Scientology Glossary

I will update this as we go on this website because I understand that the documents and articles on this website have a lot of confusing terms (terms that have been made up or altered to fit the view of Scientologist LRon Hubbard) so I will be releasing mutiple "Glossary" like articles. Keep an eye out for these. Here is the first one, keep in mind these are the ways LRH defines the words he uses, I do not subscribe to suck hackery.


ACCESSIBILITY:

The state of being willing to be processed (technical sense in this science).
The state of being willing to have interpersonal relations (social sense). For the individual
himself, accessibility with self means whether or not an individual can recontact
his past experiences or data. A man with a "bad memory" (interposed blocks
between control center and facsimiles) has memories which are not accessible to
him.

ACT:

A stage of processing. Applies solely to the particular process in use at a certain
case level.

ASSESSMENT:

An inventory, an examination, a calculation or evaluation of a case. ASSISTS:

The straight perception by perception running over and over of an incident until
it is desensitized as a facsimile and cannot affect the preclear. The assist is used
immediately after accidents or operations. It takes away shock and most of the
harmful effects of the incident and promotes healing. It is done by starting the individual
at the beginning of the incident, with the first awareness of the incident, just as
though the preclear were living it all the way through again with full perception of
sight, sound, etc., as nearly as they can be obtained. An assist run, for instance, immediately
after a dental operation takes all the shock out of the operation. One concludes
an assist by picking up the auditing as another incident and running through
the auditing and the decision to be audited. An assist saves lives and materially
speeds healing.

AUDITOR:

One who listens and computes. A technician of this science. BROKEN:

Slang used in the wise of "breaking a case", meaning that one breaks the hold
of the preclear on a non-survival facsimile. Used in greater or lesser magnitude such
as "breaking a circuit" or "breaking into a chain" or "breaking a computation". Never
breaking the preclear or his spirit, but breaking what is breaking the preclear.

CENTER OF CONTROL:

The awareness of awareness unit of the mind. This is not part of the brain but
part of the mind, the brain being physiological. The mind has two control centers possible,
by definition, the right and the left. One is an actual, genetic control center, the
other is a sub-control center subservient to the control center.

CLEAR (verb):

The act of desensitizing or releasing a thought impression or a series of impressions
or observations in the past, or a postulate, an emotion, an effort or an entire
facsimile. The preclear either releases his hold on the facsimile (memory) or the
facsimile itself is desensitized. The word is taken from electronic computers or common
office adding machines and describes an action similar to clearing past computations
from the machine.

CLEAR (noun):


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COMPUTING PSYCHOTIC:

One who is running on a circuit, a circuit being a pseudo-personality out of a
facsimile strong enough to dictate to the individual and BE the individual.

DRAMATIZING PSYCHOTIC:

One who dramatizes one type of facsimile only.

DYNAMICS:

The central drives of an individual. They are numbered from one to eight as
follows: 1. Self survival; 2. Survival through children (includes sexual act); 3. Survival
by groups including social and political as well as commercial; 4. Survival through
Mankind as a whole; 5. Survival through Life including any species, vegetable or
animal; 6. Survival through MEST; 7. Survival through theta or the static of Life itself;

8. (Written as infinity). Survival through a Supreme Being. Each individual is surviving
for all eight.
EFFORT:

The physical force manifestation of motion. A sharp effort against an individual
produces pain. A strenuous effort produces discomfort. Effort can be recalled and reexperienced
by the preclear. No preclear below 2.5 should be called upon to use effort
as such as he is incapable of handling it and will stick in it. The essential part of a
painful facsimile is its effort, not its perceptions.

EMOTION:

The catalyst used by the control center to monitor physical action. The relay
system, via glands, interposed between "I" and self and, by thought, others. The main
emotions are happiness in which one has confidence and enjoyment in his goals and
a belief in his control of environment; boredom, in which one has lost confidence and
direction but is not defeated; antagonism wherein one feels his control threatened;
anger wherein one seeks to destroy that which threatens and seeks without good
direction beyond destruction; covert hostility wherein one seeks to destroy while reassuring
his target that he is not so seeking; fear wherein one is catalyzed to flee;
grief in which one recognizes loss; apathy in which one accepts failure on all dynamics
and pretends death. Other emotions are a volume or lack of volume of those
named. Shame or embarrassment are emotions peculiar to groups or interpersonal
relations and are on a level with grief, denoting loss of position in a group. Emotion is
the glandular system parallel of motion and each emotion reflects action to gain or
lose to motion. At a high level one is sending back motion, at a mid level one is holding
motion, at a lower level, motion is sweeping through and over one.

ENVIRONMENT:

The surroundings of the preclear from moment to moment in particular or in
general, including people, pets, mechanical objects, weather, culture, clothing or the
Supreme Being. Anything he perceives or believes he perceives. The objective environment
is the environment everyone agrees is there. The subjective environment is
the environment the individual himself believes is there. They may not agree.


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A facsimile is a memory recording for a finite period of time. It is considered
that memory is a static without wave length, weight, mass or position in space (in
other words, a true static) which yet receives the impression of time, space, energy
and matter. A careful examination of the phenomena of thought and the behavior of
the human mind leads one to this conclusion. The conclusion is itself a postulate
used because it is extremely useful and workable. This is a point of echelon in research,
that a facsimile can be so described. The description is mathematical and an
abstract and may or may not be actual. When a thought recording is so regarded, the
problems of the mind rapidly resolve. Facsimiles are said to be "stored". They act
upon the physical universe switchboard called the brain and nervous and glandular
system to monitor action. They appear to have motion and weight only because motion
and weight are recorded into them. They are not stored in the cells. They impinge
upon the cells. Proof of this matter rests in the fact that an energy which became
a facsimile a long time ago can be re-contacted and is found to be violent on
the contact. Pain is stored as a facsimile. Old pain can be re-contacted. Old pain, in
facsimile form, old emotion in facsimile form, can re-impose itself on present time in
such a wise as to deform or otherwise physically affect the body. You can go back to
the last time you hurt yourself and find there and re-experience the pain of that hurt,
unless you are very occluded. You can recover efforts and exertions you have made
or which have been made against you in the past. Yet the cells themselves, which
have finite life, are long since replaced although the body goes on. Hence the facsimile
theory. The word facsimile is used as bluntly as one uses it in connection with a
drawing of a box top instead of the actual box top. It means a similar article rather
than the article itself. You can recall a memory picture of an elephant or a photograph.
The elephant and the photograph are no longer present. A facsimile of them is
stored in your mind. A facsimile is complete with every perception of the environment
present when that facsimile was made including sight, sound, smell, taste, weight,
joint position and so on through half a hundred perceptions. Just because you cannot
recall motion or these perceptions does not mean they were not recorded fully and in
motion with every perception channel you had at the time. It does mean that you
have interposed a stop between the facsimile and the recall mechanisms of your
control centers. There are facsimiles of everything you have experienced in your entire
lifetime and everything you have imagined.

FIFTEEN (noun):

A designation to denote a finished case. Solely for case recording to designate
a case advanced to current completion. This is a Foundation number system for preclears.
A case is noted on record by the act number to which it has been advanced.

GENETIC:

By line of protoplasm and by facsimiles and by MEST forms the individual has
arrived in the present age from a past beginning. Genetic applies to the protoplasm
line of father and mother to child, grown child to new child and so forth.

LOCK SCANNING:

A process which starts the preclear from a point in the past with which he has
made solid contact up through all similar incidents without verbalization. This is done
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lates
first. Lock scanning is a standardized drill, started on signal and ended with the
preclear saying he is again in present time. It can be done on any subject. ABOVE

2.0 only.
MEST:

A compound word made up of the first letters of MATTER, ENERGY, SPACE
and TIME. A coined word for the PHYSICAL UNIVERSE. THETA IS NOT CONSID-
ERED AS PART OF THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE BUT IS NOT CONSIDERED AB-
SOLUTELY AS NOT PART OF THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE.

PAST POSTULATES:

Decisions or conclusions the preclear has made in the past and to which he is
still subjected in the present. Past postulates are uniformly invalid since they cannot
resolve present environment.

PERCEPTIONS:

By means of physical waves, rays and particles of the physical universe, impressions
of the environment enter through the "sense channels" such as the eyes
and optic nerves, the nose and olfactory nerves; the ears and aural nerves; interbody
nerves for inter-body perceptions, etc., etc. These are all perceptions up to the
instant they record as facsimiles at which moment they become recordings. When
recalled they are perceptions again, being again entered into sense channels from
the recall side. There are over half a hundred separate perceptions all being recorded
at once.

POSTULATE (verb):

To conclude, decide or resolve a problem or to set a pattern for the future or to
nullify a pattern of the past.

POSTULATE (noun):

A conclusion, decision or resolution made by the individual himself on his own
self-determinism on data of the past, known or unknown. The postulate is always
known. It is made upon the evaluation of data by the individual or on impulse without
data. It resolves a problem of the past, decides on problems or observations in the
present or sets a pattern for the future.

PSYCHOSOMATIC ILLNESS:

A term used in common parlance to denote a condition "resulting from a state
of mind." Such illnesses account for about seventy percent of all ills, by popular report.
Technically, in this science, a chronic or continuing painful facsimile to which the
preclear is holding to account for failures. Arthritis, bursitis, tendonitis, myopia, astigmatism,
bizarre aches and pains, sinusitis, colds, ulcers, migraine headaches, toothache,
poliomyelitis deformities, fatness, skin malformations are a few of these legion
of chronic somatics. They are traceable to service facsimiles.

PSYCHOTIC:


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chotic
wherein he becomes psychotic for only a few minutes at a time and only occasionally
in certain environments (as in rages or apathies) or he may be a chronic psychotic,
or in a continual disconnection with the future and present. Psychotics who
are dramatically harmful to others are considered dangerous enough to be put away.
Psychotics who are harmful on a less dramatic basis are no less harmful to their environment
and are no less psychotic.

PRECLEAR:

One who has entered processing enroute to becoming a fifteen. RECOVERY:

Recovery of one's own ability to determine one's existence.

RELEASE (verb):

The act of taking the perceptions or effort or effectiveness out of a heavy facsimile
or taking away the preclear's hold on the facsimile.

REPETITIVE STRAIGHT-WIRE:

Attention called to an incident over and over amongst other incidents until it is
de-sensitized. Used on conclusions or incidents which do not easily surrender.

SERVICE FACSIMILE:

A definitely non-survival situation contained in a facsimile which is called into
action by the individual to explain his failures. A service facsimile may be one of an
illness, an injury, an inability. The facsimile begins with a down emotional curve and
ends with an upward emotional curve. Between these it has pain. A service facsimile
IS the pattern which is the chronic "psychosomatic illness." It may contain coughs,
fever, aches, rashes, any manifestation of a non-survival character, mental or physical.
It may even be a suicide effort. It is complete with all perceptions. It has many
similar facsimiles. It has many locks. The possession and use of a service facsimile
distinguishes a Homo sapiens.

SERVICE FACSIMILE CHAIN:

The entire chain of similar incidents which comprise the total repertoire of the
individual who is explaining thus failure and thus seeking support. STRAIGHT-WIRE:

A process of recalling, from present time, with some perception or at least a
concept, a past incident. The name straight-wire derives from the MEST communications
process of connecting two points of a communications system. It is essentially
memory work. It is applied to postulates, evaluations, incidents, scenes, emotions, or
any data which may be in the storage banks of the mind without "sending the preclear"
into the incident itself. It is done with the preclear sitting up, eyes open or shut.
The auditor is very alert. Straight-wire is done rapidly. The preclear is not permitted to
wander or reminisce. He responds to questions on the part of the auditor. MANY
PRECLEARS DISLIKE BEING QUESTIONED. THE AUDITOR MUST THEN FIRST
RESOLVE THE POSTULATES AGAINST BEING QUESTIONED; this would be
called "clearing for broad straight-wire."

TEN:

A case advanced to the point of released service facsimile.


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The mathematical symbol for the static of thought. By THETA is meant the
static itself. By "facsimile" is meant THETA which contains impressions by perception.


THOUGHT:

The facsimiles one has recorded of his various environments and the facsimiles
he has created with his imaginings, their recombination and evaluations and conclusions
for the purpose of determining action or no action or potential action or no
action. THOUGHT is used also to mean a progress treating awareness level recordings
as distinct from non-awareness level recordings.