AUDITING is basically the sorting out of stressful past experiences to gain stressfree understanding in the present.
Hubbard was on the right track in postulating that it were stressful past experiences that caused present difficulties. But he assumed that recall of past incidents was necessary to accomplish this, as he struggled against the factor of OCCLUSION.
But the truth is that the past "incident" causing present difficulty is right there in the present, because the person is looking through it, and that is exactly what is causing the difficulty. (Please see
VIEWPOINT)
Hubbard's supposedly AHA MOMENT came in earlier research (see EVOLUTION OF A SCIENCE), when he forced an aware patient into an incident, which, up to that point, he could only get under drug hypnosis. The patient experienced a sharp pain.
This gave rise to the theory of ENGRAM and DIANETICS. Hubbard postulated that it was pain that occulded and thus prevented the sorting out of past experiences. Hubbard did come across other phenomenon, but he explained it all in terms of recalling ENGRAMS from the past track of the person.
The early effort in DIANETICS became searching for the engram through FORCE. The auditor made all kind of computations to somehow bypass the mind's protective circuits to uncover the engram. Anything that rendered the patient unaware, such as drug hypnosis, was useless because the key was to make the patient aware of the engram.
Success of Dianetics came because some engrams could be found accompanied by miraculous recoveries. But the more the mind was forced the more difficult it became to find engrams. Hubbard's efforts were to find clever ways to penetrate occlusion.
The mistakes were
(1) Assuming that there is occlusion.
(2) Forcing the mind through that supposed occlusion.
There is no existing occlusion. There is only created occlusion. The "incident" causing present difficulty is in the present time. One simply needs to look at it. Please see
VIEWPOINT.
What prevents one from looking at that incident is THINKING and one's IGNORANCE of how to go about looking at what is there. The ineresting factor is
THE MORE YOU PUSH THE MIND USING COMPUTATIONS THE MORE IS THE OCCLUSION.
WHAT IS CREATING OCCLUSION IS THE ACT OF PUSHING COMPUTATION.
Force is never the ultimate solution. Use of force is like playing in the hands of the MEST universe. Hubbard even said so. And this was Hubbard's nemesis, which he didn't fully realize. He did realize it somewhat in his AUDITOR'S CODE but not fully. He still was pushing computation at the patient through the auditor, the standard Grade Chart, and the C/S.
He did it till the end. He looked at mind as the enemy to be "tricked, lied to and sued."
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