GLOSSARY





aberrated, aberrative: aberration is a departure from rational thought or behavior. From the Latin, aberrare, to wander from; Latin, ab, away, errare, to wander. It means basically to err, to make mistakes, or more specifically to have fixed ideas which are not true. The word is also used in its scientific sense. It means departure from a straight line. If a line should go from A to B, then if it is aberrated it would go from A to some other point, to some other point, to some other point, to some other point, to some other point, and finally arrive at B. Taken in its scientific sense, it would also mean the lack of straightness or to see crookedly as, in example, a man sees a horse but thinks he sees an elephant. Aberrated conduct would be wrong conduct, or conduct not supported by reason. Aberration is opposed to sanity, which would be its opposite.

actuarial: of or pertaining to actuaries, persons whose work is estimating risks, rates, premiums and other factors for insurance companies. The probabilities in their calculations are generally based on recorded statistics of previous occurrences.

acupuncture: a Chinese medical practice or procedure that treats illness or provides local anesthesia by the insertion of needles at specified sites of the body.

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

aesthetic: having the nature of a wavelength closely resembling theta or a harmony approximating theta; beautiful.

Alexander the Great: Alexander III (356 B.C. – 323 B.C.), king of Macedonia (336 B.C. – 323 B.C.), an ancient kingdom located in what is now Greece and Yugoslavia.

alter-isness: the consideration which introduces change, and therefore time and persistence into an as-isness to obtain persistency. For more information, see the Axioms of Scientology in Chapter 4 of The Creation of Human Ability.

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.

apparency: the way someone or something appears to be, where this is different from the way that it actually is.

ARC: a word made from the initial letters of Affinity, Reality and Communication, which together equate to Understanding. It is pronounced by stating its letters, A-R-C. To Scientologists it has come to mean good feeling, love or friendliness, such as, "He was in ARC with his friend." One does not, however, fall out of ARC; he has an ARC break.

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

ARC Tone Scale: a study of varying degrees of ARC.

Arcturus: a giant red star; the brightest star in the constellation Boφtes, in the northern sky.

as-is: vanish or cease to exist. See also as-isness.

as-isness: the condition of immediate creation without persistence, and is the condition of existence which exists at the moment of creation and the moment of destruction, and is different from other considerations in that it does not contain survival. For more information, see the Axioms of Scientology in Chapter 4 of The Creation of Human Ability.

associative: in a way that tends to connect, bring into relation or unite two or more things.

astral self: (astral body) somebody's delusion. Astral bodies are usually mock-ups which the mystic then tries to believe real. For more information, see the book Scientology 8-8008.

atomic numbers: numbers representing the relative position of elements in the periodic table, in which the elements are arranged in the order of their nuclear charges; numbers represent the positive charge or the number of protons in the nucleus of the atoms of an element.

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: the manual current at the time of the 8th ACC (1954). It formed the basis of and is wholly included in Ron's book The Creation of Human Ability.

awareness of awareness unit: the thetan. See also thetan in this glossary.

Axioms: statements of natural laws on the order of those of the physical sciences. See the Axioms of Dianetics and Axioms of Scientology in the book Scientology 0-8: The Book of Basics.

Bach: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750), German organist and composer.

basic-basic: the first occurrence of any similar circumstance repetitive through a person's whole track.

beam: energy flow.

Beethoven: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827). German composer.

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.

Better Business Bureau: any of a nationwide system of local organizations, supported by business, whose function is to receive and investigate customer complaints of dishonest business practices.

between-life area: also called the between-lives area: the area where a thetan goes during the time between the loss of a body and the assumption of another.

biologist: a specialist in biology, the science of life or living matter in all its forms and phenomena, especially with reference to origin, growth, reproduction, structure and behavior.

bird-dogged: carefully watchful.

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.

blow out: to exteriorize.

boards, go by the: to be completely destroyed or finished with.

Brahms: Johannes Brahms (1833 – 97), German composer.

Brown, Charles Brockden: (1771 – 1810) American novelist and editor. Regarded as the first American professional author.

BTU: British thermal unit: unit for measuring heat, equal to the amount of heat necessary to raise one pound of pure water one degree Fahrenheit.

bunk, do a: (British slang) run away or desert, as a thetan. The body remains where it is, the heart still beating and the lungs still breathing (as the genetic entity runs those), but the thetan goes elsewhere.

buttered all over the universe: 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.

button: that computation, foible or quirk of the human mind which gets wrong and which can be righted merely by touching one factor.

catalyzed: brought about or hastened a result.

catatonic schiz: a very fancy word which means somebody that lies still, stiff and never moves. Schiz is short for schizophrenic. In psychology or psychiatry, this means "having any of a group of psychotic reactions characterized by withdrawal from reality with highly variable accompanying affective, behavioral and intellectual disturbances." A schizophrenic is actually an individual who has several portions of the analyzer segmented off by different circuits, which are actually valences, and who goes from one or another of these portions, only occasionally, if ever, becoming himself. Schizophrenic comes from "scissor personality," in observation of shifting of identities.

chain-scan engrams: the action of going back early in a case and finding an engram which is part of a chain, and then scanning this forward to present time in the chain. One would run it all the way forward to present time, going over it several times.

Change of Space: a process which is run to get all areas where the preclear has been into present time. For more information on this process, see R1-9 in the book The Creation of Human Ability.

charter: authorization from a central or parent organization to establish a new branch, chapter, etc.

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.

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.

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.

clavichords: stringed musical instruments with keyboards, producing soft tones; predecessor of the piano.

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.

Clinical Course: (adj.) of or belonging to an Advanced Clinical Course, one of a number of theory and research courses delivered by Ron during the years 1953 to 1961, which gave a deep insight into the phenomena of the mind and the rationale of research and investigation. Abbreviation ACC.

closed terminals: the phenomenon of things collapsing into each other. In Scientology, this is 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.

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.

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.

compound calomel: a white tasteless powder used as a purgative and fungicide. Also called mercurous chloride.

Comptometer: a machine that adds, subtracts, divides and multiplies mathematically, manufactured by International Business Machines.

concatenation: a linking together or being linked together in a series.

concourse: concurrence in action or causation, cooperation; combined action.

confabulated: convinced that something had occurred other than what had occurred.

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.

Council of Churches: an assembly of Christian ecclesiastics authoritatively convened to consider doctrine or discipline.

Creative Processing: the exercise by which the preclear is actually creating the physical universe. It consists of having the preclear make, with his own creative energies, a mock-up. See also mock-up in this glossary.

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

curiosa: curiosity.

cyanide: extremely poisonous, white crystalline compound with an odor of bitter almonds.

Daimler: British-made luxury automobile.

Darwin: Charles Robert Darwin (1809 – 82), British naturalist; put forth the theory of evolution by natural selection in On the Origin of Species (1859).

demon: that mental mechanism set up by an engram which takes over a portion of the analyzer and acts 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.

Dianetics: man's most advanced school of the mind. Dianetics means "through the soul" (from Greek dia, through, and noos, soul). Dianetics is further defined as "what the soul is doing to the body." It is a way of handling the energy of which life is made in such a way as to bring about a greater efficiency in the organism and in the spiritual life of the individual.

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.

dichotomy: one of a pair of opposites, such as black-white, good-evil, love-hate.

Dickens, Charles: (1812 – 70) English novelist, the most popular and considered by many the greatest of his country.

dimension points: any points in a space or at the boundaries of space.

discursive: wandering from one subject to another; rambling.

dodo bird: a large, clumsy bird not able to fly. Dodos lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean and became extinct in the 1600s. Used figuratively to refer to anyone or anything out-of-date.

Dr. Jow: made-up name of a doctor.

Duesenbergs: classic luxury automobiles built in the U.S. during the 1920s and 1930s.

dunnage: extra and relatively meaningless talk; used to maintain a two-way communication line between an auditor and a preclear.

dwindling spiral: a phenomenon of the ARC triangle whereby when one breaks some affinity, a little bit of the reality goes down, and then communication goes down, which makes it impossible to get affinity as high as before; so a little bit more gets knocked off affinity, and then reality goes down, and then communication. This is the dwindling spiral in progress, until it hits the bottom – death – which is no affinity, no communication and no reality.

8-D: Standard Operating Procedure 8-D: primarily for heavy cases, the goal of this procedure is to bring the preclear to tolerate any viewpoint. For more information, see the section on R2-30 and Chapter 7 in the book The Creation of Human Ability.

eight-star: See stars in this glossary.

Einsteinian relativity: Einstein's theory of the universe, which claims that all motion is relative and treats time as a fourth dimension related to space.

Electing Cause: a Route 2 process, R2-66, which deals with worry and anxiety which have their root in the changing election of cause. For more information, see the book The Creation of Human Ability.

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

Elementary Straightwire: a basic process with two commands: "Give me something you wouldn't mind remembering," "Give me something you wouldn't mind forgetting."

E-Meters: electronic devices for measuring the mental state or change of state of Homo sapiens. They are not lie detectors. They do not diagnose or cure anything. They are used by auditors to assist the preclear in locating areas of spiritual distress or travail.

energy: consists of postulated particles in space. Energy is subdivisible into a large motion, such as a flow, a dispersal or a ridge and a small motion which is itself commonly called a "particle" in nuclear physics. Agitation within agitation is the basic formation of particles of energy, such as electrons, protons and others.

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 the mental image pictures called engrams.

esprit de corp: a sense of unity and of common interests and responsibilities, as developed among a group of persons closely associated in a task, cause, enterprise, etc.

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.

Fac One: 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.

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).

fait accompli: (French) literally, an accomplished fact; a thing already done, so that opposition or argument is useless.

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.

flatten: (in auditing) give the same order or ask the same question until the preclear executes it after a short interval three times the same.

force fields: nothing more or less than wave emanations like you get out of the headlight of a car. If you change the wavelength of the headlight of a car and speed it up enough and then hit somebody with it, it will knock him down. That is an electronic field.

forever and aye: forever and ever.

Foster, Stephen: (1826 – 64) American songwriter and popular composer. Many of his songs became genuine American folk songs. four-star: See stars in this glossary.

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

Freudian analysis: also known as 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	239 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.

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

Galena: refers to Galen, a Greek physician and philosopher of the second century A.D., who for centuries was the supreme authority on medicine.

galley-west: into a state of unconsciousness, confusion or disarray (usually used in the phrase knock galley-west).

Gautama Buddha: (563 – 483 B.C.) originally Gautama Sakyamuni, founder of the Buddhist religion. The term Buddha derives from Bodhi, or "one who has attained intellectual and ethical perfection by human means.

GE: abbreviation for genetic entity. See also genetic entity in this glossary.

General Electric: a major American electrical-manufacturing company founded in 1892. General Electric and its associated companies design, manufacture and sell almost every form of apparatus and device for the generation, transmission, distribution, control and consumption of electric energy.

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 in this glossary.

genetic entity: that beingness not dissimilar to the thetan that has carried forward and developed the body from its earliest moments along the evolutionary line on Earth and which, through experience, necessity and natural selection, has employed the counter-efforts of the environment to fashion an organism of the type best fitted for survival, limited only by the abilities of the GE. The goal of the GE is survival on a much grosser plane of materiality (concerning the material or physical).

genetic line: the protoplasm (essential living matter of cells) line. It consists of the total of incidents which have occurred during the evolution of the body itself.

grief charge: an outburst of tears that may continue for a considerable time, in a session, after which the preclear feels greatly relieved. This is occasioned by the discharge of grief or painful emotion from a secondary.

Group Auditor's Handbook: a 1954 compilation of group auditing sessions resulting from the Advanced Clinical Courses of that year. See also Clinical Course in this glossary.

Group Opening Procedure: processes which are run first in group auditing and which make it possible for the members of the group to become able to do other processes effectively.

gullet: throat.

Hamlet: a tragedy by William Shakespeare, written in 1601, its full name is Hamlet, Prince of Denmark; Shakespeare's most famous play.

Hammet, Dashiel (Dash): (1894 – 1961) American writer of detective and mystery fiction, as The Maltese Falcon (1930), The Thin Man (1934), etc.

harmonic: in mathematical terms, the doubling, tripling, quadrupling, etc., of numbers as they go up or the halving, thirding or quartering, etc., of numbers as they go down. This last is not generally realized, that harmonics also go down. But here is an example of a harmonic: A pitch vibrating at, let us say, 200 vibrations a second will have a harmonic at 400, 600, 800, 1000, 1200, 1400, etc., vibrations a second. It can also have a harmonic of 100, 662/3, 50, 40, 331/3, 284/7, etc. While these upper or lower harmonics are of far less intensity they are still there. They might not be apparent to the ear at first listen but almost any pitch has upper and lower harmonics.

Harvey, William: (1578 – 1657) English physician and anatomist, discoverer of the mechanics of blood circulation.

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: abbreviation for Hubbard Certified Auditor. See also Hubbard Certified Auditor in this glossary.

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.

Heinlein, Robert: (1907 – 88) successful and popular science fiction writer.

Heinz: H.J. Heinz Company, Inc., prepared-foods company, famous for its slogan "57 Varieties."

held-down fives: jammed thinking because of a misunderstood or misapplied datums. For more information, see the book Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science.

Hubbard Certified Auditor (HCA): a person who has completed a course of auditor training specializing in Scientology theory and application as part of the Phoenix Certification Course in late 1954. Today, an HCA is known as a Class II Auditor and the course for it is available in Church of Scientology Academies.

Igoroti: a people of the Malay stock in northern Luzon in the Philippines, comprising various tribes, some noted as headhunters.

invalidating: refuting, degrading, discrediting or denying something someone else considers to be a fact.

Inyokern: naval ordnance research station in eastern California, west of Death Valley and northeast of Bakersfield.

Irving, Washington: (1783 – 1859) American essayist, biographer and historian.

isness: an apparency of existence brought about by the continuous alteration of an as-isness. This is called, when agreed upon, reality. For more information, see the Axioms of Scientology in Chapter 4 of The Creation of Human Ability.

jackleg: not skilled or professional; amateur.

James, Henry: refers to Harry James, American band leader and famous trumpeter, was at the peak of his popularity in the 1940s, recognized as the best trumpet player in his day by the general public.

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

jurisprudence: the science or philosophy of law.

juxtaposition: the state of being close together or side by side.

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

lambda: life organism is composed of matter and energy in space and time, animated by theta. Symbol: Living organism or organisms will hereafter be represented by the Greek letter lambda. For more information, see the Axioms of Dianetics in the book Scientology 0-8: The Book of Basics.

lasser: (French) tedious, tiresome. Literally, to tire, to fatigue. Used here in the same sense as lassant.

locks: mental image pictures of nonpainful but disturbing experiences the person has experienced. They depend for their force on secondaries and engrams.

Loop, the: Chicago's central business district, includes an area five blocks wide and seven blocks long; called the "Loop" because a loop of elevated trains encircles it.

lugubrious: very sad or mournful, especially in a way that seems exaggerated or ridiculous.

Machinery: 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.

magpie-ing: chattering.

Marx, Karl: (1818 – 83) German political philosopher. Regarded by some as founder of modern socialism. The work he is most known for is The Communist Manifesto, in which he states that the evils of capitalist society cannot be abolished by reform, but only by the destruction of the whole capitalist economy and establishment of a new classless society.

Masefield, John: (1878 – 1967) English poet, playwright and fiction writer. He ran away to sea at the age of thirteen; settled near London and devoted himself to writing (c. 1897).

matter: a group of particles of energy located in a relatively stable relationship to each other.

Mayo, Dr. William James: (1861 – 1939) U.S. surgeon who specialized in surgery of the stomach.

Mendeleyev's Chart of Elements: the periodic chart or periodic table of elements; a table in which the chemical elements, arranged in order of their atomic numbers, are shown in related groups, named for Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev (1834 – 1907), Russian chemist who helped develop the system of classification on which the chart is based.

Menninger, Karl and Will: Karl Augustus Menninger (b. 1893), American psychiatrist, who with his father founded the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas in 1920. He was joined there by his brother, William Claire Menninger (1899 – 1966), in 1926.

MEST: a compound word made up of the first letters of matter, energy, space and time. A coined word for the physical universe. Theta is not considered as part of the physical universe but is not considered absolutely as not part of the physical universe.

Metchnikoff, Ilya Ilich: (1845 – 1916) Russian zoologist and biologist, shared 1908 Nobel prize for physiology and medicine.

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.

Morley, Christopher: (1890 – 1957) American writer, worked on the staff of a number of magazines and edited the revised Bartlett's Quotations in 1937.

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.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: (1756 – 91) Austrian composer.

Mystery to Know Scale: a scale which includes: Not-Know, Know, Look, Emotion, Effort, Think, Symbols, Sex, Eat, Mystery, Wait, Unconsciouness. 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.

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.

Newton's laws of motion: the laws of gravitation and of motion as discovered by Isaac Newton (1642 – 1727), English mathematician and natural philosopher: (1) A body remains at rest or in motion with a constant velocity unless an external force acts on the body; (2) The sum of the forces acting on a body is equal to the product of the mass of the body and the acceleration produced by the forces, with motion in the direction of the resultant of the forces; (3) For every force acting on a body, the body exerts a force having equal magnitude and the opposite direction along the same line of action as the original force.

not-isness: the effort to handle isness by reducing its condition through the use of force. It is an apparency and cannot entirely vanquish an isness. See also apparency; isness in this glossary. For more information, see the Axioms of Scientology in Chapter 4 of The Creation of Human Ability.

nova: a type of variable star that suddenly increases in brightness by thousands to hundreds of thousands of times up to 14 magnitudes, and then decreases in brightness over a period of months to years.

nuclear physicist: a scientist in that branch of physics which deals with atoms, their nuclear structure and the behavior of nuclear particles.

Occident: the part of the world west of Asia, especially Europe and the Americas.

occlusions: any parts of a person's memories that are hidden on the time track and are not available to conscious recall except through processing.

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. For more information, see R2-17 in The Creation of Human Ability.

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 R2-16 in the book The Creation of Human Ability.

other-determined: having one's actions or conclusions determined by something or someone other than oneself.

out of the soup: out of difficulty.

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.

PAB: abbreviation for Professional Auditor's Bulletin, 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.

parlance: way of speaking; talk; language.

paucity: smallness of supply or quantity.

perceptics: sense messages.

phlebotomy: the act or practice of bloodletting as a therapeutic measure.

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.

Plotto: (also referred to by LRH as The Plot Genie) originally a book called The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations, author Georges Polti, written in 1917.

poet laureate: (in Great Britain) a poet appointed by the king or queen to write poems in celebration of court or national events.

Polaris: the North Star; polestar.

postulate: a self-determined thought which starts, stops or changes past, present or future efforts; a conclusion, decision or resolution made by the individual himself to resolve a problem or set a pattern for the future or nullify a pattern of the past. A postulate is a self-created truth.

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.

Prokofiev, Sergie Sergeevich: (1891 – 1953) Russian composer.

protons: tiny particles found in the center of an atom. Protons have a positive electric charge.

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.

Q-and-A: characteristic of Q and A (Question and Answer), which 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 only the pc's lead is giving no auditing and the pc is left on "self-audit."

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.

reach and withdraw: by reach we mean touching or taking hold of. By withdraw we mean move back from, let go. Reach and withdraw is a very simple but extremely powerful method of getting a person familiarized and in communication with things so that he can be more at cause over and in control of them.

Red Cross: an international organization to care for the sick and wounded in war and to relieve suffering caused by floods, fire, diseases and other calamities. In most countries its badge is a red cross on a white background. In most Moslem countries the badge is a red crescent on a white background.

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.

restimulate: trigger; stir up.

Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey: U.S. circus, originated in the late nineteenth century.

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

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."

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

Scientology 8-80: a book written by L. Ron Hubbard in 1952 which contains his discoveries of and methods of increasing life energy in man. The 8-8 stands for "infinity-infinity" upright and the 0 represents the static, theta.

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.

secondaries: also called secondary engrams. Periods of anguish brought about by major losses or threats of loss to the individual. The secondary engram depends for its strength and force upon physical-pain engrams which underlie it.

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 Analysis in Scientology: a special version and specific application of the book Self Analysis which called for the lists in Self Analysis to be used for making mock-ups.

self-determined: of or characteristic of self-determinism, that state of being wherein the individual can or cannot be controlled by his environment according to his own choice. He is confident about any and all abilities or talents he may possess. He is confident in his interpersonal relationships. He reasons but does not need to react.

Sibelius, Jean: (1865 – 1957) Finnish composer.

Sierra Nevada: mountain range located in eastern California.

skin game: a dishonest or unscrupulous business operation, scheme, etc.

social machinery: action without awareness. He's doing it all the time but never noticed it. What the individual is aware of and what the individual is doing are not the same thing, ever.

somatic: a physical pain or discomfort. 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.

soup, in the: in difficulty or trouble.

space opera: of or relating to time periods on the whole track millions of years ago which concerned activities in this and other galaxies. Space opera has space travel, spaceships, spacemen, intergalactic travel, wars, conflicts, other beings, civilizations and societies, and other planets and galaxies. It is not fiction and concerns actual incidents and things that occurred on the track.

spirochetes: a genus of bacteria having a highly twisted spiral form.

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. For more information, see the section on R2-18 in The Creation of Human Ability.

Stalin: Joseph Stalin (1879 – 1953), Russian political leader; established himself as virtual dictator.

stars: symbols of value or excellence. Several processes in Intensive Procedure were labeled as "four-star," "five-star," "eight-star" or "ten-star" by LRH to spotlight them as especially valuable in relation to other processes.

static: something which has no motion; it has no width, length, breadth, depth; it is not held in suspension by an equilibrium of forces; it does not have mass; it does not contain wavelengths; it has no situation in time or space. Formerly a static was defined only as a motionless object which definition is not adequate, since an object – or a state of rest for an object – is attained only by an equilibrium of forces and all objects have in themselves, if only on a molecular level, motion, and exist in space which is itself an integral portion of motion.

Steves: the name of a person who was, around the time of this lecture, a staff member of the HASI.

stimulus-response: things which, given a certain stimulus, will automatically give a certain response.

stroboscopic light: a lamp capable of producing an extremely short, brilliant burst of light, for synchronization with a camera having a high shutter speed, in order to photograph a rapidly moving object, as a bullet, for such a short duration that it will appear to be standing still.

strychnine: a bitter, highly poisonous substance, used in very small doses as a stimulant.

tachometer: a device that indicates or measures the rate of rotation of a revolving shaft.

Tar Baby: a tar doll, set up by a roadside, which so irritates Br'er Rabbit by its unresponsiveness that he strikes it until he is stuck tight. From the book Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings (1880) by Joel Chandler Harris (1848 – 1908), American journalist and author. It is a book of folk tales told by Uncle Remus, an aging Negro servant, whose stories are based on traditional fables of his race. Many of the characters, such as Br'er (Brother) Rabbit, are animals endowed with human qualities.

ten-star: See stars in this glossary.

thetans: the persons themselves – not their bodies or their names, the physical universe, their minds, or anything else. A thetan is 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 (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 9 or "theta to the nth degree," meaning unlimited or vast.

Tibetan processes: refers to the practices of Lamaism in Tibet, an autonomous region of southwestern China, occupying a high plateau area north of the Himalayas.

time: basically a postulate that space and particles will persist. (The rate of persistence is what we measure with clocks and the motion of heavenly bodies. For more information, see the Axioms of Scientology in Chapter 4 of The Creation of Human Ability.

time continuum: an agreed-to, uniform rate of change. Were this agreement not there, one might be in 1776 or 2060, for example, while everybody else was in 1954.

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. For more information, see the book Scientology 8-8008.

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

Twain, Mark: pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 – 1910), American humorist. He worked as a Mississippi River pilot, prospector, journeyman printer and as a newspaper reporter, used the pseudonym, Mark Twain (a term meaning "two fathoms of water," used by leadsmen taking soundings on the Mississippi). He wrote numerous books including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court (1889) and many others.

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.

Tyrannosaurus rex: a large, carnivorous dinosaur of North America, that walked on its hind feet.

Universe 81: a made-up name for a universe.

universes: whole systems of created things. The universes are three in number. The first of these is one's own universe. The second would e the material universe, which is the universe of matter, energy, space time, which is the common meeting ground of all of us. The third is actually a class of universes – the universe of every other person.

Valley of the Kings: the burial site of the pharaohs of Egypt, located near the town of Luxor.

Van Loon, Hendrik Willem: (1882 – 1944) Dutch-born American journalist and historian. A history teacher at several American universities, he was best known for his popularized surveys, enlivened with his own drawings: Ancient Man (1921), The Story of Mankind (1921), The Story of the Bible (1923), Ships and How They Sailed the Seven Seas (1935), etc.

Vega: the brightest star in the constellation Lyra.

verve: enthusiasm or vigor, as in literary or artistic work; spirit.

viewpoint, remote: a viewpoint without the consideration by the thetan that he is located at that point. The thetan may have any number of remote viewpoints.

vis-a-vis: face to face; opposite.

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

Wac Corporals: early two-stage rockets used for atmospheric research in 1945. They were one foot in diameter and sixteen feet long and carried a instrumentation package in the nose that returned to earth on a parachute.

Wagner, Wilhelm Richard: (1813 – 83) German composer most noted for his operas.

WCTU: Woman's Christian Temperance Union, a nation-wide and worldwide organization to promote total abstinence and abolition of liquor manufacture.

West Point: military reservation in southeast New York, on the west bank of the Hudson River; site of the U.S. Military Academy.

whole cloth: out of thin air.

Wickenburg: town in Maricopa County, central Arizona.

Yankee Doodle: an early American song with several versions of humorous verses, popular during the Revolutionary War.

zero: a static. See also static in this glossary.