Auditor plus pc versus
bank: solution of case
An
article by L. Ron Hubbard, from
The First Postulate lectures
Auditor
plus pc versus bank: tsk, pshew!
No bank.
Got
the idea?
If
you get the idea of a steam locomotive going
up a mountainside sweating along with a
string of boxcars and its wheels just spinning
on the rails. It's not climbing any higher
and sometimes sliding back but making no
forward progress. Along comes another steam
locomotive and hooks onto the front of the
existing locomotive and the two of them
pour the throttles to it and put some sand
on the track, and both of them pull those
boxcars over the hump. Got the idea? There
they go. All right.
All
right, supposing the first locomotive, which
was already failing to pull it, as soon
as the new locomotive showed up, simply
says, "Well, help is here at last,"
closed down his throttle and banks his fires.
We're actually not muchmuch less going
to pull it because now we've added a whole
locomotive as dead weight to the load. Now,
this will sometimes be your pc sitting there
expecting you to clear him, no contribution.
He just shut off the throttle and banked
the fires. Now that the helper has come
along, why, he's all set; the helper can
just do it all. See that?
Supposing
he went the opposite way and steamed up
considerably and put his tie bar, or whatever
you call it, in reverse and poured the steam
to it. Here's the helper locomotive trying
to go uphill full blast and here is the
original locomotive going backwards downhill
with full power. Which way do you think
you're going to go in that respect? Boy,
you're sure going downhill in a hurry, auditor
along with him. See, he'll be very awbe
pretty upset. He's got a big failure going
here. You see?
Supposing
the first locomotive, the moment that a
new locomotive showed up, became violently
jealous. "Why, I can do this all myself.
I was doing all right." He was going
creak-creak-slip-slip right down
the track backwards. "You get out of
here! Whoever gave you orders to come around
here? To hell with you! Take him away someplace!"
In other words, a noncooperative situation,
and just made the helping locomotive stand
by idly and watch while he slid into the
ravine behind him. This happens too. This
is the other situation which wasn't envisioned
particularly when those equations were first
written.
Auditor
is given a no-responsibility for what's
going on by the remarks and attitudes of
the pc. And he is there but he just stands
by and the pc kind of runs the session and
goes out from under.
Now,
this pc will very often insist on running
a service facsimile; he will very often
insist on running some computation that
is making him uncomfortable and the auditor
Q's-and-A's with him, and he's just as wellas
far as clearing is concerned or pulling
over the humphe might as well just
be sitting on a siding blowing off idle
steam while the pc runs backwards down the
hill.
There's
two different things here. There's clearing
him and helping them live. And if you're
going to clear them, every now and then
they won't have the idea at all that you're
helping them live and you've got to have
extraordinary ARC in order to keep their
hope up and keep them in there pitching.
Keep a little fire underneath that boiler
and keep that throttle cracked open just
a little bit, because you need it if you're
going to clear him.
Why? Why does all
this happen? If you improve his mock-ups
on a direct road to Clear, you improve the
quality of the Rock*. This you already know,
right? So the only safe thing to do is,
as soon as you've opened the session, gotten
some goals, straightened out the preclear,
got him oriented, the session is going well,
is to instantly and immediately audit the
Rock, get it out of the road and proceed
with clearing. That's the way you clear
people.
L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the
lecture THE ROCK, The
First Postulate lectures
*
Definitions:1
Rock: the primary aberrative object
on a preclear's case.

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