PHOENIX LECTURES GLOSSARY ABBERRATION: a departure from rational thought or behavior From the Latin, aberrare, to wander from; Latin, ab, away, errare, to wander It means basically to err, to make mistakes, or more specifically to have fixed ideas which are not true. The word is also used in its scientific sense. It means departure from a straight line. If a line should go from A to B, then if it is "aberrated" it would go from A to some other point, to some other point, to some other point, to some other point, to some other point and finally arrive at B. Taken in its scientific sense, it would also mean the lack of straightness or to see crookedly as, in example, a man sees a horse but thinks he sees an elephant. Aberrated conduct would be wrong conduct, or conduct not supported by reason. When a person has engrams, these tend to deflect what would be his normal ability to perceive truth and bring about an aberrated view of situations which then would cause an aberrated reaction to them. ABSTRUSE: hard to understand. ADDER: a small venomous snake. ADIOS: Spanish for good-bye. ADJUDICATED: judged or decided, ADVANCED COURSE PROCEDURE: a series of exact and consistently workable procedures used at the time of the Phoenix Lectures (1954). ADVISEDLY: deliberately, with due consideration. AESCULAPIAN: of or relating to medicine or the art of healing. (Aesculapius: Roman Mythology The god of medicine and healing.) AFFINITY: the attraction which exists between two human beings, or between a human being and another life organism or between a human being and MEST or theta. ALTER-IS-NESS: the condition of having altered or changed the reality of something. Is-ness means the way it is. When someone sees it differently he is doing an alter-is; in other words, is altering the way it is. AMPLITUDE: size; breadth; scope; abundance; wide range. ANATEN: an abbreviation of analytical attenuation meaning diminution or weakening of the analytical awareness of an individual for a brief or extensive period of time. If sufficiently great, it can result in unconsciousness. (It stems from the restimulation of an engram which contains pain and unconsiousness.) ANCHOR POINTS: are points of reference. The points which mark an area of space. ANTHROPOLOGY: the scientific study of mankind, especially of its origins, development, customs and beliefs. APOSTLE: one who leads or advocates a new cause. APPEND: to add or attach as an extra part. ARABIAN NIGHTS: a series of Eastern stories in the Arabic language strung together by the story of Scheherazade, who kept her husband from killing her by telling these stories over 1,001 nights, until he relinquished his purpose. The best known of these stories are those of Ali Baba, Sinbad the Sailor and Aladdin. ARC: a word from the initial letters of Affinity, Reality, Communication which together equate to Understanding. It is pronounced by stating its letters, A-R-C. See also ARC triangle. ARC Straightwire: a recall process which gets the preclear to remember times of affinity, reality, communication and understanding. ARC TRIANGLE: a symbol of the fact that affinity, reality and, the most important, communication act together as a whole entity and that one of them cannot be considered unless the other two are taken into account. Without affinity there is no reality or communication. Without reality or some agreement, affinity and communication are absent. Without communication there can be no affinity or reality. It is only necessary to improve one corner of this very valuable triangle in Scientology in order to improve the remaining two corners. ARHAT: the level of a Buddhist monk who has attained Nirvana (the Buddhist concept of immortality). ARISTOTELIAN SYLLOGISM: an argument or form of reasoning developed by Aristotle, ancient Greek philosopher, in which two statements are made and a logical conclusion drawn from them. Example: All mammals are warm-blooded; whales are mammals; therefore, whales are warm-blooded (conclusion). ASIA MINOR: the western peninsula of Asia, lying between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean and including Asian Turkey. AS-IS-NESS: the condition of immediate creation without persistence. It is the condition of existence which exists at the moment of creation and the moment of destruction and is different from other considerations in that it does not contain survival. Something that is just postulated or just being duplicated -- no alteration taking place. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION: a five-member advisory board formed in the United States in 1946 for the domestic control of atomic energy. ATTENTION UNIT: a theta energy quantity of awareness existing in the mind in varying quantity from person to person. When a person has a lot of attention on some incident, one could say he has a lot of attention units on that incident. AUDITING: processing, the application of Dianetics or Scientology processes and procedures to someone by a trained auditor The exact definition of auditing is: the action of asking the preclear a question (which he can understand and answer), getting an answer to that question and acknowledging him for that answer. AUDITOR'S CODE: a collection of rules (do's and don'ts) that an auditor follows while auditing someone, which ensures that the preclear will get the greatest possible gain out of the processing that he is having. It was evolved from years of observing processing. It contains the important errors which harm cases. AUDITOR'S HANDBOOK: the manual current at the time of the Phoenix Lectures (1954). It forms the basis of and is wholly included in the book The Creation of Human Ability by L. Ron Hubbard. AUTOMATICITY: that thing set up automatically to run without further attention from yourself. There are three kinds of automaticities: those which create things, and those which make things persist, and those which destroy things. AXIOMS: the Axioms are agreed upon considerations. They are the central considerations which have been agreed upon. They are considerations. A self-evident truth is the dictionary definition of an axiom. No definition could be further from the truth. In the first place, a truth cannot be self-evident because it is a static. So, therefore, there is no self-evidency in any truth. There is not a self-evident truth, never has been, never will be. However, there are self-evident agreements and that is what an axiom is. The Axioms of Dianetics and Scientology can be found in the book Scientology 0-8. BABYLON: ancient city which was the capital of Babylonia; an ancient empire in Southwest Asia in what is now Southern Iraq. It flourished between 2100-689 B.C. BANK: the mental image picture collection of the preclear. It comes from computer technology where all data is in a "bank." An informal name for the reactive mind. BANYAN TREE: Indian fig tree with spreading branches from which roots grow downward to the ground and form new trunks. BEINGNESS: the result of having assumed an identity. BEINGNESS PROCESSING: processing that recovers the various valences which the thetan is trying to avoid. It gets the case up to a level where it can identity itself with something. BETWEEN-LIVES AREA: the area where a thetan goes during the time between the loss of a body and the assumption of another. BLACK V: see Step Level V. BLACK SCREEN: actually a ridge that is formed for a special purpose of protection. The cycle of the preclear who has been taught to hate things is that he begins to resist them and eventually piles up energy against them to such a degree that he makes an actual deposit which is an occlusion and which has on his side of it complete blackness and on the reverse side of it the piled-up facsimiles of that thing which he is resisting. BLOW: the sudden dissipation of mass in the mind with an accompanying feeling of relief. BODY: a carbon-oxygen engine which runs at a temperature of 98.6 degrees F on low combustion fuel, generally derived from other life forms. The body is directly monitored by the genetic entity (see GE) in activities such as respiration, heart-beat and endocrine secretions; but these activities may be modified by the thetan. The thetan is the engineer running this engine in a Homo sapien. BODHI: in Buddhism, one who has attained intellectual and ethical perfection by human means. BOIL-OFF: becoming groggy and seeming to sleep; some period of the person's life wherein he was unconscious has been slightly restimulated. BOMBASTIC: high-sounding; using many fine words with little thought. BOOK AND BOTTLE: see Opening Procedure by Duplication. BORNING SPOT: a place of birth. BREUER, JOSEF: (1842-1925) Austrian physician; known especially for work on the ear and on psychoanalysis. Collaborated with Sigmund Freud on treatment of hysteria by hypnosis. BRYAN, WILLIAM JENNINGS: (1860-1925) American lawyer, political leader and noted speaker. BUDDHA: Gautama Buddha (originally Gautama Siddnartha, then called Sakyamumi): (563-483 B.C.). Also known as the Blessed One or the Enlightened One; founder of the Buddhist religion. BUTTONS: the items, words, phrases, subjects or areas that cause response or reaction in an individual by the words or actions of other people, and which cause him discomfort, embarrassment or upset, or make him laugh uncontrollably. Things in particular that each human being finds aberrative and has in common. CADUCEUS: a winged staff (pole, rod) with two serpents twined around it, used as the symbol of the medical profession. CARDS AND SPADES: a liberal handicap (an advantage given to a weaker contestant) (example: I could give him cards and spades and still beat him at his own game). CASE V: see Step Level V. CASTE: one of the hereditary Hindu social classes. CAUSE: simply the place where a communication starts. Cause means only "source point" of the communication. CECS: Committee of Examinations, Certifications and Services. CHAIN: incidents of similar nature strung out in time. CHAIR (OF SCIENCE): the office or position of a professor CHAKRA: (yoga) any of the six points along the spine supposed to contain certain powers, personified by gods and able to be released through the proper exercises. CHALDEA: province of Babylonia, the ancient empire in what is now Southern Iraq. CHARACTERS: letters, figures or signs used in writing. CHARGE: harmful energy of force accumulated and stored in the reactive mind, resulting from the conflicts and unpleasant experiences that a person has had. CHART OF ATTITUDES: a chart of attitudes toward life. This might be called a "button chart" for it contains the major difficulties people have. It is also a self-evaluation chart. You can find a level on it where you agree and that is your level of reaction toward life. CIRCUIT: a part of an individual's bank (an informal name for the reactive mind) that behaves as though it were someone or something separate from him and that either talks to him or goes into action of its own accord, and may even, if severe enough, take control of him while it operates. A tune that keeps going around in someone's head is an example of a circuit. CLAUDIUS: Claudius I: Roman Emperor (41-54 A.D.). CLOSED TERMINALS: close means to come close together in contact or union; to join, unit, combine, coalesce, meet in a common center. Terminals are the anchor points from which motion can emanate. COAL-SCUTTLE: a bucket-like container in which coal may be kept or carried. CODE OF SCIENTOLOGISTS: a code of conduct evolved to safeguard Scientologists in general, and subscribed to by leading Scientologists. COMMAND: an order or direction or question from the auditor to a preclear in standard processing, which requires reply or action by the preclear. COMM LAG: stands for communication lag (delay). The length of time intervening between the asking of the question by auditor and reply to that specific question by the preclear. COMMUNICANT: one who communicates. Also a member of a church who receives Holy Communion. COMMUNICATION: the interchange of ideas or objects between two people or terminals. See also communication formula. COMMUNICATION FORMULA: the formula of communication and its precise definition is cause, distance, effect with intention and attention and a duplication at effect of what emanates from cause. COMPULSION: an irresistible impulse to act irrationally. CONCATENATION: a series of things or events which are connected or linked. CONDUITING: channeling; directing a flow in a specific direction. CONSERVATION OF ENERGY: the principle that energy is never consumed but only changes form, and that the total energy in a physical system, such as the universe, cannot be increased or diminished. CONFUCIUS: (551-479 B.C.) Chinese philosopher, scholar, taught a system of morality and government that had a profound effect on China. CONSIDERATIONS: thoughts, postulates about something; continuing postulates. CONTROL CASE: the case where control is obsessive or other- determined, or where the individual is controlling things out of compulsion or fear. The person who feels he must be cold-blooded in order to be rational. CREATIVE PROCESSING: the exercise by which the preclear is actually creating the physical universe. It consists of having the preclear make, with his own creative energies, a mock-up. CUNEIFORM: wedge-shaped characters used in writing in ancient Babylonia, Assyria, Persia, etc. CURIOSA: curiousities, novelties; specifically books dealing with strange or unusual subjects. CYCLE OF ACTION: the sequence that an action goes through, wherein the action is started, is continued for as long as is required and then is completed as planned. The cycle of action of the physical universe is create, survive (which is persist), destroy. DARWIN, CHARLES ROBERT: (1809-1882) British naturalist; put forth the theory of evolution by natural selection in On the Origin of Species (1859). DEADFALLS: traps arranged so that a heavy weight is dropped on the prey, killing or disabling it. DEBASING: in the sense being used, it means based or founded upon. DESCRIPTION PROCESSING: A powerful process that uses As-is-ness in present time to remedy restimulations beheld by the thetan. DHARMA: almost interchangeable with the word Dhyana, which means "knowingness." DHARMAPADA: Buddhist text on the spiritual life, said to have been written by Buddha. DHYANA: it means "knowingness" or "lookingness." DIANETICS: man's most advanced school of the mind. Dianetics means "through the soul" (from the Greek dia, through, and nous, soul). Dianetics is further defined as "what the soul is doing to the body." It is a way of handling the energy of which life is made in such a way as to bring about a greater efficiency in the organism and in the spiritual life of the individual. DIANETIC RELEASE: one who in Dianetics auditing has attained good case gains and stability, and can enjoy life. Such a person is "keyed-out" or in other words, released from the stimulus- response mechanisms of the reactive mind. DIANOMETRY: that branch of Dianetics which measures thought capacity, computational ability and the rationality of the human mind, by its axioms and tests. DICHOTOMY: a pair of opposites, such as black-white, good-evil, love-hate. DOCTORATE LECTURES: Philadelphia Doctorate Course lectures by L. Ron Hubbard, given to a class of 38 auditors in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, between 1 and 19 December 1952. DRAWING ROOM: a room for receiving or entertaining guests; parlor. D.SCN: Doctor of Scientology: honorary award for the application of Scientology processes, principles, books or literature. DUNNAGE: extra and relatively meaningless talk; used to maintain a two-way communication line between an auditor and a preclear. DUPLICATION BY ATTENTION: an auditing process where the preclear's attention is directed to one of two similar, specifically arranged black objects. It produces perception changes and it also runs out hypnosis. EFFECT: receipt point and what is received at the receipt point. EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD: Egyptian text established in its present form in the 26th dynasty (663-525 B.C.). It contains an account of the afterworld and many of the basic ideas of Egyptian religion. 8-C: the name of a process. Also used to mean good control. 8-C OPENING PROCEDURE: Standard Operating Procedure 8-C. A system or series of processes developed in 1954. The goal is to return to the individual his knowledge, skill and knowingness, and to enhance his perception, his reaction time and serenity. Specifically, the use of these processes obtains, when correctly used, without further evaluation for or indoctrination of the preclear, the knowledge that he is not a body, that he is a creative energy- production unit, and demonstrates to him his purposes and abilities. 8-D: Standard Operating Procedure 8-D: primarily for heavy cases, the goal of this procedure is to bring the preclear to tolerate any viewpoint. EIGHT DYNAMICS: there could be said to be eight urges (drives, impulses) in life. These we call dynamics. These are motives or motivations. We call them the eight dynamics. These are urges for survival as or through 1) self; 2) sex and family; 3) groups; 4) all mankind; 5) living things (plants and animals); 6) the material universe; 7) spirits; and 8) infinity or the Supreme Being. Einstein, Albert: (1879-1955) an American physicist born in Germany. ELECTRONS: Any of the negatively charged particles that form a part of all atoms. EMACIATED: thin from losing flesh due to starvation or disease. EMOTED: showed emotion; behaved with exaggerated emotion or expression. ENDOCRINE: designating or of any gland producing one more internal secretions that are introduced directly into the bloodstream and carried to other parts of the body whose functions they regulate or control. ENGRAM: a mental image picture of an experience containing pain, unconsciousness, and a real or fancied threat to survival. It is a recording in the reactive mind of something which actually happened to an individual in the past and which contained pain and unconsciousness, both of which are recorded in the mental image picture called an engram. It must, by definition, have impact or injury as part of its content. These engrams are a complete recording, down to the last accurate detail of every perception present in a moment of partial or full unconsciousness. ENGRAM BANK: an informal name for the reactive mind. EPISTEMOLOGY: a term in philosophy meaning "the study of knowledge." ETHNOLOGY: the science that deals with the various races of people, their origin and distribution, distinctive characteristics, customs, institutions and culture. EXTERIORIZATION: the state of the thetan, the individual himself being outside his body. When this is done, the person achieves a certainty that he is himself and not his body. He can view the body or control the body from a distance. FAC ONE CAMERA: also known as the coffee-grinder, a machine which loosely resembles a camera (box-like, two handled, with an exit hole for blasts in front and a peekhole in back). This was used for administering a push-pull force beam to the body, by an Invader Force to tame the population. Fac One refers to Facsimile One, the name given to incidents involving the use of the machine. FACSIMILE: simple word meaning a picture of a thing, a copy of a thing, not the thing itself. Used here it refers to mental image pictures. FACSIMILE BANK: mental image pictures; the contents of the reactive mind; informally known as "bank." FACTORS, THE: the Factors by L. Ron Hubbard are the summation of the considerations and examinations of the human spirit and the material universe completed between A.D. 1923 and 1953. FEBRE: Febris, the Roman goddess of fevers. FIRST DYNAMIC: see eight dynamics FIRST POSTULATE: the initial postulate. If one has no prior postulate and makes a postulate, then that postulate cannot be a lie. A prime postulate on any subject cannot be a lie. A second postulate can be a lie. In such a case, the second postulate permits the prime postulate to exist. But in such a case it is the second postulate, the lie, which persists. FLAT: no longer producing a reaction. FORCEPS: small pincers or tongs used by surgeons, dentists, etc., for seizing and holding. Dentists use forceps for pulling teeth. FORMULA: a specific method of properly beginning someone on processing so that the most optimum gains can be achieved by the person. FREUD, SIGMUND: (1856-1939) Austrian neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis. GAMA, VASCO DA: (1460-1524) Portuguese navigator and discoverer of the sea route to India. GE: genetic entity: that entity which is carrying along through time, that is making the body through the time stream, through the action of sex and so forth. GENERAL SEMANTICS: a subject developed by Alfred Korzybski concerning the meanings, and the development of meanings, of words. See also Alfred Korzybski. GENETIC: concerning origin and growth of organisms. GENGHIS KHAN: (1162-1227) Mongol conqueror. A bold leader and military genius, but one who left few permanent institutions. GERMAN 88: an 88 millimeter anti-aircraft cannon also used as a tank-mounted artillery weapon by Germany in World War II. GHOST DANCERS: North American Indians of the southwestern United States and California, who, during the latter half of the 19th century, engaged in either of two religious dances (ghost dances) in order to invoke a return of their former condition. GLEE OF INSANITY: a specialized case of irresponsibility. A thetan who cannot be killed and yet can be punished has only one answer to those punishing him and that is to demonstrate to them that he is no longer capable of force or action and is no longer responsible. He therefore states that he is insane and demonstrates that he cannot possibly harm them as he lacks any further rationality. GOBI: desert, mostly in the Mongolian Peoples Republic and Inner Mongolia, China, central Asia; about 500,000 square miles. GRAND TOUR: a process used on an exteriorized thetan to free him from the craving for mass and to bring into present time a greater portion of the MEST universe. It is also called Route 1-9 (R1-9). See the book The Creation of Human Ability for more information. GRANT BEINGNESS: the ability to assume or grant (give, allow) beingness is probably the highest of human virtues. It is even more important to be able to permit (allow) other people to have beingness than to be able oneself to assume it. GROUP AUDITOR'S CODE: the group auditor has a code all of his own which happens to be the Auditor's Code, but the Group Auditor's Code has some more things to it. And amongst those things are People don't ever come late to a group auditing session. Don't audit with processes which establish long comm lags. Be willing to grant beingness to the group, and others. GROUP OPENING PROCEDURE: the process or processes which are run first in group auditing and which make it possible for the members of the group to become able to do later processes effectively. GROUP PROCESSING: techniques, usually already codified, administered to groups of children or adults. The group (preclears) is usually assembled and seated in a quiet room where they will not be disturbed by sudden noises or entrances. The group auditor then takes his position in the front of the group and talks to them briefly about what he is going to do and what he expects them to do. The auditor then begins with his first command. GROVEL: lie face downward; crawl at someone's feet; humble oneself. GULLABY ISLES: a made-up name for a group of islands. HARMONICS: described as cycles within larger cycles. There is the grand cycle of a whole band, and then there are intermediate cycles, which are harmonics of the grand cycle. For example, there is a whole band of laughter, and such things as embarrassed laughter, upscale laughter, etc. would be harmonics of laughter in general. A harmonic is, in mathematical terms, the even doubling, quadrupling etc., of numbers as they go up or the halving or quartering etc., of numbers as they go down. This last is not generally realized, that harmonics also go down. But here is an example of a harmonic: A pitch vibrating at, let us say, 200 vibrations a second will have a harmonic at 400, 800,1600 and 3200 etc., vibrations a second. It can also have a harmonic of 100, 50, 25,12 1/2, 6 1/4 etc. While these upper or lower harmonics are of far less intensity they are still there. HASI: Hubbard Association of Scientologists, International. This was the general membership group of the church at the time of the Phoenix Lectures. It was open to individuals who used Scientology procedures to improve themselves and others. It has since been replaced as a membership group by the International Association of Scientologists (IAS). HAVINGNESS: the feeling that one owns or possesses. HAYAKAWA, SAMUEL ICHIYE: (1906-) Professor in the fields of semantics and English Literature, U.S. Senator (1977-82). HCA: an abbreviation for Hubbard Certified Auditor. An auditor, to achieve this title, is trained on an exactly laid out course of theory and practical learning, and is then qualified to deliver certain types of processing to preclears. Now Class II on the Classification and Gradation Chart. heresy: a belief different from the accepted belief of a church, school or profession. HYMN: a song of praise, adoration, thanksgiving, etc. IBN-BATUTA, MUHAMMAD: (1304-1377) greatest Arabian traveler of Middle Ages. He traveled land and sea routes throughout Asia and Africa for thirty years. INCIPIENT: just beginning; in an early stage. INDIGENCE: lacking in what is requisite; falling short of the proper measure or standard; wanting, deficient. INGRESS: a place for entering; entrance. INTENSIVE PROCEDURE: a standard operating procedure of 1954, being a sequence of steps to be taken by an auditor for the resolution of all cases. INTERLARD: mix; intersperse; give variety to. INVALIDATION: refuting or degrading or discrediting or denying something someone else considers to be fact. INVERSION: a person's resistance has been overcome so that when it tries to outflow, it inflows. That's an inversion and that's what's meant by inversion. In other words, he exactly reverses his consideration on the thing. INVOLUTE: to cause to clear up or disappear. IRISH SWEEPSTAKES: Irish Hospital Sweepstakes: established in the 1930s for the purpose of raising funds for hospitals, setting a pattern for the modern, highly organized lotteries of the 20th century. ISIS: in Egyptian mythology, the goddess of fertility. IS-NESS: an apparency of existence brought about by the continuous alteration of an as-is-ness. This is called, when agreed upon, reality. JIBBERING: talking confusedly. JIBE: to agree; fit together. KANT, IMMANUEL: (1724-1804) German philosopher, sought to determine laws and limits to man's knowledge. KEYED IN: a state where an earlier upset or painful incident has been restimulated. The environment around the awake but fatigued or distressed individual became similar to the dormant engram, and the engram becomes active. It is keyed in and can thereafter be dramatized. key-in: see keyed in KEY-OUT: release or separation from ones reactive mind or some portion of it. KINGPIN: something which is considered indispensable. KNOWINGNESS: it is being certain. Any certainty is a knowingness. Knowingness depends upon certainty. Knowingness is sanity. KNOW TO MYSTERY SCALE: a scale of significances: Not-know, Know, Look, Emotion, Effort, Think, Symbols, Sex, Eat, Mystery, Wait, Unconsciousness. Everything on the Know to Mystery Scale is simply a greater condensation or reduction of knowingness. KNOW TO SEX SCALE: a scale of behavior, patterned on the tone scale, which starts at the top with Know and goes downscale to Sex. This is an earlier version of the Know to Mystery Scale. KORZYBSKI, ALFRED: (1879-1950) American scientist and writer; president and director of the Institute of General Semantics, Chicago, 1938-50. Proposed general semantics, a methodology that attempts to improve human behavior through a critical use of words and symbols. LAO-TZE: (604-531 B.C.) One of the great philosophers of China. Author of Tao Te Ching. LIBIDO: a theory originated by Sigmund Freud in 1894 that all life impulses and behaviors are sex-motivated. This theory was found to be invalid. LOCK: an analytical moment in which the perceptics of the engram are approximated, thus restimulating the engram or bringing it into action, the present-time perceptics being erroneously interpreted by the reactive mind to mean that the same condition which produced physical pain once before is now again at hand. LOGICS: these would consist of methods of thinking. They are postulates pertaining to the organizational structure of alignment. MACFADDEN, BERNARR: American editor, publisher and physical culturist. He believed, with Freud, that the hungers of the body, the disregard of the body and the taboos of the body in society were a prime cause of much of all the misery in the world. MACHIAVELLIAN: pertaining to, resembling, or based upon the practical and amoral principles for getting and keeping political power prescribed in Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince. MACHINE: an actual machine in the mind, (like ordinary machinery) constructed out of mental mass and energy, that has been made by the individual to do work for him, usually having been set up so as to come into operation automatically under certain predetermined circumstances. MATERIALIST: person who cares too much for the things of this world and neglects spiritual needs. MARX, KARL: (1818-1883) German political philosopher. Regarded by some as founder of modern socialism. MCPHERSON, AIMEE SEMPLE: (1890-1944) American fundamentalist preacher. Acquired a reputation for shallow yet compelling sermons. MEAN: the middle point or state between two extremes. MECHANICS: the branch of physics that deals with the motion of material bodies and the phenomena of the action of forces on bodies. When we say mechanics in Scientology we mean space, energy, objects and time. And when something has those things in it, were talking about something mechanical. MEDULA OBLONGATA: the widening continuation of the spinal cord, forming the lowest part of the brain and containing nerve centers that control breathing, circulation, etc. MERCI: French for thank you. MESSIAH: one who brings wisdom ; a teacher Messiah is from the word messenger. MEST: a coined word meaning matter, energy, space and time, the physical universe. All physical phenomena may be considered as energy operating in space and time. The movement of matter or energy in time is the measure of space. All things are MEST except theta. MEST CLEAR: A Clear. The preclear has erased his Dianetic case or mental image pictures; he has attained the ability to be at cause over mental matter, energy, space and time on the First Dynamic. MEST UNIVERSE: that agreed-upon reality of matter, energy, space and time which we use as anchor points and through which we communicate. MIGRAINE: a severe form of headache that tends to recur. MILLENNIA: a period of one thousand years. MIND: the human mind includes the awareness unit of the living organism, the observer, the computer of data, the spirit, the memory storage, the life force and the individual monitor of the living organism. It is used as distinct from the brain, which can be considered motivated by the mind. MITIGATE: to make or to become milder or less severe. MOCK-UPS: things which a person makes up himself. We call mental image pictures mock-ups when they are created by the thetan. MODUS OPERANDI: mode of operation; way of doing or making; procedure. MOHAMMED: (570-632 A.D.) Arabian prophet and founder of Mohammedan (Moslem) religion. MOTIVATOR: an aggressive or destructive act received by the person or one of the dynamics. It is called a motivator because it tends to prompt that one pays it back -- it "motivates" a new overt. MOTIVATOR-OVERT ACT SEQUENCE: the sequence wherein someone who has commited an overt act has to claim the existence of motivators (aggressive or destructive acts received by the person). The motivators are then likely to be used to justify committing further overt acts. MYSTICISM: any doctrine that asserts the possibility of attaining knowledge of spiritual truths through intuition acquired by fixed meditation. NECROMANCY: the practice that expresses a belief in conjuring up the spirits of the dead to commune with them in order to predict the future. NERO: (37-68 A. D.) Roman Emperor (54-68); declared a public enemy by the Senate; he later committed suicide. NEUROLOGICAL: pertaining to the nervous system. NEURONS: units that make up the nerves. They consist of cell bodies with threadlike parts that carry signals to and from the cells. NEUROSIS: a mental illness or disturbance. NIETZSCHE, FRIEDRICH WILHELM: (1844-1900) German philosopher, poet and critic; wrote of the evolution of man to a higher species of "supermen." NON SEQUITUR: something which does not follow; an unrelated or illogical statement or conclusion. NOT-IS-NESS: trying to put out of existence by postulate or force something which one knows, priorly, exists. One is trying to talk against his own agreements and postulates with his new postulates, or is trying to spray down something with the force of other is-nesses in order to cause a cessation of the is-ness he objects to. OBFUSCATED: clouded over; obscured; made dark or unclear. OBSESSION: an idea, wish, etc. that fills ones thoughts and cannot be put out of mind by the person. OBSTETRICS: the branch of medicine and surgery that deals with childbirth. OBVIATE: to prevent by acting ahead of time; make unnecessary. OCCLUDE: to hide. An occlusion of memory is something forgotten, i.e., not available to conscious recall. An occluded case is one whose memory is usually largely occluded and whose field of awareness is black or very dark. 1.5: 1). the tone level of anger. 2). the person who is in overt hostility. Anger is his standard state. He is capable of taking destructive action and is characteristically trying to stop things. "ONLY ONE": just above zero on the tone scale, an individual must have no effect on self and total effect on everything and everybody else. That is the category of only one. This person can never communicate on a team basis. ONTOLOGY: a science or study of being. A particular system according to which problems of the nature of being are investigated. OPENING PROCEDURE BY DUPLICATION: a basic Scientology process. Its goal is the separating of time, moment from moment. This is done by getting a preclear to duplicate the same action over and over again with two dissimilar objects. In England this process is called "Book and Bottle," probably because these two familiar objects are the most used in doing Opening Procedure by Duplication. OPENING PROCEDURE of 8-C: a control process which places the preclear's body and actions under the auditors which then invite the preclear's own control of his body and actions. OTHER-DETERMINISM: something else giving you orders or directions. OUI: French word for yes. OUT OF PHASE: not in synchronization. OUT OF WHOLE CLOTH: a sheer fabrication. OVERT ACT: an intentionally committed harmful act committed in an effort to resolve a problem. PARABLES: short stories used to teach some truth or moral lesson. PARADOX: a statement, idea or fact that is opposite of what is generally believed to be true. PATRICIANS: members of the nobility of ancient Rome. PATTER: the jargon of a particular group. PENITENT: one who is sorry for sin, especially one who is doing penance under the direction of a church. PERCEPTION: the process of recording data from the physical universe and storing it as a theta facsimile. PERFECT DUPLICATE: an additional creation of the object, its energy and space, in its own space, in its own time, using its own energy. This violates the condition that two objects must not occupy the same space, and causes a vanishment of the object. PHILOSOPHY: the love, study of pursuit of wisdom, or of knowledge of things and their causes, whether theoretical or practical. PHRENOLOGY: the doctrine that the structure of the human skull indicates the position and degree of development of various mental faculties and characteristics. PHYSICAL UNIVERSE: matter, energy, space and time. It would be the universe of the planets, their rocks, rivers and oceans, the universe of stars and galaxies, the universe of burning suns and time. In this universe we would not include theta as an integral portion, although theta obviously impinges upon it as life. PHILLARS OF HERCULES: high points of land extending from the coast into the water at the east end of the Strait of Gibraltar. POLO, MARCO: (1254?-1324?) Italian traveler, imprisoned for a year at Genoa, where he dictated to a fellow prisoner the story of his travels, published under the title of The Book of Marco Polo. POSTULATE: a self-created truth; a thought or desire generated by the individual. Example: one decides that he is going to be wealthy. That is a postulate. PRECESSION: the wobbling of a spinning body on its axis due to outside forces, such as gravity. This occurs with the Earth, for example, which completes one such full wobble on its axis each 26,000 years. Such a movement brings about an apparent change in the positions of stars and planets in the sky due to a different position in space of the Earth. For example, in another 12,000 years Earth will have a new "North Star" due to this phenomenon. PRECLEAR: from pre-Clear, a person not yet Clear. Generally a person being audited, who is thus on the road to Clear; a person who, through Dianetic and Scientology processing, is finding out more about himself and life. PREFRONTAL LOBOTOMY: psychiatry, an operation in which the white fibers joining the prefrontal and frontal lobes to the interior region of the brain are severed. PRELOGICS: Now called the "Qs," they are the highest level of knowledge from which Scientology operates, being above the Logics and Axioms. The "Qs" state the potentials and capabilities of theta. They can be found in the book Scientology 0-8. PRESENT TIME PROBLEM: a problem that exists in present time, in a real universe. It is any set of circumstances that so engages the attention of the preclear that he feels he should be doing something about it instead of being audited. PRIVATIONS: lack of the comforts or of the necessities of life; those things which one is deprived of. PROCEDURE 30: the special auditing procedure of which two-way communication, Opening Procedure of 8-C and Opening Procedure by Duplication are the beginning steps. It is an effective procedure which will produce a Clear on very difficult cases. PROCESS: a set of questions asked by an auditor to help a person find out things about himself or life. More fully, a process is a patterned action, done by the auditor and preclear under the auditor's direction, which is invariable and unchanging, composed of certain steps or actions calculated to release or free a thetan. PROCLIVITY: tendency or inclination towards something. PROCREATE: bring into existence by natural process of reproduction. PROTON: one of the particles that make up the nucleus (central core) of an atom. A proton has a single positive electric charge. PROTOPLASM: a colorless substance somewhat like soft jelly or the white of an egg. It is the chief constituent of plant and animal cells. PSYCHOLOGY: the study of the human brain and stimulus-response mechanism and its code word was "Man to be happy, must adjust to his environment." In other words, Man, to be happy, must be a total effect PSYCHOSIS: any major form of mental affliction or disease. PSYCHOSOMATIC ILL: psycho refers to mind and somatic refers to body; the term psychosomatic means the mind making the body ill or illnesses which have been created physically within the body by derangement of the mind. PYROTECHNICS: a display of fireworks. A brilliant or sensational display. RANDOMITY: a consideration of motion. We have plus randomity and we have minus randomity. We can have, from the individual's consideration, too much or too little motion. or enough motion. What's enough motion measured by? The consideration of the individual. REACTIVE BANK: see bank REALITY: the word reality itself is commonly accepted to mean "that which we perceive." That would be an agreed-upon is-ness. REDUCTIO AD GASTRONOMY: a humorously made-up word taken from reductio ad absurdum, which means to disprove a proposition by showing its consequences to be impossible or absurd when carried to its logical conclusion. Gastronomy is the art or science of good eating. REFUTE: prove to be false or incorrect. REMEDY OF HAVINGNESS: by remedy one means the correction of any aberrated condition. By havingness one means mass or objects. It means the remedy of a preclears native ability to acquire things at will and reject them at will. RESPONSIBILITY: admission of control of space, energy and objects. It is willingness to own or act or use or be. RESTIMULATION: the state of being stirred up and reactivated again, as with engrams. RESTIVE: restless; uneasy. RIDGE: a solid body of energy caused by various flows and dispersals which has a duration longer than the duration of flow. Any piece of matter could be considered to be a ridge in its last stage. Ridges, however, exist in suspension around a person and are the foundation upon which facsimiles are built. RIG-VEDA: the oldest scriptures of Hinduism, which contain more than one thousand hymns in praise of different gods. ROUT: flight of a defeated army in disorder. R2-40: a process called "Conceiving a Static." It appears in the book The Creation of Human Ability. SAKYAMUNI, GAUTAMA: see Buddha SALIENT: easily seen or noticed; striking; prominent. SANSKRIT: an ancient language of India. It is the language of the Vedas and of Hinduism. SCALE OF EMOTIONS: the emotional scale referring to the subjective feelings of the individual. Also called the tone scale (see tone scale). This can be found in the book Scientology 0-8. SCHOPENHAUER, ARTHUR: (1788-1860) German philosopher and author. SCIENTOLOGY: an applied religious philosophy developed by L. Ron Hubbard dealing with the study of knowledge which through the application of its technology can bring about desirable changes in the conditions of life. (Taken from the Latin word scio, which means "knowing in the fullest sense of the word," and the Greek word logos, meaning "study of.") The study of the human spirit in its relationship to the physical universe and its living forms. A religious practice applying to Man's spirit and his spiritual freedom. SCIENTOLOGY 8-8008: the name of a Scientology book written in 1953 by L. Ron Hubbard. Scientology 8-8008 is a formula which states that the attainment of infinity is achieved by the reduction of the apparent infinity and power of the MEST universe to a 0 for oneself, and the increase of the apparent 0 of ones own universe to an infinity for oneself. Infinity (oo) stood upright makes the number 8. SCIENTOMETRY: IQ and personality tests reworked and modernized and coordinated with an E-Meter. The results are more accurate than psychological tests. This is not psychology. These tests are more modern, being electronically coordinated. SECONDARY: a mental image picture of a moment of severe and shocking loss or threat of loss which contains unpleasant emotions such as anger, fear, grief, apathy or "deathfulness." It may contain unconsciousness. Called a secondary because it itself depends upon an earlier engram with similar data but real pain. SECOND DYNAMIC: see eight dynamics SECOND POSTULATE: see first postulate SELF-DETERMINISM: is the state wherein the individual can or cannot be controlled by his environment according to his own choice. He is confident in his interpersonal relationships. He reasons but does not need to react. SEMAPHORE: a system for flag signaling using various designated positions of a person's arms SIDEREAL TIME: time measured by the apparent daily motion of the stars. SIX STEPS TO BETTER BEINGNESS: six short, easily learned processes which, separately or in combination, markedly and simply alter and improve a case. They can be found in The Technical Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology, Volume I, Professional Auditor's Bulletin No. 7 SLOTH: aversion to work or exertion; laziness; indolence; sluggishness. SODA JERK: one who works at a soda fountain. SOLILOQUIZE: to talk to oneself. SOMATIC: the word somatic means bodily or physical. Because the word pain is restimulative, and because the word pain has in the past led to a confusion between physical pain and mental pain, the word somatic is used in Dianetics to denote physical pain or discomfort of any kind. SONIC: recall by hearing a past sound with the "mind's ear." SPACE OPERA: of or relating to time periods on the Whole Track millions of years ago which concerned activities in this and other galaxies. Space Opera has space travel, spaceships, spacemen, intergalactic travel, wars, conflicts, other beings, civilizations and societies, and other planets and galaxies. It is not fiction and concerns actual incidents and things that occured on the track. SPECIOUS: plausible, fair or right on the surface but not in reality. SPOTTING SPOTS: a process, the goal of which is to bring the preclear to a point where he can spot locations in space which do not have color, mass or shape, but which are simply locations, and spot that same location repeatedly without variation. SPRITE: elf; fairy; goblin. STATIC: theta; a thetan. In the physical universe the only true static is the thetan. A thetan has no mass, no motion, no wavelength, no location in space or in time. In Scientology, the static is represented by the mathematical symbol theta (0). For further explanation of the phenomena of a static see the book Understanding the E-Meter. STEP LEVEL V: an early classification of the mental state of a person. Also called a Black V, a heavily occluded case characterized by mental pictures of masses of blackness. A level of non-perception, whether the person is seeing blackness or invisibility. STEPPES: vast, treeless plains in southeastern Europe and Siberia. STEP VI: an early classification that describes the mental state of a person who is neurotic. What characterizes this case is the terrible automaticity of the bank.. STRAIGHTWIRE: a technique of direct memory which occassionally keys out engrams. SYMBOL: something which could represent an idea. It is a piece of energy which is agreed to represent a certain idea. SYMBOLIC LOGIC: a system for applying the principles of mathematics to logical reasoning, using symbols to represent exact relationships between concepts. SYPHILIS: a contagious venereal disease affecting first some local part, secondly, the skin and mucous membrane and, thirdly, the bones and muscles and brain. TAO-HOOD: the state achieved by practicing the teachings of the Tao Teh King, which would be knowing the mystery which underlies all mysteries. TAO TEH KING (Tao Te Ching): a very short book written by Lao-Tze in approximately 529 B.C. The Tao means the Way to solving the mystery which underlies all mysteries. TAMERLANE (Timur i Leng): (1336?-1405) Mongol warrior whose conquests extended from the Black Sea to the upper Ganges (in India). TELEPATHIC: able to communicate from one individual to another without the use of speech or writing or gestures, etc. THETA: a thetan, a static. The Greek word for thought or life or the spirit. See also thetan and static. THETA CLEAR: an individual who, as a being, is certain of his identity apart from that of the body, and who habitually operates the body from outside, or exteriorized. THETA CLEARING: the emancipation (to set free; release) or exteriorization of the soul. THETA-MEST THEORY: this theory states that theta, or life, is impinged upon the physical universe and that these two things together, theta and MEST interacting, give us life forms. THETAN: what we call the living unit in Scientology. Taken from the Greek letter theta, the mathematical symbol used in Scientology to indicate the source of life and life itself. It is the individual, the being; that which is aware of being aware; the identity which is the individual. The thetan is most familiar to one and all as "you." See also static. third dynamic: See eight dynamics. THREE UNIVERSES: the first of these is ones own universe. The second universe would be the material universe, which is the universe of matter, energy, space and time, which is the common meeting ground of all of us. The third universe is actually a class of universes, which could be called "the other fellow's universe," for he and all the class of "other fellows" have universes of their own. TIME CONTINUUM: an agreed-to, uniform rate of change. Were this agreement not there, one might be in 1776 or 2060, for example, while everybody else was in 1985. TIME TRACK: the consecutive record of mental image pictures which accumulate throughout the preclear's lives. TONE SCALE: a scale which shows the emotional tones of a person. These, ranged from highest to lowest are, in part: serenity (the highest level), enthusiasm (as we proceed downward), conservatism, boredom, antagonism, anger, covert hostility, fear, grief, apathy. See also Scale of Emotions. TRACK: see time track. TRADITION: the knowledge, doctrines, customs, practices, etc., transmitted from generation to generation. TRANSORBITAL LEUKOTOMY: an operation which, while the patient is being electrically shocked, thrusts an ordinary dime store ice pick into each eye and reaches up to rip the analyzer apart. See also prefrontal lobotomy. TRUTH: the exact consideration. Truth is the exact time, place, form and event. 2.0: 1). the emotion of antagonism. 2). the person who is in antagonism. At the level of 2.0, affinity is expressed as antagonism, a feeling of annoyance and irritation caused by the advances of other people toward the individual. TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION: an inquiry of the pc as to what is going on and an invitation to him to look at it. It is the precise technology of a process used to clarify data with another. It is governed by the rules of auditing. UNIVERSE PROCESSING: a process contained in the book Scientology 8-8008, which gets the preclear to differentiate his own universe from the MEST universe. URAL MOUNTAINS: mountain range in the West Soviet Union, forming a natural boundary between Europe and Asia. VALENCE: personality. The term is used to denote the borrowing of the personality of another. A preclear "in his father's valence" is acting as if he were his father. VEDA: the most ancient sacred writings of the Hindus. VIEWPOINT STRAIGHTWIRE: process to increase the preclear's ability to tolerate views. VISIO: the visual part of a memory. VOICE-CANNING SYSTEM: a loudspeaker system. VOLTAIRE, FRANCOIS: (1694-1778) French writer. Gained fame as a defender of victims of religious intolerance, but chiefly as master of satire. WAR DEPARTMENT: from 1798 until 1947 the War Department controlled the Army (and the Army Air Forces after they came into existence). Now called the Department of Defense. WAVELENGTH: energy waves flow in peaks and valleys. Wavelength is a measurement of the distance from peak to peak of a wave. It is commonly measured by centimeters or meters. WEST POINT: the training school for officers of the United States Army. It is located on the Hudson River in New York State. WHOLE TRACK: the moment to moment record of a person's existence in this universe in picture and impression form. See also time track. WILLY-NILLY: whether one wishes it or not (he will do his chores willy-nilly). WINCHESTER 1876 REPEATING RIFLE: a firearm manufactured by Winchester in 1876 which was capable of firing several times without reloading. WINNING VALENCE: the valence of greatest determinism. In the case of the woman beaten by her husband, the engram contains just two valences. Who won? The husband. Therefore it is the husband who will be dramatized. WINTER SOLSTICE: the time in the Northern Hemisphere when the sun is furthest south of the equator; December 21st or 22nd. WUNDT, WILHELM: (1832-1920) German physiologist and psychologist. Was the originator of the false doctrine that man is no more than an animal. ZEN BUDDHISM: Buddhist sect in Japan. It originated in India and differed from most schools of Buddhism in disregarding the sacred books and in emphasizing that only by self-knowledge and introspection could truth be attained. ZENITH: the point in the heavens directly overhead: the point where a vertical line would pierce the sky. ZENO: Greek philosopher of the late 4th and early 3rd century B.C.; founded Stoic school of Philosophy and taught in Athens for more than fifty years.