I was told that nowadays even Class VIII Auditors do not push their PCs into the prenatal times. I do not know if this is true, but if it is, it makes sense to me -- this shit does not work.
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Class V111 Auditors deliver Dianetics just as any other Dianetic auditor does. A Class 8 has trained up on NED, as it is a pre-req for a Class 6 course completion. NED is totally verbatim as to procedure. R3RA is drilled until it is 'flubless'. A Class 8 does nothing different than any NED auditor, maybe just a bit faster and possibly a bit smoother.
To say that DMSMH auditing, or Bk 1 auditing was a complete failure is simply not true. A lot of people had great wins from it. I am one such. I have not seen results that Hubbard promised, but I have seen, and personally experienced, the " happy and healthy" human being EP.
You mention birth and/or prenatals. I have audited somewhere around 400 people on Dianetics of one sort or another. ( HDA, HSDC, NED) Of that number there was only one PC who did not run whole track. I dunno what your interest in birth & prenatals is, but the auditor merely asks for Earlier Similar incidents and the PC runs what the PC runs. Whether it's a birth engram or 4 novemdecillion years ago is not up to the auditor. The auditor takes what the PC gives him, and continues the process.
I am glad that you responded to my post. The auditing techniques that I was using are very different from the ones you were using/are using (I gather, you are a Class V Auditor or even higher). In Volume I Hubabrd says that the birth events SHOULD BE audited because the birth is the place where majority of the engrams are born (this is the reason why CoS use "silent birth"). The auditor should take the PC to the time of birth regardless of his wishes.
In Volume I Hubbard talks at great length about failed attempted abortions, which surprised me a bit because very few abortions actually fail. A failed abortion is an engram, according to Hubbard, so it is imperative to take the PC to the prenatal times.
I suppose, from NED auditor's point of view the Volume I and II Tech is a squirrel tech. But this is not my fault, I was following Father Hubbard's instructions up to the letter. I had no reason to alter his instructions because I trusted him completely.
You said that Dianetics auditing that you were doing was helpful to your PCs. This is in line with my assertion that Hubbard adopted valid psychological procedures without mentioning their authors' names. He "explained" those procedures in Scientology terms. The procedures themselves work because Hubbard did not change them.
You can find descriptions of "Dianetics" procedures in Scientific literature under different names. For example, one of them uses Dianetics-like methods to treat PTSD. The inventors of this procedure are not Scientologists, I do not think they heard about Hubbard, either.