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== Chapter 1 ==
This book is started with the Auditor’s Code, for any experimentation with these phenomena must be done in full awareness of this code. An “auditor” is one who “listens and computes”, and is a practitioner in Scientology. Experiments done without strict adherence to this code will fail.

The auditor who does not know, or practice at all times, the Auditor’s Code, is ignoring one of the basic tenets of Scientology. This code has been called “the code of how to be civilized”. Much more important than knowing mechanical techniques is knowing well the attitude one should have toward a preclear. This is not for courtesy but for efficiency. No preclear will respond to an auditor who does not adhere to the Auditor’s Code.

Breaking the Auditor’s Code, at first glance, may not appear to be a very great sin. But an auditor has undertaken to aid a fellow man, and his dedication to that purpose must be sincere to the point of sacredness.

The following points, taken from ''Science of Survival,'' should be as much a part of an auditor’s thinking and attitude as his knowledge of reading and speaking. Unless one feels he can adhere to this code, he should not, under any circumstances, attempt to audit anyone:

The auditor conducts himself in such a way as to maintain optimum Affinity, Communications, and Agreement with the preclear.

The auditor is trustworthy. He understands that the preclear has given into the auditor’s trust his hope for higher sanity and happiness, and that the trust is sacred and never to be betrayed.

The auditor is courteous. He respects the preclear as a human being. He respects the self-determinism of the preclear. He respects his own position as an auditor. He expresses this respect in courteous conduct.

The auditor is courageous. He never falls back from his duty to a case. He never fails to use the optimum procedure regardless of any alarming conduct on the part of the preclear.

The auditor never evaluates the case for the preclear. He abstains from this, knowing that to compute for the preclear is to inhibit the preclear’s own computation. He knows that to refresh the preclear’s mind as to what went before is to cause the preclear to depend heavily upon the auditor and so to undermine the self-determinism of the preclear.

The auditor never invalidates any of the data or the personality of the preclear. He knows that in doing so he would seriously enturbulate the preclear. He refrains from criticism and invalidation no matter how much his own sense of reality is twisted or shaken by the preclear’s incidents (past experiences) or utterances.

The auditor uses only techniques designed to restore the self-determinism of the preclear. He refrains from all authoritarian or dominating conduct, leading, always, rather than driving. He refrains from the use of hypnotism or sedatives on the preclear no matter how much the preclear may demand them out of aberration. He never abandons the preclear out of faint-heartedness about the ability of techniques to resolve the case, but persists and continues to restore the preclear’s self-determinism. The auditor keeps himself informed of any new skills in the science.

The auditor cares for himself as an auditor. By working with others he maintains his own processing at regular intervals in order to maintain or raise his own position on the tone scale despite restimulation of himself through the process of auditing others. He knows that failure to give heed to his own processing, until he himself is a “release” or a “clear” in the severest meaning of the terms, is to cost his preclear the benefit of the auditor’s best performance.

The goal of the auditor is to rehabilitate the selfdeterminism of his preclear, to bring back his hope and power, to get his preclear up to where the preclear, all of his own, KNOWS.

The preclear has to take very little on faith with these techniques. He simply runs what he is told.

The auditor should not bully his preclear or evaluate for him.

Most important, the auditor should choose for his preclear a person worth salvaging, who will in his turn help another. We have so much to do!