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To the best of my memory, here is the procedure I followed in late seventies to debug TR Course students at Flag. The TRs Course Sup at that time was Chuck Murray.
(1) A student bogged on TRs would be sent to me (the word clearer).
(2) I would hear the student out as to what was going on with him on TRs (especially TR 0, because that is where most students were bogging), and acknowledge him/her properly.
(3) I would then first handle any words that the student had attention on.
(4) Then I would M9 the student on TR 0 drill quoted below.
(5) If there were cognitions and VGIs I would end off the word clearing session and send the student to the examiner on his way back to the course.
(To be continued…)
(1) A student bogged on TRs would be sent to me (the word clearer).
(2) I would hear the student out as to what was going on with him on TRs (especially TR 0, because that is where most students were bogging), and acknowledge him/her properly.
(3) I would then first handle any words that the student had attention on.
(4) Then I would M9 the student on TR 0 drill quoted below.
NUMBER: TR 0 Revised 1961
NAME: Confronting Preclear.
COMMANDS: None.
POSITION: Student and coach sit facing each other a comfortable distance apart— about three feet.
PURPOSE: To train student to confront a preclear with auditing only or with nothing. The whole idea is to get the student able to hold a position three feet in front of a preclear, to BE there and not do anything else but BE there.
TRAINING STRESS: Have student and coach sit facing each other, neither making any conversation or effort to be interesting. Have them sit and look at each other and say and do nothing for some hours. Student must not speak, fidget, giggle or be embarrassed or anaten. It will be found the student tends to confront WITH a body part, rather than just confront, or to use a system of confronting rather than just BE there. The drill is misnamed if Confront means to DO something to the pc. The whole action is to accustom an auditor to BEING THERE three feet in front of a preclear without apologizing or moving or being startled or embarrassed or defending self. After a student has become able to just sit there for
two hours “bull baiting” can begin. Anything added to BEING THERE is sharply flunked by the coach. Twitches, blinks, sighs, fidgets, anything except just being there is promptly flunked, with the reason why.
Patter: Student coughs. Coach: “Flunk! you coughed. Start.” This is the whole of the coach’s patter as a coach.
Patter as a confronted subject: The coach may say anything or do anything except leave the chair. The student’s “buttons” can be found and tromped on hard. Any words not coaching words may receive no response from the student. If the student responds, the coach is instantly a coach (see patter above).
Supervisors should have coaches let student have some wins (coach does not mention these) and then, by gradient stress, get the coaches to start in on the student to invite flunks and then flunk them. This is “bull baiting”. The student flunks each time he or she reacts, no matter how minutely, to being baited.
This TR should be taught rough-rough-rough and not left until the student can do it. Training is considered satisfactory at this level only if the student can BE three feet in front of a person without flinching, concentrating or confronting with, regardless of what the confronted person says or does.
HISTORY: Developed by L. Ron Hubbard in Washington in March 1957 to train students to confront preclears in the absence of social tricks or conversation and to overcome obsessive compulsions to be “interesting”. Revised by L. Ron Hubbard April 1961 on finding that SOP Goals required for its success a much higher level of technical skill than earlier processes.
(5) If there were cognitions and VGIs I would end off the word clearing session and send the student to the examiner on his way back to the course.
(To be continued…)