M4
M4 was waaaaaay overused and is/was the source of one of the biggest fake floating needles in the org.
On the other hand, I believed that I had to feel that I understood the page, so the M4 process forced me to ask myself again and again, "What don't I fully get?" and eventually my comprehension level of everything I read dramatically improved. This was a good thing. A great thing that improved my enjoyment of life.
On the other hand, I became so ridiculously mu conscious that my reading slowed down to a glacial speed, and scio materials become so over-important that a useful understanding was minimal.
As I plowed through the nearly incomprehensible prose of LRH, I would find a way to make his conclusions the sole source of enlightenment. You coerce yourself into that mentality.
LRH was not the SOURCE of anything accept his conclusions, many of which were irrelevant. The M4 forced me to find a way to make them relevant, which was a bad thing.
Useful information shouldn't require clay demos, lie detectors, and word clearers. LRH's assumption that his followers didn't understand what he was saying was a red herring. LRH's explanations of virtually anything were convoluted. LRH frequently used interesting anecdotes to fill the lectures with a hazy validity.
Comprehension should be the key to understanding. The fact that the cos insists on comprehension was fantastic. That notion alone is a huge reason why I stayed in the cos for long.
The problem, in LRH's case, is whether or not what you're studying is that useful. If you run engrams, do you get a clear? If you run Op Pro by Dup do you get a provable exteriorization? If you apply a danger formula, do things get better?
Or, does all this word clearing applied get you a better life?
HH you have way too much time on hands. 
