Bottle," probably because these two familiar objects are the most used in doing Opening Procedure by Duplication.

Opening Procedure of 8-C: a process which consists of having the preclear move his body around the room under the auditor's direction until (a) he finds he is in actual communication with many spots on the surface of things in the room, (b) until he can select spots in the room and know he is selecting them and can communicate with them, and (c) select spots and move to them, decide when to touch them and when to let go. For further information, see the book The Creation of Human Ability.

Operating Thetan: a state of beingness. It is a being "at cause over matter, energy, space, time, form and life." Operating comes from "able to operate without dependency on things," and Thetan is the Greek letter Theta (0), 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 0" or "theta to the nth degree," meaning unlimited or vast.

overt act: an act by the person or individual leading to the injury, reduction or degradation of another, others or their beingness, persons, possessions, associations or dynamics. It can be intentional or unintentional.

overt-act-motivator sequence: when a person commits an overt, he will then believe he's got to have a motivator or that he has had a motivator. For instance, if he hits somebody he will tell you immediately that he has been hit by the person, even when he has not been. See also motivator; overt act in this glossary.

PABs: abbreviation for Professional Auditor's Bulletins, a series of bulletins from Ron to professional auditors containing technical and promotional material to assist the auditor. (Started 10 May 1953.) Some were compiled from Ron's research papers or lectures.

pan-determinism: the ability to regulate the considerations of two or more identities, whether or not they are opposed. A much broader concept than self-determinism, since the latter makes a randomity of anything not considered "self."

para-: related or similar to.

Parris Island: a U.S. Marine Corps base, recruit depot and training station located in southeastern South Carolina.

Part C: the third portion of Opening Procedure of 8-C. See Opening Procedure of 8-C in this glossary.

pax vobiscum: (Latin) peace be with you.

perceptics: sense messages.

perception: the process of recording data from the physical universe and storing it as a theta facsimile.

Perfect Duplication: a process by which a preclear is gotten to create a perfect duplicate of an object. A perfect duplicate is an additional creation of the object, its energy and space, in its own space, in its own time, using its own energy.

petcock: a small faucet inserted in a pipe or cylinder for draining liquids, testing or reducing pressure, etc.

photons: units of light energy; photons are considered in physics to be massless particles.

physicist: a scientist who specializes in physics. See also physics in this glossary.

physics: the science which deals with relationships between matter and energy, including subjects such as mechanics, heat, light, sound, electricity, magnetism, radiation and atomic structure.

physiognomies: the facial features that show the qualities of mind or character by peculiarities of configuration or cast or characteristic expression.

plankton: small organisms that float or drift in water, especially at or near the surface.

postmaster general: the executive head of the postal system of a country. postulates: those self-determined thoughts which start, stop or change past, present or future efforts; conclusions, decisions or resolutions made by the individual himself to resolve a problem or set a pattern for the future or nullify a pattern of the past. Postulates are self-created truths.

potty: (British) slightly crazy.

precession: the wobbling of a spinning body on its axis due to outside forces, such as gravity. This occurs with the earth, for example, which completes one such full wobble on its axis each 26,000 years. Such a movement brings about an apparent change in the positions of stars and planets in the sky due to a different position in space of the earth. For example, in another 12,000 years earth will have a new "North Star" due to this phenomenon.

Prelogic: (also known as a Q) Qs: knowledge is a pyramid, and knowledge as a pyramid has a common denominator which evaluates all other data below it. At the top point of this pyramid is what could be called a Q, and it could also be called a common denominator. It is in common to every other datum in this pyramid full of data. The Qs are the highest echelon from which all other things are derived. Q comes from quod in Q.E.D. (quod erat demonstrandum), meaning "which was to be shown or demonstrated," used specifically in mathematical proofs. The Qs can be found in the book Scientology 0-8: The Book of Basics.

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.

Procedure 30: same as Dirty 30. See Dirty 30 in this glossary.

protoplasm: essential living matter of cells.

psychoanalysis: a system of mental therapy developed in 1894 by Sigmund Freud. It depended upon the following practices for its effects: The patient was made to talk about and recall his childhood for years while the practitioner brought about a transfer of the patient's personality to his own and searched for hidden sexual incidents believed by Freud to be the only cause of aberration. The practitioner read sexual significances into all statements and evaluated them for the patient along sexual lines. Each of these points later proved to be based upon false premises and incomplete research, accounting for their lack of result and the subsequent failure of the subject and its offshoots.

psychosomatic illness: psycho refers to mind and somatic refers to body; the term psychosomatic means the mind making the body ill or illnesses which have been created physically within the body by derangement of the mind.

psychotic: an individual who is out of contact to a thorough extent with his present-time environment and who does not compute into the future. He may be an acute psychotic wherein he becomes psychotic for only a few minutes at a time and only occasionally in certain environments (as in rages or apathies) or he may be a chronic psychotic, or in a continual disconnection with the future and present. Psychotics who are dramatically harmful to others are considered dangerous enough to be put away. Psychotics who are harmful on a less dramatic basis are no less harmful to their environment and are no less psychotic.

pump carburetor: a carburetor is a device which atomizes the fuel of an internal-combustion engine and mixes it with the proper amount of air required for proper engine operation. A pump carburetor is one equipped with an accelerator pump. This is a pump operated by the throttle for extra fuel during acceleration.

Quantico: a U.S. Marine Corps base and development and education command in northeastern Virginia, on the Potomac River.

quantum mechanics: a physical theory that describes the motion of objects by the principle of quantum theory, a theory that energy is not absorbed or radiated continuously but discontinuously, and only in multiples of definite, indivisible units.

R1-1, R1-2, R1-3: The first three steps of Intensive Procedure: (1) get into two-way communication with the preclear, (2) discuss the present time problem if any, and (3) get the preclear into session with ARC Straightwire. For further information, see the book The Creation of Human Ability. See also Intensive Procedure in this glossary.

R2-16: the number of the process Opening Procedure of 8-C. See Opening Procedure of 8-C in this glossary. For more information, see the book The Creation of Human Ability.

R2-58: a process which deals with the manifestations of loss. For more information, see the book The Creation of Human Ability.

R2-60: a process which deals with all the aspects of hidden communication, hidden knowingness and their manifestations. For more information, see the book The Creation of Human Ability.

rack up: to tally, accumulate or amass as an achievement or score.

razzle-dazzle: a flashy display intended to confuse, bewilder or deceive.

reactive bank: See reactive mind in this glossary.

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.

reductio ad absurdum: a reduction to an absurdity.

remedy havingness: apply the process called Remedy of Havingness, a process that has a preclear mock up a mass in front of him and shove it into his body, and mock up another mass in front of him and throw it away, over and over. When the process has been done thoroughly and completely, the preclear should be able to reject or accept, at his own discretion, anything in his environment as well as anything in his engram bank. See also mock up in this glossary.

repeating rifles: firearms capable of discharging a number of shots without reloading.

restimulation: condition in which part of the bank has been "triggered" by something in the person's environment (a restimulator) causing some greater or lesser degree of reactive behavior or condition; doing something unknowingly, unwittingly and without any understanding of what one is doing.

reverie: a light state of "concentration" which the preclear is placed in, not to be confused with hypnosis; in reverie the person is fully aware of what is taking place.

ridge: suspended energy in space. It comes about by flows, dispersals or ridges impinging against one another with a sufficient solidity to cause an enduring state of energy.

Route 1: a series of drill and familiarization processes employed on a preclear who has no noticeable communication lag when run on ARC Straightwire. The first command of Route 1 is "Be three feet back of your head." For further information, see the book The Creation of Human Ability.

Saint Christopher: patron saint of travelers.

Saturday Evening Post: a large American monthly magazine, founded in 1728.

savvy: (slang) to understand; get the idea.

Scale of Substitutes: See R2-58 in the book The Creation of Human Ability.

schema: an outline, diagram, plan or preliminary draft.

schizophrenic: (psychiatry) originally meaning split mind, it has come to denote a psychiatric classification of people whose thoughts and emotions are disassociated from each other.

Schopenhauer, Arthur: (1788 – 1860) German philosopher who maintained that the desires and drives of men, as well as the forces of nature, are manifestations of a single will, specifically the will to live, which is the essence of the world. His philosophy was one of pessimism and could be summed "Defeat it all and die, for only by dying can you defeat it."

Schutzstaffel: (German, literally meaning "defense echelon") an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force. Abbreviation: SS.

Science of Survival: L. Ron Hubbard's complete work on the Tone Scale and its application to auditing.

Scienometry: IQ and personality testing, coordinated with an E-Meter. The results are more accurate than psychological tests.

Scientology 8-8008: a book written by L. Ron Hubbard in 1952 which is a complete treatise of the anatomy of universes and the role played in them by a spiritual being. The definition of 8-8008 is the attainment of infinity by the reduction of the apparent infinity and power of the MEST universe to a zero for himself, and the increase of the apparent zero of one's own universe to an infinity for oneself. It can be seen that infinity stood upright makes the number eight: thus, 8-8008 is not just another number, but serves to fix into the mind of the individual a route by which he can rehabilitate himself, his abilities, his ethics and his goals.

screen: a thing that functions to shield, protect or conceal like a curtain.

scruff: the nape or back of the neck.

Self Analysis: a book written by L. Ron Hubbard in 1951 as a simple self-help volume of tests and processes based on Dianetics discoveries.

self-determinism: the condition of determining the actions of self; the ability to direct oneself.

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.

shake out: to straighten out by shaking.

shaman's: belonging to a priest or medicine man of shamanism (shamanism is the religion of certain peoples of northeast Asia, based on a belief in good and evil spirits who can be influenced only by the shamans).

short circuits: usually accidental low-resistance connections between two points in an electric circuit, resulting in a side current that deflects most of the circuit current from desired paths or in excessive current flows that often cause damage.

Significances: a process in which one has the preclear take a picture or object and assign innumerable significances to it. For further information, see the section on R2-32 in the book The Creation of Human Ability.

sonic: the recall of something heard, so that it is heard again in the mind in full tone and strength.

spectrometer: an instrument used for measuring spectral wavelengths.

spot spots in space: apply the process Spotting Spots in Space, a process in which the goal is to bring the preclear to a point where he can spot locations in space which do not have color, mass or shape but which are simply locations, and spot that same location repeatedly without variation.

squared around: became straight or right.

Standard Operating Procedure 8-C: Standard Operating Procedure 8 modified for clinical, laboratory and individual human applications. The goal of the system of operation is to return to the individual his knowledge, skill and knowingness, and to enhance his perception, his reaction time and serenity. For further information, see the book The Creation of Human Ability. See also Standard Operating Procedure 8 in this glossary.

Standard Operating Procedure 8: SOP 8, a Scientology auditing procedure which emphasizes positive gain and the present and the future rather than negative gain of eradication of the past. The goal of this procedure is the rehabilitation of the thetan.

status quo: the way things are; the existing state of affairs. In Latin it means literally the state in which.

statute of limitations: (law) a statute defining the period within which legal action may be taken.

stopgap: something that fills the place of something else that is lacking; temporary substitute; makeshift.

Straightwire: the name of a process. It is the act of stringing a line between present time and some incident in the past, and stringing that line directly and without any detours. The auditor is stringing a straight "wire" of memory between the actual genus (origin) of a condition and present time, thus demonstrating that there is a difference of time and space in the condition then and the condition now, and that the preclear, conceding this difference, then rids himself of the condition or at least is able to handle it.

surfeit: feed or supply to excess.

teeth of, in the: straight into or against.

tenuous: slender or fine, as a fiber.

terminal: anything that can receive, relay or send a communication (most common usage); also, anything with mass and meaning.

thetan exterior: a thetan who is clear of the body and knows it but is not yet stable outside.

Throgmagog: a made-up name for a god.

Tibetans: members of the Mongolian people native to Tibet, an autonomous region of southwestern China occupying a high plateau area north of the Himalayas.

till, tapping the: stealing or taking money dishonestly, especially in small amounts over a long period of time, from the drawer or tray in a store or bank counter in which money is stored.

time track: the consecutive record of mental image pictures which accumulates through a person's life or lives. It is very exactly dated. The time track is the entire sequence of "now" incidents, complete with all perceptics, picked up by a person during his whole existence.

Tone Scale: a scale which shows the emotional tones of a person. These, ranged from the highest to the lowest, are, in part, serenity (the highest level), enthusiasm (as we proceed downward), conservatism, boredom, antagonism, anger, covert hostility, fear, grief, apathy.

to rights: in or into proper condition, order or the like.

traction: public utility transportation service (as electric railways and trolley lines).

turret: an adjustable device on a camera for holding various lenses.

Twelve Against the Gods: See Bolitho in this glossary.

twenty-three skidoo: a mild expression of recognition, incredulity, surprise or pleasure, as at something remarkable or attractive; also used as an expression of rejection or refusal, sometimes as "Go away! Twenty-three skidoo was in male use (c. 1900 – 1910), originally among students and sophisticated young adults, often without any specific meaning.

two-way communication: a two-way cycle of communication. For example: Joe, having originated a communication and having completed it, may then wait for Bill to originate a communication to Joe, thus completing the remainder of the two-way cycle of communication. Thus we get the normal cycle of a communication between two people.

Unimportance from Mystery to Know: a process where the preclear spots spots where he considered everything on the Mystery to Know Scale important, emphasizing words, sounds, sights, blackness and energy. By running this process one can expect a considerable regain of education on the part of the preclear. For further information, see R2-55 in the book The Creation of Human Ability.

Unit: a division of instruction centering on a single theme.

valences: personalities. 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.

Vatican: the government, office or authority of the pope.

vectors: physical quantities with both magnitude and direction, such as force or velocity.

Veda: the collective designation of the ancient sacred literature of India or of the individual books belonging to that literature.

Vedics: of or relating to the Vedas (the most ancient sacred writings of the Hindus) or the period or culture that they represent.

verboten: (German) forbidden; prohibited; illicit.

Victorian: having the characteristics usually attributed to the Victorians, especially prudishness and observances of the conventionalities.

Virgin Mary: mother of Jesus.

visio: the recall of something seen, so that it is seen again in the mind in full color, scale, dimension, brightness and detail.

Wagner, Wilhelm Richard: (1813 – 83) German composer most noted for his operas, including the tetralogy The Rings of Nibelung, of which Gφtterdδmmerung was part.

whirling dervish: a member of a Turkish order of dervishes, or Sufis, whose ritual consists in part of a highly stylized whirling dance.

whole cloth, out of: out of thin air.

woozy: befuddled, muddled or dazed, as from drink, drugs, a blow, etc.

Wright planes: planes built by Orville (1871 – 1948) and his brother Wilbur (1867 – 1912) Wright, American inventors and pioneers in aviation, the first men to design and fly a powered man-carrying airplane.

Yahweh: a name of God in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament; Jehovah.

Zeus: the chief god of the ancient Greeks. He was the ruler of gods and men and the god of the sky and weather, son of Cronus and Rhea, and husband of Hera. The Romans called him Jupiter.