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'''Date:''' 30 August 1950

'''Speaker:''' L. Ron Hubbard

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What does “professional auditor” mean? Certified professional auditor. It is a certificate which I think you will all agree, for the benefit of Dianetics, has to be protected.

Its status cannot be lowered. A person receiving that certificate which reads, “Greetings. In that we place our trust and confidence in the skill and ability of_____,we the_____ hereby do_____.” That certificate is a professional auditing certificate.

My God, anybody who will work Dianetics anyplace in the world, they can have it. Anything we know is theirs, as far as that’s concerned. What we’re trying to do, however, is to form up a very reliable group that people can count on—I mean auditing, so that cases won’t foul up, so that these things won’t happen. It’s a pretty gruesome thing to be there on the couch and turn back down the track and have the auditor all of a sudden curl up in a small ball and fall on the floor. It’s happened many times. That’s why people have to have a release before they do a heck of a lot of auditing.

These people are perfectly welcome to treat people because, as I say, they read the rest of the chapters, then they’ll get busy and somebody audits them. Anybody who doesn’t have an auditor standing by to co-audit with him until he’s got a release is just playing with dynamite. And when you give them a release, their honesty picks up. They’re in a self-trapping mechanism. So let them go ahead and advertise.

There are people, undoubtedly, in the country today who are absolutely cleaning up with Dianetics. And they will go right on cleaning up until they have to be cleaned up. But we never have to make a move toward them. There isn’t any reason why we should. After all, we’re not trying to operate a big corporate monopoly. We just happen to know more about it than anybody else, and we can turn out good auditors. We can keep the people together, we can set it up as an organizational unit and in that way it will advance. It can advance as a single thrust, rather than an accidental one. But don’t think that if it were just dropped into society, just pop! and overlooked by all of us, that it wouldn’t advance.

The techniques of Dianetics are in the Handbook. Those techniques are workable. You would be fascinated to know how much Dianetics is taught just by contagion. That is to say, here you have instructed a small body of auditors. About 60 percent of that instruction wasn’t on the record.

Now, you’re studying the overall body of the knowledge of Dianetics. Yes, there’s a handbook on it, but it’s the overall body of the subject into which you’re moving. Even though, if we never talked about anything but processing, you’re getting data, data, data along the line on this stuff, which, if you want to check back, was not that way in the Handbook, quite. It wasn’t presented exactly that way.

I found out about what professional auditing did one day in Elizabeth when the basic course, which it had—they came to class and they sat in class for a couple of hours and they went home again about three times a week. And they’d been there, I think, for about three weeks at that time, and one of the boys of that group had been taking the professional auditing course. He’d also been in that group, so he was attending these meetings—of course, everybody was attending the meetings—and I was reviewing some of the auditing that was being done by those people.

This particular professional in embryo—this gentleman was very badly restimulated at that time. He didn’t care whether this preclear lived or died. His own case was terribly fouled up. His auditing skill was, according to everyone in the professional group, easily the worst that we had. And this chap sits down, and he takes a preclear, and he just really goes through the motions. The sloppiest job of auditing you ever saw in your life. He goes through the motions, and he gets into the basic area and he knocks out an engram. And it’s just (snap) going off like this. And he’s sitting there and he’s holding his stomach and he isn’t much paying attention; he’d hear a bouncer occasionally; he’d clip (snap) (snap) the bouncer a couple of times, and then hold his stomach again. And this guy actually ran out an engram and reduced it in the basic area, and the PA said, “Come on up to present time,” and crawled off someplace. But it was a fantastically able job of auditing!

The people just before him and just afterwards, why, they weren’t badly restimulated or terribly interested in whether or not their preclear got cleared, and they went in and they pat-a-caked around, and they monkeyed around and they did this and they did that, but they didn’t do a job of auditing.

Right away I looked at this terrific thing that seems to happen to people in the process of a month of association close up to Dianetics with some personalized instruction. Wham! It works! For instance, I kept an eye cocked a little bit at some of the student auditors who were over there. When I first walked in here I saw some examples of auditing that looked like—they might have looked like tightrope walking or something, but they didn’t look like auditing. And I was just looking at some people there, just glanced a couple of places and they were doing a competent job of auditing. Only two weeks had gone by. It interests me—what takes place with that, (Recording ends abruptly)

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