Do we really think that there are exact, workable methods that are pieces of the mind puzzle that if we just find them -- just find the right questions to ask or right repetitive process that this will create some standard response that then can be considered a success and that will cause some permanent betterment that then can be built on with more workable processes that eventually bring about a more perfect, ideal person?
I don't see life that way anymore. I don't think that's the answer or that it exists. For those who want to keep on trying, as long as you're not hurting anybody great.
To me, it seems like unqualified mind tinkering but if two consenting adults want to play the mind tinkering game, why not? Seriously, go for it. Come back and show the long term, permanent betterment and I will eat crow. I think judging human behavior, happiness, etc. is too subjective to view in some sort of detached, standard official way. It's too unwieldy. Again, we're not machines.
Fascinating approach. UMT. Unqualified Mind Tinkering.
There is zero proof that Scientology's auditing does anything at all.
The subjective success stories are no more reliable than asking a coked-out thug fiend how he feels during the middle of a bank-robbery and the subsequent police chase. That boy is winnnnnnnnnnnnnning! Total Cause!
I might change my mind again later, but the plateau of understanding that I finally settled on a few year ago is that Scientology auditing is like repeatedly picking a scab.
Instead of letting the genetic healing software and programs kick in and do it perfectly--if you don't pick it at all.
Picking produces an "effect" (as our OT buddies would say) and they can write a success story and "prove" to you that the scab is gone. They don't come back later however and show you the scar.
I pretty much regard the entire Scn experience as a war and one walks away from a war with scars. There's no shame in that. Athletes get scars. Everyone who tries something ambitious and falls down a few times (physically, mentally, financially, romantically, et al...) has scars.
Scars are not anything at all. They are just scars. They don't need to be removed because they don't do anything to anyone, other than cosmetically.
The likelihood in my estimation that people left alone to mentally heal (rather than use Hubbard's "processes" to pick away at engrams and "charged incidents") are probably far more likely to heal faster, sooner and better than their audited counterparts.
And at the end of decades of auditing, people's minds typically are tied in knots it takes quite a lot of time or effort to push the resume button on ones life and reboot it.
I don't see where there is anything "workable" about Scientology when 99% of the people who valiantly tried it left in utter disappointment & despair.