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ARC is an acronym for "affinity," "reality," and "communication," which
together equate to "understanding" in Scientology. The commands on this
fairly innocuous level are:
"Recall something that was really real to you."
"Recall a time when you were in good communication with someone."
"Recall a time when you really liked someone."
"Recall a time you knew you understood someone." (5)
Dianetic auditing was originally prescribed in Scientology after a
person had completed some "objectives" and ARC Straightwire, and before
progressing onto the Grades. Currently, Dianetics is administered after
a person has completed the grades.
Each Grade, from Zero to Four, isolates and addresses a different
area of common life problems. On each grade there are hundreds of
processes and commands, from which just a few examples will be given
here.
On Grade Zero, the promised ability gained is an "ability to
communicate freely to anyone on any subject." The commands: "What are
you willing to talk to me about?" and "What would you like to tell me
about that?" are given alternately and combined with other commands
until the person has the promised revelation.
On Grade One, the focus is on problems, and the preclear will be
asked questions like: "What problem could you confront?" and "What
problem would you rather not confront?" until the person comes to
realize that they "have the ability to recognize the source of problems
and make them vanish."
On Grade Two, the preclear is grilled on questions such as:
"Tell me some things you think you should not have done to another;"
"Tell me what you've done to another that got you into trouble;"
"What have you done to another that you regret;" and
"What have you said to another that you wish you hadn't."
-- until he or she comes to realize that "I have attained relief
from feelings of guilt or regret about past actions of mine, and do not
feel I must keep secret anything that has happened."
On Grade Three, which addresses areas of past upset in life and the
ability of the person to deal with change, the questions are:
"What do you want changed?"
"What do you want unchanged?"
The person is finished with this level when he feels he has
"discovered through auditing the source of past upsets" and now
understands and feels free of such upsets, and when he is able to face
the future.
Grade Four deals with psychological strategies used by the person to
make him right and others wrong. These are called "service facsimiles"
in Scientology. The questions on this level are:
"In this lifetime what do you use to make others wrong?"
And then, for each answer given to that question, the following are
asked:
"In this lifetime how would _________ make you right?"
"In this lifetime how would _________ make others wrong?"
"In this lifetime how would _________ help you escape domination?"
"In this lifetime how would _________ help you to dominate others?"
"In this lifetime how would _________ aid your survival?"
"In this lifetime how would _________ hinder the survival of
others?"
When the person attests that he has been "released from fixed and
destructive patterns of action and now feels free to do new things," he
can go on to more advanced "processing" on the road to the state of
"Clear" and above.
All levels above Grade Four are considered "confidential" within
Scientology. The materials are carried about in locked briefcases
chained to the preclear's arm with a dog leash. There is a great aura of
secrecy and importance about these levels and the people who are on
them.
On all lower levels in Scientology, the preclear is audited by
another person, but on the secret upper levels he must audit himself, a
skill acquired on the Solo Course which is a preparatory course for all
upper levels.
On the Solo Course, Hubbard discloses the inner structure of the
reactive mind. The core of the reactive mind, he explains, is called the
"R6 bank." Surrounding it are the various engrams and locks which have
been removed by earlier Dianetic and Grade auditing. The R6 bank is
composed of what he calls "GPMs," or "Goals-Problems-Masses."
GPMs are electronic entities which the person has acquired through
centuries of implanting. Each implant consists of electronic "charge"
paired with verbal phrases which
must be listed and audited in order to erase this part of the mind.
The "R6 bank" "has mass and weight and occupies a space roughly
fifteen feet in front of the preclear," Hubbard reveals. And he
continues, "When one stops to consider that none of this ever occurred
to the psychiatrists, one wonders ... one wonders...." (6)
In order to audit on this grade, which is called Grade Six in
Scientology, one asks oneself the following question while hooked up to
the E-meter:
"What am I dramatizing?"
The person then marks down his answer, as well as its opposite on a
list, then continues to ask himself the question until he can think of
no more items. All the items must be in the form of nouns. So for